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was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture. The province was located in the middle of the Bōsō Peninsula, 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 . The borders of Kazusa Province were defined b... | {"Native name": "ja 上総国", "Conventional long name": "Kazusa Province", "Common name": "Kazusa Province", "Capital": "Ichihara District", "Today part of": "Chiba Prefecture", "Year founded": "7th century", "Year dissolved": "1868"} |
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, ( 16742 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He served as the ... | {"Name": "The Earl of Wilmington", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1715", "Term start": "16 February 1742", "Term end": "2 July 1743", "Office 2": "Lord President of the Council", "Monarch 2": "George II", "Prime minister 2": "Robert Walpole", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Trevor", "Successor 2": "The Earl ... |
Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a population of 10,377 people.
The locality contains two other towns:
Heronvale ()
Merinda ().
The Abbot Point coal shipping port is also within the locality ().
Geography
Bowen is located on th... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Bowen", "State Abbreviation": "qld", "Caption": "Top: Playground at Bowen Foreshore, Middle left: Bowen Foreshore, Middle right: Walkway along Santa Barbara parade, Bottom left: Muller's Lagoon, Bottom right: Bowen Skatebowl", "Coordinates": "-20.0102 148.2416 type:city_region:AU-QLD inline,ti... |
thumb|right|Hitachi Kokufu Ruins Stone Monument in Ishioka
thumb|right|View of Hitachi Province, Hokusai woodcut in 1830
was an old province of Japan in the area of Ibaraki Prefecture.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hitachi fudoki" in . It was sometimes called . Hitachi Province bordered on Shimōsa (Lower Fusa), ... | {"Native name": "ja 常陸国", "Conventional long name": "Hitachi Province", "Common name": "Hitachi Province", "Capital": "Hitachi Kokufu and Mito", "Today part of": "Ibaraki Prefecture", "Year founded": "7th century", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most successful and most-used types of the 20th century.
Renner was born in Wernigero... | {"Name": "Paul Renner", "Caption": "Paul Renner c. 1927", "Birth name": "Paul Friedrich August Renner", "Birth date": "1878 08 09 yes", "Birth place": "Wernigerode, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire", "Death date": "1956 04 26 1878 08 09 yes", "Death place": "Hödingen, today part of Überlingen, West Germany", "Occupati... |
FedExField (originally Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) is an American football stadium located in Landover, Maryland, east of Washington, D.C. The stadium is the home of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). From 2004 until 2010, it had the largest seating capacity in the NFL at over 91,000. , the ... | {"Location": "Landover, Maryland, U.S.", "Coordinates": "38 54 28 N 76 51 52 W type:landmark_scale:2000 inline,title", "Broke ground": "1996 3 13 yeshttp://www.redskinshistorian.com/taxonomy/term/89 March 13, 1996: Construction Begins on JKC Stadium May 6, 2012 March 12, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160312004... |
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (15 July 16601 February 1718) was an English peer and Whig politician who was part of the Immortal Seven group which invited William of Orange to depose King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution. He was appointed to several minor roles before the revolution, but cam... | {"Name": "The Duke of Shrewsbury", "Image caption": "The Duke of Shrewsbury by Sir Godfrey Kneller", "Term start": "30 July 1714", "Term end": "13 October 1714", "Monarch 2": "Anne", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Sunderlandde jureVacantde facto", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Jersey", "Birth date": "15 July 1660", "Death... |
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (c. 165625 August 1711) was an English peer, courtier, and statesman of the Villiers family. He was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697. A leading Tory politician opposed to the Whig Junto, he was made Southern Secretary in 1699.
He persua... | {"Name": "The Earl of Jersey", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Term start": "1699", "Term end": "1700", "Spouse(s)": "Barbara Chiffinch", "Birth date": "c. 1656", "Birth place": "Kingdom of England", "Death date": "25 August, 1711 1656", "Death place": "Kingdom of Great Britain"} |
Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 - June 2, 1996) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host of the game show Family Feud in its second run and first revival. The s... | {"Birth name": "Raymond Neil Combs Jr.", "Born": "Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.", "Died": "Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale, California, U.S.", "Education": "Garfield High School", "Medium": "Stand-up, film, television", "Years active": "1979-1996", "Genres": "Improvisational comedy, observational comedy", "Spouse": ... |
Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, (previously 4th Earl of Manchester) (20 January 1722) was a British aristocrat and statesman.
Early life
Charles was born into the Noble House of Montagu. He was the eldest son of the former Anne Yelverton and Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester. Revised by Matthew ... | {"Honorific prefix": "His Grace", "Name": "The Duke of Manchester", "Honorific suffix": "PC", "Image caption": "Portrait of Lord Manchester by Godfrey Kneller, 1711", "Term start": "1707", "Term end": "1708", "Birth name": "Charles Edward Montagu", "Birth date": "1662", "Death date": "1722 01 20 1662 yes", "Alma mater"... |
Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Spotsylvania, Virginia, and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station in Bri... | {"Name": "Virginia Railway Express", "Size of first image": "100px", "Size of second image": "320px", "Second image caption": "VRE train at Manassas station", "Owner(s)": "NVTC and PRTC", "Locale": "Northern Virginia", "Transit type(s)": "Commuter rail", "Number of lines/routes": "2", "Start": "Washington Union Station... |
Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Jacobite 1st Earl of Monmouth, PC (1649/1650 – 9 August 1719) was a Scottish and English politician who held several offices under Charles II and James II & VII. He served as Secretary of State for Scotland, the Northern Department and the Southern Department, before acting as ... | {"Name": "The Earl of Middleton", "Image caption": "Coat of arms of the Earl of Middleton", "Term start": "26 September 1682", "Term end": "1684", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for the Northern Department", "Monarch 2": "Charles II", "Predecessor 2": "The Lord Godolphin", "Successor 2": "The Viscount Preston", "Birth... |
Sir Edward Nicholas (4 April 15931669) was an English officeholder and politician who served as Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II. He also sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He served as secretary to Edward la Zouche and the Duke of Buckingham in the Admiralty and became a ... | {"Name": "Sir Edward Nicholas", "Birth date": "4 April 1593", "Death date": "1669", "Caption": "Portrait by Peter Lely", "Birth place": "Wiltshire, England", "Death place": "West Horsley, England", "Spouse(s)": "Jane Jay"} |
William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (14 October 1672 - 15 December 1750), was Lord Privy Seal from 1713 to 1714. He was a Hanoverian Tory, supporting the Hanoverian succession following the death of Queen Anne.
