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Leptofoenus Leptofoenus is a genus of wasp in the family Pteromalidae, the type genus subfamily Leptofoeninae found in South, Central, and southern North America. The genus contains five living species and one extinct species known from early Miocene Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniol...
Alsophis Alsophis is a genus of snakes in the Colubroid Dipsadidae family. They are among those snakes called "racers" and occur throughout the Caribbean. One species in the genus "Alsophis" is one of the world’s rarest known snakes. Snakes of the genus "Alsophis" are small and rear-fanged snakes, and they are consider...
List of Amanita species The following is a list of some notable species of the agaric genus "Amanita". This genus contains over 500 named species and varieties, but the list is far from exhaustive. The list follows the classification of subgenera and sections of "Amanita" outline by Corner and Bas; Bas, as used by Tull...
Lophodermium Lophodermium is a genus of fungi within the family Rhytismataceae. The genus contains 145 species and has a global distribution. Species of this genus are usually observed producing zone lines, conidiomata and ascomata on dead fallen leaves, but at least some are known to colonize living leaves. In many ca...
Ceratozamia Ceratozamia is a genus of New World cycads in the family Zamiaceae. The genus contains 27 known currently living species and one or two fossil species. Most species are endemic to mountainous areas of Mexico, while few species extend into the mountains of Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. The genus name comes...
Calyptocephalellidae The Calyptocephalellidae are a family of toads found in Chile containing two genera, "Calyptocephalella" and "Telmatobufo". The "Calyptocephalella" genus contains one species, "C. gayi", the helmeted water toad, which is a large aquatic toad weighing up to 0.5 kg . The "Telmatobufo" genus contains ...
Megalurus Megalurus is a genus of passerine bird in the family Locustellidae. The genus was once placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family Sylviidae. The genus contains six species also known as the typical grassbirds. The genus is distributed from northern China and Japan, to India in the west, and Australia i...
Banksiamyces Banksiamyces is a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales, with a tentative placement in the family Helotiaceae. The genus contains four species, which grow on the seed follicles of the dead infructescences or "cones" of various species of "Banksia", a genus in the plant family Proteaceae endemic to Austral...
Physoderma Physoderma is a genus of chytrid fungi. Described by German botanist Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth in 1833, the genus contains some species that are parasitic on vascular plants, including "P. alfalfae" and "P. maydis", causative agents of crown wart of alfalfa and brown spot of corn, respectively. Of the ...
Steve Biko Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ide...
Roman emperor The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period (starting in 27 BC). The emperors used a variety of different titles throughout history. Often when a given Roman is described as becoming "emperor" in English, it reflects his taking of the title "Augustus" or "Caesar". Anothe...
Daniel Ford (editor and writer) Daniel Ford (born England 1967) is a British/South African writer, editor and publisher. After emigrating to South Africa in 1994, he joined Independent Newspapers, working on the Weekend Argus and forming part of the launch team for Sunday Life magazine. He was subsequently appointed ed...
Patriarch of the East Indies The Titular Patriarch of the East Indies (Latin: "Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium" ; "Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium" for Titular Patriarchate of the East Indies) in the Catholic hierarchy is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Daman in India; another title of his is that of the Prim...
Scorpion (video game) Scorpion is a platform/shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Digital Magic Software for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS in 1989. The game was also re-released as Fly Fighter, with another title screen and another order of levels.
Archie Giant Series Archie Giant Series was a comic book title published by Archie Comics from 1954 to 1992. The book featured an ever revolving subtitle. It began in 1954 as "Archie's Christmas Stocking", and continued with this title for six issues. Although the "Christmas Stocking" title appeared again in later issu...
Dalem (Raja) Dalem was a title for the kings of Bali who resided in Samprangan and Gelgel and were descended from the founder-raja Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan (mid-14th century?). These kings ruled the island, or at least substantial parts thereof, from maybe the 14th century to the second half of the 17th century. The ti...
A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine was an American pulp magazine which published five issues from December 1949 to October 1950. It took its name from fantasy writer A. Merritt, who had died in 1943, and it aimed to capitalize on Merritt's popularity. It was published by Popular Publications, a...
Francis Pollock Francis Lillie Pollock (February 4, 1876 – 1957) was an early twentieth-century Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in Huron County, Ontario, Canada in 1876. He wrote 'commercial fiction' under the pseudonym Frank L Pollock and literary fiction under his own name. Some of Pollock's early commer...
