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CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
12, based on Android 5.0 Lollipop, began rolling out for a selected number of devices on 6 January 2015. A stable snapshot was released on 25 June 2015, and a security patch snapshot was released on 1 September 2015. Cyanogen OS 12, a variant of CyanogenMod 12 for the OnePlus One and Yu Yureka was released in April 201...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
but nightly builds continue to roll out every day. Lenovo ZUK Z1, Wileyfox Swift and Storm got Cyanogen OS 12.1 out-of-the-box when it was launched in September 2015. YU's Yureka, Yureka Plus, and Yuphoria got a Cyanogen OS 12.1 OTA update. CyanogenMod 13 The first nightly release of CyanogenMod 13.0, based on Android ...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "replaced by", "LineageOS" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
the signature features of CyanogenMod, however, and was considered a "work in progress". This version will add multi-window support. This was the final release to use the name "CyanogenMod". Fork to LineageOS In December 2016 the CyanogenMod developer group forked and re-branded the CyanogenMod code into a new project ...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
of the common features previously provided in CyanogenMod. Cyanogen Inc. Cyanogen Inc. was a venture-funded company with offices in Seattle and Palo Alto, California, announced officially in September 2013, which aimed to commercialize CyanogenMod. The funding was led by Mitch Lasky of Benchmark and raised $7 million. ...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
developers who had provided their work in the past were not being appropriately acknowledged or compensated for their free work on what was now a commercial project, further that the original ethos of the community project was being undermined and that these concerns were not being adequately addressed by Cyanogen Inc....
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "copyright license", "Apache License" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
but the Apache licence (the same license used by Google for Android), and dual licensing was being proposed in order to offer "a stronger degree of protection for contributors... while still offering CM some of the freedoms that the Apache license offers": Developer Entropy512 also observed that CyanogenMod was legally...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
high profile in the market. In his 2013 blog post on Cyanogen's funding, venture funder Mitch Lasky stated: In January 2015, it was reported that Microsoft had invested in Cyanogen, and that this might be part of a strategy to create an Android version that worked well with Microsoft platforms. In April 2015, Cyanogen ...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
Despite the popularity of CyanogenMod as a custom ROM, Cyanogen Inc. failed to persuade phone companies to use its version of Android. In July 2016 it fired around 30 of its 136 staff and management, including its product head, and closed its Seattle office (other offices were described as "gutted"), as part of a strat...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
a month later in November 2016. Media analysis focused on dubious management decisions at Cyanogen Inc. as part of the reason for the failure. In 2014 the company abruptly notified its existing partner OnePlus – who used CyanogenMod for its phones and had just launched models in India – that it had reached an exclusive...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
He drew attention to his own part in the failure, the loss of rights to the "CyanogenMod" name by the community, and to the rift in perception among Android developers ("The rest of the ROM community seems to be highly dependent on us, but simultaneously wants us dead. How on earth do you fix this?"). He asked the comm...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "replaced by", "LineageOS" ], [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
news that the main CyanogenMod project would migrate, renaming itself as "LineageOS". On 24 December 2016, Head of Developer Relations and community forum administrator Abhisek Devkota, a Cyanogen "core team" member, wrote that the community had lost its "last remaining advocate" within the company and its voice in Cya...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
professional approaches adopted during the Cyanogen Inc. era. Due to the negative connotations attached to Cyanogen Inc's conduct, as well as the scope for legal dispute, the forked project decided not to use the existing brand names "Cyanogen" or "CyanogenMod", which in any case belonged to the company. Industry react...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
be evil" and was a challenge to the open-source community Google claimed to embrace. Following a statement from Google clarifying its position and a subsequent negotiation between Google and Cyanogen, it was resolved that the CyanogenMod project would continue, in a form that did not directly bundle in the proprietary ...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
regarding proprietary, closed-source device drivers. On 30 September 2009, Cyanogen posted an update on the matter. Kondik wrote he was rebuilding the source tree, and that he believed the licensing issues with drivers could be worked out. He added that he was also receiving assistance from Google employees. On 16 June...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
proprietary drivers, which is most phones as of 2016. Version history Cyanogen OS Cyanogen commercially developed operating systems that came pre-installed on some devices (OnePlus One, YU Yureka, YU Yuphoria, Andromax Q, BQ Aquaris X5, Lenovo ZUK Z1, Wileyfox Swift, Wileyfox Storm, Alcatel ONETOUCH POP Mirage) based u...
