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Nicole Abiouness
[ [ "Nicole Abiouness", "occupation", "Winemaker" ], [ "Nicole Abiouness", "educated at", "The Culinary Institute of America" ], [ "Nicole Abiouness", "educated at", "Norfolk Academy" ], [ "Nicole Abiouness", "residence", "California" ] ]
Wine maker
Nicole Abiouness is an American female entrepreneur and winemaker. She owns and operates Abiouness Wines, in Mendocino County, Napa Valley, California where she makes Pinot Noir and Sangiovese wine. Background Abiouness is originally from Hampton Roads, Virginia, daughter of a Lebanese-American structural engineer. Aft...
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Nicole Abiouness
[ [ "Nicole Abiouness", "residence", "California" ] ]
Wine maker
Oakville, California with Swanson Vineyards, subsequently working with Australian winery Yalumba in 1996 and with two wineries in France, Château La Tour Blanche and Domaine Comte Armand. She returned to California in 1998, working with Chappellet Winery, teaching at Robert Mondavi and acting as cellar master with Luna...
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Nicole Abiouness
[ [ "Nicole Abiouness", "educated at", "College of William & Mary" ], [ "Nicole Abiouness", "residence", "California" ] ]
Wine maker
such as the 2006, came from vineyards in Carneros. As of 2009, Abiouness Wine produced 1,000 cases under its own label. As a small-production winery, or boutique winery, Abiouness Wines subcontracts winemaking services to a Santa Rosa-based collective — a crush facility that provides logistics, barrel storage, tank roo...
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MS Star
[ [ "MS Star", "instance of", "Ferry" ], [ "MS Star", "port of registry", "Tallinn" ], [ "MS Star", "operator", "Tallink" ], [ "MS Star", "home port", "Tallinn" ] ]
Estonian ferry
MS Star is a fast Ro-Pax ferry operated by the Estonian ferry company Tallink. She was built at Aker Finnyards Helsinki Shipyard, Finland and entered service on Tallink's Helsinki–Tallinn service on 12 April 2007. Star was the first fast ferry capable of around-the-year service used on the Helsinki–Tallinn route. The s...
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MS Star
[ [ "MS Star", "port of registry", "Tallinn" ], [ "MS Star", "operator", "Tallink" ], [ "MS Star", "home port", "Tallinn" ], [ "MS Star", "country of registry", "Estonia" ] ]
Estonian ferry
well as a transportation service during the day. The green external livery of the ship is according to Tallink promotion material "meant to reflect the environmentally friendly aspects of the ship's design". Star has three daily departures from both Helsinki and Tallinn, with one crossing taking two hours. In Tallink m...
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Get Blake!
[ [ "Get Blake!", "country of origin", "United States" ] ]
animated television show
also a skilled scientist/inventor. Carmen de la Cruz (Yeni Álvarez) - Mitch's mother who organizes the town's block parties. Dr. Björn Gunderson () - Skye's father who is the resident dentist and like her he also has gap teeth. Isabelle Gunderson () - Skye's mother. Sunshine Gunderson () - Skye's baby sister. Fast Eddy...
[ "Blake and the Aliens", "blake and the aliens" ]
Camaleón
[ [ "Camaleón", "date of birth", "1979" ], [ "Camaleón", "country of citizenship", "Mexico" ], [ "Camaleón", "sport", "Professional wrestling" ] ]
Mexican professional wrestler
Camaleón (born 1979) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a tecnico ("Good guy") wrestling character. Camaleón's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the c...
[ "Camaleon" ]
Camaleón
[ [ "Camaleón", "country of citizenship", "Mexico" ] ]
Mexican professional wrestler
1999 until 2007 when he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as Súper Camaleón ("Super Chameleon). The secrecy about former masked identities is not uncommon in Mexico where the private lives of the masked wrestlers is kept secret. Early in his CMLL career he would often form a tag team with a wrestl...
[ "Camaleon" ]
Camaleón
[ [ "Camaleón", "country of citizenship", "Mexico" ] ]
Mexican professional wrestler
competed in the annual Young Dragons Cup in a torneo cibernetico, multi-man elimination match that also included Adam Bridle, Miedo, Ministro, Disturbio, Trauma I and Trauma II and was won by Satoshi Kajiwara. Later on he would team with Ministro to face Los Traumas (Trauma I and Trauma II) on subsequent Toryumon shows...
[ "Camaleon" ]
Veronica strictissima
[ [ "Veronica strictissima", "taxon rank", "Species" ] ]
species of plant
they can be hairy with three calyx lobes. Seeds are flat and brown; they are 1–1.6 x 0.9–1.3mm. Natural global range Veronica strictissima is native to New Zealand and endemic to the Banks Peninsula, Canterbury. It is not naturally found in other places unless it has been planted intentionally. New Zealand range Veroni...
