question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

answers: six

answers: eight

title: Croquet

text: In golf croquet, a hoop is won by the first ball to go through each hoop. Unlike association croquet, there are no additional turns for hitting other balls. Each player takes a stroke in turn, each trying to hit a ball through the same hoop. The sequence of play is blue, red, black, yellow. Blue and black balls play against red and yellow. When a hoop is won, the sequence of play continues as before. The winner of the game is the player/team who wins the most hoops. Golf croquet is the fastest-growing version of the game, owing largely to

title: Croquet

text: expert players) gives penalties to a player who runs certain hoops in a turn, to allow the opponent a chance of getting back into the game; feats of skill such as triple peels or better, in which the partner ball (or occasionally an opponent ball) is caused to run a number of hoops in a turn by the striker's ball help avoid these penalties. A handicap system ('bisques') provides less experienced players a chance of winning against more formidable opponents. Players of all ages and both sexes compete on level terms. The World Championships are organised by the World Croquet

title: Croquet

text: Croquet Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. The oldest document to bear the word "croquet" with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers' Company in London. This record is now in the Public Record Office. In 1868, the first croquet all-comers meet was held at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London. Regardless

title: Croquet

text: except that when a ball is roqueted, the striker's ball remains live and two free shots are earned. This enables strikers to play their ball near to another opponent ball and ricochet that too thus earning two more free shots. Running a hoop earns one free shot. The way croquet is depicted in paintings and books says much about popular perceptions of the game, though little about the reality of modern play. On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, was photographed by "The Mail on Sunday" playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood. Following shortly

title: Croquet

text: the strict sequence of play, and complicated on the other hand by the continuation of deadness. A further difference is the more restrictive boundary-line rules of American croquet. In the American game, roqueting a ball out of bounds or running a hoop out of bounds causes the turn to end, and balls that go out of bounds are replaced only from the boundary rather than as in association croquet. "Attacking" balls on the boundary line to bring them into play is thus far more challenging. Nine-wicket croquet, sometimes called "backyard croquet", is played mainly in Canada and the United States,

title: Croquet

text: the court, with a centre peg. In association croquet one side takes the black and blue balls, the other takes red and yellow. At each turn, players can choose to play with either of their balls for that turn. At the start of a turn, the player plays a stroke. If the player either hits the ball through the correct hoop ("runs" the hoop), or hits another ball (a "roquet"), the turn continues. Following a roquet, the player picks up his or her own ball and puts it down next to the ball that it hit. The next shot is

title: Croquet

text: two times that the event has been held. In individual competition, the UK is often divided by subnational country (England, Scotland and Wales), while Northern Ireland joins with the republic in an All Ireland association (as it does in other sports). The world's top 10 association croquet players as of February 2018 were Robert Fletcher (Australia), Reg Bamford (South Africa), Robert Fulford (England), Paddy Chapman (New Zealand), Ben Rothman (USA), Malcolm Fletcher (Australia), Jamie Burch (England), Jose Riva (Spain), Stephen Mulliner (England), Greg Bryant (New Zealand), . Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together. Three women

title: Pall-mall

text: dictionaries. In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of "Pall mall" clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: "A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring". In his unpublished memoir the writer Oswell Blakeston reports seeing it played at "the only pub that still has a green for this game" in the late 1930s. It was played in a long alley with an iron hoop suspended over the ground at the end. The object was to strike a boxwood ball of unknown circumference (a modern croquet ball is normally in diameter,

title: Croquet

text: when and by what route it reached England and the British colonies in its recognizable form, croquet is, like golf, pall-mall, trucco, and kolven, among the later forms of ground billiards, which as a class have been popular in Western Europe back to at least the Late Middle Ages, with roots in classical antiquity, including sometimes the use of arches and pegs along with balls and mallets or other striking sticks (some more akin to modern field hockey sticks). By the 12th century, a team ball game called ' or ', akin to a chaotic version of hockey or football

title: Croquet

text: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon is famous for its lawn tennis tournament, but retains an active croquet section. There are also clubs in many Universities and Colleges, with an annual Varsity match being played between Oxford and Cambridge. With over 1800 participants, the 2011 Oxford University "Cuppers" (inter-college) tournament claimed to be not only the largest croquet tournament ever, but the largest sporting event in the university's history. Croquet Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass

title: Croquet

text: with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club still has a croquet lawn, but has not hosted any significant tournaments. The English headquarters for the game is now in Cheltenham. The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet "The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations" which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton. On the page facing the title page is a picture of Eglinton Castle with a game of "croquet" in full swing. The croquet lawn existed

title: Croquet

text: variations of croquet currently played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout (particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing courts). Two forms of the game, association croquet and golf croquet, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world. The United States has its own set of rules for domestic games. Gateball, a sport originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas and can also be regarded as a croquet variant. As well as club-level

title: Croquet

text: were popular in England by the early 17th century. Some other early modern sources refer to pall-mall being played over a large distance (as in golf); however, an image in Strutt's 1801 book shows a croquet-like ground billiards game (balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg) being played over a , garden-sized distance. The image's caption describes the game as "a curious ancient pastime", confirming that croquet games were not new in early nineteenth century England. In Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary, his definition of "pall-mall" clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: "A play in which the ball

title: Croquet

text: to be viciously competitive. This may derive from the fact that (unlike in golf) players will often attempt to move their opponents' balls to unfavourable positions. However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players (in all versions other than golf croquet) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents. At championship-standard association croquet, players can often make all 26 points (13 for each ball) in two turns. Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Roque, an American variation

title: Croquet

text: derived ultimately from Latin words for 'ball and mallet' (the latter also found in the name of the earlier French game, '). This was the explanation given in the ninth edition of "Encyclopædia Britannica", dated 1877. In his 1810 book "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England", Joseph Strutt described the way pall-mall was played in England at the time: "Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box[wood] ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins. It is

title: Croquet

text: States Croquet Association. Its genesis is mostly in association croquet, but it differs in a number of important ways that reflect the home-grown traditions of American "backyard" croquet. Two of the most notable differences are that the balls are always played in the same sequence (blue, red, black, yellow) throughout the game, and that a ball's "deadness" on other balls is carried over from turn to turn until the ball has been "cleared" by scoring its next hoop. A Deadness Board is used to keep track of deadness on all four balls. Tactics are simplified on the one hand by

title: Hooping

text: twisted down, and folded in half for easy storage. Other types of hoops are also used by hoopers, including fire hoops and LED or glow hoops. The earliest known incidence of hooping was in ancient Egypt as early as 1000 BC, where children used large hoops made of grape vines, which they rolled along the ground propelled by sticks, or swung around their waists a la the modern hoop. In other parts of the ancient world, hoops were made of stiff grasses as opposed to vine. In the 14th century, recreational hooping swept across England. The records of doctors at

title: Cribbage (pool)

text: inside the rack as well. The arrangement thus results in 134,120,448,000 possible racking patterns (14 × 12 × 10 × 2 × 11!). An is required in cribbage, meaning that on the break either a ball must be pocketed or at least four balls must be driven to rails (as opposed to a such as used, for example, in straight pool and one-pocket). The object of the game is to score 5 cribbages out of a possible 8 in a full rack of 15 balls. A cribbage is a pair of numbered balls which, when added together, total to 15

text: Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Singles, one ball The 1900 Olympic Croquet one-ball singles tournament was held over three rounds on 28 June 1900. Nine athletes from France competed. The first round eliminated five players, allowing four to advance. Four players, including two of the three women, did not finish the round. The third woman, Desprès, finished the round with 24 points but did not advance among the top four. Waydelich and Blachère were eliminated in the second round. Waydelich, in third place, is now considered by the International Olympic Committee to be a bronze medallist. Gaston Aumoitte

title: Croquet

text: (depending on whether sticks were used), was regularly played in France and southern Britain between villages or parishes; it was attested in Cornwall as early as 1283. In the book "Queen of Games: The History of Croquet", Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the modern game of croquet, which took England by storm in the 1860s and then spread overseas. The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the 1630–1685 reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of ' (among other spellings, today usually "pall-mall"),

title: Croquet

text: is struck with a mallet through an iron ring". However, there is no evidence that pall-mall involved the croquet stroke which is the distinguishing characteristic of the modern game. The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches. Regular contact between Ireland and France had continued since the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. By no later than the early 15th century, the game " (itself ancestral to pall-mall and perhaps to indoor billiards)

title: Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)

text: Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics) A hoop is an apparatus in rhythmic gymnastics and may be made of plastic or wood, provided that it retains its shape during the routine. The interior diameter is from 51 to 90 cm, and the hoop must weigh a minimum of 300g. The hoop may be of a natural colour or be partially of fully covered by one or several colours, and it may be covered with adhesive tape either of the same or different colour as the hoop. Fundamental requirements of a hoop routine include rotation around the hand or body and rolling, as well