[ "CM" ]
CyanogenMod
[ [ "CyanogenMod", "named after", "Cyanogen" ] ]
mobile operating system based on Android
suffix -S (CyanogenMod 11S), with version 12 Cyanogen rebranded the custom offering as Cyanogen OS. Cyanogen started pushing Cyanogen OS 13 based on Android 6.0.1 to OnePlus One phones OTA on 9 April 2016 phase wise by the code name ZNH0EAS26M. CyanogenMod can be installed on Cyanogen OS devices. Differences between Cy...
[ "CM" ]
J. Neil Garcia
[ [ "J. Neil Garcia", "educated at", "University of Santo Tomas" ], [ "J. Neil Garcia", "place of birth", "Philippines" ] ]
Filipino writer
J. Neil C. Garcia earned his AB Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 1990; MA in Comparative Literature in 1995, and PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is currently a Professor of English, creative writing and comparative lit...
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J. Neil Garcia
[ [ "J. Neil Garcia", "place of birth", "Philippines" ] ]
Filipino writer
Garcia's latest critical work, Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, is a revised version of his very provocative Ph. D dissertation. The book examined Filipino poetics from the perspective of post-colonialism consisting of the author's own critical and personal reflections on poetry-both as he "r...
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J. Neil Garcia
[ [ "J. Neil Garcia", "place of birth", "Philippines" ] ]
Filipino writer
International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands Procyon Poetry Prize National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle Palanca Awards for Literature Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for Poetry U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Artist, U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary...
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J. Neil Garcia
[ [ "J. Neil Garcia", "place of birth", "Philippines" ] ]
Filipino writer
and Transgendered People The Filipino Book Barn Gay and Lesbian Books Online Resource Center for Filipino Writers and Readers: About J. Neil C. Garcia Filipino Writings at the University of Cambridge: The Garden of Wordlessness, 4 and A Cambridge Journal Archipelago A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature University...
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Omaha Sessions
[ [ "Omaha Sessions", "instance of", "Album" ], [ "Omaha Sessions", "record label", "Nick Hexum" ] ]
album by 311
Omaha Sessions is an album released by 311 that was sold only through their website in October 1998. The album contains re-masterings of highlights from their three independent albums: Dammit!, Hydroponic, and Unity. The majority of these songs predate S.A. Martinez's full-time membership in the band; as such, he does ...
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Christiane Mercelis
[ [ "Christiane Mercelis", "occupation", "Tennis player" ], [ "Christiane Mercelis", "country of citizenship", "Belgium" ], [ "Christiane Mercelis", "given name", "Christiane" ], [ "Christiane Mercelis", "participant in", "French Open" ], [ "Christia...
Belgian tennis player
Christiane Mercelis (born 5 October 1931) is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and at the French Open between 1952 and 1965. In the French Open, she reached th...
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Christiane Mercelis
[ [ "Christiane Mercelis", "sport", "Tennis" ] ]
Belgian tennis player
years 231 days in her last doubles match against South Africa on 24 May 1969, which she won partnering Michele Kahn. In the Belgian Tennis Championships. she won 13 singles titles, 14 women's doubles titles, and 16 mixed doubles titles, of which 13 were partnering Jacky Brichant. Titles Mercelis won 17 singles and 17 d...
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Sekiyado Castle
[ [ "Sekiyado Castle", "country", "Japan" ], [ "Sekiyado Castle", "instance of", "Japanese castle" ] ]
building in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
is a Japanese castle located in Noda, northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Sekiyado Castle was home to the Kuse clan, daimyō of Sekiyado Domain. History Sekiyado is located at the confluence of the Tone River and the Edogawa River, and was thus a strategic location controlling river traff...
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1854 in Wales
[ [ "1854 in Wales", "facet of", "Wales" ], [ "1854 in Wales", "point in time", "1854" ] ]
Wales-related events during the year of 1854
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Prince of Wales – Albert Edward Princess of Wales – vacant Events Late August Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff. 31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots...
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1854 in Wales
[ [ "1854 in Wales", "facet of", "Wales" ] ]
Wales-related events during the year of 1854
Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War. Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire. The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week. A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as e...
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Harold Deeton
[ [ "Harold Deeton", "sport", "Ice hockey" ] ]
Canadian ice hockey player
Harold Chester Deeton (July 16, 1882 – July 5, 1969) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and curler who was active in the early 1900s. Deeton played professional hockey for the Edmonton Professionals, a team that operated within the Alberta Professional Hockey League for the 1907–08 season and challenged twic...