[ "Banks Peninsula hebe" ]
Veronica strictissima
[ [ "Veronica strictissima", "taxon rank", "Species" ] ]
species of plant
scrubland, steep banks and bluffs. V. strictissima, is found only on Banks Peninsula, which has different climatic conditions to the rest of Canterbury area. V. strictissima has been found to grow at an altitude of around 500m but go from the coast up to at least 800m. It is not very tolerant of shade. But is found to ...
[ "Banks Peninsula hebe" ]
Veronica strictissima
[ [ "Veronica strictissima", "taxon rank", "Species" ] ]
species of plant
levels of moisture with low salinity and good soil drainage. Predators, parasites, and diseases Veronica strictissima is eaten by grazing species such as sheep, goats and cows. The fruit are eaten by lizards and birds. Lizards and birds also feed on the nectar. The flowers are pollinated by a native bee, L. sordidum wh...
[ "Banks Peninsula hebe" ]
Veronica strictissima
[ [ "Veronica strictissima", "taxon rank", "Species" ] ]
species of plant
off V. strictissima. Cultural and medicinal uses It was used culturally for medicinal purposes as a cure for dysentery. It worked effectively and was used in the second world war. For Maori it was traditionally used for a number of things including a decoction for ulcers, headaches, kidney and bladder troubles. Other i...
[ "Banks Peninsula hebe" ]
Archie Alleyne
[ [ "Archie Alleyne", "place of birth", "Toronto" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "place of death", "Toronto" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "given name", "Archie" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "family name", "Alleyne" ] ]
Canadian jazz musician and autobiographer
Archie Alleyne (January 7, 1933 – June 8, 2015) was a Canadian jazz drummer. Best known as a drummer for influential jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, he was also prominent as a recording artist on his own and with Canadian jazz musicians such as Oliver Jon...
[ "Archibald Alexander Alleyne" ]
Archie Alleyne
[ [ "Archie Alleyne", "country of citizenship", "Canada" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "place of birth", "Toronto" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "place of death", "Toronto" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "given name", "Archie" ], [ "Archie Alleyne", "family name", ...
Canadian jazz musician and autobiographer
partner in a soul food restaurant in Toronto. He returned to music in the early 1980s with Jones' band. Alleyne was named to the Order of Canada in 2011. He established the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund to provide bursaries to music students, and wrote Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story, an autobiography slated...
[ "Archibald Alexander Alleyne" ]
Maruca Pérez
[ [ "Maruca Pérez", "occupation", "Singer" ], [ "Maruca Pérez", "family name", "Pérez" ] ]
Mexican singer
Maruca Pérez (died 18 March 1937) was a Mexican singer, known for being the first female performer of Agustín Lara's songs and one of the first Mexican tango singers. In 1929, she recorded at least four songs—including Lara's "Canalla" and "Mentira"—for the Victor label. She was also an exclusive artist of radio statio...
[ "Maruca Perez", "La Mocosita", "Maruca Pérez \"La Mocosita\"", "Maruca Perez \"La Mocosita\"", "María Valenta Pérez", "María Valenta Pérez Escamilla" ]
Gabriela Cámara
[ [ "Gabriela Cámara", "country of citizenship", "Mexico" ] ]
Mexican chef, restaurant owner, and author
Gabriela Cámara is a Mexican chef, restaurant owner, and author. Born in Chihuahua City, Cámara grew up in Tepoztlán. In 1998, Cámara opened Contramar in Mexico City, a restaurant specializing in seafood. She opened the restaurant Cala in San Francisco in 2015. Cámara holds ownership in Mexico City restaurants Capicúa,...
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John Rollo Foldi
[ [ "John Rollo Foldi", "date of death", "1971" ], [ "John Rollo Foldi", "place of birth", "Scotland" ] ]
Scottish-born public servant in PNG
John Rollo Foldi (died December 1971) was a Scottish-born public servant. He held several senior roles in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and was a member of the Legislative Council. Biography Born in Scotland, Foldi moved to the Territory of Papua to work on the Robinson River plantation. He joined the territori...
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Yevgeni Zinovyev
[ [ "Yevgeni Zinovyev", "sport", "Association football" ], [ "Yevgeni Zinovyev", "member of sports team", "FC Sibir Novosibirsk" ], [ "Yevgeni Zinovyev", "member of sports team", "FC Lokomotiv Moscow" ], [ "Yevgeni Zinovyev", "member of sports team", "FC Vol...
Russian footballer
Yevgeni Vladimirovich Zinovyev (; born 15 June 1981) is a Russian professional football official and a former player. He works as a deputy director of sports with FC Sibir Novosibirsk. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1997 for FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk. He played one game for the main FC...
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José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "occupation", "Economist" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "occupation", "Politician" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "given name", "Pablo" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", ...