Life
The only son of George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, he was educated as a town-boy at Westminster School... | {"Name": "The Earl of Dartmouth", "Image caption": "Portrait by Godfrey Kneller", "Term start": "1710", "Term end": "1713", "Birth date": "1672 10 14 y", "Death date": "1750 12 15 1672 10 14 yBiographical notice of the Earl of Dartmouth, Page 104, The New Hampshire Repository, Volumes 1-2, William Cogswell, Publisher:A... |
James Craggs the Younger (9 April 168616 February 1721), was an English politician.
Life
Craggs was born at Westminster, the son of James Craggs the Elder. Part of his early life was spent abroad, where he made the acquaintance of George Louis, Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I of Great Britain. In 1713 he... | {"Name": "James Craggs", "Image caption": "Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1708", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for the Southern Department", "Predecessor 2": "Joseph Addison", "Successor 2": "The Lord Carteret", "Birth date": "1686 04 09 y", "Death date": "1721 02 16 1686 04 09 y"} |
The Pink Phink is a 1964 American animated short comedy film directed by Friz Freleng. It is the first animated short starring the Pink Panther. The short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short at the 37th Academy Awards.
Plot
The Pink Panther and an unnamed painter (known as the "Little Man") compete over whet... | {"Directed by": "Friz FrelengCo-director:Hawley Pratt", "Story by": "John W. Dunn", "Edited by": "Lee Gunther", "Music by": "William LavaTheme song:Henry Mancini", "Produced by": "David H. DePatieFriz FrelengMirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng", "Animation by": "Don WilliamsBob MatzNorman McCabeLaverne Harding", "Layouts ... |
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, (17 May 1718 – 16 May 1778), known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician.Record for Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness on thepeerage.com
Career
In 1741 he collaborated with G.F. Handel in the production of Deidamia.A New Chronology of Vene... | {"Name": "The Earl of Holderness", "Image size": "240px", "Term start": "6 April 1757", "Term end": "27 June 1757", "Order 2": "Secretary of State for the Northern Department", "Monarch 2": "George IIGeorge III", "Predecessor 2": "The Duke of Newcastle", "Successor 2": "The Earl of Bute", "Birth date": "17 May 1718", "... |
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Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, (c. 169530 September 1770), of Newby, Yorkshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1761.
Early life
Robinson was a younger son of Sir William Robinson, Bt (1... | {"Name": "The Lord Grantham", "Office 2": "Secretary of State for the Southern Department", "Predecessor 2": "The Earl of Holderness", "Successor 2": "Henry Fox", "Birth date": "1695", "Birth place": "Grantham, England", "Death date": "30 September 1770 (aged 74/75)", "Spouse(s)": "Frances Worsley", "Alma mater": "Trin... |
Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics, he served in the Vietnam War as a United States Navy SEAL officer and was awarded the Medal of Hon... | {"Name": "Bob Kerrey", "Term start": "January 3, 1989", "Term end": "January 3, 2001", "Order 2": "35th Governor of Nebraska", "Predecessor 2": "Charles Thone", "Successor 2": "Kay Orr", "Birth name": "Joseph Robert Kerrey", "Birth date": "1943 8 27", "Birth place": "Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "Beverly Defn... |
Crème caramel (), flan, caramel pudding, condensed milk pudding or caramel custard is a custard dessert with a layer of clear caramel sauce.
History
The origin of crème caramel can be traced back to the Roman Empire where a dish called tiropatinam was made with eggs, milk and pepper and was seasoned in its savoury ... | {"Name of food": "Crème caramel", "Image caption": "Rows of crèmes caramel or flan", "Alternate name": "Flan, caramel custard", "Place of origin": "Roman Empire, Francehttps://www.google.at/books/edition/Concise_Oxford_English_Dictionary/4XycAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=cr%C3%A8me+caramel+origin&pg=PA337&printsec=frontcove... |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (, ) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World).One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, or "Odin den iz zhizni Ivana Denisovicha" (novel by Solzhenitsyn). B... | {"Original title": "Один день Ивана Денисовича", "Country": "Soviet Union", "Language": "Russian", "Publisher": "Signet Classic", "ISBN": "0-451-52310-5"} |
X-Plane is a flight simulation engine series developed and published by Laminar Research in 1995. Commercial desktop versions are sold for macOS, Windows, and Linux. In addition, Laminar Research also distributes FAA-certified versions for professional use. A mobile version has been available for Android, iOS, and webO... | {"Title": "X-Plane", "Caption": "Logo of the latest version", "Platforms": "AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebOSWindows", "Developer": "Laminar ResearchAustin Meyer", "Publisher": "Laminar ResearchAerosoft", "Genre": "Flight simulation", "Creator": "Austin Meyer", "First release version": "X-Plane 1.00", "First release date": "19... |
Pad thai, phat thai, or phad thai ( or ; , , ISO: p̄hạd thịy, , 'Thai stir fry'), is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food in Thailand as part of the country's cuisine. It is typically made with rice noodles, shrimp, peanuts, a scrambled egg, and bean sprouts. The ingredients are fried in a wok... | {"Name of food": "Pad thai", "Image caption": "Street stall pad thai from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand", "Alternate name": "phad thai, phat thai", "Place of origin": "Thailand", "Cuisine": "Thai", "Course served": "Entree or Main", "Type of dish": "Rice noodle dish", "Serving temperature": "Hot", "Main ingredient": ... |
Cuautitlán Izcalli () is a city and one of the 125 municipalities that make up the State of Mexico. Its municipal seat is Cuautitlán Izcalli. It is located in the Valley of Mexico area, and is part of the Metropolitan area of Mexico City. It borders to the north and northwest with Tepotzotlán, to the northeast and to t... | {"Type": "Ayuntamiento", "Water": "3.64", "Density": "555,163https://www.alcaldesdemexico.com/revista/alcaldes-de-mexico/los-100-municipios-mas-poblados/ Los 100 municipios más poblados alcaldesdemexico 2020 David Galicia Sánchez es-MX https://web.archive.org/web/20230329033737/https://www.alcaldesdemexico.com/r... |
David Lee Walters (born November 20, 1951) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 24th governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995.
