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thumb|The Donington Circuit layout in 1937
Donington Park is a motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The circuit business is now owned by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation, and the surrounding Donington Park Estate, still owned by the Wheatcroft family, is currentl... | {"Time zone": "GMT (UTC+0)BST (April-October, UTC+1)", "Coordinates": "52 49 47.3 N 1 22 46.4 W type:landmark_scale:10000_region:GB inline,title", "Capacity": "120,000", "Location": "Leicestershire, England", "FIA Grade": "2 (both layouts)", "Owner": "MotorSport Vision (2017-2038)", "Operator": "MotorSport Vision", "Op... |
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thumb|Reliquary of Saint John Southworth
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thumb|Blessed Sacrament Chapel
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Westminster Cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Church i... | {"OS grid reference": "TQ2924879074", "Location": "Francis Street, WestminsterLondon, SW1", "Country": "England", "Denomination": "Roman Catholic", "Website": "westminstercathedral.org.uk", "Consecrated": "1910", "Status": "Cathedral", "Functional status": "Active", "Architect(s)": "John Francis Bentley", "Style": "Neo... |
Andrew John Julian Bartlett (born 4 August 1964) is an Australian politician, social worker, academic, and social campaigner who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1997 to 2008 and from 2017 to 2018. He represented the Australian Democrats in his first stint in the Senate, including as party leader from 2002 to 20... | {"Name": "Andrew Bartlett", "Term start": "10 November 2017", "Term end": "27 August 2018", "Office 2": "Leader of the Australian Democrats", "Deputy 2": "Lyn Allison", "Predecessor 2": "Brian Greig", "Successor 2": "Lyn Allison", "Birth date": "yes 1964 8 4", "Birth place": "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia", "Birth na... |
Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 - December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mat... | {"Doctoral students": "Louis AuslanderThomas BanchoffManfredo do CarmoRobert B. GardnerHoward GarlandHarold LevineKatsumi NomizuWilliam F. PohlAlexandre Augusto Martins RodriguesBernard ShiffmanLiao ShantaoSidney M. WebsterAlan WeinsteinJoseph WolfShing-Tung YauShiu-Yuen ChengPeter Wai-Kwong Li", "Fields": "Mathematics... |
Streamline Pictures was an American media company. Founded by Carl Macek, Jerry Beck, and Fred Patten, it was one of the earliest distributors of English-dubbed Japanese animation.
History
Founding
Founded in Los Angeles, California, in late 1988, Streamline Pictures was one of the first North American companies t... | {"Defunct": "March 31, 2002", "Type": "Private company (1988-1997)Name-only unit (1997-2002)", "Fate": "Disbanded", "Founded": "October/November 1988", "Headquarters": "Los Angeles, California, USA", "Industry": "Anime dubbingFilm and television distribution", "Products": "TV seriesTheatrical filmsOriginal Video Animat... |
Robert Lacroix, (born April 15, 1940) is a professor of economics at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
After finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Leuven, in Belgium, in 1970, he became professor at the Department of Economics of the Université de Montréal. Throughout his career, he published many... | {"Name": "Robert Lacroix", "Birth date": "1940 4 15 yes", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Occupation": "Economist, academic"} |
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thumb|The Neisse river near the village of Ratzdorf (D) at the confluence in the Oder river. View to Poland
thumb|The Neisse river near the village of Ratzdorf (D) at the confluence in the Oder river. View to Poland
The Lusatian NeisseTockner, Klement; Uehlinger, Urs and Robinson Christopher T. (2009). Riv... | {"Mouth": "32 m on", "Location": "Neißemünde, Brandenburg, Germany", "Coordinates": "52 4 11 N 14 45 20 E inline,title", "Basin size": "4403 km2 on"} |
Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a major command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. Air Force. It is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, east of St. Louis, Missouri.
Air Mobility Command was established on 1 June 1992, and was formed from elements of the inactivated Military Airlift Command (MAC) and Strategic Air Command... | {"Branch": "+ USA (18 September 1947 - Present)\n 23px United States Army (23px Army Air Forces (8 March 1942 - 18 September 1947)\n 23px Army Air Corps (29 March 1941 - 9 March 1942)", "Type": "Major Command", "Role": "\"AMC's mission is to provide air mobility: Right Effects, Right Place, Right Time.\"http://www.amc... |
Daniel Walter Chorzempa (December 7, 1944 - March 25, 2023) was an American organist, composer and architect.
Biography
Daniel Chorzempa was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 7, 1944. He subsequently studied music and architecture at the University of Minnesota and further music studies in Cologne. After star... | {"Born": "Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.", "Died": "2023 03 25 1944 12 07", "Genres": "Classical music", "Website": "http://www.chorzempa.com"} |
Alastair James Hay Murray (born 10 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor, musician and writer. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Murray was born in Buckinghamshire, ... | {"Born": "1968 05 10 ySeptember 2021", "Medium": "Stand-up, television, radio", "Years active": "1991-present", "Genres": "Character comedy, political satire, insult comedy", "Spouse": "Katherine Perry June 1995 2000 div Amber Hargreaves 2002 2008 separated", "Children": "3", "Notable works and roles": "Al Murray's Hap... |
Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major practitioner of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He is one of only two men in the Open Era to have been ranked w... | {"Full name": "Stefan Bengt Edberg", "Residence": "London, England", "Born": "Västervik, Sweden", "Height": "1.88 0Player profile - Stefan Edberg https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefan-edberg/e004/overview ATP World Tour", "Turned pro": "1983 (amateur from 1982)", "Retired": "1996", "Coach": "Tony Pickard", "Plays":... |
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thumb|The Beardmore was an alternative taxi design used in London during the 1960s and 1970s.
thumb|Until the late 1950s, vehicles licensed as London taxis were required to be provided with a luggage platform, open to the street, on the sidewalk side, at the front, beside the driver,... | {"Short title": "Hackney Coaches, etc. Act 1694", "Type": "Act", "Parliament": "Parliament of England", "Long title": "An Act for the lycenseing and regulateing Hackney-Coaches and Stage-Coaches.", "Year": "1694", "Citation": "5 & 6 Will. & Mar. c. 22", "Royal Assent": "25 April 1694", "Repealed by or Revoked by (if ty... |
John Sewell (born December 8, 1940) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 58th mayor of Toronto from 1978 to 1980.