Chilean politician
José Pablo Arellano Marin (Santiago, March 18, 1952) is an economist, academic, researcher, company director, consultant and Chilean politician, a member of the Christian Democrats. He was Minister of Education under the governments of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and of Michelle Bachelet, Chief Executive Officer of Codelco...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "given name", "Pablo" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "educated at", "Pontifical Catholic University of Chile" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "educated at", "Harvard University...
Chilean politician
designer María Elena (Manena) Recabarren, and they have four children, José Pablo, Magdalena, Andrés and Francisca. Education Arellano studied at Colegio San Ignacio in the Chilean capital, Santiago. After graduating with a degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as the best student in his ...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "given name", "Pablo" ], [ "José Pablo Arellano", "educated at", "Pontifical Catholic University of Chile" ] ]
Chilean politician
Pablo Piñera and René Cortázar. He has sat on the boards of several nonprofit educational corporations, including the Fundación Belén Educa, the Maipú Educational Corporation and the Peñalolén Municipal Corporation. He is currently a director of Hogar de Cristo, Fundación Opportunidad and Belén Educa. He has been a pro...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ] ]
Chilean politician
Bank (WB). In September 1996, amid a huge teachers' strike, President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle entrusted him with the post of Minister of Education, a position he held until 2000, when the administration left office.(footnote 4) He is the longest-serving Minister of Education in the history of Chile. During his term, he...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ] ]
Chilean politician
Presidents of Chilean Universities and president of the Higher Education Council. He served as president of Fundación Chile and has participated on the boards of Televisión Nacional de Chile and BancoEstado. In March 2006, he was appointed by President Bachelet as CEO of Codelco, a position in which he had to face chal...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
José Pablo Arellano
[ [ "José Pablo Arellano", "country of citizenship", "Chile" ] ]
Chilean politician
of five books. Works Políticas sociales Chile 1990-2009 (2011) Reforma educacional: prioridad que se consolida (2000) Políticas Macroeconómicas (1986) Políticas sociales y desarrollo (1985) Las desigualdades económicas y la acción del Estado (1980) Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Econom...
[ "Jose Pablo Arellano" ]
1981 Ryder Cup
[ [ "1981 Ryder Cup", "sport", "Golf" ], [ "1981 Ryder Cup", "winner", "United States" ], [ "1981 Ryder Cup", "location", "Walton Heath Golf Club" ], [ "1981 Ryder Cup", "sports season of league or competition", "Ryder Cup" ] ]
1981 edition of the Ryder Cup
The 24th Ryder Cup Matches were held 18–20 September 1981 at the Walton Heath Golf Club in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England, southwest of London. The United States team won the competition by a score of 18½ to 9½ points. To date, it remains the largest margin of defeat for a European team (since 1979) at the Ryder C...
[ "Ryder Cup 1981" ]
1981 Ryder Cup
[ [ "1981 Ryder Cup", "sports season of league or competition", "Ryder Cup" ] ]
1981 edition of the Ryder Cup
he won all four of his matches. He had failed to make the team for first time in 1979. Bernhard Langer made his Ryder Cup debut in 1981 and was 1–2 in pairs and halved his singles match. Format The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format was adjusted slightly from the 19...
[ "Ryder Cup 1981" ]
Girolamo Mocetto
[ [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "date of birth", "1470" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "date of death", "1531" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "occupation", "Painter" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "given name", "Girolamo" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "place of death", "Ve...
Italian painter and engraver (1470-1531)
Girolamo Mocetto (c. 1470 in Murano – after 1531 in Venice, Active 1490 – 1530) was an Italian Renaissance painter, engraver, and stained glass designer. He was heavily influenced by Domenico Morone, Giovanni Bellini, Bartolomeo Montagna, Cima da Conegliano, and especially Andrea Mantegna. He is most important as an en...
[ "Girolamo Moceto", "Girolamo Mbzzetto", "Girolamo Mozetto", "Girolamo Mozeto", "Girolamo Mozzetto", "Gerolamo Mocetto", "Mocetto", "girolamo moccetto" ]
Girolamo Mocetto
[ [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "date of birth", "1470" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "occupation", "Painter" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "place of death", "Venice" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "work location", "Venice" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "work location", ...
Italian painter and engraver (1470-1531)
misread document. The birth date of c. 1470 was arrived at by taking the known dates of his 1494 marriage and his grandfather's 1445 marriage and assuming that Mocetto and his father each married at age 20-25. He may well be the Hieronymo depentor ("painter Jerome") who joined the large team under Giovanni Bellini pain...
[ "Girolamo Moceto", "Girolamo Mbzzetto", "Girolamo Mozetto", "Girolamo Mozeto", "Girolamo Mozzetto", "Gerolamo Mocetto", "Mocetto", "girolamo moccetto" ]
Girolamo Mocetto
[ [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "date of death", "1531" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "place of death", "Venice" ], [ "Girolamo Mocetto", "work location", "Venice" ] ]
Italian painter and engraver (1470-1531)
have been relatives. He is last recorded in August 1531, when he signed a will in Venice leaving his estate to his son Domenico. As this summary would indicate, primary sources about Mocetto's life are scant. While there is no record that he trained or lived outside of Venice, there are significant indications that he ...
