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Kalimpong is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located at an average elevation of . The town is the headquarters of the Kalimpong district. The region comes under Gorkhaland Territorial Administration which is an autonomous governing body within the state of ... | {"Named for": "Kaley Bung", "Type": "Municipality", "Body": "Kalimpong Municipality", "Density": "auto", "Website": "https://kalimpong.gov.in/"} |
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of 2003 is a law passed in 2003 establishing the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail. The law requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. Introduced by Republican Con... | {"Other short titles": "CAN-SPAM Act of 2003", "Long title": "An Act to regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.", "Enacted by": "108th", "Public law": "108 187", "Titles amended": "15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade", ... |
Charlotte (28 June 1444 - 16 July 1487) was the Queen of Cyprus from 1458 until 1464. She was the eldest and only surviving daughter of King John II of Cyprus and Helena Palaiologina. At the age of 14, she succeeded to the Cypriot throne upon the death of her father. Her illegitimate half-brother, James, challenged he... | {"Born": "Nicosia, Cyprus", "Died": "Rome, Italy", "Father": "John II of Cyprus", "Mother": "Helena Palaiologina"} |
Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841March 17, 1898) was an American politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. Born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia, he went on to become the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term (Hiram R. Rev... | {"Name": "Blanche Bruce", "Term start": "December 3, 1897", "Term end": "March 17, 1898", "Predecessor 2": "Henry R. Pease", "Successor 2": "James Z. George", "Birth name": "Blanche Kelso Bruce", "Birth date": "1841 3 1", "Birth place": "Farmville, Virginia, U.S.", "Death date": "1898 3 17 1841 3 1", "Death place": "Wa... |
Seussical is a musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the many children's stories of Dr. Seuss, with most of its plot being based on Horton Hears a Who!, Gertrude McFuzz, and Horton Hatches the Egg while incorporating many other stories. The musical's name is a portmanteau of "Seuss" and the word ... | {"Name": "Seussical", "Composer(s)": "Stephen Flaherty", "Lyricist(s)": "Lynn Ahrens", "Book-writer": "Lynn AhrensStephen Flaherty", "Based on?": "The works of Dr. Seuss", "Productions": "2000 Boston tryout 2000 Broadway 2002 1st US Tour 2003 2nd US Tour 2007 Off-Broadway 2012 West End 2016 Off-off-Broadway 2018 Off W... |
Horton Hears a Who! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1954 by Random House. This book tells the story of Horton the Elephant and his adventures saving Whoville, a tiny planet located on a speck of dust, from the animals who mock him. T... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Random House", "ISBN": "0-394-80078-8", "Preceded by": "Scrambled Eggs Super! (publication date)Horton Hatches the Egg (plot and characters)", "Followed by": "On Beyond Zebra! (publication date)How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Whoville wise)"} |
Mary Elizabeth Lease (September 11, 1850 - October 29, 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, Georgist,Orr, B. S. (2006-2007). Mary Elizabeth Lease: Gendered discourse and Populist Party politics in Gilded Age America, Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, vol. 29, pp. 246-265. and political activist. She w... | {"Name": "Mary Elizabeth Lease", "Caption": "Lease in the 1890s", "Birth name": "Mary Elizabeth Clyens", "Birth date": "September 11, 1850", "Birth place": "Ridgway, Pennsylvania", "Death date": "1933 10 29 1850 09 11", "Death place": "Callicoon, New York", "Occupation": "Lecturer, editor, writer", "Party": "People's P... |
John II or III of Cyprus (16 May 1418 – 28 July 1458) was the King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458. He was previously a titular Prince of Antioch.
History
Born 16 May 1418 in Nicosia, John was the son of king Janus of Cyprus and Charlotte of Bourbon. In May, sometime between ... | {"Father": "Janus, King of Cyprus", "Mother": "Charlotte of Bourbon", "Born": "1418 5 16 y", "Died": "1458 7 28 1418 5 16 y", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
Hōjō Yasutoki (; 1183 - July 14, 1242) was the third shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. He strengthened the political system of the Hōjō regency.
Life
He was the eldest son of second shikken Hōjō Yoshitoki. According to Azuma Kagami, he was liked by the first shōgun, Minamoto no Yoritomo. In 1218, ... | {"Name": "Hōjō Yasutokija 北条 泰時", "Term start": "1224", "Term end": "1242", "Birth date": "1183", "Death date": "1242 7 14", "Spouse(s)": "Yabe Zennidaughter of Abo Sanekazu"} |
Deborah Cleland Grey, (born July 1, 1952) is a retired Canadian member of Parliament from Alberta for the Reform Party of Canada, the Canadian Alliance, and the Conservative Party of Canada. She was the first female federal leader of the Opposition in Canadian history. She currently serves on the advisory board of th... | {"Name": "Deborah Grey", "Image caption": "Grey in 2014", "Office 2": "Interim Leader of the Canadian Alliance", "Predecessor 2": "Preston Manning (as Leader of the Reform Party)", "Successor 2": "Stockwell Day", "Birth name": "Deborah Cleland Grey", "Birth date": "1952 07 01", "Birth place": "Vancouver, British Colum... |
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence... | {"Name": "Ida B. Wells", "Caption": "Wells, 1893", "Birth name": "Ida Bell Wells", "Birth date": "1862 7 16", "Birth place": "Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.", "Death date": "1931 3 25 1862 7 16", "Death place": "Chicago, Illinois, U.S.", "Other names": "Ida B. Wells-Barnett Iola (pen name)", "Education": "Rust Colleg... |
Janus (1375 – 29 June 1432) was King of Cyprus and titular King of Armenian Cilicia and Jerusalem from 1398 to 1432.