Background
Born and raised in the Beach neighbourhood, in Toronto, Sewell attended Malvern Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, graduating with an English Literature degre... | {"Name": "John Sewell", "Office 2": "Toronto City Councillor for Ward 7", "Predecessor 2": "new ward boundaries", "Alongside 2": "Karl Jaffary (1969-1974)Janet Howard (1974-1978)", "Successor 2": "Gordon Cressy", "Birth date": "1940 12 8", "Birth place": "Toronto, Ontario", "Alma mater": "University of Toronto", "Spous... |
Shut the box (also called canoga, batten down the hatches or trick-track) is a game of dice for one or more players, commonly played in a group of two to four for stakes. Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be covered with a hinged or sliding mechanism, though the game can be... | {"Name": "Shut the box", "Other name(s)": "Canoga, batten down the hatches, trick-track", "Image size": "250px", "Image Alt Text": "Shut the box game with dice cup", "Genres": "Dice-rollingSolitaire", "Players": "1 (Solitaire) or more", "Setup time": "1 minute", "Playing time": "2-3 minutes per player", "Random chance"... |
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe or Edinburgh Fringe Festival, or simply The Fringe) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows in 322 venues. Established in 1947 as an alterna... | {"Location(s)": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Years active": "1947-present", "Genre": "Arts festival", "Website": "edfringe.com"} |
Jeremy James Hardy (17 July 19611 February 2019) was an English comedian. Born and raised in Hampshire, Hardy studied at the University of Southampton and began his stand-up career in the 1980s, going on to win the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1988. He is best known for his appearances on ra... | {"Birth name": "Jeremy James Hardy", "Born": "Aldershot, Hampshire, England", "Died": "2019 02 1 1961 07 17 yes", "Medium": "Television, radio and stand-up", "Nationality": "British", "Alma mater": "University of Southampton", "Spouse": "Kit Hollerbach (1986-2006, divorced)Katie Barlow", "Children": "1 (adopted)"} |
Austin Steward (1793 – February 15, 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and author. He was born enslaved in Virginia then moved at age 7 with the Helm household to New York State in 1800. The household settled in the town of Bath, New York, in 1803. He escaped slavery at about age 21, settling in Rochester, New ... | {"Name": "Austin Steward", "Birth date": "1793", "Birth place": "Prince William County, Virginia", "Death date": "1869 2 15 1793", "Resting place": "Canandaigua, New York", "Known For": "Twenty-Two Years a Slave", "Parent(s)": "Robert and Susan Steward"} |
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to education founded in Saint-Omer by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609. The congregation takes its name from the Marian shrine at Loreto in Italy where Ward ... | {"Abbreviation": "I.B.V.M.", "Headquarters": "Casa Generalizia Di Loreto", "Location": "Via Massaua 3, Rome, Italy", "Type": "Catholic religious order", "Website": "Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary"} |
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician and conspiracy theorist, whose views can be characterized as Black nationalist. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American woman elected to represent Geor... | {"Name": "Cynthia McKinney", "Term start": "January 3, 2005", "Term end": "January 3, 2007", "Birth name": "Cynthia Ann McKinney", "Birth date": "1955 3 17", "Birth place": "Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.", "Other political party": "Democratic (1973-2007) Green (2007-2020)", "Spouse(s)": "Coy Grandison (divorced)", "Education"... |
Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and broadcast on Sky One from 2000 to 2002.
Premise
The show is set in a forgotten, unwelcoming pub whose opinionated landlord, 'Guv' (short for 'The Governor'), has some very old-fashioned views on how a pub, and Britain, sho... | {"Genre": "Sitcom", "Written by": "Richard HerringAl Murray", "Directed by": "Gareth GwenlanRichard Boden", "Starring": "Al Murray\n Phil Daniels\n Jason Freeman\n Rebecca Front\n Roy Heather\n Andrew Mackay\n Julia Sawalha\n Emma Pierson\n Janine Buckley\n Jeff Rudom\n Marc Bannerman", "Country of origin": "United Kin... |
Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non-terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, it became Sky One and broadcast exclusively in the United Kingdom and Irelan... | {"Launched": "1982 04 26 y", "Closed": "2021 09 01 y(1982 04 26 2021 09 01)", "Owner": "Sky Group (Comcast)", "Sister channels": "List of Sky UK channels", "Picture format": "HDTV 1080i(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SD feed)", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Broadcast area": "United Kingdom\nIreland", "Replaced by": "S... |
thumb|Frontispice of the book Les Poesies by Daniel Lesueur published in 1896 and representing Daniel Lesueur, young girl (1854-1921)
Jeanne Lapauze, née Loiseau (1860-1920) was a French poet and novelist who used the pen name Daniel Lesueur.
Biography
She was born in the vicinity of Paris. Her volume of poems, Fleu... | {"Caption": "Portrait of Daniel Lesueur, painted by Paul Émile Chabas", "Birth name": "Jeanne Lapauze", "Birth date": "6 March 1854", "Birth place": "Batignolles-Monceau fr", "Death date": "yes 1921 01 03 1854 03 06", "Death place": "Paris", "Occupation": "PoetNovelist"} |
The Panama Canal Railway (PCR, ) is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The route stretches across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, near Panama City). Because of the difficult physical conditions of the route and state of technology, the con... | {"Previous gauge": "5ft on", "Length": "47.6 mi km flip on", "Locale": "Isthmus of Panama", "Dates of operation": "Present", "Headquarters": "Panama City, Panama", "Website": "panarail.com", "Parent company": "CPKC (50%)Mi-Jack Products (50%)"} |
St Mary le Strand is a Church of England church at the eastern end of the Strand in the City of Westminster, London. It lies within the Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret) within the Diocese of London. The church stands on what was until recently a traffic island to the north of Somerset House, King's College London's... | {"OS grid reference": "St Mary le Strand", "Denomination": "Church of England", "Architect(s)": "James Gibbs", "Heritage designation": "Grade I", "Years built": "1714-1724", "Dedicated": "1724", "Vicar(s)": "Peter Babington", "Churchwarden(s)": "Margaret Stonborough, Nick Cressey", "Location": "Strand, City of Westmins... |
Ladies' Home Journal was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing Company. In 1903,... | {"Frequency": "11 issues/year (1883-1910; 1911-2014) 24 issues a year (ca. 1910-1911)Quarterly (2014-2016)", "Categories": "Women's interest, lifestyle", "Publisher": "Meredith Corporation", "Founded": "1883", "Country": "US", "Based in": "Des Moines, Iowa", "Language": "English", "ISSN": "0023-7124"} |
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. There has been a church on the site since at least the medieval period. It was at that time located in the farmlands and fields beyond t... | {"OS grid reference": "St Martin-in-the-Fields", "Location": "Trafalgar Square, WestminsterLondon, WC 2", "Country": "England", "Denomination": "Church of England", "Website": "http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/", "Dedication": "Saint Martin", "Status": "Parish church", "Functional status": "Active", "Heritage desi... |
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (5 April 1795 - 24 November 1857) was a British general who is particularly associated with India and his recapture of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (First War of Independence, Sepoy Mutiny).