[ "Girolamo Moceto", "Girolamo Mbzzetto", "Girolamo Mozetto", "Girolamo Mozeto", "Girolamo Mozzetto", "Gerolamo Mocetto", "Mocetto", "girolamo moccetto" ]
Don Mueller
[ [ "Don Mueller", "occupation", "Baseball player" ], [ "Don Mueller", "member of sports team", "Chicago White Sox" ], [ "Don Mueller", "place of birth", "St. Louis" ], [ "Don Mueller", "position played on team / speciality", "Right fielder" ], [ "Do...
baseball player
Donald Frederick Mueller (April 14, 1927 – December 28, 2011) was a professional baseball player who played mainly as a right fielder in Major League Baseball for 12 seasons from 1948 until 1959. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, and played for the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox. He earned the ni...
[ "Donald Frederick Mueller" ]
Don Mueller
[ [ "Don Mueller", "educated at", "Christian Brothers College High School" ] ]
baseball player
seasons during the 1920s with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The younger Mueller was signed as an amateur free agent out of Christian Brothers College High School by the Giants in 1944. New York Giants Mueller spent the first ten seasons of his major league career with the Giants, for whom he batted over .300 for three consec...
[ "Donald Frederick Mueller" ]
Don Mueller
[ [ "Don Mueller", "member of sports team", "Chicago White Sox" ] ]
baseball player
lead the Giants to a four-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians. In Game 1 of the Series, Mueller was playing right field when Mays made "The Catch" in center field. Chicago White Sox Mueller finished his playing career with the White Sox, appearing in 70 games in 1958, and four games in 1959. He was released on May 15, ...
[ "Donald Frederick Mueller" ]
Don Mueller
[ [ "Don Mueller", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
baseball player
he never hit more than 16 home runs in a season, he hit five home runs in two days, on September 1st and 2nd, 1951. Personal life Mueller briefly scouted for the San Francisco Giants after his playing career ended. His son Mark played in the minor leagues in the early 1970s. In his later years, Mueller lived in Marylan...
[ "Donald Frederick Mueller" ]
Atauddin Khan
[ [ "Atauddin Khan", "member of political party", "Bangladesh Nationalist Party" ] ]
Bangladeshi politician
Atauddin Khan is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Dhaka-10. Career Khan was elected to parliament from Dhaka-10 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. He was previously elected to the Parliament of Pakistan in 1965 as a Muslim League candidate. He served as ...
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Odeum Expo Center
[ [ "Odeum Expo Center", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Illinois" ] ]
building in Illinois, United States
The Odeum Expo Center is a convention center located in Villa Park, Illinois. It features of exhibit space at the North Hall and of exhibit space at the South Hall. Both halls have pitched roofs as high as . The South Hall is also used as an arena with an 85-by-194-foot artificial turf surface for indoor soccer or indo...
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Odeum Expo Center
[ [ "Odeum Expo Center", "country", "United States" ] ]
building in Illinois, United States
up to . There are also of meeting space and a lobby. In 2010, the Odeum became the home to the Chicago Cardinals of the Continental Indoor Football League. Also in 2010 the Chicago Riot of the Major Indoor Soccer League began play at the Odeum Expo Center. In 2014, the Chicago Blitz professional indoor football team be...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
The waira (わいら) is a Japanese yōkai from Japanese emaki such as the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (1776) by Sekien Toriyama. Concept In the Hyakkai Zukan (1737, Sawaki Suushi), Bakemonozukushi (化物づくし) (artist and year unknown, owned by Rei Kagaya), the Bakemono Emaki (化物絵巻) (artist and year u...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
there do not exist any documents recording any folk legends about them, so it is unknown what kind of yōkai these were intending to depict. All of the pictures depict only the upper body, and there have been no pictures found that depict its lower half, so it is unknown what its whole body looks like. According to the ...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
Heisei periods, yōkai-related literature and children's yōkai picture book references started to give three kinds of explanations, that they are a yōkai of unknown true identity, that they are a large yōkai that live in the mountains and use the large claws on their front legs to dig up small animals like mogura (moles...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
emaki (in the emaki, it is written はいら, see image) depicts a "green monster that looks like a changed toad," and some explanatory text starting in the Heisei period have also stated that it is a toad that has gained spiritual power from age, and that their bodies are green, and so on. The yōkai researcher Katsumi Tada ...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
the "waira" alongside the "otoroshi", so it can be interpreted that the "waira" (恐い, fear) and "otoroshi" (恐ろしい, dread) are two yōkai that make up a pair. Legend There is the idea that waira were spotted in the mountains eating moles (mogura), with males being brown and females being red, but according to the yōkai res...
