ejaasaari/simplewiki-2025-04-01 huggingface dataset:
Abdullah Abdurahman (12 December 1872 – 20 February 1940) was a South African politician and doctor. He was the first Coloured, or mixed-race, city councillor of Cape Town. Early life. He was born on 12 December 1872, in Wellington, South Africa (now in the Western Cape). His parents were Muslim Cape Malays, and his grandparents were slaves in the Cape Colony, possibly from India, who had managed to buy their freedom. Cape Malays were considered "Coloured" under the apartheid system of racial segregation. He went to school in Wellington before going to medical school at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1888; in 1893, he graduated. After his studies, he returned to South Africa and became a doctor in Cape Town. Local government. He was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1904. He was the first non-white person in this position. As city councillor he worked to improve the conditions of the Cape Coloured community, especially within the field of education; he helped set up the first secondary schools for Coloured people in Cape Town. African Political Organisation. Abdurahman joined African Political Organisation (APO) in 1903 and became its president in 1905. The party's goal was to fight increased racial oppression in the country, mainly on behalf of the Coloured people. He led the APO for 35 years. In 1914 Abdurahman was elected to the Cape Provincial Council. He was the first Coloured person to serve on the council. Death. Abdullah Abdurahman died on 20 February 1940.
Potamophylax is a genus of insects belonging to the family Limnephilidae. Species. List of species includes:
Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal, also known as Rayssa Leal, (born 4 January 2008) is a goofy-footed Brazilian skateboarder from Imperatriz, Brazil. Rayssa won silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games and bronze at Paris 2024.
Brett Sutton (born 16 May 1959) is an Australian triathlon coach and a former professional boxer, boxing coach, greyhound trainer, racehorse trainer and swimming coach, who is the head coach of Trisutto.com. Before setting up Trisutto.com, he was head coach of the triathlon team teamTBB. He has coached many World and Olympic champions, including Ironman world record holder Chrissie Wellington and Olympic champions Nicola Spirig and Emma Snowsill. He is known for his forthright views on training methods and strong criticism of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and its officials. In 1999, he pleaded guilty in an Australian court to five sexual offences committed in the late 1980s against a teenage girl swimmer whom he was coaching. After the trial, in which he was given a suspended sentence, he was banned for life from coaching in Australia, and Sutton's marriage ended in divorce. Sutton later remarried, and is now based in Leysin, Switzerland, where he lives with his Swiss wife Fiona and their two daughters. He has been described as "the coach with the most formidable résumé in triathlon", "widely recognised as one of the best triathlon coaches", and "widely considered to be the best and most unorthodox coach in the sport".
Hot is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Melanie Brown, released on 9 October 2000 by Virgin. "Hot" mainly received negative reviews after its release. Track listing. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Hot".
Vaux-en-Amiénois is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Deca- is the prefix commonly used to denote sets of ten, originally coming from the Latin "Decem".
Verpillières is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Westfield London is a big shopping centre in White City, west London, England, made by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn, on a brownfield area previously the home of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition. The area is near the West Cross Route (A3220), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219). It opened on 30 October 2008 during the financial crisis and soon became the largest shopping centre in London. Originally, it had a shopping floor area of . But with more money put into the shopping centre, it became the largest shopping centre in Europe by March 2018, having an area of . Department stores John Lewis, Marks &amp; Spencer, and House of Fraser are at the bottom of the shopping centres. Debenhams closed down in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alen Margaryan was an Armenian soldier who received the title of Hero of Artsakh at the age of 21. Biography. He was born on 11 February 1999. In 2020 he took part in the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Artsakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He was killed by a drone strike on 30 September 2020.