Early life
Henry Havelock was born at Ford Hall, Bishopwearmouth (now in Sunde... | {"Born": "Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, England", "Died": "Alumbagh, Lucknow, British India", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Awards": "Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath", "Relations": "Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet (son)"} |
Sir Rabbie Langanai Namaliu (3 April 1947 - 31 March 2023) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as the fourth prime minister of Papua New GuineaRabbie Namaliu, Australian Network, accessed December 2010 from 4 July 1988 to 17 July 1992 as leader of the Pangu Party.
Biography
Namaliu was born in East New Bri... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Right Honourable Sir", "Honorific suffix": "GBR 100% GCL KCMG PC", "Image caption": "Namaliu in 2012", "Term start": "4 July 1988", "Term end": "17 July 1992", "Birth name": "Rabbie Langanai Namaliu", "Birth date": "1947 4 3 y", "Birth place": "East New Britain Province, Territory of New Guine... |
The is a Japanese multinational keiretsu (conglomerate) holding company headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Its main operation is , a wholly owned subsidiary operating railways in the Greater Tokyo Area.
History
thumb|150px|Logo of the Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway
thumb|150px|Logo of the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railwa... | {"Formerly": "東京急行電鉄株式会社Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu KK (1 May 1942-1 Sep 2019)", "Type": "Public (Kabushiki gaisha)", "Founded": "1910 5 16 (as Musashi Electric Railway Company; renamed Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway in 1924 10 25)1922 9 2 (Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway)1939 10 16 (current iteration of company)Renamed Tokyu... |
The Bronko Nagurski Trophy has been awarded annually since 1993 to the collegiate American football defensive player adjudged by the membership of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) to be the best in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The award is named for Bronko Nagurski, who played footbal... | {"Awarded for": "The best defensive player in college football", "Presented by": "Charlotte Touchdown Club and Football Writers Association of America", "Country": "United States", "First award": "1993", "Most recent": "Will Anderson Jr., Alabama", "Website": "http://www.touchdownclub.com"} |
Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division. Having a population of 2.8 million as per 2011 census, it is the eleventh most... | {"Named for": "Lakshmana", "Type": "Municipal Corporation", "Body": "Lucknow Municipal Corporation", "Rank": "11th in India", "Density": "auto", "Website": "lucknow.nic.in"} |
Agnostic Front is an American hardcore punk band from New York City. Founded in 1980, the band is considered an important influence on the New York hardcore scene, as well as a pioneer of the crossover thrash genre.
History
First era (1980-1992)
Formed in 1980 with Vincent "Vinnie Stigma" Capuccio (formerly of the Eli... | {"Origin": "New York City, U.S.", "Genres": "Hardcore punkhttps://www.spin.com/2008/04/agnostic-front-madball-shred-hardcore-family-reunion/ Sean Yeaton Agnostic Front, Madball Shred Hardcore Family Reunion Spin April 7, 2008\ncrossover thrashhttp://www.laweekly.com/music/the-10-best-crossover-thrash-bands-5398807 The... |
Louis Botha (; 27 September 1862 - 27 August 1919) was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa - the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war hero during the Second Boer War, he eventually fought to have South Africa become a British Dominion.
Early lif... | {"Name": "Louis Botha", "Term start": "31 May 1910", "Term end": "27 August 1919", "Office 2": "Prime Minister of the Transvaal", "Monarch 2": "Edward VIIGeorge V", "Governor 2": "The Earl of Selborne", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "HimselfAs Prime Minister of South Africa", "Birth date": "27 S... |
The Apples in Stereo, styled as The Apples in stereo, are an American pop/rock band associated with Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Of Montreal, and Circulatory System. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robe... | {"Origin": "Denver, Colorado, U.S.", "Genres": "Indie pop indie rock psychedelic pop power pop neo-psychedelia", "Labels": "Elephant 6\nSpinART\nSimian\nYep Roc", "Website": "applesinstereo.comMarch 2023", "Members": "Robert Schneider\nJohn Hill\nEric Allen\nJohn Dufilho\nJohn Ferguson\nBen Phelan"} |
, commonly known as Odakyū or Odawara Kyuko, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone.
The Odakyu Electric Railway Company forms the core of the Odakyu Group, which comprises 101 companies... | {"Type": "Public (kabushiki gaisha)", "Industry": "Public transport", "Founded": "Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (1948 06 01 y)", "Headquarters": "2-2 Megumi-cho, Ebina, Kanagawa (Ebina Headquarters)\n 1-8-3 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo (Shinjuku Headquarters)", "Revenue": "¥166.445 billion (FY2016)", "Parent": "Dai-ichi Li... |
100th Window is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group Massive Attack, released on 10 February 2003 by Virgin Records. The album was mainly produced by lead member Robert Del Naja, as the group's producer Andrew Vowles departed shortly after the release of their previous album Mezzanine (1998), and G... | {"Released": "10 February 2003", "Recorded": "2002", "Studio": "Sony (London)", "Genre": "Electronica\n post-rock\n downtempo\n ambient dubSouthall Nick http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/massive-attack/100th-window.htm Massive Attack - 100th Window - Review Stylus Magazine 1 September 2003 15 February 2013 h... |
James Napper Tandy (February 1739 - 24 August 1803), known as Napper Tandy, was an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the United Irishmen. He experienced exile, first in the United States and then in France, for his role in attempting to advance a republican insurrection in Ireland with French assistance.