Born in Canute, Oklahoma, Walters was a project manager for Governor David Boren and the youngest executive officer working for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences... | {"Name": "David Walters", "Term start": "January 14, 1991", "Term end": "January 9, 1995", "Birth name": "David Lee Walters", "Birth date": "1951 11 20", "Birth place": "Canute, Oklahoma, U.S.", "Education": "University of Oklahoma (BS)Harvard University (MBA)"} |
Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (, ; born 19 February 1948) is an English musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. Iommi was ranked number 25 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 G... | {"Name": "Tony Iommi", "Caption": "Iommi performing with Heaven & Hell in June 2009", "Birth name": "Anthony Frank Iommi Jr.", "Birth date": "y 19 February 1948", "Spouse(s)": "Susan Snowdon 1973 1976 divorced Melinda Diaz 1980 1985 divorced Valery Iommi 1987 1993 divorced Maria Sjöholm 2005", "Children": "1", "Birth p... |
Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 - June 9, 1993) was an American country-soul songwriter and singer. Jason Ankeny, music critic for AllMusic, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and that, though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of... | {"Born": "Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.", "Died": "Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.", "Genres": "Country, soul", "Labels": "Judd, Dot, Buddah, Warner, Ace, Elektra, Sound Stage 7, Omnivore Recordings"} |
Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song "My Island Home". Anu has been nominated for 17 ARIA Awards.
Early life
Anu was born on 15 March 1970 in Cairns, Queensland, to a Torres Strait Islander mothe... | {"Born": "Cairns, Queensland, Australia", "Origin": "Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia", "Genres": "Pop", "Labels": "Mushroom Records, Liberation Music, ABC Music, Independent. Social Family Records"} |
Coleville (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Oakdale No. 320 and Census Division No. 13. The village's main economic factors are oil and farming, namesake of the Coleville oilfields. The village is named for Malcolm Cole who became the community's ... | {"Type": "Municipal", "Density": "149.7", "DST": "-6", "Website": "Village of Coleville"} |
Boy is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite and was released on 20 October 1980 by Island Records. Boy contains songs from the band's 40-song repertoire at the time, including two tracks that were re-recorded from their original versions on the group's debut release, the EP ... | {"Released": "1980 10 20 yes", "Recorded": "July - September 1980", "Studio": "Windmill Lane (Dublin, Ireland)", "Genre": "Post-punk", "Label": "Island", "Producer": "Steve Lillywhite"} |
thumb|right|Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Wakasa" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting fishing in Wakasa Bay
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the southwestern portion of Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Wakasa" in . Wakasa bordered on... | {"Native name": "若狭国", "Conventional long name": "Wakasa Province", "Common name": "Wakasa Province", "Capital": "Obama", "Today part of": "Fukui Prefecture", "Year founded": "701", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
Embrace is the debut record and the only release by the American post-hardcoreRaggett, Ned. "Embrace: AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett". AllMusic. Retrieved January 24, 2016. band Embrace.
The album, released by Dischord Records,Heller, Jason (November 18, 2014). "Primer: Where to start with the righteous noise of Disch... | {"Released": "September 1987", "Recorded": "November 1985 – February 1986", "Studio": "Inner Ear", "Genre": "Post-hardcore\n \"DanceofDays_pp202-203\">Andersen, Mark; Jenkins, Mark (Soft Skull Press, 2001). Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. Fourth ed., 2009. Akashic Books. 9781933354996. pp. 2... |
thumb|right|Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Kaga" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting fishing fires on Lake Renko
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the south and western portion of Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaga" in . Kaga bor... | {"Native name": "加賀国", "Conventional long name": "Kaga Province", "Common name": "Kaga Province", "Capital": "Komatsu", "Today part of": "Ishikawa Prefecture", "Year founded": "823", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
The New Statesman is a British political and cultural newsmagazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a foundi... | {"Categories": "Politics, geopolitics, books and culture and foreign affairs", "Frequency": "Weekly", "Founder": "Sidney and Beatrice Webb", "Founded": "y 1913", "First issue": "yes 12 April 1913 month", "Company": "New Statesman Media Group", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Based in": "London", "Language": "English", "W... |
Jack Hitt is an American author. He has been a contributing editor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, and the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca. His work has appeared in such publications as Outside Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, Mother Jones, Slate, and Garden & Gun.
In 1990, he received ... | {"Born": "1957", "Occupation": "Author, editor, journalist", "Language": "English", "Nationality": "American", "Citizenship": "United States", "Alma mater": "The University of The South", "Children": "2", "Notable awards": "Livingston Award, two Peabody Awards"} |
Mazarine Marie Pingeot (born 18 December 1974) who changed her name to Mazarine Marie Mitterrand Pingeot in November 2016,Décret du 8 novembre 2016 portant changements de noms - NOR : JUSN1629212D is a French writer, journalist and professor.
