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3093252 | Originally a wooden storehouse, it was built shortly after the War of 1812, and became a barracks for British troops in 1838, during the Rebellion of 1837-38. It served as a medical commissary during World War I for Canadian troops at what became Camp Niagara, a site preparing soldiers for overseas service. During the 1930s, it was moved to its present site by the Niagara Parks Commission and encased in stone. | 413 |
62988289 | 25 July – Yolande Uyttenhove, pianist (died 2000)
4 September – Leo Apostel, philosopher (died 1995)
16 September – José Desmarets, politician (died 2019)
25 September – Janine de Greef, Resister (died 2020) | 210 |
47367446 | Progress of the trains entering service has been impeded because the aforementioned signalling system replacement program was severely delayed due to a crash on the Tsuen Wan line outside Central station in a test run during off-peak hours on the new signalling system in 2019. MTR blamed Thales for the incident by making three errors during the installation, which led to data not being properly established at crossover junction near Central station. These findings were corroborated by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department. | 540 |
4430995 | Rheoliadau Bwyd (Tsilis Poeth a Chynhyrchion Tsilis Poeth) (Rheolaeth Frys) (Cymru) 2003 (S.I. 2003 Rhif 2455 (Cy.238))
The Classical Swine Fever (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003 No. 2456 (W.239))
Gorchymyn Clwy Clasurol y Moch (Cymru) 2003 (S.I. | 245 |
20743266 | Der Geist von Amerika (travelogue, with Christian Kracht), in: Christian Kracht, New Wave, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln, 2007
Una Piramide per Sempre, in: Abitare, Mailand, 2008
Erik Niedling / Formation, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2008. | 235 |
1154814 | People from Somerset County, New Jersey
Radio personalities from New York City
Radio personalities from the Las Vegas Valley | 124 |
1270922 | Repton 3, released 5 November 1986, was developed by Matthew Atkinson at Superior's invitation since Tim Tyler was not interested in programming it—although he did design some of the levels for the new game. While the first two games had only taken a month each to program, Repton 3 took eight months. It reverts to the form of a series of time-limited, password-protected levels. | 381 |
9357999 | By 1916, the company had accumulated a capital surplus of $60 million, but Henry Ford declared that he intended to end special dividends for shareholders in favor of massive investments in new plants, including the River Rouge plant, allowing Ford to dramatically increase production, and the number of people employed at his plants, at the same time as cutting the prices of his cars. | 385 |
133302 | Ralph Baker, professional American football player
Carl Barger, attorney and baseball executive
Frances McEwen Belford, "Mother of the Lincoln Highway"
John Brown, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Kelly Harper, recording artist and singer-songwriter
Joseph Henderson, member of the U.S. | 320 |
2172468 | Stare Kiejkuty, home of military unit 2669; allegedly involved in the CIA's network of extraordinary renditions.
List of intelligence agencies of Poland
Michael Alfred Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II, foreword by Piotr S. Wandycz, Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, 2005, . | 364 |
57567987 | Just a little reminder to simplify things every now and then and have a good time while you do it", while Kelley stated that it was "the next step for FGL" and a "fresh sound". The two also stated in an interview on iHeartRadio's website that the two drew lyrical inspiration from their relationships with their own wives and families. Thematically, the song is about keeping a relationship "simple" and expressing the emotion of romantic love in simple fashions.
The duo promoted the song on Instagram by erasing all other pictures from the account and replacing them with captioned black-and-white photos. | 607 |
66282710 | District 142: Harold Dutton Jr. (D)
District 144: Mary Ann Perez (D)
* Garnet Coleman (D), until February 28, | 110 |
47170654 | Following the end of the Second World War, Bowen was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his wartime services in Burma. In September 1949 he was promoted to the rank of major-general and worked as Chief Signal Officer, Middle East Land Forces until 1951. From 1951 until his retirement in September 1954 he was Director of Signals at the War Office. | 420 |
39972844 | In the second part, the poet takes his relationship with his father to a metaphysical level. The last part depicts the departed father's figurative journey into the realm of the infinite and intangible.
Although technically speaking, Father, Wake Us in Passing is one long poem, in the words of the poet Kottoor himself, it is rather a "book of poems".
The poem has been widely acclaimed for its bold approach in depicting an unusual and almost taboo topic, that of dispassionately analyzing one's own father's death. | 517 |
6948942 | Member Cheryl Baker was dressed as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz clip but has since confirmed that the other characters depicted were not Bucks Fizz but production personnel.