Political ... | {"Name": "Napper Tandy", "Birth date": "February 1739", "Birth place": "Dublin, Ireland", "Death date": "1803 08 24 1739 2 16 y", "Death place": "Bordeaux, France", "Resting place": "Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland", "Occupation": "Soldier, United Irishman, Politician", "Known For": "Founder of Society of Unit... |
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered... | {"Name": "Multatuli", "Image": "Multatuli001.gif", "Caption": "Eduard Douwes Dekker, also known as Multatuli, in 1853", "Birth name": "Eduard Douwes Dekker", "Birth date": "1820 3 2 yes", "Birth place": "Amsterdam, United Kingdom of the Netherlands", "Death date": "1887 2 19 1820 3 2 yes", "Death place": "Nieder Ingelh... |
Flint () is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Dee. It is the former county town of Flintshire. According to the 2001 Census, the population of the community of Flint was 12,804, increasing to 12,953 at the 2011 census. The urban area including Holywell and Bagillt had a popula... | {"Sovereign state": "Wales", "Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament": "Delyn", "Community": "Flint", "Principal area": "Flintshire", "Preserved county": "Clwyd", "UK Parliament": "Delyn", "Population": "(2021)s t u v in the Flint Community; aggregated from the three electoral wards https://censusdata.uk/w05001588-y-fflint-cy... |
Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 - 13 February 1973) was a German administrative lawyer, who worked in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior in the Reich, during the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism and was later the Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancel... | {"Name": "Hans Globke", "Birth name": "Hans Josef Maria Globke", "Birth date": "yes 1898 09 10", "Birth place": "Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire", "Death date": "yes 1973 02 13 1898 09 10", "Death place": "Bonn, West Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Spouse(s)": "Augusta Vaillant", "Term... |
is a Japanese sweetened probiotic milk beverage fermented with the bacteria strain Lacticaseibacillus casei Shirota. It is sold by Yakult Honsha, based in Tokyo. It is distributed through convenience stores and supermarkets in single-serving containers of (depending on the manufacturer)
or , often in single-row packs ... | {"Type": "Drink", "Manufacturer": "Yakult Honsha", "Distributor": "Yakult Honsha", "Introduced": "1935", "Ingredients": "Ingredients"} |
Eltham Palace is a large house at Eltham ( ) in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The house consists of the medieval great hall of a former royal residence, to which an Art Deco extension was added in the 1930s. The hammerbeam roof of the great hall is the third-largest of its type in En... | {"Architectural style": "Art Deco interior", "Current tenants": "English Heritage", "Location": "ElthamLondon, SE 9United Kingdom", "Coordinates": "51 26 50 N 00 02 53 E inline,title region:GB_type:landmark"} |
Billings Learned Hand ( ; January 27, 1872 - August 18, 1961) was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circu... | {"Name": "Learned Hand", "Image caption": "Portrait, 1910", "Term start": "June 1, 1951", "Term end": "August 18, 1961", "Office 2": "Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "Thomas Walter Swan", "Birth name": "Billings Learned Han... |
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I listed building, the first post-war building to become so protected (... | {"Type": "Concert hall", "Architectural style": "Modernist", "Address": "Belvedere RoadLondon, SE 1England", "Coordinates": "51 30 21.01 N 00 07 00.44 W region:GB inline", "Construction started": "1948 (18 months to complete)"} |
thumb|right|In July 1937, the Presidium of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party issued an order for the Chinese Red Army to reorganize into the National Revolutionary Army and stand by for the anti-Japanese front line.
thumb|right|Former site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin.
The Eig... | {"Allegiance": "23px Chinese Communist Party", "Branch": "23px National Revolutionary Army", "Type": "Route Army", "Role": "Infantry", "Size": "600,000", "Part of": "CPC Central Military CommissionNationalist Government Military Affairs Commission", "March": "Military Anthem of the Eighth Route Army"} |
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a threat to society. Whitney was explicitly overruled by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969.
Background
Charlotte Anita Whitney, a member of a distinguished Ca... | {"Date argued": "October 6", "Year argued": "1925", "Date reargued": "March 18", "Year reargued": "1926", "Date decided": "May 16", "Year decided": "1927", "Full case name": "Charlotte Anita Whitney v. People of the State of California", "United States Reports volume number": "274", "United States Reports page number":... |
Dragan Čović (; born 20 August 1956) is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 4th Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2018. He is the current president of the Croatian Democratic Union and is a member of the national House of Peoples.
Born in Mostar, Čović... | {"Name": "Dragan Čović", "Image caption": "Čović in 2022", "Term start": "28 February 2019", "Office 2": "7th Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Predecessor 2": "Mladen Ivanić", "Successor 2": "Bakir Izetbegović", "Birth date": "1956 08 20 y", "Birth place": "Mostar, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR ... |
The president of Gabon () is the head of state of Gabon. A total of three people have served as president (not counting two acting presidents) since the post was formed in 1960.
The current transitional president, Brice Oligui, took power in a coup on 30 August 2023 from Ali Bongo.
Description of the office
Election... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theGabonese Republic", "Native name": "fr Président de laRépublique gabonaise", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag border": "yes", "Flag caption": "Presidential standard", "Image size": "165px", "Incumbent": "Brice Oligui(Transitional)", "Incumbent since": "30 August 2023", "Department": "Execut... |
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias (born July 1, 1946) is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
Born into a rural family, Moscoso became active in the 1968 presidential campaign of three-time president Arnulfo... | {"Name": "Mireya Moscoso", "Image caption": "Moscoso in 2012", "Vice president": "Arturo Vallarino (1999-2004) Dominador Baldomero Bazán (1999-2004)", "Term start": "September 1, 1999", "Term end": "September 1, 2004", "Birth date": "1946 7 1", "Birth place": "Pedasi, Panama", "Spouse(s)": "Arnulfo Arias 1969 1988 d Ri... |
Festus Gontebanye Mogae (born 21 August 1939) is a Botswana politician and economist who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004; after ten years in office. He stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant Gene... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Name": "Festus Mogae", "Image caption": "Mogae in 2009", "Term start": "1 April 1998", "Term end": "1 April 2008", "Vice president": "Seretse Ian Khama", "Office 2": "4th Vice-President of Botswana", "President 2": "Sir Ketumile Masire", "Predecessor 2": "Peter Mmusi", "Successor... |
Stefan Paweł Rowecki (pseudonym: Grot, "Spearhead", hence the alternate name, Stefan Grot-Rowecki; 25 December 1895 - 2 August 1944) was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison on the personal order of Heinrich Himmler.Archived at Ghostarchive and the W... | {"Nickname(s)": "Grot, Rakoń, Grabica, Inżynier, Jan, Kalina, Tur", "Born": "Piotrków Trybunalski, Congress Poland", "Died": "Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Nazi Germany", "Allegiance": "Second Polish Republic", "Awards": "Order of the White EagleVirtuti Militari (Golden Cross)Virtuti Militari\n(Silver ... |
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinati... | {"Name": "Havelock Ellis", "Caption": "Ellis in 1913", "Birth name": "Henry Havelock Ellis", "Birth date": "1859 02 02 y", "Birth place": "Croydon, Surrey, UK", "Death date": "1939 07 08 1859 02 02 y", "Death place": "Hintlesham, Suffolk, UK", "Alma mater": "King's College London", "Occupation": "Physician eugenicist w... |
Lucius Aelius Caesar (13 January 101 - 1 January 138) was the father of Emperor Lucius Verus. In 136, he was adopted by the reigning emperor Hadrian and named heir to the throne. He died before Hadrian and thus never became emperor. After Lucius' death, he was replaced by Antoninus Pius, who succeeded Hadrian the same... | {"Born": "13 January 101", "Died": "1 January 138 (aged 36)", "Father": "Lucius Ceionius CommodusHadrian (adoptive)", "Mother": "Plautia"} |
Laisenia Qarase (pronounced ; 4 February 1941 - 21 April 2020) was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial adviser on 9 June 2000, ... | {"Name": "Laisenia Qarase", "Image caption": "Qarase in 2004", "President 2": "Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda", "Predecessor 2": "Vacant", "Successor 2": "Tevita Momoedonu", "Birth date": "yes 1941 2 4", "Birth place": "Vanua Balavu, Colony of Fiji", "Death date": "yes 2020 4 21 1941 2 4", "Death place": "Suva, Fiji",... |
This article lists the presidents of Guinea, since the country gained independence from France in 1958 (after rejecting to join the French Community in a constitutional referendum).