Biography
Pingeot is the daughter of former French president François Mitt... | {"Name": "Mazarine Mitterrand Pingeot", "Caption": "Mazarine Pingeot in 2019", "Birth name": "Mazarine Marie Pingeot", "Birth date": "1974 12 18 yes", "Birth place": "Avignon, Vaucluse, France", "Occupation": "Journalist, writer, academic", "Partner(s)": "Mohamed Ulad-Mohand (formerly)", "Children": "3", "Nationality":... |
The Knight in the Panther's Skin ( literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli.Baramidze & Gamezardashvili, p. 17 A definitive work of the Georgian Golden Age, the poem consists of over 1600 Rustavelian Q... | {"Author(s)": "Shota Rustaveli", "Dedicated to": "Queen Tamar of Georgia", "Language": "Georgian", "Date": "c. 1180-1205/07", "First printed edition": "by King Vakhtang VI in 1712", "Length": "6,648 lines", "Genre": "epic poetry, national epic", "Subject": "love, friendship, heroism, loyalty", "Period covered": "Reign ... |
Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. The second highest mountain in Oregon, it is situated within Linn County, Jefferson County, and Marion County and forms part of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. Due to the ruggedness of its surroundings... | {"Location": "Location in Oregon.", "Elevation": "2401 Mount Jefferson, Oregon 2019-08-03", "Prominence": "5777", "Coordinates": "QD1739 Mount Jefferson January 18, 2018"} |
The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The investigation ultimately led to a bro... | {"Cover artist": "Jacket design by Paul GamarelloJacket illustration by Stephen PeringerArt direction by Barbara Buck", "Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Series": "L.A. Quartet", "Publisher": "The Mysterious Press", "Media type": "Print (hardcover & paperback), audio cassette, audio CD, and audio down... |
Legend Entertainment Company was an American developer and publisher of computer games, best known for creating adventure titles throughout the 1990s. The company was founded by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu, both veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom that shut down in 1989. Legend's first two games, Spellcasti... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Video games", "Fate": "Dissolved", "Founded": "1989", "Defunct": "January 16, 2004", "Headquarters": "US", "Parent": "American Systems Corporation (1989-1992) Atari, Inc. (1999-2004)", "Website": "legendent.com (archived)"} |
Ma Lik, GBS, JP (; 23 February 1952 - 8 August 2007), was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong.
Education
Ma Lik attended the Pui Kiu Middle School. He graduated with a bachelor's degree (with Honours) fr... | {"Name": "Ma Lik", "Native name": "馬力", "Native name language": "zh-hk", "Term start": "9 December 2003", "Term end": "8 August 2007", "Office 2": "Member of the Legislative Council", "Predecessor 2": "Cyd Ho", "Successor 2": "Anson Chan", "Birth date": "yes 1952 2 23", "Birth place": "Guangzhou", "Death date": "yes 20... |
Sir William Snow Harris (1 April 1791 - 22 January 1867) was a British physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British ... | {"Name": "William Snow Harris", "Birth date": "yes 1791 4 1", "Birth place": "Plymouth, Devon, England", "Death date": "yes 1867 1 22 1791 4 1", "Occupation": "solicitor and physician"} |
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 members, with its work reaching the public throug... | {"Abbreviation": "RGS-IBG", "Type": "Learned society", "Headquarters": "1 Kensington Gore, London", "Website": "www.rgs.org"} |
Jasper Tsang Yok-sing (; born 17 May 1947) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the founding member of the largest pro-Beijing party the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) from 1992 to 2003 and the 2nd President of the Legislative Council from 2008 to 2016.
Graduated from the Universit... | {"Name": "Jasper Tsang Yok-sing", "Native name": "曾鈺成", "Native name language": "zh-Hant-HK", "Nationality": "Hong Kong Chinese", "Term start": "8 October 2008", "Term end": "30 September 2016", "Birth date": "yes 1947 5 17", "Birth place": "Guangzhou, Guangdong, China", "Alma mater": "St Paul's CollegeUniversity of Ho... |
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Eliza... | {"First appearance": "Lassie Come-Home", "Created by": "Eric Knight", "Portrayed by": "Pal", "Gender": "Female"} |
Jiangmen (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. It consists of two urban districts (Pengjiang, Jianghai), Heshan, and the more rural Siyi (Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping), which is the ancestral homeland of approximately 4 million ov... | {"Density": "auto", "Metro density": "auto", "Urban density": "auto", "ISO 3166 code": "CN-GD-07", "Website": "www.jiangmen.gov.cn/ zh-hans"} |
thumb|Hai Chang catamaran at Hong Kong China Ferry Terminal.
Chu Kong Passenger Transport Co., Ltd. (CKPT; ) is a subsidiary of Chu Kong Shipping Enterprises (CKS) and operates ferry services between Hong Kong and cities in Guangdong province, China, as well as Macau.
It is headquartered in the Chu Kong Shipping Tower... | {"Airline name": "Chu Kong Passenger Transport", "IATA Designator": "3A", "Major hubs": "Hong Kong International Airport (Skypier)", "Current Fleet Size": "27", "Number of Destinations": "9 (routes to/from Hong Kong International Airport only)", "Parent Company": "Chu Kong Shipping Enterprises (Group) Company Limited",... |
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Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU; locally known as John Moores) is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823. This later merged to become Liverpool Polytechnic. In 1992, following... | {"Motto": "Audentes fortuna juvat", "Type": "Public", "Chancellor": "Nisha Katona", "Students": "0065 ()", "Undergraduates": "0065 ()", "Postgraduates": "0065 ()", "Campus": "Urban", "Website": "http://www.ljmu.ac.uk"} |
AC Ace is a car which was produced by AC Cars of Thames Ditton, England, from 1953 until 1963.
History
AC came back to the market after the Second World War with the 2-Litre range of cars in 1947, but it was with the Ace sports car of 1953 that the company really made its reputation in the post war years. Casting arou... | {"Manufacturer": "AC Cars", "Production": "1953–1963 Michael Sedgwick & Mark Gillies, A-Z of Cars 1945-1970, Haymarket Publishing Ltd, 1986, page 7", "Body style": "2-door roadster", "Length": "152 in mm 0 on", "Width": "59.5 in mm 0 on", "Height": "49 in mm 0 on", "Transmission": "4-speed manual (With overdrive availa... |
Iligan, officially the City of Iligan (; ; Maranao: Inged a Iligan), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Northern Mindanao, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 363,115 people.
It is geographically within the province of Lanao del Norte but administered independently from... | {"Type": "government_type", "Rank": "0", "Density": "auto", "Website": "website"} |
Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (; ; - May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a part of the wider Russian Civil War.
