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Clarence House is a royal residence on The Mall in the City of Westminster, London. It was built in 1825-1827, adjacent to St James's Palace, for the royal Duke of Clarence, the future king William IV.
The four-storey house is faced in pale stucco. Over the years, it has undergone m... | {"Type": "British royal residence", "Architectural style": "Regency", "Address": "The Mall", "Town or city": "London", "Coordinates": "51.5040 -0.1385 dms type:landmark_region:GB it", "Elevation": "16 m", "Named for": "William, Duke of Clarence", "Construction started": "1825"} |
The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
It has its source in the Rothaargebirge, the highest part of the Sauerland. It meets the Rhine at Lahnstein, near... | {"Location": "Rhine at Lahnstein,Rhineland-Palatinate", "Coordinates": "50 18 32 N 7 35 42 E region:DE-RP inline,title", "Mouth": "61 m ft on", "Basin size": "5925.6 km2 sqmi on DE-RP WW"} |
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 - October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
Early years
Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMille and her uncle Cecil B. DeMille were both Hollywood directors. Her mother, An... | {"Name": "Agnes de Mille", "Caption": "Agnes de Mille (1941) playing 'The Priggish Virgin' in the ballet Three Virgins and a Devil (Tre Vergini e un Diavolo)photographed by Carl Van Vechten", "Birth name": "Agnes George de Mille", "Birth date": "1905 09 18", "Birth place": "New York City, New York, US", "Death date": "... |
The National Party (, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid rule. The party was an Afrikaner ethnic nationalist party, which initially promoted the interests of Afrikaners but later became a stalwart p... | {"Founded": "1914 7 1 y", "Split from": "South African Party", "Merged into": "United Party (1934-1939)", "Succeeded by": "New National Party", "Headquarters": "Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa", "Ideology": "1914-1948:Afrikaner nationalismAfrikaner minority interestsConservatismRepublicanism1948-1990:Afrikaner n... |
Melwin Cedeño (born December 27, 1964) is a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, host, and dancer. Cedeño is better known for his comedic performance as Chevy.
Early years and studies
Melwin Cedeño was raised in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. His parents are Noel Cedeño and Lilina Irizarry. During childhood, he enjoyed making... | {"Name": "Melwin Cedeño", "Birth date": "1964 12 27", "Birth place": "Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico", "Occupation": "Actor\n comedian\n host\n dancer", "Spouse(s)": "Phaedra Michalzik", "Children": "3"} |
The Nissan Pathfinder is a range of sport utility vehicles manufactured by Nissan since 1985. Until the third-generation model, the Pathfinder is based on Nissan's compact pickup truck platform which it shares with the Navara/Frontier. The front end of the D21 (first generation) and R51 (third generation) Pathfinder is... | {"Manufacturer": "Nissan", "Production": "1985-present", "Class": "Compact SUV (1985-1995)\n Mid-size SUV (1995-2012)2005-08-16 2005 Nissan Pathfinder - Review - Motor Trend https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/review-nissan-pathfinder-2/ 2022-02-27 MotorTrend en\n Mid-size crossover SUV (2012-present)", "Layo... |
Coit Tower (also known as the Coit Memorial Tower) is a tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. ... | {"Location": "1 Telegraph Hill Blvd.San Francisco, California", "Built": "1933", "Architect": "Arthur Brown Jr., Henry Temple Howard", "Architectural style": "Art Deco", "Area": "1.7 acre"} |
Svetozar Marović (; born 31 March 1955) is a Montenegrin lawyer and politician who served as the last head of state and head of government of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 until Montenegro's declaration of independence in 2006.
On 15 December 2015, he was arrested in Montenegro for charges of corruption, and on 18 A... | {"Name": "Svetozar MarovićСветозар Маровић", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Svetozar Marović in May 2004", "Term start": "7 March 2003", "Term end": "3 June 2006", "Order 2": "Chairman of the Council of Ministers", "Predecessor 2": "Dragiša Pešić", "Successor 2": "Position abolished", "Birth date": "1955 03 3... |
Nicole Camille Richie (; born September 21, 1981) is an American television personality, fashion designer, and actress. She came to prominence after appearing in the reality television series The Simple Life (2003-2007), in which she starred alongside her childhood friend and fellow socialite Paris Hilton. Richie's per... | {"Name": "Nicole Richie", "Caption": "Richie in 2012", "Birth name": "Nicole Camille Escovedo", "Birth date": "1981 09 21 yeshttps://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/g32803997/famous-virgo-celebrities/ 40 Famous Virgos Who'll Make You Wish You Were One Cosmopolitan June 3, 2021 Smith Erika W. Hearst Digital M... |
Francisco Macías Nguema (born Mez-m Ngueme, later Africanised to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong; 1 January 1924 - 29 September 1979), often mononymously referred to as Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first President of Equatorial Guinea from the country's independence in 1968 until his overth... | {"Name": "Francisco Macías Nguema", "Image size": "220px", "Image caption": "Macías Nguema in 1968", "Term start": "12 October 1968", "Term end": "3 August 1979", "Vice president": "See list \nEdmundo Bossio\nMiguel Eyegue\nBonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama", "Birth date": "1 January 1924", "Birth place": "Nfengha, Río Mun... |
César Julio Romero Jr. (February 15, 1907 - January 1, 1994) was an American actor and activist. He was active in film, radio, and television for almost 60 years.