A. M. Burrage Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer. He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty". After
Stafford Common railway station Stafford Common railway station was a former British railway station on the outskirts of Stafford.
Vanna White Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich; February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and film actress best known as the hostess of "Wheel of Fortune" since 1982.
White Bear and Red Moon White Bear and Red Moon is a fantasy board wargame set in the world of Glorantha, created by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Stafford originally started the game publishing company Chaosium to produce and market the game.
Tom Stafford (astronomer) Tom Stafford is an American astronomer who has discovered a number of asteroids since 1997, including 12061 Alena, 12533 Edmond, 13436 Enid, 13688 Oklahoma and 15904 Halstead at Zeno Observatory (observatory code 727) in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is the son of Joseph W. Stafford and Alena Ruth Robb...
Union Station (band) Union Station is a bluegrass / country band associated with singer Alison Krauss. The act established in 1987 as a backup band for Krauss is usually referred to as Alison Krauss and Union Station and was initially made up of Krauss, Jeff White, Mike Harman and John Pennell. Later additions included...
Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Established by Greg Stafford in 1975, its first title was the board game "White Bear and Red Moon" (later renamed "Dragon Pass"), set in Stafford's fictional fantasy gaming world of Glorantha. Over the years Chaosium has pu...
Goddess of Love (film) Goddess of Love is a 1988 American made-for-television fantasy film directed by Jim Drake and written by Don Segall and Phil Margo. The film premiered November 20, 1988 on NBC. It starred Vanna White.
White Rocks National Recreation Area White Rocks National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area located in southern Vermont, United States, within the Green Mountain National Forest. The Peru Peak and Big Branch Wilderness areas are within White Rocks NRA. On January 17, 2006 President George W. B...
Stafford Farm Stafford Farm is a 100-acre farm in the Glendale section of Voorhees, New Jersey. In 1773, it was originally settled by the son of John Stafford, on nearby Short Hills Farm in Cherry Hill. John Stafford was George Washington's personal guard during the American Revolutionary War. The current location of t...
Susan Stafford Susan Stafford (born Susanna Gail Carney January 27, 1942) is an American former model, actress and television host. She was the original hostess of the American game show "Wheel of Fortune" from January 6, 1975 until she left on October 22, 1982. She returned briefly to "Wheel of Fortune" in 1986 to sub...
ACM SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Hall of Fame Award was established by the Association for Computing Machinery to recognize individuals whose specific contributions have had a positive impact on the organization an...
Gordon Bell Prize The Gordon Bell Prize is an award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery each year in conjunction with the SC Conference series (formerly known as the Supercomputing Conference). The prize recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. The main purpose is ...
Gloria Townsend Gloria Townsend is an American computer scientist and professor in the department of Computer Science at DePauw University in Indiana. She is known for her work in evolutionary computation and her involvement with women in computing. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Association for Compu...
SIGMOBILE SIGMOBILE is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, which specializes in the field of mobile computing and wireless networks and wearable computing.
George W. Brown (academic) George W. Brown (June 2, 1917 – June 20, 2005) was an American statistician, game theorist, and computer scientist known for his work and research in early computing machinery, game theory, mathematical logic, decision theory and administration. He was a major force in the design and construc...
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper Celebration, named af...
Michael Garey Michael Randolph Garey is a computer science researcher, and co-author (with David S. Johnson) of "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness". He and Johnson received the 1979 Lanchester Prize from the Operations Research Society of America for the book. Garey earned his PhD i...
Anthony Oettinger Anthony "Tony" Gervin Oettinger (born 29 March 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a linguist and computer scientist best known for his work on information resources policy. Oettinger coined the term “compunications” in the late 1970s to describe the combination of computer and telecommunications technolog...
ACM SIGHPC ACM SIGHPC is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners working on research and in professional practice related to supercomputing, high-end computers, and cluster computing. ...
SIGAI ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students who work together to promote and support the growth and application of AI pr...
France–United Kingdom relations France–United Kingdom relations are the relations between the governments of the French Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). The historical ties between the two countries are long and complex, including conquest, wars, and alliances at various point...