Petliura was born to a family of Cossack... | {"Name": "Symon Petliura", "Birth name": "Симон Васи́льович Петлю́ра", "Native name": "uk Симон Петлюра", "Image size": "250px", "Image caption": "Chief Otaman Symon Petliura", "Birth date": "1879 05 22 yes", "Birth place": "Poltava, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire", "Death date": "1926 05 25 1879 05 10 yes", "Dea... |
Shandong University (, abbreviated as Shanda, , English abbreviation SDU) is a public research
university in Jinan, Shandong with one campus in Weihai, Shandong and one campus in Qingdao, Shandong and is supported directly by the national ministry of education. It is one of the largest universities in China by student... | {"Motto": "学无止境 气有浩然http://www.sdu.edu.cn/2010/xx.html Motto of Shandong University (山东大学校训) zh 10 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114848/http://www.sdu.edu.cn/2010/xx.html 2015-09-24 dead", "Type": "National university", "Affiliation": "Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China", "President... |
Mike Clattenburg (born March 21, 1967) is a Canadian television and film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as creator, executive producer, writer and director of the TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys (2001-2008), for his work with This Hour Has 22 Minutes (2004), and as the co-creator of the Adult ... | {"Name": "Mike Clattenburg", "Birth date": "1967 03 21Is Hollywood ready for Mike Clattenburg? The Coast", "Nationality": "Canadian", "Occupation": "Television and film director, producer, screenwriter", "Years active": "1995-present", "Spouse(s)": "Stephanie Joline 2009 2015 div"} |
OSI was an American progressive rock band, originally formed by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2002. Chroma Key keyboardist and vocalist Kevin Moore is the only other full-time member of the band. The collaboration may be considered a studio project, as its members and contributors write and track most of their... | {"Origin": "United States", "Genres": "Progressive rockProgressive metal", "Labels": "InsideOut, Metal Blade", "Spinoff of": "Dream Theater Fates Warning", "Website": "osiband.com", "Members": "Jim MatheosKevin Moore"} |
The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock. It is named after the similar bell used by herdsmen to keep track of the whereabouts of cows. The instrument initially and traditionally has been metallic; however, contemporarily, some variants are made of s... | {"Name": "Cowbell", "Background": "percussion", "Classification": "Hand percussion", "Hornbostel-Sachs": "111.242", "Hornbostel-Sachs Description": "Externally struck percussive idiophone", "Range": "Single note with timbral variations", "Related": "Agogô"} |
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's m... | {"Fields": "Natural history", "Institutions": "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle", "Influences": "M. J. Brisson, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lorenz Oken, Georges Cuvier", "Influenced": "Robert Edmond Grant"} |
Yeovil Junction railway station is the busier, but less central, of two railway stations serving the town of Yeovil in England. The station is outside the town, in the village of Stoford. Although Yeovil is in Somerset, the station was in Dorset until 1991. It is down the line from .
It was opened by the London and ... | {"Name": "Yeovil Junction", "Symbol Location": "gb", "Symbol": "rail", "Administrative subdivision": "Yeovil, South Somerset", "Country": "England", "Coordinates": "50.9247 -2.6132 type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000 inline,title", "Manager": "South Western Railway", "Original company": "Salisbury and Yeovil Rail... |
Paul Theodore Hellyer (August 6, 1923 - August 8, 2021) was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.
Early life
Hellyer was born and raised on a farm near Waterford, Ontario, the son of Lulla Maude (An... | {"Name": "Paul Hellyer", "Birth name": "Paul Theodore Hellyer", "Image caption": "Hellyer, 1967", "Term start": "September 19, 1967", "Term end": "April 30, 1969", "Office 2": "Minister of National Defence", "Prime minister 2": "Lester B. Pearson", "Predecessor 2": "Gordon Churchill", "Successor 2": "Léo Cadieux", "Oth... |
Virtua Tennis, known in Japan as , is a 1999 tennis arcade game created by Sega AM3. The player competes through tennis tournaments in an arcade mode. It was ported to the Dreamcast in 2000, and to Windows in 2002. A Game Boy Advance version was also released in 2002, followed by an N-Gage version in 2003. For the home... | {"Title": "Virtua Tennis", "Caption": "Arcade flyer", "Developer": "Sega AM3", "Publisher": "Sega", "Producer": "Mie Kumagai", "Composer": "Chiho Kobayashi", "Series": "Virtua Tennis", "Genre": "Sports game", "Modes": "Single player, multiplayer", "Platforms": "Arcade, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, N-... |
Office of Strategic Influence is the first studio album by American progressive rock band OSI, released by Inside Out Music on February 18, 2003. The album was recorded in June 2002 and mixed in August 2002 at the Carriage House Studios in Stamford, Connecticut.
Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos originally recruited... | {"Released": "February 17, 2003", "Recorded": "June 2-9, 2002", "Studio": "Carriage House Studios (Stamford, Connecticut)", "Genre": "Progressive rock, progressive metal", "Label": "InsideOut", "Producer": "Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore"} |
Progress Quest is a video game developed by Eric Fredricksen as a parody of EverQuest and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games. It is loosely considered a zero-player game, in the sense that once the player has set up their artificial character, there is no user interaction at all; the game "plays" its... | {"Title": "Progress Quest", "Caption": "The entire interface of Progress Quest", "Developer": "Eric Fredricksen", "Publisher": "Eric Fredricksen, pkunk", "Designer": "Eric Fredricksen", "Released": "2002", "Genre": "Parody of MMORPGs", "Modes": "Single-player, Multi-player", "Platforms": "Windows, Linux"} |
Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including poetry and prose.
Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Versed which was also nominated for the National Book Award."F... | {"Name": "Rae Armantrout", "Caption": "Rae Armantrout in 2014", "Birth date": "1947 4 13", "Birth place": "Vallejo, California", "Occupation": "Poet", "Awards": "2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship"} |
Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 - 10 April 2023) was a British writer best known as the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction.
In 1994, it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted for murder as a teenager while living in Chr... | {"Name": "Anne Perry", "Caption": "Perry in 2012", "Birth name": "Juliet Marion Hulme", "Birth date": "1938 10 28 yes", "Birth place": "London, England", "Death date": "2023 4 10 1938 10 28 yes", "Death place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Author", "Notable works": "Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and Will... |
Sidney Arthur Field (1 April 1904 - 3 February 1950) was an English comedy entertainer who was popular in the 1940s.
