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Des Plaines River | [
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Des Plaines River | [
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Des Plaines River | [
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Des Plaines River | [
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Des Plaines River | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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] | diplomatic relations between Finland and North Korea | since the 2000s. There is a friendship association to promote Finnish–North Korean relations in Finland called . Likewise, North Korea has its Korea–Finland Association. Pentecostal charity and the Finnish Red Cross operate in the country. History North Korea pursued relations with Finland already in the late-1950s. Fi... | [] |
Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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] | diplomatic relations between Finland and North Korea | East and West Germany, North and South Korea fell under this policy. Consequentially, Finland had to let South Korea establish a trade office in the capital as well. It also entailed that Finland would have to establish formal diplomatic relations with both states. The impetus came in November 1972, when Finland recogn... | [] |
Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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] | diplomatic relations between Finland and North Korea | Korea maintained an official residence for the ambassador, in the Tammisalo district of the capital since spring 1994. The embassy was closed down "for economic reasons". The properties were sold and the embassy subsequently demolished. The last ambassador before a temporary diplomat was Kim Il-sung's son Kim Pyong-il,... | [] |
Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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Finland–North Korea relations | [
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New World ROM | [
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New World ROM | [
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Earl Stewart | [
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Natalia Streignard | [
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Clergy Act 1640 | [
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Jack Nagle | [
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John Freckleton Burrowes | [
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] | House elections for the 54th U.S. Congress | Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The Democrats ultimately lost 127 seats in the election while the Republicans gained 130 seats (after the resolution of several contested elections). This is the largest swing in the history of the House of Representatives, and also makes the 1894 election the single largest midter... | [
"United States House of Representatives elections, 1894"
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"1894 United States House of Representatives elections",
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] | House elections for the 54th U.S. Congress | summaries Early election dates In 1894, three states, with 8 seats among them, held elections early: June 4 Oregon September 4 Vermont September 10 Maine Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan ... | [
"United States House of Representatives elections, 1894"
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BATCO | [
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] | encryption system | BATCO, short for Battle Code, is a hand-held, paper-based encryption system used at a low, front line (platoon, troop and section) level in the British Army. It was introduced along with the Clansman combat net radio in the early 1980s and was largely obsolete by 2010 due to the wide deployment of the secure Bowman rad... | [
"Battle Code"
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BATCO | [
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"BATCO",
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] | encryption system | similar to older Slidex system. The use of BATCO is still taught to Royal Signals Communication Systems Operators as a back-up should secure equipment fail or be unavailable. It is also taught to Army Cadets and Combined Cadets as part of the Signal Classification qualification. The BATCO code Messages in BATCO are fir... | [
"Battle Code"
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BATCO | [
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[
"BATCO",
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] | encryption system | 5 grid, also labeled horizontally and vertically with single digits. Each cell contains a random two digit number, with no repeated cells. A challenge is issued as a two digit number specifying the columns and row that selects a cell in the table. The response is the contents of the cell. A final scrambled alphabet at ... | [
"Battle Code"
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Klashnekoff | [
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] | British rapper | Darren Kandler, better known by his Stage name Klashnekoff (pronounced K-Lash-Nek-Off) or Ricochet Klashnekoff, is a Jamaican-English Rapper from Stoke Newington, London. Klashnekoff was born in Hornsey, but then moved to Hackney in London where he began his career in rapping. He was the founding member of the Terra Fi... | [] |
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[
"Klashnekoff",
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"1975"
],
[
"Klashnekoff",
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"Hornsey"
]
