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{"datasets_id": 873, "wiki_id": "Q4956836", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 656} | 873 | Q4956836 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 656 | Brandon Dickerson | Brandon Dickerson Brandon Dickerson is an American writer, director, and producer whose work includes film, music video, documentary film, and television commercials. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2011 feature film Sironia, which won the Audience Award at the 2011 Austin Film Festival in October 2011 before its release through Filmbuff. His second feature film as writer-director, Victor, is set for release in 2017 as is his documentary film A Single Frame.
His most notable music videos include work for The Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Switchfoot, Sixpence None the Richer, Bridget Mendler, Dishwalla, China McClain, Zendaya, |
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{"datasets_id": 873, "wiki_id": "Q4956836", "sp": 4, "sc": 656, "ep": 4, "ec": 1121} | 873 | Q4956836 | 4 | 656 | 4 | 1,121 | Brandon Dickerson | Steven Curtis Chapman, Vince Gill, Michael W. Smith, Jeremy Camp, Toby Mac, and Elissa.
As a commercial director, Dickerson has worked with companies like Aprilia, Autodesk, Sony PlayStation, Sega, Yahoo!, Kinder Chocolate, The Walt Disney Company, and Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. In 2000, he won the Gold Lion award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Dickerson is signed with kaboom productions for commercials and music videos. |
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{"datasets_id": 874, "wiki_id": "Q42416178", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 519} | 874 | Q42416178 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 519 | Brandon Pereira | International career | Brandon Pereira International career Pereira represented Canada at two Junior World Cups: 2013 in New Delhi and 2016 in Lucknow. He captained the Canadian team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He was part of the national team that clinched silver at the 2017 Men's Pan American Cup in Lancaster, United States. He was selected for the 2018 World Cup, but he only played one game because he picked up an injury in the first match. In June 2019, he was selected in the Canada squad for the 2019 Pan American Games. They |
{"datasets_id": 874, "wiki_id": "Q42416178", "sp": 6, "sc": 519, "ep": 10, "ec": 289} | 874 | Q42416178 | 6 | 519 | 10 | 289 | Brandon Pereira | International career & Personal life | won the silver medal as they lost 5–2 to Argentina in the final. Personal life Pereira was born on 30 April 1996 in Surrey, British Columbia. His grandfather played field hockey for Uganda at the 1972 Olympics, while his father also played the sport.
As of April 2016, having completed level 1 course to be an electrician, Pereira is working with a contractor. |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 12, "ec": 161} | 875 | Q898652 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 161 | Branko Bošnjaković | Biography & Professional activities | Branko Bošnjaković Branko (Franjo Marko) Bošnjaković (born 18 February 1939) is a Dutch-Croatian physicist and professional working in the field of environmental protection and sustainability. Biography Branko Bošnjaković was born in Zagreb. He studied physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany and obtained his doctorate in nuclear physics at the State University of Utrecht, Netherlands in 1968. His career included basic and applied research, international management and advisory functions. Professional activities The years 1968 to 1975 were spent on research in elementary particle physics at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland). From 1975 to 1991, as a senior advisor with the Dutch |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 12, "sc": 161, "ep": 12, "ec": 870} | 875 | Q898652 | 12 | 161 | 12 | 870 | Branko Bošnjaković | Professional activities | Ministry of Environment, he conceived and coordinated the multi-annual Dutch National Programme on radiation in the living environment. As a member of the International Non-Ionizing Radiation Committee (INIRC, now ICNIRP) from 1979 to 1992, he contributed to the setting and acceptance of world-wide radiation protection standards. In 1990, he participated in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Expert Group planning the Chernobyl Centre for International Research.
From 1991 to 1993, he was a member of the management team of Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Budapest, Hungary. Subsequently, he advised the World Health Organization European Centre on |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 12, "sc": 870, "ep": 12, "ec": 1551} | 875 | Q898652 | 12 | 870 | 12 | 1,551 | Branko Bošnjaković | Professional activities | Environment and Health, Bilthoven, the Netherlands. In 1994, he became a member of the Commission for Education and Communication of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). From 1994 to 2001, as Regional Adviser on Environment of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, he addressed trans-boundary water and environmental issues in Central Asia, Transcaucasia and Southeast Europe. From 1994 to 2009, he was also affiliated to the Avalon Foundation for the promotion of sustainable agriculture in transition countries. In 2001 he was elected as titular professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia, focusing on environmental management. |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 12, "sc": 1551, "ep": 16, "ec": 42} | 875 | Q898652 | 12 | 1,551 | 16 | 42 | Branko Bošnjaković | Professional activities & Distinctions | He has he acted also as a consultant for the European Commission, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and UNESCO. He has been author or co-author of more than 120 scientific and professional publications in the fields of nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, radiation protection, institutional and geopolitical issues of the environment, natural resources and energy, and of sustainable development. A frequently quoted book is Human Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation: Risks and Regulations, Editors W. F. Passchier and B. F. M. Bosnjakovic, Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam - New York City - Oxford, 1987. Distinctions Branko Bošnjaković received a plaquette of |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 16, "sc": 42, "ep": 20, "ec": 76} | 875 | Q898652 | 16 | 42 | 20 | 76 | Branko Bošnjaković | Distinctions & Other interests | recognition by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1992, and the golden award for civil protection of the Republic of Slovenia in 1994. He was appointed Honorary Associate by the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in Dundee, Scotland, in 1998, and a Life Fellow of the REC (Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe), Hungary, 2000. He received the Gouden Tientje (Golden Coin) from the Dutch Ministry of Environment in recognition of achievements for environment and sustainable development. Other interests As a coordinator of the Dutch Section of Amnesty International for the human |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 20, "sc": 76, "ep": 24, "ec": 140} | 875 | Q898652 | 20 | 76 | 24 | 140 | Branko Bošnjaković | Other interests & Private | rights in East Germany (former GDR) from 1985 to 1991, Branko Bošnjaković witnessed some of the historic changes on the spot. From 1990 to 1995, he was a member of the Board of the Foundation Netherlands-Croatia. He was co-organiser of a meeting held in Vienna in 2009 under the auspices of the Ignaz Lieben Society on the history of science and technology. In 2011, he was an invited speaker at the Conference on Scholars in Exile and Dictatorships of the 20th Century. Private Branko Bošnjaković originates from a scientifically oriented family. His father Fran Bošnjaković (1902–1993) had international reputation in |
{"datasets_id": 875, "wiki_id": "Q898652", "sp": 24, "sc": 140, "ep": 24, "ec": 374} | 875 | Q898652 | 24 | 140 | 24 | 374 | Branko Bošnjaković | Private | technical thermodynamics, his grandfather Srećko Bošnjaković (1865–1907) was a pioneer of chemistry and sports in Croatia. He is father of a daughter and a son, and grandfather of three grandchildren; his residence is in Switzerland. |
{"datasets_id": 876, "wiki_id": "Q1266428", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 561} | 876 | Q1266428 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 561 | Branko Miljković | Biography | Branko Miljković Biography He was best known throughout Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and other countries of the Eastern Bloc for his influential writings. At a time when no one could have foreseen anything but a bright future for the poet, he died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27. He was found hanging from a tree in Zagreb, today's Croatia. This controversial incident was officially recorded as a suicide.