His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and the Joker on the live... | {"Name": "Cesar Romero", "Caption": "Romero in 1973", "Birth name": "César Julio Romero Jr.", "Birth date": "1907 2 15", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "1994 1 1 1907 2 15", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Resting place": "Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, U.S.", "Ot... |
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n (; March or April 1635), commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II (), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633. For uniting modern Lebanon's constituen... | {"Name": "Fakhr al-Din II", "Native name": "فَخْرُ ٱلدِّينِ ٱلثَّانِي", "Image caption": "Engraving of a portrait of Fakhr al-Din by Giovanni Mariti, 1787The engraving was the frontispiece of Giovanni Mariti's it Istoria de Faccardino, published in Tuscany in 1787. According to the art historian Hafez Chehab, \"it is g... |
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was initially created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ... | {"Abbreviation": "NCCIH", "Type": "Governmental organization", "Headquarters": "Bethesda, Maryland", "Location": "United States", "Affiliations": "United States Public Health Service", "Website": "nccih.nih.gov/"} |
Buckingham Palace Garden is a large private park attached to the London residence of the British monarch. It is situated to the rear (west) of Buckingham Palace, occupying a site in the City of Westminster and forms the largest private garden in London. It is bounded by Constitution Hill to the north, Hyde Park Corne... | {"Type": "Garden", "Coordinates": "51.5018 -0.1484 region:GB inline,title", "Location": "London", "Governing body": "Household of Charles III"} |
France-Albert René (; 16 November 1934 - 27 February 2019) was a Seychellois lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the second President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He also served as the country's 2nd Prime Minister from its independence in 1976 to 1977.
He was nicknamed by Seychellois government official... | {"Name": "France-Albert René", "Term start": "5 June 1977", "Term end": "14 July 2004", "Vice president": "James Michel(1996-2004)", "Order 2": "2nd Prime Minister of Seychelles", "President 2": "Sir James Mancham", "Predecessor 2": "Sir James Mancham", "Successor 2": "Position abolished", "Birth date": "y 1934 11 16",... |
Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz, (; also written Abdul Ilah or Abdullah; 14 November 1913 - 14 July 1958) was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and was regent for his nephew King Faisal II, from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of age. Abd al-Ilah also held the title of Crown... | {"Born": "Ta'if, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire", "Died": "Baghdad, Arab Federation", "Father": "Ali of Hejaz", "Mother": "Nafissa Khanum", "Religion": "Sunni Islamhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6511/is_2_49/ai_n29160130/ APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map IRAQ - Resurgence in the Shiite World - Part 8 - ... |
Thorismund (also Thorismod or Thorismud, as manuscripts of our chief source confusingly attestJordanes, De origine actibusque Getarum (Getica) 81, 174, 190, 201 and elsewhere.) ( 420-453), became king of the Visigoths after his father Theodoric was killed in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (also called Battle of C... | {"Born": "c. 420", "Died": "453 (aged 33)", "Father": "Theodoric I", "Religion": "Arian Christianity"} |
Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson (July 18, 1903 - October 17, 1983), also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 26th governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953, as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953 to 1957, U.S. ambassador to Denmark from 1957 to 19... | {"Name": "Val Peterson", "Term start": "July 14, 1969", "Term end": "March 23, 1973", "Office 2": "Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration", "President 2": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "Predecessor 2": "James Jeremiah Wadsworth (Acting)", "Successor 2": "Lewis Berry (Acting)", "Birth name": "Frederick Vald... |
Theodoric II, Teodorico in Spanish and Portuguese, ( 426 - early 466) was the eighth King of the Visigoths, from 453 to 466.
Biography
Theoderic II, son of Theodoric I, obtained the throne by killing his elder brother Thorismund. The English historian Edward Gibbon writes that "he justified this atrocious deed by the ... | {"Born": "c. 426", "Died": "Early 466 (aged 40)", "Father": "Theodoric I", "Religion": "Arian Christianity"} |
Cao Ren () (168 - 6 May 223), courtesy name Zixiao, was a military general serving during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China under the warlord Cao Cao, who was also his older second cousin.(曹仁字子孝，太祖從弟也。) Sanguozhi vol. 9. He continued serving in the state of Cao Wei - founded by Cao Cao's son and successor, Cao Pi -... | {"Name": "Cao Ren", "Native name": "曹仁", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "A Qing dynasty illustration of Cao Ren", "Term start": "14 December 221", "Term end": "6 May 223", "Office 2": "General of Chariots and Cavalry (車騎將軍)", "Monarch 2": "Cao Pi", "Birth date": "168birth and death dates Cao Ren's biography in... |
Isabella Macdonald ( Clark; 1809 – 28 December 1857) was the first wife of John A. Macdonald, one of the fathers of the Canadian federation, and ultimately the first Prime Minister of Canada. After marrying Macdonald in Kingston, Ontario in 1843, she enjoyed two years of happy marriage before falling seriously ill. Her... | {"Name": "Isabella Macdonald", "Caption": "Portrait of Isabella Clark in 1828", "Birth name": "Isabella Clark", "Birth date": "1809", "Birth place": "Dalnavert, Inverness-shire", "Death date": "1857 12 28 1809 yes", "Death place": "Kingston, Canada West", "Resting place": "Cataraqui Cemetery", "Spouse(s)": "John A. Mac... |
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 - April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
Personal life
Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew ... | {"Born": "1909 2 18", "Died": "1993 4 13 1909 2 18 yes", "Occupation": "Historian\n novelist\n short story writer\n environmentalist", "Language": "English", "Period": "1937-1993", "Children": "Page Stegner", "Notable awards": "Pulitzer Prize for Fiction(1972, Angle of Repose)National Book Award for Fiction(1977, The S... |
Perdiccas I () was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By allowing thirty years for the span of an average generation from the beginning of Archelaus' reign in 413 BC, British historian Nicholas Hammond estimated that Perdiccas ruled around 653 BC.
There are two separate historical traditions describing t... | {"Name": "Perdiccas I", "Succession": "King of Macedonia", "Caption": "Tetradrachm of Aigai - old Macedonian royal capital Aigai, founded by Perdikkas I", "Reign": "653-623 BC", "Predecessor": "Disputed:Caranus (legendary)Tyrimmas (legendary)", "Successor": "Argaeus I", "Spouse": "unknown", "Issue": "Argaeus I", "Fathe... |
Perdiccas II () was the king of Macedonia from 454 BC until his death in 413 BC. During the Peloponnesian War, he frequently switched sides between Sparta and Athens.
