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The Shard
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.7 m high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the fourth-tallest ... |
List of tallest buildings in Toronto
This list of tallest buildings in Toronto ranks skyscrapers in the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario by height. The tallest structure in Toronto is the CN Tower, which rises 553 m . The CN Tower was the tallest free-standing structure on land from 1975 until 2007. However, it is not... |
Ostankino Tower
Ostankino Tower (Russian: Останкинская телебашня , "Ostankinskaya telebashnya") is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by the Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network. Standing 540.1 m tall, Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently... |
Q1 (building)
Q1 (an abbreviation of Queensland Number One) is a supertall skyscraper in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, Queensland. It lost its title as the world's tallest residential building to the 337-metre The Marina Torch in Dubai on 29 April 2011. It is now the sixth tallest residential tower in the world ... |
Tallinn TV Tower
The Tallinn TV Tower ("Tallinna teletorn") is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics). It is located near the suburb Pirita, six km north-east of th... |
Irvine Sellar
Irvine Gerald Sellar (9 September 1934 – 26 February 2017) was an English fashion retailer, turned property developer. He was the founder of the Sellar Property Group, and the developer of The Shard. |
CN Tower
The CN Tower (French: "Tour CN" ) is a 553.3 m concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, and held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years from 1975–2007 and was the world's tal... |
Guy-wire
A guy-wire, guy-line, or guy-rope, also known as simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure. They are used commonly in ship masts, radio masts, wind turbines, utility poles, fire service extension ladders used in church raises and tents. A thin vertical mast suppo... |
Wall box
Wall boxes are a type of post box or letter box found in many countries including France, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, Crown dependencies and Ireland. They differ from pillar boxes in that, instead of being a free-standing structure, they are generally set into a wall (hence the name) or su... |
Comparative planetary science
Comparative planetary science or comparative planetology is a branch of space science and planetary science in which different natural processes and systems are studied by their effects and phenomena on and between multiple bodies. The planetary processes in question include geology, hydro... |
Explorer 14
Explorer 14 is a spin-stabilized, solar-cell-powered spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields. A 16-channel PFM/PM time-division multiplexed telemeter was used. The time required to sample the 16 cha... |
Van Allen radiation belt
A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind that is captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. The Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily created. The discovery of the belts... |
Magnetopause
The magnetopause is the abrupt boundary between a magnetosphere and the surrounding plasma. For planetary science, the magnetopause is the boundary between the planet’s magnetic field and the solar wind. The location of the magnetopause is determined by the balance between the pressure of the dynamic plane... |
Joan Feynman
Joan Feynman (born March 31, 1927) is an American astrophysicist. She has made important contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields; sun-Earth relations; and magnetospheric physics. In particular, Feynman is known for developing an understanding of the origin of auroras. She is also know... |
Solar wind
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with thermal energies between 1.5 and 10 keV. Embedded within the solar-wind plasma is the interplanetary magnetic field. The solar wind varies ... |
Heliophysics
The term heliophysics means "physics of the Sun" (the prefix "helio", from Attic Greek "hḗlios", means Sun), and appears to have been used only in that sense until quite recently. In the early times, heliophysics was concerned principally with the superficial layers of the star, and was synonymous with wha... |
Pickup Ion
In solar science, heliospheric pickup ions are created when neutral particles inside the heliosphere are ionized by either solar ultraviolet radiation, charge exchange with solar wind protons or electron impact ionization. Pickup ions are generally characterized by their single charge state, a typical veloci... |
Magnetometer (Juno)
Magnetometer (MAG) is the name of an instrument suite on the "Juno" orbiter for planet Jupiter. The MAG instrument includes both the Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) and Advanced Stellar Compass (ASC) instruments. There two sets of MAG instrument suites, and they are both positioned on the far end of on ... |
Geomagnetic storm
A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave and/or cloud of magnetic field that interacts with the Earth's magnetic field. The increase in the solar wind pressure initially compresses the magnetosphere. The solar wind's magnetic field i... |
Sean Brock
Sean Brock is a chef who primarily works with the cuisine of the Southern United States. He has been the executive chef at Charleston, South Carolina's Husk since its opening in 2010, as well as a partner at McCrady's Restaurant. The menu at Husk is based on what is available locally and on food grown in Bro... |
Senran Kagura: Bon Appétit!
"Senran Kagura Bon Appétit!" is a rhythm cooking game available for the PlayStation Vita, in which the goal is to win a cooking competition. The game was released on the PlayStation Store on November 11, 2014 for North America, and on November 12, 2014 for Europe. |
Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit!
Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! (クッキングママ5 "Kukkingu Mama 5") is the sequel to the Nintendo 3DS video game "" and is the fifth installment to the "Cooking Mama" series on the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan on November 21, 2013, on September 16, 2014 in North America and on March 6, 2015... |
Michael Symon
Michael D. Symon (born September 19, 1969) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is of Greek and Sicilian descent. He is seen regularly on Food Network on shows such as "Iron Chef America", "Food Feuds", and "The Best Thing I Ever Ate", as well as "Cook Like an Iron Che... |
Rose's Luxury
Rose's Luxury is a restaurant on Barracks Row in Washington, D.C, created by chef-owner Aaron Silverman. In 2014 Bon Appétit rated it as 'the best new restaurant in America'. It is known for not taking reservations which creates long lines, such that a nearby bar's top cocktail is called 'Waiting for Rose... |
Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
The Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, hosted by the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans in New York City, is one of the largest outdoors celebrations of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States. Each year, in May, the festival offers music, performance... |
American Heritage of Invention & Technology
American Heritage of Invention & Technology was a quarterly magazine dedicated to the history of technology. It was a spinoff of "American Heritage" magazine. It started in the summer of 1985 and there were three issues a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Followi... |
Bon Appétit Management Company
The Bon Appétit Management Company is a Palo Alto, California-based on-site restaurant company, owned by Compass Group, that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. The company operates over 500 cafes in 32 states. Princeton Review has named Bon App... |
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit is an American food and entertaining magazine published monthly by Condé Nast. It was started in 1956. It became a bimonthly magazine in December 1956 in Chicago. The magazine was acquired by M. Frank Jones in Kansas City, Missouri in 1965. Jones was owner, editor and publisher until 1970, when ... |
Las Vegas Uncork'd
Las Vegas Uncork'd (also referred to as Vegas Uncork'd and Vegas Uncorked) is an annual culinary and wine event in Las Vegas, Nevada. The concept was developed by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, their advertising agency R&R Partners and Las Vegas resort partners who originally consid... |
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, originally titled Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, is a Christmas EP by American singer Taylor Swift. The EP was first released on October 14, 2007 by Big Machine Records exclusively to Target stores in the United States ... |
...Ready for It?
"...Ready for It?" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her sixth studio album, "Reputation". It is the first promotional single of the album, released by Big Machine on September 3, 2017. The track has received positive reviews by critics, who cited it as an improvement on... |
White Horse (Taylor Swift song)
"White Horse" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman, with Swift's aid. The song was released on December 7, 2008 by Big Machine Records, as the second single from Swift's second studio alb... |
Fearless (Taylor Swift album)
Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The album was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records. As with her first album, "Taylor Swift", Swift wrote or co-wrote all thirteen tracks on "Fearless". Most of the songs were written as the... |
Fearless (Taylor Swift song)
"Fearless" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was co-written by Swift in collaboration with Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey and produced by Nathan Chapman and Swift. "Fearless" was released on January 3, 2010 by Big Machine Records as the fifth... |
Our Song (Taylor Swift song)
"Our Song" is a country song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman. It was released on September 9, 2007 by Big Machine Records as the third single from Swift's eponymous debut album, "Taylor Swift" (2006). Swift s... |
Picture to Burn
"Picture to Burn" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was co-written by Swift and Liz Rose, and produced by Nathan Chapman. It was released on February 3, 2008 by Big Machine Records as the fourth single from Swift's eponymous studio album, "Taylor Swift" (2006). It was ins... |
Taylor Swift (album)
Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 24, 2006, by Big Machine Records. Swift was 16 years old at the time of the album's release and wrote its songs during her freshman year of high school. Swift has writing credits on all of the alb... |
Beautiful Eyes
Beautiful Eyes is the second extended play (EP) by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The EP was released on July 15, 2008 by Big Machine Records exclusively to Walmart stores in the United States and online. The limited release EP has a primarily country pop sound and features alternate versions o... |
Teardrops on My Guitar
"Teardrops on My Guitar" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was co-written by Swift, alongside Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman with Swift's aid. "Teardrops on My Guitar" was released on February 19, 2007 by Big Machine Records, as the second single from Swift's... |
Truckline Cafe
Truckline Cafe was the title of a 1946 Broadway play written by Maxwell Anderson, directed by Harold Clurman, produced by Elia Kazan, and starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden. The short-lived play ran only 13 performances and is best remembered today for the fact that each night Brando would run up and... |
Big Bug Man
