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Aripiprazole, sold under the brand names Abilify and Aristada, among others, is an atypical antipsychotic. It is primarily used in the treatment of schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder; other uses include as an add-on treatment in major depressive disorder, tic disorders, and irritab... | {"Pronunciation": "ˌ ɛər ᵻ ˈ p ɪ p r ə z oʊ lAIR ih PIP rə zohlAbilify ə ˈ b ɪ l ɪ f aɪə BIL if eye", "Trade name": "Abilify, Aristada, others", "AHFS": "monograph aripiprazole", "Pregnancycategory": "Aripiprazole Use During Pregnancy Drugs.com 22 August 2019 https://www.drugs.com/pregnancy/aripiprazole.html 7 Febr... |
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (16 April 1800 - 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British Army officer. He was one of three men, along with Captain Nolan and Lord Raglan, responsible for the fateful order during the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 tha... | {"Nickname(s)": "\"The Exterminator\"", "Born": "London, England, Great Britain", "Died": "London, England, United Kingdom", "Allegiance": "United Kingdom", "Commands held": "Cavalry Division", "Awards": "Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Order of St. Anna, 2nd Class (Russia) Order of the Medjidie, First Cl... |
Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin: The Church of Gnosis) is an open sacramental neo-Gnostic church based in the United States. It has ordained clergy and conducts regular sacramental services, including two weekly Masses (Celebration of the Holy Eucharist), as well as monthly and seasonal services in accordance with the liturgi... | {"OS grid reference": "Ecclesia Gnostica", "Denomination": "Christian Neo-Gnosticism", "Founded": "1959", "Bishop(s)": "Stephan A. Hoeller", "Location": "Los Angeles", "Country": "United States", "Website": "Ecclesia Gnostica"} |
Johnson is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin meaning "Son of John". It is the second most common in the United States.Wikisource:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100) As a common family name in Scotland, Johnson is occasionally a variation of Johnston, a habitational name.
Etymology
The name itself is a patronym... | {"Pronunciation": "En-au-johnson.ogg ˈ dʒ ɒ n s ən", "Language(s)": "Germanic", "Meaning": "son of John", "Region of origin": "England, Normandy"} |
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (; born June 4, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as John Carter in the television series ER (1994-2009), which earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. He is also known for his roles as Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise... | {"Name": "Noah Wyle", "Caption": "Wyle at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con", "Birth name": "Noah Strausser Speer Wyle", "Birth date": "1971 06 04", "Birth place": "Los Angeles, California, U.S.", "Education": "Northwestern University (BA)", "Occupation": "Actor", "Years active": "1984-present", "Spouse(s)": "Tracy Warbin 2... |
Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino, (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based.
Hunter, who legally adopted that name in 1952, also used th... | {"Pen name": "John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Ed McBain, Richard Marsten, others", "Born": "1926 10 15 y", "Died": "2005 7 6 1926 10 15", "Occupation": "Novelist\n short story writer\n screenwriter", "Period": "1951-2005", "Children": "3 sons; 1 stepdaughter"} |
Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 - 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Life and works
Early years
Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father supplied Italo Svevo's firm). Montale was t... | {"Name": "Eugenio Montale", "Term start": "13 June 1967", "Term end": "12 September 1981", "Birth date": "y 1896 10 12", "Birth place": "Genoa, Kingdom of Italy", "Death date": "y 1981 9 12 1896 10 12", "Death place": "Milan, Italy", "Awards": "1975 Nobel Prize in Literature"} |
Episiotomy, also known as perineotomy, is a surgical incision of the perineum and the posterior vaginal wall generally done by a midwife or obstetrician. This is usually performed during second stage of labor to quickly enlarge the aperture allowing the baby to pass through. The incision, which can be done from the pos... | {"Pronunciation": "ə ˌ p iː z i ˈ ɒ t ə m i ,_ , ɛ p ə s aɪ ˈ -", "ICD-9-CM": "73.6", "MeSH": "D004841", "Other names": "Perineotomy"} |
The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories by American author Ed McBain (a writing pseudonym of Evan Hunter). McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.
Setting
The series is based on the work of the police detective s... | {"Country": "United States", "Language": "English", "Publisher": "Original US editions:\n\n Permabooks\n Dell Publishing\n Doubleday (publisher)\n Random House\n Viking Press\n Arbor House\n William Morrow and Company\n Warner Books\n Simon and Schuster\n Harcourt Books", "Published": "1956-2005", "Media type": "Print ... |
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First World War during which he was seriously wounded. He was of Portuguese-Jewish descent.... | {"Name": "René Cassin", "Caption": "René Cassin's portrait from his Nobel Prize", "Birth name": "René Samuel Cassin", "Birth date": "1887 10 05 y", "Birth place": "Bayonne, Basque Country, France", "Death date": "yes 1976 2 20 1887 10 05", "Death place": "Paris, France", "Occupation": "French jurist, law professor and ... |
Albert John Luthuli ( - 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
Luthuli was born to a Zulu family in 1898 at a Seventh-day Adventist mission in Bulawayo, Rhodesi... | {"Name": "Albert Luthuli", "Alternative text": "Photograph of Luthuli", "Term start": "December 1952", "Term end": "21 July 1967", "Office 2": "Rector of the University of Glasgow", "Predecessor 2": "Quintin Hogg", "Successor 2": "The Lord Reith", "Birth date": "1898", "Birth place": "Bulawayo, Rhodesia", "Death date":... |
Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, 15 May 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene, transformed into a gothic rock band, and, in later years, flirted with... | {"Born": "Ely, Cambridgeshire, England", "Genres": "Gothic rock post-punk darkwave hard rock", "Member of": "The Sisters of Mercy", "Formerly of": "The Sisterhood SSV", "Labels": "Merciful Release"} |
Prince of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural horror film, written and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount. The second installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy"—which began with The Thing (1982) and concludes with In the Mouth o... | {"Directed by": "John Carpenter", "Produced by": "Larry J. Franco", "Written by": "John Carpenter(as Martin Quatermass)", "Starring": "Donald Pleasence\n Lisa Blount\n Victor Wong\n Jameson Parker", "Music by": "John CarpenterAlan Howarth", "Cinematography": "Gary B. Kibbe", "Edited by": "Steve Mirkovich", "Distributed... |
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The Most Honourable Order of the BathThe word 'Military' was removed from the name by Queen Victoria in 1847. Letters Patent dated 14 April 1847, quoted in Statutes 1847. is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I ... | {"Type": "Order of chivalry", "Country": "United Kingdom", "Motto": "Tria juncta in uno ('Three joined in one') (Civil Division)Ich dien (Military Division)", "Status": "currently constituted", "Former grades": "Knight Companion (KB)", "Next (higher)": "Order of St Patrick", "Next (lower)": "Order of the Star of India"... |
Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier road bridge in Sheffield, England; it was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. It carries the M1 and the A631 for a distance of over the Don Valley, from Tinsley to Wincobank, also crossing the Sheffield Canal, the Midland Main Line and the former South Yorkshire Railway line from... | {"Carries": "M1\n A631", "Crosses": "River Don\n Sheffield Canal\n Midland Main Line\n South Yorkshire Railway\n Sheffield Supertram (partially)", "Locale": "Tinsley/Wincobank", "Maintained by": "National Highways", "Design": "twin deck box girder bridgehttp://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/6028.aspx Tinsley Viaduc... |
TAXAN wasArchived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: a brand of Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in July 1981. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the US division published several video games on the NES and Game Boy. The company shut down in 1991 according to former employee Ken Lobb.Archiv... | {"Type": "Brand", "Industry": "Computer hardware, video games", "Founded": "1981United Kingdom", "Defunct": "yes 1991", "Headquarters": "Bracknell, United Kingdom", "Parent": "Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd", "Products": "Product list to 1985List of games"} |
thumb|Map from Soviet book "Archeology of the Ukrainian SSR in 3 volumes", Kiev, 1986, showing place of the Asparuh's burial near the modern city of Zaporizhzhia.Asparuh (also Ispor; or (rarely) ) was а ruler of Bulgars in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian... | {"Name": "AsparuhАспарух", "Succession": "Khan of Bulgaria", "Religion": "Tengrism", "Title": "Khan of Bulgaria", "Image": "KanasJubigiAsparukh2.JPG", "Caption": "Monument in Strelcha, Bulgaria", "Reign": "681-701", "Predecessor": "Kubrat", "Successor": "Tervel", "Issue": "Tervel Ajjar", "Father": "Kubrat", "Birth dat... |
Nicolas Charles Oudinot, comte d'Oudinot, duc de Reggio (25 April 1767 in Bar-le-Duc - 13 September 1847 in Paris), was a Marshal of the Empire. He is known to have been wounded 34 times in battle, being hit by artillery shells, sabers, and at least twelve bullets over the course of his military career. Oudinot is one ... | {"Born": "Bar-le-Duc, France", "Died": "Paris, France", "Allegiance": "Kingdom of FranceKingdom of the FrenchFirst French RepublicFirst French EmpireBourbon RestorationJuly Monarchy", "Awards": "Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour", "Other work": "Governor of Les Invalides (1842-1847)"} |
Hovertank 3D, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank or Hovertank One), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April 1991.
Plot
Hovertank 3D is set during a nuclear war. In Hovertank 3D, the player controls Brick Sledge, a mercenary hired by an unknown organizati... | {"Title": "Hovertank 3D", "Caption": "Hovertank 3D title screen", "Developer": "id Software", "Director": "Tom Hall", "Designer": "Tom Hall", "Programmer": "John Carmack, John Romero", "Artist": "Adrian Carmack", "Publisher": "Softdisk", "Engine": "Prototype of Wolfenstein 3D engine", "Released": "NA \"idlookback\">htt... |
Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics. It was developed by id Software and originally published by Softdisk under the Gamer's Edge l... | {"Title": "Catacomb 3-D", "Caption": "Title screen", "Developer": "id Software", "Publisher": "Softdisk", "Director": "Tom Hall", "Engine": "Prototype of Wolfenstein 3D engine", "Released": "NA \"GU-id-CK-Wolf3d\"/>", "Genre": "First-person shooter", "Modes": "Single-player", "Platforms": "DOS"} |
Peter Struck (24 January 1943 - 19 December 2012) was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Education
1962: Abitur
1964: Member of the SPD
Struck studied law at the universities of Göttingen and Hamburg. In 1... | {"Name": "Peter Struck", "Image caption": "Struck in 2010", "Term start": "22 November 2005", "Term end": "27 September 2009", "Office 2": "Federal Minister of Defence", "Chancellor 2": "Gerhard Schröder", "Predecessor 2": "Rudolf Scharping", "Successor 2": "Franz-Josef Jung", "Birth date": "1943 01 24 y", "Birth place... |
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game publisher based in Glen Cove, New York. Originally formed by Greg Fischbach, Robert Holmes and Jim Scoroposki out of an Oyster Bay storefront in 1987, the company established a worldwide development team through a series of acquisitions in the late 1990s and early ... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Video games", "Fate": "Chapter 7 bankruptcy", "Founded": "1987 in Oyster Bay, New York, U.S.", "Defunct": "2004 09 01", "Headquarters": "U.S.", "Brands": "AKA AcclaimClub AcclaimAcclaim Max SportsAcclaim Sports", "Subsidiaries": "Subsidiaries"} |
MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here.
History
right|frame|The former MapQuest logo was phased out as part of a website redesign un... | {"Registration": "Optional", "Available in": "Multilingual", "Launched": "1996 2 6", "Current status": "Active", "Parent": "AOL (2000-2015)Verizon Media (2016-2019)System1 (2019-present)"} |
LJN Toys Ltd. was an American toy company and video game publisher based in New York City. Founded in 1970 by Jack Friedman, the company was acquired by MCA Inc. in 1985, sold to Acclaim Entertainment in 1990, and dissolved in 1994. The toy division of the company was closed by Acclaim and the company shifted towards v... | {"Type": "Subsidiary", "Industry": "Video games", "Fate": "Dissolved", "Founded": "1970", "Defunct": "1994", "Headquarters": "US", "Parent": "MCA Inc. (1985-1990) Acclaim Entertainment (1990-1995)"} |
Ultra Software Corporation was a shell corporation and publishing label created in 1988 as a subsidiary of Konami of America, in an effort to get around Nintendo of America's strict licensing rules in place at the time for the North American market. One of these rules was that a third-party company could only publish u... | {"Type": "Shell subsidiary of Konami", "Fate": "Merged to parent company", "Parent": "Konami of America", "Founded": "1988", "Defunct": "1992", "Headquarters": "Buffalo Grove, IL, USA", "Industry": "Video games"} |
The term Cowlitz people covers two culturally and linguistically distinct indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest; the Lower Cowlitz or Cowlitz proper, and the Upper Cowlitz / Cowlitz Klickitat or Taitnapam. Lower Cowlitz refers to a southwestern Coast Salish people, which today are enrolled in the federally recog... | {"Name": "Cowlitz", "Image": "250px", "Image caption": "Traditional Cowlitz territory", "Population": ">4,700+\"Cowlitz Tribe.\" Center for World Indigenous Studies. Retrieved 29 Sept 2013.", "Religions": "traditional tribal religion", "Languages": "English, Cowlitz, Sahaptin, Chinook Jargon", "Related ethnic groups": ... |
Bram Dijkstra (born 5 July 1938) is an American author, literary critic and former professor of English literature. Dijkstra wrote seven books on various literary and artistic subjects concerning writing. He also curates art exhibitions and writes catalog essays for San Diego art museums.