Early life
Janus was born in Genoa, where his father, James I of Cyprus, was a captive. His mother, Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, named him in honor of the god Janus, the founder of Genoa according t... | {"Father": "James I of Cyprus", "Mother": "Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen", "Born": "Genoa", "Died": "Nicosia", "Religion": "Roman Catholicism"} |
The Voskhod rocket (, "ascent", "dawn") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for launching Zenit reconnaissance satellites. It consisted of the Molniya 8K78M third stage minus the Blok L. In 1966, all R-7 variants were equipped with the uprated core stage a... | {"Function": "Crew-ratedLEO carrier rocket", "Stages": "2", "Family": "R-7", "Status": "Retired", "Launch sites": "BaikonurSite 1 and Site 31Plesetsk, Site 41", "First flight": "16 November 1963", "Last flight": "29 June 1976", "Total launches": "300", "Success(es)": "287", "Failure(s)": "13"} |
The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, or IMSA, is a three-year residential public secondary education institution in Aurora, Illinois, United States, with an enrollment of approximately 650 students.
Enrollment is generally offered to incoming sophomores, although younger students who have had the equivalent o... | {"Coordinates": "41 47 13 N 88 21 17 W type:edu_region:US-IL_dim:550 inline,title", "President": "Evan Glazer", "Staff": "55", "Campus type": "Suburban", "Slogan": "To ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human conditionIMSA's Mission and Beilefs https://www.imsa.edu/discover/profile/... |
David Lewis (born David Losz; June 23 or October 1909 - May 23, 1981) was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950 and one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. In 1962, he was ele... | {"Name": "David Lewis", "Alternative text": "Black and White head and shoulder shot of 30's white male with thick black hair, and a three piece suit from the 1940s", "Image caption": "Lewis in 1944", "Term start": "April 24, 1971", "Term end": "July 7, 1975", "Riding 2": "York South", "Predecessor 2": "Marvin Gelber", ... |
Alice of Champagne (; 1193 - 1246) was the queen consort of Cyprus from 1210 to 1218, regent of Cyprus from 1218 to 1223, and of Jerusalem from 1243 to 1246. She was the eldest daughter of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem and Count Henry II of Champagne. In 1210, Alice married her step-brother King Hugh I of Cyprus, rece... | {"Father": "Henry II, Count of Champagne", "Mother": "Isabella I, Queen of Jerusalem", "Born": "1193", "Died": "1246"} |
Hugh I (; ; 1194/1195 - 10 January 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus on 1 April 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Aimery, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. His mother was Eschiva of Ibelin, heiress of that branch of Ibelins who had held Bethsan and Ramleh.
Early life
Hugh was the youngest of the ... | {"Father": "Aimery, King of Cyprus", "Mother": "Eschiva of Ibelin", "Born": "1194/1195", "Died": "Tripoli", "Burial": "Church of the Hospitallers, Nicosia"} |
Andrew Russell Pearson (December 13, 1897 - September 1, 1969) was an American columnist, noted for his syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round". He also had a program on NBC Radio titled Drew Pearson Comments. He was known for his approach towards high level politicians, such as senators, cabinet member... | {"Name": "Drew Pearson", "Caption": "Pearson (left) with Lyndon Johnson in 1964", "Birth name": "Andrew Russell Pearson", "Birth date": "1897 12 13", "Birth place": "Evanston, Illinois, U.S.", "Death date": "1969 09 01 1897 12 13", "Death place": "Rockville, Maryland, U.S.", "Resting place": "Merry-Go-Round FarmsPotoma... |
Álvaro Obregón () is a borough (demarcación territorial) in the Mexico City. It contains a large portion of the south-west part of Mexico City. It had a 2010 census population of 727,034 inhabitants and lies at an elevation of 2,319 m. above sea level.
It was named after Álvaro Obregón, a leader of the Mexican Revolut... | {"Named for": "Álvaro Obregón", "Density": "auto", "Website": "aao.cdmx.gob.mx", "DST": "-5"} |
David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 - October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophi... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "20th-century philosophy", "Institutions": "Princeton University", "School": "AnalyticNominalism\"Review of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals\" - ndpr.nd.eduPerdurantismLewis, D. K. 1986. On the Plurality of Worlds Oxford: ... |
Gary Robichaud (September 13, 1962 – September 8, 2005) was a Canadian teacher and politician, and leader of the Island New Democrats political party in the province of Prince Edward Island.
Robichaud was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He spent his childhood on Prince Edward Island, attending Evangeline Regional H... | {"Name": "Gary Robichaud", "Birth date": "September 13, 1962", "Birth place": "Saint John, New Brunswick", "Death date": "2005 9 8 1962 9 13", "Death place": "Ross Corner, Prince Edward Island", "Residence": "Summerside, Prince Edward Island", "Term start": "2002", "Term end": "June 23, 2005"} |
The Picos de Europa ("Peaks of Europe", also the Picos) are a mountain range extending for about , forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain.
The range is situated in the Autonomous Communities of Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León.
The highest peak is Torre de Cerredo, at an elevation of (8,... | {"Area": "646", "Length": "WE", "Elevation": "2650", "Coordinates": "43 11 51 N 04 51 06 W type:mountain_region:ES dms inline", "Location": "Location in Northern Spain"} |
Marquee Moon is the debut album by American rock band Television. It was released on February 8, 1977, by Elektra Records. In the years leading up to the album, Television had become a prominent act on the New York music scene and generated interest from a number of record labels, eventually signing a record deal with ... | {"Released": "1977 2 8", "Recorded": "September 1976", "Studio": "A & R Recording (New York)", "Genre": "Rock\npost-punk\nart punk\nnew wave\ngarage rock", "Label": "Elektra", "Producer": "Andy Johns\nTom Verlaine"} |
Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (Born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk; 22 August 18874 March 1977) was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945.
A non-partisan conservative, he was appointed to the... | {"Name": "Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk", "Image caption": "Krosigk in 1932", "Term start": "2 May 1945", "Term end": "23 May 1945German military forces surrendered to the Allies on 8 May 1945.", "Office 2": "Minister for Foreign Affairs", "Predecessor 2": "Arthur Seyß-Inquart", "Successor 2": "Office abolished", "B... |
thumb|right|250px|Rendition of party representation in the 55th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly decided by this election.