Term limits
As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Guinea. This limit has been lifted for Conté i... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theRepublic of Guinea", "Native name": "fr Président de la République de Guinéenqo ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߬ ߞߊ߲ߕߌ߮ ߟߎ߬ ߛߙߍߘߍ", "Insignia caption": "Coat of arms of Guinea", "Flag caption": "Presidential Standard", "Incumbent": "Mamady Doumbouya(Interim)", "Incumbent since": "5 September 2021CNRD", "Residen... |
Sir Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke (13 November 1915 - 11 July 2014) served as the fourth governor-general of Jamaica from 1 August 1991 to 15 February 2006.
Early life
Cooke was born on 13 November 1915, in Goodwill, St. James, Jamaica, the son of David Brown Cooke and Mary Jane Minto. In his youth, Cooke was the group ... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Most Honourable Sir", "Name": "Howard Cooke", "Honorific suffix": "100% ON CD GBR 100% GCMG GCVO KStJ", "Term start": "1 August 1991", "Term end": "15 February 2006", "Birth name": "Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke", "Birth date": "1915 11 13 yes", "Birth place": "Goodwill, St. James, Jamaica", "Deat... |
The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current president of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2020 presidential election against former president, John Dramani Mahama, by a margin of 4.23%. He ... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theRepublic of Ghana", "Insignia size": "120px", "Insignia caption": "Presidential Seal of Ghana", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag caption": "Presidential Standard of Ghana", "Flag border": "yes", "Incumbent": "Nana Akufo-Addo", "Incumbent since": "7 January 2017", "Style": "His/Her Excellenc... |
This article lists the presidents of Guinea-Bissau, since the establishment of the office of president in 1973.
Term limits
As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Guinea-Bissau. The term limit has not been met by any president yet.
List of officeholders
Political parties
Sym... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theRepublic of Guinea-Bissau", "Insignia size": "125px", "Insignia caption": "Emblem of Guinea-Bissau", "Image size": "165px", "Incumbent": "Umaro Sissoco Embaló", "Incumbent since": "27 February 2020", "Residence": "Presidential Palace, Bissau", "Term length": "5 years", "Date of formati... |
John the Merciful (), also known as St John the Almsgiver, John the Almoner, John V of Alexandria, John Eleymon, and Johannes Eleemon, was the Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria in the early 7th century (from 606 to 616) and a Christian saint. He is the patron saint of Casarano, Italy and of Limassol, Cyprus.
Early... | {"Born": "Amathus, Cyprus", "Died": "Cyprus", "Feast": "12 November (Orthodox) 23 January (Roman Catholic) 11 November (Coptic Orthodox)", "Canonized": "Pre-Congregation", "Attributes": "Bishop vestmentMiterCrosier", "Patronage": "Egypt"} |
The president of the Republic of The Gambia is the head of state and head of government of the Gambia. The president leads the executive branch of the government of the Gambia and is the commander-in-chief of the Gambia Armed Forces. The post was created in 1970, when the Gambia became a republic and has been held by t... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "theRepublic of The Gambia", "Flag size": "125px", "Flag caption": "Presidential Flag", "Flag border": "yes", "Insignia caption": "Presidential seal", "Image size": "165px", "Incumbent": "Adama Barrow", "Incumbent since": "19 January 2017", "Residence": "State House, Banjul", "Term length"... |
The president of the Republic of Kenya () is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Kenya. The President is also the head of the executive branch of the Government of Kenya and is the commander-in-chief of the Kenya Defence Forces.
History
Kenya's pre-independence constitution was based on the s... | {"Post": "President", "Body": "the Republic of Kenya", "Native name": "sw Rais wa Jamhuri ya Kenya", "Flag size": "125", "Flag border": "yes", "Flag caption": "Presidential standard", "Incumbent": "William Ruto", "Incumbent since": "13 September 2022", "Residence": "State House", "Seat": "Nairobi", "Appointer": "Direct... |
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Brindisi ( , ) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural ... | {"Name": "Brindisi", "Native name": "scn Brìnnisi", "Official name": "Comune di Brindisi", "Pushpin label position": "left", "Coordinates": "40 38 N 17 56 E region:IT_type:city(90175) inline titleline", "Region": "Apulia", "Province": "BR (BR)", "Frazioni": "Tuturano", "Mayor's party": "independent right-wing", "Mayor"... |
José Eduardo dos Santos (; 28 August 1942 - 8 July 2022) was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the party that has ruled Angola since it won inde... | {"Name": "José Eduardo dos Santos", "Image caption": "dos Santos in 2007", "Term start": "21 September 1979", "Term end": "25 September 2017", "Vice president": "Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos Manuel Vicente", "Office 2": "Commander of the People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola", "Predecessor 2": "Agostinho... |
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles ( , , ; 1 April 169725 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist.