Big Bug Man is an American animated movie starring Brendan Fraser and Marlon Brando. The movie is a Studio-Free Studios Production, and it was originally to be released between 2006 and 2008, but there is now no news on its release or distribution. The movie is Marlon Brando's last known film work. |
The Love of Captain Brando
The Love of Captain Brando (Spanish: El amor del capitán Brando ) is a 1974 Spanish drama film written and directed by Jaime de Armiñán, starring Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Jaime Gamboa. It was shot in Pedraza, a medieval village in the province of Segovia, renamed Trescabañas in th... |
Movita Castaneda
Maria Luisa "Movita" Castaneda (April 12, 1916 – February 12, 2015) was an American actress best known for having been the second wife of actor Marlon Brando. She was eight years older than Brando. In films, she played exotic women/singers, such as in "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) and "Mutiny on the Boun... |
Tetiaroa
Teti'aroa is an atoll in the Windward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territorial collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. Once the vacation spot for Tahitian royalty, the atoll is widely known for having been purchased by Marlon Brando. In 1973 it was officially renamed to Ma... |
Canadian Bacon
Canadian Bacon is a 1995 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Michael Moore which satirizes Canada–United States relations along the Canada–United States border. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Alan Alda, John Candy, Bill Nunn, Kevin J. O'Connor, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, G... |
Always Brando
Always Brando is a 2011 film directed by Tunisian director Ridha Behi. Originally titled "Brando and Brando", it was set to star Marlon Brando and Christian Erickson until Brando's death. The film premiered at 2011 Toronto International Film Festival then Abu Dhabi Film Festival where producers Ziad Hamze... |
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film ... |
G. D. Spradlin
Gervase Duan "G.D." Spradlin (August 31, 1920 – July 24, 2011) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive accent and voice, he often played devious authority figures. He is credited in over 70 television and film productions, and performed alongside actors including Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Charlt... |
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor, film director and political activist. He is widely credited with bringing realism to film acting. He helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s. Brando is widely known for his Acade... |
Criminal (Fiona Apple song)
"Criminal" is a song by Fiona Apple. Apple said that the song is about "feeling bad for getting something so easily by using your sexuality." It was released as the third single from the album "Tidal" in September 1997, and is Apple's biggest hit, peaking at No. 21 on the "Billboard" Hot 100... |
Beast of Burden (song)
"Beast of Burden" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on the 1978 album "Some Girls". In 2004, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked the song #435 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and #433 on the 500 Greatest Rock and Roll Songs of All Time. |
Larger than Life (song)
"Larger than Life" is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys, released on September 3, 1999 as the second single from their third studio album, "Millennium". It was written by band member Brian Littrell with Max Martin and Kristian Lundin, who also produced the song along with Rami Yacoub. ... |
Jump Around
"Jump Around" is a hit song by American hip hop group House of Pain, produced by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill, who has also covered the song. It became a hit in 1992, reaching number 3 in the group's native United States. A 1993 re-release of the song in the United Kingdom, where the initial release had been a ... |
Time to Pretend
"Time to Pretend" is a song by the American indie band MGMT, released as the lead single from their debut studio album "Oracular Spectacular" (2007) on March 3, 2008. An earlier version had been released on their "Time to Pretend" EP. The single was released as a 7" and CD single featuring the B-sides "... |
Number 1 Record
Many critics praised the album's elegant vocal harmonies and refined songcraft but "#1 Record" suffered from poor distribution and sold fewer than 10,000 copies. However, "#1 Record" has more recently attracted wider attention, and in 2003 it was ranked number 438 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of t... |
Don't Know Why
"Don't Know Why" is a song written by Jesse Harris which originally appeared on his 1999 album, "Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos". It was the second single by American singer Norah Jones from her debut studio album "Come Away with Me" (2002). Jones's version peaked at No. 30 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 10... |
My Generation
"My Generation" is a song by the English rock band The Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognisable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by "Rolling Stone" "Magazine" on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 13th on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll... |
Move Ya Body
"Move Ya Body" is a song recorded by American duo Nina Sky. It was released in April 2004 as the lead single from their debut album "Nina Sky". The song features rapper Jabba. There is a remix to the song with Jamaican deejay Vybz Kartel. The song became the duo's only solo single to reach the top 40 of th... |
Thunder Road (song)
"Thunder Road" was written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and is the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album "Born to Run". It is ranked as one of Springsteen's greatest songs, and often appears on lists of the top rock songs of all time."Rolling Stone" magazine placed it as #86 on its "50... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican President Richard Nixon. |