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Waira
[ [ "Waira", "instance of", "Yōkai" ] ]
Japanese yōkai
made up. However, Yamada asserts that he did not simply made it up, and simply forgot the original source, but did see it from somewhere. Ushi-kawazu The Bakemonozukushi Emaki (化け物尽し絵巻) (from the Edo Period, now in private possession and entrusted to a museum of the Fukuoka Prefecture), considered to be a yōkai emaki t...
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Cat Hulbert
[ [ "Cat Hulbert", "sport", "Poker" ] ]
professional gambler
the age of 25, moved to Las Vegas. Hulbert became one of the first professional female card counters, a member of the Czechoslovakia team, and a companion to Ken Uston. She then moved on to 7-card stud and dated David Heyden. In 1996, Card Player magazine named her as one of the top 7-card stud players in the world, th...
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María Gómez Carbonell
[ [ "María Gómez Carbonell", "country of citizenship", "Cuba" ] ]
Cuban politician
María Gómez Carbonell (June 29, 1903May 24, 1988) was a Cuban educator and attorney. She was the first congresswoman in the country's House of Representatives (1936–1940). She also served as a Senator and a Minister without portfolio. She founded Cruzada Educativa Cubana in 1962, as well as the Alliance of National Fem...
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María Gómez Carbonell
[ [ "María Gómez Carbonell", "country of citizenship", "Cuba" ], [ "María Gómez Carbonell", "educated at", "University of Havana" ] ]
Cuban politician
society. She was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Havana. Career Carbonell served in the Cuban Senate for two terms for four years (1940 to 1944). She was a member of the cabinet of Ministers and also worked as a Minister without portfolio (Ministros Sin Cartera), in 1958. During her career...
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María Gómez Carbonell
[ [ "María Gómez Carbonell", "country of citizenship", "Cuba" ] ]
Cuban politician
United States in 1959. While in exile in Miami, Florida, she became the founding member of civic organization (CEC) and the also umbrella organization of Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio (Cuban Municipalities in Exile). In the publication called the El Habanero, a Cuban exile periodical, she was Director for the Havana ...
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María Gómez Carbonell
[ [ "María Gómez Carbonell", "country of citizenship", "Cuba" ] ]
Cuban politician
also observed in Miami on July 11 every year when the José de la Luz y Caballero (a famous nineteenth century Cuban teacher and philosopher) Award was presented. She also scripted and presented a Spanish-language radio program titled "La Escuelita Cubana" highlighting issues related to Cuban history. Death and legacy C...
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1949 in India
[ [ "1949 in India", "facet of", "India" ] ]
India-related events during the year of 1949
Events in the year 1949 in India. Incumbents King of India – George VI Governor-General of the Union of India – C. Rajagopalachari Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru Events 1 January – After eight months of fighting between the Indian forces and the Pakistan Army agreed to a ceasefire, ordered by the United Nat...
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1949 in India
[ [ "1949 in India", "facet of", "India" ] ]
India-related events during the year of 1949
position of 'Head of the Commonwealth', and renaming the organisation as the 'Commonwealth of Nations'. 6 June – With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control. 27 July – India and Pakistan sign the Karachi Agreement 9 September – Queen Ka...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland. The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant/loyalist marches each summer, but has a significant Catholic minority. The Orange Order (a Protestant, unionist organization) insists that i...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
the dispute drew international attention as it sparked protests and violence throughout Northern Ireland, prompted a massive police and British Army operation, and threatened to derail the peace process. The situation in Portadown was likened to a "war zone" and a "siege". During this time, the dispute led to the killi...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Catholic area and let the march through, citing loyalist threats to kill Catholics if it were stopped. This sparked widespread protests and violence by Irish nationalists. From 1998 onward, the march was banned from Garvaghy Road and the army sealed off the Catholic area with large steel, concrete and barbed-wire barri...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Hall (E) along Obins Street (A) and under the railway bridge (C).Green areas are largely nationalist and Catholic.Orange areas are largely unionist and Protestant. Before partition The Orange Order was founded in 1795 in the village of Loughgall, a few miles from Drumcree, after the Battle of the Diamond. Its first eve...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Drumcree parades. The Public Order Act 1951 exempted "traditional" parades from having to ask police permission, but "non-traditional" parades could be banned or re-routed without appeal. Again, the legislation tended to benefit Protestant parades. In the 1960s, housing estates were built along Garvaghy Road. In 1969, ...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
(UDR). 1970s and 1980s: Obins Street 1972 In March 1972, thousands of loyalists attended an Ulster Vanguard rally in the town, which was addressed by Martin Smyth ("Grand Master" of the Orange Order) and the mayor of Portadown. After the rally, loyalists attacked the Catholic neighbourhood around Obins Street, known as...