] | British rapper | Klashnekoff's last album was released on 12 April 2010 and is called Back to the Sagas. He was nominated for the 2007 BET award for best U.K. Hip-Hop artist. Discography Albums The Sagas Of... (2004, Kemet) Lionheart: Tussle with the Beast (2007, Riddim Killa) Back to the Sagas (2010, Abstract Urban) Iona (2019, S.O.N)... | [] |
Elastoplast | [
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[
"Elastoplast",
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]
] | brand of adhesive bandages | Elastoplast is a brand of adhesive bandages (also called sticking plasters) and medical dressings made by Beiersdorf. Beiersdorf bought brand rights for the Commonwealth from Smith & Nephew in 1992. It has become a genericized trademark for "sticking plaster" in some Commonwealth countries including the United Kingdom ... | [
"Hansaplast"
] |
Thomas Edward Simpson | [
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],
[
"Thomas Edward Simpson",
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]
] | Canadian politician | Thomas Edward Simpson (August 10, 1873 – July 16, 1951) was a Canadian politician. Born in Dufferin County, Ontario, Simpson represented the electoral district of Algoma West in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1935. He was a member of Robert Borden's Unionist Party caucus from 1917 to 1921, and of the Conse... | [] |
Elizabeth Fishel | [
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[
"Elizabeth Fishel",
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"Brearley School"
],
[
"Elizabeth Fishel",
"family name",
"Fishel"
]
] | author | Elizabeth Fishel is a journalist and author. In 2013, Fishel published her fifth book, coauthored with Jeffrey Arnett, Getting To 30: A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years (Workman, originally titled, When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up?) In 2000, Fishel published a book profiling 10 of her classmates from the class... | [] |
Elizabeth Fishel | [
[
"Elizabeth Fishel",
"family name",
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]
] | author | Our Lives (1985). Fishel has also written for various magazines and newspapers, including Oprah's O, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, More, Redbook, Parents, Ms., Parenting, The New York Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle. She presently lives in Oakland, California, with her spouse, Robert Houghteling. They hav... | [] |
1591 | [
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] | year | 1591 (MDXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1591, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. Events January–June March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi Dynasty ... | [] |
1591 | [
[
"1591",
"instance of",
"Year"
]
] | year | 2019. July 25 – Siege of Knodsenburg: Maurice of Nassau and Francis Vere defeat the Duke of Parma outside Nijmegen. August – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads an English army in support of the Protestant Henry IV of France at the Siege of Rouen. August–September – During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probab... | [] |
Maisonneuve | [
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"Maisonneuve",
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]
] | Canadian magazine | Maisonneuve may refer to: People Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612–1676), French officer who contributed to the foundation of Montreal Jules Germain François Maisonneuve (1809–1897), surgeon of 19th-century Paris Paul Maisonneuve (footballer) (born 1986), French football player Other uses Maisonneuve (electo... | [] |
Wanda Gertz | [
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"Wanda Gertz",
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],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
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"Major"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War I"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz". She subsequently served in the Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet (Women's Voluntary Legion) of the ... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"given name",
"Wanda"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War II"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | outbreak of World War II her experience and skills in Special operations were ultimately recognised by military men and having joined the resistance in 1939 under codename, "Lena", she became an officer and commander of an all-female battalion in the Home Army. She was awarded the highest Polish military honours, a sin... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | while the House of Wettin occupied the Polish throne. Gertz's father fought in the January Uprising of 1863-64, and Gertz grew up hearing the stories of her father and his comrades. Years later she wrote: As a five-year-old girl I had never had any dolls, only innumerable toy soldiers, which my older brother, his frien... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War I"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | trained in Bookkeeping with the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce. While still at school she had joined the 4th, Emilia Plater troop of the then illegal Girl Guides. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, she joined the Konfederacja Polska (Polish confederation), a national independence lobby organization. Gertz distribut... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | hair and dressed in men's clothing, Gertz presented herself at a recruitment office of the Polish Legion as, "Kazimierz Zuchowicz". All went well until the medical inspection. However, a sympathetic doctor promised to help, and she was assigned to serve as a medical orderly. After a few weeks "Kazik" was reassigned to ... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"country of citizenship",