title: Hooping

text: quickly. As their skill improves people can use hoops of a smaller diameter. Advanced hoopers typically use a hoop between 30" and 36" diameter. There are however hoops that go all the way down to an 18" diameter and lower, these are mainly used by hoopers of a higher skill level. These hoops are called mini hoops. Many modern hoopers make their own hoops out of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, high-density polyethylene, or polypropylene tubing. The size and the weight of the hoop affects style of the hooper. Heavier, larger hoops are more often used for slow hooping and body tricks

title: Sports equipment

text: between the posts below the crossbar, while in others, such as those based on rugby, the ball must pass over the crossbar instead. Nets are used for tennis, volleyball, football, basketball, hockey and badminton. A different type of net is used for various forms of fishing. Racquets are used for racquet sports such as tennis, squash and badminton. Fishing rods and fishing tackle are primarily used for fishing and sport fishing. Sticks are used for sports such as hockey and lacrosse. Bats are used for sports such as baseball and cricket. Clubs are used mainly for golf (Golf club) Wickets

title: The Hurlingham Club

text: croquet for many years. The Croquet Association had its headquarters in the club from 1959 to 2002. Top-ranking international competitions are regularly held on the lawns, at one time the finest in the country, though the CA headquarters have since relocated to the Cheltenham Croquet Club. Other sports include lawn tennis, cricket, bowls, skittles, squash and swimming (with both indoor and outdoor pools) as well as fitness facilities and a gymnasium. Games such as bridge, backgammon and chess are popular indoor pursuits. The club has also hosted the Grand Prix Ball and the Concours d'Elegance. Members must be proposed and

text: won the championship. Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Singles, one ball The 1900 Olympic Croquet one-ball singles tournament was held over three rounds on 28 June 1900. Nine athletes from France competed. The first round eliminated five players, allowing four to advance. Four players, including two of the three women, did not finish the round. The third woman, Desprès, finished the round with 24 points but did not advance among the top four. Waydelich and Blachère were eliminated in the second round. Waydelich, in third place, is now considered by the International Olympic Committee to be a bronze

title: Rules of cribbage

text: is usually arranged in five hole sections for easier scoring. Players each have two pegs that mark their current and previous scores, and all scoring is done by moving the back peg ahead of the front peg. When a player reaches the target score for the game (usually 121), the game ends with that player the winner. A match (much like tennis) consists of more than one game, often an odd number (3 games, 5 games, 7 games etc.). The match points are scored on the cribbage board using the holes reserved for match points. On a spiral board, these

title: Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)

text: as swings, circles, throws, and passes through and over the hoop. Many of the techniques of rhythmic gymnastics have been adopted by the modern hooping community. Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics) A hoop is an apparatus in rhythmic gymnastics and may be made of plastic or wood, provided that it retains its shape during the routine. The interior diameter is from 51 to 90 cm, and the hoop must weigh a minimum of 300g. The hoop may be of a natural colour or be partially of fully covered by one or several colours, and it may be covered with adhesive tape either

title: Basketball (ball)

text: Basketball (ball) A basketball is a spherical ball used in basketball games. Basketballs typically range in size from very small promotional items only a few inches in diameter to extra large balls nearly a foot in diameter used in training exercises. For example, a youth basketball could be in circumference, while a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's ball would be a maximum of and an NCAA women's ball would be a maximum of . The standard for a basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is in circumference and for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), a maximum circumference

title: Croquet

title: Croquet

long_answer: The croquet lawn existed on the northern terrace, between Eglinton Castle and the Lugton Water. The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops "to ring the changes", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through. In 1865 the 'Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet' was published by Edmund Routledge. Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland.


question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

answers: Manuel Ojeda

answers: Alfonso Arau

answers: Kathleen Turner

answers: Michael Douglas

answers: Danny DeVito

title: Romancing the Stone (song)

text: Romancing the Stone (song) "Romancing the Stone" is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, who released it from his 1984 album "Going for Broke." It was intended for the 1984 feature film of the same name, in fact was announced by Casey Kasem on the 30 June 1984 edition of American Top 40 as the title song to the movie, but ultimately was not used, though clips from the film appeared in the song's music video, and the song is mentioned in the film's closing credits. In the United States, the song reached number 26 on the

title: Kathleen Turner

text: how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating." "Romancing the Stone" was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984. Turner teamed with Douglas and DeVito again the following year for its sequel, "The Jewel of the Nile". Pre-production for the movie was fraught with conflict, because Turner refused to commit to the "terrible" script she had been delivered. When she said no, 20th Century Fox threatened her with

title: Michael Douglas

text: of San Francisco" in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including "The China Syndrome" (1979) and "Romancing the Stone" (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for "Romancing the Stone", in which he also starred, thus reintroducing himself to audiences as a capable leading man. After reprising his "Romancing the Stone" role as Jack Colton in the 1985 sequel "The Jewel of the Nile", which he also produced, and along with appearing in the musical "A Chorus Line" (1985) and the psychological thriller "Fatal Attraction" (1987), Douglas received widespread acclaim for

title: Romancing the Stone

text: aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 49 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Romancing the Stone" reaches back to the classic Saturday morning serials of old with an action-filled adventure enlivened by the sparkling chemistry between its well-matched leads." Award wins: Award nominations: The novelization of "Romancing the Stone" was credited to Joan Wilder, although (along with a novelization of the sequel movie, "The Jewel of the Nile") it was actually written by Catherine Lanigan. The success of "Romancing the Stone" also led to a sequel that was equally successful commercially, 1985's "The Jewel of the Nile", without Zemeckis at

title: Romancing the Stone

text: named the "Angelina", after the heroine of Joan's novels, and wearing boots made from the crocodile's skin. He explains the crocodile died from ingesting the emerald and he had sold it, using the money to buy the boat of his dreams. They go off together, planning to sail around the world. Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the role of Jack T. Colton. Filming locations for "Romancing the Stone" included Veracruz, Mexico (Fort of San Juan de Ulúa); and Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico. Parts of the film were also shot in Snow Canyon, Utah. The scene where Turner and Douglas

title: Romancing the Stone

text: their difficulties on the film, Zemeckis would go on to work with Turner again, casting her as the voice of Jessica Rabbit in 1988's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Upon the release of "Romancing the Stone", comparisons to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were inevitable; "Time" magazine called the film "a distaff "Raiders" rip-off". The screenplay for "Romancing" had actually been written five years earlier by a Malibu waitress named Diane Thomas in what would end up being her only screenplay. She died in a car crash shortly after the film's release. Studio insiders expected "Romancing the Stone" to flop (to

title: Christopher Stone (actor)

text: Christopher Stone (actor) Christopher Stone (born Thomas Edward Bourassa; October 4, 1942 – October 20, 1995) was an American actor. Stone was born Thomas Edward Bourassa in Manchester, New Hampshire. He appeared in films and on television from the early 1970s until his death in 1995. Stone and his wife, Dee Wallace, both appeared together in a number of films including the classic horror films "The Howling" (1981) and "Cujo" (1983). They shared top billing in the family series "The New Lassie" (1989), in which he sometimes served as director. In the 1970-71 season, Stone co-starred with Broderick Crawford, Mike

title: Romancing the Stone

text: get separated on opposite banks on a whitewater river, about two-thirds into the movie, was filmed on the Rio Antigua near the town of Jalcomulco, Veracruz. Turner later said of the film's production, "I remember terrible arguments [with Robert Zemeckis] doing "Romancing". He's a film-school grad, fascinated by cameras and effects. I never felt that he knew what I was having to do to adjust my acting to some of his damn cameras – sometimes he puts you in ridiculous postures. I'd say, 'This is not helping me! This is not the way I like to work, thank you!'" Despite

title: My Lucky Star (2013 film)

text: that character but I don’t want to do the old Sophie, I want to take her to a new place.' So I pitched her -- what if we took you to the land of James Bond or "Romancing the Stone", a spy-tastic adventure where Sophie has to step up to the plate? And she loved that." Chow wrote the first draft of the script in China, while stateside, the story was developed by Gordon, with American screenwriter Snow and producer Kwei. Chinese writers Huang and Meng also contributed to the script. After several translated drafts and lots of cross-cultural collaboration,

title: Paula Stone

text: 1939 at her home in Beverly Hills. Daly, 30, resided in Miami, Florida. His real name was Linwood A. Dingley. She was married to Michael Sloane in 1946. Paula Stone died in Sherman Oaks, California, in 1997. Paula Stone Paula Stone (January 20, 1912 – December 23, 1997) was an actress in theater and motion pictures from New York City. She was the daughter of Fred Stone, a stage actor, dancing comedian, and owner of the Fred Stone theatrical stock company. Her mother, Allene Crater Stone, acted with her father and was a singer. The family had a ranch at