"My Camera Never Lies" was released on 12 March 1982 and entered the UK Singles chart at No. 33. The following week it rose dramatically to No. 5. | 319 |
5530884 | He later wrote a book, The Battle For Power, about the strained relationship between the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during that campaign, the last general election fought as the SDP–Liberal Alliance. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the merger between the two parties in 1988 and became Campaign Manager for the new party the Liberal Democrats under Paddy Ashdown in the 1992 General Election.
Somewhat disillusioned with party politics after that campaign, Wilson then moved on to become Director of Corporate and Public Affairs for BAA plc. | 565 |
1490692 | The organization Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA) can be a useful tool in providing support for people who come from a dysfunctional childhood where their caretakers suffered with alcoholism. What the ACA does is hold a twelve step program that is designed to create emotional healing in adult children. By doing this, the program hopes to see the adult children equally as worthy of help and support as the people in their families who faced the alcoholism themselves. | 498 |
37719872 | Activists stated that the Syrian Army entered with hundreds of soldiers and "cleaned out three villages," including Sirmaniyah. At least one person was reportedly killed in the village. On 23 April 2015, heavy clashes were reported in the village as part of a rebel campaign to capture Jisr al-Shughur. On 14 October, the Syrian Army took over the village. Eventually, the village was captured by the Jihadist Tahrir al-Sham, who rule over much of Idlib governorate. | 466 |
64613452 | Under the terms of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 the Central Electricity Board (CEB) was established. The CEB identified high efficiency 'selected' power station that would supply electricity most effectively; Carlisle became a selected station. The CEB also constructed the national grid (1927–33) to connect power stations within a region. Carlisle was a node on the major North–South line from Kilmarnock in Scotland to Carlisle, Lancaster, Stoke-on-Trent, Bristol and Hayle Cornwall. | 491 |
20217536 | The prostitution ring affair inspired him to write his first novel, Grisfesten. He returned to the National Police Board as a professor in 1992.
Persson was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2012. He is well known in Sweden for his crime fiction novels and for his regular appearances as an expert commentator on notable crime cases on television and in newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009, he participated as an expert commentator on the TV3 television show Efterlyst, which is primarily about wanted Swedish criminals. | 561 |
49637834 | Standing in the back row are justices Edward Sanford, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, and Harlan Stone; Justice Butler, a Catholic, was the lone dissenter to Buck v. Bell in 1927.]]
Presidents during this court included Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Congresses during this court included 67th through the 71st United States Congresses.
Selected Rulings of the CourtPennsylvania Coal Co. | 414 |
3760323 | Both stations were off the air for four months beginning in August while equipment was repaired and upgraded. At noon on December 12, 2021, they returned to the air with a four-hour special, "Frank Sinatra: Remembering An American Legend," hosted by Wink Martindale. Following the special, both stations began playing Christmas music. On December 27, KWXY relaunched as "KWXY Music Radio," playing a mix of standards, big band, jazz and rock 'n' roll of the 1940s through the 1970s. | 482 |
15492959 | The company stated that many of the programs carried by the station were no longer in syndication, rendering the station unable to provide a full schedule of progressive talk programming; in an unusual move, Saga Communications directed listeners to community radio station WRFI and to the Internet, where many of the shows that are no longer syndicated now air.
On February 1, 2017, WNYY changed their format from progressive talk to oldies, branded as "Pure Oldies 94.1" (simulcast on FM translator W231DK 94.1 FM Ithaca). | 524 |
26129554 | He was succeeded by Timothy Derickson, and has since retired from politics.
Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine alumni | 197 |
26741167 | Her interpretation of the role of Goneril in King Lear was considered "extraordinary" and "sinister". However, another critic referred to her as "the aptly named Joyce Bland," who "spoke finely" and "looked beautiful" as Desdemona in Othello at Stratford.
Later she went to North America where she appeared in Shakespearean roles. | 330 |
70287102 | In late 2022, while Mariupol was still occupied by Russian forces, Sasha Korban's mural Milana on a facade of a Mariupol building, showing 3-year old Milana Abdurashytova, a survivor of a 2015 pro-Russian missile attack, was destroyed.