He joined the faculty of the ... | {"Name": "Bram Dijkstra", "Birth name": "Bram Dijkstra", "Birth date": "5 July 1938", "Nationality": "American", "Occupation": "Author"} |
The Cowlitz River is a river in the state of Washington in the United States, a tributary of the Columbia River. Its tributaries drain a large region including the slopes of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens.
The Cowlitz has a drainage basin,Lower Columbia Tributaries , Northwest Power and Conservation... | {"Etymology": "from the Salish, tawallitch, perhaps meaning \"capturing the medicine spirit\" Phillips James W. Washington State Place Names https://archive.org/details/washingtonstatep00phil registration University of Washington Press 1971 Seattle and London 33 0-295-95498-1", "Mouth": "3 ft on", "Lo... |
Wolfgang Haken (; June 21, 1928 - October 2, 2022) was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular 3-manifolds.
Biography
Haken was born on June 21, 1928, in Berlin, Germany. His father was Werner Haken, a physicist who had Max Planck as a doctoral thesis advisor.Werner Haken, Beitrag zu... | {"Caption": "Haken in 2008", "Birth date": "1928 6 21", "Birth place": "Berlin, Germany", "Death date": "2022 10 02 1928 6 21", "Death place": "Champaign, Illinois", "Occupation": "Mathematician, professor", "Alma mater": "Kiel University", "Known For": "Solving the four-color theorem"} |
The White River is a river that flows through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Missouri. Originating in the Boston Mountains of northwest Arkansas, it arcs northwards through southern Missouri before turning back into Arkansas, flowing southeast to its mouth at the Mississippi River.
Hydrography
thumb|left|White River... | {"Mouth": "188 ft onGoogle Earth elevation for GNIS mouth coordinates.", "Location": "Desha County, Arkansas", "Coordinates": "33 57 5 N 91 4 53 W inline,title", "Basin size": "27765 sqmi onhttp://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2006/June/Day-02/i5057.htm FDsys - Browse Federal Register www.epa.gov", "Left": "James Riv... |
Newtons are a Nabisco-trademarked version of a cookie filled with sweet fruit paste. "Fig Newtons" are the most popular variety (fig rolls filled with fig paste). They are produced by an extrusion process.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Their distinctive shape is a characteristic that has been adopt... | {"Product type": "Fig roll", "Owner": "Mondelez International", "Produced by": "Nabisco", "Country": "U.S.", "Introduced": "1891", "Website": "https://www.snackworks.com/brands/newtons snackworks.com/newtons"} |
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the Lower and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Da... | {"Name": "Chinookan Peoples", "Image caption": "Location of Chinookan territory early in the 19th century", "Population": "2700", "Languages": "Chinook Jargon, English, formerly Chinookan languages", "Religions": "traditional tribal religion", "Flag caption": "Chinook people meet the Corps of Discovery on the Lower Col... |
Covenant is a Swedish electronic band formed in Helsingborg in 1988. The band is currently composed of Eskil Simonsson and Joakim Montelius in the studio, while live shows consist of Simonsson along with touring members Chad Hauger, Daniel Jonasson of Dupont, Andreas Catjar and Daniel Myer of Haujobb.
Their music com... | {"Origin": "Helsingborg, Sweden", "Genres": "\"slug-vow\"/>", "Labels": "21st Circuitry\ndependent\nMemento Materia\nMetropolis\nOff Beat\nSony Ka2\nSubSpace", "Website": "www.covenant.se", "Members": "Eskil Simonsson\nDaniel Jonasson\nAndreas Catjar-Danielsson\nDaniel Myer"} |
Happy Rhodes (born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes, August 9, 1965) is an American singer, musician and songwriter with a four-octave vocal range, releasing 11 albums between 1986 and 2007.
Family
Rhodes' maternal grandfather Dave Stamper wrote songs for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 through 1931 and composed the music for ... | {"Born": "Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.", "Origin": "Albany, New York, U.S.", "Genres": "Alternative rock, art rock, acoustic, pop rock", "Labels": "7D Media", "Website": "happyrhodesmusic.com"} |
Stillaguamish people () are a Native American tribe located in northwest Washington in the United States near the city of Arlington, Washington, near the river that bears their name, the Stillaguamish River. They are an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, specifically, a Southern Coast Salish people.Prtizker 19... | {"Name": "Stillaguamish", "Population": "over 237", "Religions": "Christianity, traditional tribal religion", "Languages": "Lushootseed, English", "Related ethnic groups": "other Salish peoples"} |
Ramón Serrano Suñer (12 September 1901 - 1 September 2003), was a Spanish politician during the first stages of the Francoist dictatorship, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the FET y de las JONS caucus (1936), and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. A neofalangist originall... | {"Name": "Ramón Serrano Suñer", "Image caption": "Serrano Suñer during a visit to the headquarters of the LSSAH in Berlin-Lichterfelde, September 1940.", "Office 2": "Minister of the Interior", "Successor 2": "Valentín Galarza Morante", "Birth date": "12 September 1901", "Birth place": "Cartagena, Spain", "Death date":... |
Žilina (; ; ; ; names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Slovakia with a population of approximately 80,000, an important industrial center, the largest city on the Váh river, and t... | {"Density": "397.01", "DST": "+2", "Website": "www.zilina.sk", "Metro density": "160000", "Urban density": "108000", "Rank": "4th"} |
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The Scandinavian Monetary Union was a monetary union formed by Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1873, with Norway joining in 1875. It established a common currency unit, the krone/krona, based on the gold standard. It was one of the few tangible results of the Scandinavian political movement of the 19th century.... | {"Pegged with": "Gold standard", "Unit": "krone/krona", "Subunit": "1 100", "Symbol": "kr.", "Plural": "øre/öre (singular and plural)", "Is obsolete": "yes"} |
The Squaxin Island Tribe are the descendants of several Lushootseed clans organized under the Squaxin Island Indian Reservation, a Native American tribal government in western Washington state.