title: Frank Morriss

text: Abroms) and for "Romancing the Stone" (1984, with Donn Cambern). Morriss was a 1946 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he was a three sport varsity letterman. He attended the University of Oregon for two quarters. In 1948, Morriss enrolled at Santa Monica College. The release year and director of each film are indicated in parentheses. Frank Morriss Frank E. Morriss (September 10, 1927 – July 3, 2013) was a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968. He had a notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1974

title: The Jewel of the Nile

text: "Racing the Monsoon", although there have been no further developments in recent years. Since 2007, 20th Century Fox considered a remake of "Romancing the Stone" with the possibility of a "reboot" of a series. The roles of Jack Colton and Joan Wilder would be filled by Taylor Kitsch (or Gerard Butler) and Katherine Heigl. By 2011, the remake was re-worked as a television series. The Jewel of the Nile The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 action-adventure romantic comedy and a sequel to the 1984 film "Romancing the Stone", directed by Lewis Teague and produced by one of its

title: Romancing the Stone (song)

text: "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 22 on "Cash Box" during the summer of that year. It was a much bigger hit in Canada, where it reached number seven. It was also a hit internationally, narrowly missing the Top 40 in Germany and the UK, but reaching number 28 in New Zealand. "Romancing the Stone" was a hit on two other US charts. On the soul chart it went to No. 68, and on the dance charts, it peaked at No. 12. Romancing the Stone (song) "Romancing the Stone" is a song written, recorded and produced by Eddy Grant, who released

title: Harold J. Stone

text: nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in CBS's "The Nurses". Harold J. Stone Harold J. Stone (born Harold Hochstein, March 3, 1913November 18, 2005) was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor. Stone was born to a Jewish acting family. At age 6, Stone debuted on stage with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the play "White Slaves". A graduate of New York University, he attended the University of Buffalo to study medicine. Stone began his career on Broadway in 1939 and appeared in five plays

title: Eddie Stone

text: Eddie Stone Eddie Stone is a stage name of a French/Italian Montreal Canadian, born on April 15, 1977, gay pornographic industry actor. Stone was discovered in Los Angeles, California while go-go dancing in a nightclub. He appeared on the Chi Chi LaRue internet sex website "Live And Raw", before being contracted in the film industry exclusively to her Rascal Video studio. Between 2003–2005, he appeared in fourteen Rascal productions (most notably: "When in Rome", "Stone Fox", "Eddie Stone's Private Screening", "Set in Stone" and "Master of the House"; wrote, appeared and A GayVN and Grabby nominated screenwriter: "Little Big League

title: Sean Stone

text: Sean Stone Sean Christopher Stone (born December 29, 1984) is an American actor, film director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, and TV host. He is the son of Elizabeth Burkit Cox and film director Oliver Stone. He converted to Islam in 2012. Currently, with Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace, he hosts the television show "Watching the Hawks" on RT America. Stone was born in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of Elizabeth Burkit Cox and film director Oliver Stone. His paternal grandmother was French. Growing up in the film world he acted since childhood in his father’s

title: Rob Stone (actor)

text: a documentary about film directing, which included interviews with Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Zemeckis, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Penny Marshall, and Ron Howard. Rob Stone (actor) Rob Stone (born September 22, 1962) is an American actor and director from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing teen Kevin Owens on the 1985–1990 sitcom "Mr. Belvedere". He later became a writer and director of documentary films, and also performed as part of a band. Stone is a native of Dallas and is the son of Dr. Marvin and Jill Stone. His father was chief of oncology at the Sammons

title: Gabrielle Stone

text: to do other movies. Gabrielle Stone Gabrielle Stone (born November 20, 1988) is an American actress and dancer born in Los Angeles, California. Gabrielle Stone is the daughter of actor Christopher Stone and actress Dee Wallace. She is known for various movies and television series such as "Speak No Evil", the movie "Cut "and the upcoming movie "The Legacy Of Avril Kyte" with actors Doug Jones, J. Larose and Dave Vescio. Gabrielle Stone has also worked on the film set with actors Billy Zane, Mischa Barton and Stone's mother Dee Wallace in "Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard". Gabrielle Stone was born

title: Randy Stone

text: Birth". In 1998, Stone co-founded a nonprofit organization inspired by the film "Trevor", called The Trevor Project. The organization runs a 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States. The organization produced teaching guides and support materials for distribution to teens in schools. Stone was openly gay. His mother, Reverend Beverly Bates, has stated that she believes that Stone was the biological father of Jodie Foster's two sons. Randy Stone Randy Stone (August 26, 1958 – February 12, 2007) was an American actor, producer, casting director, Emmy and Academy Award winner. He was

title: Julian Stone

text: Julian Stone Julian Stone (born 31 December 1962) is an English actor. Stone was born in Hockley, Essex. He is best known for his role as Jerry Jacks on the soap opera "General Hospital" from April 1998 until December 1999. Stone also portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins in a 1988 Off-Broadway play of "Dark Shadows". He also played Derek Hammond in the 2002 Dualstar movie "When in Rome". In October 2003, Stone took over for Justin Carroll as David Hastings on "Passions" while Carroll was on paternity leave. He has been married to Barbara Blatz since 1987 and they have two

title: Julian Stone

text: children together. Julian Stone Julian Stone (born 31 December 1962) is an English actor. Stone was born in Hockley, Essex. He is best known for his role as Jerry Jacks on the soap opera "General Hospital" from April 1998 until December 1999. Stone also portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins in a 1988 Off-Broadway play of "Dark Shadows". He also played Derek Hammond in the 2002 Dualstar movie "When in Rome". In October 2003, Stone took over for Justin Carroll as David Hastings on "Passions" while Carroll was on paternity leave. He has been married to Barbara Blatz since 1987 and they

title: Rhinestone (film)

text: playing the song in a more Rock n' Roll version and he wins the crowd over. In the end, Jake gets her contract back and she and Nick begin to sing another song with the implication that they will continue their budding relationship together. Stallone reportedly turned down "Romancing the Stone" and "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) to make "Rhinestone". He was paid $5 million and a percentage of the gross. Original screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson was so offended by Stallone's reworking of his original screenplay that he briefly considered having his name removed from the film's credits. He was later

title: Gabrielle Stone

text: Gabrielle Stone Gabrielle Stone (born November 20, 1988) is an American actress and dancer born in Los Angeles, California. Gabrielle Stone is the daughter of actor Christopher Stone and actress Dee Wallace. She is known for various movies and television series such as "Speak No Evil", the movie "Cut "and the upcoming movie "The Legacy Of Avril Kyte" with actors Doug Jones, J. Larose and Dave Vescio. Gabrielle Stone has also worked on the film set with actors Billy Zane, Mischa Barton and Stone's mother Dee Wallace in "Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard". Gabrielle Stone was born on November 20, 1988,

title: Emma Stone

text: professor. The former was controversial for whitewashing the cast; Stone later regretted the project, acknowledging whitewashing as a widespread problem in Hollywood. Despite the criticism, she was nominated for Choice Movie Actress – Comedy at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards. During her "Cabaret" show, Stone met director Damien Chazelle, who, impressed with her performance, cast her in his musical comedy-drama "La La Land". The project, which marked her third collaboration with Gosling, featured Stone as Mia Dolan, an aspiring actress living in Los Angeles. Stone borrowed several real-life experiences for her character, and in preparation, watched "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"

title: Rob Stone (actor)

text: Rob Stone (actor) Rob Stone (born September 22, 1962) is an American actor and director from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing teen Kevin Owens on the 1985–1990 sitcom "Mr. Belvedere". He later became a writer and director of documentary films, and also performed as part of a band. Stone is a native of Dallas and is the son of Dr. Marvin and Jill Stone. His father was chief of oncology at the Sammons Cancer Center at Baylor University Medical Center. Stone began acting at the age of 13, first appearing onstage in a production of "Santa Fe Sunshine" at

title: Philip Stone

text: Philip Stone Philip Stone (14 April 1924 – 15 June 2003) was an English actor, well-known for portraying film characters such as "Pa", the father of Alex DeLarge, in "A Clockwork Orange"; General Alfred Jodl in ""; Delbert Grady in "The Shining"; and Captain Philip Blumburtt in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". Stone's final film role was as the Bishop in "The Baby of Mâcon". In television, Stone is known for his roles as Brigadier Davidson in "The Rat Catchers" and Sir John Gallagher in "Justice". Philip Stone was born in Kirkstall, Leeds. Stone is the youngest of