Volunteers internationally are working to archive Ukrainian cultural heritage digital content that is at risk of destruction due to the Russian invasion of 2022. The Internet Archive is supporting various preservation efforts, including the initiative Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), started on 1 March 2022. | 563 |
4849062 | Hsu won the "Best Video Part" award at the 2007 Transworld Skateboarding awards, for his part in Bag Of Suck, in addition to the "Readers' Choice" award. Transworld writer Mackenzie Eisenhour described Hsu's award-winning part in a 2009 retrospective of the first 10 recipients of the Best Video Part award: "This is what Tiltmode looks like when the gloves come off. Jerry, like Heath [Kirchart], is one of the few guys who can finesse impact-heavy skating." | 459 |
31683526 | Larvae can be found from the beginning of June and (after diapause) from April to May. | 86 |
14187724 | He grew up in Henrico County, Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech as a member of the Corps of Cadets and Army ROTC and studied biology. He did not subsequently serve in the military. While at Virginia Tech, he spent the summers working at a tomato cannery and on a fishing vessel. Also while in college, Wittman was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He earned a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. | 525 |
2317356 | Also, he served as the ambassador to the United States from February 2005 until his resignation in September 2005.
Hong graduated from Kyunggi High School in 1968. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Seoul National University (South Korea) in 1972, and a master's in industrial engineering from Stanford University (U.S.) in 1978. He went on to acquire a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University (U.S.) in 1980. | 430 |
33628285 | In the Argentine magazine Frontera the first episode of Ticonderoga, by Héctor G. Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt kicks off, a serial set in the French and Indian war.
May 8: Maurice Maréchal's Prudence Petitpas makes her debut in Tintin. | 233 |
93901 | Several members of the So Solid Crew.
Luol Deng, player for the American basketball team Miami Heat, lived and played in Brixton.
Lisa Maffia, singer and TV personality, was brought up in Brixton.
James Dagwell, journalist and former BBC News presenter, lived in Brixton.
La Roux (Elly Jackson), musician, was born and raised in Brixton. | 337 |
11563861 | The German Invasion of France, 1870–1871. London 2001.
Members of the Prussian House of Lords
Military personnel from the Province of Brandenburg
German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War | 198 |
8807126 | Robert Wyatt – cornet on "Then I Close My Eyes"
Remember That Night DVD Premiere Photos
Live albums recorded at the Royal Albert Hall | 133 |
29571628 | A representative for Google Latin America stated that while "Google maps are of very high quality and Google works constantly to improve and update existing information, by no means should they be used as a reference to decide military actions between two countries." He added, "In this instance Google has determined that there was an inaccuracy in the shaping of the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua and is working to update the information as quickly as possible." The border depiction was later corrected by Google on Google Earth and in Google Maps.
Both countries took different approaches on how to solve the issue. | 629 |
6828404 | The young are referred to as 'joeys'. The females are referred to as 'Jill,' and the males 'jack'. It was thought to have been endangered in 2001, but has since been moved to least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Monodelphis kunsi is a relatively small opossum with short, warm-brown hair on its dorsal side. The ventral side of this pygmy opossum is a lighter color with pale, ivory patches of fur mixed throughout. | 449 |
63629935 | The Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh is a part of the larger Northeast India insurgency involving multiple groups trying to separate from or destabilize the province. Because Arunachal Pradesh is a border state, militants sometimes conduct cross border operations to facilitate their activities. In addition to the non-state groups operating in the region, since its recapture in the 1962 War, there has been incursions from the Chinese Army in the region further escalating the conflict. The conflict has cooled since police arrest of major insurgent leaders. | 559 |
15607338 | Chantemerle-les-Blés is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. | 81 |
455379 | The Hasmonean Dynasty eventually disintegrated in a civil war, which coincided with civil wars in Rome. The last Hasmonean ruler, Antigonus II Mattathias, was captured by Herod and executed in 37 BC. In spite of originally being a revolt against Greek overlordship, the Hasmonean kingdom and also the Herodian kingdom which followed gradually became more and more hellenized. From 37 BC to 4 BC, Herod the Great ruled as a Jewish-Roman client king appointed by the Roman Senate. | 478 |
18762790 | On February 11, 2010, it was announced that a documentary film entitled Ride, Rise, Roar chronicling the tour would be released to the 2010 film festival circuit. The debut with be at South by Southwest on March 15, 2010, where it will be screened in all three media categories—film, interactive, and music. The film was the feature-length directorial debut by Hillman Curtis—who also worked on the short film that accompanies the deluxe edition of Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. | 491 |
46724649 | The sheer number of charges in the case meant that the trials of the other defendants would take another year to complete.
In the U.S., undefeated LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team topped undefeated Loyola of Chicago in the championship game of the second annual National Invitation Tournament, 44–32. LIU's 24–0 final record was the first perfect season of college basketball's postseason tournament era.