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Seol Ye-eun
[ [ "Seol Ye-eun", "place of birth", "Uijeongbu" ], [ "Seol Ye-eun", "sport", "Curling" ] ]
South Korean curler
Seol Ye-eun (born August 26, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently plays lead for the South Korean National Women's Curling Team skipped by Gim Un-chi. Career Seol joined the Gim Un-chi rink in 2017. They didn't play that many events during the 2017–18 season but still found...
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Seol Ye-eun
[ [ "Seol Ye-eun", "sport", "Curling" ] ]
South Korean curler
ten events and qualifying for the playoffs in five of them. They finished runner-up at the Gord Carroll Curling Classic and even played in the 2018 Tour Challenge Tier 2, losing out in the quarterfinals. In summer 2019, Team Gim would win the 2019 Korean National Curling Championship after stealing two in the tenth end...
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Seol Ye-eun
[ [ "Seol Ye-eun", "sport", "Curling" ] ]
South Korean curler
AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and winning the 2019 KW Fall Classic posting a perfect 7–0 record en route to capturing the title. They missed the playoffs at their next two events, the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic. At the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Champion...
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Seol Ye-eun
[ [ "Seol Ye-eun", "sport", "Curling" ] ]
South Korean curler
Qualification Event for their spot in the World's. Next Team Gim competed in the 2019 Boundary Ford Curling Classic where they lost in the final to Kim Min-ji. Two weeks later, they played in the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was another successful run for the rink as they went 7-0 throu...
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Turbo Ocho
[ [ "Turbo Ocho", "instance of", "Album" ] ]
album by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
Turbo Ocho is the fifth studio album released by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. It was released on April 29, 2008. Background January 4, 2008, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers started an eight consecutive day audio/video chronicle. A revolutionary reality-recording experiment where the band and crew set up a studio in a...
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Dainius Šuliauskas
[ [ "Dainius Šuliauskas", "country of citizenship", "Lithuania" ], [ "Dainius Šuliauskas", "given name", "Dainius" ], [ "Dainius Šuliauskas", "member of sports team", "FK Žalgiris" ], [ "Dainius Šuliauskas", "member of sports team", "GKS Bełchatów" ], [ ...
Lithuanian footballer
Dainius Šuliauskas (born 27 August 1973) is a retired Lithuanian football defender, who last played for FK Sūduva during his professional career. He obtained a total number of nine caps for the Lithuania national football team, scoring one goal. Honours Lithuania Baltic Cup: 1991, 1997 Žalgiris Vilnius A Lyga: 1991–92 ...
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Marloes Mere
[ [ "Marloes Mere", "heritage designation", "Site of Special Scientific Interest" ], [ "Marloes Mere", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Pembrokeshire" ], [ "Marloes Mere", "instance of", "Site of Special Scientific Interest" ] ]
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales
Marloes Mere is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI) in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since November 1985 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological elements. The site has an area of 17.17 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales. T...
[ "Marian Marloes" ]
Marloes Mere
[ [ "Marloes Mere", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Pembrokeshire" ] ]
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales
ponds are frequented by waterfowl. The mere was common land until 1811; at that time Richard Fenton mentioned that it abounded in medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis), from which the villagers derived a considerable trade. Rare species Rare plants include: three-lobed crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus) tubular water-d...
[ "Marian Marloes" ]
PhiU53 holin family
[ [ "PhiU53 holin family", "subclass of", "Holin" ] ]
class of transmembrane transport proteins
The Firmicute Phage φU53 Holin (φU53 Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.13) consists of putative holins that range in size from 117 to 124 amino acyl residues (aas) in length and exhibit 3 transmembrane segments (TMSs) found in Firmicute phage. While annotated as holins, it appears as though many members of the φU53 holin family a...
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NGC 2506
[ [ "NGC 2506", "constellation", "Monoceros" ], [ "NGC 2506", "instance of", "Open cluster" ], [ "NGC 2506", "discoverer or inventor", "William Herschel" ] ]
Open cluster in the constellation Monoceros
NGC 2506 is a mildly-elongated open cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros, located at a distance of from the Sun near the Galactic anti-center. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1791. The cluster lies around from the Galactic Center and about above the Galactic plane. It is of intermediat...