"Poland"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | Polish Military Organisation - Polska Organizacja Wojskowa. On 8 December 1917 during a demonstration in Saviour Square - (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw, Gertz was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison, but having paid bail, she was released after a few weeks. Upon release she worked as a courier, and was involve... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | the Polish Army and was assigned to the 1st Lithuanian–Belarusian Division. In September 1919, she was appointed commander of the Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet - (2nd Women's Volunteer Legion) in Vilnius. The Women's Legions played an auxiliary role, usually engaged only in guard duties, but during the fighting for Vilnius, ... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | moved to the reserve forces. In 1922 her rank of lieutenant was "removed" from her on the grounds that there was no basis in law for a woman in the Polish armed forces to hold an officer rank. She worked for an engineering enterprise, Koncern Maszynowy S.A. from 1923, and after the May Coup of 1926, she became Chef de ... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"country of citizenship",
"Poland"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War II"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | After Piłsudski's death in 1935, she co-founded the Belweder Museum, where she remained in a management role until September 1939. Her spare time was devoted to other military activities. In 1938 she became treasurer of the Federation of Polish Associations of the Defenders of the Homeland. World War II Soon after the ... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"military rank",
"Major"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"occupation",
"Military personnel"
]
] | Polish soldier | commander, Stanisław Kozarski. In April 1942 Gertz was ordered to create and command a new unit Dywersja i Sabotaż Kobiet - "oddział Dysk" (Women's Diversion and Sabotage unit), as part of the Kedyw. Its members carried out attacks on German military personnel, airfields, trains and bridges. Gertz seems to have been sc... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | the Germans as commandant of 2,000 other female fighters who had survived. She passed through camps at Ożarów, Lamsdorf and Mühlberg, and finally in late 1944 arrived at Molsdorf, all the while retaining command and respect among her fellow POWs. On 5 April 1945 the POWs of Molsdorf were marched to nearby Blankenhain b... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"country of citizenship",
"Poland"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"family name",
"Gertz"
]
] | Polish soldier | Inspector for Women Home Army Soldiers. She travelled throughout Germany and Italy in search of displaced Polish women. From May 1946 until February 1949 she was part of the Polish Resettlement Corps, serving as Inspector of Women Soldiers in the north of England. Her task was to prepare them for civilian life in Brita... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"country of citizenship",
"Poland"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War I"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War II"
]
] | Polish soldier | Military Cemetery in Warsaw. Publications W pierwszym pułku artylerii - Służba Ojczyźnie - "In the first regiment of artillery - service to the fatherland", Warsaw, 1929 Awards Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski), awarded post... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Wanda Gertz | [
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"place of birth",
"Warsaw"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"country of citizenship",
"Poland"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"conflict",
"World War I"
],
[
"Wanda Gertz",
"occupation",
"Military personnel"
]
] | Polish soldier | II Women's roles in the World Wars Kedyw References External links Category:1896 births Category:1958 deaths Category:People from Warsaw Category:Polish people of German descent Category:Polish female military personnel Category:Polish women in World War I Category:Polish Army officers Category:Recipients of the Silver... | [
"Kazimierz Żuchowicz",
"Lena",
"Kazik"
] |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | [
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"place of birth",
"Fontainebleau"
],
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"occupation",
"Writer"
],
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"occupation",
"Translator"
],
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"occupation",
"Poet"
],
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"e... | American writer | Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, Space and Underground Women. Biography Kercheval was born in Fontainebleau, France, to American pare... | [] |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | [
[
"Jesse Lee Kercheval",
"country of citizenship",
"United States"
]
] | American writer | was a collection of short stories named The Dogeater. The stories include The Dogeater, Underground Women, Willy, A Clean House, Tertiary Care, La Mort au Moyen Age, The History of the Church in America, and A History of Indiana. It is now out of print. The short story The Dogeater is about an Igorrote man who lived in... | [] |
Jean Swank | [
[
"Jean Swank",
"educated at",
"Bryn Mawr College"
],
[
"Jean Swank",
"educated at",
"California Institute of Technology"
]
] | American astronomer | Jean Hebb Swank is an astrophysicist who is best known for her studies of black holes and neutron stars. Early life and education Swank graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Bryn Mawr College in 1961. Two of her physics professors at Bryn Mawr were alumni of Caltech. They influenced her decision to a... | [
