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thumb|300px| The decay of a kaon () into three pions (2 , 1 ) is a process that involves both weak and strong interactions.
Weak interactions : The strange antiquark () of the kaon transmutes into an up antiquark () by the emission of a boson; the boson subsequently decays into a down antiquark
() and an up quark ... | {"Types": "4", "Composition": "Kaon+: Up quarkStrange antiquark\nKaon0: Down quarkStrange antiquark\nKaon-: Strange quarkUp antiquark", "Statistics": "Bosonic", "Family": "Mesons", "Interaction": "Strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational", "Discovered": "1947", "Symbol": "Kaon+, Kaon0, Kaon-", "Mass": "Kaon+-: 493.... |
Cheoljong (; 25 July 1831 - 16 January 1864) was the 25th king of the Joseon, reigning from 1849 to 1864. After Heonjong of Joseon died without a male heir in 1849, Queen Sunwon chose Cheoljong, aged 19, to be the next king, as the heir to late Sunjo of Joseon.
Cheoljong was a great-great-grandson of Yeongjo of Joseon... | {"Born": "Hyanggyo-dong Neighborhood, Gyeonghaeng-bang District, Hanseong, Kingdom of Joseon", "Died": "Daejojeon Hall,조선왕조실록 철종실록 15권, 1864년 음력 12월 8일 8번째기사 (Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, Annals of King Cheoljong, vol. 15, 16 January 1864, entry 8)Ibid. 고종실록 1권, 1864년 음력 12월 8일 1번째기사 (Ibid. Annals of King Gojong, vol.... |
Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk (9 March 162713 December 1677) was an English nobleman.
Thomas Howard was born to Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Arundel. His maternal grandfather was Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox.
In 1660 King Charles II, acting on a virtually una... | {"Name": "The Duke of Norfolk", "Image size": "200px", "Birth date": "9 March 1627", "Death date": "13 December 1677 9 March 1627", "Term start": "1660", "Term end": "13 December 1677Hereditary Peerage"} |
Aamulehti (Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland. Established in 1881 by Finnish patriots in Tampere, the newspaper aimed to bolster the Finnish language and people's identity during Russia's reign over Finland. Throughout the Cold War, Aamulehti was accuse... | {"Type": "Daily newspaper", "Format": "Compact", "Owner(s)": "Sanoma", "Founder(s)": "F. V. Jalander", "Political alignment": "Neutral", "Language": "Finnish", "Headquarters": "Nalkala, Tampere", "Circulation": "114,231 (2013)", "Website": "www.aamulehti.fi/"} |
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (; ; abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of the five universities officially recognised by the Flemish government. A list of all official institutes of higher education in Flanders is maint... | {"Motto": "la Scientia vincere tenebras (Latin)", "Type": "Independent/Partly state-funded", "Rector": "Jan DanckaertJan Danckaert named new rector of Vrije Universiteit Brussel https://today.vub.be/en/article/jan-danckaert-named-new-rector-of-vrije-universiteit-brussel VUB Today 22 June 2022", "President": "Eddy Va... |
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the lat... | {"Name": "Christopher Hogwood", "Post-nominals": "CBE", "Caption": "Hogwood leading rehearsals for his final Gresham College lecture in 2014", "Birth name": "Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood", "Birth date": "y 1941 9 10", "Birth place": "Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England", "Death date": "y 2014 9 24 1941 9 10", "D... |
Miss Earth is an annual international major beauty pageant based in the Philippines that advocates for environmental awareness, conservation and social responsibility. Along with Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss International, it is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants.
Miss Earth is a co-host of the ... | {"Type": "Beauty pageant", "Headquarters": "Philippines", "Location": "Philippines", "Website": "MissEarth.tv"} |
Alexander Nevsky () is a 1938 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It depicts the attempted invasion of Novgorod in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire and their defeat by Prince Alexander, known popularly as Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263).
Eisenstein made the film in... | {"Directed by": "Sergei EisensteinDmitri Vasilyev", "Written by": "Sergei EisensteinPyotr Pavlenko", "Starring": "Nikolay CherkasovNikolay OkhlopkovAndrei Abrikosov", "Music by": "Sergei Prokofiev", "Cinematography": "Eduard Tisse"} |
Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is an American antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). In 2008, the CSULB academic senate voted to disassociate itself from MacDonald's work.
MacDonald is known fo... | {"Caption": "MacDonald at American Freedom Party conference 2013", "Birth date": "1944 1 24 y", "Birth place": "Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.", "Education": "University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A.) University of Connecticut (M.Sc.)University of Connecticut (Ph.D)", "Known For": "Group evolutionary strategy", "Nationality": ... |
The Pulaski Skyway is a four-lane bridge-causeway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, carrying an expressway designated U.S. Route 1/9 (US 1/9) for most of its length. The structure has a total length of . Its longest bridge spans . Traveling between Newark and Jersey City, the roadway crosses the... | {"Carries": "NJ US 1/9 and NJ NJ 139", "Crosses": "Passaic RiverHackensack RiverNew Jersey MeadowlandsKearny Point", "Locale": "Jersey City, Kearny, and Newark, New Jersey, United States", "Maintained by": "NJDOT", "Design": "Steel deck truss cantilever bridge over MeadowlandsPratt truss for river crossings", "Longest ... |
Maryon Elspeth Pearson (née Moody; December 13, 1901 - December 26, 1989) was the wife of Lester B. Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada."Maryon Pearson spoke her mind". Toronto Star, December 18, 1989.
Life
Maryon Elspeth Moody was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on December 13, 1901. Her father was a doctor and ... | {"Name": "Maryon Pearson", "Caption": "Maryon Pearson in 1964", "Birth name": "Maryon Elspeth Moody", "Birth date": "1901 12 13", "Birth place": "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", "Death date": "1989 12 26 1901 12 13", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "Lester B. Pearson 1925... |
Grinner's Food Systems, Limited is a Canadian company that franchises two restaurant chains, Greco Pizza and Captain Submarine, as well as frozen yoghurt chain Frozu! in Eastern Canada. It is based in Truro, Nova Scotia. The company is owned by Trucorp Investments Incorporated of Dieppe, New Brunswick.