[ "Caldwell 54", "C 54" ]
Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Joanne Weaver [″Joltin' Jo″] (December 19, 1935 – March 19, 2000) was a right fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 142 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Overview profile One of the most talented hitters in AAGPBL history, Joanne Weaver was the younges...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "place of death", "Metropolis, Illinois" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "place of birth", "Metropolis, Illinois" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
AAGPBL in most major offensive categories between 1952 and 1954. A three-time All-Star, Joanne earned Player of the Year honors in 1954, when she hit a .429 average to set an AAGPBL single-season record. Besides this, her .429 mark was the highest Professional American Baseball batting average collected by any player i...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
father tried to get them to play on a local boys' baseball team, with little success, until he managed to insert them into the Magnavox team of the Chicago industrial league, a successful fastpitch softball squad in which they finally started to play regularly. In 1950, Betty rejected a contract offer from the Chicago ...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
in the 1951 season. She hit .276 in 53 games, showing a smooth, quick swing with good speed and above average base running instincts. Her fielding was the only skill lacking. Meanwhile, her sister Betty won batting titles in back-to-back seasons in 1950 and 1951, helping Fort Wayne to make the playoffs in these years. ...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
high in any other category. Both sisters were selected for the All-Star Team and helped Fort Wayne advance to the playoffs. Weaver improved her fielding considerably in 1953, when she finished the year with a .952 average. Her hitting stayed about the same, which was good enough to win another batting title with a .346...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
midseason the AAGPBL reduced the ball from 10.00 inches to the major league size, around 9.00 inches. The league also extended pitching distance from 56 feet to 60 feet and base paths from 75 feet to 85 feet. As a result, Joanne earned the Player of the Year Award and made the All-Star Team for the third consecutive ye...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
in the league's history to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases during a regular season. Weaver also hit a league-leading .429, which remains the highest professional baseball batting average posted in the 20th century. The Fort Wayne Daisies advanced to the best-of-five game Championship Series. Previously in the playo...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, while Chris Ballingall added a grand slam. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause and Joanne Weaver slugged one. Pitching star Maxine ...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Gloria Cordes started for Kalamazoo, but due to a mix-up over the game's starting time the umpires did not allow her to warm up (supposedly there would be a half hour delay). Starting cold, Cordes allowed five runs before getting a batter out. After a leadoff walk, Horstman belted a home run for a 2–0 Fort Wayne lead. ...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
and the Foss-Weaver sisters. Kalamazoo discounted the margin with leadoff homers by Nancy Mudge, Peppas (playing at first base) and Dorothy Schroeder, but the game's outcome was never in doubt. In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and ...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
other hand, the usually heavy-hitting Daisies averaged only .275. The sisters Foss-Weaver were able to win the final five batting championships of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and two Player of the Year awards. With Helen Callaghan winning the batting title in 1945, the Fort Wayne Daisies amassed...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
best regular-season record. Bill Allington All-Stars Once the league disbanded in 1954, Joanne Weaver was one of eleven players selected by former Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans. The Allington All-Stars played 100 games between 1954 and 1958, each booked i...
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Joanne Weaver
[ [ "Joanne Weaver", "given name", "Joanne" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "place of death", "Metropolis, Illinois" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "place of birth", "Metropolis, Illinois" ], [ "Joanne Weaver", "sport", "Baseball" ] ]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Ruth Richard, Jean Smith, Dorothy Schroeder and Dolly Vanderlip, among others. Life after baseball Following her baseball career, Joanne Weaver lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana for more than 30 years. In November 1988, the Weaver sisters received recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New Yor...
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Midlothian Coalfield
[ [ "Midlothian Coalfield", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Midlothian" ] ]
coal mining region in Scotland
The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh. It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal reserves have only been partly exploited. There were undersea workings extending from ...
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2006 Football League Championship play-off Final
[ [ "2006 Football League Championship play-off Final", "sport", "Association football" ], [ "2006 Football League Championship play-off Final", "location", "Millennium Stadium" ] ]
2006 UK football match
The 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final was an association football match played at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 21 May 2006. It determined the third and final team in the 2005–06 football season to be promoted to the Premier League, the highest division in the English football league system. It was ...
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Bruce Tuckman
[ [ "Bruce Tuckman", "given name", "Bruce" ], [ "Bruce Tuckman", "family name", "Tuckman" ], [ "Bruce Tuckman", "field of work", "Educational psychology" ] ]
American psychologist
Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American Psychological Researcher who carried out his research into the theory of group dynamics. In 1965, he published a theory known as "Tuckman's stages of group development". According to this theory, there are four phases of group development: Forming...