Cuban art has been known since the 16th century. In the 16th century, painters and sculptors began arriving from Europe. They made decorations (including paintings and sculptures), in Cuban churches and public buildings. By the mid-1700s, native-born artists were painting in Cuba, in the European tradition of painting. Many works of art were left behind by José Nicolás de la Escalera (d. 1804). For many of those works, there is proof that he was the one who painted those. Vicente Escobar (d. 1834) was a "mestizo", and he did portraits; His paintings were popular with Cuba's elite (or people with wealth or political power). He opened [the first, or] one of the first painting workshop/studios in Cuba. He later graduated from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (d. 1889) was a Spanish-born artist, and he was an early artist of the "costumbrismo" genre. He was opposed to Cuban independence, and that cost him some of his popularity with the public. After the Colonial Era. By the late 1920s [an Avant-garde movement,] the Vanguardia, had rejected convention [or some norms] of Cuba's national art academy. Most of the Vanguardia artists had been students at the national art academy. Many had lived in Paris (France), where they learned (more) about Surrealism, Cubism, and modernist Primitivism. Those genres (or styles) gave inspiration to the Vanguardia artists. Pioneer s (or the first to be part) of the movement included Eduardo Abela, Antonio Gattorno, Victor Manuel, Fidelio Ponce de León, and Carlos Enríquez Gómez. Other famous artists of the original Vanguardia were Amelia Peláez, Jorge Arche, Marcelo Pogolotti, Aristides Fernandez, Rafael Blanco, Domingo Ravenet, Alberto Peña, and Lorenzo Romero Arciaga. The painting ["the tropical gypsy",] "La
Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac (21 March 194226 June 1967) was a French actress and model. She was the oldest sister of Catherine Deneuve. She was known for her roles in Philippe de Broca's movie "L'homme de Rio", François Truffaut's "La peau douce", Roman Polanski's "Cul-de-sac", and Val Guest's "Where the Spies Are". Dorléac was killed in a car crash on 26 June 1967 in Nice, France at the age of 25.
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director. His best known movies were "That Man from Rio ("L'Homme de Rio")", "The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique)" and "On Guard (Le Bossu)". Broce died of cancer at a Neuilly-sur-Seine hospital on 26 November 2004 at the age of 71.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov (, ; 14 April 1951 – 15 July 2021) was a Russian rock musician and songwriter. He was known for being the frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu. Mamonov was born in Moscow. Mamonov died on 15 July 2021 in Moscow from COVID-19, aged 70.
Sylvia Acevedo is an American engineer and businesswoman. She was head of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2016 to 2020. She began her career as a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she was on the Voyager 2 team. She held leadership positions at a number of technology companies, such as Apple, Dell, IBM and Autodesk. Early life and education. Acevedo was born in South Dakota but her family later moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she grew up. She joined the Girl Scouts when she was 7 years old. In 1979, she received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University. In 1983, she was one of the first Hispanic students to earn a Master of Science graduate degree in systems engineering from Stanford University. Career. Acevedo worked as a rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where one of her jobs was to analyze data from Voyager 2. Acevedo then moved to IBM, where she worked as a systems engineer. In 2011, American President Barack Obama appointed Acevedo to the Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. She served in the position until January 2016. Acevedo became a board member for the Girl Scouts in 2008. In 2016 she was elected interim (temporary) chief executive officer (CEO) of the group. The next year she was named permanent CEO. Acevedo stepped down from her role in the Girl Scouts in 2020. Significant publications. 2018: Clarion Books", Path To the Stars, My Journey from Girl Scouts to Rocket Scientist", an aspirational middle school memoir  2016: Harcourt Mifflin Houghton, "Critical Growth Needs for English Learner Preschoolers" 2016: UCLA White paper: "Realizing the Economic Advantages of a Multilingual Workforce", (alongside Dr. Patricia Gandara)
Peter Rudolf de Vries (14 November 1956 – 15 July 2021) was a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter. He was known for hosting the television program "". In 2005, he founded his own political party. Death. On 6 July 2021, De Vriea was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died nine days later at the age of 64.