Born: Rafael Cruz, Cuban-American pastor, in Matanzas, Cuba
Between 5 and 7 a.m. German troops crossed into Memel. | 532 |
38376990 | Words and music by Steffen Brandt, except "Kolde hjerner" which contains an excerpt of the poem "Jeg er havren" by Danish poet Jeppe Aakjær and "Uh, jeg ville ønske jeg var mig", lyrics by Brandt and Georg Olesen | 212 |
3448051 | As of the spring 2009 BBM measurement, CBX is the second-most listened to radio-station in Edmonton, behind news-talk radio station CHED. Edmonton AM also ranks second in the morning, while Radio Active ranks fourth amongst the afternoon radio drive-time shows.
On September 10, 2012, the CBC applied to move the following CBC low-power AM transmitters to FM. The CBC received approval on January 31, 2013 to convert the remaining AM transmitters to FM and the new transmitters will operate on these following frequencies: | 522 |
34921579 | Neophytos of Cyprus, Saint Neophytos, Neophytos the Recluse (Greek: Άγιος Νεόφυτος ο Έγκλειστος; 1134–1214) was a Cypriot Orthodox monk, priest, and sometime hermit, whose writings preserved a history of the early crusades. | 223 |
7783929 | These unified groups included the Huns, who invaded Europe, and under Attila, conducted campaigns in both eastern France and northern Italy, over 500 miles apart, within two successive campaign seasons. Other unified nomadic forces included the Wu Hu attacks on China, and the Mongol conquest of much of Eurasia.
The literature of ancient India describes numerous horse nomads. | 377 |
14034876 | His faction now wanted him to proceed safely to Ireland to preach the gospel. The insurrection of Sir George Booth intervened, and brought him the post of chaplain in Charles Fairfax's regiment. He served through the campaign against Booth, and at its conclusion was relieved of his duties in Ireland. In October he was nominated to a lectureship at Shrewsbury, but he was again in Dublin by the end of the year, and was imprisoned there for a time by the orders of the army leaders, after they had dissolved the remnant of the Long parliament. | 544 |
41673569 | Lack was charged with conspiracy to abet tax evasion by Americans by enabling them to shelter their assets in a small regional bank in Switzerland. He was charged with opening and maintaining secret bank accounts at a Swiss regional bank to enable American citizens to avoid the scrutiny of the IRS and keep their assets at an arm's length from UBS. The United States had struck an agreement with UBS that it would not abet American tax evasion.
After leaving UBS, Lack served as a business partner of Renzo, who directed clients to him. Like Renzo, Lack advised his American clients not to cooperate with U.S. | 610 |
60755061 | Withuis found that Hirsi Ali was right in accusing the Labour Party of forgetting Muslim women, but wondered whether her choice for the Liberal Party was all that much better, especially if it would form a governing coalition with the Christian Democratic Appeal, which Withuis alleged to be even less friendly to (Muslim) women.
For de Volkskrant, Wim Wirtz reviewed Hirsi Ali's book during the ongoing controversy about her statements and her defection from Labour to the Liberals. | 483 |
7480416 | Kennaway was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then MP for the new Honiton constituency from 1885 until the January 1910 general election.
He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1897 and appointed CB in the 1902 Coronation Honours. From 1908 to 1910 he was Father of the House of Commons.
He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1864. | 444 |
13323372 | Buntin averaged 23.2 points and 12.5 rebounds, teaming with Cazzie Russell (24.8, 9.0) to lead the Wolveines to the NCAA Tournament for only the second time in program history. In the 1964 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, Buntin scored 26 points with 15 rebounds in the 84–80 win against Loyola (Il) and 15 points and 10 rebounds in the 69–57 victory over Ohio. | 376 |
60270434 | As more people are attracted to locally grown food, small farms and orchards start to come back. There were fewer recipes after the Second World War. It is hard to find a business on the traditional cider syrup from New England. Due to its ease of production, boiled cider has mostly slipped out of the public consciousness and quietly become commercial obscurity, lying in the shadows of maple syrup and honey. At present, boiled cider is relatively little known except as a cultural artifact, and is absolutely under-appreciated, even in its traditional homeland of New England, US. | 584 |
3349478 | Sqn Leader Ahuja's body would be recovered by the men of the 10th Battalion of the Garhwal Rifles.
On 29 May 1999, Ahuja's body was flown to a local Air Force station by the Indian Air Force. Angry public demonstrations broke out there, at his cremation, and near the Pakistani embassy in Delhi. | 295 |
266455 | Tammany Democrats did not seek to have the draft declared unconstitutional, but they helped pay the commutation fees for those who were drafted.