Life and works
He was born at Hesdin, Artois, and first appears with the full name of Prévost d'Exiles, in a letter to the booksellers of Amsterdam in 1731. H... | {"Name": "Abbé Prévost", "Caption": "Portrait by Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1745", "Birth name": "Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles", "Birth date": "1697 4 1 y", "Birth place": "Hesdin, Artois, France", "Death date": "1763 11 25 1697 4 1 y", "Death place": "Courteuil, Picardy, France"} |
Pietro Ziani (died in Venice, 13 March 1230) was the 42nd Doge of Venice from 15 August 1205 to 1229, succeeding Enrico Dandolo. He was the son of Doge Sebastian Ziani of the very rich noble family. He was married to Maria Baseggio and Constance of Sicily.
In his youth a sailor, he commanded a flotilla escorting the ... | {"Name": "Pietro Ziani", "Image": "Venezia, grosso di pietro ziani, 1225-1229.JPG", "Image caption": "Grosso of Pietro Ziani", "Term start": "1205", "Term end": "1229", "Birth date": "Unknown", "Birth place": "Republic of Venice", "Death date": "13 March 1230", "Death place": "Republic of Venice", "Spouse(s)": "Maria B... |
Old Town Hall (, ) is a complex of buildings from the 14th century in the Old Town of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the oldest city hall in the country and it is one of the oldest stone buildings still standing in Bratislava, with the tower being built approximately in 1370. The town hall was created in th... | {"Former names": "Régi városháza", "Type": "Town hall", "Architectural style": "originally Gothic, now baroque, neo-renaissance and neo-gothic", "Location": "Main square, Bratislava, Slovakia", "Current tenants": "Museum", "Construction started": "13th century"} |
Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa ( ; 28 January 1950) is King of Bahrain since 14 February 2002, after ruling as Emir of Bahrain from 6 March 1999.
He is the son of Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the previous and first emir. The country has been ruled by the Al Khalifa dynasty since 1783.
Early life and education
t... | {"Religion": "Sunni Islam", "Father": "Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa", "Mother": "Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa", "Born": "Riffa, Bahrain"} |
The Mapuche ( (Mapuche and Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious, and economic structure, as well as a comm... | {"Name": "Mapuche", "Image caption": "Mapuche women from Tirúa in 2015", "Population": "c. 1,950,000", "Languages": "Mapudungun Spanish", "Religions": "Traditional, Catholicism, Evangelicalism (less common)", "Related ethnic groups": "Core groups: Boroano, Cunco, Huilliche, Lafquenche, Moluche, Picunche, Promaucae\nAra... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (, ; born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
During his reign, he advocated the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure the well-being of citizens rather than Gross domestic product.G... | {"Father": "Jigme Dorji Wangchuck", "Mother": "Kesang Choden", "Born": "Dechencholing Palace, Thimphu, Bhutan", "Religion": "Tibetan Buddhism"} |
Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov (, ) (born 28 June 1957) is a Bulgarian historian and politician who was President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. He was elected after defeating incumbent Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the November 2001 presidential election. He took office on 22 January 2002. He was reelected in a lan... | {"Name": "Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov", "Native name": "Георги Седефчов Първанов", "Native name language": "bg", "Image caption": "Parvanov in 2008", "Term start": "22 January 2002", "Term end": "22 January 2012", "Vice president": "Angel Marin", "Birth date": "1957 6 28 y", "Birth place": "Sirishtnik, Bulgaria", "Other ... |
Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has served as the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982, having previously been Prime Minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982.Profile of Biya at Cameroonian presidency web site .Biography at 2004 presidential electi... | {"Name": "Paul Biya", "Image caption": "Biya in 2014", "Term start": "6 November 1982", "Birth name": "Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo", "Birth date": "1933 2 13 yes", "Birth place": "Mvomeka'a, Ntem, French Cameroon(now Cameroon)", "Spouse(s)": "Jeanne-Irène Bika 1961 29 July 1992 d.\n Chantal Vigouroux 23 April 199... |
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.
Life and career
Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cape Verde to Luís Rodrigues Pires and wife Maria Fidalga Lopes. Later, he stud... | {"Name": "Pedro Pires", "Term start": "22 March 2001", "Term end": "9 September 2011", "Office 2": "Prime Minister of Cape Verde", "President 2": "Aristides PereiraAntónio Mascarenhas Monteiro", "Predecessor 2": "Office established", "Successor 2": "Carlos Veiga", "Birth date": "1934 4 29 y", "Birth name": "Pedro Veron... |
Abel Pacheco de la Espriella ( ; born 22 December 1933 in San José) is a Costa Rican politician who was president of Costa Rica between 2002 and 2006,El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones: Presidentes de la República de Costa Rica representing the Social Christian Unity Party (Partido Unidad Social Cristiana - PUSC).Pachec... | {"Name": "Abel Pacheco de La Espriella", "Term start": "8 May 2002", "Term end": "8 May 2006", "Vice president": "Lineth Saborío ChaverriLuis Fishman Zonzinski", "Birth date": "1933 12 22 y", "Birth place": "San José, Costa Rica", "Spouse(s)": "Elsa María Muñoz Batha (?-?)Leila Rodríguez Stahl 1975"} |
Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 - August 7, 2021), known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include: bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985; public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992; Georgie An... | {"Name": "Markie Post", "Caption": "Post at the 1988 Emmy Awards", "Birth name": "Marjorie Armstrong Post", "Birth date": "1950 11 4", "Birth place": "Palo Alto, California, U.S.", "Death date": "2021 8 7 1950 11 4", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Alma mater": "Lewis & Clark College (BA)", "Occupation... |
Azali Assoumani (; born 1 January 1959) is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as President of the Comoros since April 2019. He was also president from 2002 to 2006 and 2016 to February 2019. He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016 and Ap... | {"Name": "Azali Assoumani", "Native name": "غزالي عثماني", "Image caption": "Assoumani in 2022", "Predecessor 2": "Hamada Madi (interim)", "Successor 2": "Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi", "Birth date": "1959 1 1 y", "Birth place": "Mitsoudjé, Comoros", "Spouse(s)": "Ambari Assoumani", "Vice president 2": "Caabi El-Yachro... |
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (; ) (born 27 November 1946) is the current President of Djibouti. He has been in office since 1999, making him one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa. He is often referred to by his initials, IOG.