In the evening of 6 July 2021, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam. Many shots were fired at him at the "Lange Leidsedwarsstraat" while he was on his way to his car. He was taken to the VU University Medical Center in critical condition and he died nine days later from his injuries he sustained. Reason. Later in his career, de Vries became one of the most visible figures in the journalistic investigation of cold cases in the Netherlands, such as the death of Nicky Verstappen, in which he supported the victim's family in court.  In 2021, De Vries supported the crown witness Nabil Bakkali in the Marengo process. Less than two years earlier, Bakkali's lawyer, Derk Wiersum, had been murdered outside his home in Amsterdam. Suspects. The Dutch police arrested three suspects the same day of the shooting. Two suspects were in a car that was stopped on the A4 motorway near Leidschendam. The third person was released the next day, and is no longer a suspect. A 35-year-old Polish man, Kamil E., is the suspected getaway car driver, while a 21-year-old Dutchman, Delano G., is the suspected shooter. Dutch media has reported that the suspected killer is the nephew or cousin of one of the henchmen of Ridouan Taghi, known as the Netherlands' most-wanted criminal. De Vries was involved in the prosecution of Taghi.
Surekha Sikri Rege (19 April 1945 16 July 2021) was an Indian actress. Her career began in 1978 with the movie "Kissa Kursi Ka". She won awards for her roles in "Tamas" (1988), "Mammo" (1995) and "Badhaai Ho" (2018). Sikri was born in New Delhi. Sikri died on 16 July 2021 in Mumbai from cardiac arrest caused by multiple strokes, aged 76.
The 2021 European floods are a series of ongoing severe floods which began on 12 July 2021. They have affected several river basins. It started in the United Kingdom before spreading into Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. Germany was affected the hardest where at least 103 people died. 200,000 properties were left without power. Rainfall extremes measured during the floods. On 14 July 2021, Belgium experienced its wettest day on record. 179 millimeters was measured in Stavelot.  Also Luxembourg experienced a 24-hour rainfall record, in Godbrange near Junglinster 106 millimeters was measured. In Luxembourg City the rainfall record took place too, 77 millimeters on 14 July 2021. The German city of Cologne also experienced record rainfall, on 14 July 2021, 154 millimeters was measured there.
Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is an enemy of the superhero Batman and the Batman Family. Calendar Man is known for committing crimes that relate to holidays and important dates. He sometimes wears costumes to match with the date of the crime. Fictional character biography. He is a criminal who is obsessed with calendars, dates, and holidays, and thus commits crimes themed around them, typically on the specific holidays. Originally depicted as a colorful, eccentric criminal who committed his crimes using themed weaponry and gadgets, later incarnations of Calendar Man would reimagine him as a much darker and murderous villain, although his obsession with dates and holidays remains the same. Powers and abilities. Calendar Man is a successful inventor, capable of designing the machinery needed to deploy his various schemes. His talents aid him as he pursues his obsession with quirks of the calendar, carefully planning and theming his crimes around holidays, weekdays and the seasons. In other media. The character makes his movie debut in "The Suicide Squad", played by Sean Gunn.
Sean Gunn (born May 22, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series "Gilmore Girls" (2000–2007) and Kraglin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014), "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (2017), ' (2019), ' (2022), "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" (2022), and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3". Sean Gunn also provides the motion-capture for Rocket Raccoon in the MCU. He is the younger brother of director James Gunn.
The Polka-Dot Man (Abner Krill) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is a minor enemy of Batman. His powers include advanced technology in the form of the costume's polka dots, which were controlled through the costume's belt. Fictional character biography. Abner Krill and his siblings were exposed to a deadly interdimensional virus in an attempt to turn them into superheroes. As a result, he manifested a disease that causes him to grow multicolored pustules on his body over time, which he has to expel at least twice a day and can use as destructive projectiles. Powers and abilities. The Polka-Dot Man's powers come from his costume, which is equipped with various devices that can create and control small projectiles (like darts, bullets, or even tiny robots), project energy blasts from his eyes, generate force fields, create smoke screens or other distractions, and fly using a jetpack-like device. In other media. The Polka-Dot Man made his movie debut in James Gunn's DC Extended Universe movie "The Suicide Squad" in 2021, played by David Dastmalchian.