In December 1863, the Union League Club recruited more than 2,000 black soldiers, outfitted and trained them, honoring and sending men off with a parade through the city to the Hudson River docks in March 1864. A crowd of 100,000 watched the procession, which was led by police and members of the Union League Club.
New York's support for the Union cause continued, however grudgingly, and gradually Southern sympathies declined in the city. | 586 |
8126911 | During 2014, a three-party collaborative agreement was signed by Denel Aerostructures, Aerosud and Airbus to create a 10-year investment plan for the development of more sophisticated manufacturing techniques; the agreement was viewed as a step towards a greater presence on the competitive global supply chain of Airbus and other original equipment manufacturers. | 364 |
27634525 | Helms was officially awarded the Medal of Honor and a $100 gratuity on March 23, 1901, two and a half months after his rescue of Tomizi. His citation reads:
Serving on board the U.S.S. Chicago, for heroism in rescuing Ishi Tomizi, ship's cook, from drowning at Montevideo, Uruguay, 10 January 1901.
Helms died at age 44, while still serving in the Marine Corps. He was buried at Mound Grove Cemetery in Kankakee, Illinois. | 422 |
27258769 | Then, a new referendum was set for 12 August 2010; on 29 June 2010, however, the referendum was indefinitely postponed yet again. Finally, on 14 August, a new date of 17 November was announced.
One change in the new constitution sought to keep the leader of the HAT (a position held by Rajoelina) as interim president until an election could take place. Analysts said this could allow Rajoelina to remain in power indefinitely, "because he's set no date for stepping down, nor spelled out conditions for the next elections." | 524 |
30912003 | Degamo was proclaimed on October 3, and yet to report to the provincial capitol to assume the governorship once again.
Degamo took his oath before President Bongbong Marcos at the Malacañang Palace on October 5. Meanwhile, Teves, refusing to step down, had filed an appeal before the Supreme Court (SC) to contest the latest COMELEC ruling, which was expected to be decided by October 11.
However, on that date, the SC had not acted yet on the appeal; Teves later voluntarily relinquished the governorship. | 506 |
19234282 | first North American solo national news anchorwoman (in 2002)
Pamela Wallin, Canada AM (CTV) and Prime Time News (CBC)
The following are announcers on CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo, the official national news programme in mainland China:
Vanessa de la Torre, Caracol TV | 262 |
2230001 | Viale, G., (2022) “When the Modern Was the Tradition: Carlo Mollino at Sestriere and His Last Unpublished project (1973)”, Architectural Histories 10(1). | 153 |
3361379 | He married his second wife, Sheila, in 1965. They had two daughters Shanti, India, and one son, Dylan. Hixon also had a daughter, Alexandra, from a previous marriage to Margaret Taylor. He graduated from Yale University in 1963, where he majored in philosophy, and he received a PhD in comparative religion from Columbia University in 1976. His doctoral thesis was on the Gaudapada Karika, a Sanskrit scripture of the very early Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. | 472 |
56527387 | GAZ-67 and the SU-100 plus the optional BM-13N (or at around an estimated 480 when counting other vehicles of the war which would take part just like in the parades of 1985 and 1990) assemble on the street as well with modern military hardware of the Armed Forces and the National Guard (and optionally by the other uniformed organizations). | 341 |
12798958 | She then made two short deliveries to Cuba before making her first transatlantic crossing in July, delivering men, mail, and stores in Algeria, North Africa. Between further Caribbean trips, Merak voyaged to both Sicily and Scotland before the end of 1943.
She continued Caribbean sailings and transatlantic voyages until February 1945, including four crossings from Bayonne, New Jersey, to Italian ports. After a brief drydocking she supplied ships and bases from Iceland to Trinidad. | 485 |
13491391 | From July 1 to September 29, 2019, the station was on all full-blown automated music in preparation for a relaunch.
On September 30, 2019, Pinas FM (then read as "ninety-five-point-five") was relaunched with the inclusion of its new jingle entitled "Pinoy Ka, Dito Ka", composed by DJ Rapido and sung by former 6Cyclemind vocalist Ney Dimaculangan and former Moonstar88 vocalist Acel Bisa, which was launched during "The Switch" relaunching concert. | 449 |
68953107 | Sohail has campaigned for LGBT rights in the Muslim community, and against Islamic extremism. He is also an active Labour party member.
Sohail now works in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-extremism. He is currently an intern at the Henry Jackson Society.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists | 348 |
64638120 | FC Laval (formerly CS Fabrose) is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Laval, Quebec that plays in Ligue1 Québec. In 2021, CS Fabrose merged with youth clubs CS Chomedey and Delta Laval to form FC Laval.