Biography
Family
Perdiccas II was the oldest son of Alexander I. He had four brothers: Alcetas, Amyntas, Menelaus, and Philip. Menelaus was the fat... | {"Father": "Alexander I", "Mother": "unknown", "Born": "?", "Died": "413 BC", "Religion": "Ancient Greek religion"} |
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Perdiccas III (Greek: Περδίκκας Γ΄) was king of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 365 BC to 360 BC,Cosmopoulos, Michael B. 1992. Macedonia: An Introduction to its Political History. Winnipeg: Manitoba Studies in Classical Civilization, p. 30 (TABLE 2: The Argeiad ... | {"Name": "Perdiccas III", "Succession": "King of Macedonia", "Caption": "stater of Perdikkas III", "Reign": "365-360 BC", "Predecessor": "Alexander II", "Successor": "Amyntas IV", "Father": "Amyntas III", "Mother": "Eurydice", "Issue": "Amyntas IV", "Death date": "360 BC", "Religion": "Ancient Greek religion"} |
Charlotte, Princess Royal (Charlotte Augusta Matilda; 29 September 1766 - 6 October 1828), was Queen of Württemberg as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the eldest daughter and fourth child of George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Early life
thumb|left|upright|The infant... | {"Born": "Buckingham House, London", "Died": "Schloss Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Kingdom of Württemberg", "Father": "George III", "Mother": "Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz", "Burial": "Schlosskirche, Ludwigsburg"} |
Portlandia is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey located above the entrance of the Portland Building in downtown Portland, Oregon. It is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States, after the Statue of Liberty.Warren, Stuart & Ted Ishikawa. Oregon Handbook. Moon Publications, 1991.
History
Portlandia was... | {"Type": "Copper repoussé", "Dimensions": "m", "Location": "Portland, Oregon, United States", "Coordinates": "45 30 56.7 N 122 40 44.5 W inline,title region:US_type:landmark"} |
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992-1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appoi... | {"Name": "Javier Solana", "Image caption": "Solana in 1999", "Term start": "18 October 1999", "Term end": "1 December 2009", "Office 2": "Secretary General of the Western European Union", "Predecessor 2": "José Cutileiro", "Successor 2": "Arnaud Jacomet", "Birth name": "Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga", "Birth dat... |
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster (27 January 1795 - 31 October 1869), styled The Honourable Richard Grosvenor from 1795 to 1802, Viscount Belgrave from 1802 to 1831 and Earl Grosvenor from 1831 to 1845, was an English politician, landowner, property developer and benefactor.
Background and education
Gro... | {"Name": "The Marquess of Westminster", "Image size": "200px", "Alternative text": "A three-quarter length portrait of a standing man wearing a black cloak with gold buttons, and a red stole with tassels", "Image caption": "Painting of Lord Westminster (then Viscount Belgrave) by Henry William Pickersgill", "Birth date... |
General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, (17 November 1893 - 21 December 1993) was a British Army officer who served with distinction during the world wars. After service as a junior officer on the Western Front in the First World War, he later distinguished himself during the Second World War, wher... | {"Born": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Died": "Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland", "Nickname(s)": "\"Christie\"Mead (2007), p. 99", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Commands held": "Scottish Command (1947-49)Northern Command (1946-47)Allied Forces, Dutch East Indies (1945-46)Allied Land Forces, South East Asia (1945)XV Indian... |
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by Geor... | {"Named after": "Unter den Linden boulevard", "Location": "Berlin, Germany", "Coordinates": "52 31 00 N 13 23 41 E region:DE-BE_type:landmark inline, title", "Website": "staatsoper-berlin.de"} |
The KM de Vantagens Hall (originally known as the Marista Hall) is an events centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located on the campus of the Colégio Marista Dom Silvério. The goal was to create an environment with a great diversity of spaces. It includes a multipurpose room, a theater, an arena, courts, and a parking lo... | {"Former names": "Marista Hall (2003-05)Chevrolet Hall (2005-16)BH Hall (2016-17)", "Location": "Colégio Marista Dom Silvério, Savassi", "Broke ground": "1997 03 17 y", "Opened": "2003 06 25 y", "Owner": "União Brasileira de Educação e Ensino", "Operator": "Time For Fun", "Capacity": "5,500 (Arena KM)500 (Espaço Multiu... |
Kettler () is a German company based in Ense-Parsit, with locations all around the world. The company produces riding toys, leisure gear, patio furniture and exercise equipment.
History
The company was founded in 1949 in Parsit by Heinz Kettler. Originally starting in the attic of a sawmill, Kettler grew into a worldw... | {"Type": "GmbH & Co. KG", "Founded": "1949", "Headquarters": "Ense, Germany", "Industry": "Sports equipment", "Products": "Bicycles, exercise machines, Kettcar, patio furniture, table tennis tables, pedal vehicles", "Website": "http://intl.kettler.net"} |
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes... | {"Origin": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Genres": "great Black music,\nAvant-garde jazz, free jazz", "Labels": "BYG, Nessa, Delmark, ECM, AECO, Pi", "Website": "www.artensembleofchicago.com", "Members": "Roscoe Mitchell\n Famadou Don Moye\n and \"guests\""} |
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (; January 16, 1958 - December 25, 1997) was a Soviet and Kazakhstani mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above —without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8000 m.
Boukreev had a reputation as an e... | {"Name": "Anatoli Boukreev", "Caption": "Boukreev in 1991", "Birth name": "Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev", "Birth date": "1958 1 16", "Birth place": "Korkino, Russian SFSR, USSR", "Death date": "1997 12 25 1958 1 16", "Death place": "Annapurna I, Nepal", "Death cause": "Avalanche", "Citizenship": "Kazakhstan", "Alma mat... |
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (; March 19, 1928 - January 13, 2009) was an Irish-American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of movies and television.