Trucorp also ow... | {"Type": "Restaurant franchise", "Industry": "Food service", "Headquarters": "Canada", "Products": "Food and drink", "Revenue": "$30 million", "Parent": "Trucorp Investments Incorporated", "Subsidiaries": "Greco Pizza and Captain Submarine, Frank and Gino's", "Website": "Frank and Gino's Website"} |
Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, OIH (7 April 1943 - 10 May 1984) was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer. He was champion of Portugal in six successive years. He rode the Tour de France 13 times and finished all but once,International Cycle Sport, UK, 1984 winning on Alpe d'Huez in 1979, and finishing third twice. Al... | {"Name": "Joaquim Agostinho", "Image caption": "Agostinho in 1972", "Full name": "Joaquim Francisco Agostinho", "Nickname": "Tinho", "Birth date": "1943 4 7 y", "Birth place": "Portugal", "Death date": "1984 5 10 1943 4 7 y", "Discipline": "Road", "Role": "Rider", "Pro years 1": "1968", "Pro team 1": "Sporting Clube de... |
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; ; ФСБ России) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995. The three major structura... | {"Type": "Independent", "Formed": "yes 1995 4 3", "Employees": "Classified", "Annual budget": "Classified", "Jurisdiction": "Russia", "Headquarters": "24 Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russia", "Website": "yes\n \n Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации\n ru\n Moscow Kuznetsky Most Street 24.jpg\n 250px\n ... |
The (; ; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
The split occurred along linguistic lines, forming the F... | {"Motto": "la Scientia vincere tenebras (Latin)", "Type": "Independent/partly state funded", "Rector": "Annemie Schaus", "Students": "(2020)2020 Etudiants par domaine d'études : tableau 1.4.2 Annuaire statistique 2020 Année académique 2019-2020 Table of the number of students enrolled by university by field of study St... |
Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922. W... | {"Motto": "Latin", "Type": "Private research university", "Endowment": "$1.3 billion (2022)As of March 7, 2022. https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/research/2022-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL.ashx?la=en&hash=362DC3F9BDEB1DF0C22B05D544AD24D1C44E318D U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed ... |
Anna Maria Chlumsky (; born December 3, 1980) is an American actress. She began acting as a child, and first became known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the film My Girl (1991) and its sequel, My Girl 2. Following her early roles, she went on hiatus from 1999 to 2005 to attend college.
Chlumsky returned to acting with... | {"Name": "Anna Chlumsky", "Caption": "Chlumsky in 2018", "Birth date": "1980 12 3", "Birth place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actress", "Education": "University of Chicago (BA) Atlantic Acting School", "Years active": "1989-1998 2006-present", "Spouse(s)": "Shaun So 2008", "Children": "2"} |
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one ... | {"Name": "George F. Kennan", "Birth name": "George Frost Kennan", "Image": "Kennan.jpeg", "Alternative text": "George F. Kennan", "Ambassador from": "United States", "Term start": "May 16, 1961", "Term end": "July 28, 1963", "Ambassador from 2": "United States", "Country 2": "the Soviet Union", "Predecessor 2": "Alan G... |
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech or NMT), formerly New Mexico School of Mines, is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico. It offers over 30 bachelor of science degrees in technology, the sciences, engineering, management, and technical communication, as well as graduate degrees at ... | {"Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$47.7 million (2018)https://nmt.edu/leadership/docs/annual_reports/NMT_18-19_Anunual_report.pdf New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - 2018 Annual Report New Mexico Tech March 7, 2019", "President": "Dr. Daniel H. Lopez (interim)", "Undergraduates": "1,244 (Fall 2021... |
The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company that operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The public limited company is owned by a trust on behalf of all its employees - known as partners - ... | {"Type": "Public limited company", "Industry": "Retail", "Founded": "Oxford Street, London (1929 yes)John Lewis Partnership — Our founder — the John Spedan Lewis story John Lewis Partnership http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/about/our-founder.html 11 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214004020/http://w... |
thumb|right|The Waitrose branch in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, built in 2007, was Waitrose's first purpose-built retail outlet in Northern England
Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. It was acquired in ... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Founded": "1904", "Headquarters": "England", "Industry": "Supermarket", "Products": "Food", "Services": "SupermarketsOnline shopping", "Revenue": "£6.984 billion (2022)https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/content/dam/cws/pdfs/Juniper/ARA-2022/John-Lewis-Partnership-plc-Annual-Report-and-Accoun... |
Sir George Jessel, (13 February 1824 - 21 March 1883) was a British barrister, politician, and judge. He was one of the most influential commercial law and equity judges of his time, and served as the Master of the Rolls. He was the first Jew to be a regular member of the Privy Council and to hold high judicial office... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Birth date": "1824 02 13 yes", "Birth place": "London", "Death date": "1883 03 21 1824 02 13 yes", "Death place": "London", "Resting place": "Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery", "Nationality": "British", "Spouse(s)": "Amelia Moses 1856", "Alma mater": "University College... |
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit sys... | {"Title": "General Motors streetcar conspiracy", "Image caption": "Cadillac Place, the GM headquarters building as seen in 1981", "Patrons": "-->", "Organizers": "-->", "First blank label": "<!-- or", "First blank data": "-->", "Second blank label": "<!-- or", "Second blank data": "-->", "Third blank label": "<!-- or",... |
Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963) is an English novelist and former British Army major who gained notoriety for his appearance on the ITV television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In episodes recorded in September 2001, Ingram correctly answered fifteen questions to win the show's maximum prize of £... | {"Name": "Charles Ingram", "Caption": "Ingram with his wife Diana in 2006", "Birth name": "Charles William Ingram", "Birth date": "1963 8 6 yes", "Birth place": "Shardlow, Derbyshire, England", "Education": "Oswestry School", "Alma mater": "Kingston University", "Occupation": "Novelist, army major", "Known For": "Appea... |
A Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried.