Historically, the ancestors of the Squaxin Island Tribe inhabited several inlets of the South Puget Sound. The Reservation wa... | {"Type": "Tribal Council", "Density": "509", "DST": "-7", "Website": "www.squaxinisland.org"} |
A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty () is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire. However, in recent, pop... | {"Name": "Sea shanty", "Image": "Halyard illustration.tiff", "Image caption": "Sailors performing shipboard labor", "Derivative forms": "Pirate metal, viking metal"} |
The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1978. It was held on Friday 31 March 1978 at the Royal Albert Hall and presented by Terry Wogan. The songs were backed by the Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra.
The Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast on 22 April 1... | {"Country": "United Kingdom", "Selection process": "A Song for Europe 1978", "Selection date(s)": "31 March 1978", "Selected entrant": "Co-Co", "Selected song": "The Bad Old Days", "Selected songwriter(s)": "Stephanie de Sykes Stuart Slater", "Final result": "11th, 61 points"} |
The Puyallup, spuyaləpabš or S’Puyalupubsh (pronounced: Spoy-all-up-obsh) ('generous and welcoming behavior to all people, who enter our lands') are a federally recognized Coast Salish Native American tribe from western Washington state, United States. They were relocated onto reservation lands in what is today Tacoma,... | {"Image": "center|270px", "Population": "6,700 (3,000 on the reservation)", "Languages": "English, Lushootseed", "Related ethnic groups": "other Salishan peoples"} |
Petrus Ramus (; Anglicized as Peter Ramus ; 1515 - 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Early life
He was born at the village of Cuts, Picardy; his father was a farmer. He gained admission at age twelve (... | {"Region": "Western philosophy", "Era": "Renaissance philosophy", "School": "Renaissance humanismRamism", "Institutions": "Collège de France"} |
Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853.
Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot and hundred of West Derby. Following the Local Government Act 1894, it bec... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "Metropolitan borough": "Metropolitan Borough of St Helens", "Metropolitan county": "Merseyside", "UK Parliament": "St Helens South and Whiston", "Postcode district": "L35", "Dialling code": "0151", "OS grid reference": "SJ494912", "Website": "http://rainhil... |
Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in Paris, with stage decorations designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon ... | {"Librettist": "Edmond Gondinet\n Philippe Gille", "Language": "French", "Based on": "Théodore Pavie's story \"Les babouches du Brahamane\"", "Premiere": "Opéra-Comique, Paris"} |
Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. A branch of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston terminates at the station, as does the original Liv... | {"Name": "Liverpool Lime Street", "Symbol Location": "gb", "Symbol": "rail", "Caption": "The front of Liverpool Lime Street", "Administrative subdivision": "Liverpool, City of Liverpool", "Country": "England", "Coordinates": "53.4075 -2.9784 type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000 inline,title", "Manager": "Network R... |
Earlestown is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, England. At the 2011 Census the town had a population of 10,830.
History
Earlestown is named after Sir Hardman Earle (11 July 1792 - 25 January 1877) a slave owner whose family was steeped in the slave trade. He was the Chairman of the London... | {"OS grid reference": "SJ569949", "Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 Census)", "Metropolitan borough": "St Helens", "Metropolitan county": "Merseyside", "UK Parliament": "St Helens North", "Postcode district": "WA", "Dialling code": "01925"} |
The Makah (; Makah: ) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast living in Washington, in the northwestern part of the continental United States. They are enrolled in the federally-recognized Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, commonly known as the Makah Tribe.
Linguistically and ethnogra... | {"Name": "Makah", "Native name": "qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌", "Native name language code": "myh", "Image": "200px", "Image caption": "A Makah woman, 1900", "Population": "1,213", "Religions": "Christianity, incl. syncrestic forms", "Languages": "English, Makah (survives as a second language)", "Related ethnic groups": "Nuu-chah-... |
Coil were an English experimental music group formed in 1982 in London and dissolved in 2005. Initially envisioned as a solo project by musician John Balance (of the band Psychic TV), Coil evolved into a full-time project with the addition of his partner and Psychic TV bandmate Peter Christopherson, formerly of pioneer... | {"Origin": "London, England", "Genres": "\"Aston-2016-366\">Aston 2016 366: \"In 1985, UK duo John Balance and Peter Christopherson, a.k.a. electronic experimentalists Coil, recorded a new cover of 'Tainted Love' as a benefit for the Terrence Higgins Trust, the charity named after one of Britain's first AIDS casualties... |
Ellesmere Port ( ) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, north of Chester. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area, which had a... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011 census)", "Unitary authority": "Cheshire West and Chester", "Ceremonial county": "Cheshire", "UK Parliament": "Ellesmere Port and Neston", "Postcode district": "CH", "Dialling code": "0151", "OS grid reference": "SJ4175"} |
The Nisqually is a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. They are a Southern Coast Salish people.Pritzker 184 They are federally recognized as the Nisqually Indian Tribe, formerly known as the Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation and the Confederate... | {"Name": "Nisquallysq̓ʷaliʼabš", "Image caption": "Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually), speaking at the Elwha Dam removal ceremony, photo by Doug Zimmer", "Languages": "English, Nisqually", "Related ethnic groups": "other Coast Salish peoples"} |
Washoe (c. September 1965 - October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Washoe learned approximately 350 signs of ASL, also teaching her adopted son Louli... | {"Born": "West Africa", "Died": "Ellensburg, Washington, U.S.", "Cause of death": "Complications from SAIDS", "Known for": "Use of sign language"} |
The Jaeger Corps also known as the Huntsmen Corps () is an elite special operations force of the Danish Defence part of Special Operations Command, formerly of the Royal Danish Army, based at Aalborg Air Base.