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Bruce Tuckman
[ [ "Bruce Tuckman", "family name", "Tuckman" ], [ "Bruce Tuckman", "educated at", "Princeton University" ] ]
American psychologist
Walter E. Dennis Learning Center with the mission of providing students of all backgrounds with strategies for college success that enabled them to enter, excel in, and complete programs of post-secondary education. To teach students strategies for succeeding in college, he co-authored the textbook, Learning and Motiva...
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Thomas Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh
[ [ "Thomas Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh", "military branch", "British Army" ] ]
Proponent of the British Volunteer Force
his estate but being illegitimate could not inherit his fathers titles. The titles of Viscount Ranelagh and Baron Jones of Navan became extinct upon his death in 1885. See also Jones had two prominent relatives from his maternal grandmother: American Revolutionary War hero and former British Army officer Major General ...
[ "Thomas Jones" ]
American Music Awards of 2010
[ [ "American Music Awards of 2010", "part of the series", "American Music Awards" ] ]
2010 ceremony of the American Music Awards
The 38th Annual American Music Awards were held November 21, 2010, at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from 2010's music list. Nominees were announced on October 12, 2010 by Demi Lovato and Taio Cruz. Justin Bieber was nominated for, and w...
[ "AMAs 2010", "AMA 2010" ]
William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "occupation", "Oceanographer" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "University of Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
William Speirs Bruce (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organized and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE, 1902–04) to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent we...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Expedition to Antarctica as a scientific assistant. This was followed by Arctic voyages to Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land. In 1899 Bruce, by then Britain's most experienced polar scientist, applied for a post on Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, but delays over this appointment and clashes wi...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
fuller recognition to his role in the history of scientific polar exploration. Early life Home and school William Speirs Bruce was born at 43 Kensington Gardens Square in London, the fourth child of Samuel Noble Bruce, a Scottish physician, and his Welsh wife Mary, née Lloyd. His middle name came from another branch of...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "Watts Naval School" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Bruce. There were regular visits to nearby Kensington Gardens, and sometimes to the Natural History Museum; according to Samuel Bruce these outings first ignited young William's interest in life and nature. In 1879, at the age of 12, William was sent to a progressive boarding school, Norfolk County School (later Watts ...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
and was ready to start his medical studies in the autumn of 1887. Edinburgh During mid-1887, Bruce travelled north to Edinburgh to attend a pair of vacation courses in natural sciences. The six-week courses, at the recently established Scottish Marine Station at Granton on the Firth of Forth, were under the direction o...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "University of Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
school at the University of Edinburgh. This enabled him to maintain contact with mentors such as Geddes and Thomson, and also gave him the opportunity to work during his free time in the Edinburgh laboratories where specimens brought back from the Challenger expedition were being examined and classified. Here he worked...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
by locating a source of right whales in the region. Scientific observations and oceanographic research would also be carried out in the four whaling ships: Balaena, Active, Diana and Polar Star. Bruce was recommended to the expedition by Hugh Robert Mill, an acquaintance from Granton who was now librarian to the Royal ...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Expedition, then in its third year in the Arctic on Franz Josef Land. This expedition, led by Frederick George Jackson and financed by newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, had left London in 1894. It was engaged in a detailed survey of the Franz Josef archipelago, which had been discovered, though not properly mapped, ...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
finds. This "tendency towards scientific conceit", and lack of tact in interpersonal dealings, were early demonstrations of character flaws that in later life would be held against him. Arctic voyages On his return from Franz Josef Land in 1897, Bruce worked in Edinburgh as an assistant to his former mentor John Arthur...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "occupation", "Oceanographer" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
But his scientific work was unabated: "I have been taking 4-hourly observations in meteorology and temperature of the sea surface [...] have tested salinity with Buchanan's hydrometer; my tow-nets [...] have been going almost constantly". Blencathra sailed for Spitsbergen, but was stopped by ice, so she returned to Tro...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
she floated free, and was able to return to Tromsø for repairs. Marriage and family life It is uncertain how Bruce was employed after his return from Spitsbergen in late 1899. In his whole life he rarely had settled salaried work, and usually relied on patronage or on influential acquaintances to find him temporary pos...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Parish of Nigg on 20 January 1901, being attended and witnessed by their parents. Perhaps, due to Bruce's secretive nature presenting limited details even among his circle of close friends and colleagues, little information about the wedding has been recorded by his biographers. In 1907 the Bruces settled in a house at...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