Born in the United States to Irish emigrant parents, he was raised in Ireland and England. He began his career in England during the 1950s and became well known for... | {"Name": "Patrick McGoohan", "Caption": "McGoohan in All Night Long (1962)", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Birth date": "1928 03 19", "Death date": "2009 01 13 1928 03 19", "Death place": "Santa Monica, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Actor writer producer director", "Years active": "1948-2002", "Spouse(s)":... |
Argenteuil is a regional county municipality located in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Lachute.
History
In 1682, Charles-Joseph d'Ailleboust was granted by Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France, a domain of of land. This fiefdom was bounded by the Ottawa River to the south... | {"Type": "Prefecture", "Land": "1252.97", "Density": "25.8", "DST": "-4", "Website": "www.argenteuil.qc.ca"} |
Karin Dor (; born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 - 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) and her appearance in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Topaz (1969).
Biography
Dor was born in Wies... | {"Name": "Karin Dor", "Image upright": "0.9", "Caption": "Dor in Topaz (1969)", "Birth name": "Kätherose Derr", "Birth date": "1938 2 22 yes", "Birth place": "Wiesbaden, Germany", "Death date": "2017 11 6 1938 2 22 yes", "Death place": "Munich, Germany", "Years active": "1953-2017", "Spouse(s)": "Harald Reinl 1954 1968... |
The Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2 (known informally as the Centipede) was the Baldwin Locomotive Works' first serious attempt at a production road diesel locomotive. The Baldwin type designation was DR-12-8-1500/2, meaning Diesel Road locomotive, with 12 axles (8 of which were driven), and two engines of each. The trucks wer... | {"Power type": "Diesel-electric", "Manufacturer": "Baldwin Locomotive Works", "Build model": "DR-12-8-1500/2", "Build date": "December 1945 - July 1948", "Total production": "54", "Whyte type": "4-8-8-4", "AAR wheel arangment": "2-D+D-2", "UIC classification": "(2′Do)+(Do2′)", "Gauge": "ussg on", "Length": "91 ft 6 in ... |
The Province of Quebec () was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada. It was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763, following the conquest of New France by British forces during the Seven Years' War. As part of the Treaty of Paris, France gave up its claim to ... | {"Native name": "Province de Québec (French)", "Conventional long name": "Province of Quebec", "Type of government": "Constitutional monarchy", "Starting event": "Treaty of Paris", "Date established": "10 February", "Event 1": "Royal Proclamation", "Event 1 date": "7 October 1763", "Event 2": "Quebec Act", "Event 2 dat... |
Robert Alastair Addie (10 February 1960 - 20 November 2003) was an English film and theatre actor, who came to prominence playing the role of Sir Guy of Gisbourne in the 1980s British television drama series Robin of Sherwood.
Early life
Addie was born in south London on 10 February 1960.'Obituaries in the Performing ... | {"Name": "Robert Addie", "Caption": "Addie in 2003", "Birth date": "1960 2 10 y", "Birth place": "South London, England", "Death date": "2003 11 20 1960 2 10 y", "Death place": "Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England", "Spouse(s)": "Selena Addie (1987 -?) Jan Addie (US Citizen) (1990-1994+/-)", "Children": "Alexander Add... |
Arthabaska Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec. Its seat is Victoriaville.
Subdivisions
There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM:
Cities & Towns (4)
Daveluyville
Kingsey Falls
Victoriaville
Warwick
Municipalities (13)
Chesterville
Madd... | {"Type": "Prefecture", "Land": "1890.18", "Density": "38.1", "DST": "-04:00", "Website": "www.mrc-arthabaska.qc.ca"} |
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René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician. He came to fame as a countertenor, but later in his career he became known as a conductor of baroque and classical opera.
Biography
Countertenor
Born in Ghent, Jacobs began his musical career as a boy chorister at the Cathedral. Later he... | {"Name": "René Jacobs", "Caption": "René Jacobs in Salzburg 2011", "Birth date": "yes 1946 10 30", "Birth place": "Ghent, Belgium", "Nationality": "Belgian", "Occupation": "Countertenor and conductor"} |
The IBM Information Management System (IMS) is a joint hierarchical database and information management system that supports transaction processing.
History
IBM designed the IMS with Rockwell and Caterpillar starting in 1966 for the Apollo program, where it was used to inventory the very large bill of materials (BOM... | {"Initial release": "1966", "Platform": "IBM System z", "Type": "Database & transaction processing subsystem", "License": "Proprietary"} |
Demons & Wizards is the self-titled debut album of the power metal supergroup Demons & Wizards (a side-project of Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian and Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth),Colin Larkin The Encyclopedia of Popular Music vol.4 - 2006 p446 "The triple live album Alive In Athens followed shortly afterwards, and in th... | {"Released": "February 8, 2000", "Recorded": "Mid-late 1999", "Studio": "Morrisound Studios", "Genre": "Progressive metal, power metal", "Label": "Steamhammer/SPV"} |
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism schools in the world and the only journalism school in the Ivy League. It offe... | {"Type": "Private", "Dean": "Jelani Cobb", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "https://journalism.columbia.edu/"} |
Danny Lee Burton (born June 21, 1938) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for , and previously the , serving from 1983 until 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the Tea Party Caucus.