The 2003 New Brunswick general election was held on June 9, 2003, to elect 55 members to the 55th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly. Although polls initially suggested a landslide victory for Pr... | {"Name": "2003 New Brunswick general election", "Country": "New Brunswick", "Type": "parliamentary", "Show party colours?": "no", "Link to parties?": "no", "Previous election": "1999 New Brunswick general election", "Previous year": "1999", "Election date": "June 9, 2003", "Next election": "2006 New Brunswick general e... |
Wadih Elias el-Hage (, Wadī‘ al-Ḥāj) (born July 25, 1960) is a Lebanese, and naturalized American citizen, who is serving life imprisonment in the United States based on conspiracy charges relating to the 1998 United States embassy bombings.
Struggling financially, he decided to move his family to Quetta, Pakistan, bu... | {"Born": "Sidon, Lebanon", "Occupation": "Secretary for Osama bin Laden", "Spouse": "April el-Hage", "Children": "7", "Alleged to bea member of": "al-Qaeda", "Penalty": "Life imprisonment", "Charge(s)": "Criminal conspiracyPerjury"} |
Lorne Edmund Nystrom, (born April 26, 1946) is a Canadian politician and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2004. He is a member of the New Democratic Party.
Parliamentary career
Born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan, he was first elected for Yorkton—Melville in 1968. At t... | {"Name": "Lorne Nystrom", "Term start": "1968", "Term end": "1993", "Predecessor 2": "Simon De Jong", "Successor 2": "Andrew Scheer", "Birth date": "1946 4 26", "Birth place": "Wynyard, Saskatchewan", "Birth name": "Lorne Edmund Nystrom"} |
Pierre Ducasse (born August 18, 1972) is a Canadian politician and New Democratic Party (NDP) activist.
He grew up in Sept-Îles, Quebec, and studied at Université Laval. A party member since age 17, he was appointed interim associate president of the federal party in 2000, and was elected to the post at the NDP conven... | {"Name": "Pierre Ducasse", "Term start": "2014", "Term end": "2018", "Birth date": "1972 08 18", "Alma mater": "Université Laval"} |
Dominick Edward Blake (October 13, 1833 - March 1, 1912), known as Edward Blake, was the second premier of Ontario, from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887. He is one of only three federal permanent Liberal leaders never to become Prime Minister of Canada, the others being Stépha... | {"Name": "Edward Blake", "Image caption": "Blake in the 1870s", "Birth name": "Dominick Edward Blake", "Birth date": "1833 10 13 y", "Birth place": "Adelaide Township, Upper Canada", "Death date": "1912 03 01 1833 10 13", "Death place": "Toronto, Ontario, Canada", "Resting place": "Saint James Cemetery, Toronto", "Term... |
Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi (29 April 1946 29 May 2020) was an Indian politician, who has served as the 1st Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh from 2000 to 2003 and a member of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly from Marwahi from 2018 to 2020 and from 2001 to 2013. He also served as a member of Lok Sabha from Mahasamund fro... | {"Name": "Ajit Jogi", "Birth date": "yes 1946 4 29http://www.in.com/ajit-jogi/biography-8355.html Ajit Jogi (born 29 April 1946 died 29 May 2020) 10 April 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150416082801/http://www.in.com/ajit-jogi/biography-8355.html 16 April 2015 deadhttp://www.answers.com/topic/ajit-jogi Answer... |
The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players ... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Harper & Row", "ISBN": "0-06-012239-0"} |
Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).While the Indian media was unsure as to the spelling of his name, in June 2004, he issued a clarification to the media to endure his name was spelt as Lalu and not Laloo. He is a former Chief Minister of Bihar... | {"Name": "Lalu Prasad Yadav", "Image caption": "Yadav as Union Minister of Railways, addressing in New Delhi, September 12, 2004.", "Term start": "05 July 1997", "Office 2": "20th Chief Minister of Bihar", "Predecessor 2": "President's rule", "Successor 2": "Rabri Devi", "Birth date": "1948 6 11 y", "Birth place": "Phu... |
Victoria Park () is a public park in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong. The park is named after Queen Victoria, who has a statue in the park. It is around in size and contains sporting facilities for tennis, association football, basketball, handball, volleyball, swimming, jogging, fitness, roller skating, an... | {"Coordinates": "22 16 55 N 114 11 17 E type:landmark_region:HK inline,title", "Type": "Urban park", "Location": "1 Hing Fat Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island", "Area": "19 ha", "Status": "Open all year", "Website": "http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/parks/vp/ www.lcsd.gov.hk"} |
Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff (6 January 1899 - 12 April 1968) was a German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen (VW) after World War II. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Feb. 15, 1954.