title: Lewis Stone

text: the sidewalk, Stone suddenly collapsed. A gardener, Juan Vergara, witnessed the chase and summoned aid. A photo published in newspapers of the day showed Stone's lying on the sidewalk immediately after the incident. The photo was later included in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood scandals book, "Hollywood Babylon". Lewis Stone was later honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6524 Hollywood Blvd. Lewis Stone Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American movie actor best known for his role as Judge James Hardy in the M-G-M "Andy Hardy" film series and as a

title: Julia Sarah Stone

text: Julia Stone. Stone's breakthrough role came in 2011, when she was cast as an adoptee searching for her birth mother in "The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom". For her performance in the film, Stone won a Young Artist Award and critical acclaim. Liam Lacey of "The Globe and Mail" noted, "Young actress Julia Stone hits the right notes." "Nylon" magazine declared that Stone was "about to break out in a big way." She appears in the opening scene of the 2012 series "Emily Owens, M.D.", playing a girl named Abbey who initially ridicules the main character, but later comes

title: Zack Norman

text: Zack Norman Zack Norman (born Howard Jerrold Zuker, May 27, 1940) is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian, musician, film financier, painter, art collector and real estate developer. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Revere, Massachusetts, he is best known for his role as Ira in 20th Century Fox's "Romancing the Stone" (1984) and as Kaz Naiman in Paramount Classics' "Festival in Cannes" (2001). He has also co-starred in films such as "Ragtime" (1981), "Cadillac Man" (1990) and "Chief Zabu" (2016), which he also co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed. His latest starring role was in E.N.T.E.R. (2018), which won Best

title: Romancing the Stone

text: Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American action-adventure romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Diane Thomas. The film stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, and was followed by a 1985 sequel titled The Jewel of the Nile.

title: Romancing the Stone

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question: who present the central budget in lok sabha

answers: the Finance Minister of India

title: Union budget of India

text: minister to present the Union budget on his birthday. Desai presented budgets that included five annual budgets and an interim budget during his first stint and three final budgets and one interim budget in his second tenure when he was both the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister of India. After Desai's resignation, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, took over the Ministry of Finance to become the only woman to hold the post of the Finance Minister. Pranab Mukherjee, the first Rajya Sabha member to hold the Finance portfolio, presented the annual budgets for the financial

title: Budget Day

text: in his second tenure when he was both the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India. After Desai's resignation, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, took over the Ministry of Finance to become the only woman to hold the post of the finance minister. Pranab Mukherjee, the first Rajya Sabha member to hold the Finance portfolio, presented the annual budgets for 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85. Rajiv Gandhi presented the budget for 1987–89 after V P Singh quit his government, and in the process became only the third Prime Minister to present a budget after his mother and

title: Union budget of India

text: without a debate. After the general elections in March 1998 that led to the Bharatiya Janata Party forming the Central Government, Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister in this government, presented the interim and final budgets for 1998-99. After general elections in 1999, Sinha again became the Finance Minister and presented four annual budgets from 1999-2000 to 2002-2003. Due to elections in May 2004, an interim budget was presented by Jaswant Singh. Former Finance Minister Morarji Desai presented the budget ten times, the most by any. The Union Budget of India for 2012–2013 was presented by Pranab Mukherjee, the Finance

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: the Minister of State for Finance and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Finance. The first Finance Minister of independent India was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, who also presented its first Budget. The incumbent Arun Jaitley, of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has held office since 26 May 2014. , Morarji Desai has presented 10 budgets which is the highest followed by P Chidambaram's 9 and Pranab Mukherjee's 8. Yashwant Sinha, Yashwantrao Chavan and C.D. Deshmukh have presented 7 budgets each while Manmohan Singh and T.T. Krishnamachari have presented 6 budgets. As of February 2018, four Finance Ministers have gone on to

title: Union budget of India

text: income tax laws during an Interim Budget. , Morarji Desai has presented 10 budgets which is the highest followed by P Chidambaram's 9 and Pranab Mukherjee's 8. Yashwant Sinha, Yashwantrao Chavan and C.D. Deshmukh have presented 7 budgets each while Manmohan Singh and T.T. Krishnamachari have presented 6 budgets. The first Union budget of independent India was presented by R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947. The Union budgets for the fiscal years 1959-61 to 1963-64, inclusive of the interim budget for 1962-63, were presented by Morarji Desai.On February 29 in 1964 and 1968, he became the only finance

title: Budget Day

text: in 1996, a non-Congress ministry assumed office. Hence the final budget for 1996–97 was presented by P. Chidambaram, who then belonged to Tamil Maanila Congress. Following a constitutional crisis when the I. K. Gujral Ministry was on its way out, a special session of Parliament was convened just to pass Chidambaram's 1997–98 budget. This budget was passed without a debate. After the general elections in March 1998 that led to the Bharatiya Janata Party forming the central government, Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister in this government, presented the interim and final budgets for 1998–99. After general elections in 1999,

title: Union budget of India

text: a week ahead of presenting in the Parliament with a customary 'Halwa ceremony' in which halwa (a sweet dish) is prepared in large quantities and served to the officers and support staff involved. They remain isolated and stay in the North Block office until the Budget is presented. Halwa is also served by the Finance Minister. This ceremony is performed as a part of the Indian tradition of having something sweet before starting an important work. Union budget of India The Union Budget of India, also referred to as the "Annual Financial Statement" in the Article 112 of the Constitution

title: Budget Day

text: who changed the ritual by announcing the 2001 Union Budget at 11 am. Until the year 2016, the Union Budget was presented in the Lok Sabha on the last working day of February. It was Mr. Arun Jaitley, the Minister of Finance in the BJP led NDA Government under the Prime Ministership of Mr. Narendra Modi, who changed the date of the Annual Budget of 2017 to the first working day of February. Additionally, the Railway Budget was also merged with the General Budget after 92 years in 2017. In Hong Kong the Financial Secretary introduces the appropriations bill for

title: Union budget of India

text: Singh, the Finance Minister, presented the budget for 1991-92. Manmohan Singh under P. V. Narasimha Rao, in his next annual budgets from 1992–93, opened the economy, encouraged foreign investments and reduced peak import duty from 300 plus percent to 50 percent. After elections in 1996, a non-Congress ministry assumed office. Hence the financial budget for 1996-97 was presented by P. Chidambaram, who then belonged to Tamil Maanila Congress. Following a constitutional crisis when the I. K. Gujral Ministry was on its way out, a special session of Parliament was convened just to pass Chidambaram's 1997-98 budget. This budget was passed

title: Lawmaking procedure in India

text: financial bills can be introduced only in Lok Sabha per . Speaker of Lok Sabha decides whether a bill is Money Bill or not. Chairman of Rajya Sabha decides whether a bill is finance bill or not when the bill is introduced in the Rajya Sabha. After a Bill has been introduced, it is published in "The Gazette of India". Even before introduction, a Bill might, with the permission of the Speaker, be published in the "Gazette". In such cases, leave to introduce the Bill in the House is not asked for and the Bill is straight away introduced. After

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: become the Prime Minister who are: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V. P. Singh and Manmohan Singh. Minister of Finance (India) The Minister of Finance (or simply, Finance Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the

title: Estimates Committee (India)

text: Public Undertakings (COPU) are the three financial standing committees of the Parliament of India. The committee consists of thirty members, all elected from Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. The members are elected every year from amongst its members of the Lok Sabha, according to the principle of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote. The chairperson is appointed by the Lok Sabha speaker. The term of office of the members is one year. A minister is not eligible to become a member of the committee. In case a member after his election to the

title: Arjun Ram Meghwal

text: as the Chairman of House Committee, Lok Sabha. Meghwal sworn in as Minister of State for Finance on 5 July 2016. He is doing remarkable work for successful implementation of Goods & Service Tax. Arjun Ram Meghwal Arjun Ram Meghwal (born 20 December 1954) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and former party Chief Whip in 16th Lok Sabha, Currently He is Union Minister of State in Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Parliamentary Affairs in Government of India. He has been elected to the 15th and 16th Lok Sabhas (terms of

title: Meenakshi Lekhi

text: 378 questions (national average being 251) and introduced 15 private member bills (national average being 1.8) in the Lok Sabha (as updated till 6th April, the end date of Budget Session, 2018). Her overall attendance in parliament till budget session, 2018 has been 95% against the national average of 80%. Meenakshi Lekhi Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is a Member of Parliament from New Delhi constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha. She is the national spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party and a Supreme Court of India lawyer. She won the high-profile