Origin
Various origin stories exist. The Oxford Companion to Food gives the first instance of the name as of 1809, in an edition of Maria Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery. They did not, at that time, have a... | {"Name of food": "Scotch egg", "Image caption": "Scotch egg, halved", "Place of origin": "England", "Type of dish": "Picnic food", "Main ingredient": "Boiled egg, sausage, bread crumbs"} |
Barbershop is a 2002 American comedy-drama film and the first installment in the Barbershop series directed by Tim Story and written by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott and Marshall Todd, from a story by Brown. It was produced by George Tillman Jr., Robert Teitel and Brown. The film stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patri... | {"Directed by": "Tim Story", "Produced by": "George Tillman Jr.\n Robert Teitel\n Mark Brown", "Screenplay by": "Mark Brown\n Don D. Scott\n Marshall Todd", "Story by": "Mark Brown", "Starring": "Ice Cube\n Anthony Anderson\n Sean Patrick Thomas\n Eve\n Troy Garity\n Michael Ealy\n Leonard Earl Howze\n Keith David\n Ce... |
thumb|upright=1.2|Christian Sinding, Gunnar Heiberg and Knut Hamsun, painted by Henrik Lund, 1926
Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and re... | {"Name": "Christian Sinding", "Image upright": "0.8", "Caption": "Sinding c. 1930", "Birth date": "1856 01 11 y", "Birth place": "Kongsberg, Norway", "Death date": "1941 12 03 1856 01 11 y", "Death place": "Oslo, Norway", "Occupation": "Composer"} |
The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (known as the Motor City Bowl until 2009) was a post-season college football bowl game that was played annually from 1997 to 2013. The first five games (1997-2001) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, and moved to the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michi... | {"Stadium": "Ford Field", "Previous stadiums": "Pontiac Silverdome (1997-2001)", "Location": "Detroit, Michigan", "Previous locations": "Pontiac, Michigan (1997-2001)", "Operated": "1997-2013", "Conference tie-ins": "Big Ten, MACSun Belt (alternate)", "Payout": "750,000 per team", "Succeeded by": "Quick Lane Bowl"} |
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher. The company, founded in 1983, was known for its simulation games, notably the Falcon series of combat flight simulators, and for publishing the first version of Tetris outside the Soviet Union (in 1988 for MS-DOS). Spectrum HoloByte published games for v... | {"Type": "Public", "Fate": "Absorbed into Hasbro Interactive", "Founded": "1983", "Defunct": "1999", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Industry": "Video games"} |
The New Orleans Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 2001. It is normally held at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans; when the Superdome and the rest of the city suffered damage due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the game was temporarily moved to Cajun Field... | {"Stadium": "Caesars Superdome", "Previous stadiums": "Cajun Field (2005)", "Location": "New Orleans, Louisiana", "Previous locations": "Lafayette, Louisiana (2005)", "Operated": "2001-present", "Previous conference tie-ins": "MWC (2001, 2011, 2014)", "Conference tie-ins": "Sun Belt, C-USA", "Payout": "825,000 (2019)ht... |
John David Dingell Jr. (July 8, 1926 - February 7, 2019) was an American politician from the state of Michigan who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Dingell holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in American histo... | {"Name": "John Dingell", "Image caption": "Official portrait", "Term start": "January 3, 1995", "Term end": "January 3, 2015", "Office 2": "Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee", "Predecessor 2": "Joe Barton", "Successor 2": "Henry Waxman", "Birth name": "John David Dingell Jr.", "Birth date": "1926 7 8", "... |
The Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London, tells the story of the Venerable Order of Saint John from its roots as a pan-European Order of Hospitaller Knights founded in Jerusalem during the Crusades, to its present commitment to providing first aid and care in the community through the St John Ambulance... | {"Coordinates": "51.52195 -0.10257 type:landmark_region:GB inline,title", "Location": "St John's Gate, ClerkenwellLondon, EC 1United Kingdom", "Public transit access": "london underground gb rail Farringdon", "Website": "museumstjohn.org.uk"} |
George Edward "Butch" Byrd (born September 20, 1941) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boston University Terriers. He joined the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and immediately ... | {"Born:": "Watervliet, New York, U.S.", "Height:": "0", "Weight:": "211", "College:": "Boston University", "AFL Draft:": "25"} |
Trinity Metro is a transit agency located in and serving the city of Fort Worth, Texas and its suburbs in surrounding Tarrant County, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Since 1983, it was previously known officially as the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (FWTA), and branded itself as The T. As of Janu... | {"Name": "Trinity Metro", "Size of second image": "250px", "Size of third image": "250px", "Locale": "Tarrant County, Texas", "Transit type(s)": "Bus, Commuter Rail, Paratransit", "Number of lines/routes": "40+ (bus)2 (commuter rail)", "Number of stations/stops": "5 (bus hubs)2,000+ (bus stops)17 (commuter rail)", "Dai... |
London South Bank University (LSBU) is a public university in Elephant and Castle, London. It is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name. Founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic Institute, it achieved university status in 1992 under the Further ... | {"Type": "Public", "Chancellor": "Sir Simon Hugheshttp://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people/governance/chancellor Chancellor London South Bank University lsbu.ac.uk 18 July 2013", "Students": "0076 ()", "Undergraduates": "0076 ()", "Postgraduates": "0076 ()", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/"} |
Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; and Westfield Corporation, which continued to own and operate the American an... | {"Type": "Public", "Genre": "Shopping malls", "Founded": "1960", "Defunct": "2014 y", "Headquarters": "Australia", "Industry": "Real estate investment trusts", "Revenue": "US$833 million (2014)", "Website": "westfieldcorp.com"} |
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015 at the FIFA World Player Gala. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representatives selected the player they deem to have performed the best in the previous ... | {"Presented by": "FIFA", "First awarded": "1991", "Last awarded": "2009", "Most awards": "FRA Zinedine ZidaneBRA Ronaldo(3 awards each)", "Website": "https://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/history/index.html fifa.com", "Related": "FIFA Ballon d'OrThe Best FIFA Men's Player"} |
National City Lines, Inc. (NCL) was a public transportation company. The company grew out of the Fitzgerald brothers' bus operations, founded in Minnesota, United States in 1920 as a modest local transport company operating two buses. Part of the Fitzgerald's operations were reorganized into a holding company in 1936, ... | {"Founded": "1936", "Defunct": "2007", "Fate": "Acquired by Contran", "Headquarters": "Chicago, Illinois, USA", "Industry": "public transportation", "Products": "holding company for streetcar and bus lines"} |
The Pontiac Firebird is an American automobile that was built and produced by Pontiac from the 1967 to 2002 model years. Designed as a pony car to compete with the Ford Mustang, it was introduced on February 23, 1967, five months after GM's Chevrolet division's platform-sharing Camaro. This also coincided with the rele... | {"Manufacturer": "Pontiac (General Motors)", "Production": "February 23, 1967 - August 30, 2002", "Class": "Pony carMuscle car", "Platform": "F-body", "Related": "Chevrolet Camaro", "Layout": "Front engine, rear-wheel-drive"} |
Karen Lea Wynn Fonstad (April 18, 1945 - March 11, 2005) was an American cartographer and academic who designed several atlases of fictional worlds, including her 1981 The Atlas of Middle-earth about J. R. R. Tolkien's creations.