Early years
Field was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Albert (a candlemaker) and Bertha (a dressmaker). Field spent most of his childhood in Birmingham. As a child, he charged his... | {"Name": "Sid Field", "Birth name": "Sidney Arthur Field", "Caption": "Field in 1949", "Birth date": "1904 04 01 y", "Birth place": "Birmingham, England", "Death date": "1950 02 03 1904 04 01 y", "Death place": "Wimbledon, London, England", "Occupation": "Comedian"} |
Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 - 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. Anand is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Through a career that spanned over six decades, h... | {"Name": "Dev Anand", "Caption": "Anand in Kashti (1954)", "Birth name": "Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand", "Birth date": "y 1923 09 26", "Birth place": "Shakargarh, Punjab, British India", "Death date": "yes 2011 12 03 1923 09 26", "Death place": "London, England", "Spouse(s)": "Kalpana Kartik 1954", "Children": "2; includ... |
Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical, with music by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black and the book by Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan, originally produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The London production opened in 2002 and ran for two years. The musical was later produced on Broadway in 2004.
Plot
The story centers ... | {"Name": "Bombay Dreams", "Caption": "The CD Cover for the 2002 Original London Cast Recording", "Composer(s)": "A. R. Rahman", "Lyricist(s)": "Don Black", "Book-writer": "Meera SyalThomas Meehan", "Productions": "2002 West End2004 Broadway2006 North America tour"} |
The World Cyber Games (WCG) is an international esports competition with multi-game titles in which hundreds of esports athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions also known as Esports Olympics. WCG events attempt to emulate a traditional sporting tournament, such as the Olympic Games; even... | {"Frequency": "Annual", "Status": "Active", "Genre": "Esports tournaments", "Website": "Official site"} |
Adam Paul Tinley (born 4 December 1967Jörg Amtage, Matthias Müller: Alle Hits aus Deutschlands Charts 1954-2003, Pro Business, 2003, p. 20.), known professionally as Adamski, as well as Sonny Eriksson, is an English DJ, musician, singer and record producer, prominent at the time of acid house for his tracks "N-R-G" and... | {"Born": "Lymington, Hampshire, England", "Genres": "Acid house\n house", "Labels": "MCATitle Unknown http://www.geocities.com//patmil007/7231.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20091027155429/http://geocities.com/patmil007/7231.jpg 27 October 2009 dead dmy", "Website": "adamskiofficial.com\n sonnyerikssonlive.com"} |
Professional Adventure Writer or PAW (sometimes called PAWS for Professional Adventure Writing System) is a program that allows the user to write textual adventure games with graphic illustrations.Crash 50 It was written by Tim Gilberts, Graeme Yeandle and Phil Wade, based on Yeandle's earlier system called The Quill.
... | {"Title": "Professional Adventure Writer", "Caption": "Start-up screen of PAW (ZX Spectrum version)", "Publisher": "Gilsoft", "Designer": "Tim Gilberts, Graeme Yeandle, Phil Wade", "Released": "1987", "Genre": "Construction kit, game creation, utility", "Platforms": "ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC"} |
The 10th (Irish) Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions (formed from Kitchener's 'first hundred thousand' new volunteers), authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.Murphy, 2007, Irish Regiments in the World Wars, The Irish Divisions, 1914-18,The 10th (Ir... | {"Branch": "United Kingdom", "Type": "Infantry", "Size": "Division", "Part of": "K1 Army Group", "Notablecommanders": "Bryan Mahon"} |
Benjamin Pettit (born 12 March 1972), better known as DJ Zinc, is a British DJ and record producer. Zinc first became known for 1995's "Super Sharp Shooter", a hip hop/jungle fusion, notably one of the pioneering jump-up anthems of its time. He went on to produce drum and bass, breakbeat and more recently UK garage and... | {"Born": "yes 1972 3 12", "Origin": "London, England", "Genres": "Drum and bass, breakbeat, house, trip hop, UK garage", "Formerly of": "The Ganja Kru, True Playaz", "Website": "djzinc.com"} |
Walton (perhaps formerly known as Walcot) is a hamlet in the parish of Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, England. Although Aylesbury has grown to such an extent that it completely surrounds Walton by a couple of miles in each direction, the hamlet is still marked on modern maps.
Walton sits north of the junction between... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Unitary authority": "Buckinghamshire", "Ceremonial county": "Buckinghamshire", "UK Parliament": "Aylesbury", "Postcode district": "HP", "Dialling code": "01296", "OS grid reference": "SP8213"} |
Suzanne Tremblay (; January 24, 1937 - September 26, 2020) was a Canadian politician from Quebec who served as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2004.
Early life
Born in Montreal, Tremblay received a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship to attend Tufts University in the United States, wh... | {"Name": "Suzanne Tremblay", "Term start": "March 17, 1997", "Term end": "April 25, 1997", "Birth date": "1937 1 24", "Birth place": "Montreal, Quebec", "Death date": "2020 9 26 1937 1 24", "Death place": "Rimouski, Quebec", "Residence": "Le Bic, Quebec"} |
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, it has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from the southern shore of the estuary.
La Plata was planned and devel... | {"Founded by": "Dardo Rocha", "Density": "auto", "Rank": "5th in Argentina", "Metro density": "787,294"} |
thumb|Improved Order of Red Men membership certificate, 1889, with busts of Washington and Tammany, and vignettes of imagined scenes of Native American life and cultures.Captions: "Red men administer no oaths binding you to any political or religious creed. They bind neither your hands nor your feet. As you enter their... | {"Headquarters": "Waco, Texas", "Founded at": "Baltimore", "Predecessor": "Sons of Liberty (claimed)Society of Red Men (c. 1813)", "Type": "Fraternal", "Website": "redmen.org"} |
Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture, including breakdancing, DJing and graffit... | {"Directed by": "Stan Lathan", "Written by": "Andrew Davis David Gilbert Paul Golding Steven Hager", "Story by": "Richard Lee Sisco", "Produced by": "Harry Belafonte David V. Picker", "Starring": "Rae Dawn Chong\n Guy Davis\n Jon Chardiet\n Leon W. Grant\n Saundra Santiago\n Robert Taylor\n Lee Chamberlin\n Mary Alice\... |
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 18th century, the IOOF was originally charter... | {"Named after": "Odd Fellows", "Abbreviation": "IOOF", "Founded at": "Washington Lodge No. 1, Seven Stars Tavern, Baltimore, Maryland, United States", "Type": "Fraternal order", "Legal status": "501(c)(8) fraternal benefit society\"Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax\". The Independent Order of Oddf... |
Thomas Conway (February 27, 1735 - 1795) served as a major general in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He became involved with the alleged Conway Cabal with Horatio Gates. He later served with Émigré forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Early life
Conway was born in County K... | {"Born": "Ireland", "Died": "Bath, Somerset, England", "Allegiance": "FranceUnited States", "Commands held": "Inspector General of the Continental ArmyGouverneur Général de l'Inde française", "Spouse(s)": "Francoise Antoinette Jeanne Florimonde Langlois du Bouchet Conway", "Children": "1"} |
Halkirk () is a village on the River Thurso in Caithness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. From Halkirk the B874 road runs towards Thurso in the north and towards Georgemas in the east. The village is within the parish of Halkirk, and is said by locals to be Scotland's first planned village.