title: Union budget of India

text: to work out the change in prices. It was Mr.Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister of India in the NDA government (led by Bharatiya Janata Party) of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who changed the ritual by announcing the 1999 Union Budget at 11 am. Also again in 2017, departing from the colonial-era tradition of presenting the Union Budget on the last working day of February, Minister of Finance (India) Arun Jaitley, in the NDA government (led by Bharatiya Janata Party) of Narendra Modi government announced that it will now be presented on 1 February. The printing of budget documents starts roughly

title: Standing Committee on Finance

text: for the setting up of the seventeen Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) covering under their jurisdiction all the ministries or departments of the Government of India. Formally set up in April 1993, the committee used to consist of 45members— 30 nominated by the Speaker from amongst the members of Lok Sabha and 15members nominated by the Chairman, Rajya Sabha from amongst the members of Rajya Sabha. However, during the re-structuring of DRSCs in July 2004 by the 14th Lok Sabha, the membership was reduced to 31members—21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. The inaugural chairperson of the committee

title: Union budget of India

text: years 1982-83, 1983–84 and 1984-85. Rajiv Gandhi presented the budget for 1987-89, after V. P. Singh quit his government, and in the process became the third Prime Minister to present a budget after his mother and grandfather. N. D. Tiwari presented the budget for 1988-89, S. B. Chavan for 1989-90, while Madhu Dandawate presented the Union budget for 1990-91. Dr. Manmohan Singh became the Finance Minister and presented the interim budget for 1991-92 as elections were forced. Due to political developments, early elections were held in May 1991 following which the Indian National Congress returned to political power and Manmohan

title: Janardhana Poojary

text: in the Ministry of Finance from 1982-84. From 1984 to 87 he was the Central (Union) Minister of State for Finance. He was the Central Minister of State for Rural Development in 1988-89. In April 1994, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament – a position he held until May 2008. He was responsible for the construction of several college, schools and temples, including the Gokarnanatheshwara Temple (Kudroli Temple) in Mangalore. He is the architect of world famous Mangalore Dasara. He also took active part in Construction of Dharmasthala Kanyadi Shree Raam Mandir.

title: Lawmaking procedure in India

text: introduced only in Lok Sabha on the recommendation of the President per . For every fiscal year, the annual budget or annual financial statement with demand for grants on the recommendation of the President per shall be passed by the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha cannot make amendments to a Money Bill passed by the Lok Sabha and sent to it. It can, however, recommend amendments in a Money Bill, but must return all Money Bills to Lok Sabha within fourteen days from the date of their receipt. The Lok Sabha can choose to accept or reject any or all

title: Estimates Committee (India)

text: committee becomes a minister, he or she ceases to be a member from the date of such appointment. There are no members from Rajya Sabha Currently the committee is headed by Murli Manohar Joshi from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Although the committee existed pre-independence, post independence, it was established following directives by India's first Minister of Finance, John Mathai. In his speech presenting the budget of 1950-51, Mathai outlined the role that had been envisaged saying - Initially the membership of the committee was limited to 25 members, however, in 1956, the membership was expanded to 30 members. The functions

title: Budget Day

text: Sinha again became the finance minister and presented four annual budgets from 1999–2000 to 2002–2003. Due to elections in May 2004, an interim budget was presented by Jaswant Singh. Until the year 2000, the Union Budget was announced at 5 pm on the last working day of the month of February. This practice was inherited from the Colonial Era when the British Parliament would pass the budget in the noon followed by India in the evening of the day. It was Mr.Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister of India in the NDA government (led by BJP) of Atal Bihari Vajpayee,

title: Standing Committee on Finance

text: disrupted. With a representation of members from across political parties, these committees also act as a consensus-building platform. After the general discussion on the budget in the House is over, the Lok Sabha is adjourned for a fixed period. The Committee considers the Demands for Grants (DFGs) of the concerned ministries or departments under its jurisdiction during the aforesaid period and presents reports on them to the House. There is a separate report on the DFGs of each ministry or department. The committee considers only such bills introduced in either of the houses as are referred to it by the

title: Union budget of India

text: Minister of India on 16 March 2012, which was the 7th budget of his career. These budgetary proposals would be applicable for financial year 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013. The Union Budget of India for 2013–2014 was presented by P. Chidambaram on 28 February 2013. The Interim Union Budget for 2014–2015 was presented on February 17, 2014. The Union Budget of India for 2014–2015 was presented by Arun Jaitley on 10 July 2014. The Union Budget of India for 2015–2016 was presented by Arun Jaitley on 28 February 2015. The Union Budget of India for 2016–2017 was presented

title: Budget Day

text: House before it can come into effect on 1 April, the start of India's financial year. The first Union budget of independent India was presented by R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947. The Union budgets for the fiscal years 1959–61 to 1963–64, inclusive of the interim budget for 1962–63, were presented by Morarji Desai. On 29 February in 1964 and 1968, he became the only finance minister to present the Union budget on his birthday. Vyas presented budgets that included five annual budgets, an interim budget during his first stint and one interim budget and three final budgets

title: Budget

text: Office of Management and Budget, and submitted to Congress for consideration. Invariably, Congress makes many and substantial changes. Nearly all American states are required to have balanced budgets, but the federal government is allowed to run deficits. The budget is prepared by the Budget Division Department of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Finance annually. The Finance Minister is the head of the budget making committee. The present Indian Finance minister is Arun Jaitley. The Budget includes supplementary excess grants and when a proclamation by the President as to failure of Constitutional machinery is in operation in relation to a

title: Prasanna Acharya

text: held the post of the Minister of Finance in Odisha. Prasanna Acharya Prasanna Acharya (born 8 August 1949) is a politician from Odisha, India who sits in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party. Acharya was a member of the national parliament, the 13th and the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Sambalpur constituency of Odisha. In May 2009 Prasanna Acharya stood for election to the Odisha Assembly rather than for the national parliament. He was elected to represent the regional constituency of

title: 2018 Union budget of India

text: 2018 Union budget of India The 2018 Union budget of India (IAST: ) was the annual financial statement (AFS), demand for grants, appropriation bill and finance bill of India for the financial year 2018-19. It was presented to Parliament on 1 February 2018 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. The 2018 budget was considered to be a crucial one, as it would be the first since the rollout of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime in India. It was widely expected that the budget would either increase the exemption limit, or introduce a standard deduction for salaried people to reduce

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: Minister of Finance (India) The Minister of Finance (or simply, Finance Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the finance minister also outlines the allocations to different ministries and departments. Occasionally, he is assisted by

title: Standing Committee on Defence (India)

text: Sabha, the membership was reduced to 31 members—21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. The inaugural chairperson of the committee was Buta Singh, former Minister of Home Affairs (1984-86) and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (1995-96) and a member of Indian National Congress. The functions of the committee are stated as below : The Standing Committees shall not consider the matters of day to day administration of the department. After the general discussion on the Budget in the House is over, the Lok Sabha is adjourned for a fixed period. The Committee considers the Demands

title: Union budget of India

title: Union budget of India

long_answer: The Union Budget of India, also referred to as the Annual Financial Statement in the Article 112 of the Constitution of India, is the annual budget of the Republic of India. The Government presents it on the first day of February so that it could be materialized before the commencement of new financial year in April. Till 2016 it was presented on the last working day of February by the Finance Minister of India in Parliament. The budget, which is presented by means of the Finance bill and the Appropriation bill has to be passed by both the Houses before it can come into effect from April 1, the start of India's financial year.


question: who founded amazon where is the headquarters of amazon

answers: Seattle, Washington

answers: based in Seattle, Washington

answers: Jeff Bezos

answers: founded by Jeff Bezos

answers: Seattle, Washington, U.S.