Nordhoff accepted the British invitation to assume the directorship of VW, directly after WWII, at the time littl... | {"Name": "Heinrich Nordhoff", "Birth name": "Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff", "Birth date": "1899 1 6 y", "Birth place": "Hildesheim Autocar 128 (nbr 3767) Maurice A. (Ed.) Smith News and views: Volkswagen chief dies 57 25 April 1968", "Death date": "1968 4 12 1899 1 6 y", "Death place": "Wolfsburg", "Known For": "Chi... |
Black Diamond is a former town in the Calgary Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada within the Town of Diamond Valley. It is at the intersection of Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail) and Highway 7. Its first post office opened in 1907. Black Diamond was so named because of coal deposits near the original town site. Little oil ... | {"Land": "6.82", "Density": "400.4", "DST": "-06:00", "Website": "https://web.archive.org/web/20221229213603/https://town.blackdiamond.ab.ca/ town.blackdiamond.ab.ca (archived December 29, 2022)"} |
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men (commonly known as Pryde of the X-Men) is an animated television pilot originally broadcast in 1989 on the Marvel Action Universe television block, featuring Marvel Comics' mutant superheroes of the X-Men. The pilot aired infrequently in syndication and was later released on video. It later se... | {"Genre": "SuperheroActionAdventureScience fiction", "Written by": "Larry Parr", "Directed by": "Ray Lee (as \"Direction Supervision\")Stu Rosen (voice director)", "Voices of": "Michael BellEarl BoenAndi ChapmanPat FraleyRon GansDan GilvezanAlan OppenheimerPatrick PinneyNeil RossSusan SiloKath SoucieJohn StephensonAlex... |
William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English former drummer and percussionist who first gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. After leaving Yes in 1972, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s recording and touring with King Crimson (1972-1974), Roy Harper (1975), and U.K. (1978... | {"Born": "Sevenoaks, Kent, England", "Genres": "Progressive rock\ninstrumental rock\njazz\njazz fusion", "Labels": "Polydor\nE.G.\nVoiceprint\nWinterfold\nSummerfold", "Formerly of": "Yes King Crimson Gong National Health Genesis U.K. Bruford Brand X Earthworks Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Bruford Levin Upper Extremit... |
was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Awa no Kuni" in . It lies on the tip of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was or . Awa P... | {"Native name": "ja 安房国", "Conventional long name": "Awa Province", "Common name": "Awa Province", "Capital": "Minamibōsō", "Today part of": "Chiba Prefecture", "Year founded": "8th century", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
Ferenc Deák de Kehida (archaically English: Francis Deak,Florence Mary Arnold-Forster: Francis Deák, Hungarian Statesman: A Memoir - 1880 ; 17 October 180328 January 1876) was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The Wise Man of the Nation" and one of the greatest figures of Hungary's liberal... | {"Name": "Ferenc Deák", "Image caption": "Portrait by Bertalan Székely", "Nationality": "Hungarian", "Term start": "17 March 1848", "Term end": "2 October 1848", "Birth date": "1803 10 17 y", "Birth place": "Söjtör, Kingdom of Hungary", "Death date": "1876 01 28 1803 10 17 y", "Death place": "Budapest, Austria-Hungary"... |
Sherubtse College is the first accredited college in Bhutan, founded in 1966 by a group of Jesuits under the leadership of Father William Mackey. The college was affiliated to the University of Delhi by a special act of the Indian parliament.
It became a part of the newly created Royal University of Bhutan in 2003, a ... | {"Type": "Government College", "President": "Tshering Wangdi", "Students": "1400", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "http://www.sherubtse.edu.bt"} |
Shih Ming-teh (; born 15 January 1941) commonly known as Nori Shih, is a statesman and human rights defender in Taiwan and was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years.
Arrested at the age of 21 in 1962 and charged with creating the "Taiwan Independence League" (a study group) with the intention of overthrowi... | {"Name": "Shih Ming-teh", "Native name": "施明德", "Native name language": "zh", "Term start": "May 15, 1994", "Term end": "March 23, 1996Acting：November 29, 1993-May 15, 1994", "Order 2": "Member of the Legislative Yuan", "Birth date": "1941 1 15", "Birth place": "Takao City, Takao Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan", "Spouse(s... |
Constance Georgine Markievicz ( ; Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 - 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament, and was elected Minister for Labour in the First... | {"Name": "Constance Markievicz", "Image caption": "Markievicz in her Irish Citizen Army uniform", "Term start": "April 1919", "Term end": "January 1922", "Birth name": "Constance Georgine Gore-Booth", "Birth date": "yes 1868 2 4", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "yes 1927 7 15 1868 2 4", "Death place": ... |
Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art. He is best known internationally for his contributions to the earliest manifestations of computer art, a field of computing that made its first public appearances with three small exhibitions... | {"Name": "Frieder Nake", "Alt": "Head and shoulders photo of Frieder Nake", "Caption": "Frieder Nake in 2012", "Birth date": "1938 12 16 yes", "Birth place": "Stuttgart, Germany", "Nationality": "German", "Alma mater": "University of Stuttgart", "Occupation": "Mathematician, computer artist"} |
Flackwell Heath is a village in the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. With an elevation of about , in the Chiltern Hills. It has a population of around 6000.
History
The name 'Flackwell' is of dubious origin but may describe the source of a stream which once... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "5900", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Beaconsfield", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01628", "OS grid reference": "SU893899"} |
Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong action thriller film co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Jointly written by Mak and Felix Chong, it stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. The film follows an undercover Hong Kong Police Force officer who infiltrates a Triad, and anothe... | {"Directed by": "Andrew Lau Alan Mak", "Produced by": "Andrew Lau", "Written by": "Alan Mak Felix Chong", "Starring": "Andy Lau\n Tony Leung\n Anthony Wong\n Eric Tsang\n Sammi Cheng\n Kelly Chen\n Chapman To\n Gordon Lam", "Music by": "Chan Kwong-wing", "Cinematography": "Andrew Lau Lai Yiu-fai", "Edited by": "Danny P... |
Emberton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, England.Parishes in Milton Keynes - Milton Keynes Council. The village is near the borders with Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, just to the south of Olney, north of Newport Pagnell, and north-eas... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census including Chicheley)E04001253 Emberton 17 November 2019", "Unitary authority": "Milton Keynes", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Milton Keynes North", "Postcode district": "MK", "Dialling code": "01234", "OS grid reference": "SP885495"} |
175px|thumb|right|First variant Russian Order of the Red Banner on red cloth from 1918-1924
175px|thumb|right|Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Blyukher wearing four first variant Orders of the Red Banner
175px|thumb|right|Early variant Soviet Order of the Red Banner
thumb|175px|right|Naval ensign of a Military Order... | {"Presented by": "Soviet Union", "Type": "Single-grade order", "Eligibility": "Soviet Citizens", "Awarded for": "Heroism in combat or long service in the armed forces", "Status": "No longer awarded", "Established": "August 1, 1924", "Last awarded": "1991", "Total": "581,300", "Next (higher)": "Order of the October Revo... |
Marsh is a hamlet in the civil parish of Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh in Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet name comes from the name of the Earls of Pembroke in the 12th and 13th centuries and was previously called Marshals.