Guelleh was first elected as President in 1999 as the handpicked successor to his uncle, Hassan ... | {"Name": "Ismaïl Omar Guellehar إسماعيل عمر جليه", "Image caption": "Guelleh in 2010", "Term start": "8 May 1999", "Birth date": "1946 11 27 y", "Birth place": "Dire Dawa, Ethiopian Empire", "Spouse(s)": "Kadra Mahamoud Haid"} |
Charles Gyude Bryant (17 January 1949 - 16 April 2014) was a Liberian politician and businessman. He served as the Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia from 14 October 2003 to 16 January 2006. The installation of the transitional government was part of the peace agreement to end the country's second civil... | {"Name": "Gyude Bryant", "Image caption": "Bryant in 2004", "Term start": "14 October 2003", "Term end": "16 January 2006", "Birth date": "yes 1949 1 17", "Birth place": "Monrovia, Liberia", "Death date": "yes 2014 4 16 1949 1 17", "Death place": "Monrovia, Liberia", "Nationality": "Liberian", "Spouse(s)": "Rosie Lee-B... |
The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, and is the active executive officer of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The chairman presides at meetings of the Board.
The chairman serves a four-year term after being nominated by the preside... | {"Post": "Chairman", "Body": "the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System", "Flag size": "130px", "Flag caption": "Flag of the Federal Reserve System", "Insignia size": "120px", "Insignia caption": "Seal of the Board of Governors", "Incumbent": "Jerome Powell", "Incumbent since": "February 5, 2018", "Departmen... |
Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez (born 22 February 1941) is a Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.
During his presidential term in office the country was affected by one of its worst economic crises, generated by the bankruptcy of three major commercial banks in the ... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Excellency", "Name": "Hipólito Mejía", "Image caption": "Hipólito Mejía, 2003", "Vice president": "Milagros Ortiz Bosch", "Term start": "16 August 2000", "Term end": "16 August 2004", "Order 2": "Secretary of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic", "President 2": "Antonio GuzmánJacobo Majluta"... |
Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez (17 October 1959 - 30 January 2016) was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 1999,... | {"Vice president": "Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt", "Term start": "1 June 1999", "Term end": "1 June 2004", "Office 2": "President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador", "Predecessor 2": "Gloria Salguero Gross", "Successor 2": "Juan Duch Martínez", "Birth date": "1959 10 17 y", "Birth place": "Santa Ana, El Salvador... |
Isaias Afwerki (, ; born 2 February 1946) is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the president of Eritrea since shortly after he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) to victory in 24 May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence from Ethiopia.
In addition to being president, Isaias h... | {"Native name": "ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ", "Image caption": "Afwerki in 2023", "Birth date": "1946 2 2 y", "Birth place": "Asmara, British Military Administration in Eritrea (now Eritrea)", "Term start": "24 May 1993", "Office 2": "Chairman of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice", "Predecessor 2": "Position established", ... |
Girma Wolde-Giorgis (; 28 December 1924 - 15 December 2018) was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013.Ethiopia's President in Saudi Arabia for medical checkup - State Media . Nazret.com (13 March 2012). He was the second person to hold the office of president since the founding of ... | {"Name": "Girma Wolde-Giorgisግርማ ወልደ ጊዮርጊስ", "Image caption": "Girma in 2006", "Term start": "8 October 2001", "Term end": "7 October 2013", "Birth date": "1924 12 28 y", "Birth place": "Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire", "Death date": "2018 12 15 1924 12 26 yes", "Resting place": "Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Eth... |
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Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was an East German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary, and his discovery as a spy in 1973 led ... | {"Name": "Günter Guillaume", "Caption": "Guillaume (right) with West German chancellor Willy Brandt, 1972-1974", "Birth name": "Günter Karl Heinz Guillaume", "Birth date": "1927 02 01 y", "Birth place": "Berlin, Weimar Republic", "Death date": "1995 04 10 1927 02 01 y", "Death place": "Petershagen-Eggersdorf, Germany",... |
Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Scott Field was one of 32 Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917.William R. Evinger: Directory of Military... | {"Type": "US Air Force base", "Coordinates": "38 32 N 89 52 W inline,title", "Owner": "Department of Defense", "Operator": "US Air Force", "Controlled by": "Air Mobility Command (AMC)", "Built": "1917 (as Scott Field)", "In use": "1917 - present", "Currentcommander": "Colonel John Poole", "Garrison": "375th Airlift Win... |
Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 - 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon for almost 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before bein... | {"Image size": "220px", "Image caption": "Bongo in 1973", "Vice president": "Léon MébiameDidjob Divungi Di Ndinge", "Term start": "2 December 1967", "Term end": "8 June 2009", "Office 2": "2nd Vice-President of Gabon", "President 2": "Léon M'ba", "Predecessor 2": "Paul-Marie Yembit", "Successor 2": "Léon Mébiame", "Bir... |
Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer, who served as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017, as well as Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council from 1994 to 1996.
Jammeh was born in Kanilai, in the Gambia, and is a Muslim of the ... | {"Name": "Yahya Jammeh", "Image caption": "Jammeh in 2014", "Vice president": "Isatou Njie-Saidy", "Term start": "6 November 1996", "Term end": "19 January 2017Jammeh's term was originally scheduled to end on 19 January 2017. However, in a widely disputed move, parliament extended his presidential term for three months... |
Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born 24 September 1951) is a Guatemalan politician who served as President of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.
He took office on 14 January 2000, representing the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the party then led by retired general and deposed military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt (1926-20... | {"Name": "Alfonso Portillo", "Image caption": "Official portrait, 2000", "Vice president": "Juan Francisco Reyes López", "Term start": "14 January 2000", "Term end": "14 January 2004", "Birth date": "1951 9 24 y", "Birth place": "Zacapa, Guatemala", "Spouse(s)": "María Eugenia Padúa González 1981 1990 divorced\n Evelyn... |
Lansana Conté (; 30 November 1934 - 22 December 2008"Guinea's long-time military leader Conte dies", AFP, 23 December 2008.) was a Guinean politician and military official who served as the second President of Guinea, from 3 April 1984 until his death on 22 December 2008. Conté came to power in the 1984 Guinean coup d'... | {"Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Conté in 2001", "Name": "Lansana Conté", "Term start": "5 April 1984", "Term end": "22 December 2008", "Birth date": "yes 1934 11 30", "Birth place": "Dubréka, French Guinea", "Death date": "yes 2008 12 22 1934 11 30Conakry, Guinea", "Resting place": "Lansanaya", "Spouse(s)": "... |
Henrique Pereira Rosa (18 January 1946 - 15 May 2013) was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 2003 to 2005. He was born in 1946 in Bafatá.