In 1222 Jon Haral... | {"Sovereign state": "Scotland", "Population": "(ScotSettlement)", "OS grid reference": "ND130594", "Council area": "Highland", "Lieutenancy area": "Caithness", "UK Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross", "Scottish Parliament": "Caithness, Sutherland and Ross constituency in the Highlands and Islands elect... |
Castletown (, pronounced ) is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until 1869. The centre of town is dominated by Castle Rushen, a well-preserved medieval castle, originally built for a Vik... | {"Crown dependency": "Isle of Man", "Population": "(Isle of Man census 2006)", "OS grid reference": "SC263675", "Postcode district": "IM9", "Dialling code": "01624", "Parish": "Malew", "Sheading": "Rushen", "House of Keys": "Arbory, Castletown & Malew"} |
Joseph "Joe" L. Handley, MLA (born August 9, 1943), is a former teacher, politician and civil servant and was the tenth premier of the Northwest Territories.
Early life
Handley was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan in 1943.CIM Bulletin, Volume 94 Prior to moving to the Northwest Territories in 1985, he worked as an ed... | {"Image caption": "Hon. Joseph Handley", "Term start": "December 10, 2003", "Term end": "October 16, 2007", "Birth date": "1943 8 9", "Birth place": "Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan", "Spouse(s)": "Theresa Handley"} |
The All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" () is a conservative political party in Russia. As the largest party in the Russian Federation, it holds 325 (or 72.22%) of the 450 seats in the State Duma , having constituted the majority in the chamber since 2007. The party was formed on 1 December 2001 through a merge... | {"Founded": "yes 2001 12 1", "Merger of": "nowrap Fatherland - All Russia Unity Our Home - Russia", "Headquarters": "39th Building, Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia. 121170http://er.ru/press/society/ Единая Россия официальный сайт Партии / Пресс-служба / Контакты er.ru 20 February 2017 17 September 2020 https://web.... |
LDPR — Liberal Democratic Party of Russia () is a Russian ultranationalist and right-wing populist political party in Russia. It succeeded the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU) in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The party was led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its inception until his... | {"Leader": "Leonid Slutsky", "Preceded by": "Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU)", "Founded": "1992 4 18 yesRussiaprofile https://web.archive.org/web/20110120021228/http://www.russiaprofile.org/resources/political/majorparties/ldpr/index.wbp 20 January 2011", "Headquarters": "1st Basmanny Lane, 3 build... |
The XM29 OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) was a series of prototypes of a new type of assault rifle that fired 20 mm HE airbursting projectiles. The prototypes were developed as part of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon program in the 1990s. The term SABR (Selectable Assault Battle Rifle) was also used a... | {"Place of origin": "United States\nGermany", "Type": "Assault rifle with bullpup grenade launcher module", "Sights": "Integrated 6× thermal vision, night vision optics with computer-assisted sighting and laser rangefinder", "Designer": "Heckler & Koch, Alliant Techsystems", "Manufacturer": "Heckler & Koch, Alliant Tec... |
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Cry Baby" written by Martin Isherwood. The song was performed by the duo Jemini. The British entry for the 2003 contest in Riga, Latvia was selected via the national final A Song for Europe 2003, organised by the British broadcaster BBC.... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Selection process": "A Song for Europe 2003", "Selection date(s)": "Semi-final:27-31 January 2003Final:2 March 2003", "Selected entrant": "Jemini", "Selected song": "Cry Baby", "Selected songwriter(s)": "Martin Isherwood", "Final result": "26th, 0 points"} |
thumb|260px|The USGA Museum in Liberty Corner, New Jersey
The United States Golf Association (USGA) is the United States national association of golf courses, clubs and facilities and the governing body of golf for the U.S. and Mexico. Together with The R&A, the USGA produces and interprets the rules of golf. The USGA ... | {"Abbreviation": "USGA", "Type": "NGO", "Headquarters": "Golf House,Liberty Corner, New Jersey", "Affiliations": "The RA", "Website": "usga.org"} |
Thomas Otway (3 March 165214 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).
Life
Otway was born at TrottonSamuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, 1779-1781, Oxford University Press 1961. Johnson calls it "Trottin" near Midhurst, the par... | {"Name": "Thomas Otway", "Caption": "Portrait of Thomas Otway by John Riley, c. 1680-85", "Birth date": "1652 03 03 y", "Birth place": "Trotton, Sussex, England", "Death date": "1685 04 14 1652 03 03 y", "Burial place": "St Clement Danes", "Nationality": "English", "Occupation": "Dramatist", "Years active": "1672-1685... |
The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, , ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRD was formed after the contested general election in 1988, which the PRD's immedia... | {"President": "Ángel Ávila Romero", "Secretary": "Beatriz Mojica Morga", "Founded": "1989 5 5 y", "Split from": "Institutional Revolutionary Party", "Headquarters": "Benjamín Franklin No. 84, Colonia Escandón, C.P. 11800. Mexico CityMexico", "Ideology": "Social democracyFederalism21 March 2021 PRD 2021 Proyecto de Plat... |
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, The CUNY Graduate Center is classi... | {"Motto": "The Life of the Mind in the Heart of the Cityhttp://www2.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/administration/offices/executive-search-evaluation/GSUC-Brochure.pdf Search for the President of the Graduate Center 2014 The Graduate Center, CUNY City University of New York 2 April 1, 201... |
The Banger Sisters is a 2002 American comedy film written and directed by Bob Dolman, and produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film stars Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as two middle-aged women who used to be friends and groupies when they were young.