Wadsworth, Nevada Wadsworth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The population was 834 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town was named for General James S. Wadsworth, a Civil War general killed at the battle of the Wilderness in...
Philip Wadsworth Philip Wadsworth (March 7, 1832 – September 12, 1901) was an American dry goods merchant, politician, and military leader. Born to the prominent Wadsworth family in New Hartford, Connecticut, he attended private academies until he was sixteen, when he entered the dry goods trade. In 1853, he moved to C...
Covered interest arbitrage Covered interest arbitrage is an arbitrage trading strategy whereby an investor capitalizes on the interest rate differential between two countries by using a forward contract to "cover" (eliminate exposure to) exchange rate risk. Using forward contracts enables arbitrageurs such as individua...
Soviet Union–United States relations The relations between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) succeeded the previous relations from 1776 to 1917 and predate today's relations that began in 1992. Full diplomatic relations between the two countries were established late d...
Malawi–Mozambique relations Malawi–Mozambique relations refers to the current and historical relationship between the countries of Malawi and Mozambique. As Malawi shares a large border with Mozambique, much of the substance of their foreign relations pertain to the border separating the two nations. Both of the sovere...
E. S. Wadsworth Elisha Strong Wadsworth (May 10, 1813 – November 25, 1890) was a merchant from New Hartford, Connecticut. He co-founded the Wadsworth, Dyer & Chapin company in Chicago, Illinois with his brother Julius and Thomas Dyer. The operation was one of the first successful firms in Chicago, trading in dry goods,...
France–Netherlands relations The French–Dutch relations refer to the interstate and bilateral relations between France and the Netherlands. The two countries notably share a border division in the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, to which the northern part of the island is a French overseas collectivity known as the C...
Saudi Arabia–United States relations Bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States began in 1933 when full diplomatic relations were established. Despite the differences between the two countries—an ultraconservative Islamic absolute monarchy, and a secular, democratic republic—the two c...
Brazil–United States Treaty The Brazil–United States Treaty was a military assistance agreement signed in 1952 in Rio de Janeiro between the two countries, with the goal of defending the Western Hemisphere. Military relations between the United States and Brazil date back to World War II, when Brazil supported the Alli...
Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim, (born 3 February 1935) is the son of the late Randal John Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim (1911–1977). As the heir to his father's titles, he was styled Viscount Dunluce from his birth until 1977. He lives mostly at his ...
Max T. Malone Max Tatum Malone (born March 3, 1953) is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a former Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, in which he served from 1996 until January 14, 2008. Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossi...
Karl Malone Karl Anthony Malone (born July 24, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player. Nicknamed "The Mailman", Malone played the power forward position and spent his first 18 seasons (1985–2003) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Utah Jazz and formed a formidable duo with his te...
Cha Cha Malone Chase Vincent Malone (born May 25, 1987), more commonly known as Cha Cha Malone, is an American singer, music producer, songwriter, composer, and member of b-boy crew Art of Movement (AOM), from Seattle, Washington. Malone is widely known for his work with Korean-American singer, friend, and fellow AOMG ...
Eddie Malone Edward Joseph "Eddie" Malone, (born 6 April 1985) is a Scottish association football player, who currently plays for Forfar Athletic. He has also been on the books of many other Scottish clubs, as well as playing trial league matches with Greenock Morton and Berwick Rangers. Malone was born in Edinburgh an...
Jena Malone Jena Malone ( ; born November 21, 1984) is an American actress, musician and photographer. She made her acting debut in the television film "Bastard Out of Carolina" (1996); subsequently, Malone has starred in a number of mainstream and independent films including "Ellen Foster" (1997), "Contact" (1997), "S...
Malone University Malone University is a private, liberal arts college located in Canton, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1892 by Walter and Emma Malone as a small, co-educational Bible institute called Cleveland Bible College. In Cleveland, Ohio. The institution has always maintained a close relationship with t...
Little Haifa or New Preston St. Little Haifa or New Preston St. (a tribute to Preston St., the original Jewish Enclave and home to two Jewish cemeteries in the Germantown neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky) are the two nicknames for a large Jewish neighborhood on Dutchman's Lane in Louisville, Kentucky. The small nei...
Randal Malone Randal Johnson Malone (born May 29, 1959 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American actor.