Early life and education
Born Karen Lea Wynn in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to parents James... | {"Caption": "Fonstad in 2004", "Birth name": "Karen Lea Wynn", "Birth date": "1945 4 18\"United States Social Security Death Index,\" index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JPMP-QM5 : accessed 12 Feb 2013), Karen L Fonstad, 11 March 2005; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File... |
Geills Turner (née Kilgour; born December 23, 1937) is a Canadian businesswoman and the widow of John Turner, the 17th Prime Minister of Canada. Her first name is pronounced like "Jill".
Early life and work
Turner, the eldest of three children, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the grand-niece of John McCrae, aut... | {"Name": "Geills Turner", "Caption": "Turner in 1984", "Birth name": "Geills McCrae Kilgour", "Birth date": "1937 12 23 yes", "Birth place": "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "John Turner 1963 2020 died", "Children": "4", "Relatives": "David Kilgour (brother)", "Alma mater": "McGill ... |
Jerez de la Frontera () or simply Jerez, also cited in old English-language sources as , is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Located in southwestern Iberia, it lies on the Campiña de Jerez, an inland low-land plain crossed by the Guadalete river, midway t... | {"Density": "auto", "Rank": "25th, Spain", "DST": "+2", "Website": "www.jerez.es"} |
Ivybridge is a town and civil parish in the South Hams, in Devon, England. It lies about east of Plymouth. It is at the southern extremity of Dartmoor, a National Park of England and Wales and lies along the A38 "Devon Expressway" road. There are two electoral wards in Ivybridge East and Ivybridge West with a total p... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125055&c=ivybridge&d=16&e=62&g=6416508&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1374175196800&enc=1 Office for National Statistics 18 July 2013 ... |
Bedford Hills is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bedford, Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 3,001 at the 2010 census.
Two New York State prisons for women, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women and Taconic Correctional Facility, are located in the hamlet... | {"Land": "2.66", "Water": "0.00", "Density": "1219.82", "DST": "-4"} |
Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (born 15 November 1977) is a British businessman and a member of the British royal family. He is the son of Anne, Princess Royal, and Captain Mark Phillips, the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, and a nephew of King Charles III. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in the line of succe... | {"Name": "Peter Phillips", "Caption": "Phillips in 2022", "Birth date": "1977 11 15 y", "Birth place": "St Mary's Hospital, London, England", "Alma mater": "University of Exeter", "Spouse(s)": "Autumn Kelly 17 May 2008 14 June 2021 divorced", "Children": "2", "Father": "Mark Phillips", "Mother": "Anne, Princess Royal",... |
Olive Evangeline Diefenbaker (née Freeman; April 14, 1902 - December 22, 1976) was the second wife of John Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada. Diefenbaker proposed to her in Paddockwood, Saskatchewan, while she was a school teacher, and they were married on December 8, 1953. They had no children together, b... | {"Name": "Olive Diefenbaker", "Caption": "Diefenbaker in 1957", "Birth name": "Olive Evangeline Freeman", "Birth date": "1902 4 14", "Birth place": "Roland, Manitoba, Canada", "Death date": "1976 12 22 1902 4 14", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", "Resting place": "Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada", "Nationality... |
Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American television host, attorney, political commentator, and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski. He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. A former member of the Republican Party, Scarbo... | {"Image caption": "Scarborough in 2017", "Term start": "January 3, 1995", "Term end": "September 5, 2001", "Birth name": "Charles Joseph Scarborough", "Birth date": "1963 04 9", "Birth place": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Other political party": "Republican (before 2017)", "Spouse(s)": "Melanie Hinton 1986 1999 div\n Sus... |
Jeanne St. Laurent (née Renault; October 22, 1886 - November 14, 1966) was the wife of Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada.
Biography
Renault was born in Beauceville, Quebec. Her parents were Pierre-Ferdinand Renault (1853-1912) and Amanda Montminy (1853-1922). Pierre-Ferdinand Renault was a Beaucev... | {"Name": "Jeanne St. Laurent", "Caption": "St. Laurent during her wedding in 1908", "Birth name": "Jeanne Renault", "Birth date": "1886 10 22", "Birth place": "Beauceville, Quebec, CanadaLast rites Wednesday for former PM's wife https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hzZgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0W8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2354%2C2385582 18 M... |
Jessie Isabel Meighen (née Cox; April 18, 1882 – September 6, 1985) was the wife of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada.
She was born in Granby, Quebec. She married Arthur Meighen in 1904, and they had two sons and one daughter:
Theodore Roosevelt Meighen (1905-1979), whose son Michael Meighen is a Ca... | {"Name": "Isabel Meighen", "Caption": "Meighen in 1902", "Birth name": "Jessie Isabel Cox", "Birth date": "1882 4 18", "Birth place": "Granby, Quebec, Canadahttps://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/474588291.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+10%2C+1985&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Jessie+Isabel+Meighen... |
Laura Borden, Lady Borden (née Bond; November 26, 1861 - September 7, 1940) was the wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada.
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and married Borden in September 1889. She served as president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax until her resigna... | {"Name": "Lady Borden", "Caption": "Sir Robert and Lady Borden aboard SS Royal George en route to England, 1912", "Birth name": "Laura Bond", "Birth date": "1861 11 26", "Birth place": "Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Death date": "1940 9 7 1861 11 26", "Death place": "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", "Resting place": "Beechw... |
Zoé, Lady Laurier ( Lafontaine; June 26, 1841 - November 1, 1921), was the wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.