In his one-line poem "Epitaph," he writes "Ubi me prejaka reč" ("I was killed by a word too strong") almost sensing his premature end of life. During the last years of |
{"datasets_id": 876, "wiki_id": "Q1266428", "sp": 6, "sc": 561, "ep": 6, "ec": 836} | 876 | Q1266428 | 6 | 561 | 6 | 836 | Branko Miljković | Biography | his life, he published five books of poetry (I Wake Her in Vain, Death against Death, The Origin of Hope, Fire and Nothing, The Shining Blood, criticism, and translations of the French Symbolists and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He continues to influence poets to this day. |
{"datasets_id": 877, "wiki_id": "Q898916", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 474} | 877 | Q898916 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 474 | Brantt Myhres | Playing career | Brantt Myhres Playing career Myhres played for the Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks, Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals, and Boston Bruins. He was suspended four times by the NHL for failing drug tests and was eventually banned from the league for life. After becoming clean and sober and studying substance abuse behavioral health at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Myhres was hired by the Los Angeles Kings in September 2015 as the team's player assistance director. |
{"datasets_id": 878, "wiki_id": "Q22906898", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 315} | 878 | Q22906898 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 315 | Braunstein (wargame) | Overview | Braunstein (wargame) The Braunstein was a type of informal miniatures wargame introduced by David Wesely circa 1969, and modified by Dave Arneson. Although the game itself was never published, its development influenced Arneson's ideas on role-playing games, which led to his involvement in development of Blackmoor and the Dungeons & Dragons game. Overview In 1967, David Wesely served as referee for a Napoleonic wargame set in the fictional German town of Braunstein.
As usual, two players acted as commanders of the opposing armies, but because he was interested in multi-player games, Wesely assigned additional, non-military roles. For example, he had players |
{"datasets_id": 878, "wiki_id": "Q22906898", "sp": 8, "sc": 315, "ep": 8, "ec": 940} | 878 | Q22906898 | 8 | 315 | 8 | 940 | Braunstein (wargame) | Overview | acting as town mayor, banker, and university chancellor. When two players challenged each other to a duel, Wesely found it necessary to improvise rules for the encounter on the spot. Though Wesely thought the results were chaotic and the experiment a failure, the other players enjoyed the role playing aspect and asked him to run another game.
Wesely's Braunstein drew inspiration from Diplomacy, a game requiring players to negotiate in between turns. The idea of a referee was derived from Strategos: The American Game of War (1880), by Charles Totten. Totten's book also inspired Wesely with the idea of having a |
{"datasets_id": 878, "wiki_id": "Q22906898", "sp": 8, "sc": 940, "ep": 12, "ec": 226} | 878 | Q22906898 | 8 | 940 | 12 | 226 | Braunstein (wargame) | Overview & Influence | game master who invented the scenario for the evening's battle. Wesely discovered the idea of "n-player" strategy games from The Compleat Strategist (1954) by J.D. Williams. Wesely also read and cited as influential, Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962), by Kenneth E. Boulding.
Its name was licensed for use as Barons of Braunstein by Olde House Rules
Wesley continues to run campaigns of Braunstein at GaryCon. Influence Braunstein contributed to the development of role-playing games by introducing a one-to-one identification of player and character, and open-ended rules allowing the players to attempt any action, with the result of the action |
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Wesely subsequently invented a new role playing scenario in which players attempt to stage or avert a coup in a small Latin American republic. He and Dave Arneson, another member of the MMSA, took turns acting as the referee for repeated stagings of this scenario, which was also known as a 'Braunstein'; Arneson took over as referee after Wesely was drafted into the Army. They invented new variations in the perpetually unstable nation of Banania.
In October 1970, Wesely, who had enrolled in Army ROTC at the University of Kansas, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant and ordered to active |
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Arneson eventually expanded the Braunsteins to include ideas from The Lord of the Rings and Dark Shadows. Arneson adjusted his Braunsteins to use Gary Gygax's Chainmail rules and allow players to play themselves |
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{"datasets_id": 879, "wiki_id": "Q27984693", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 416} | 879 | Q27984693 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 416 | Brazil Creek | Brazil Creek Brazil Creek is a stream in Crawford and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary to the Meramec River.
The stream headwaters are at 37°59′50″N 90°59′10″W in Washington County and its confluence with the Meramec River is at 38°07′21″N 91°08′59″W in Crawford County.
According to the State Historical Society of Missouri, the source of the name of Brazil Creek is obscure. |
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{"datasets_id": 880, "wiki_id": "Q4958820", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 604} | 880 | Q4958820 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 604 | Brazilian frigate Constituição (F42) | History | Brazilian frigate Constituição (F42) History In June 2009, the F Constituição (F42) participated in the recovery mission for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447.