History
The Jaeger Corps traces its origins to 1785 when the corps was first formed as the "Jaeger Corps of Z... | {"Branch": "25px Royal Danish Army", "Type": "Special Operations Force", "Part of": "Danish Special Operations Command", "Nickname(s)": "JGK, The Jaegers, The Elite", "Motto(s)": "Plus Esse Quam Simultatur (Rather to be, than to be seen)", "Decorations": "150px Presidential Unit Citation", "Website": "https://www.faceb... |
Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Lord of West-Souburg (Dutch: Filips van Marnix, heer van Sint-Aldegonde, heer van West-Souburg, French: Philippe de Marnix, seigneur de Sainte-Aldegonde; 7 March/20 July 1540 - 15 December 1598) was a Flemish and Dutch writer and statesman, and the probable author of the text... | {"Name": "Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde", "Image size": "200px", "Image caption": "Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, portrait by Jacques de Gheyn II", "Office 2": "Lord of Saint-Aldegonde", "Predecessor 2": "Jacob of Marnix", "Spouse(s)": "Philippotte, Lady of Belle de Bailleul"} |
Paul Lacroix (; 27 February 1806 - 16 October 1884) was a French author and journalist. He is known best by his pseudonym P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by his great interest in libraries and books generally.
Biography
Lacroix was born in Paris, the son of a novelist. He was a prolific and ... | {"Birth date": "1806 02 27 y", "Birth place": "Paris", "Death date": "y 1884 10 16 1806 02 27", "Death place": "Paris", "Occupation": "HistorianBibliographer"} |
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.
The town is located near the countryside to the south and east, with the to... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2001 Census)", "OS grid reference": "SD836326", "Postcode district": "BB10-BB12", "Dialling code": "01282", "UK Parliament": "Burnley", "District": "Burnley", "Shire county": "Lancashire", "Website": "burnley.co.uk"} |
Sir Adam Beck (June 20, 1857 – August 15, 1925) was a Canadian politician and hydroelectricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
thumb|Mayor Thomas Langton Church and Sir Adam Beck (centre)
thumb|Sir Adam Beck Manor in London
Biography
Beck was born in Baden, Canada West to German ... | {"Name": "Sir Adam Beck", "Predecessor 2": "Francis Baxter Leys", "Successor 2": "Hugh Allan Stevenson", "Birth date": "1857 06 20", "Birth place": "Baden, Canada West", "Death date": "1925 08 15 1857 06 20", "Death place": "London, Ontario", "Spouse(s)": "Lilian (Ottaway) Beck"} |
The Israel Security Agency (ISA; ; Sherut haBitaẖon haKlali; "the General Security Service"; jihāz al'amn al`ami), better known by the acronym Shabak (; ; ) or the Shin Bet (a two-letter Hebrew abbreviation of "Security Service"), is Israel's internal security service. Its motto is "Magen veLo Yera'e" (, lit. "Shield ... | {"Uniformed as": "Israel Security Agency", "Common name": "Shabak", "Abbreviation": "English: ISA, Local: Shabak - Hebrew: שב״כ, Arabic: ar شاباك", "Headquarters": "Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv", "Formed": "yes 1949 2 8 25 May 2011 Shabak The History of the ISA https://www.shabak.gov.il/english//heritage/Pages/default.aspx... |
was a province of Japan in the area that is today the northern portion of Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Echizen" in . Echizen bordered on Kaga, Wakasa, Hida, and Ōmi Provinces. It was part of Hokurikudō Circuit. Its abbreviated form name was .
thumb|right|Hiroshige... | {"Native name": "越前国", "Conventional long name": "Echizen Province", "Common name": "Echizen Province", "Capital": "Echizen", "Today part of": "Fukui Prefecture", "Year founded": "701 AD", "Year dissolved": "1871"} |
Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducational institution.
History
Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Samp... | {"Motto": "Light! More Light!Veritas est lux", "Type": "Private liberal arts college", "President": "Laurie Carter", "Students": "1,555 undergraduates(fall 2013)As of Fall 2013. Lawrence University 2013 Profile Lawrence University http://www.lawrence.edu/mfhe/www_dept_ora/Everyone/MI13-138%20LU%20Profile%202013_2... |
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (also known as Batman: The Animated Movie - Mask of the Phantasm) is a 1993 American animated romantic superhero film featuring the DC Comics character Batman. It was directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm, and written by Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Martin Pasko, and Michael Reaves. The film... | {"Directed by": "Eric Radomski\n Bruce Timm", "Produced by": "Benjamin Melniker\n Michael Uslan", "Screenplay by": "Alan Burnett\n Paul Dini\n Martin Pasko\n Michael Reaves", "Story by": "Alan Burnett", "Based on": "Batman Bob Kane Bill FingerUncredited", "Starring": "Kevin Conroy\n Mark Hamill\n Dana Delany\n Hart Boc... |
Ann Fagan Ginger (born July 11, 1925) is an American lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist. She is the founder and Executive Director Emerita of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California.