Biography
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thumb|Madame Zoë Laurier, April 1878. By William James Topley in Ottawa.
thumb|Portrait of Lady Laurier
Zoé Lafontaine was ... | {"Name": "Zoé, Lady Laurier", "Caption": "Lady Laurier in December 1911", "Birth name": "Zoé Lafontaine", "Birth date": "1841 06 26http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/ZOE+LAURIER?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=ZOE+LAURIER&sa=Search#906 Dictionary - Definition o... |
Frances Amélia Tupper, Lady Tupper (née Morse; March 14, 1826 – May 11, 1912) was the wife of Sir Charles Tupper, the sixth Prime Minister of Canada. They had six children together, three boys and three girls.
Legacy
Two of their sons, Charles Hibbert Tupper and William Johnston Tupper, also had careers in politics. L... | {"Name": "Lady Tupper", "Caption": "Frances Tupper, aged 62", "Birth name": "Frances Amelia Morse", "Birth date": "1826 3 14Alberta History", "Birth place": "Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Death date": "1912 5 11 1826 3 14", "Death place": "Nova Scotia, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "Sir Charles Tup... |
Annie Emma Thompson, Lady Thompson (née Affleck; June 26, 1842 – April 10, 1913) was the wife of Sir John Thompson, the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to James Affleck, a sea captain, and Catherine Saunders. She was the eldest of eight children. She has been described by historia... | {"Name": "Lady Thompson", "Caption": "Lady Thompson in May 1896", "Birth name": "Annie Emma Affleck", "Birth date": "1842 06 26", "Birth place": "Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada", "Death date": "1913 04 10 1842 06 26", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Resting place": "Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery, Toronto, Onta... |
Susan Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe (née Bernard; 24 August 1836 - 5 September 1920), was the second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada.
Early life
Agnes was born near Spanish Town, Jamaica, to Thomas James Bernard (1796-1850), of Bellevue, south of Montego Bay;... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable", "Name": "The Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe", "Birth name": "Susan Agnes Bernard", "Birth date": "1836 8 24 y", "Birth place": "Spanish Town, Colony of Jamaica", "Death date": "1920 9 5 1836 8 24 y", "Death place": "Eastbourne, England", "Resting place": "Ocklynge Cemeter... |
Jane Mackenzie (née Sym; March 22, 1825 - March 30, 1893) was the second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, the second Prime Minister of Canada.
She married Alexander Mackenzie on June 17, 1853. The couple had no children, although Jane Mackenzie was stepmother to Alexander's daughter from his prior marriage. They are burie... | {"Name": "Jane Mackenzie", "Birth name": "Jane Sym", "Birth date": "1825 3 22", "Birth place": "Elphin, Upper Canada", "Death date": "1893 3 30 1825 3 22", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Resting place": "Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "Alexander Mackenz... |
John Louis O'Sullivan (November 15, 1813 - March 24, 1895) was an American columnist, editor, and diplomat who coined the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States.Johannsen, Robert W. "The Meaning of Manifest Destiny", in Sam W. Hayes and Christopher... | {"Name": "John L. O'Sullivan", "Image caption": "O'Sullivan as he appeared on the cover of Harper's Weekly in November 1874. He was then attending a conference in Geneva that sought to create a process of international arbitration in order to prevent wars.", "Term start": "June 16, 1854", "Term end": "July 15, 1858", "... |
Sheila Ann Martin (née Cowan; born July 31, 1943) is the wife of Paul Martin, who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada from December 12, 2003, to February 6, 2006. Her father was William "Bill" Cowan, a lawyer and philanthropist from Windsor, Ontario. She was named after her mother. Sheila was raised Protestant,... | {"Name": "Sheila Martin", "Birth name": "Sheila Ann Cowan", "Birth date": "yes 1943 7 31", "Birth place": "Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Spouse(s)": "Paul Martin 1965", "Children": "3", "Alma mater": "University of Toronto"} |
Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) is a Protestant theological seminary in the Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1929 after Princeton chose to take a liberal direction during the Fundamentalist-Modernist controvers... | {"Motto": "ΠΑΣΑ Η ΒΟΥΛΗ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ PASA E BOULE TOU THEOU (Greek)", "Type": "Private seminary", "President": "Peter Lillback", "Students": "692 (2017)", "Campus": "Suburban", "Website": "www.wts.edu"} |
Judd Asher Nelson (born November 28, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbury in St. Elmo's Fire, Alex in Cybermutt, Joe Hunt in Billionaire Boys Club, Nick Peretti in New Jack City, Billy Beretti in Empire, and Jack Richmond in the television series ... | {"Name": "Judd Nelson", "Caption": "Nelson in 2006", "Birth name": "Judd Asher Nelson", "Birth date": "1959 11 28 y", "Birth place": "Portland, Maine, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1983-present", "Notable works": "The Breakfast Club\n St. Elmo's Fire", "Children": "3"} |
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT; ) is a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning. The test is an integral part of the law school admission process in t... | {"Acronym": "LSAT", "Type": "Standardized test", "Developer / administrator": "Law School Admission Council", "Knowledge / skills tested": "Reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, logical reasoning, and (unscored) writinghttp://www.lsac.org/jd/lsat/about-the-lsat/ About the LSAT www.lsac.org 30 April 2018 live htt... |
Ira David Sankey (August 28, 1840 - August 13, 1908) was an American gospel singer and composer, known for his long association with Dwight L. Moody in a series of religious revival campaigns in America and Britain during the closing decades of the 19th century. Sankey was a pioneer in the introduction of a musical sty... | {"Name": "Ira David Sankey", "Birth date": "1840 8 28", "Birth place": "Edinburg, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania", "Death date": "1908 8 13 1840 8 28", "Death place": "Brooklyn, New York", "Occupation": "Gospel singer and composer", "Spouse(s)": "Fanny Victoria Edwards September 1863", "Children": "John E. Sankey (1868-... |
is a general aviation airport in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Located southeast of Ōsaka Station, it is also an airbase for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
Several small carriers offer sightseeing and charter flights from Yao, including Asahi Airlines and Hankyu Airlines.