Formerly a parish in its own right, it was annexed into the parish of Great Kimble in ... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Aylesbury", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01296", "OS grid reference": "SP815095"} |
Great Missenden is a village and civil parish in the Misbourne Valley in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England, situated between the towns of Amersham and Wendover. It adjoins the village of Little Kingshill, and is a mile from Little Missenden and the village of Prestwood.
The narrow and historic High Stree... | {"OS grid reference": "SP8901", "Population": "(Census 2011.Civil Parish)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=11123940&c=great+missenden&d=16&e=62&g=6404226&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1359814249446&enc=1 Area: Great Missenden CP (Parish) Neighbourhood Statistics Office ... |
The State Political Directorate (also translated as the State Political Administration) (GPU) was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from February 6, 1922, to December 29, 1922, and the Soviet Union from December 29, 1922, until November 15, 1923.
Na... | {"Formed": "February 6, 1922", "Dissolved": "November 15, 1923", "Headquarters": "Lubyanka Square, Moscow", "Type": "Secret police"} |
St Leonards is a small village in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is 3 miles east of Wendover and 4 miles south of Tring, Hertfordshire. A short section of Grim's Ditch delineates the northern end of the village, which lies within the civil parish of Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards.
Early history
Prehis... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "OS grid reference": "SP909071", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01494", "UK Parliament": "Chesham and Amersham", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire"} |
Donna Lynn Awatere Huata (sometimes written Awatere-Huata, previously known as Donna Awatere; born 1949) is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament for the ACT New Zealand Party and activist for Māori causes.
Early life
Donna Awatere was born in Rotorua in 1949, and was educated in Auckland. Her primary area of... | {"Name": "Donna Awatere Huata", "Image caption": "Awatere Huata speaking in 2019", "Term start": "12 October 1996", "Term end": "19 November 2004Roll of members of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1854 onwards https://www.parliament.nz/media/6305/roll-of-members-of-the-new-zealand-house-of-representatives-185... |
Lyra Belacqua ( ), also known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. In His Dark Materials Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between Lor... | {"First appearance": "Northern Lights", "Last appearance": "The Secret Commonwealth", "Gender": "Female", "Created by": "Philip Pullman", "Portrayed by": "Dakota Blue Richards (film)Dafne Keen (TV series)Anna Maxwell Martin (stage)Elaine Symons (stage)", "Voiced by": "Jo Wyatt (audio)Lulu Popplewell (radio drama)Dakota... |
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Orton is a mostly residential area of the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it comprises Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville and Orton with Hampton wards in North West Camb... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "PE2", "Dialling code": "01733", "Ceremonial county": "Cambridgeshire", "Unitary authority": "Peterborough", "UK Parliament": "North West Cambridgeshire"} |
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte) is a scientific research institute founded in March 1994. It is dedicated to addressing fundamental questions of the history of knowledge from the Neolithic era to the present day, and its researchers pursue a ... | {"Abbreviation": "MPIWG", "Type": "Scientific research institute", "Location": "Dahlem, Berlin, Germany", "Website": "https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/"} |
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 - 9 June 1701), was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His elder brother was the "Sun King", Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660. In 1661, h... | {"Born": "Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France", "Died": "Château de Saint-Cloud, France", "Burial": "21 June 1701", "Father": "Louis XIII of France", "Mother": "Anne of Austria", "Religion": "Catholicism"} |
The Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital (colloquially called the Royal Bucks) is a private hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
The hospital was established, by adding new wings to an 18th-century country house, in 1832. The facility was extensively remodeled to a design by Davi... | {"Location": "Buckinghamshire", "Lists": "UK", "Care system": "Private", "Type": "Specialist", "Beds": "22", "Opened": "1832", "Website": "http://www.royalbucks.co.uk", "Coordinates": "51.8207 -0.8160 type:landmark_region:GB-BKM inline,title"} |
Ávila ( , , ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila.
It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city is the highest provincial capital in Spain.
Distincti... | {"Land": "231.9", "Density": "population_total", "DST": "+2", "Website": "http://www.avila.es es"} |
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A crouton is a piece of toasted or fried bread, normally cubed and seasoned. Croutons are used to add texture and flavor to salads—notably the Caesar salad— as an accompaniment to soups and stews, or eaten as a snack food.
Etymology
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The word crouton is derived f... | {"Name of food": "Crouton", "Width of image": "250px", "Image caption": "Close-up of croutons on a salad.", "Place of origin": "Unknown; possibly France", "Creator": "-->", "Main ingredient": "Bread, oil or butter, seasonings", "Serving size": "100 g", "Calories per serving": "420"} |
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Reggaeton (, ), also known as reggaetón and reguet... | {"Name": "Reggaeton", "Cultural origins": "Late-1980s, PanamaCastillo Pamela 6 July 2016 El reggaetón: cuatro décadas de historia con fusiones latinas https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/entretenimiento/reggaeton-historia-panama-puertorico-musicaurbana.html 10 June 2023 El Comercio Quito, Ecuador es-EChttps://www.wa... |
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Welle:Erdball (often abbreviated as W:E) is a German band whose sound is distinguished by their intensive use of the Commodore 64's SID sound chip.
The band name literally means "Wave:Earthball" or "Wave:Globe" and is inspired by an almost eponymous Weimar rep... | {"Origin": "Stadthagen, Germany", "Genres": "Bitpop, synthpop, electronic", "Labels": "SPV", "Website": "www.welle-erdball.info", "Members": "Hannes \"Honey\" MaleckiMissMoonlightM.A. Peelc0zmo"} |
Akeley is a village and civil parish in north-west Buckinghamshire, England. The village is on the A413 road, between Lillingstone Dayrell and Maids Moreton, and around north of Buckingham. The 2011 Census recorded the population of the parish as 514, down from 545 at the 2001 Census.