On the 20th of February, 2010, the Constituição brought 12 students, faculty, and crew of the SV Concordia ashore after they were initially rescued by merchant vessels. The Concordia, a tall ship floating classroom operated by the West Island College International's Class Afloat program, was abandoned approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km) south east of Rio de Janeiro with all 64 people aboard making it to life rafts. The remaining 52 students, faculty, and crew were to |
{"datasets_id": 880, "wiki_id": "Q4958820", "sp": 6, "sc": 604, "ep": 6, "ec": 739} | 880 | Q4958820 | 6 | 604 | 6 | 739 | Brazilian frigate Constituição (F42) | History | be transferred from merchant vessels to the Constituição and another Brazilian frigate, but weather and other concerns prevented that. |
{"datasets_id": 881, "wiki_id": "Q4960101", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 424} | 881 | Q4960101 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 424 | Breda O'Brien | Early life and education & Career | Breda O'Brien Early life and education Born in Dungarvan, County Waterford, O'Brien was educated at the Convent of Mercy, Dungarvan and later at the Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin. Career O'Brien taught at Muckross Park College, a public Catholic girls' school, between 1983 and 1987. She later returned to this post in 1992, and has remained there since. She has worked as a video producer and communications trainer in the Catholic Communications Centre (founded by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference), Booterstown, Dublin from 1988 to 1991. She worked as a researcher for RTÉ from 1991 to 1992. Her career |
{"datasets_id": 881, "wiki_id": "Q4960101", "sp": 10, "sc": 424, "ep": 10, "ec": 1077} | 881 | Q4960101 | 10 | 424 | 10 | 1,077 | Breda O'Brien | Career | as a columnist began with The Sunday Business Post from 1997 to 2000 and continued with The Irish Times.
O'Brien is a patron of the Iona Institute, a conservative Catholic pressure group, and appears regularly in the Irish media as a contributor, supporting the teachings of the Catholic Church.
In her Irish Times column, she has expressed her opposition to abortion in all circumstances, including rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality, and to same-sex marriage.
Her stance on civil partnerships has changed. Initially opposed to them in 2008, and 2010 by 2015, in the run up to the Irish marriage equality referendum, she |
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Marriage is already under assault in every way from heterosexuals. Do we wish to redefine it in an even more radical way? ... It is never pleasant to take a stance like this, and it must be a thousand times less pleasant to be the person who is told that important values like equality must take second place to the common good.
— Breda O'Brien,
O'Brien, along with other members of the Iona Institute took legal action against RTE and Panti Bliss for being labelled as homophobes for campaigning against marriage equality. This was the impetus |
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She is married, and has four children who have been home-schooled. |
{"datasets_id": 882, "wiki_id": "Q895744", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 540} | 882 | Q895744 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 540 | Bremerhaven Radar Tower | Bremerhaven Radar Tower The Bremerhaven Radar Tower is a 106-metre reinforced concrete tower located in Bremerhaven, Germany. The radar tower, which was constructed between 1962 and 1965, accommodates numerous transmitting plants for maritime radio purposes, in addition to its radar equipment. A viewing platform is situated at the 60 metre level, and is accessible to the public.
Unlike other transmitting towers, the Bremerhaven facility belongs to the Bremerhaven Water and Shipping department and not Deutsche Telekom AG or a broadcasting corporation. |
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{"datasets_id": 883, "wiki_id": "Q908540", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 431} | 883 | Q908540 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 431 | Brenda & the Tabulations | History | Brenda & the Tabulations Brenda & the Tabulations were an American R&B group formed in 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally composed of Brenda Payton, Eddie L. Jackson, Maurice Coates and Jerry Jones. History The group had a distinctive, almost doo wop sound, especially at the start, featuring Payton's sweet occasionally rough-edged vocals with background male harmonies. The line-up changed around 1971 with the original three men departing. Two female backing singers (Pat Mercer and Deborah Martin) were brought into the group.
Brenda and the Tabulations had one major US hit, entitled "Dry Your Eyes". The group also worked |
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The group has released a total of three albums: Dry Your Eyes on Dionn Records (1967), Brenda and the Tabulations on Top & Bottom Records (1970), and I Keep Coming Back For More on Chocolate City/Casablanca (1977), although by the time of the last album, Brenda Payton was relatively a solo act while keeping the |
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Brenda & the Tabulations are one of many recording artists referenced in the song "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by the studio group Reunion.
Brenda Payton, born on October 24, 1945, died on June 14, 1992, aged 46. Eddie L. Jackson died on May 3, 2010, from a brain aneurysm at the age of 63.
The group's music saw a revival in 2011, when the song "The Wash" |
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{"datasets_id": 884, "wiki_id": "Q14586090", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 562} | 884 | Q14586090 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 562 | Brenda Martinez | Giving back | Brenda Martinez Giving back Martinez had spoken regularly at high schools and running camps, so her coach Joe Vigil suggested she start her own running camp for young girls. Her first camp in 2013 consisted of five California middle school and high school girls. There's no official camp name but it can be referred to as the Big Bear Altitude Training Camp. This summer(2017) will mark the camp's fifth year.
The application process is quite easy, all they have to do is submit an open prompt essay and they have to live in Southern California. “Picking a stack, that’s the hardest |
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Over the course of about three full days, the campers, coached by Martinez and a few of her friends, get to know one another over home-cooked meals, seminars, and runs. The |
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{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 345} | 885 | Q908645 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 345 | Brendan Benson | One Mississippi & Lapalco | Brendan Benson One Mississippi Benson was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. His debut album, One Mississippi, was released in 1996 on Virgin Records. The album featured several contributions with Jason Falkner and failed to sell in sufficient numbers and Benson was dropped by Virgin. Lapalco In 2002, the follow-up to One Mississippi was released, Lapalco. Again the critical plaudits poured in, but this time the record enjoyed a certain degree of commercial success, selling more than three times as many copies as One Mississippi.