Yao is the only second class airport i... | {"Airport type": "Military/public", "Serves": "Osaka", "Location": "Yao", "AMSL": "33", "Coordinates": "34 35 08 N 135 36 02 E region:JP inline,title"} |
The San Francisco Bowl was an annual postseason college football bowl game certified by the NCAA and played in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally named the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl during its first two editions from 2002 to 2003, it was the Emerald Bowl from 2004 to 2009, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl from 2... | {"Previous stadiums": "Pacific Bell Park (2002-2013)Levi's Stadium (2014-2019)", "Previous locations": "San Francisco, California (2002-2013)Santa Clara, California (2014-2019)", "Operated": "2002-2019", "Previous conference tie-ins": "Big East (2002-2004)Mtn West (2002-2005) \nACC (2005-2010)Army (2011) Navy (2012)BYU... |
George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – May 10, 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire. He was a cousin twice removed of the American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, whose birthday he shared.
Early life
200px|thumb|right|An Afro-Abkhazian. P... | {"Name": "George Kennan", "Caption": "Kennan in 1885", "Birth date": "1845 02 16", "Birth place": "Norwalk, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1924 05 10 1845 02 16", "Death place": "Medina, New York, U.S.", "Resting place": "Boxwood Cemetery", "Occupation": "Journalist, war correspondent", "Years active": "1878-1924"} |
Anti-folk (sometimes referred to as unfolk) is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s in response to the 1960s folk music scene. Anti-folk music was made to mock the perceived self-seriousness of the time's mainstream music scene, and artists have the intention to protest with their mocking and clever lyrics.Folk Punk... | {"Name": "Anti-folk", "Stylistic origins": "Contemporary folk, punk rock", "Cultural origins": "Mid-1980s United States", "Other genre topics": "Folk punk\nfreak folk\nindie folk\nneofolk"} |
Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers,Rotherham history at talkfootball . Talkfootball.co.uk. is a professional football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system, in the 2023-24 season. The club's colours were ini... | {"Nickname(s)": "The Millers", "Capacity": "12,021", "Full name": "Rotherham United Football Club", "Founded": "yes 1925 5 27", "League": "RotherhU", "Website": "https://www.themillers.co.uk/"} |
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' en... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Howe", "Media type": "Print (hardback & paperback), and audiobook", "Pages": "448 pages", "ISBN": "1420930923"} |
The Winkie Country is the western region of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's classic series of Oz books, first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The Winkie Country is in the West, noted by later being ruled by the Wicked Witch of the West.
This quadrant is strictly distinguished by the color ... | {"Created by": "L. Frank Baum", "Genre": "Juvenile fantasy", "Type": "Fairy country", "Locations": "Wicked Witch of the West's yellow castle, Oogaboo, Yip Country, Herku, City of Thi, Tin Woodman's tin-palace, Truth Pond", "Ruler": "Tin Woodman", "Ethnic group(s)": "Winkies", "Characters": "Wicked Witch of the West, Wi... |
Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (30 May 1744 - 10 October 1792) was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, seeing action in a number of battles and engagements. Inheriting a title, he also went on to have a successful c... | {"Birth name": "Constantine John Phipps", "Born": "Whitby, Yorkshire, England", "Died": "Liège, Liège Prince-Bishopric", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "Commands held": "Diligence 1756 6\n Terpsichore 1760 6\n Boreas 1757 6\n Racehorse 1757 6\n Ardent 1764 6\n Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty\n Courageux 1... |
Trần Đức Lương (born 5 May 1937) is a Vietnamese politician serving as the sixth President of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006.Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker Historical Dictionary of Vietnam, 2006, p. 371. entry Trần Đức Lương
Early life
Trần Đức Lương was born in Đức Phổ District in Quảng Ngãi Province, and relocate... | {"Name": "Trần Đức Lương", "Image caption": "Trần Đức Lương in 2004", "Vice president": "Nguyễn Thị BìnhTrương Mỹ Hoa", "Term start": "24 September 1997", "Term end": "27 June 2006", "Office 2": "Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam", "Prime minister 2": "Phạm Văn ĐồngPhạm HùngĐỗ MườiVõ Văn KiệtPhan Văn Khải", "Birth date"... |
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Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 - 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle and an early advocate of animal rights.
Biography
The youngest son of London merchant Thomas Helps, Arthur Helps was born... | {"Honorific prefix": "Sir", "Name": "Arthur Helps", "Post-nominals": "GBR KCB DCL 100%", "Caption": "Sir Arthur Helps, KCB in 1858, by George Richmond", "Birth date": "1813 07 10 y", "Birth place": "Streatham, England", "Death date": "1875 03 07 1813 07 10 y", "Occupation": "Writer, dean"} |
Vladimir Voronin (; born Vladimir Bujeniță, 25 May 1941) is a Moldovan politician. He was the third president of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the First Secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) since 1994. He was Europe's first democratically elected communist party head of st... | {"Name": "Vladimir Voronin", "Image caption": "Voronin in 2014", "Term start": "23 July 2021", "Successor 2": "Alexandru Jdanov", "Birth name": "Vladimir Bujeniță", "Birth date": "1941 5 25 y", "Birth place": "Corjova, Transnistria Governorate, Kingdom of Romania(now Moldova)", "Spouse(s)": "Taisia Mihailovna", "Alma m... |
Guido de Marco, (22 July 1931 - 12 August 2010) was a Maltese politician, who served as the sixth president of Malta from 1999 to 2004. A noted statesman and lawmaker, de Marco also served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
He was elected President of the 45... | {"Name": "Guido de Marco", "Image caption": "Guido de Marco aboard USS La Salle, 2003", "Term start": "4 April 1999", "Term end": "4 April 2004", "Order 2": "President of the United Nations General Assembly", "Predecessor 2": "Joseph Nanven Garba", "Successor 2": "Samir S. Shihabi", "Birth date": "1931 7 22", "Birth pl... |
Charles Buller (6 August 1806 - 29 November 1848) was a British barrister, politician and reformer.