Malone Springs Malone Springs is a watershed within the Fremont-Winema National Forest in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is 25 miles northwest of Klamath Falls on mile point 270 43.58 of Oregon Route 140. It provides access to a multi-mile canoe route (and loop) along the westernmost edge of the Upper Klamat...
Fire Down Below (1997 film) Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action film starring Steven Seagal and directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá in his directorial debut. The film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and the Band ...
Sheep Impact Sheep Impact is a 2010 Australian short film, starring Steven Seagal and Martin Copping that was made as an advertisement for Carlton & United Breweries. It was shot in Arizona and written and directed by Brendan Gibbons. It was brought about after two promotional commercials, "Snake" and "Sausage" were re...
Prince Ital Joe Joe Paquette (May 5, 1963 – May 16, 2001), better known as Prince Ital Joe, was a Dominican-born American musician best known for his collaborations with Marky Mark. Prince Ital Joe also did some acting, appearing in the Steven Seagal film, "Marked for Death", and in the TV series, "EZ Streets" and "Pla...
Exit Wounds Exit Wounds is a 2001 American action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, and starring Steven Seagal and DMX. The film is based on the book of the same name by John Westermann. The book takes place on Long Island, while the film is set in Detroit. Steven Seagal plays Orin Boyd, an urban police detective no...
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 American action film set on board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles. Directed by Geoff Murphy, it stars Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback, and is the sequel to the 1992 film "Under Siege" also star...
Machete (2010 film) Machete is a 2010 American action film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. This film is an expansion of a fake trailer that was included in Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 "Grindhouse" double-feature. "Machete" continues the B movie and exploitation style...
Seagalogy Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal is a book released in 2008 by Titan Books, ISBN  . It was written by Vern (no last name). It is the first in-depth study to be published on the complete creative output of Steven Seagal. The book makes a careful examination of every Steven Seagal fi...
Force of Execution Force of Execution is a 2013 action crime film directed by Keoni Waxman, written by Richard Beattie and Michael Black, and starring Steven Seagal, Ving Rhames, and Danny Trejo. The movie marks the fourth collaboration between Steven Seagal and Keoni Waxman (following "The Keeper", "A Dangerous Man", ...
Absolution (2015 film) Absolution (also known as The Mercenary: Absolution) is a 2015 action crime film directed by Keoni Waxman and starring Steven Seagal The film is a sequel to "A Good Man", and is the sixth collaboration between Steven Seagal and director Keoni Waxman. The film also marks the third collaboration be...
Belly of the Beast Belly of the Beast is a 2003 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director Ching Siu Ting in his American directorial debut, and also produced by and starring Steven Seagal. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on December 30, 2003. Steven Seagal plays Jake Hopper, a...
Duncan Haldane Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British born physicist who is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at the physics department of Princeton University, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Instit...
Serge Haroche Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. This a...
François Englert François Baron Englert (] ; born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate (shared with Peter Higgs). He is Professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he is member of the Service de Physique Théorique. He is also a Sackler Professor by Sp...
Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i fysik" ) is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel ...
Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "...
List of female Nobel laureates The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine...
Brian Josephson Brian David Josephson, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 4 January 1940), is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1...
List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i kemi" ) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. These prize...
List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin" ) is awarded annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institute to scientists and doctors in the various fields of physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes establishe...
David J. Wineland David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum computing operations. He...
CHRB (AM) CHRB (1140 AM, "AM 1140 Radio") is a radio station broadcasting Christian programming news/sports and community radio format. Licensed to High River, Alberta, it serves southern Alberta. It first began broadcasting in 1977 at 1280 kHz before moving to its current dial position in 1996. The station is currentl...
CFYM CFYM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting a classic hits format at 1210 AM. Licensed to Kindersley, Saskatchewan, it serves west central Saskatchewan. It first began broadcasting in 1986 after receiving approval by the CRTC. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting. It is a repeater for CJYM ...
CILG-FM CILG-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting a country music format at 100.7 FM. Licensed to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, it serves south-central Saskatchewan. It first began broadcasting in 2002. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting. All three Golden West Broadcasting stations in Moose Ja...
VEU VEU (Video Entertainment Unlimited) was an American subscription television channel owned by Golden West Broadcasting. The channel was similar to ONTV, another scrambled UHF service, and was carried by many stations including KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City, WVEU in Atlanta and KNBN in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The...