Early life, education, and early career
Burton was born in Indianapolis, the son of Bonni... | {"Name": "Dan Burton", "Term start": "January 3, 1983", "Term end": "January 3, 2013", "State senate2": "Indiana", "District 2": "31st", "Predecessor 2": "John Mutzhttp://indystar.newspapers.com/image/106347641/?terms=John+Mutz+Dan+Burton 8 Jan 1981, Page 8 - The Indianapolis Star at Newspapers.com The Indianapolis Sta... |
Muhammad Ibrahim (; - 6 September 1989) was a Bangladeshi physician. He established Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), the diabetes health-care and research institute complex in 1980. The Government of Bangladesh awarded him National Professor a... | {"Name": "Mohammad Ibrahim", "Native name": "মোহাম্মদ ইব্রাহিম", "Native name language": "bn", "Birth date": "1911 12 31 y", "Birth place": "village of Kharera in Bharatpur, Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency, British India", "Death date": "1989 9 6 1911 12 31 y", "Death place": "Dhaka, Bangladesh", "Nationality": "Banglad... |
Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Following Taito's Stratovox, it is one of the first arcade video games with speech synthesis. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots. Home p... | {"Title": "Berzerk", "Caption": "North American arcade flyer", "Developer": "Stern ElectronicsAtari, Inc. (2600)GCC (5200)Western Technologies (Vectrex)", "Publisher": "Stern ElectronicsAtari, Inc. (2600/5200)VectrexNA GCE EU Milton Bradley JP Bandai", "Designer": "Alan McNeil", "Platforms": "Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari ... |
Mark Edward Souder (July 18, 1950 - September 26, 2022) was an American politician and businessman from Indiana. A Republican, he was a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2010.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a congressional aide and committee staff director to Dan Coats. He was elected to his congression... | {"Name": "Mark Souder", "Birth name": "Mark Edward Souder", "Birth date": "1950 7 18", "Birth place": "Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.", "Death date": "2022 9 26 1950 7 18", "Death place": "Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Diane Zimmer", "Education": "Indiana University, Fort Wayne (BS) University of Notre Dame (MBA... |
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution that was independent for most of its history, but became officially affiliated with the Univers... | {"Established": "1888", "Research type": "Pure and applied research", "Address": "7 MBL Street", "Location": "41 31 34.40 N 70 40 22.40 W dim:300_scale:3000_region:US-MA_type:landmark_source:dewiki inline,title", "Nickname": "MBL", "Affiliations": "University of Chicago", "Website": "http://www.mbl.edu/"} |
Peter John Visclosky ( ;As pronounced by himself: "Pete Commemorates the U.S. Army's 237th Anniversary". born August 13, 1949) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1985 until his retirement in 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was the dean of the Indiana congressional... | {"Name": "Pete Visclosky", "Term start": "January 3, 1985", "Term end": "January 3, 2021", "Birth name": "Peter John Visclosky", "Birth date": "1949 8 13", "Birth place": "Gary, Indiana, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Joanne Royce", "Education": "Indiana University Northwest (BA)University of Notre Dame (JD)Georgetown University... |
Julian Dana William McMahon (born 27 July 1968) is an Australian actor and former model. He is the only son of former Prime Minister of Australia, Sir William McMahon. He is best known for his roles as Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Fou... | {"Name": "Julian McMahon", "Caption": "McMahon in 2011", "Birth name": "Julian Dana William McMahon", "Birth date": "1968 07 27 y", "Birth place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Citizenship": "Australia United Stateshttps://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/m25cover-20161229-gtjb3g.html How to survive in Holl... |
Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives... | {"Alternative text": "Official White House portrait. Pence is smiling in front of an American flag. He wears a black suit, red tie, and an American flag lapel pin.", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2017", "Term start": "January 20, 2017", "Term end": "January 20, 2021", "Lieutenant 1": "Sue Ellspermann Eric Holcom... |
Baron Paul Hill (born June 23, 1953) is a retired American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for from 1999 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2011.
A native of Seymour, Indiana, Hill is a Democrat, and as a member of Congress belonged to the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Coalition of that party. Hill's district is... | {"Name": "Baron Hill", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2007", "Term start": "January 3, 2007", "Term end": "January 3, 2011", "State house 2": "Indiana", "District 2": "66th", "Preceded 2": "Bobby Gene Pruetthttp://www.capitolandwashington.com/offices/office/166/ Offices 3 March 2015", "Succeeded 2": "Bill Baile... |
Other Voices is the seventh studio album by the Doors, released by Elektra Records in October 1971. It was the first album released by the band following the death of lead singer Jim Morrison in July 1971 with keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger sharing lead vocals. Tracks for the album had begun befor... | {"Released": "1971 10 18", "Recorded": "June-August 1971", "Studio": "The Doors Workshop, Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood", "Genre": "Rock", "Label": "Elektra", "Producer": "The Doors\nBruce Botnick"} |
An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the American rock band the Doors. Following the death of Jim Morrison and the band's breakup, the surviving members of the Doors reconvened to set several of Morrison's spoken word recordings to music. It was the only album by the Doors to be nominated for a Gra... | {"Released": "1978 11 17", "Recorded": "March 1969 & December 1970 (spoken word and \"Roadhouse Blues\")\n1978 (music) using a professional 16-track machine", "Genre": "Jazz rockAndy Hermann September 18, 2001\n https://www.popmatters.com/doors-verybest-2495880149.html The Very Best of the Doors - Review PopMatters... |
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States. ARRL is a non-profit organization, and was co-founded on April 6, 1914, by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska of Hartford, Connecticut. The ARRL represents the interests of amateur radio ... | {"Abbreviation": "ARRL", "Type": "Non-profit organization", "Headquarters": "Newington, Connecticut41.71463 -72.72713 yes", "Affiliations": "International Amateur Radio Union", "Website": "https://www.arrl.org/"} |
Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge, as well as to learn practical Defence Agai... | {"Founded": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Location": "Room of Requirement", "Purpose": "To learn and practise magical methods of self-defence\n Resistance against Death Eater activities in Hogwarts", "Affiliations": "Order of the Phoenix", "Enemies": "Lord Voldemort\n Death Eaters\n Dolores Umbridge\n M... |
Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing ... | {"Name": "Hiram Percy Maxim", "Caption": "Hiram Percy Maxim, c.1914", "Birth date": "y 1869 09 02", "Birth place": "Brooklyn, New York", "Death date": "y 1936 02 17 1869 08 02", "Death place": "La Junta, Colorado", "Resting place": "Rose Hill Cemetery", "Occupation": "Inventor", "Spouse(s)": "Josephine Hamilton", "Chil... |
was a Japanese video game developer, best known for the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun franchises (the latter including Renegade, Super Dodge Ball and River City Ransom) as well as Karate Champ, The Combatribes and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer. As of June 2015, Arc System Works owns the intellectual properties of Technōs Jap... | {"Type": "Public", "Fate": "Bankruptcy", "Founded": "December 1981", "Defunct": "1996", "Headquarters": "Nakano, Tokyo, Japan", "Industry": "Video games"} |
Roy Rogers Franchise Company, LLC is a chain of fast food restaurants primarily located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. The chain originated as the rebranding of the RoBee's House of Beef chain of Fort Wayne, Indiana, acquired by the Marriott Corporation in February 1968. However, Marriott first use... | {"Formerly": "RoBee's Roast Beef (1967-1968)", "Type": "Wholly owned subsidiary", "Founded": "1968 2 12 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States", "Headquarters": "4991 New Design Road\nSuite 109 Frederick, MD 21703https://www.franchising.com/royrogers/_gl=1*b86xeh*_ga*dlN5VGlwRWF3eDBsRVkxMU83U3BTNm1wSGpOSzRpLVE5a2VBdkdiT... |
Jan Cornelis Terlouw (born 15 November 1931) is a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982 under Prime Minister Dries van Agt.