The song "Good To Me" from this album appeared on the British show Teachers during series three |
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While touring this record Benson played the Reading and Leeds Festivals and finished his Leeds set with a performance of the track "Jet Lag" featuring guest appearances from Meg White of The White Stripes along with members of The Datsuns and Soledad Brothers. In 2003 Benson re-released his debut |
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In 2003, Benson also released Metarie, with his then band The Well Fed Boys, and which featured a cover of Paul McCartney's Let Me Roll It, which featured back-up vocals by Jack White. This was the first song written completely by another artist to be featured on a Benson release. Another cover, this time "Strong Boy", from Gram Parsons International Submarine Band 1968 album, Safe at Home, was released as a B-side in 2005. The Alternative to Love In 2005, Benson released his third album, The Alternative |
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{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 18, "sc": 37, "ep": 22, "ec": 50} | 885 | Q908645 | 18 | 37 | 22 | 50 | Brendan Benson | The Raconteurs & My Old, Familiar Friend | a collaboration with Jack White, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler. Benson and White co-wrote the songs. The group's debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers, was released in the US on May 16, 2006, with "Steady, As She Goes" as the first single. Benson worked as a producer for The Greenhornes, The Nice Device, The Mood Elevator (a permutation of The Well Fed Boys), Whirlwind Heat, and the Stiff Tissues member Dean Fertita's former band, The Waxwings. The Raconteurs released their second album, Consolers of the Lonely in March 2008. My Old, Familiar Friend Benson's fourth album was My Old, Familiar Friend. |
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In October 2007, two new songs, "Purely Automatic" and "Will it Keep," were published on Benson's official website, presumably finished songs from the album. In November 2008, he uploaded a new song, "Playdown", on his Myspace, but it was quickly taken down. He soon put it back up along with another new song called "No One Else But You". Soon after, the songs "O My Love" and "New Words of Wisdom" were added to his page. Later he added "I'll Never Tell", "Happy Most of the Time", "Only in a Dream" (cover of Young Hines), and "Diamond" on his official |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 22, "sc": 1195, "ep": 22, "ec": 1764} | 885 | Q908645 | 22 | 1,195 | 22 | 1,764 | Brendan Benson | My Old, Familiar Friend | MySpace page and he also added "Open Your Eyes" on his Reverb Nation page. In mid March 2009 Brendan put a collaboration with his girlfriend Britt, "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (cover of The Marvelettes) on his Myspace page.
On March 18, 2009, KRCW played a new song "A Whole Lot Better" and on May 10, 2009, KRCW played another new song entitled "Garbage Day" both presumably finished songs off his fourth album. The title "My Old, Familiar Friend" and the track list were revealed on June 4, 2009. The album was released on August 18, 2009. My Old, |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 22, "sc": 1764, "ep": 26, "ec": 442} | 885 | Q908645 | 22 | 1,764 | 26 | 442 | Brendan Benson | My Old, Familiar Friend & Collaboration with Ashley Monroe | Familiar Friend was produced by Gil Norton according to his MySpace page. He is backed by the Features on some of the record. Collaboration with Ashley Monroe In late 2008, Ashley Monroe collaborated with The Raconteurs and Ricky Skaggs on The Raconteurs single, "Old Enough", which was released in bluegrass form, and as a music video which was in rotation on CMT.
In early February 2009, two songs entitled "The Things I Do" and "Grey" appeared on Monroe's MySpace along with this message:
"Hey everyone! I just wanted to write ya a quick note to tell you I have put up some |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 26, "sc": 442, "ep": 30, "ec": 192} | 885 | Q908645 | 26 | 442 | 30 | 192 | Brendan Benson | Collaboration with Ashley Monroe & Well & Goode | new songs you guys haven't heard. I have been working with Brendan Benson ... who I met on the set on The Raconteurs video shoot... and I am SOOO EXCITED about the music we have been making. I can't wait to share more! The two songs I posted of ours are "The Things I Do" and "Grey"... hope you love them as much as I do!" Well & Goode Benson teamed with Raconteurs touring member Mark Watrous (Gosling, Loudermilk) in October 2010 to release a single as the fictional duo "Midas Well" and "Upton O. Goode". Well & Goode's debut |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 30, "sc": 192, "ep": 38, "ec": 40} | 885 | Q908645 | 30 | 192 | 38 | 40 | Brendan Benson | Well & Goode & What Kind of World & You Were Right | single was a 7" vinyl record and digital download, and featured the songs "Spray Tan" and "Two Birds". What Kind of World What Kind of World was released on April 21, 2012. It was released on his own new label Readymade Records in the USA, and on the indie label Lojinx in Europe. The album was recorded at "Welcome to 1979" Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and recorded entirely in analog. What Kind of World peaked at No. 7 on the UK Indie album chart in the week of release. You Were Right You Were Right is the sixth studio album |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 38, "sc": 40, "ep": 42, "ec": 298} | 885 | Q908645 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 298 | Brendan Benson | You Were Right & Readymade records | released in December 2013 under Benson's own label Readymade Records in the USA, on Lojinx in Europe, and on Dine Alone Records in Canada. The album is the culmination of a monthly singles series recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Readymade Studios. Readymade records Readymade Records was announced by Benson in early 2012. The label was started with Benson and Young Hines as the first two signed artists. Benson released What Kind of World in the US on April 21, 2012. The album was released in the UK on April 30, 2012. Young Hines released Give Me My Change in |
{"datasets_id": 885, "wiki_id": "Q908645", "sp": 42, "sc": 298, "ep": 42, "ec": 324} | 885 | Q908645 | 42 | 298 | 42 | 324 | Brendan Benson | Readymade records | the US on April 10, 2012. |
{"datasets_id": 886, "wiki_id": "Q4961032", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 608} | 886 | Q4961032 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 608 | Brendan O'Brien (journalist) | Brendan O'Brien (journalist) Brendan O'Brien was once a journalist on RTÉ One's Prime Time current affairs programme, he worked for RTE from 1973 until 2002.
In 1983, O'Brien won a Jacob's Award for his reporting on the RTÉ current affairs programme, Today Tonight.
He is noted for his report and investigation of Martin Cahill where he follows the criminal and confronts him in the street.
In 2008, O'Brien won the Irish Children's Book of the Year Award for The Story of Ireland. He has also written about the history of the IRA.
He worked from 2005 until 2010 for the independent radio station Newstalk |
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{"datasets_id": 886, "wiki_id": "Q4961032", "sp": 4, "sc": 608, "ep": 4, "ec": 729} | 886 | Q4961032 | 4 | 608 | 4 | 729 | Brendan O'Brien (journalist) | presenting The Saturday Edition.