Village background
The village n... | {"Population": "(2011)E04001454 Akeley Parish 17 November 2021", "OS grid reference": "SP7037", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "MK18", "Dialling code": "01280", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Website": "Akeley Parish Co... |
Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 - July 7, 1981), born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist.Reichenberg-Ullman, Judyth; Robert Ullman, Dalai Lama (2001), Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages: Stories of Enlightenment, Ocean Tree Books, pp. 147-15... | {"Name": "Peace Pilgrim", "Caption": "Pilgrim in Hawaii, 1980", "Birth name": "Mildred Lisette Norman", "Birth date": "1908 7 18", "Birth place": "Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, U.S.", "Death date": "1981 7 7 (aged 72)", "Death place": "Knox, Indiana, U.S.", "Website": "http://www.peacepilgrim.org"} |
Ascott is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Wing, Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet lies completely within the boundary of the Ascott Estate; it is home to many of the estate and house staff.
Prior to the Norman Conquest there was an abbey at Ascott, that had been given by a royal to a Benedictine convent... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Postcode district": "LU", "Dialling code": "01525", "OS grid reference": "SP8922"} |
The Russian Liberation Army (; , , abbreviated as , , also known as the Vlasov army (, )) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. The army was led by Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army general who had defected, and members of the army are often refe... | {"Type": "InfantryAir force", "Size": "Corps, 50,000 (April 1945)", "Notablecommanders": "Andrey VlasovSergei BunyachenkoMikhail Meandrov", "Nickname(s)": "Vlasovites (\"Vlasovtsy\")", "March": "We are marching in wide fields"} |
Ashendon is a small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about nine miles west of Aylesbury and seven miles north of Thame.
The toponym is derived from the Old English for "Hill overgrown with ash trees". The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as the property of the Grenville family; it w... | {"OS grid reference": "SP7014", "Population": "(2011 census)Neighbourhood Statistics Census 2011, Accessed 2 February 2013", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "HP", "Website": "Welcome to Ashendon"} |
Aubigny-en-Artois (; literally "Aubigny in Artois") is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.INSEE commune file
Geography
A town located 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D73, D74, D75 and D49 roads, just by the N39 Arras-Le Touquet road.
Population
Sights
The church o... | {"Name": "Aubigny-en-Artois", "Commune Status": "Commune", "Caption": "The church of Aubigny-en-Artois", "Arrondissement": "Arras", "Canton": "Avesnes-le-Comte", "Postal code": "62690", "Mayor": "Jean-Michel DesaillyRépertoire national des élus: les maires https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-... |
Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg (3 September 1629 - 29 May 1691) was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy. Tromp fought in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Scanian War. His father was the renown... | {"Birth name": "Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp", "Born": "Rotterdam, Dutch Republic", "Died": "Amsterdam, Dutch Republic", "Allegiance": "Dutch Republic 20px Denmark-Norway 20px", "Awards": "Order of the Elephant", "Relations": "Maarten Tromp (father)"} |
Ashley Green is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is on the boundary with Hertfordshire, midway between Chesham and Berkhamsted.
Originally a hamlet within Chesham parish, its toponym is derived from the Old English for Ash Field, referring to the forest that once covered this part of ... | {"Population": "(2011, including Orchard Leigh)E04001564 Ashley Green Parish 17 November 2021", "OS grid reference": "SP9705", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "HP5", "Dialling code": "01442", "UK Parliament": "Chesham and... |
Asheridge (recorded Esserugge in the 13th century) is a small hamlet in the parish of Chartridge, in Buckinghamshire, England. Prior to 1898 it was part of Chesham parish. It is situated in the Chiltern Hills, about two and a half miles north west of Chesham, 5 miles from Great Missenden and 6 miles from Wendover.
An... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Chesham and Amersham", "Postcode district": "HP", "OS grid reference": "SP9304"} |
Askett is a picturesque hamlet in the civil parish of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated where the steep escarpment of the Chiltern Hills meets the flat expanse of the Vale of Aylesbury. It lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Conservation AreaAskett conservation area characte... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01844", "OS grid reference": "SP8105"} |
Aston Abbotts or Aston Abbots is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about north of Aylesbury and south-west of Wing. The parish includes the hamlet of Burston and had a population of 426 at the 2021 Census.
Manor
"Aston" is a common toponym in England, derived from the Old English for "eas... | {"Population": "(2021, including Burston)May 2023", "OS grid reference": "SP8420", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "Sovereign state": "England", "Postcode district": "HP22", "Dialling code": "01296", "UK Parliament": "Buckingham", "Website": "Aston Abbotts"} |
Astwood is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the border with Bedfordshire, approximately east of Newport Pagnell, west of Bedford and north-east of Central Milton Keynes.
The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means "valley of th... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)E04001244 Astwood (Milton Keynes) 17 November 2019", "Unitary authority": "Milton Keynes", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Milton Keynes North", "Postcode district": "MK", "Dialling code": "01234", "OS grid reference": "SP951473"} |
Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and the leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. His idiosyncratic style combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He is perhaps best known for the songs "I Scare Myself" and... | {"Born": "Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.", "Died": "Mill Valley, California, U.S.", "Genres": "Country\njazz\nswing\nbluegrass\nfolk\npop\ngypsy\nWestern swing", "Website": "www.danhicks.net"} |
Peter Eric James Prentice (July 20, 1956 - October 13, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2006 federal ele... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Jim Prentice", "Image caption": "Prentice in 2014", "Lieutenant governor": "Donald Ethell", "Term start": "September 15, 2014", "Term end": "May 24, 2015", "Office 2": "Leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta", "Predecessor 2": "Dave Hancock (interim... |
Ballinger is a hamlet and common in the parish of Great Missenden (where at the 2011 Census the population was included), in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the nearby Chiltern Hills, close to the border with the parish of Chesham.