Personal and Professional Career
Ginger is an expert in human rights and peace law under the statu... | {"Name": "Ann Fagan Ginger", "Birth date": "1925 07 11", "Education": "University of Michigan, B.A. 1945\nUniversity of Michigan Law School, LL.B. 1947\nUniversity of California, Berkeley, School of Law, LL.M. 1960", "Known For": "expert in human rights and peace law"} |
Montréal-Mirabel International Airport , originally called Montréal International Airport, widely known as Mirabel and branded as YMX International Aerocity of Mirabel, is a cargo and former international passenger airport in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, northwest of Montreal. It opened on October 4, 1975, and the last co... | {"Airport type": "Public", "Serves": "Greater Montreal", "Location": "Mirabel, Quebec", "Opened": "1975 10 04 y", "Passenger services ceased": "2004 10 31", "DST": "UTC-04:00", "AMSL": "271", "Coordinates": "45 40 47 N 074 02 19 W region:CA-QC inline,title", "Website": "www.admtl.com"} |
Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 - July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a fo... | {"Alt": "An elderly man reading from a lectern", "Caption": "Krassner at City Lights Bookstore in 2009", "Birth date": "1932 04 09", "Birth place": "New York City, U.S.", "Death date": "2019 07 21 1932 4 9", "Death place": "Desert Hot Springs, California, U.S.", "Occupation": "Writer, satirist, activist, comedian", "We... |
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest tr... | {"Name": "New York City Transit Authority", "Second image caption": "The New York City Transit Authority (trading as MTA New York City Transit) provides bus, subway, and paratransit service throughout New York City.", "Locale": "New York City", "Transit type(s)": "Subways, Buses and BRT", "Opening date (past)": "1953",... |
There Is Nothing Left to Lose is the third studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on November 2, 1999, through Roswell and RCA Records. It marked the first appearance of drummer Taylor Hawkins, and is often seen as a departure from the band's previous work, showcasing a softer, more experimental soun... | {"Released": "1999 11 2", "Recorded": "March - June 1999", "Studio": "606 (Alexandria, Virginia)\n Conway (Los Angeles)", "Genre": "Alternative rock\n post-grunge\n heartland rock\n grunge", "Label": "Roswell\nRCA", "Producer": "Foo Fighters\nAdam Kasper"} |
Touch is the third studio album by British pop duo Eurythmics, released on 14 November 1983 by RCA Records. It became the duo's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart, and also peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200. It has since been certified Platinum in both the United Kingdom and the United States. T... | {"Released": "1983 11 14 yes", "Recorded": "Summer 1983", "Studio": "The Church (London)", "Genre": "Synth-pop\n new waveBesenyodi Adam https://www.popmatters.com/051205-eurythmics-2496104064.html This Is What the Future Sounded Like PopMatters 5 December 2005 16 October 2018 ...Touch kept them on new wave's cut... |
Nanaimo ( ) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. "The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively centr... | {"Type": "Elected city council", "Density": "1104.1", "Urban density": "96415https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&DGUIDlist=2021S05100568 Nanaimo, British Columbia [Population centre] Statistics Canada 9 February 2022 12 March 2022", "Metro density": "76.5", "DST":... |
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for atheists, agnostics, and nontheists. Formed in 1976, FFRF promotes the separation of church and state, and challenges the legitimacy of many federal and state programs that are faith-based. It supports groups such as no... | {"Abbreviation": "FFRF", "Affiliations": "Nonbelief Relief Inc", "Type": "Non-profit", "Legal status": "501(c)(3) educational organization\"Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc.\" Exempt Organizations Select Check. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved August 5, 2017.", "Headquarters": "Madison, Wisconsin, U.S."} |
Cracked Rear View is the debut studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994, by Atlantic Records. Released to positive critical reviews, it eventually sold 10.2 million copies in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Recording
Don Gehman was chosen by A&R man Tim So... | {"Released": "1994 07 05 yesThe Hard Report #3 Most Added Hard Report, the 1994-07-01 381 9 from the debut album Cracked Rear View out July 5", "Recorded": "November 1993 - March 1994", "Studio": "NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CaliforniaCracked Rear View Hootie & the Blowfish 1994 CD lin... |
Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Tennessee St... | {"Motto": "Think. Work. Serve", "Accreditation": "SACS", "Type": "Public, historically black land-grant university", "Endowment": "$91.1 million (2021)As of March 7, 2022. https://tntribune.com/hbcu-moneys-2021-top-10-hbcu-endowments/ HBCU Money's 2021 Top 10 HBCU Endowments The Tennessee Tribune March 7, 2021 May ... |
Chad Channing (born January 31, 1967) is an American musician who is best known as the former drummer of the rock band Nirvana from 1988 to 1990, during which time they recorded and released their debut album Bleach; he also appears on "Polly" in the follow-up album Nevermind. He currently sings and plays bass in the b... | {"Born": "1967 1 31", "Origin": "Santa Rosa, California U.S.", "Genres": "Hard rock grunge indie rock alternative rock punk rock hardcore punk", "Labels": "Sub Pop Dekema", "Formerly of": "Nirvana Stonecrow Redband East of the Equator Tic Dolly Row Mind Circus The Methodists Fire Ants", "Member of": "Before Cars"} |
RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error correction and file spanning. It was developed in 1993 by Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal and the software is licensed by win.rar GmbH. The name RAR stands for Roshal Archive.
File format
The filename extensions used by RAR are .r... | {"Name": "RAR file format", "Extension": ".rar, .rev, .r00, .r01", "Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)": "com.rarlab.rar-archive", "Magic number": "52 61 72 21 1A 07 00(RAR 1.5 to 4.0)52 61 72 21 1A 07 01 00(RAR 5+) RAR 5.0 technote", "Size limitation": "263-1 bytes (almost 8 exbibytes)", "Developed by": "Eugene Roshal", "I... |
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced ) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to socie... | {"Formed": "1992 7", "Jurisdiction": "Federal government of the United States", "Headquarters": "North Bethesda, Maryland (Rockville mailing address)", "Parent department": "Department of Health and Human Services", "Website": "http://www.samhsa.gov/"} |
The Punisher (Francis "Frank" Castle, born Castiglione) is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita Sr. and Ross Andru. The Punisher made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (cover-dated February 19... | {"Publisher": "Marvel Comics", "Created by": "Gerry ConwayJohn Romita Sr.Ross Andru", "Team affiliations": "U.S. Marine Corps Force ReconnaissancePunisher: Nightmare (Marvel Comics issue #2 2013)\n Code RedHulk Vol. 2 #14\n Heroes for Hire\n Midnight Sons\n Secret Defenders\n Thunderboltshttp://www.newsarama.com/18707-... |
is a 1993 platform game developed by Sega for the Sega CD. As Sonic the Hedgehog, the player attempts to protect an extraterrestrial body, Little Planet, from Doctor Robotnik. Like other Sonic games, Sonic runs through themed levels while collecting rings and defeating robots. Sonic CD introduces time travel as a game ... | {"Title": "Sonic the Hedgehog CD", "Caption": "North American cover art", "Developer": "Sega", "Publisher": "Sega", "Director": "Naoto Ohshima", "Producer": "Minoru Kanari Makoto Oshitani", "Programmer": "Matsuhide Mizoguchi", "Artist": "Hiroyuki Kawaguchi Kazuyuki Hoshino", "Composer": "Original release: Naofumi Hatay... |
Prudhoe ( ) is a town in south Northumberland, England, about west of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and just south of the River Tyne. Situated on a steep, north-facing hill in the Tyne valley, Prudhoe had a population of 11,675 at the 2011 census. It has largely become a commuter town for nearby Newcastle.