title: Amazon HQ2

text: 2018, Amazon announced that HQ2 would be split into two locations, with 25,000 workers at each: National Landing, a future neighborhood including Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia; and Long Island City, in Queens, New York City. Amazon.com was founded in 1994 in Bellevue, Washington, and moved to leased space in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle. As the company grew, it went through a series of office moves around Downtown Seattle, until announcing a move to a purpose-built headquarters campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood, then a light industrial enclave undergoing urban renewal. , Amazon occupies of office space in

title: Yoelle Maarek

text: Yoelle Maarek Yoelle Maarek is a vice president at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research. Maarek did her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, earned a diplôme d'études approfondies from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and completed her doctorate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1989, under the supervision of Daniel M. Berry. She worked at IBM from 1989 until 2006, and became a distinguished engineer at IBM before moving to Google. In 2006, she founded the Google Haifa Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel, where one of her key projects

title: Amazon HQ2

text: Amazon HQ2 Amazon HQ2 is a planned new corporate headquarters in Long Island City, New York and Crystal City, Virginia for online retailer and tech company Amazon in North America, to supplement the existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon announced the initiative, along with a request for proposals from governments and economic development organizations, in September 2017, attracting attention from more than 200 cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Amazon originally intended to have 50,000 workers at HQ2 and planned to invest $5 billion in new construction. A shortlist of 20 finalists was announced January 18, 2018. On November 13,

title: Jeff Bezos

text: & Co, a newly founded hedge fund, in 1990 and worked there until 1994. Bezos became D. E. Shaw's fourth senior vice-president at the age of 30. In late 1993, Bezos decided to start an online bookstore. He left his job at D. E. Shaw and founded Amazon in his garage on July 5, 1994, after writing its business plan on a trip from New York to Seattle. Bezos named his new company "Amazon" after the Amazon River in South America, in part because the name begins with the letter "A," which is at the beginning of the alphabet. He

title: Doug Gurr

text: Doug Gurr Douglas John Gurr (born July 1964) is a British businessman, and a global vice-president and head of Amazon UK since 2016. He formerly taught at Aarhus University and held positions in the United Kingdom civil service, at McKinsey & Co., and at Asda. Gurr was born in Leeds, England, in July 1964, to parents from New Zealand, and his father was head of the English department at the University of Nairobi. He was educated at the University of Cambridge where studied the Mathematical Tripos and the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in 1990 for

title: Rick Dalzell

text: Rick Dalzell Rick Dalzell (born 1957) was the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Amazon.com from 1997 until November 2007. During his 10 years at Amazon.com he was the driving force behind the growth of technology, software and services. Dalzell had been a corporate officer at Amazon since August 1997, when he was named Vice President (VP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). He was styled a Senior VP in October 2000 and was named to Senior VP, Worldwide Architecture and Platform Software & CIO, in November 2001. He retired from Amazon.com on November 16, 2007. Prior to joining

title: Amazon HQ2

text: "The New York Times" in which they stated that the city should "not offer incentives and giveaways to an internet giant known for squashing small businesses". "Politico" reported that the Long Island City location will be built on land intended for 1,500 affordable homes, to which State Senator Michael Gianaris said, “the more we learn about this deal, the worse it gets.” Amazon HQ2 Amazon HQ2 is a planned new corporate headquarters in Long Island City, New York and Crystal City, Virginia for online retailer and tech company Amazon in North America, to supplement the existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon announced

title: Vikas Gupta

text: paying job to start his own small-scale industry in Chandigarh, and grew that business successfully over 20+ years. Gupta attributes his father as the first entrepreneur he knows and his inspiration to become an entrepreneur himself. In May 1999, Gupta joined Amazon as a software engineer. During the first few years at Amazon, he rebuilt the Amazon payments infrastructure and launched one of the earliest service-oriented architectures within Amazon. In 2003 he joined the newly formed web services team, where he took on the mission to build the payments web service to monetize the web services Amazon was embarking on

title: Andy Jassy

text: Andy Jassy Andrew R. Jassy (born 1967/68) is an American businessman, and the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business. Andrew R. Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. His father is a senior partner in the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York, and chairman of the firm's management committee. Jassy grew up in Scarsdale, in the suburbs of New York. He was educated at Scarsdale High School, and graduated in 1986. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, where he was advertising manager of "The Harvard

title: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

text: the acquisition, Sukhinder Cassidy joined Amazon, where she led merchant business development for the first generation of Amazon marketplace. According to Bloomberg Business, she helped create "one of the company's first programs designed to deliver shoppers to merchants that carried what the buyers were looking for." Sukhinder Cassidy co-founded financial services platform Yodlee in 1999 with five engineering co-founders, including Schwark Satyavolu. and served as SVP of Sales and Business Development from 1999 to 2003. In 2014, Yodlee went public, trading under the ticker YODL. In 2003, Sukhinder Cassidy joined Google as the first General Manager for Google Local &

title: Matt Williams (Internet entrepreneur)

text: In 1996 Williams and high-school friend Sky Kruse cofounded Seattle-based LiveBid.com, a proprietary software site that partnered with traditional auction houses to stream their events online, allowing Internet bidders to participate in bidding. The firm was acquired by Amazon in 1999. Williams remained at Amazon until 2010, he occupied several executive roles, including General Manager of Payments, General Manager for WebStore, Director of Community and Gifts, and Director of Live Auctions. He was responsible for early iterations of various web products, including Amazon's Selling on Amazon and WebStore by Amazon. In 2001, Williams initiated a partnership between Amazon and the

title: Amazon HQ2

text: city of Stonecrest, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, voted to de-annex of land for Amazon to establish its own city named "Amazon" around its headquarters. Sly James, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, purchased 1,000 products from Amazon, which he donated to charity. James wrote 5-star reviews for each one of them, in which every review mentioned positive attributes of Kansas City. Primanti Brothers, a chain of sandwich shops based in Pittsburgh, offered free sandwiches to Amazon employees if they chose the city as their second headquarters. The city of Birmingham, Alabama erected several giant Amazon boxes and dash buttons around

title: Joy Covey

text: when she was struck by a delivery van while cycling on a road in California. Covey served as the treasurer of Natural Resources Defense Council at the time of her death. She had a son, Tyler, who was 8 at the time of her death. Covey was a pilot. Joy Covey Joy Covey (April 25, 1963 September 18, 2013) was an American business executive, best known as Amazon's first chief financial officer. Covey was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in San Mateo, California. She dropped out of school at 15 and moved to Fresno, California and began working

title: Werner Vogels

text: benefits to the industry. Vogels is married to Annet Vogels, a former musician with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. They have two daughters, Laura Vogels and Kim Vogels, who both studied Drama and Theater Arts in London, UK and moved to New York City after completing their studies. Werner Vogels Werner Hans Peter Vogels (born 3 October 1958) is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. Vogels studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences finishing in June 1989. Vogels received

title: Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia

text: Public Power Association, 1776, Eastern Foundry, TechShop, PBS since 2006 and more. On November 5, 2018, it was claimed that Amazon.com was in final talks to construct one of two campuses for its proposed Amazon HQ2 in Crystal City. The other campus would be located in Long Island City in Queens, New York City. Both campuses would have 25,000 workers. The selections of Crystal City and Long Island City for the HQ2 sites were confirmed on November 13, 2018. In Amazon's announcement, a joint press release was presented by the Northern Virginia bidders that Amazon's HQ2 neighborhood location would officially

title: Anand Rajaraman

text: Anand Rajaraman Anand Rajaraman is a Web and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Rajaraman also co-founded former Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Rajaraman was born in Chennai, India. He has an MS and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1989). Together with four other engineers, Rajaraman founded Junglee Corp. in 1996. Junglee Corp. pioneered Internet comparison shopping. Junglee Corp. was acquired by Amazon.com Inc. in August 1998 for 1.6 million shares

title: Bill Vass

text: Bill Vass William (Bill) John Vass is the Vice President of Engineering at Amazon Web Services since 2014. Before joining Amazon Web Services, Bill Vass was President and Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Robotics. He is married to Shari Steele, former Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more recently Executive Director of the Tor Project. Prior to Liquid Robotics, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems Federal (a Sun Microsystems subsidiary focusing on business with government organizations). Before that, he worked for the Department of Defense and the U.S. Army. His great grandfather was

title: Atul Gawande

text: Gawande was named the CEO of a recently-formed healthcare venture owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for "The New Yorker" and "Slate", and is the author of the books ""; "Better"; "The Checklist Manifesto"; and "." Gawande was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Indian immigrants to the United States, both doctors. His family soon moved to Athens, Ohio, where he and his sister grew up, and he graduated from Athens High School in 1983. Gawande earned an undergraduate degree in biology and political science from Stanford University

title: Nadia Shouraboura

text: Nadia Shouraboura Nadia Shouraboura is a Russian - American mathematician, data scientist and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Moscow. Her parents were mathematicians. She studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow State University. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University. Her doctoral advisor was Bernard Chazelle. She has served as vice president of Techonology at Amazon for 8 years. During her career at Amazon, she has also received 4 patents. After leaving Amazon, she became a serial entrepreneur and started a number of companies including Hointer and Starlight Multimedia. She has served on the board of

title: Amazon (company)

text: In September 2017, Amazon announced plans to locate a second headquarters in a metropolitan area with at least a million people. Cities needed to submit their presentations by October 19, 2017 for the project called HQ2. The $5 billion second headquarters, starting with 500,000 square feet and eventually expanding to as much as 8 million square feet, may have as many as 50,000 employees. In 2017, Amazon announced it would build a new downtown Seattle building with space for Mary's Place, a local charity in 2020. At the end of 2017, Amazon had over 566,000 employees worldwide. According to an