these years Bruce founded the Scottish Ski Club and became its first president. He was also a co-founder of Edinburgh Zoo. Bruce's chosen life as an explorer, his unreliable sources of income and his frequent extended absences, all placed severe strains on the marriage, and the couple became estranged around 1916. They...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "occupation", "Oceanographer" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
that the expedition's work had "laid the foundation of modern climate change studies", and that its experimental work had showed this part of the globe to be crucially important to the world's climate. According to the oceanographer Tony Rice, it fulfilled a more comprehensive programme than any other Antarctic expedit...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Bruce's collection of specimens, gathered from more than a decade of Arctic and Antarctic travel, required a permanent home. Bruce himself needed a base from which the detailed scientific reports of the Scotia voyage could be prepared for publication. He obtained premises in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, in which he esta...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "occupation", "Oceanographer" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "University of Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
year of oceanographer Sir John Murray, for the specimens and library of the Challenger expedition. Bruce proposed that a new centre should be created as a memorial to Murray. There was unanimous agreement to proceed, but the project was curtailed by the outbreak of war, and not revived. The Scottish Oceanographical Lab...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of birth", "London" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "University of Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "member of", "Royal Society of Edinburgh" ]...
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and other Scottish organisations, but the timing was wrong; the Royal Geographical Society in London was fully occupied with Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, and showed no interest in Bruce's plans. No rich private benefactors came forward, and persisten...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "member of", "Royal Society of Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
Scottish Geographical Society in 1904; the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1910; the Neill prize and Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913, and the Livingstone Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1920. He also received an honorary LLD degree from the University of Aberdeen. The h...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "member of", "Royal Society of Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
was withheld. Bruce, and those close to him, blamed Markham for this omission. The matter was raised, repeatedly, with anyone thought to have influence. Robert Rudmose Brown, chronicler of the Scotia voyage and later Bruce's first biographer, wrote in a 1913 letter to the President of the Royal Scottish Geographical So...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
the SNAE centenary, which concluded: "The Polar Medal Advisory Committee should recommend the posthumous award of the Polar Medal to Dr William Speirs Bruce, in recognition of his status as one of the key figures in early 20th century polar scientific exploration". Last years After the outbreak of war in 1914, Bruce's ...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
to Britain he finally secured a minor post at the Admiralty. Bruce continued to lobby for recognition, highlighting the distinctions between the treatment of SNAE and that of English expeditions. When the war finished he attempted to revive his various interests, but his health was failing, forcing him to close his lab...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
he was cremated, and the ashes taken to South Georgia to be scattered on the southern sea. Despite his irregular income and general lack of funds, his estate realised £7,000 ( value about £). Assessment After Bruce's death his long-time friend and colleague Robert Rudmose Brown wrote, in a letter to Bruce's father: "Hi...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
conclusions" relating to global warming from its research, and saw this contribution as a "fitting tribute to Britain's forgotten polar hero, William Speirs Bruce". An hour-long BBC television documentary on Bruce presented by Neil Oliver in 2011 contrasted his meticulous science with his rivals' aim of enhancing imper...
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William Speirs Bruce
[ [ "William Speirs Bruce", "place of death", "Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "educated at", "University of Edinburgh" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "given name", "William" ], [ "William Speirs Bruce", "employer", "Heriot-Watt University" ] ]
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer
some injustice was being done to, or slight cast on, his men, on his colleagues, on his laboratory, on his Scotland. Then one got glimpses of the volcano which his gentle spirit usually kept sleeping." See also List of recipients of the W. S. Bruce Medal Notes and references Citations Sources Online sources External li...
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Nancy Hayfield
[ [ "Nancy Hayfield", "educated at", "Princeton University" ] ]
American writer
Nancy Hayfield is an author, editor, and publisher. In 1979, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. Nancy Hayfield's first novel Cleaning House was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1980. In 1985, writing under her married name of Nancy Birnes, Hayfield published Cheaper and Better at Harper &...