O'Brien is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Ulster. |
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{"datasets_id": 887, "wiki_id": "Q17182757", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 47} | 887 | Q17182757 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 47 | Brenham, Kansas | History | Brenham, Kansas History Brenham had a post office from 1884 until 1894. |
{"datasets_id": 888, "wiki_id": "Q4961458", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 148} | 888 | Q4961458 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 148 | Brent Liles | Early life & Career | Brent Liles Early life Liles was born on September 7, 1963, and was an only child. His father died in a plane crash when Brent was 8 years old. He continued to live with his mother and was a standout tennis player at Troy High School in Fullerton, California, and salutatorian of his high school graduating class in 1981. Prior to joining Social Distortion, Liles had seriously considered a career as a professional tennis player. Career He appeared on Social Distortion's 1983 classic debut Mommy's Little Monster before leaving the band on New Year's Day 1984, with the band's drummer |
{"datasets_id": 888, "wiki_id": "Q4961458", "sp": 10, "sc": 148, "ep": 10, "ec": 751} | 888 | Q4961458 | 10 | 148 | 10 | 751 | Brent Liles | Career | Derek O'Brien. The two would once again be bandmates from 1989 to the early 1990s with Agent Orange. The Palm/Liles/O'Brien lineup of Agent Orange can be heard on the album Real Live Sound. It was Liles who originally came up with the idea of Agent Orange recording their little-known and never released album, Living in Total Darkness. This was a re-recording of the songs on their 1981 album Living in Darkness with some newer material mixed in. This recording was made on Christmas of 1988, which is somewhat interesting because Mommy's Little Monster was coincidentally recorded on Christmas Eve of |
{"datasets_id": 888, "wiki_id": "Q4961458", "sp": 10, "sc": 751, "ep": 10, "ec": 1375} | 888 | Q4961458 | 10 | 751 | 10 | 1,375 | Brent Liles | Career | 1982. Liles also briefly played guitar for the band Easter and Chaotic Stature. Brent also played bass for a band in 1984 to 1986 called The Harlots, who were managed by Monk Rock, Brent's manager from his Social Distortion days. The Harlots put out a 12 E.P. around March 1985 which was entitled Roger Roomper's Really Catchy Tunes.
He also appeared in the 1984 documentary Another State of Mind. His songwriting credits include "Mass Hysteria" with Social Distortion and "Broken Dreams" with Agent Orange. He was known for playing a Rickenbacker fretless bass, which is rarely seen in punk rock.
Liles had |
{"datasets_id": 888, "wiki_id": "Q4961458", "sp": 10, "sc": 1375, "ep": 10, "ec": 1998} | 888 | Q4961458 | 10 | 1,375 | 10 | 1,998 | Brent Liles | Career | been out of the musical scene since the mid-1990s, operating a convalescent home in Placentia, California. He died on January 18, 2007, after being hit by a truck while cycling. A Social Distortion benefit concert was held for his family at the Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana, California on March 8, 2007. He is survived by his mother Carol Liles and daughter Maddie Liles.
Liles is the fourth member of Social Distortion to have died. Other deceased Social Distortion members include Dennis Danell in 2000 (brain aneurysm), Randy Carr in 2002 (Cushing's Syndrome), and original bassist Mark Garrett (unknown cause). |
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{"datasets_id": 889, "wiki_id": "Q24191706", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 157} | 889 | Q24191706 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 157 | Brewsterdale, West Virginia | History | Brewsterdale, West Virginia Brewsterdale is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. History A post office called Brewsterdale was established in 1915, and remained in operation until 1932. The community's name honors the Brewster family of settlers. |
{"datasets_id": 890, "wiki_id": "Q4963682", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 576} | 890 | Q4963682 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 576 | Brian Esposito | Playing career | Brian Esposito Playing career Esposito was recalled from the Memphis Redbirds on May 30, 2007, when the Cardinals' starting catcher, Yadier Molina, was placed on the disabled list with a fractured wrist. Esposito made his major league debut June 2 against the Houston Astros as a late-inning defensive replacement for Gary Bennett. He did not have a plate appearance. He returned to Memphis on June 5 after the Cardinals acquired veteran catcher Kelly Stinnett from the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2008, he played for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers in the Colorado Rockies organization and became a free agent at |
{"datasets_id": 890, "wiki_id": "Q4963682", "sp": 6, "sc": 576, "ep": 6, "ec": 1184} | 890 | Q4963682 | 6 | 576 | 6 | 1,184 | Brian Esposito | Playing career | the end of the season.
Esposito signed a minor league contract with the Astros on January 14, 2009, and was invited to spring training.
Esposito would join Houston roster in 2010 when they expanded their roster in September. He would get two plate appearances on September 18, 2010 against the Cincinnati Reds when he was a late inning replacement for Jason Castro. He was also called up June 24, 2011, but sent back down June 29 without an appearance. On October 10, he elected free agency.
On December 23, 2011, Esposito signed a minor league deal with the Cincinnati Reds with an |
{"datasets_id": 890, "wiki_id": "Q4963682", "sp": 6, "sc": 1184, "ep": 6, "ec": 1440} | 890 | Q4963682 | 6 | 1,184 | 6 | 1,440 | Brian Esposito | Playing career | invitation to spring training.
On May 20, 2012 he was signed to a minor league deal by the Chicago Cubs and sent down to their Triple-A affiliate, the Iowa Cubs.
In March 2013, Esposito signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a player-coach. |
{"datasets_id": 891, "wiki_id": "Q4963954", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 12, "ec": 115} | 891 | Q4963954 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 115 | Brian Harold Thomson | Education & DC Thomson & Co. | Brian Harold Thomson Colonel Brian Harold Thomson (21 November 1918 – 7 November 2006) was a newspaper proprietor of D. C. Thomson & Co. and soldier in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. He was widely known as "Mr Brian" within D. C. Thomson & Co. and throughout the business community of Dundee. Education Brian was educated at Charterhouse and spent a year in Germany before joining the family firm (D. C. Thomson & Co.) in 1937. DC Thomson & Co. Brian Thomson was a great-grandson of William Harold Thomson, a Dundonian who prospered first as a draper and later |
{"datasets_id": 891, "wiki_id": "Q4963954", "sp": 12, "sc": 115, "ep": 12, "ec": 744} | 891 | Q4963954 | 12 | 115 | 12 | 744 | Brian Harold Thomson | DC Thomson & Co. | as a shipowner, and in 1884 became the major shareholder of The Dundee Courier & Daily Argus.
William's son, David Coupar Thomson, became general manager of the paper, and in 1905 a growing portfolio of newspaper interests was consolidated as D. C. Thomson & Co..