The club was originally formed in 1971 following a merger of a few area clubs and adopted the name CS Fabrose, in 1974.
In 2018, the club joined the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec, a Division III league, fielding a team in the men's division. | 463 |
53163220 | George Hudak (March 10, 1935 – November 4, 1996) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 20th Legislative District from 1986 to 1994 and as mayor of Linden, New Jersey from 1983 to 1987.
Born in Linden in 1935, he graduated from Linden High School and Newark State College (now Kean University) where he earned a degree in teaching. Following a stint in the U.S. | 404 |
1704695 | After World War II, the growing Malawian nationalist movement reignited interest in the Chilembwe revolt, and after the independence of Malawi in 1964 it became celebrated as a key moment in the nation's history. Chilembwe's memory, which remains prominent in the collective national consciousness, has often been invoked in symbolism and rhetoric by Malawian politicians. Today, the uprising is celebrated annually and Chilembwe himself is considered a national hero. | 468 |
8821926 | He was later killed in detention by the military dictatorship on January 6, 1977.
Argentine Patriotic League, a nationalist Catholic group created in 1919
Fatherland and Liberty, a similar Chilean group
José López Rega, leader of the far-right wing of Peronism
Leonardo Senkman, El antisemitismo en la Argentina, | 314 |
6946682 | In her youth, they opened a backlot in her Los Angeles neighborhood.
Lubin's studio rejected a scenario that Eddy wrote at age 17, "but decided to capitalize on her face", using her in vamp roles in "lurid melodramas".
Eddy's first movie was The Discontented Man (1915). Soon after, she left Lubin and joined Paramount Pictures. At this time, she began to play the roles for which she is best remembered. | 404 |
57814919 | 5000 Award, six times as one of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and earned multiple Stevie Awards, including “Company of the Year” and “Fastest Growing Tech Company of the Year” in 2016. Her tenure also saw Crain's New York Business name TransPerfect one of the largest privately held companies for 12 consecutive years, and one of the largest women-owned companies 11 times. The company was a winner of the 2015 SmartCEO Corporate Culture Awards and was also recognizes by SmartCEO as a “Future 50” company five years running. | 529 |
27978339 | VRLC provides its clients with legal assistance and assists when they are having difficulty with employers, schools or insurance companies. The organization also advocates for the rights of rape victims. After a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision made it easier for defense lawyers to review mental health records of victims of sexual assault, VRLC criticized the ruling, saying it would discourage rape victims from getting counseling. In 2021, VRLC was involved in a legal case challenging the 2020 Title IX Amendments. | 532 |
74196781 | Constructed to work with 16mm film with either one-sided or two-sided perforation wound on a reel, the camera's reel capacity was designed to handle 30m or 100ft of film. The camera is equipped with a three-lens rotary turret which allowed for quick and easy switching between lenses to meet the filming requirements of a given scene.
There were two main variants of the camera produced - the Kiev 16U and the Kiev 16UE. | 420 |
71914794 | Charlie Cleveland, the director of Subnautica, served as the game's director. According to Cleveland, the original pitch of the game was to make a "digital miniatures game". The game was heavily inspired by the Warhammer series of tabletop game. In addition to giving the ability for players to paint their digital figures, they also wanted the game to have engrossing lore and an interesting backdrop. The team, therefore, enlisted the help of novelist Brandon Sanderson to help create the game's setting. | 506 |
9446506 | Recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award | 56 |
18104770 | In 1578, he was captured at Cambridge and sent to London by the university's Vice-Chancellor "with all such books, letters, writings, and other trash which were taken about them", but eventually released. He is mentioned as having laboured in Kent (1580), Norfolk, Suffolk (1583), Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (1584). On 24 April 1584, John Nedeham and others were indicted at Norwich for having, on 1 June 1582, received blessed beads from him. | 443 |
309481 | By 1940, Simon, along with his successor as Foreign Secretary, Hoare, had come to be seen as one of the "Guilty Men" responsible for appeasement of the dictators, and like Hoare, Simon was not regarded as acceptable in the War Cabinet of Churchill's new coalition. Hugh Dalton thought Simon "the snakiest of the lot".