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Tatsukuma Ushijima
[ [ "Tatsukuma Ushijima", "place of birth", "Kumamoto" ], [ "Tatsukuma Ushijima", "country of citizenship", "Japan" ], [ "Tatsukuma Ushijima", "sport", "Judo" ] ]
Japanese judoka
Tatsukuma Ushijima (牛島辰熊, March 10, 1904 – May 26, 1985) was a Japanese judoka and former All-Japan judo champion, who was also known as a teacher of Masahiko Kimura, a famous judoka. His nickname was "The Demon Ushijima". Biography He was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, a son of refiners family. He began...
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Percy Byrnes
[ [ "Percy Byrnes", "date of death", "1973" ], [ "Percy Byrnes", "occupation", "Politician" ] ]
Australian politician
Sir Percy Thomas Byrnes (28 January 1893 – 5 March 1973) was an Australian politician. He was born at Eidsvold in Queensland to water bailiff Thomas Byrnes and Annie Louisa James. He attended the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Science, and served in the AIF during World War I. On 6 June 1918 h...
[ "Percy Thomas Byrnes", "Sir Thomas Percy Francis Byrnes" ]
Percy Byrnes
[ [ "Percy Byrnes", "date of death", "1973" ] ]
Australian politician
including a term as president (1939–40). In 1942 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province. He was Assistant Minister of Lands and Water Supply from 1947 to 1948 and Minister of Public Works from 1950 to 1952; he also led the Country Party in the Council from 1949 to 1969. Byrnes wa...
[ "Percy Thomas Byrnes", "Sir Thomas Percy Francis Byrnes" ]
Jiangxi Agricultural University
[ [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "country", "China" ], [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "instance of", "University" ], [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "headquarters location", "Nanchang" ], [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "located in the admi...
university in China
Jiangxi Agricultural University (JXAU; ) is located in the northern suburbs of Nanchang city. Nanchang is the capital city of Jiangxi province. JXAU is a key province-run university and is one of the first universities in China to confer bachelor's and master's degrees. The campus is beautiful with pleasant environment...
[ "Jiāngxī Nóngyè Dàxué" ]
Jiangxi Agricultural University
[ [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "instance of", "University" ], [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "headquarters location", "Nanchang" ], [ "Jiangxi Agricultural University", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Nanchang" ] ]
university in China
community services. Administration The university consist of the following faculties and schools. These are; College of Agronomy Institute of the Arts College of Animal Science and Technology College of Engineering Institute of Land and Resources and the Environment Computer and Information Engineering College The Econ...
[ "Jiāngxī Nóngyè Dàxué" ]
Cecilio Apóstol
[ [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "place of birth", "Manila" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "occupation", "Poet" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "educated at", "University of Santo Tomas" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "languages spoken, written or signed", "Spanish language" ], [ "...
Filipino writer
Cecilio Apóstol (November 22, 1877 – September 8, 1938) was a Filipino poet and poet laureate. His poems were once used to teach the Spanish language under the Republic Act No. 1881. He was born in Santa Cruz, Manila and studied at the Ateneo de Manila where he finished his Bachelor of Arts, before studying law at the ...
[ "Cecilio Apostol" ]
Cecilio Apóstol
[ [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "place of birth", "Manila" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "place of death", "Caloocan" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "country of citizenship", "Philippines" ], [ "Cecilio Apóstol", "educated at", "Ateneo de Manila University" ] ]
Filipino writer
He later joined the Nacionalista Party which wanted the independence of the Philippines from the United States. He was a member of the Philippine Academy from 1924 until his death. Apóstol wrote in English and Spanish, and composed poems that demonstrated his mastery of Spanish. He composed the poem Al Heroe Nacional (...
[ "Cecilio Apostol" ]
VENµS
[ [ "VENµS", "operator", "CNES" ] ]
Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite (VENµS) is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite. It is a joint project of the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. The project was signed upon in April 2005 and was launched on the 2nd of August 2017. The microsatellite, which was set to cost the ISA...
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VENµS
[ [ "VENµS", "operator", "CNES" ] ]
Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
payload (Israeli Hall effect Thruster and autonomous mission), the spacecraft, and the launcher interface. History A joint study to check feasibility of the program was done on the first half of 2005. Phase A started in 2005 and upon completion, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the ISA and CNES. The sat...
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VENµS
[ [ "VENµS", "operator", "CNES" ] ]
Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
a scientific and a technological mission. Scientific mission requirements were defined by Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère, France, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and CNES. Technological Mission requirement were defined by Rafael. Scientific mission The satellite has a 2-day revisit orbit whic...