The Ratcatcher is name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books and other media published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in "Detective Comics" #585 (April 1988) and was created by Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Norm Breyfogle. He is an enemy of Batman.  Fictional character biography. He is a rat-catcher in Gotham City and known as Otis Flannegan. He called himself the Ratcatcher because of his special powers to talk with and train rats. In other media. A female version of the character named Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2 appears in the DC Extended Universe movie "The Suicide Squad" (2021), portrayed by Daniela Melchior. Taika Waititi portrays the first Ratcatcher, Cleo's father.
The 2020–21 Frauen Bundesliga was the 31st season of the Frauen Bundesliga in Germany. It took place from 4 September 2020 to 6 June 2021. Bayern Munich won their third Bundesliga title. League table. Source:  Top scorers. 23 goals 17 goals 16 goals 13 goals 11 goals 10 goals 8 goals
Kite Man (Charles "Chuck" Brown) is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character first appeared in "Batman" #133 (August 1960), and was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Dick Sprang.  Fictional character biography. Brown is a man who armed himself who uses kite-based weapons to commit crimes. The character has been generally seen as a joke because of his lack of super-powers and dumb personality. Powers and abilities. Kite Man does not have any natural superpowers but possesses abilities via his Kite Man suit and weaponry. He uses a jet-powered hang glider to aid in his escapes from authorities. His kites also contain flash bulbs and nets that he uses to fight his enemies. Kite Man is also skilled in aerodynamics and mechanics. In other media. He appeared as a regular character in the adult animated series "Harley Quinn", where he is voiced by Matt Oberg.
Bloodsport is a name used by many fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They are mainly a villain to Superman. He was created by writer and artist John Byrne. The original Bloodsport first appeared in "Superman" vol. 2, #4 (April 1987). The main person to use this name is Robert DuBois. In other media. The Robert DuBois incarnation of Bloodsport made his live-action debut in the television series "Supergirl", played by David St. Louis. In the DC Extended Universe, Robert DuBois was played by Idris Elba in "The Suicide Squad" (2021).
Rick Flag is the name of three fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The name is used by a father, son, and grandson also known as Rick Flag. The father, Richard Flag, was in the original Suicide Squad, a World War II unit. His son, Captain Rick Flag Jr., was a member of the Forgotten Heroes and led two different versions of the Suicide Squad. In other media. Joel Kinnaman plays Flag in the live-action DC Extended Universe movies "Suicide Squad" and the sequel.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky (or Sofronitzky; , "Vladimir Sofronitskij"; – August 29, 1961) was a Russian-Soviet pianist. Life and education. Vladimir Sofronitsky was born in St. Petersburg. He started piano lessons in Poland after his family moved to Warsaw in 1903. His teachers were Anna Lebedeva-Getcevich and later Aleksander Michałowski. After Poland he went to Petrograd to study in the Conservatory. His classmates were other talented musicians such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Maria Yudina, and Elena Scriabina. In 1920 he married Scriabina. Career. Sofronitsky gave his first solo concert in 1919, and went on his foreign tour in France in 1928. In 1945, he was sent by Joseph Stalin to play at the Potsdam Conference. That was his only time performing outside the Soviet Union. Sofronitsky was teaching at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1936 to 1942, and then at the Moscow Conservatory until his death in 1961. In 1942 he was proclaimed an Honored Artist of the RSFSR and awarded a Stalin Prize of the first class in 1943. Sofronitsky's performed works from Scriabin, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Beethoven, Lyadov, Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Prokofiev, and others. His daughter is the Canadian pianist Viviana Sofronitsky. Sofronitsky recordings document one of the most intense and individual pianistic personalities of the 20th century.