Simon became Lord Chancellor in Churchill's government but without a place on the War Cabinet. Attlee commented that he "will be quite innocuous" in the role. | 476 |
72184815 | Marianne Binder-Keller (née Keller; born 15 June 1958) is a Swiss communications professional and politician who currently serves as member of the National Council (Switzerland) for The Centre (formerly CVP) since 2019. During the 2023 Swiss federal election she currently is a candidate for Council of States (Switzerland). | 324 |
7655915 | In July 2004, NextMedia Group purchased WKXB and WSFM from Sea-Comm Inc., and WRQR, WAZO, and WMFD from Ocean Broadcasting LLC.
In July 2008, Capitol Broadcasting announced its purchase of NextMedia's Wilmington stations.
On March 31, 2010, WKXB reduced its power output from 100,000 watts to 35,000 watts in a transmitter and city of license move from Burgaw, North Carolina to Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina to allow a signal boost by co-owned and co-channeled WCMC-FM in the Raleigh market. | 499 |
17942868 | On 13 November 2009, Brähmer became the WBO world light heavyweight world champion after the title was vacated by Zsolt Erdei, who moved up to cruiserweight. Brähmer successfully defended the title on 19 December 2009, winning a unanimous decision over Dmitry Sukhotsky and then again in 2010 against Mariano Plotinsky.
In January 2010, Brähmer was sentenced to 16 months in prison due to two separate instances of assault. During this time, the WBO issued an interim title, which was won by Nathan Cleverly. | 508 |
54119711 | An entrepreneurial company with limited liability (in German: Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt)) is a German form of a private limited company, usually established as an alternative to a German corporation or GmbH (limited liability) entity. Companies organized as an entrepreneurial company have the suffix ‘UG (haftungsbeschränkt)’ appended to their names.
The German government introduced the UG primarily to act as an alternative to establishing a traditional corporation. | 487 |
33929599 | The death of Alan's ally did not deter Gallovidian interests in the Isles. In fact, it is apparent that Alan and members of the Meic Somairle—Dubgall and Donnchad, both sons of Dubgall mac Somairle—upheld pressure upon the recently inaugurated Óláfr. According to Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar, reports of open warfare in the Isles reached the royal court of Hákon Hákonarson, King of Norway in the summer of 1229. | 410 |
18323901 | Blagdon-Lynmouth had a population of 2,523 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 126 people (5.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 108 people (4.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 975 households, comprising 1,224 males and 1,299 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.94 males per female. | 304 |
5804367 | Generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP) in NZ is defined by all FRSs and SSAPs on issue. These FRSs and SSAPs are to be issued by the FRSB of the Society of Accountants and then approved by the ASRB under the Financial Reporting Act 1993, which effectively gives them legal backing.
1994 – Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994. Reinforces requirement on central government to use GAAP.
1996 – Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand Act 1996
1997 – FRSB decides to pursue policy of international harmonisation. | 520 |
4759928 | San Marcos High School is a public high school located in a suburban area two miles from the city of Santa Barbara, California. Accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the school was named a California Distinguished School in 1994 and 2005, and a Gold Ribbon School in 2015.
San Marcos High School was established in 1958.
The campus was first located at the Rivera Theater campus on Alameda Padre Serra for the 1958-59 school year. | 460 |
44923818 | Pakistan uses an unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct an air-to-ground missile strike for the first time, when a NESCOM Burraq unmanned combat aerial vehicle uses a laser-guided missile to kill three suspected terrorists in the Shawal Valley in northwestern Pakistan.
President of France François Hollande announces that France will begin aerial reconnaissance missions over Syria on 8 September and is considering conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition bomb boats off the coast of Yemen. | 547 |
45078527 | In January 2015, zz was interviewed by the New York Post about the bank robbery by Joseph Gibbons, with whom zz shared a jail cell.
It was reported in March 2016 that the performance artist dressed up as Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, allowing paying customers to hit, choke, and even urinate on zz. | 316 |
33591419 | He has performed as a soloist at important festivals including the Gergiev Festival, the BBC Proms, the Festival International de Musique de Besançon, Holland Festival, the Time of Music festival in Viitasaari, Finland, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK, the Berliner Festspiele, the Hong Kong Festival of the Arts and Tanglewood Summer Festival in the United States. He has been given his own concert series at both the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw of Amsterdam, and Rotterdam's De Doelen. | 509 |
1268882 | Mboya's development plans at the Economic Planning Ministry were credited for Kenya's development rate of 7%, which was sustained during his tenure as the Planning Minister.