Ballinger has a small church which is a former Mission Hall, down Blacktho... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Chesham and Amersham", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01494", "OS grid reference": "SP9103"} |
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Part one of the play premiered in 1991, followed by part two in ... | {"Written by": "Tony Kushner", "Characters": "Prior WalterRoy CohnJoe PittHarper PittHannah PittLouis IronsonBelizeEthel RosenbergHomeless WomanAngel", "Setting": "New York City, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere, 1985-1986", "Date premiered": "May 1991", "Place premiered": "Eureka Theatre CompanySan Francisco, California"... |
Jack Joseph Osbourne (born 8 November 1985) is an English media personality with dual American and British citizenship. He is the son of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, and Sharon Osbourne. He starred on MTV's reality series The Osbournes (2002-2005), along with his father, mother Sharon, and sister Kelly. Osbourne h... | {"Image": "Jack Osbourne 2011 Shankbone.JPG", "Caption": "Osbourne in 2011", "Birth name": "Jack Joseph Osbourne", "Birth date": "1985 11 8 yes", "Birth place": "London, England", "Children": "5", "Spouse(s)": "Lisa Stelly 2012 2019 divorced", "Occupation": "Media personality", "Parent(s)": "Ozzy OsbourneSharon Osbourn... |
Barton Hartshorn is a civil parish about southwest of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire, within the Buckinghamshire Council unitary authority area. Its southern boundary is a brook called the Birne, and this and the parish's western boundary form part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire. At the 2011 Census the populat... | {"Population": "(Mid-2010 pop est)http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/publication-scheme/published-ad-hoc-data/population/december-2012/mid-2010-civil-parish-syoa-population-estimates-for-england-and-wales.xls https://web.archive.org/web/20181226072819/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2013070213501... |
Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 - December 8, 1942) was an American industrial architect. He was accredited as being an architect of Detroit and also designed industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex.https://www.miplace.org/historic-preservation/programs-and-services/historic-landmarks/for... | {"Name": "Albert Kahn", "Birth date": "1869 3 21", "Birth place": "Rhaunen, Kingdom of Prussia (Germany)", "Death date": "1942 12 8 1869 3 21", "Death place": "Detroit, Michigan, US", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "architect", "Relatives": "Julius Kahn, brotherAlbert E. Kahn, nephew"} |
Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.Encyclopædia Britannica online (2014). "Joaquín Turina"
Biography
Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'... | {"Name": "Joaquín Turina", "Caption": "Turina in 1914", "Birth date": "1882 12 09 y", "Birth place": "Seville, Spain", "Death date": "1949 01 14 1882 12 09 y", "Death place": "Madrid, Spain", "Occupation": "Composer"} |
Black Label Society is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1998 by guitarist/singer Zakk Wylde. To date, the band has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, one EP, and three video albums.
History
Sonic Brew and Formation (1998-1999)
In the early 1990s, Wy... | {"Origin": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Genres": "\"Westword\">http://www.westword.com/music/the-ten-best-southern-metal-bands-5674847 The ten best Southern metal bands Steininger Adam July 24, 2013 Westword March 4, 2017\n groove metal\n biker metalhttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/25-most-anti... |
Roger A. Morse, Ph.D. (July 5, 1927 - May 12, 2000) was an American bee biologist who taught many beekeepers both the rudiments and the finer practices, through his research and publications. During his long career, three new parasites of the honeybee, acarine mite, varroa mite, and African small hive beetle were intro... | {"Name": "Roger A. Morse", "Birth date": "July 5, 1927", "Birth place": "Saugerties, New York", "Death date": "May 12, 2000", "Nationality": "American", "Notable works": "Research on honey bees with regards to acarine mite, varroa mite and African small hive beetle.", "Education": "Doctorate (1955)", "Alma mater": "Cor... |
Ozzfest is an annual music festival tour of the United States and sometimes Europe and later Japan, featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Sharon Osbourne and her husband Ozzy Osbourne, both of whom also organised each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne, and was... | {"Music festival name": "Ozzfest", "Location": "United States Europe Japan", "Years active": "1996-2008 2010 2013 2015-2018", "Dates": "July-August November", "Genre": "Heavy metal nu metal industrial metal alternative metal metalcore extreme metal", "Website": "ozzfest.com/"} |
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The Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW) is an interactive, scriptable computer software tool for data analysis and graphical presentation in High Energy Physics (HEP).