David Coupar Thomson remained chairman of the company until his death, aged 93, in 1954; but it was his nephew, Harold (Brian's father), who drove the expansion of its publishing interests, particularly in the field of comics. The Sunday Post, launched in 1914, introduced a "Fun" section in 1936 which became home to iconic cartoon characters such |
{"datasets_id": 891, "wiki_id": "Q4963954", "sp": 12, "sc": 744, "ep": 16, "ec": 67} | 891 | Q4963954 | 12 | 744 | 16 | 67 | Brian Harold Thomson | DC Thomson & Co. & Military service | as Oor Wullie and the Broons.
Brian became a joint Managing Director in 1948 and succeeded his father as chairman in 1974. He conducted business according to strict principles of fairness and courtesy. He did not believe that his company's affairs were the concern of anyone but himself and his board, and he almost never spoke about them to the outside world.
His publications upheld traditional Scottish family values and tastes, typified by the homely tone of the Sunday Post and by magazine titles such as Classic Stitches. Military service In September 1939 he joined the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. Posted to |
{"datasets_id": 891, "wiki_id": "Q4963954", "sp": 16, "sc": 67, "ep": 20, "ec": 263} | 891 | Q4963954 | 16 | 67 | 20 | 263 | Brian Harold Thomson | Military service & Family Life and Private Life | Montgomery's Eighth Army in early 1943 and served in armoured cars in North Africa and in the intense battles fighting up the spine of Italy.
After the war he continued to serve in the Yeomanry. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and from 1953-1955 he commanded his Regiment, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. Family Life and Private Life He married in 1947 Patricia Cunninghame (died 1991) and had one son Christopher, now deputy chairman of D. C. Thomson & Co., and four daughters.
He loved his garden and woodlands, enjoyed shooting, and was a fine golfer at Royal and Ancient at St Andrews, |
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Brian Thomson was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Fife in 1988. |
{"datasets_id": 892, "wiki_id": "Q2924924", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 579} | 892 | Q2924924 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 579 | Brian Howard (poet) | Biography | Brian Howard (poet) Biography Howard was born to American parents in Hascombe, Surrey, of Protestant descent, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, and brought up in London; his father Francis Gassaway Howard - son of the writer Frank Gassaway, known as 'Derrick Dodd' - was an associate of James Whistler.
He was educated at Eton College, where he was one of the Eton Arts Society group including Robert Byron, Harold Acton, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell and Henry Yorke. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1923, not without difficulty. He was prominent in the group later known as the Oxford Wits. He |
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At Oxford Howard was part of the Railway Club, which included: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, David Plunket Greene, Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, John Drury-Lowe.
It has been suggested that Howard was Waugh's model for Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited. But Waugh wrote, to Lord Baldwin, "There |
{"datasets_id": 892, "wiki_id": "Q2924924", "sp": 6, "sc": 1250, "ep": 6, "ec": 1823} | 892 | Q2924924 | 6 | 1,250 | 6 | 1,823 | Brian Howard (poet) | Biography | is an aesthetic bugger who sometimes turns up in my novels under various names—that was 2/3 Brian [Howard] and 1/3 Harold Acton. People think it was all Harold, who is a much sweeter and saner man [than Howard]."
At this time he had already been published as a poet, in A. R. Orage's The New Age, and the final Sitwell Wheels anthology. He used the pseudonyms "Jasper Proude" and "Charles Orange." His verse also was in Oxford Poetry 1924. His poetry was admired and promoted by Edith Sitwell in the late 1920s.
In the late 1920s, he was a key figure among |
{"datasets_id": 892, "wiki_id": "Q2924924", "sp": 6, "sc": 1823, "ep": 6, "ec": 2497} | 892 | Q2924924 | 6 | 1,823 | 6 | 2,497 | Brian Howard (poet) | Biography | London's "Bright Young Things"—a privileged, fashionable and bohemian set of relentless party-goers, satirised in such novels as Evelyn Waugh's 1930 Vile Bodies where the character of Miles Malpractice owes something to Howard. Apart from Waugh, Howard knew all this circle, including Nancy Mitford, Henry Yorke, Harold Acton, and especially Allanah Harper and Nancy Cunard. He maintained contact with both throughout his life.
In 1929 he was famously involved in the "Bruno Hat" hoax when the fashionable Hon Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Guinness promoted a spoof London art exhibition by an apparently unknown German painter Bruno Hat (impersonated by the German-speaking Tom |
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Howard is credited with coining the phrase, “Anybody over the age of 30 seen in a bus has been a failure in life,” often wrongly attributed to Margaret Thatcher. According to Daily Telegraph correspondent and historian, Hugo Vickers, (writing in November 2006), the author |
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Subsequently he led a very active social life, tried to come to terms with his homosexuality, and published only one substantial poetry collection God Save the King (1930, Hours Press). He was active as a poet during the Spanish Civil War, but did not ultimately invest in his work with seriousness. He drank heavily and used drugs.
He had a long affair with Sandy Baird, whom he knew from Eton. Baird was killed in action in 1943 at 33 |
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During World War II Howard took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and later worked for MI5 but was dismissed from the War Office in June 1942, after which he was conscripted to the Royal Air Force and given a low-level clerk's job at Bomber Command, High Wycombe. An Air Ministry note on his file says he should never be given a commission. Transferred to another posting, where he referred to his commanding officer as "Colonel Cutie" (an appellation Evelyn Waugh gave his rebellious rogue Basil Seal in the novel Put Out More Flags), Howard was dismissed in December 1944, |
{"datasets_id": 892, "wiki_id": "Q2924924", "sp": 6, "sc": 4327, "ep": 6, "ec": 5020} | 892 | Q2924924 | 6 | 4,327 | 6 | 5,020 | Brian Howard (poet) | Biography | by which time he had formed a longstanding open relationship with Sam Langford, an Irishman serving in the Air Sea Rescue.
After the war, Howard drifted around Europe with Sam, continuing to write occasional articles and reviews for the New Statesman, the BBC and others, fitfully working on an uncompleted biography of the gay English writer Norman Douglas (author of the novel South Wind) and doing no substantial work. Indiscreetly promiscuous, drinking heavily, taking drugs and behaving outrageously, they were expelled in turn from Monaco, France, Italy and Spain, the French authorities noting their "moralité douteuse" (dubious morality).
Not surprisingly, he suffered |
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Evelyn Waugh wrote: "I used to know Brian Howard well—a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous—constantly attacking people with his fists in public places—so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart."
Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster wrote a biography of Howard. |
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{"datasets_id": 893, "wiki_id": "Q2924973", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 544} | 893 | Q2924973 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 544 | Brian Part | Biography | Brian Part Biography Part first developed an interest in acting at the age of five. Right before Part's father died, he made his wife promise that their son could become an actor. Part told his dad that he would make his name famous.
Part's first acting job was in an episode of Lucas Tanner called "Collision" in 1975. Later that year, he was in an episode of ABC Afterschool Special and also made a guest appearance on The Waltons. From 1975 to 1977, Part acted in twenty-one episodes of Little House on the Prairie as Carl Sanderson Edwards, the first of |
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In 1976, Part played Samuel in Birch Interval. After Little House he was in Return from Witch Mountain in 1978 and an episode of Project UFO in |
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Part also landed commercials for Dawn dishwashing liquid and Shasta Cola. His stage work includes Desperate Hours alongside Anthony Caruso and a lead part in the musical Forrest Lights with his wife Kathryn E. Part.
Retiring from acting in 1983, he has now turned his career towards music, performing with bands such as Warrant and Vixon, as well as musicians Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. With his wife, Melody Part, Brian has recorded CDs.
Part |
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{"datasets_id": 894, "wiki_id": "Q4965687", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 628} | 894 | Q4965687 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 628 | Brian Woolnough | Brian Woolnough Brian Woolnough (30 September 1948 – 18 September 2012) was a British sports journalist and Chief Sports writer for the Daily Star.
Previously a writer for The Sun, in 1999 the Daily Mirror tried unsuccessfully to poach him. Woolnough was lured to the Daily Star in 2001 after owner Richard Desmond authorised a £200,000 pay package.
In December 2004, following Norwich City's 4–0 defeat at Chelsea, Woolnough produced a Monday morning column that enraged many Norwich fans, saying that City were "gutless," that they would "stink the place out" with Premiership performances of a similar ilk, and that he "Hopes |
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From 2007, Woolnough was the presenter of Sky Sport's Sunday Supplement, replacing Jimmy Hill. Woolnough was previously the presenter of Hold the Back Page from 1994.
Woolnough died on 18 September 2012, aged 63 from bowel cancer. He is survived by his wife Linda and three children.
Gary Lineker described Woolnough as "one of football's finest journalists." The then Manchester United manager Sir |
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{"datasets_id": 894, "wiki_id": "Q4965687", "sp": 4, "sc": 1310, "ep": 4, "ec": 1392} | 894 | Q4965687 | 4 | 1,310 | 4 | 1,392 | Brian Woolnough | Alex Ferguson said that Woolnough was "a good journalist and a good personality." |
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{"datasets_id": 895, "wiki_id": "Q4965947", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 302} | 895 | Q4965947 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 302 | Brick Store Building | Description and history | Brick Store Building Description and history It was built in 1807, and consists of a two-story, gable-roofed, rectangular brick main block with a two-story, wood-framed rear wing in a vernacular Federal style. The entire building rests on a limestone foundation.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1996. |
{"datasets_id": 896, "wiki_id": "Q66523356", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 240} | 896 | Q66523356 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 240 | Brickopolis | Brickopolis Brickopolis is a three-story entertainment venue in Bricktown, Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Features include an arcade, laser tag, and an 18-hole miniature golf course. Brickopolis was opened by owner Chris Johnson in 2015. |
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{"datasets_id": 897, "wiki_id": "Q18592958", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 492} | 897 | Q18592958 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 492 | Bridget Hill | Early life & Education and politics | Bridget Hill Early life Hill was born Bridget Irene Sutton in Middlesex, the daughter of a Baptist minister. Education and politics She went to school at Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith and attended university at the London School of Economics, studying economic history. Hill joined the Communist Party during her time at the London School of Economics in World War II. She went to Prague on a scholarship in 1949. Both her first husband, Stephen Finney Mason (1923–2007), and her second husband, Christopher Hill (1912–2003) were both members of the Communist Party. Hill would later leave the communist party. |
{"datasets_id": 897, "wiki_id": "Q18592958", "sp": 12, "sc": 0, "ep": 14, "ec": 522} | 897 | Q18592958 | 12 | 0 | 14 | 522 | Bridget Hill | Published works | Published works Hill and her husband Christopher co-authored a paper entitled Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century in 1967 about the early female historian, Catherine Macaulay. Hill published in 1992 a full book on Macaulay, entitled The Republican Virago.
Hill's other works included Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology (1984); Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England (1989); Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (1996), and Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850 (2001). |
{"datasets_id": 898, "wiki_id": "Q204996", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 512} | 898 | Q204996 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 512 | Bridget of Sweden | Fifteen 'Our Father and Hail Mary prayers' | Bridget of Sweden Fifteen 'Our Father and Hail Mary prayers' Saint Bridget prayed for a long time to know how many blows Jesus Christ suffered during His terrible Passion. Rewarding her patience, one day He appeared to her and said, "I received 5480 blows upon My Body. If you wish to honor them in some way, recite fifteen Our Fathers and fifteen Hail Marys with the following Prayers, which I Myself shall teach you, for an entire year. When the year is finished, you will have honored each of My Wounds."
The prayers became known as the "Fifteen O's", because in |
{"datasets_id": 898, "wiki_id": "Q204996", "sp": 6, "sc": 512, "ep": 6, "ec": 1156} | 898 | Q204996 | 6 | 512 | 6 | 1,156 | Bridget of Sweden | Fifteen 'Our Father and Hail Mary prayers' | the original Latin, each prayer began with the words O Jesu, O Rex, or O Domine Jesu Christe. Some have questioned whether Saint Bridget is in fact their author; Eamon Duffy reports that the prayers probably originated in England, in the devotional circles that surrounded Richard Rolle or the English Brigittines.