He retained the portfolio as Minister for Economic Planning and Development until his death at the age of 39 when he was gunned down on 5 July 1969 at Government Road (now Moi Avenue), Nairobi CBD, after visiting Chaani's Pharmacy. Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge was convicted for the murder and later hanged. | 482 |
7951573 | The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (; abbreviated KCD-E; known as the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe or KON-KURD until 2014) is a European Kurdish association, headquartered in Charleroi, Belgium. The member federations are located in several European countries, with some associations from Australia and Canada also belonging to the federation. KCD-E is the biggest organisation of Kurds in Exile. Its members are mostly Kurds from Turkey. | 473 |
11589424 | The leading 2 bits of the exponent and the leading digit (3 or 4 bits) of the significand are combined into the five bits that follow the sign bit. This is followed by a fixed-offset exponent continuation field.
Finally, the significand continuation field made of 2, 5, or 11 10-bit declets, each encoding 3 decimal digits. | 324 |
32682003 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek's ePodsOne: An Internet Appliance That Shows Promise.
EdgeReview's Internet Anywhere, For Cheap (archived webpage)
The Seattle Times The `e' in ePods? It stands for `easy'
Products and services discontinued in 2000 | 239 |
54081220 | Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Academic staff of the University of Guyana
Members of the Communist Party USA
People convicted of contempt of Congress | 164 |
438356 | Asked if it was also a parody of Jules Dassin's film Rififi, Monicelli said, "Yes because we saw this as a film shot in a very harsh, realist style. Very scientific, as the Peppe character continually says. So we wanted to do the same thing, but the characters didn't have the means. The way they worked was quite the contrary actually."
Monicelli and cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo agreed on a photographic tone that was not comedic or brightly lit. | 453 |
489054 | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical
NAACP Theatre Award for Best Lead Male – Equity
NAACP Theatre Award for Best Lead Male – Local
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
List of film awards for lead actress
List of television awards for Best Actress
List of film awards for lead actor
List of television awards for Best Actor | 424 |
16140345 | The 2002–03 NBA season was the 33rd season of the National Basketball Association in Cleveland, Ohio. In the 2002 NBA draft, the Cavaliers selected Dajuan Wagner from the University of Memphis with the sixth pick, and selected Carlos Boozer out of Duke University with the 34th pick in the second round. During the off-season, the team acquired Darius Miles from the Los Angeles Clippers. After a 2–2 start to the season, the Cavaliers suffered a dreadful 15-game losing streak between November and December. | 508 |
9633390 | 1, pp. 1–84. (on archive.org, reprint of 1945 on archive.org)
Abbott, Donald N. (ed.) The World Is as Sharp as a Knife: An Anthology in Honour of Wilson Duff. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum.
Miller, Jay, and Carol M. Eastman (eds.) (1984) The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press. | 359 |
16989780 | On December 3, 2012, debate arose concerning Tyga's upbringing. Tyga claimed to have been brought up in the low socioeconomic area of Compton, but in leaked footage from the unaired television show Bustas, he claimed he grew up in a "well-to-do" home in the Valley, where his parents drove a Range Rover. He also claimed that he attained his nickname from his mother calling him Tiger Woods. There has been speculation that his claims on the show were satirical and not to be taken seriously. | 492 |
14725637 | Druckenmiller's three touchdown passes came behind only Notre Dame quarterback Danny Kanell's four touchdown passes in the previous season's Orange Bowl. Virginia Tech center Billy Conaty set a Virginia Tech record by making his 48th consecutive start in a game.
On defense, Virginia Tech's Torrian Gray led all defenders with 12 total tackles. Second was Nebraska's Mike Minter, who had 11 tackles and a pass breakup. Two Nebraska players had nine tackles apiece, and one of those players, Octavious McFarlin, recorded two tackles for loss. | 541 |
28509191 | Beginning in 2012, the press published the first of an ongoing 35 volume English translation of the Antioch Bible, an Aramaic text of the Syriac Peshitta.
In 2018, German academic publisher Walter de Gruyter and Gorgias entered into an e-book distribution partnership. In 2019, Gorgias partnered with the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies to inaugurate the Library of Arabic and Islamic Heritage (مكتبة التراث العربي والاسلامي). | 446 |
72980586 | Neither CB&I nor Merco took recommended fire prevention precautions, including clearing brush from the tanks, spraying water on dry vegetation, or keeping someone on the ground to watch for fires while the rest of the crew worked on the roof. At approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT, sparks and hot metal fragments from the grinder landed in, and ignited nearby brush. The workers spotted the fire, but it was too large to control before they had even descended to the ground.
Named for the street where it began (Copper Hill Road), the Copper Fire quickly expanded, burning northeast. | 578 |
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