"Jean Hebb Swank",
"Jean H. Swank"
] |
Jean Swank | [
[
"Jean Swank",
"country of citizenship",
"United States"
],
[
"Jean Swank",
"employer",
"NASA"
],
[
"Jean Swank",
"award received",
"Bruno Rossi Prize"
]
] | American astronomer | in 1975. After she returned to the United States, Swank applied for and received a postdoctoral fellowship at Goddard. NASA career Swank was first associated with NASA as a Resident Research Associate for the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NAS/NRC) in the X-ray Astrophysics Branch located in th... | [
"Jean Hebb Swank",
"Jean H. Swank"
] |
Jean Swank | [
[
"Jean Swank",
"employer",
"NASA"
]
] | American astronomer | of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, and for the resulting important discoveries related to high time resolution observations of compact astrophysical objects." Swank was appointed principal Investigator for NASA's Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) project. The GEMS mission was canceled in 2012 due to ... | [
"Jean Hebb Swank",
"Jean H. Swank"
] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"date of birth",
"1632"
],
[
"Phetracha",
"date of death",
"1703"
],
[
"Phetracha",
"country of citizenship",
"Thailand"
],
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | Phetracha (alternative spellings: Bedraja, P'etraja, Petraja, Petratcha; also called Phra Phetracha; , ; 1632–1703) was a king of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Thailand, usurping the throne from his predecessor King Narai and originally settled in Phluluang village. His clan was the last clan of the Ayutthaya kingdom. Origi... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"date of birth",
"1632"
],
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | the throne of Ayutthaya kingdom upon Narai's death. He opposed the pro-French policies of Narai, ejecting the French officers and some other French citizens from the kingdom, and launched the Siege of Bangkok, to exile all French troops from Siam. Since then, Siam and France have only contacted a few times. However, Si... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | that his mother was also King Narai's wet nurse. It was also recorded that his sister was one of King Narai's concubine. He was Right Director-General of the Royal Department of Elephants, and wrote a manual with Narai on the art of elephant craft. Hence, he was sometimes referred to as "the Elephant Prince". Although ... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | It is also said that he strongly believed in Buddhism, thus gaining support from many monks, who feared Ayutthaya kingdom was being converted to Christianity. Moreover, Phetracha seemed to gain King Narai's trust as well, as he was one of King Narai's close aides and confidants. When the royal palace at Lopburi was fin... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | expansion of foreign trading), Phetracha was a traditionalist who was allegedly disgusted by international influence in Ayutthaya kingdom. King Narai himself favored the opening of his country and created many diplomatic ties with European countries, notably France. Crisis in the kingdom When Narai was seriously ill wi... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | unable to do anything, except curse Phetracha and his son, Luang Sorasak. Luang Sorasak then had Narai's two brothers executed. On 18 May 1688 Preist of Lopburi and monks incited people to invade the Lopburi Palace for coup. Phetracha had a successful coup and chase and arrest important people such as Phaulkon, Phra Pi... | [] |
Phetracha | [
[
"Phetracha",
"occupation",
"King"
]
] | King of Ayutthaya | and English finally ended their dispute with Siam. After that, he appointed Luang Sorasak, his son as the Prince Viceroy and Nai Chopkhotchaprasit, the officer under his department and who helped contending the throne as the Prince Deputy Vice King, and gave regalia as Prince Deputy Vice King rank with Khun Ongkharaksa... | [] |
The Caterer | [
[
"The Caterer",
"instance of",
"Magazine"
],
[
"The Caterer",
"inception",
"1878"
]
] | magazine | The Caterer is a weekly UK business magazine for hospitality professionals. It covers all areas of the hospitality industry (including restaurants, hotels, foodservice, pubs and bars) providing news, analysis and features about senior industry professionals, businesses and trends. It also includes monthly reviews of th... | [
"Caterer and Hotelkeeper",
"Caterer & hotelkeeper"
] |
Honey Bunny | [
[
"Honey Bunny",
"unmarried partner",
"Bugs Bunny"
]
] | cartoon character | Honey Bunny is a female rabbit cartoon character and the ex-girlfriend of Bugs Bunny. The character, designed by Robert McKimson, was used for merchandising purposes beginning in the late 1960s. Appearances Comic books and merchandising An early version of Honey Bunny first appeared in the Bugs Bunny's Album comic book... | [] |
Honey Bunny | [
[
"Honey Bunny",
"unmarried partner",
"Bugs Bunny"
]
] | cartoon character | series of Looney Tunes comic books published by Gold Key throughout the 1960s and 1970s, usually co-starring with Bugs Bunny. Their relationship through the comics was somewhat variable at times; while they were often depicted as a dating couple, there were times when their relationship could be decidedly un-romantic a... | [] |
Honey Bunny | [
[
"Honey Bunny",
"unmarried partner",
"Bugs Bunny"
]
] | cartoon character | and was used frequently in various Looney Tunes merchandise throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Space Jam In the mid-1990s, Warner Bros. started working on Space Jam (1996). There were plans to feature Honey Bunny in the film as Bugs Bunny's female counterpart. In the concept arts, there is an athletic female rabbit ... | [] |
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