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VENµS
[ [ "VENµS", "manufacturer", "Israel Aerospace Industries" ] ]
Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
mission at an altitude of 410 km on an Earth repeating sun synchronous orbit The technological mission is designed to use 16 kg of Xenon. Platform The satellite platform is based on the Israel Aerospace Industries OPSAT 3000 satellite platform. Venus satellite will have dual propulsion system: Hydrazine for orbit inser...
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VENµS
[ [ "VENµS", "operator", "CNES" ], [ "VENµS", "manufacturer", "Israel Aerospace Industries" ] ]
Israeli French remote sensing satellite multispectral imaging and testing hall effect thruster
of the missions: The scientific mission is operated from Toulouse Space Center, France and the technology mission is controlled from the Technological Mission Center, Rafael, Haifa, Israel. See also CNES Israel Space Agency 2014 in spaceflight Israel Aerospace Industries Vega Ritchey–Chrétien telescope References Exter...
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Thomas Huynh
[ [ "Thomas Huynh", "date of birth", "1973" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "educated at", "Vanderbilt University" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "country of citizenship", "United States" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "country of citizenship", "Vietnam" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "...
American writer
Thomas Cuong Huynh (born 1973) is an author, translator, and scholar of the Chinese classic Sun Tzu's The Art of War. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. Life and work Thomas Cuong Huynh was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1973. In 1999, Huynh founded Sonshi, an educational resource for Sun Tzu's The Art of ...
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Thomas Huynh
[ [ "Thomas Huynh", "date of birth", "1973" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "educated at", "Vanderbilt University" ], [ "Thomas Huynh", "country of citizenship", "United States" ] ]
American writer
Google he presented concepts on how to succeed in competition. In 2008, Bloomberg BusinessWeek selected him as among the most engaged contributors of the year. Huynh started Cuong in 2020 to focus on Asian-American issues. Bibliography Translation and annotation by Thomas Huynh (2008). The Art of War: Spirituality for ...
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Palais Auersperg
[ [ "Palais Auersperg", "country", "Austria" ], [ "Palais Auersperg", "located in the administrative territorial entity", "Josefstadt" ], [ "Palais Auersperg", "instance of", "Palace" ], [ "Palais Auersperg", "architect", "Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach"...
palace
Palais Auersperg, originally called Palais Rosenkavalier, is a Baroque palace at Auerspergstraße 1 in the Josefstadt or eighth district of Vienna, Austria. History Palais Auersperg was built between 1706 and 1710 on the plot of the former Rottenhof according to the plans of two well-known architects, Johann Bernhard Fi...
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Palais Auersperg
[ [ "Palais Auersperg", "instance of", "Palace" ] ]
palace
hired Giuseppe Bonno as musical conductor of the palace. Between 1754 and 1761, weekly music courses were held during the winter months. From 1759, he rented the palace and hired Christoph Willibald Gluck as head conductor of the concerts held there. In 1777, Prince Johann Adam of Auersperg, friend and confidant of Emp...
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ASJA L2
[ [ "ASJA L2", "wing configuration", "Biplane" ], [ "ASJA L2", "operator", "Swedish Air Force" ], [ "ASJA L2", "subclass of", "Trainer aircraft" ] ]
Swedish biplane trainer aircraft
__NOTOC__ The ASJA L2 was a Swedish biplane trainer aircraft built for the Swedish Air Force in the early 1930s. It was designated Ö 9 in that service. The fuselage was of fabric-covered, welded steel tube construction and accommodated the pilot and instructor in tandem open cockpits. The wings were fabric-covered wood...
[ "Ö 9", "ASJA L 2" ]
Angus M. Bowie
[ [ "Angus M. Bowie", "employer", "University of Oxford" ] ]
British university teacher
Angus Morton Bowie (born 1949) is a British academic, Emeritus Lobel fellow in Classics at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. His research interests include Homer, Herodotus, Greek lyric, tragedy and comedy, Virgil, Greek mythology, structuralism, narratology, and other theories of literature. Biography After a...
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Angus M. Bowie
[ [ "Angus M. Bowie", "employer", "University of Oxford" ] ]
British university teacher
Queen's College, Oxford, in 1981. In 1987 he taught a semester at Berkeley. Apart from Lobel Fellow and Tutor in Classics (from Praelector to Associate Professor), he also served as Senior Tutor (1981–1987) and Fellow Librarian at The Queen's College, as Chair of the Faculty of Classics (2011–2014), and as Assessor of ...
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