United States Senate election in Arizona, 2004
The 2004 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republ... |
United States Senate election in Maine, 2012
The 2012 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 6, 2012, alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local electi... |
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for th... |
United States Senate election in Arizona, 1928
The 1928 United States Senate elections in Arizona took place on November 6, 1928. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst ran for reelection to a fourth term, defeating Republican nominee former U.S. Senator Ralph H. Cameron in the general election. Cameron was... |
Electoral history of George McGovern
George McGovern, a Democratic Party politician from South Dakota, was first elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent South Dakota's 1st congressional district in 1956. He was re-elected in 1958, before making an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate... |
Richard Nixon Supreme Court candidates
President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from Supreme Court of the United States the previous year. Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren, and during his time in office appointed three other mem... |
United States Senate election in Indiana, 2010
The 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 2, 2010, alongside 33 other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections to fill Indiana's cl... |
United States Senate elections, 1970
The United States Senate elections, 1970 was an election for the United States Senate, taking place in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term as President. The Democrats lost a net of three seats, while the Republicans and the Conservative Party of New York picked up one net seat ... |
Sam Ervin
Samuel James "Sam" Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896April 23, 1985) was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer," and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl. During his Senat... |
Intel 8088
The Intel 8088 (""eighty-eighty-eight"", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on July 1, 1979, the 8088 had an 8-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range were unchanged, however. In fact, acc... |
EDUC-8
The EDUC-8, pronounced "educate", was an early microcomputer kit published by Electronics Australia in a series of articles starting in August 1974 and continuing to August 1975. Electronics Australia initially believed that it was the first such kit, but later discovered that Radio-Electronics had just beaten i... |
Comx-35
The COMX-35 was a home computer that was one of the very few systems to use the RCA 1802 microprocessor, the same microprocessor that is also used in some space probes. |
Japan Airlines Domestic
Japan Airlines Domestic (日本航空ジャパン , Nihon Kōkū Japan ) (IATA: JD, ICAO: JLJ, Call sign: J-BIRD) was an airline based in Tokyo, Japan. It was part of Japan Airlines Corporation and operated an extensive domestic network in Japan. Its main hub was Tokyo International Airport. |
Axess (CRS)
Axess (アクセス国際ネットワーク) is a Computer reservations system based in Japan which provides its services in the Japanese market. It originated as the IT department of Japan Airlines called Jalinfotech. In 1991 it was established as an independent company it began to be marketed to travel agencies in Japan. In 1995... |
Flag code of India
The Flag Code of India is a set of laws, practices and conventions that apply to the display of the national flag.Flag Code of India, 2002, has been divided into three parts. Part I of the code contains a general description of the national flag. Part II of the code is devoted to the display of the n... |
Paskibraka
The Paskibraka (Indonesian: Pasukan Pengibar Bendera Pusaka or "National Flag Hoisting Troop") is a youth organization in Indonesia which has the main task for raising and lowering the heirloom national flag of Indonesia (now duplicate) in ceremonies commemorating the independence day of Indonesia (17 August... |
JAL Express
JAL Express Co., Ltd. (JEX) (株式会社ジャル エクスプレス , Kabushiki-gaisha Jaru Ekusupuresu ) , was an airline with its headquarters at Tokyo International Airport and in Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and its main hub at Tokyo International Airport. The airline also maintained offices in the Japan Airlines Building in Shinagaw... |
Act on National Flag and Anthem
The Act on National Flag and Anthem (国旗及び国歌に関する法律 , Kokki Oyobi Kokka ni Kansuru Hōritsu ) (abbreviated as 国旗国歌法 ) is a law that formally established Japan's national flag and anthem. Before its ratification on August 13, 1999, there was no official flag or anthem for Japan. The "nisshōk... |
Air Nicaragua
Nicaragua Airways is the potential future national flag carrier of Nicaragua. Its main base is Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, Managua. It is the first time in 20 years that Nicaragua will have a national flag carrier, after Aeronica ceased operations in 1991. Since then, the flag carrier status... |
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines (Turkish: "Türk Hava Yolları") () is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered at the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the grounds of Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakırköy, Istanbul. s of 2017 , it operates scheduled services to 302 destinations in Europ... |
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag (Ukrainian: День Державного Прапора України "Day of the National Flag of Ukraine") in Ukraine; beginning with 2004. July 24 was previously marked as National Flag Day in Kiev. The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue U... |
Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) (日本航空株式会社 , Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha , , OTC Pink: JAPSY) , is the flag carrier airline of Japan and the second largest in the country behind All Nippon Airways. It is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan; and its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita International Airport an... |
Office of the Prime Minister (Canada)
In Canada, the Office of the Prime Minister (more commonly referred to as the Prime Minister's Office and abbreviated as PMO), located in the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council, facing Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, is one of the most powerful parts of the government. It i... |
Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan
The office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan (Urdu: ) was created by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on 25 June 2012. The main coalition party, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q), demanded to make a post of Deputy Prime Minister which was accomplished by the newly elected Prime... |
Sunthorn Kongsompong
General Sunthorn Kongsompong (1931–1999) was the "de facto" head of government of Thailand from 1991 - 1992, following a military coup d'etat led by Sunthorn and General Suchinda Kraprayoon deposed the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan on February 23, 1991. The generals accused Chat... |
Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (Malay: "Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia" ) is the second highest political office in Malaysia. There have been eleven deputy prime ministers since the office was created in 1957. The first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, started ... |
Abd Allah Siraj
‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Sirāj (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن سراج ) was an Arab politician and Islamic scholar who held various posts in the Kingdom of Hejaz and later the Emirate of Transjordan, including the office of Prime Minister of both countries. Born in Mecca, he graduated from Madrasa... |
William Bromley-Davenport (British Army officer)
Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Davenport, (21 January 1862 – 6 February 1949) was a British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician. He fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An MP from 1886 to 1906, he held political ... |
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe was a political office in the government of Zimbabwe that existed on two separate occasions. The first person to hold the position was Robert Mugabe from 1980 to 1987 following independence from the United Kingdom. He took office when Southern Rhodesia became th... |
Han Myeong-sook
Han Myeong-sook (born March 24, 1944; Korean: 한명숙 ] ) was the Prime Minister of South Korea from April 2006 to March 2007. She is South Korea's first female prime minister (second female prime minister overall if the acting premiership of Chang Sang is included). She was from the United New Democratic P... |
List of Prime Ministers of Vietnam
The Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: "Thủ tướng Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam" ), known as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Vietnamese: "Chủ tịch Hội đồng Bộ trưởng") from 1981 to 1992, is the highest office within the Central G... |
Baron Melchett
Baron Melchett, of Landford in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 June 1928 for Sir Alfred Mond, 1st Baronet, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and a former First Commissioner of Works and Minister of Health. He had already been created ... |
IES Jaume Vicens Vives
Jaume Vicens Vives Secondary School ("Institut Jaume Vicens Vives" in catalan) is a Catalan state secondary school located in the city of Girona (Spain). It has around of 900 pupils from ages 12 to 18 studying the Spanish secondary education programs (ESO from 12 to 16, and LOE Baccalaureate from... |
Adolphe de Plevitz SSS
Adolphe de Plevitz State Secondary School is a state secondary school based in Grand-Baie, Mauritius. Students are prepared for the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate. |
Cambridge High School (New Zealand)
Cambridge High School is a state secondary school in the Waikato town of Cambridge. Cambridge High School is a co-educational state secondary school, students from the town and surrounding rural areas attend the school. The school is a large part of the Cambridge community, participa... |
Agnes Body
Agnes Body (29 April, 1866 – 31 March, 1952) was a British headmistress. She was the founding head of Lincoln Christ's Hospital Girls' High School and Queen Margaret's School, then in Scarborough. |
Papamoa College
Papamoa College is a state coeducational Year 7–13 secondary school located in the eponymous eastern suburb of Tauranga, New Zealand. The school opened in February 2011 as the city's fifth state secondary school, serving the growing Papamoa area. As of July 2017 , the school has 1179 students from Years... |
Castlemaine Secondary College
Castlemaine Secondary College is a state secondary school located in the town of Castlemaine in central Victoria, Australia. It was attended by Sean Finning, gold medallist of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. It is the only state secondary school in the Mount Alexander Shire. |
Dr James Burty David SSS
Dr James Burty David State Secondary School is a state secondary school based in Bell Village, Port Louis, Mauritius. Students are prepared for the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate. The school was previously known as the Bell Village SSS. |
Makoura College
Makoura College (spelled Makora College prior to 1990) is a state co-educational secondary school located in Masterton, New Zealand. The school opened in 1968 as the town's second state secondary school, alongside Wairarapa College. Serving Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18), the school has a roll of 337 stu... |
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