Interim President of Guinea-Bissau
Rosa served as the interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 28 September 2003"Guinea-Bissau: New pri... | {"Name": "Henrique Rosa", "Image caption": "Rosa in 2005", "Term start": "28 September 2003", "Term end": "1 October 2005", "Birth date": "1946 01 18 y", "Birth place": "Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau", "Death date": "2013 05 15 1946 01 18 y", "Death place": "Porto, Portugal"} |
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He was also Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008.
His victory over John Evans Atta Mills after the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first peace... | {"Name": "John Kufuor", "Image": "John Kufuor 080915-A-8817J-090.JPG", "Image caption": "Kufuor in 2008", "Term start": "7 January 2001", "Term end": "7 January 2009", "Vice president": "Aliu Mahama", "Office 2": "5th Chairperson of the African Union", "Predecessor 2": "Denis Sassou Nguesso", "Successor 2": "Jakaya Kik... |
Bharrat Jagdeo (born 23 January 1964) is a Guyanese politician who has been serving as Vice President of Guyana since 2020, in the administration of President Irfaan Ali. He had previously also held the office from 1997 until 1999, during the presidency of Janet Jagan. Jagdeo subsequently served as the President of Guy... | {"Name": "Bharrat Jagdeo", "Office 2": "7th President of Guyana", "Vice president 2": "Reepu Daman Persaud", "Predecessor 2": "Janet Jagan", "Successor 2": "Donald Ramotar", "Birth date": "1964 1 23 yhttps://www.facebook.com/pg/Bharrat.J/about/ About Bharrat Jagdeo via Facebook 14 April 2021", "Birth place": "Unity Vi... |
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and Downe... | {"Released": "17 June 1979 Bruce Woolley & the Camera Club - Video Killed the Radio Star Dutchcharts.nl 20 February 2022 https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Bruce+Woolley+%26+The+Camera+Club&titel=Video+Killed+The+Radio+Star&cat=s", "Recorded": "1979", "Label": "Epic", "Songwriter(s)": "Geoff Downes\nTr... |
Anote Tong (; born 11 June 1952 in Tabuaeran, Line Islands) is an I-Kiribati politician for the Pillars of Truth party and environmental activist with half Chinese heritage, who served as President of Kiribati, from 2003 to 2016. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast (47.4%) against his o... | {"Name": "Anote Tong", "Image caption": "Tong in September 2011", "Vice president": "Teima Onorio", "Term start": "10 July 2003", "Term end": "11 March 2016", "Birth date": "1952 6 11 y", "Birth place": "Tabuaeran, Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now Kiribati)", "Spouse(s)": "Meme Tong", "Alma mater": "University of Canter... |
Kim Yong-nam (; born 4 February 1928) is a North Korean retired politician who served as the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' ... | {"Name": "Kim Yong-nam", "Native name": "김영남", "Image caption": "Kim Yong-nam in 2014", "Term start": "5 September 1998", "Term end": "11 April 2019", "Birth date": "y 1928 2 4East Roger Thomas Richard J. https://books.google.com/books?id=5VO4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Le... |
Sani Abacha (; 20 September 1943 - 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state after seizing power in 1993 until his death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.
Abacha served as Chief of Army Staff f... | {"Name": "Sani Abacha", "Honorific prefix": "General", "Honorific suffix": "GCFR", "Term start": "17 November 1993", "Term end": "8 June 1998", "Office 2": "Minister of Defence", "President 2": "Ibrahim BabangidaErnest ShonekanHimself", "Predecessor 2": "Domkat Bali", "Successor 2": "Abdulsalami Abubakar", "Birth date"... |
General Khamtai Siphandone (; born 8 February 1924)Joseph Chinyong Liow, Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia (fourth edition, 2015), Routledge, page 212. is a Laotian politician who was Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 24 November 1992 to 21 March 2006 and President of LaosDoeden, M... | {"Name": "Khamtai Siphandone", "Native name": "ຄຳໄຕ ສີພັນດອນ", "Native name language": "lo", "Image caption": "Siphandone in 2004", "Office 2": "4th President of Laos", "Prime minister 2": "Sisavath KeobounphanhBounnhang Vorachith", "Vice president 2": "Oudom KhattignaChoummaly Sayasone", "Predecessor 2": "Nouhak Phoum... |
Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo (; 6 March 1909 - 9 May 1987) was a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria's independence movement (1957-1960). Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and was the first Leader of Government Business and Minister of Local Gover... | {"Honorific prefix": "Chief", "Name": "Obafemi Awolowo", "Honorific suffix": "GCFR", "Image": "Awolowo-Obafemi.JPG", "Image size": "170px", "Term start": "1 October 1954", "Term end": "1 October 1960", "Order 2": "Federal Commissioner for Finance", "Predecessor 2": "Festus Okotie-Eboh", "Successor 2": "Shehu Shagari", ... |
Paul Raymond Bérenger GCSK, MP (born 26 March 1945) is a Mauritian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. He has been Leader of the Opposition on several occasions - from 1983 to 1987, 1997 to 2000, 2005 to 2006, 2007 to 2013, October 2013 to 15 September 2014, and again from December 2014 to... | {"Name": "Paul Raymond Bérenger", "Image caption": "Bérenger in 2018", "Term start": "30 September 2003", "Term end": "5 July 2005", "President 2": "Kailash Purryag", "Prime minister 2": "Navin Ramgoolam", "Predecessor 2": "Alan Ganoo", "Successor 2": "Pravind Jugnauth", "Birth date": "1945 03 26 y", "Birth place": "Cu... |
Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (born William Alexander Clarke; 18 August 1884 - 16 May 1975) was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in 1962, became the first prime minister of Jamaica.
Early life and education
He was born to Mary Clarke (née Wilson), a woman of mixed race, and her husband, Robert ... | {"Name": "Alexander Bustamante", "Image caption": "Bustamante in 1962", "Order 2": "1st", "Office 2": "Chief Minister of Jamaica", "Monarch 2": "Elizabeth II", "Governor 2": "Sir Hugh Foot", "Successor 2": "Norman Manley", "Birth name": "William Alexander Clarke", "Birth date": "yes 1884 8 18", "Birth place": "Hanover,... |
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Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler (21 January 1897 - 20 February 1977), was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He is best known for leading a series of labour riots between 19 June and 6 July 1937 and for forming a series of personalist political... | {"Name": "Tubal Uriah \"Buzz\" Butler", "Birth date": "21 January 1897", "Birth place": "St. George's, Grenada", "Death date": "1977 2 20 1897 1 21 y", "Death place": "Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago", "Occupation": "Preacher and labour leader"} |
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