Nearby s... | {"Sovereign state": "England", "Population": "(2011)", "Unitary authority": "Northumberland", "Ceremonial county": "Northumberland", "UK Parliament": "Hexham", "Postcode district": "NE", "Dialling code": "01661", "OS grid reference": "NZ096629"} |
William Edward Boeing (; October 1, 1881 - September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the wo... | {"Name": "William E. Boeing", "Birth name": "William Edward Boeing", "Birth date": "1881 10 01", "Birth place": "Detroit, Michigan, U.S.", "Death date": "1956 09 28 1881 10 01", "Death place": "Puget Sound, Washington, U.S.", "Nationality": "American", "Citizenship": "American", "Awards": "Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1934... |
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is the debut studio album by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released on April 10, 1990 on Jive Records. After forming the Native Tongues collective and collaborating on several projects, A Tribe Called Quest began recording sessions for People's Instinc... | {"Released": "April 10, 1990Rewind: A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm http://read.tidal.com/article/rewind-a-tribe-called-quest-peoples-instinctive-travels TIDAL 18 November 2015", "Recorded": "1989-1990", "Studio": "Calliope Studios, Battery Studios (New York City, New York)",... |
Raúl "El Gordo" De Molina (born March 29, 1959, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American television presenter, best known as the co-host of the Univision Network entertainment news show El Gordo y la Flaca, for which he won multiple Emmy Awards.
Early life and education
Raúl De Molina was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959. D... | {"Name": "Raúl De Molina", "Alt": "Photo of a large man wearing a suit", "Caption": "De Molina at the 2010 Latin Grammys in Las Vegas", "Birth date": "1959 3 29 y", "Birth place": "Havana, Cuba", "Education": "The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale", "Occupation": "Television presenter and photojournalist", "Television":... |
The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character made his first appearance in Detective Comics #58 (December 1941) and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.Detective Comics #58 The P... | {"Notable aliases": "Mr. Boniface\nMatthew Richardson\nThe Gentleman of Crime\nCobblepot\nUncle Pengy\nThe King of Gotham", "Publisher": "DC Comics", "Created by": "Bill Finger (writer)Bob Kane (artist)", "Species": "Human", "Team affiliations": "Iceberg Lounge\nSuicide Squad\nSecret Society of Super Villains\nInjustic... |
The 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 - United States Naval Gun is the main armament of the Iowa-class battleships and was the planned main armament of the cancelled .
Description
thumb|left|A cutaway of a turret mounting 16-inch guns
Due to a lack of communication during design, the Bureau of Ordnance assumed the Iowa class woul... | {"Place of origin": "United States", "Type": "Naval gun", "Sights": "yes", "In service": "1943-1992", "Used by": "U.S. Navy", "Wars": "World War IIKorean WarVietnam WarLebanese Civil WarGulf War", "Designed": "1939", "Mass": "267904 lb kg t (including breech)", "Length": "816 in ft m", "Muzzle velocity": "AP: 2500 ft/s... |
Hasim Sharif Rahman (born November 7, 1972) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2014. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBC, IBF, IBO and lineal titles in 2001; and the WBC title again from 2005 to 2006. He was ranked as a top 10 heavyweight by BoxRec fr... | {"Real name": "Hasim Shariff Rahman", "Nickname(s)": "The Rock", "Weight(s)": "Heavyweight", "Height": "6 ft 2+1/2 in", "Reach": "82 in", "Born": "Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights": "62", "Wins": "50", "Wins by KO": "41", "Losses": "9", "Draws": "2", "No contests": "1"} |
Ross James Kemp (born 21 July 1964) is an English actor, author, and television presenter. He rose to prominence in the role of Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is also known for his other roles in Emmerdale as Graham Lodsworth and in Birds of a Feather as Detective Inspector Monk. Kemp has received... | {"Name": "Ross Kemp", "Caption": "Kemp during Extreme World filming in 2015", "Birth name": "Ross James Kemp", "Birth date": "yes 1964 07 21", "Birth place": "Barking, Essex, England", "Spouse(s)": "Rebekah Wade 11 June 2002 6 March 2009 divorced Renee O'Brien 2012", "Children": "4", "Occupation": "Actor author reporte... |
The Sán Dìu (also known as San Deo, Trai, Trai Dat and Man Quan Coc; ; Chữ nôm: ; Vietnamese alphabet: Người Sán Dìu) are a Yao ethnic group in northern Vietnam who speak Yue Chinese (Cantonese), a Sinitic language. They are believed to have migrated from Guangdong, China around 1600.
The group's estimated population ... | {"Name": "Sán Dìu people", "Native name": "山 由 族Người Sán Dìu (𠊛 山 由)", "Population": "183,004", "Religions": "Predominantly Mahayana Buddhism Taoism, Catholicism and Evangelicalism", "Languages": "Yue Chinese • Mandarin Chinese • Vietnamese • Pinghua", "Related ethnic groups": "Chinese Vietnamese, Yao people"} |
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture. Similar holidays are celebrated in Japan (), Korea (), Vietnam (), and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.
It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its pop... | {"Also called": "Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival", "Observed by": "Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (similar holidays celebrated in Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia)", "Type": "Cultural, religious, Asian", "Significance": "Celebrates the end of the autumn harvest", "Next time": "15th day of the 8th lunar m... |
The Good Son is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written by English novelist Ian McEwan. Its story follows a young boy named Mark who, after the death of his mother, is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle while his father is away on busine... | {"Directed by": "Joseph Ruben", "Produced by": "Joseph RubenMary Ann Page", "Written by": "Ian McEwan", "Starring": "Macaulay Culkin\n Elijah Wood\n Wendy Crewson\n David Morse\n Jacqueline Brookes", "Music by": "Elmer Bernstein", "Cinematography": "John Lindley", "Edited by": "George Bowers", "Distributed by": "20th C... |
Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967), better known by the ring name Kane, is an American politician and professional wrestler.WWE's Kane, Glenn Jacobs, anoounces bid for county mayor - CBS News.com Jacobs has been signed to WWE since 1995 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021. He has also been the Rep... | {"Name": "Kane", "Image caption": "Jacobs in 2023", "Term start": "September 1, 2018", "Birth name": "Glenn Thomas Jacobs", "Birth date": "1967 4 26", "Birth place": "Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain", "Spouse(s)": "Crystal Goins 1995", "Education": "Northeast Missouri State University (BA)"} |
Sumya Anani (born February 12, 1972) is a retired American professional female boxer nicknamed "The Island Girl." She was 5'6" and boxed as a junior welterweight. She is best known for a 1996 bout which left her opponent severely injured and may have served as an inspiration for the film Million Dollar Baby. Outside th... | {"Nickname(s)": "Island Girl", "Weight(s)": "Welterweight", "Height": "5 ft 6 in cm onhttp://www.awakeningfighters.com/athletes/sumya-anani Sumya Anani Awakening Profile Awakeningfighters.com 2016-02-17", "Reach": "65 in cm on", "Nationality": "American", "Born": "Minnesota, U.S.", "Stance": "Orthodox", "Total fights":... |
United States Satellite Broadcasting was a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based satellite television company that ran from 1981 to 1999. It was absorbed into DirecTV in 1999.