Background and education
Born in Calcutta, British India, Buller was the son of Charles Buller (1774-1848), a member of a well-known Cornish family, and Barbara Isabella Kirkpatrick, daughter of General William Kirkpatr... | {"Name": "Charles Buller", "Image caption": "Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London", "Order 2": "President of the Poor Law Board", "Monarch 2": "Victoria", "Prime minister 2": "Lord John Russell", "Predecessor 2": "New office", "Successor 2": "Matthew Talbot Baines", "Birth date": "6 August 1806", "Birth pla... |
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (; ; 14 January 1965 - 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a North Caucasian guerilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, and was posthumously... | {"Name": "Shamil Basayev", "Birth date": "yes 1965 01 14", "Death date": "yes 2006 07 10 1965 01 14", "Birth place": "Dyshne-Vedeno, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union", "Death place": "Ekazhevo, Ingushetia, Russia", "Image caption": "Basayev on the last day of the Budyonnovsk raid on 19 June 1995", "Batt... |
The Frisco Kid is a 1979 American Western comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him.
Plot
Rabbi Avram Belinski, newly graduated at the bottom of his class from a Polish yeshiva, ... | {"Directed by": "Robert Aldrich", "Produced by": "Mace Neufeld", "Written by": "Michael Elias\n Frank Shaw\n Gene Wilder (uncredited)GENE WILDER: A RABBI AT HOME ON THE RANGE: FROM LOCATION Warga, Wayne. Los Angeles Times 24 Dec 1978: 45.", "Starring": "Gene Wilder\n Harrison Ford", "Music by": "Frank De Vol", "Cinemat... |
Henry Glassford Bell (5 November 18037 January 1874) was a Scottish lawyer, poet and historian.
Life
Born in Glasgow, the son of advocate James Bell, he received his education at the Glasgow High School and at Edinburgh University.
As a poet, he became intimate with Delta Moir, James Hogg, John Wilson (Christopher No... | {"Name": "Henry Glassford Bell", "Caption": "Photographic portrait, by Thomas Annan", "Birth date": "1803 11 5 yes", "Birth place": "Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland", "Death date": "1874 1 7 1803 11 5 yes", "Occupation": "lawyer, poet and historian", "Nationality": "Scottish"} |
The Têt (; ) is the largest river in Pyrénées-Orientales, southwestern France. It is long. The Têt has its source at the foot of the Pic Carlit in the Pyrenees. It crosses the Pyrénées-Orientales département (Northern Catalonia) from West to East and ends in the Mediterranean Sea, near Perpignan ().
Tributaries incl... | {"Native name": "fr La Têt", "Location": "Mediterranean Sea", "Coordinates": "42 42 48 N 3 2 23 E dms inline,title", "Basin size": "1550 km2 mi2 on"} |
Lochboisdale ( ) is the main village and port on the island of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Lochboisdale is within the parish of South Uist, and is situated on the shore of Loch Baghasdail at the southern end of the A865.
History
The town profited from the herring boom in the 19th century, and a steamer pier ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NF790195", "Postcode district": "HS8", "Dialling code": "01878", "UK Parliament": "Na h-Eileanan an Iar", "Council area": "Na h-Eileanan Siar", "Lieutenancy area": "Western Isles", "Scottish Parliament": "Na h-Eileanan an Iar"} |
Brendan James Fraser ( ; born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a star playing Ri... | {"Name": "Brendan Fraser", "Caption": "Fraser in 2022", "Alt": "Fraser looking to the camera, wearing a suit", "Birth name": "Brendan James Fraser", "Birth date": "1968 12 3", "Birth place": "Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.", "Citizenship": "Canada United States", "Alma mater": "Cornish College of the Arts (BA)", "Occupati... |
Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 - 10 June 1901) was a Scottish poet,Noel, Roden (1886). "Robert Buchanan’s Poetry," in Essays on Poetry and Poets. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, pp. 283-303.Noble, James Ashcroft (1893). "Robert Buchanan as Poet," in The Sonnet in England, & Other Essays. London: Elkin... | {"Born": "y 1841 8 18", "Died": "y 1901 6 10 1841 8 18", "Nationality": "Scottish", "Occupation": "Poet, novelist, dramatist"} |
Gérard Asselin (born April 19, 1950 in Sainte-Flavie, Quebec - February 9, 2013) was a Canadian politician who was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Manicouagan from 2004 to 2011 and Charlevoix from 1993 to 2004.
Career
Asselin was a foreman, and was previously a cit... | {"Name": "Gérard Asselin", "Term start": "28 July 2004", "Term end": "2 May 2011", "Riding 2": "Charlevoix", "Predecessor 2": "Brian Mulroney", "Successor 2": "riding abolished", "Birth date": "1950 04 19", "Birth place": "Sainte-Flavie, Quebec", "Death date": "2013 02 09 1950 04 19", "Spouse(s)": "Diane Gaudreault", "... |
Hughenden Valley (formerly called Hughenden or Hitchendon) is an extensive village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, just to the north of High Wycombe. It is almost in size, divided mainly between arable and wooded land. It is situated north of central Wycombe, south of the county town of Aylesbury and s... | {"Population": "(2011)Civil Parish population 2011 http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124869&c=HP15+6JX&d=16&e=62&g=6404805&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1479568420188&enc=1 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics 19 November 2016", "OS grid referenc... |
John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 - May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was an American military officer who was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partis... | {"Birth name": "John Singleton Mosby", "Born": "Powhatan County, Virginia, U.S.", "Died": "Washington, D.C., U.S.", "Nickname(s)": "\"The Gray Ghost\"Civil War Trust biography of Mosby.", "Allegiance": "Confederate States of America", "Commands held": "Mosby's Rangers"} |
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. It sits on the brow of the hill to the west of the main ... | {"Type": "House", "Coordinates": "51.6502 -0.7566 inline,title", "Location": "High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire", "Built": "18th and 19th centuries", "Architectural style(s)": "Jacobethan", "Owner": "National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty"} |
Jean Augustine (born September 9, 1937) is a Grenada-born Canadian politician. She was the first Black Canadian woman to serve as a federal Minister of the Crown and Member of Parliament.