[ "Orange Walk" ]
Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
along Garvaghy Road. With troops and police out in force, the march passed peacefully. However, on 12 July, three men were shot dead in Portadown. A Protestant, Paul Beattie, was shot in Churchill Park, a housing estate off Garvaghy Road. Hours later, a UDA member (and former police officer) entered McCabe's Bar and sh...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
dead by the UDA in a Protestant area of the town. He had been a long-time member of St Patrick's Accordion Band based on Obins Street. Later in the month, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb on Woodhouse Street, and loyalists bombed a Catholic church. In the Obins Street area there was also a g...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
the protesters had gone, police again stopped the band and there was a confrontation between police and residents. Following this incident, Portadown Catholics boosted their campaign to ban Orange marches from Obins Street. Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician Bríd Rodgers described this incident as "pi...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
district formed a group called People Against Injustice, later renamed the Drumcree Faith & Justice Group (DFJG). It quickly became the main group representing the residents. The DFJG sought to explain to Orangemen how residents felt about the marches and to improve cross-community relations. It organized peaceful prot...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
he had been jailed for six years for his part in a bomb attack in Portadown town centre. David Trimble, then the local Unionist MP, was to cite the presence "at the centre" of the GRRC of "a person, put forward as a spokesman, with a record of republican activity" as reason for refusing "to have dealings" with the grou...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
by police barricades. At least 4,000 Orangemen and loyalist supporters began another standoff. That afternoon, Orange "Grand Master" Martin Smyth arrived at Drumcree and announced that there could be no compromise. Over the next three days, buses full of Orangemen and their supporters arrived in Portadown, bringing tra...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
total number of troops deployed to 18,500. On the night of 7 July, Catholic taxi-driver Michael McGoldrick was shot dead near Lurgan by the Mid Ulster Brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group. It is believed the killing was ordered by the brigade's leader, Billy Wright, from Portadown....
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
which time the police fired 6,000 plastic bullets, 5,000 of which were directed at nationalists. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), who had sent members to observe the situation, condemned this "completely indiscriminate" use of plastic bullets. Human Rights Watch also accused the police of using "ex...
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Drumcree conflict
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Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
warned Wright to leave Northern Ireland. He ignored the warning, and a large rally was held in Portadown in support of him. Harold Gracey (head of the Portadown Orange Lodge) and William McCrea (a DUP politician) attended the rally and made speeches in support of Wright. Along with most of his Portadown unit, Wright th...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
death by a gang of loyalists on Portadown's main street. He and his friends were attacked while walking home. Weeks before the July 1997 march, Secretary of State Mo Mowlam privately decided to let the march proceed along Garvaghy Road. However, in the days leading up to the march, she insisted that no decision had bee...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
line of soldiers and armoured personnel carriers. The Chief Constable said he had allowed the march to go ahead because of the threat to Catholic civilians by loyalist paramilitaries. About 1,200 Orangemen marched along Garvaghy Road at noon that day. After the march passed, the security forces began withdrawing from t...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
police had fired 2,500 plastic bullets. In 1997, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams told an RTÉ journalist of his party's involvement in the dispute:Ask any activist in the north, 'did Drumcree happen by accident?', and he will tell you, 'no'. Three years of work on the lower Ormeau Road, Portadown and parts of Fermanagh and...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
exploit.Hansard (Col 216), 27 October 2009 After July 1997, GRRC member Breandán Mac Cionnaith replaced Eamon Stack as the group's spokesman. Mac Cionnaith had been convicted and imprisoned for his involvement in a 1981 IRA bomb attack on Portadown's Royal British Legion hall. He was released in 1984. This was the last...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
ban the march from Garvaghy Road. On Friday 3 July about 1,000 soldiers and 1,000 police were deployed in Portadown. The soldiers built large barricades (made of steel, concrete and barbed wire) across all roads leading into the nationalist area. In the fields between Drumcree Church and the nationalist area they dug a...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
remain there until they were allowed to proceed. About 10,000 Orangemen and loyalists arrived at Drumcree from across Northern Ireland. A loyalist group calling itself "Portadown Action Command" issued a statement which read:As from midnight on Friday 10 July 1998, any driver of any vehicle supplying any goods of any k...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
considerably, the Portadown lodges voted unanimously to continue their standoff. On Wednesday 15 July the police began a search operation in the fields at Drumcree. A number of loyalist weapons were found, including a homemade machine gun, spent and live ammunition, explosive devices, and two crossbows with more than a...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Road later that year if they could control things on the traditional parading dates. Throughout the year the Orangemen and supporters held scores of protest rallies and marches in Portadown. Following one protest in September 1998, a Catholic RUC officer was killed by a blast bomb thrown by loyalist rioters. A renegade...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