Terlouw studied Physics and Mathematics at the Utrecht University simul... | {"Name": "Jan Terlouw", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Terlouw in 2014", "Term start": "8 June 1999", "Term end": "10 June 2003", "Parliamentary group": "Democrats 66", "Office 2": "Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands", "Prime minister 2": "Dries van Agt", "Alongside 2": "Joop den Uyl (1982)", "Predecess... |
Ashur-uballit I (Aššur-uballiṭ I), who reigned between 1363 and 1328 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire. After his father Eriba-Adad I had broken Mitanni influence over Assyria, Ashur-uballit I's defeat of the Mitanni king Shuttarna III marks Assyria's ascendancy over the Hurri-Mitanni Empire, and t... | {"Name": "Ashur-uballit I", "Caption": "Tablet from the reign of Ashur-uballit I", "Title": "King of Assyria\n King of the Universe", "Reign": "1363-1328 BCChen Fei https://books.google.com/books?id=N3znDwAAQBAJ Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur BRILL 2020 978-9004430914 Leiden Appendix I: A List of A... |
The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head. Each spring the society... | {"Type": "Senior Secret society", "Headquarters": "06511", "Founded": "1842", "Scope": "Local", "Chapters": "1"} |
Walker, Texas Ranger is an American action crime television series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. It was inspired by the film Lone Wolf McQuade, with both this series and that film starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first seaso... | {"Genre": "Action\nCrime\nPolice procedural", "Created by": "Albert S. Ruddy\nLeslie Greif\nPaul Haggis\nChristopher Canaan", "Opening theme": "\"Eyes of the Ranger\"(performed by Chuck Norris)", "Starring": "Chuck Norris\nClarence Gilyard\nSheree J. Wilson\nNoble Willingham\nNia Peeples\nJudson Mills\nFloyd Westerman\... |
Jedburgh (; ; or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire,Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 2nd edition, published 1896. Article on Jedburgh. the name of which was randomly chosen for Operation Jedburgh in support of the D... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "NT649205", "Postcode district": "TD8", "Dialling code": "01835", "UK Parliament": "Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk", "Council area": "Scottish Borders", "Lieutenancy area": "Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale", "Scottish Parliament... |
thumb|300px|BCS Championship game at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010, Alabama vs. Texas
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of A... | {"In operation": "1998-2013", "Preceded by": "Bowl Alliance (1995-1997)Bowl Coalition (1992-1994)", "Succeeded by": "New Year's Six/College Football Playoff (2014-present)", "Championship trophy": "AFCA National Championship Trophy", "Television partner(s)": "ABC (1999-2006)FOX (2006-2009)ESPN (2009-2014)Michael McCart... |
Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ; January 9, 1922 - March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the countr... | {"Name": "Ahmed Sékou Touré", "Nationality": "Guinean", "Image caption": "Touré in 1962", "Term start": "October 2, 1958", "Term end": "March 26, 1984", "Birth date": "1922 1 9 y", "Birth place": "Faranah, French Guinea", "Death date": "1984 3 26 1922 1 9 yes", "Death place": "Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Mari... |
Habib Bourguiba (; ; 3 August 19036 April 2000) was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia (1956-1957) then as the first president of Tunisia (1957-1987). Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from Fr... | {"Name": "Habib Bourguiba", "Image caption": "Habib Bourguiba in 1960", "Native name": "الحبيب بورقيبة", "Native name language": "ar", "Term start": "25 July 1957", "Term end": "7 November 1987Interim to 8 November 1959", "Office 2": "Prime Minister of Tunisia", "Monarch 2": "King Muhammad VIII", "Predecessor 2": "Taha... |
Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in Spanish Harlem,Berger a section of Harlem with a large Puerto Rican population. The book follows Piri through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racis... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf", "Published": "April 12, 1967", "Media type": "Print (Hardcover, Paperback)", "Pages": "352 pages (1st edition, paperback)"} |
Fifth Business (1970) is a novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies.
First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, it is the first installment of Davies' best-known work, the Deptford Trilogy,"Writers" , Athabasca University and explores the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It was the novel that brought Davies... | {"Country": "Canada", "Language": "English", "Series": "The Deptford Trilogy", "Publisher": "Macmillan Canada", "Media type": "Print", "Pages": "273", "Followed by": "The Manticore"} |
IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a family of mixed-language application servers that provide online transaction management and connectivity for applications on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE.