CKVX-FM CKVX-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 104.9 FM with a country music format branded as "Country 104.9". Licensed to Kindersley, Saskatchewan, it serves west central Saskatchewan. It first began broadcasting in 2005. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting.
CHWY-FM CHWY-FM is a radio station in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. Broadcasting on 106.7 MHz/FM, the station is owned by Golden West Broadcasting, which received approval from the CRTC on February 17, 2012. It shares studios with Golden West's other Weyburn stations at 305 Souris Avenue in Downtown Weyburn.
CHSM CHSM (1250 AM, "AM 1250 Radio") is a radio station broadcasting an easy listening format. Licensed to Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada, it serves southeastern Manitoba. It began broadcasting in 1964. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting. This station is also targeted to the nearby Winnipeg market,...
CKFT-FM CKFT-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 107.9 FM in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada with an adult contemporary format branded as Mix 107.9 FM. The station is owned by Golden West Broadcasting. the station received approval by the CRTC on January 10, 2012. and began broadcasting on November 27th o...
CHVN-FM CHVN-FM (95.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Winnipeg, Manitoba, broadcasting a contemporary Christian music format. It first began broadcasting in 2000. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting.
CILT-FM CILT-FM (96.7 FM), branded as Mix 96, is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary/classic hits format, similar to CKNO-FM in Edmonton. Licensed to Steinbach, Manitoba, it serves southeastern Manitoba, even to Winnipeg. It first began broadcasting in 1998 with an adult contemporary format as Lite 96...
Richard Cherry Richard Robert Cherry PC, QC (19 March 1859 – 10 February 1923 ) was an Irish politician and judge. He was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1905 to 1909, a judge of the Irish Court of Appeal and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland 1913–1916. A Liberal, he was elected as the Member of Parli...
W. T. Cosgrave William Thomas "W. T." Cosgrave (Irish: "Liam Tomás Mac Cosgair" ; 6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish politician who succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from August to December 1922. He served as the first President of the Executive Counci...
Constitutional process in Turkey The constitutional process in Turkey begins with Sened-i İttifak in 1808 and continues today. Sened-i İttifak prepared by Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, in period of Mahmut II was signed on September 29, 1808 among Rumelian and Anatolian chief men and the Ottoman State in order to make the cent...
Arts Council (Ireland) The Arts Council (sometimes called the Arts Council of Ireland; legally Irish: An Chomhairle Ealaíon ) is the arts council of Ireland. It was established in 1951 by the Government of Ireland, to encourage interest in Irish art (including visual art, music, performance, and literature) and to chan...
Comhairle na dTeachtaí Comhairle na dTeachtaí was an Irish republican parliament established by opponents of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty and the resulting Irish Free State, and viewed by republican legitimatists as a successor to the Second Dáil. Members were abstentionist from the Third Dáil established by the pro-Tre...
British Virgin Islands general election, 1967 The British Virgin Islands general election, 1967 was held in the British Virgin Islands on 14 April 1967. The election was the first general election after the passing of the new Constitution earlier in the same year, which introduced Ministerial Government into the Britis...
Cabinet of Malaysia The Cabinet of Malaysia is the executive branch of Malaysia's government. Led by the Prime Minister, the cabinet is a council of ministers who are accountable collectively to the Parliament. According to the Article 43 of the Constitution, members of the Cabinet can only be selected from members of ...
Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931 The Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act, 1931 (No. 37/1931) popularly called the Public Safety Act 1931, was an amendment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State which inserted Article 2A, empowering the Executive Council to declare a state of emergency during which most pro...
Sergey Glazyev Sergey Yurievich Glazyev (Russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Глазьев ) (born January 1, 1961, in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian politician and economist, advisor to the president of the Russian Federation on regional economic integration, member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russi...
Patrick Gaffney (politician) Patrick "Paddy" Gaffney (died 1943) was a left-wing Irish politician. A flour miller from County Carlow, he was returned for the Labour Party in Carlow–Kilkenny at the 1922 general election. He left Labour to join the Communist Party of Ireland in protest over the Constitution of the Irish ...
Sam Cunningham Samuel Lewis Cunningham, Jr (born August 15, 1950) is a retired American football fullback. The media referred to him as Sam "Bam" Cunningham.