Colin Luther Powell (; April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State. Prior to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, he and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the presidential line of succession). He served as the 16th United States National Security Advisor from 1987...

Henry Bence Jones FRS (31 December 1813 – 20 April 1873) was an English physician and chemist. == Early life == Bence Jones was born at Thorington Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of Lieutenant Colonel William Jones, an officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, and Matilda (née Bence) Jones (a daughter of the Rev. Bence Bence of Thorington Hall, Suffolk). His elder brother was the prominent agriculturist William Bence Jones, who married Caroline Dickinson (a daughter of William Dickinson, MP). He attended school in Hingham, Norfolk, as well as a private school in Putney. He entered Harrow in 1827...

A Bence Jones protein is a monoclonal globulin protein or immunoglobulin light chain found in the urine, with a molecular weight of 22–24 kDa. Detection of Bence Jones protein may be suggestive of multiple myeloma or Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. Bence Jones proteins are particularly diagnostic of multiple myeloma in the context of target organ manifestations such as kidney failure, lytic (or "punched out") bone lesions, anemia, or large numbers of plasma cells in the bone marrow of patients. Bence Jones proteins are present in 2/3 of multiple myeloma cases.The proteins are immunoglobulin...

The Anome is a second-wave Wikipedian. The Anome abides. == Tools == https://quarry.wmflabs.org https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ https://geograph2commons.toolforge.org/ https://wikimap.toolforge.org/ https://query.wikidata.org/ == Interesting reading == http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e7010068.pdf == To do == === People === Dave Lampert, (David Lee Lampert?) sex toy pioneer, recently became independently notable following his death === Work in progress === Template:Delusion === Wikidata === look at KnotInfo stuff, and in particular why their Ale...

The Anome (alternative title: The Faceless Man) is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in 1973 (copyright 1971); it is the first book in the Durdane series of novels. == Plot summary == It tells the story of a boy growing to manhood in the land of Shant, a society composed of many different, and wildly individual cantons, some of which are run by cults. Each adult wears an explosive torc which can be detonated by remote command, bringing about instant death by decapitation. The torcs are controlled by an anonymous dictator, the Anome, whose identity is literally...

Операция «Манна» — сброс продовольствия страдающему от голода населению Голландии в последние дни перед капитуляцией Германии. Вылеты осуществлялись над оккупированными территориями Нидерландов с 29 апреля по 8 мая 1945 года. 6680 тонн доставили ВВС Великобритании, 4000 тонн — ВВС США, чья операция называлась «Обжора» (англ. Chowhound). Начальное планирование было выполнено Королевскими ВВС, и операции часто объединяют в названии «Manna-Chowhound». Согласие на проведение гуманитарной операции дал рейхскомиссар оккупированных Нидерландов Артур Зейсс-Инкварт. Название было позаимствовано из Библии...

The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, known in the Netherlands as the Hongerwinter (literal translation: hunger winter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces north of the great rivers, during the winter of 1944–1945, near the end of World War II. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm towns. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived thanks to soup kitchens. Loe de Jong (1914–2005), author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II, estimated at least 22,000 deaths occurred due to the famine...

Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. The name originates from the word "loaf" in reference to bread and "Mass" in reference to the primary Christian liturgy celebrating Holy Communion. It is a festival in the liturgical calendar to mark the blessing of the First Fruits of harvest, with a loaf of bread being brought to the church for this purpose.On Loaf Mass Day, it is customary to bring to a Christian church a loaf made from the new crop, which began...