title: Matt Rutledge

text: Matt Rutledge Matt Rutledge (born 1972) is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the founder and former CEO of the daily deal site Woot. Woot was acquired by Amazon in 2010, and Rutledge resigned his position at Amazon in 2012. Rutledge launched a new daily-deal site, Meh, in 2014. Rutledge grew up in San Antonio and Carrollton, Texas. He was an undistinguished high school student. He then moved to the St. Louis, Missouri area to live with his mother, but returned to Texas to avoid paying some $8,000 in traffic tickets. While working at a Dallas-area computer retailer called

title: Binny Bansal

text: but realized that the market for E-commerce in India was very small. Hence, after leaving Amazon in 2007, they founded Flipkart as an e-commerce company. Before joining Amazon, Binny worked with Sarnoff Corporation for a year and a half, where he developed a lane sensor device for cars which would warn you and beep automatically if you change lanes without giving a signal. In 2016, Bansal became the CEO of Flipkart, where he worked on strategic development, direction and business management. In 2017, he assumed the role of CEO of Flipkart Group and his previous position was handed to Kalyan

title: Werner Vogels

text: Werner Vogels Werner Hans Peter Vogels (born 3 October 1958) is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. Vogels studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences finishing in June 1989. Vogels received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands supervised by Henri Bal and Andy Tanenbaum. After his mandatory military service that he served in the Royal Netherlands Navy, Vogels studied radiology, both diagnostics and therapy. He worked at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis, part of

title: Andy Jassy

text: James Brandt officiating at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Andy Jassy Andrew R. Jassy (born 1967/68) is an American businessman, and the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business. Andrew R. Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. His father is a senior partner in the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York, and chairman of the firm's management committee. Jassy grew up in Scarsdale, in the suburbs of New York. He was educated at Scarsdale High School, and graduated in 1986. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard

title: Willem van Biljon

text: in the world and was sold in 2004 to S1 Corp. Van Biljon worked for Amazon.com where he, along with Chris Pinkham and Christopher Brown, led the team that developed Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Willem built the business plan for the service and was responsible for product management and marketing for the public cloud service. In 2006, van Biljon left Amazon Web Services and later started a venture with Chris Pinkham. The company, Nimbula, was focused on Cloud Computing software and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation. After

title: Larry Kirshbaum

text: Larry Kirshbaum Laurence "Larry" Kirshbaum is the former chief of publishing for Amazon Publishing. Born to a Jewish family in Chicago in 1944 and raised in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. In 1966, Kirshbaum graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan. After school, he worked for Newsweek. In 1970, he co-wrote a book with Roger Rapoport about student protests, "Is the Library Burning?" In 1970, he accepted a job as a salesman for Random House selling to drugstores, small groceries, and gift shops. In 1974, he went to work for Warner Books where he became a publisher in 1985,

title: Amazon Spheres

text: but are open to the public through weekly headquarters tours and an exhibit on the ground floor. The spheres are located along Lenora Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, under Day 1 in Amazon's Seattle headquarters campus. The three intersecting spherical domes range from in height and take up half of a city block. They use over 2,600 panes of glass and of steel, arranged with five-sided panels of a pentagonal hexecontahedron. The largest sphere, in the center, is four stories tall and has of space; it houses the cafeteria, stairway, elevators, and bathrooms. The stairwell shaft is covered by

title: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

text: the University of Western Ontario and earned her H.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business in 1992. Sukhinder Cassidy was raised in an entrepreneurial family. Both of her parents were doctors and ran a medical practice for thirty years. Sukhinder Cassidy started her career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York. She moved to the Merrill Lynch London office 1994. She then worked as an analyst for British Sky Broadcasting. In 1998, Sukhinder Cassidy moved to Silicon Valley and joined ecommerce startup Junglee (company) as Head of Business Development. Junglee was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Following

title: Unfulfilled

text: the founder and CEO of Amazon, appears at South Park City Hall, where he is depicted similarly to the lead Talosian from the original 1965 "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage". He complains about the strike to Mayor McDaniels, who had assured him that the town was the perfect location for the center. Angered that Amazon orders throughout Colorado are not being fulfilled, he threatens to close her Amazon Prime account if she does not help him get the strikers back to work. When the company closes the strikers' Prime accounts, this creates a conflict for Stephen, who is torn between

title: Amazon (company)

title: Amazon (company)

long_answer: Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon (/ˈæməˌzɒn/), is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales. The amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). Amazon also sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.

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Jeff Bezos
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question: who is the longest railway station in india

answers: Gorakhpur Junction

answers: Gorakhpur railway station

title: Moradabad

text: an inter-change station due to a five line junction. Moradabad Railway Station is One of the Oldest Railway Station Of India. It was built in 1873, and was electrified in 2012. Moradabad railway station was the main station built by Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. Amenities Moradabad railway station is category 'A' railway station. It has a tourist information centre, post office, telegraph office, General Railway Police Office, computerised reservation counters, retiring room, vegetarian and non vegetarian refreshment rooms, tea stall and book stall. It also has the Tatkal seat booking counter. Electrification Electrification of the 636 km (395 mi) long

title: Kannur railway station

text: is the second longest railway platform in the state of Kerala. There is strong urge from the passengers for extension of various trains and new trains.The trains that could be extended include Matsyagandha Express, Madgaon Intercity Express,Calicut Janshatabdi. It could be achieved by constructing a new pitline and increasing the number of platforms. Kannur-Byndoor passenger can be extended to Bhatkal. The Kannur Railway Station is one of the few railway stations in Kerala to be selected for Google's plan to deploy WiFi in collaboration with the Union Government of India. The railway station has escalator and lift facilities. Kerala's first

title: Agartala railway station

text: through the Longtharai Valley, Baramura and Atharamura Hills in Dhalai and West Tripura districts. The Longtharai tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in eastern India. The architecture of the station resembles Ujjayanta Palace. Construction of railway link started in 1993. To begin with, 36 people railway workers and security forces guarding the tracks died in some 28 rebel attacks during work to link the Northeastern city of Agartala in Tripura state to the rest of the country. A total of 67 people connected with work on the rail link were kidnapped by the rebels. Only 19 were freed after ransom

title: Gujarat

text: Vadodara Railway Station is the busiest railway station in Gujarat and the fourth busiest railway station in India. It is situated on the Mumbai – Delhi Western Railway Mainline. Other important railway stations are Surat railway station, Ahmedabad Railway Station and Rajkot Railway Station. Indian Railways is planning Delhi–Mumbai dedicated rail freight route passing through the state. The long tracks of the first phase of MEGA, a metro rail system for Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar is under construction. It is expected to complete by December 2018. The construction started on 14 March 2015. Gujarat State has the longest sea coast of

title: Patliputra Junction railway station

text: India. The city is a major railway hub and has six major stations: Patliputra Junction, Patna Junction, Danapur Station , Rajendranagar Terminal, Gulzarbagh Station, and Patna Sahib Station. In January 2016, the construction of India's longest road-cum-rail bridge, the Digha–Sonpur rail–road bridge, was completed on the banks of the Ganga nearby and connect Patna to Bharpura Pahleja Ghat (Sonpur). The bridge is long and therefore, the longest road-cum-rail bridge in India as well as one of the longest in the world. The Patliputra Junction railway station was built in 2013. The railway station is a part of Digha–Sonpur rail–road bridge

title: Vivek Express

text: currently the longest train route in the Indian Subcontinent. It joins Dibrugarh in Assam, North-East India to Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu which is the southernmost tip of Mainland India. It covers a total of 4273 km from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari. It takes 79 hours to cover this distance with 57 intermediate stoppages. This too, is a weekly train, numbered 19567/19568. It connects Okha, Gujarat (which is the westernmost tip of India) to Thoothukudi, the "Pearl City", in Tamil Nadu in South India. This train covers 3043 km in 54:25 hours. It travels through the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka

title: Kollam Junction railway station

text: Kollam Junction railway station Kollam Junction railway station (station code: QLN) is a junction station situated in the city of Kollam in Kerala, India. It is the second largest railway station in Kerala in terms of area and is one of the oldest railway stations in the state. World's second longest railway platform is situated at Kollam railway station. Kollam Junction lies on Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram trunk line. It is operated by the Southern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways and comes under the Thiruvananthapuram railway division. The annual passenger ticket revenue of Kollam railway station is and 23,048 is the daily

title: Kanniyakumari railway station

text: daily trains to Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai as well as direct trains for Rameswaram, New Delhi, Howrah, Jammu, Dibrugarh etc. Kanniyakumari railway station Kanniyakumari railway station (Station code: CAPE) is a railway terminus of the Indian Railways serving the coastal city of Kanyakumari in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is a part of the Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It's the southern most railway station in India. The Kanyakumari rail station is located in the heart of Kanniyakumari and is only away from Kanniyakumari beach. Several express trains connect Kanyakumari with the rest of India. Two longest