History
USSB was founded in 1981 by Hubbard Broadcasting President Stanley S. Hubbard, who is widely considered to be the father of modern satellite broa... | {"Fate": "Absorbed into DirecTV", "Founded": "1981", "Defunct": "1999", "Headquarters": "St. Paul, Minnesota", "Industry": "Direct broadcast satellite broadcasting"} |
James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 - April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Tr... | {"Name": "James F. Byrnes", "Term start": "January 16, 1951", "Term end": "January 18, 1955", "Office 2": "Director of the Office of War Mobilization", "President 2": "Franklin D. Roosevelt (1943-1945) Harry S. Truman (1945)", "Predecessor 2": "Position established", "Successor 2": "John Wesley Snyder", "Birth name"... |
Virtual PC is an x86 emulator for PowerPC Mac hosts and a virtualization app for Microsoft Windows hosts. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired by Microsoft in 2003. The Mac version was discontinued in 2006 following the Mac transition to Intel, while the Windows version was discontinued in 2011 in favour of... | {"Successor": "Hyper-V", "Developer(s)": "Microsoft", "Initial release": "2009 09 19", "Type": "Virtual machine", "Size": "32-bit: 9.1 MB64-bit: 16.3 MB", "License": "Freeware"} |
was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman. He was succeeded as the president of Toyota by Shoichiro Toyoda.
Career
Toyoda studied mechanical engineering at Tokyo Imperia... | {"Name": "Eiji Toyoda豊田 英二", "Birth date": "1913 9 12 y", "Birth place": "Nagoya, Empire of Japan", "Death date": "2013 9 17 1913 9 12 y", "Death place": "Toyota, Aichi, Japan", "Education": "Tokyo Imperial University", "Occupation": "President (1967-1981) and Chairman (1981-1994)Toyota Motor Corporation", "Nationality... |
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise softw... | {"Type": "Public", "Industry": "Cloud computing Virtualization Computer software", "Founded": "1998 02 10Palo Alto, California, U.S.", "Headquarters": "Stanford Research ParkPalo Alto, California, U.S.", "Products": "\"nowrap\"\n VMware vSphere\n VMware ESXi\n VMware Fusion\n VMware Player\n VMware ThinApp\n ... |
Kṣitigarbha (, , Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk. His name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb". Kṣitigarbha is known for his vow to take responsibility for the instruction of all... | {"Chinese": "地藏菩萨, 地藏菩薩Pinyin: Dìzàng pú sà", "Cyrillic": "Кшитигарбха", "Japanese": "じぞうぼさつ\nRomaji: Jizō Bosatsu", "Korean": "지장보살\nRR: Jijang Bosal", "Thai": "พระกษิติครรภโพธิสัตว์", "Tibetan": "ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་THL: Sa Yi Nyingpo", "Vietnamese": "Địa Tạng Bồ Tát", "Venerated by": "Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna"} |
The Saab 9000 is an automobile produced by the Swedish company Saab from 1984 to 1998. Representing the company's foray into the executive car scene, it was developed as a result of the successes of the turbocharged 99 and 900 models. The 9000 remained in production until May 1998 and it was replaced by the Saab 9-5 in... | {"Manufacturer": "Saab", "Production": "1984 - 6 May 1998", "Assembly": "Sweden: TrollhättanFinland: Uusikaupunki (1984-1991)", "Designer": "Björn EnvallGiorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign", "Class": "Executive car (E)", "Body style": "4-door saloon (CD)5-door liftback (CC, CS)", "Platform": "Type Four platformhttp://fiat... |
Amorphis is a Finnish extreme metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive metal, and folk metal. They frequently use the Kalevala, the epic poem of Finland,... | {"Origin": "Helsinki, Finland", "Genres": "Progressive metal\n melodic death metal\n folk metal\n power metal\n death metal (early) \n death-doom (early)", "Labels": "Virgin (2003)\n EMI\n Relapse\n Nuclear Blast\n Mojo\n Mystic\n Victor (JVC)\n Spinefarm\n Atomic Fire", "Website": "amorphis.net"} |
Gippsland is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of located further east of the Shire of Cardinia (Melbou... | {"Type": "region", "Name": "Gippsland Region", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Image 2 Caption": "John Longstaff's Gippsland, Sunday night, 20 February 1898, depicting the \"Red Tuesday\" bushfires that ravaged Gippsland", "Coordinates": "37 51 S 147 35 E inline,title", "Locator Map Pushpin Caption": "The location of Bai... |
Xhafer bey Ypi ( January 12, 1880, Starje - December 17, 1940) was an Albanian politician.
A member of the Ypi family of Albania, he was educated at a university in Istanbul. In 1920-1921 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Justice. He also held the position of Minister of Public Instruction.
As the l... | {"Name": "Xhafer Ypi", "Image size": "160px", "Birth date": "January 12, 1880", "Birth place": "Starje, Albania", "Death date": "December 17, 1940 (aged 60)", "Death place": "Starje, Albania"} |
Warragul is a town in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north. As of the , the town had a population of 19,856 people. Warragul forms part of a larger urban area that includes nearby Dr... | {"Type": "town", "Name": "Warragul", "State Abbreviation": "vic", "Local Government Area (LGA)": "Shire of Baw Baw", "Locator Map Set to LGA Map": "yes", "Postcode": "3820", "Established": "1840s", "Local Map Enabled": "yes", "Local Map Zoom Level": "10", "Population": "19856", "Population Year": "2021", "Population Fo... |
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