High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Alfred Hopkinson (28 June 1851 – 11 Nov 1939) was an English lawyer, academic and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for two three-year periods, separated by nearly thirty years.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research. He established the Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and his role in the development of radar is considered instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II. He invented the Aberdeen Chronograph for measuring muzzle velocities, proposed the LORAN navigational system, contributed significantly (perhaps critically, according to Luis Alvarez ) to the development of a ground-controlled approach technology for aircraft,...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfred St. George Hamersley (8 October 1848 – 25 February 1929) was a nineteenth-century solicitor and entrepreneur of great renown, an English MP and perhaps most notably an English rugby union international who played in the first ever international match, went on to captain his country and pioneered the sport in the south of New Zealand and in British Columbia.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Alfred Sherman, KBE, (10 November 1919 – 26 August 2006) was a writer, journalist, and political analyst. Described by a long-time associate as "a brilliant polymath, a consummate homo politicus, and one of the last true witnesses to the 20th century", he began life as a Communist soldier in the Spanish Civil War but later changed views completely and became a hawkish adviser to Margaret Thatcher.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain Bernard Bongo; February 9, 1959) is a Gabonese politician who has been President of Gabon since October 2009.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ali Kordan (October 23, 1958 – November 22, 2009) was an Iranian conservative politician who served in the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and as deputy oil minister, before becoming interior minister of Iran in 2008 for just 90 days. He was impeached by the Iranian Parliament on November 4, 2008 after a doctorate he claimed to hold turned out to be fraudulent.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alicia Esteve Head (born July 31, 1973) is a Spanish woman who claimed to be a survivor of the World Trade Center September 11 attacks under the name Tania Head. She joined the support group World Trade Centre Survivors` Network, later becoming its president. Her name was regularly mentioned in media reports of the attacks. In 2007, it was revealed her story was fabricated: Head was not in the building at the time of the attacks and had traveled to the United States for the first time in 2003.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alison Merrilla Redford, Q.C., MLA, (born March 7, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. She is the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada, having served in this capacity since October 7, 2011. Redford was born in Kitimat, British Columbia and grew up all over Canada and overseas before settling in Calgary as a teenager.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aliso Creek (Spanish for "Alder Creek"; also called Alisos Creek) is a 19-mile (31 km)-long urban stream that runs through Orange County in the U.S. state of California from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, collecting seven main tributaries. The creek is mostly channelized, and as of 2004, the 30.4-square-mile (78.7 km2) watershed had a population of 149,087 divided among seven incorporated cities.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alistair Darling (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987, currently for Edinburgh South West. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010. Darling was one of only three people to have served in the Cabinet continuously from Labour`s victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010 (the others being Gordon Brown and Jack Straw).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Parish Church of All Saints` Lawshall, is an Anglican church in the village of Lawshall, Suffolk, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The church is located between Lawshall Hall and All Saints CEVCP Primary School.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! All Saints` Church, Wigan, is located in Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, and is the parish church of the town. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is united with that of St George, Wigan. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. It stands on a hill in the centre of the town.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! All Saints` Church, Northampton situated in the centre of Northampton, is a Parish Church of the Church of England and Northampton`s Civic Church.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Allen Francis Doyle is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television series, Angel. The character was portrayed by Glenn Quinn.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Allgemeine-SS Order of Battle refers to the mustering formations of SS units in Nazi Germany and Austria that existed prior to and during World War II.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alliance Quebec (AQ) was a group formed in 1982 to lobby on behalf of English-speaking Quebecers in the province of Quebec, Canada. It began as an umbrella group of many English-speaking organizations and institutions in the province, with approximately 15,000 members. At its height in the mid-1980s, the group had a network of affiliated anglophone groups throughout the province. However, a prolonged decline in influence, group cohesion, membership and funding ultimately led to its closure in 2005.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alois Brunner (born 8 April 1912) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann`s assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man". As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the Drancy camp. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost, respectively, an eye and the fingers of his left hand, as a result of letter bombs sent to him by the Israeli Mossad.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alphonse "Little Al" D`Arco (July 28, 1932), also known as "The Professor", is a New York mobster who became the acting boss of Lucchese crime family. He was the first boss, acting or otherwise, of a New York crime family to become a government witness.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alvin D. Kersh is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction series about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of extraterrestrial existence. Kersh was introduced as an Assistant Director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the sixth-season opener, "The Beginning", when Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were temporarily transferred under his supervision. The two agents were previously in charge of the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI; in contrast to their previous supervisor, Assistant...