In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary (officially known as the Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department), is the person in the shadow cabinet who shadows the Home Secretary. This mostly means criticising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and stuff to do with citizenship. If the opposition party is elected to government, the Shadow Home Secretary usually becomes the new Home Secretary, but this doesn't always happen and isn't required. The person who is currently Shadow Home Secretary is the Conservative MP Chris Philp since 5 November 2024.
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a German women's association football team from Hoffenheim in northern Baden-Württemberg. The team plays in the Frauen Bundesliga. The team plays their games at the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion, which was used by the men's team until 2009. Record. Bundesliga. The club's first season in the Bundesliga was in 2013–14.
Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 in Heidelsheim – 29 February 1792 in Augsburg), was a maker of keyboard instruments from Germany. He built organs, clavichords, harpsichords and pianos.  In the beginning Stein learned the craft from his father in Heidelsheim. In 1748 to 1749 he was visiting two different workshops: one of Johann Andreas Silbermann in Strasbourg and the other of Frantz Jacob Spath in Regensburg. Later Stein played an important role in the history of piano and was responsible for the design of the Viennese hammer action. In 1777 Stein met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the first time. The composer used Stein's pianos in his public performances in Augsburg later that year. He was fond of Stein's pianos and shared his admiration in a letter to his father.  Only a few instrument by Stein survived until the XXI century. One clavichord that was bought by Leopold Mozart is now displayed in the Budapest National Museum.
Selly Oak is a mostly factory and home filled area in south-west Birmingham, England. Selly Oak ward, named after the area, has the neighbourhoods of: Bournbrook, Selly Park, and Ten Acres inside it. The nearby areas of Edgbaston and Harborne are to the north of the Bourn Brook, which was the former county borders, and to the south are Weoley, and Bournville. A local government is in-charge the four wards of Selly Oak, Billesley, Bournville and Brandwood. The same areas make the Birmingham Selly Oak political constituency, with their MP being Steve McCabe of the Labour Party. Selly Oak is connected to Birmingham by the Pershore Road (A441) and the Bristol Road (A38). The 2001 Population Census found that there were 25,792 people who lived in Selly Oak, with a population density of 4,236 people per km2 which was sometimes compared with 3,649 people per km2 in Birmingham. 15.9% of the population were people from races that had smaller populations in the UK compared with 29.6% in Birmingham. As the University of Birmingham is nearby, there are many students who live in the area. This can damage the figures about population that use the election registered voter record because some students are not allowed to vote, and some who are allowed do not register to vote.
Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a piano builder, composer and a writer from Germany.  Nannette was a daughter of the organ and piano maker Johann Andreas Stein from Augsburg. Her father founded an important piano-making dynasty, and in 1790 Streicher took over father's business. In 1793 she married a musician Johann Andreas Streicher, and in 1794 they moved together to Vienna. In the beginning she had her brother Matthias Andreas Stein as a partner in the firm that was called "Geschwister Stein". In 1802 siblings decided to go separate ways, and Streicher started inscribing her pianos "Nannette Streicher née Stein in Wien". She was close to "Ludwig van Beethoven" and was helping him in household. The composer also had one of Streicher's pianos. After her death, their son Johann Baptist Streicher continued the firm.
Gabriel Anton Walter (5 February 1752 – 11 April 1826) was a Viennese piano builder.  Born in Neuhausen auf den Fildern in Germany, Walter moved to Vienna in 1780. In 1790 he obtained the status of "Imperial Royal Chamber Organ Builder and Instrument Maker". His firm was employing about 20 craftsmen and was labeled "Anton Walter und Sohn" ("and son"). Walter improved the Viennese piano mechanic design that was created by Johann Andreas Stein in Augsburg. The most famous composers of those times had pianos from Walter, among them were Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Last bought Walter's piano in 1782 and was using it in an important phase of his career. Mozart's own piano that was built by Walter survived till the XXI century and now is kept in Salzburg.