Released on September 20, 2002, the film was Hawn's last actin... | {"Directed by": "Bob Dolman", "Produced by": "Elizabeth Cantillon\n Mark Johnson", "Written by": "Bob Dolman", "Starring": "Goldie Hawn\n Susan Sarandon\n Geoffrey Rush\n Erika Christensen\n Robin Thomas", "Music by": "Trevor Rabin", "Cinematography": "Karl Walter Lindenlaub", "Edited by": "Aram Nigoghossian", "Distrib... |
Azie Taylor Morton (February 1, 1936 - December 7, 2003) served as Treasurer of the United States during the Carter administration from September 12, 1977, to January 20, 1981. She remains the only African American to hold that office. Her signature was printed on US currency during her tenure.
Early life
Morton was b... | {"Name": "Azie Taylor Morton", "Image caption": "Official portrait", "Term start": "September 12, 1977", "Term end": "January 20, 1981", "Birth date": "1936 02 01", "Birth place": "Dale, Texas, U.S.", "Death date": "2003 12 07 1936 02 01", "Death place": "Bastrop County, Texas, U.S.", "Spouse(s)": "James Homer Morton"} |
The Union for the Defence of the Republic (), after 1968 renamed Union of Democrats for the Republic (), commonly abbreviated UDR, was a Gaullist political party of France that existed from 1968 to 1976.
The UDR was the successor to Charles de Gaulle's earlier party, the Rally of the French People, and was organised i... | {"Leader": "Charles de GaulleGeorges PompidouJacques Chaban-DelmasJacques Chirac", "Founded": "1967 11 26 y", "Preceded by": "Union for the New Republic", "Succeeded by": "Rally for the Republic", "Headquarters": "123 rue de Lille, Paris 7th", "Newspaper": "La Lettre de la nation", "Ideology": "GaullismPaternalistic co... |
The 1973 Irish general election to the 20th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 28 February 1973, following the dissolution of the 19th Dáil on 5 February by President Éamon de Valera on the request of Taoiseach Jack Lynch. The general election took place in 42 Dáil constituencies throughout Ireland for 144 seats in Dáil Éirea... | {"Name": "1973 Irish general election", "Country": "Ireland", "Type": "parliamentary", "Ongoing?": "no", "Previous election": "1969 Irish general election", "Previous year": "1969", "Election date": "28 February 1973", "Next election": "1977 Irish general election", "Next year": "1977", "Seats for election": "144 seats... |
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, also known as Noël (27 August 1834 - 26 May 1894), was an English poet. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
Early life
He was the youngest son of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and, his fourth wife, Lady Frances Jocelyn. His only full sibling was Lady Victoria Noel, who married Sir Fo... | {"Honorific prefix": "The Honourable", "Name": "Roden Noel", "Caption": "Portrait of Noel, by George Richmond", "Birth name": "Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel", "Birth date": "1834 08 27 yes", "Birth place": "England", "Death date": "1894 05 26 1834 08 27 yes", "Death place": "Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany", "Educati... |
Willenhall is a historic market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480. It is situated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, historically in the county of Staffordshire. It lies upon the River Tame, and is part of th... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011.Wards)http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689824&c=Willenhall&d=14&e=62&g=6368188&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1450539115183&enc=1 Willenhall North Ward population 2011 19 December 2015http://www.neighbourhood.statisti... |
The ouguiya ( (); sign: UM; code: MRU), at one time spelled "ougiya", is the currency of Mauritania. Each ouguiya constitutes five khoums (meaning "one fifth"). As such it is one of two circulating currencies, along with the Malagasy ariary, whose division units are not based on a power of ten.
The current ouguiya was... | {"ISO 4217 code": "MRU", "ISO 4217 comment": "before 2014: MRO", "ISO reference": "https://www.currency-iso.org/en/shared/amendments/iso-4217-amendment.html ISO 4217 Amendment Number 165 .currency-iso.org 2017-12-14", "Subunit": "1 5", "Plural": "ouguiya", "Symbol": "UM", "Printer": "Canadian Bank Note Companyhttps://w... |
Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 - 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existe... | {"Name": "Edward Victor Appleton", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Appleton in 1947", "Birth date": "1892 9 6 y", "Birth place": "Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England", "Death date": "1965 4 21 1892 9 6 y", "Death place": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "Nationality": "English", "Term start": "1 February 1949", ... |
Jacques Lelong (occasionally Jacobus Longus; 19 April 1665 - 13 August 1721) was a French bibliographer born in Paris. He joined the Knights of Malta at the age of ten, but later joined the Oratorians.
He was a priest of the Oratory, and was librarian to the establishment of the Order in Paris, where he spent his life... | {"Name": "Jacques Lelong", "Birth date": "19 April 1665", "Death date": "13 August 1721 19 April 1665", "Nationality": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "bibliographer", "Notable works": "Bibliotheca Sacra (1709)\n Bibliothèque historique de la France (1719)"} |
thumb|alt=Funeral of Avi Ran, July 1987|Funeral of Avi Ran, July 1987
Avi Ran (August 25, 1963 - July 11, 1987) was a goalkeeper at the Israeli football club Maccabi Haifa. Widely considered one of the greatest football players in Israel, he had a promising future which was cut short by a fatal accident.
Football car... | {"Name": "Avi Ran", "Full name": "Avi Ran", "Height": "1.85 m ftin on", "Birth date": "1963 8 25 y", "Birth place": "Haifa, Israel", "Date of death": "1987 7 11 1963 8 25", "Place of death": "Tiberias, Israel", "Position": "Goalkeeper", "Club 1 years": "1981-1987", "Club 1": "Maccabi Haifa", "Club 1 appearances": "165"... |
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