CICS family products are designed as middleware and support rapid, high-volume online transaction... | {"Other names": "Customer Information Control System", "Initial release": "July 8, 1969", "Platform": "IBM Z", "Type": "Teleprocessing monitor", "License": "Proprietary", "Website": "Q1146247"} |
The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the school among ... | {"Motto": "Justitia", "Established": "1859", "School type": "Public law school", "Parent endowment": "$1.8 billion (2021)As of June 30, 2021. https://president.uga.edu/ar/2021/foundation-report.php Foundation Report University of Georgia February 7, 2022U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year (FY) 202... |
Joseph Lee "Big Joe" Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Peach Orchard Mama" (now... | {"Born": "Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, U.S.", "Died": "Macon, Mississippi, U.S.", "Genres": "Delta blues", "Labels": "Bluebird\n Delmark\n Okeh\n Prestige\n Vocalion\n Trumpet"} |
Flight 714 to Sydney (; originally published in English as Flight 714) is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin magazine. The title refers to a flight that Tintin and his friends fail t... | {"Publisher": "Methuen", "Date": "1968", "Series": "The Adventures of Tintin", "Language": "French", "Published in": "Tintin magazine", "Issues": "936 - 997", "Preceded by": "1963", "Followed by": "1976"} |
Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004.
... | {"Name": "Jean-Louis Gassée", "Birth date": "1944", "Birth place": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "Business executive", "Employer": "Be, Inc. 1991-2002Apple Computer Inc. 1981-1990Data General 1974-1981Hewlett Packard 1968-1974"} |
The Crab with the Golden Claws () is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in , the children's supplement to , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1940 to October 1941 amidst the German occupation of Belgium during ... | {"Publisher": "Methuen", "Date": "1958", "Series": "The Adventures of Tintin", "Language": "French", "Published in": "fr Le Soir Jeunesse (supplement to fr Le Soir), then fr Le Soir", "Preceded by": "King Ottokar's Sceptre (1939)Land of Black Gold (1939) (abandoned)", "Followed by": "1942"} |
John William DiMaggio (; born September 4, 1968) is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender on Futurama, Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Dr. Drakken on Kim Possible, Hak Foo in Jackie Chan Adventures, The Scotsman on Samurai Jack, Brother Blood on Teen Titans a... | {"Name": "John DiMaggio", "Caption": "DiMaggio at the 2022 Phoenix Fan Fusion", "Birth name": "John William DiMaggio", "Birth date": "1968 09 04", "Birth place": "North Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Rutgers University", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1986-present", "Spouse(s)": "Kate Miller 201... |
Thomas H. Bates (born February 9, 1938) was the 21st mayor of Berkeley, California, and a member of the California State Assembly. Bates is married to Loni Hancock, another former mayor of Berkeley and State Assembly member who served in the California State Senate. He is a graduate of the University of California, Ber... | {"Name": "Tom Bates", "Image": "Mayor Bates.jpeg", "Term start": "December 2002", "Term end": "December 2016", "Birth date": "1938 02 09", "Spouse(s)": "Loni Hancock"} |
The Khabur River is the largest perennial tributary to the Euphrates in Syria. Although the Khabur originates in Turkey, the karstic springs around Ras al-Ayn are the river's main source of water. Several important wadis join the Khabur north of Al-Hasakah, together creating what is known as the Khabur Triangle, or Upp... | {"Native name": "ar نهر الخابور syc ܢܗܪܐ ܚܒܪ ku Çemê Xabûr tr Habur Nehri", "Mouth": "Euphrates", "Coordinates": "35 8 33 N 40 25 51 E inline,title", "Basin size": "37081 km2 on"} |
Dulymus Jenod "Deuce" McAllister (born December 27, 1978) is an American former football running back who played eight seasons for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Ole Miss and was drafted by the Saints in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft. McAllister was ... | {"Born:": "Ludlow, Mississippi, U.S.", "Height:": "1", "Weight:": "232", "High school:": "Morton (Morton, Mississippi)", "College:": "Ole Miss (1997-2000)", "NFL Draft:": "23"} |
"Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty" is the national anthem of Uganda. George Wilberforce Kakoma composed the music and authored the lyrics. It was adopted as the national anthem in 1962, when the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. It is musically one of the shortest national anthems in the world. Consequently... | {"Lyrics": "1962", "Music": "1962", "Adopted": "1962 10", "Preceded by": "\"God Save the Queen\""} |
Robert Faurisson (; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 - 21 October 2018)Le négationniste Robert Faurisson est mort was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles published in the Journal of Historical Review and ... | {"Name": "Robert Faurisson", "Caption": "Faurisson in 2014", "Birth name": "Robert Faurisson Aitken", "Birth date": "1929 1 25 y", "Birth place": "Shepperton, Middlesex, England", "Death date": "2018 10 21 1929 1 25 y", "Death place": "Vichy, Allier, France", "Nationality": "French", "Occupation": "Professor of literat... |
The Maumee River (pronounced ) (; ) is a river running in the United States Midwest from northeastern Indiana into northwestern Ohio and Lake Erie. It is formed at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers, where Fort Wayne, Indiana has developed, and meanders northeastwardly for U.S. Geological Survey. Nat... | {"Progression": "Northeast", "Location": "Lake Erie at Toledo", "Coordinates": "41.6994444 -83.46 region:US-OH dms Maumee River mouth inline,title", "Mouth": "571 ft m on", "Basin size": "6,354 sqmi km2 on"} |
Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, (10 February 1846 - 6 September 1919), styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
Beresford was the second son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford, thus despite his courtesy title as t... | {"Name": "The Lord Beresford", "Image caption": "Beresford, as pictured in Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book, distributed for charity", "Birth date": "10 February 1846", "Birth place": "Curraghmore, County Waterford, Ireland", "Death date": "6 September 1919 10 February 1846", "Death place": "Berriedale, Caithness,... |
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals inc... | {"Commercial": "No", "Registration": "Not required", "Created by": "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbarium, and the Australian National Herbarium", "Launched": "1999"} |
Shannon Noll (born 16 September 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter who first came to prominence as runner-up of the first season of Australian Idol in 2003, which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. He has released five top ten albums, including two number-one multi-platinum sellers. Noll's first ten singles all... | {"Born": "Orange, New South Wales, Australia", "Origin": "Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia", "Genres": "Rock", "Labels": "Sony, Universal", "Website": "http://www.shannonnoll.com.au/"} |
Darwen Football Club is a football club from Darwen, Lancashire, England. The club was formed in 2009 as A.F.C. Darwen, a successor to the original Darwen club, which had been wound up. They currently play in the and are based at the Anchor Ground.