In April, Portadown loyalists threatened to picket St John's Catholic Church at the top of Garvaghy Road. On 29 May a "junior" Orange march passed near Garvaghy Road. There were clashes following the march with 13 police officers and four civilians hurt. The police fired 50 plastic bullets during the clashes. That mont...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
began a ten-day "Long March" from Derry to Drumcree in protest at the ban. The 1999 Drumcree march took place on Sunday 4 July. About 1,300 Orangemen marched to Drumcree and were met by several thousand supporters. The security forces had again blocked all roads leading into the nationalist area with large steel, concr...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
the GRRC published a book detailing the history of Orange parades in the area. The book was called Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege. In 1999, the Orange Order's membership for the Portadown district, which had increased from 1995 through 1998, began a "catastrophic slump". 2000 April–June In April 2000, a newspaper re...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Hall. Allegedly, police landrovers were nearby but did not intervene. On 27 May, the nationalist area was sealed-off so that a "junior" Orange parade could march along the lower end of Garvaghy Road. The march included men in paramilitary uniform. On 31 May, a children's cross-community concert at St John's Catholic Ch...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
300-strong loyalist mob hurled missiles and sectarian abuse while preventing families from leaving the College. The security forces were deployed but did not disperse the mob or make arrests. On 7 June, St John's Catholic Church was set alight by arsonists. On 16 June, Catholic workers at Denny's factory in Portadown w...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
along Corcrain Road. The work stopped, leaving the nationalist area vulnerable to attack. July In July, it was revealed that members of neo-Nazi group Combat 18 were travelling from England to join the Orangemen at Drumcree. They were given shelter by LVF members in Portadown and Tandragee. That month, Portadown Orange...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
cannon against loyalist rioters at the Drumcree barricade. This was their first deployment in Northern Ireland for over 30 years. In an interview on 7 July, Harold Gracey refused to condemn the violence linked to the protests, saying "Gerry Adams doesn't condemn violence so I'll not". On 9 July, the police warned that ...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Road from both ends, but were held back by police. That night, 21 police officers were hurt during clashes with loyalists. On 14 July, Portadown Orangemen's calls for another day of widespread protest went unheeded as the Armagh and Grand Lodges refused to support their calls. Businesses remained open and only a handfu...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
days before the July 2001 Drumcree march, 200 supporters and members of the UDA rallied at Drumcree. The Portadown Orange Lodge claimed that it was powerless to stop such people from gathering and that they could not be held responsible for their actions. Nevertheless, David Jones (the Lodge's spokesman) said that he w...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
terrorist present". The march passed off peacefully under a heavy security presence. Since 2001 Drumcree has been relatively calm, with outside support for the Portadown lodges' campaign declining and the violence lessening greatly. Mac Cionnaith said that he believes the conflict is essentially over. The Orange Order ...
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Drumcree conflict
[ [ "Drumcree conflict", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Portadown" ] ]
Drumcree Conflict (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
Struggle for Recognition" from the Irish Journal of Sociology Vol. 9. Susan McKay, "Portadown: Bitter Harvest", from her book Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People Ryder, Chris; Kearney, Vincent (2001). Drumcree: The Orange Order's Last Stand. London: Methuen. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN): Developments a...
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Rose Lok
[ [ "Rose Lok", "father", "William Lok" ], [ "Rose Lok", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
English Marian exile
Rose Lok (26 December 1526 – 21 November 1613) was an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period. At the age of eighty-four, she wrote an account covering the first part of her life. Family Rose Lok, born in London on 26 December 1526, was one of the nineteen children of Sir William Lok (1480–15...
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Rose Lok
[ [ "Rose Lok", "father", "William Lok" ], [ "Rose Lok", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
English Marian exile
Alice Spenser, the first of Sir William Lok's four wives, who was an early convert to Protestantism. However according to McDermott, Alice Spenser died in 1522, and Rose Lok's mother was Sir William Lok's second wife, Katherine Cooke (d.1537), daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire. One of her brothers was the merch...
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Rose Lok
[ [ "Rose Lok", "father", "William Lok" ], [ "Rose Lok", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
English Marian exile
Lok, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). Career In 1536 Rose Lok's family lived in Cheapside in London 'at the sign of the Padlock'. Her father was Sheriff in 1548, and was knighted in that year by the young Edward VI. Sir William Lok and his wife were Protestants, and suppo...
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Rose Lok
[ [ "Rose Lok", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
English Marian exile
on her standard of living'. Rose Lok's account of her early life is now held by the British Library as Add MS 43827. Marriages and issue Rose Lok married firstly, on 28 November 1543, the London merchant Anthony Hickman (d.1573), son of Walter Hickman of Woodford, Essex, by whom she had at least three sons, William, He...
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Oh! Carol and Other Big Hits
[ [ "Oh! Carol and Other Big Hits", "instance of", "Compilation album" ], [ "Oh! Carol and Other Big Hits", "publication date", "1975" ] ]
compilation album
Oh! Carol and Other Big Hits is a 1975 compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. The album contains his recordings from the period 1959-1964, when he was affiliated with RCA Records. It is a blend of his rock hits with a few pop standards he recorded for the Circulate album in 1961. It ...