The development of this software tool started at CERN in 1986, it was optimized for the processing of very large amounts of dat... | {"Original author(s)": "CERN", "Initial release": "1986", "Type": "Particle physics", "License": "GNU GPL", "Website": "http://cern.ch/paw/"} |
Live & Loud is a live album recorded by the former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne, released on 28 June 1993. At the time, it was to be Osbourne's final album following Osbourne's final tour before retiring, aptly titled "No More Tours". The track "Black Sabbath" featured the original line-up of Black Sabbath, the m... | {"Released": "15 June 1993", "Recorded": "1991-92", "Genre": "Heavy metal", "Label": "Epic"} |
The Ozzman Cometh is a compilation album by British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne released in 1997. It is his third greatest hits collection. Its initial, limited-edition 2-CD pressing contained five previously unreleased songs. Versions released in 2002 later have only one disc, and the song "Shot in the Dark" is r... | {"Released": "11 November 1997", "Recorded": "1970, 1980-1997", "Genre": "\"genre\" >Allmusic: The Ozzman Cometh \"genre\" />", "Label": "Epic", "Producer": "Roy Thomas BakerDuane BaronMichael BeinhornRon NevisonMax NormanKeith OlsenOzzy OsbourneJohn PurdellRandy Rhoads"} |
Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch. It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who is caught smuggling money. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro appear in suppo... | {"Directed by": "Quentin Tarantino", "Produced by": "Lawrence Bender", "Screenplay by": "Quentin Tarantino", "Based on": "Rum Punch Elmore Leonard", "Starring": "Pam Grier\n Samuel L. Jackson\n Robert Forster\n Bridget Fonda\n Michael Keaton\n Robert De Niro", "Cinematography": "Guillermo Navarro", "Edited by": "Sally ... |
Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is the only university in Canada in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, at the centre of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The university bears the name of Maj.-General Sir Isaac Brock, who was responsible for defending ... | {"Budget": "$370 million\nhttps://issuu.com/brockuniversity/docs/2020-21_budget_report_flipbook Brock University 2020-21-Budget-Report", "Endowment": "$107 million\nhttps://issuu.com/brockuniversity/docs/2020-21_budget_report_flipbook Brock University 2020-21-Budget-Report", "Motto": "Surgite!", "Type": "Public", "Pr... |
Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor, director and former professional football player. He is known for his roles as boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976-1985), George Dillon in Predator (1987), Action Jackson in Action Jackson (1988), Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996) and ... | {"Name": "Carl Weathers", "Caption": "Weathers at the New York Comic Con in 2017", "Birth date": "1948 1 14 yes", "Birth place": "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.", "Education": "San Francisco State University (BA) San Diego State University (MA)", "Occupation": "Actor director", "Years active": "1973-present (actor) 1970-... |
"Hail to the Commanders" (HTTC) is the fight song of the Washington Commanders, an American football team belonging to the National Football League (NFL). At home games, the song is performed by the Washington Commanders Marching Band when the team scores a touchdown. Composed in 1937, the song was performed as "Hail t... | {"Written": "1937", "Genre": "Fight song", "Composer(s)": "Barnee Breeskin", "Lyricist(s)": "Corinne Griffith"} |
Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 - May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for his ascents of the world's highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world's fourt... | {"Name": "Scott Fischer", "Alt": "Fischer on the Annapurna Fang (Varaha Shikhar) in 1984", "Caption": "Fischer on Annapurna Fang in 1984", "Birth date": "1955 12 24", "Birth place": "Muskegon, Michigan, United States", "Death date": "1996 5 11 1955 12 24", "Death place": "Mount Everest, Nepal", "Death cause": "Exposure... |
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Margaret Cochran Corbin (November 12, 1751January 16, 1800) was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.James, Edward T., et al. Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Vol. II, p. 385-86 (1971) () On November 16, 1... | {"Name": "Margaret Cochran Corbin", "Caption": "The 1909 memorial dedicated to Margaret Corbin and her compatriots in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York City, near the location of the Battle of Fort Washington", "Birth name": "Margaret Cochran", "Birth date": "1751 11 12", "Birth place": "Franklin County, Pennsylvani... |
Royal Roads University (also referred to as RRU or Royal Roads) is a public university with its main campus in Colwood, British Columbia. It is located at Hatley Park National Historic Site on Vancouver Island. Following the decommissioning of Royal Roads Military College in 1995, the government of British Columbia cre... | {"Motto": "Life.Changing", "Type": "Public university", "Endowment": "$40 million", "Chancellor": "Nelson Chan", "President": "Philip Steenkamp", "Students": "3,220", "Undergraduates": "610", "Postgraduates": "2,610", "Campus": "urban", "Website": "https://www.royalroads.ca/"} |
Dan Inosanto (born 1936) is an American martial arts instructor. Inosanto is an authority on Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts, and Pencak Silat.
Inosanto is credited for training martial arts to a number of Hollywood actors including Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and others.
Early life and education
Dan Inosanto began t... | {"Name": "Dan Inosanto", "Birth date": "July 24, 1936", "Birth place": "Stockton, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Martial arts instructor, actor", "Style": "Jeet Kune Do, Eskrima, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, American Kenpo, Muay Thai, Pencak Silat", "Spouse(s)": "Paula Inosanto (formerAre they divorced, is she deceased, or ... |
.info is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The name is derived from information, although registration requirements do not prescribe any particular purpose.
The TLD info followed ICANN's highly publicized announcement, in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new gene... | {"Introduced": "2001 6 26", "TLD": "Generic top-level domain", "Status": "Active", "Registry": "Afilias", "Sponsor": "None", "Intended use": "Informational websites", "Actual use": "Used for general purposes", "Registration restrictions": "None", "Structure": "Registrations at second level permitted", "Documents": "ICA... |
.coop is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for the use of cooperatives, their wholly owned subsidiaries, and other organizations that exist to promote or support cooperatives.
The TLD was proposed by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) as a ... | {"Introduced": "2001", "TLD": "Sponsored top-level domain", "Status": "Active", "Registry": "Midcounties Co-operative operates the registry on behalf of DotCooperation LLC", "Sponsor": "DotCooperation LLC, a subsidiary of the National Cooperative Business Association", "Intended use": "Cooperatives", "Registration rest... |
Louise Lanctôt (born March 24, 1947) is a Canadian convicted kidnapper and writer. Born Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lanctôt is a political activist for the cause of Quebec independence from Canada. Louise Lanctôt was an active member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale political party that later merged wit... | {"Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada", "Birth date": "1947 3 24", "Occupation": "writer", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Alma mater": "Université du Québec à Montréal"} |
The State University of New York at Purchase, commonly referred to as Purchase College or SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. Established in 1967 by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, SUNY Purchase is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Histo... | {"Motto": "Think Wide Open", "Type": "Public liberal arts college", "Endowment": "$77.9 million (2019)Purchase College--SUNY https://web.archive.org/web/20180911193013/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/suny-purchase-6791 September 11, 2018", "President": "Milagros “Milly” PeñaNew Purchase College President https:/... |
Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her portrayal of Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's fantasy holiday film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Reed won the ... | {"Name": "Donna Reed", "Caption": "Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity (1953)", "Birth name": "Donna Belle Mullenger", "Birth date": "1921 1 27", "Birth place": "Denison, Iowa, U.S.", "Death date": "1986 1 14 1921 1 27", "Resting place": "Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery", "Death place": "Beverly Hills, Californ... |
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