History
On 22 December 2003 Carlsberg Tetley tried to wind up Darwen... | {"Full name": "Darwen Football Club", "Nickname(s)": "The Salmoners", "Founded": "2009", "League": "AFCDarwe", "Website": "https://darwenfc.co.uk/"} |
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, abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. It is one of Japan's leading private universities.【株式会社 プレジデント社】 2018年5月30日 The u... | {"Type": "Private", "President": "Kichibee Otsukahttp://www.nihon-u.ac.jp/en/about_nu/president/ President's MessageNIHON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL DIVISION www.nihon-u.ac.jp 4 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180405090704/http://www.nihon-u.ac.jp/en/about_nu/president/ 5 April 2018 live dmy-all", "Stu... |
Mary Ann Moorman (born August 5, 1932) is an American woman who chanced to photograph US President John F. Kennedy a fraction of a second after he was fatally shot in the head in Dallas, Texas.
The Badge Man, whom conspiracy theorists claim is one of Kennedy's assassins, is purportedly visible in another of her photog... | {"Name": "Mary Moorman", "Caption": "Mary Moorman in the Dallas County Sheriff's office on the evening of the assassination", "Birth name": "Mary Ann Boshart", "Birth date": "1932 08 05 yes", "Spouse(s)": "Donald G. Moorman 1952 1973 div.Gary Krahmer 1980"} |
Groklaw is a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003, by paralegal Pamela Jones ("PJ"), it covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU antitrust case against Microsoft, and the standardization of Office Open XML.
Jones ... | {"URL": "groklaw.net", "Commercial": "No", "Available in": "English", "Created by": "Pamela Jones", "Launched": "2003 05 16", "Current status": "Online"} |
Michael Te-pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player and coach. He is the youngest man in history to win a singles major, winning the 1989 French Open at 17 years and 109 days old. Chang won a total of 34 top-level professional singles titles, (including seven Masters titles) w... | {"Residence": "Orange County, California, U.S.", "Born": "Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.", "Height": "5 ft 9 in", "Turned pro": "1988", "Retired": "2003", "Plays": "Right-handed (two-handed backhand)", "Coach": "José Higueras (1989)http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/french09/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=41733... |
St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Bishopsgate near Liverpool Street station.
One of the few surviving medieval City churches in London, the foundation date of the church is unknown, but it was first recorded in 1250 as the church of St Adelburga... | {"OS grid reference": "St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate", "Denomination": "Church of England", "Founded": "c.1250", "Heritage designation": "Grade I listed building", "Location": "London, EC 2", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Website": "http://www.stethelburgas.org stethelburgas.org"} |
Bushy Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is the second largest of London's Royal Parks, at in area, after Richmond Park. The park, most of which is open to the public, is immediately north of Hampton Court Palace and Hampton Court Park and is a few minutes' walk from the west side of Kingston Bridge. I... | {"Type": "Public Park", "Location": "London, England", "Coordinates": "51.414758 -0.340496 type:landmark_region:GB Bushy Park dms inline,title", "Area": "445 ha acre", "Status": "Open 24 hours year round except during the deer cull\n yes\n Bushy Park\n National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens \n 1 October 198... |
Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Rohe; February 16, 1921 - August 30, 1981) was an American dancer and actress. She is remembered for her solo performances as well as her work with partners Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. She is best known for her starring roles in On the Town (1949) with Gene Kel... | {"Name": "Vera-Ellen", "Image": "Vera-Ellen.JPG", "Caption": "Vera-Ellen in 1941", "Birth name": "Vera-Ellen Rohe", "Birth date": "February 16, 1921", "Birth place": "Norwood, Ohio, U.S.", "Death date": "1981 8 30 1921 2 16Vera-Ellen, Dancer in Movies https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/02/obituaries/vera-ellen-dancer-in-m... |
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British royal family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Glo... | {"Name": "Kensington Palace", "Image size": "250px", "Caption": "Kensington Palace in November 2006", "Map_type": "United Kingdom London Kensington", "Coordinates": "51.505278 -0.188333 inline", "Map caption": "Location in Kensington", "Location_town or location_city": "KensingtonLondon, W8", "Location_country": "Unite... |
thumb|Hongkew Park, Shanghai, after the bombing in which Shigemitsu lost his leg on April 29, 1932.
250px|right|thumb|Shigemitsu (with cane) on board , September 2, 1945
thumbnail|250px|right|Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender at the end of World War II, accompanied by Toshikazu Kase (right).
was a ... | {"Name": "Mamoru Shigemitsu", "Native name": "重光 葵", "Native name language": "ja", "Image size": "220px", "Term start": "December 10, 1954", "Term end": "December 23, 1956", "Office 2": "Minister of Foreign Affairs", "Prime minister 2": "Ichirō Hatoyama", "Predecessor 2": "Katsuo Okazaki", "Successor 2": "Nobusuke Kish... |
Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises , of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate. It is the location of Frogmore House, a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage. The name derives from the preponderance of frogs which have always lived in t... | {"Coordinates": "51.4743 -0.5944 inline,title", "Location": "Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England", "Governing body": "The Crown Estate", "Owner": "King Charles III"} |
thumb|The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin,Kershaw, G. E. (2014). American Academy of arts and s... | {"Abbreviation": "AAAS", "Type": "Honorary society and independent research center", "Headquarters": "Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.", "Subsidiaries": "Daedalus"} |
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