Whatever their origin, the prayers were quite widely circulated in the late Middle Ages, and became regular features in Books of Hours and other devotional literature. They were translated into various languages; an early English language version of them was printed in a primer by William Caxton. The prayers themselves |
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During the Middle Ages, the prayers began to circulate with various promises of indulgence and other assurances of supernatural graces supposed to attend from their regular recitation over the course of a year. These indulgences were repeated in the manuscript tradition of the Books of Hours, and may constitute one major source of the prayers' popularity in the late Middle |
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The extravagance of the promises made in these rubrics—one widely circulated version promised that the devotee would receive "his heart's desire, if it be for the salvation of his soul"—attracted critics early and late. In 1538, William Marshall enjoined his readers to "henseforth ... forget suche prayers as seynt Brigittes & other lyke, whyche greate promyses and perdons haue falsly auaunced." In 1954, the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy |
{"datasets_id": 898, "wiki_id": "Q204996", "sp": 6, "sc": 2432, "ep": 10, "ec": 410} | 898 | Q204996 | 6 | 2,432 | 10 | 410 | Bridget of Sweden | Fifteen 'Our Father and Hail Mary prayers' & Veneration | Office found the alleged promises (though not the prayers themselves) unreliable, and directed local ordinaries not to permit the circulation of pamphlets containing the promises. Veneration In 1651 the Brigitta Chapel was erected in Vienna, and in 1900 the new district Brigittenau was founded. In Sweden, adjacent to Skederid Church, built by Bridget's father on the family's land, a memorial stone was erected in 1930.
On 1 October 1999 Pope John Paul II named Saint Bridget as a patron saint of Europe. Her feast day is celebrated on 23 July, the day of her death. Her feast was not in the |
{"datasets_id": 898, "wiki_id": "Q204996", "sp": 10, "sc": 410, "ep": 10, "ec": 987} | 898 | Q204996 | 10 | 410 | 10 | 987 | Bridget of Sweden | Veneration | Tridentine Calendar, but was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1623 for celebration on 7 October, the day of her 1391 canonization by Pope Boniface IX. Five years later, her feast was moved to 8 October (although the Church in Sweden celebrates it on the 7th), where it remained until the revision of the General Roman Calendar in 1969, when it was set on the date currently used. Some continue to use the earlier General Roman Calendar of 1954, the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, or the General Roman Calendar of 1960.
The Third Order of St. Francis |
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Bjärka-Säby Monastery has a portrait of Bridget of Sweden venerated by Christians of several denominations. An hour away from this monastery, Vadstena Abbey, also known as Blue Church, contains relics of the saint, with her body being venerated by both Lutheran and Catholic believers. |
{"datasets_id": 899, "wiki_id": "Q4966943", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 266} | 899 | Q4966943 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 266 | Bridie McGarry | Background and early career & Inter-county | Bridie McGarry Background and early career She first played Camogie when she went to Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny where she won an All Ireland Senior Colleges title in 1969. She played with Thornbrack and Lisdowney before winning several county championships and three club All Ireland medals with St Paul’s. Inter-county She first played with Kilkenny senior team in 1972 and went on to win nine All Ireland medals in what was the county’s most successful period in the game to date. She was captain in 1985 and again in 1987. She won seven National League medals with Kilkenny and eight |
{"datasets_id": 899, "wiki_id": "Q4966943", "sp": 10, "sc": 266, "ep": 18, "ec": 219} | 899 | Q4966943 | 10 | 266 | 18 | 219 | Bridie McGarry | Inter-county & Awards & Citation | Gael Linn Cup inter-provincial medals with Leinster. She later became involved in coaching the Development Squad in Kilkenny and is also a referee. Awards Apart from her selection on the camogie team of the century in 2004, she won B&I Player of the Year in 1976, won the 1976 Kilkenny Sports Star award and an Irish Nationwide ”Women in Sport” Award. Citation Her team of the century citation read: “she made Camogie look easy, her range of skills a joy to watch. Her dainty physique belied her strength under the dropping ball. Always distributing the ball to best advantage she |
{"datasets_id": 899, "wiki_id": "Q4966943", "sp": 18, "sc": 219, "ep": 22, "ec": 136} | 899 | Q4966943 | 18 | 219 | 22 | 136 | Bridie McGarry | Citation & Other sports | was an attacking centre-back.” Other sports A talented soccer player she was chosen to play for Ireland but had to withdraw due to the clash of fixtures between Camogie and soccer. |
{"datasets_id": 900, "wiki_id": "Q28457144", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 227} | 900 | Q28457144 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 227 | Bright Tetteh Ackwerh | Early life & Career | Bright Tetteh Ackwerh Early life Bright was born in Accra and he attended Accra Academy and studied Visual Arts for his senior high school education, before proceeding to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to study BFA and MFA in painting. He completed his first degree in 2011 and served as a teaching assistant the following year. Career He begun by exhibiting his artworks via social media and also painting on wall murals in the streets of Accra. He has featured in many arts exhibitions in Ghana and abroad. Some these include; Art X Lagos Exhibition in Nigeria, |
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In 2016, he won the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art (the ‘Prize’)at an event held at the ringway estates in Accra. Bright has through the years used social media in sharing his works and provoking powerful sentiments around the themes he explores in his illustrations and paintings.
He has also participated in group shows in Accra, Paris, Johannesburg and Los Angeles. In October 2017 he featured in the October edition of CNN African Voices. He was also on the Barclays L’Atelier Art Competition's 2017 list of |
{"datasets_id": 900, "wiki_id": "Q28457144", "sp": 10, "sc": 875, "ep": 14, "ec": 565} | 900 | Q28457144 | 10 | 875 | 14 | 565 | Bright Tetteh Ackwerh | Career & Style | top 10 artists. Style His style is a satirical re-presentation of Ghanaian sociopolitical and religious issues in an incisive manner that provokes conversations, sparks debate and elicits response. He draws huge inspiration from Fela Kuti and other great African heroes as the subject of his works depict the unapologetic manner in relaying his messages.
He believes the music culture has a certain power to influence and inspire people and there's always the use of double and triples entendre that provide entry points into some of the discussions that the artwork generates. |
{"datasets_id": 901, "wiki_id": "Q3644932", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 569} | 901 | Q3644932 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 569 | Bristol Aquila | Design and development | Bristol Aquila Design and development The Aquila was developed two years after the somewhat larger Perseus, both being sleeve valve designs. The primary difference was in size, the Perseus being based on the 5.75 by 6.5 in (146 by 165 mm) cylinder used in the Mercury engine, while the Aquila used a new and smaller 5 by 5.375 in (127.0 by 136.5 mm) sized cylinder. The result was a reduction in displacement from 1520 to 950 cubic inches (24.9 to 15.6 L).
The first Aquila engine delivered a modest 365 horsepower (272 kW), which was unspectacular for an engine of this size. It soon developed into |
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