From 1993 to 2006, Jean Augustine was a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the district of Etobicoke—L... | {"Name": "Jean Augustine", "Birth date": "1937 09 09", "Birth place": "St. George's, Grenada", "Residence": "Toronto, Ontario", "Alma mater": "University of Toronto (BA, MEd)", "Term start": "May 26, 2002", "Term end": "July 29, 2004", "Office 2": "Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada", "Prime minist... |
Daliburgh () is a crofting township on South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Daliburgh is situated west from Lochboisdale, has the second largest population of any township in South Uist, and is also in the parish of South Uist. Daliburgh is situated at the junction of the A865 and the B888. Like Lochboisdale, ... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "OS grid reference": "NF753213", "Postcode district": "HS8", "Dialling code": "01878", "UK Parliament": "Na h-Eileanan an Iar", "Council area": "Na h-Eileanan Siar", "Lieutenancy area": "Western Isles", "Scottish Parliament": "Na h-Eileanan an Iar"} |
André Bachand (born December 8, 1961) is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Richmond—Arthabaska as member of the Progressive Conservatives from 1997 to 2003.
When the PC Party was merged with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party in December 2003, Bachand declined to join the CPC and sat ... | {"Name": "André Bachand", "Predecessor 2": "Riding created", "Successor 2": "André Bellavance", "Birth date": "1961 12 8", "Birth place": "Quebec City, Quebec, Canada", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Other political party": "Progressive Conservative (1997-2004)"} |
John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 - 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic.
Biography
Churton Collins was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. From King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary ... | {"Birth date": "yes 1848 3 26", "Birth place": "Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England", "Death date": "yes 1908 9 15 1848 3 26", "Death place": "Lowestoft, Suffolk, England", "Alma mater": "Balliol College"} |
Castlethorpe is a village and civil parish with a population of about 1000 in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.Parishes in Milton Keynes - Milton Keynes Council. It is about north-east of Stony Stratford, north-west of Newport Pagnell and north of Central Milton Keyn... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Milton Keynes", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Milton Keynes North", "Postcode district": "MK", "Dialling code": "01908", "Population": "(2011 Census)E04001249 Castlethorpe 17 November 2019", "OS grid reference": "SP795445"} |
George Dawson (24 February 182130 November 1876) was an English nonconformist preacher, lecturer and activist. He was an influential voice in the calls for radical political and social reform in Birmingham, a philosophy that became known as the Civic Gospel.
Ministry
thumb|left|upright|An engraving of Dawson, c.1852
D... | {"Born": "London, England", "Died": "Kings Norton, Birmingham, England", "Nationality": "English", "Education": "Marischal College, Aberdeen", "Denomination": "Nonconformist Christian"} |
Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist magazine published without interruption since September 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB). The magazine is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and Marxian analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the Unite... | {"Former editors": "Robert ElrickEdgar HardcastleGilbert McLatchie", "Frequency": "Monthly", "Publisher": "Socialist Party of Great Britain", "Founded": "1904 9", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Based in": "London", "Language": "English", "Website": "worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/", "ISSN": "0037-8259"} |
Watermead is a suburban development, situated to the north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a civil parish and forms part of the Aylesbury Urban Area.
Housing development
Plans for the village of Watermead were first drawn up in the 1980s. The idea was to create a self-contained executive area that wo... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Aylesbury", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01296", "OS grid reference": "SP8215"} |
Eriskay (), from the Old Norse for "Eric's Isle", is an island and community council area of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland with a population of 143, as of the 2011 census. It lies between South Uist and Barra and is connected to South Uist by a causeway which was opened in 2001. In the same year Ceann a' Ghàr... | {"OS grid reference": "NF795104", "Coordinates": "57.07 -7.29 inline,title", "Meaning of name": "Eric's Isle", "Area": "703 ha sqmi 8", "Population rank": "40", "Highest elevation": "Beinn Sgrithean 185.6 m ft 0", "Population": "143", "Population density": "20.3 PD/km2", "Island group": "Uist and Barra", "Council area"... |
Sandra Shamas (born 1957) is a Canadian puppeteer, comedic actress, writer, director and producer.
Biography
Shamas was born in Sudbury, Ontario. She moved to Toronto in 1980, where she held a variety of jobs before a workshop at The Second City inspired her to pursue a career in performing arts. She acted with Second... | {"Born": "1957", "Occupation": "Comedian, writer", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Period": "20th century, 21st century"} |
Misery is an American psychological horror thriller novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. The novel's narrative is based on the relationship of its two main characters - the romance novelist Paul Sheldon and his deranged self-proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes. When Paul... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Viking", "Media type": "Print (hardcover)", "Pages": "310", "ISBN": "978-0-670-81364-3"} |
Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 - 25 January 1972) was a German general field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) who oversaw the development of the German air force (Luftwaffe) as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I. He was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and Inspector General of the... | {"Born": "Wilhelmshaven, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, German Empire", "Died": "Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany", "Allegiance": "German Empire Weimar RepublicNazi Germany", "Commands held": "Luftflotte 5 Jägerstab", "Awards": "Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross", "Relations": "Werner Milch (brother)"} |
Whiteleaf is a hamlet in the civil parish of Princes Risborough and the ecclesiastical parish of Monks Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 7 miles south of the county town of Aylesbury and 8 miles north of High Wycombe. It lies halfway up the northern scarp of the Chilterns, about half a mile from ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Aylesbury", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01844", "OS grid reference": "SP8104"} |
Kentish Town is a London Underground and National Rail station in Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden. It is at the junction of Kentish Town Road (A400) and Leighton Road. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is served by the High Barnet branch of the London Underground Northern line, and by Thameslink trai... | {"External links": "KTN\n<!--", "Managed by": "London Underground", "Fare zone": "2", "Location": "Kentish Town", "Local authority": "London Borough of Camden", "Number of platforms": "4 (3 in use) (National Rail)\n2 (London Underground)", "DfT category": "F1", "2015-16": "2.844", "2016-17": "2.732 -->", "2017-18": "2.... |
Hannah Lynn Storen Hicks (born June 13, 1962), known professionally as Hannah Storm, is an American television sports journalist, serving as the anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Face to Face. She was also host of the NBA Countdown pregame show on ABC as part of the network's National Basketball Association (NBA) Sunday ga... | {"Caption": "Storm at the 2017 Warrior Games", "Birth name": "Hannah Lynn Storen", "Birth date": "1962 06 13", "Birth place": "Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.", "Alma mater": "University of Notre Dame", "Occupation": "Television journalist, television personality, author, sports anchor", "Years active": "1984-present", "Spous... |
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