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UFC 173
[ [ "UFC 173", "sport", "Mixed martial arts" ], [ "UFC 173", "location", "MGM Grand Garden Arena" ] ]
UFC mixed martial arts event in 2014
UFC 173: Barão vs. Dillashaw was a mixed martial arts event held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 24, 2014. Background A Middleweight Championship bout between then champion Chris Weidman and number one contender Vitor Belfort was scheduled to headline this event. However, on February 27, the N...
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UFC 173
[ [ "UFC 173", "organizer", "Ultimate Fighting Championship" ], [ "UFC 173", "sport", "Mixed martial arts" ] ]
UFC mixed martial arts event in 2014
bonus) def. Jamie Varner: $17,000 Michael Chiesa: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Francisco Trinaldo: $12,000 Tony Ferguson: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Katsunori Kikuno: $10,000 Chris Holdsworth: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus) def. Chico Camus: $12,000 Mitch Clarke: $20,000 (includes $10,...
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Brave Combat Federation
[ [ "Brave Combat Federation", "founded by", "Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa" ] ]
MMA promoter based in Bahrain
BRAVE Combat Federation is the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the Middle East. The organization was established on 23 September 2016 by Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. BRAVE Combat Federation features mixed martial artists from more than 40 nations located in five continents. BRAVE Combat Federation ...
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Brave Combat Federation
[ [ "Brave Combat Federation", "founded by", "Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa" ] ]
MMA promoter based in Bahrain
Dublin, São Paulo and Mumbai prior to launching events and for talent relations. Brave Combat Federation, alongside the holding company, KHK MMA and Bahrain Mixed Martial Arts Federation hosted the IMMAF World Championships in November, 2017., a partnership which was renewed for 2018 and 2019 History KHK MMA KHK MMA is...
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Brave Combat Federation
[ [ "Brave Combat Federation", "founded by", "Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa" ] ]
MMA promoter based in Bahrain
KHK MMA launched operations of Brave Combat federation on July 27, 2016 and officially launched the promotion on 23 September 2016. KHK MMA Fight Team features fighters from multiple promotions including Khabib Nurmagomedov, Frankie Edgar, Jose Torres and James Gallagher. Coaches and UFC Hall of Famers like Renzo Graci...
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Brave Combat Federation
[ [ "Brave Combat Federation", "instance of", "Subsidiary" ] ]
MMA promoter based in Bahrain
Commentator Alex Soto: Color Commentator Phil Campbell: Color Commentator Carlos Kremer: Cage announcer Cris Cyborg: Guest commentator Noel O'Keefe Kirik Jenness Film Production SMILE - Documentary Brave Combat Federation has announced initiation of operations of their subsidiary film production unit named Brave Films....
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HM Prison Gloucester
[ [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "operator", "Her Majesty's Prison Service" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "instance of", "Prison" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Gloucester" ] ]
prison in Gloucester, UK
HM Prison Gloucester was a Category B men's prison located in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. The prison was operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service and closed in 2013. New similar Prisons are planned to be built in Swindon and Trowbridge. History Designed by William Blackburn, Gloucester opened as a County Gaol...
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HM Prison Gloucester
[ [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "country", "United Kingdom" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "instance of", "Prison" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Gloucester" ] ]
prison in Gloucester, UK
survey as "among the 20 most overcrowded jails" in the United Kingdom. The following day, the prison was the scene of a three-and-a-half-hour siege when two prisoners protested over visiting rights by barricading themselves in a cell. A Time Bank scheme was launched at Gloucester Prison in February 2006. Inmates who jo...
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HM Prison Gloucester
[ [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "instance of", "Prison" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Gloucester" ] ]
prison in Gloucester, UK
Gloucester Prison for its overcrowding, poor dining provision and cramped cells. A month later over 100 prisoners had to be moved to other jails after severe flooding across the Gloucestershire area submerged the ground floor of the prison and interfered with its water supplies. In August 2007, the prison was criticise...
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HM Prison Gloucester
[ [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "instance of", "Prison" ] ]
prison in Gloucester, UK
overall because of good management. On 10 January 2013, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced that the prison was one of seven in England to close. The prison formally closed on 31 March 2013. The site of the prison is due to be redeveloped, however there are a number of executed criminals buried in unmarked grave...
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HM Prison Gloucester
[ [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "instance of", "Prison" ], [ "HM Prison Gloucester", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Gloucester" ] ]
prison in Gloucester, UK
site was formally put up for sale, with an expectation that at least part of the site will be for housing. On 24 December 2014, it was announced that Gloucester Prison along with Dorchester Prison, Kingston Prison and Shepton Mallet Prison had been sold to City and Country. There will be a community consultation on the...
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