title: Transport in Kollam

text: terms of area. Kollam station also boasts a record of having stops for all trains passing through the station. It is the third busiest railway station in Kerala. Kollam also boasts the second longest railway platform in the world(longest in Kerala), which is more than 1 km long. In a single stretch the total length is 1,180 m, which is second in the world. Kollam Junction railway station is the MEMU headquarters of Kerala. Kollam MEMU Shed is one of the two MEMU maintenance sheds in Kerala. Kollam district is the Kerala district with maximum number of railway stations -

title: Jhansi

text: the main Delhi-Chennai and Delhi-Mumbai lines. The station code is JHS. The railway station was built by the British in the late 1880s. After a long survey of three places the current site was selected for the station. The station has a massive fort-like building painted in maroon and off white. The station had three platforms in the beginning. Platform One is long making it the seventh longest in the world so could easily handle two trains at a time. Platforms two and three are also long enoungh to do this. The first Shatabdi Express of India started between New

title: Nagpur

text: 26 terminate/originate from Nagpur. Almost 1.6 lakh passengers board/leave Nagpur Railway Station Nagpur railway station, one of the oldest and busiest Stations of India was inaugurated in its present from on 15 Jan 1925 by the then Governor Sir Frank. Apart from the Nagpur railway station, Ajni Railway Station and Itwari Railway Station are the important stations of the city. Other railway stations in the city include Motibagh, Kalamna and Godhani. Nagpur-Ajni rail route which is just 3 km long, is the shortest train run in Indian Railways primarily meant for crew to travel from Nagpur station to the workshop

title: Porbandar railway station

text: Porbandar railway station Porbandar railway station is a train terminus in the coastal city of Porbandar in the Indian state of Gujarat. It belongs to the Bhavnagar Division of Western Railways. It is one of the westernmost Broad gauge railway stations in India. Porbandar railway station was owned by Porbandar State Railway during the Princely rule. Porbandar-JamJodhpur metre gauge railway line was opened in 1888 by working with Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway. Later it was merged into Saurashtra Railway in 1948. Further it is under taken by Western Railway on 5 November 1951. Gauge conversion of Wansajaliya-Jetalsar section completed in 2011 giving

title: Royapuram railway station

text: Royapuram railway station Royapuram railway station is a railway station at Royapuram, on the Chennai Beach–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway network in Chennai, India. It is one of the oldest railway station currently operational in India (the original structures of the two older stations, Bombay and Thane, are no longer operational) and the first railway station of South India. The first train of South India started operating in June 1856 from Royapuram railway station. The station also remained the headquarters of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway till 1922, when the headquarters was shifted to Egmore. Since the

title: Arvi, Wardha

text: time rail "Shakuntla Express", which is one of the longest surviving narrow gauge rail line in India. British had built it for the purpose of transport and thereby export cotton to Manchester City in England. Arvi ghee (clarified butter) especially that obtained from the local cow breed Gaolao is famous in Vidarbha region and is sold across region. There is lake named "Sarangpuri" created by Britishers in 1907 AD. The specialty of this is that the water is supplied to entire town without motor by the mechanism of gravitational force, the water has high purified quality. Sarangpuri now is a

title: Raichur railway station

text: Raichur railway station Raichur railway station (Station code: RC) is located in Raichur district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Raichur and the surrounding industrially efflorescent area. The station has three platforms. Raichur was the meeting point of two great railway systems of yesteryears – the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and Madras Railway. While the former started construction from Mumbai, the latter from Chennai. The two systems met at Raichur in 1871. The 58 km long Raichur-Gadwal railway track was opened in 2013. Gadwal is on the Dhone-Kacheguda line. It is the fourth busiest railway station in karnataka

title: Dibrugarh railway station

text: Kerala and Tamil Nadu in 82 hours. The long Bogibeel Bridge across the Brahmaputra will connect Dibrugarh to the other side of the river, referred to as the north bank. Construction work was inaugurated by former prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002, which is finally expected to be opened towards the end of 2018. Dibrugarh railway station Dibrugarh railway station is a railway junction station on the Lumding-Dibrugarh section. It is located in Dibrugarh district in the Indian state of Assam. It serves Dibrugarh and the surrounding areas. Dibrugarh Railway Station (DBRG) is the second railway station of the

title: Samastipur Junction railway station

text: Samastipur Junction railway station Samastipur Junction railway station, (Station code: SPJ), is a railway station serving the city of Samastipur in the Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar. The Samastipur Junction railway station, is well connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network and serves the city with numerous number of trains. Samastipur is well connected to Patna, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Guwahati, Surat, Lucknow, and other cities. It is also the originating station for many superfasts and express trains. The major facilities available are Waiting rooms, retiring room, computerized

title: Brahmapur railway station

text: international airport is Biju Patnaik International Airport (172 km) <nowiki>Daily above one Lakh passengers are started their journey to different ends of INDIA by rail</nowiki> Brahmapur railway station Brahmapur is a major and one of the oldest railway stations in the Indian State of Odisha. It is administered under Khurda Road Railway Division of East Coast Railway zone. It serves Brahmapur city, Ganjam district and 10 other districts of South Odisha and other districts of neighboring Andhra Pradesh.It is one of the 'A' grade railway stations of INDIA situated at South Odisha. During the period of 1893 to 1896, (

title: Transportation in Kannur district

text: and Kannur South are two different stations which serves Kannur City. This Station has Four platforms, namely Platform No.1, 1A, 2 and 3 and two entrances. Another platform and new exclusive entrance is under construction towards east. The Platform number 1 of the Kannur Railway Station is the second longest railway platform in the state of Kerala. There is strong urge from the passengers for extension of various trains and new trains. The trains that could be extended include Matsyagandha Express, Madgaon Intercity Express, Calicut Janshatabdi. It could be achieved by constructing a new pitline and increasing the number of

title: Sonpur Junction railway station

text: 2009, the construction of India's longest road-cum-rail bridge, the Digha–Sonpur rail–road bridge, was underway on the banks on the Ganges nearby, to connect Patna to Pahleja Ghat. The bridge was completed by end of August 2015. It is long and therefore the longest road cum rail bridge in India and one of the longest in the world. There are 4 platforms at Sonpur Junction. The platforms are interconnected with foot over bridges (FOB). The length of the platforms were increased in 2011 to accommodate 24-coach trains. The major facilities available are Waiting rooms, computerised reservation facility, Vehicle parking. The vehicles

title: Narsinghpur railway station

text: like Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad, Sagar, Chhindwara which will help in industrial and economic development of these regions" . Jabalpur Airport, is at distance of 95 km. Narsinghpur railway station Narsinghpur railway station is a railway station serving Narsinghpur city, in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh State of India. It is under Jabalpur railway division of West Central Railway Zone of Indian Railways. It is located on Jabalpur-Itarsi main line of the Indian Railways. It is located at 353 m above sea level and has two platforms. As of 2018, electrification of existing double Broad Gauge railway line is completed and

title: Barog

text: Until 1975 the local populace was mostly illiterate, which resulted in stalled economic progress. Barog also serves as a fitness camp for the Indian National Hockey and other athletic teams. Barog tunnel is the longest of the 103 operational tunnels on the route of the UNESCO heritage Kalka-Shimla railway, which is 1143.61m long. Barog station is immediately after the tunnel. Trains take about 2.5 minutes to cross this tunnel, running at 25 kilometres per hour. Barog station was filmed on CNN in Season 3 Episode 1, "Punjab, India" of "" during Anthony Bourdain's journey in Kalka-Shimla train, which aired on

title: Fatehpur district

text: away. There are frequent buses to Kanpur, Prayagraj, Banda, and Lucknow. Fatehpur is a historic region in the context of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857. This city is connected with important cities by train. Fatehpur Station is on the main route of New Delhi-kolkata. Trains are available frequently. It has longest platform of any station on the route from Howrah to Delhi. This fact is disputed as the shortest platforms are Jhansi (not on Delhi-Howrah route) followed by Dehri-on-Son (on Delhi-Howrah route). "As a matter of fact, the longest platform in India is Gorakhpur (Yes, it's longer than Kharagpur)."&

title: Secunderabad Junction railway station

text: Railway Station (Central Station) is one of the biggest and busiest railway stations in the Indian railway system. It is the main railway terminus and a major commuter hub in the Hyderabad Urban Area which is the capital of Telangana state, the main one of the three major railway stations serving the city, the other two being Kachiguda Railway Station and Deccan-Nampalli Railway Station. It is the zonal headquarters of South Central Railway and the divisional headquarters of the Secunderabad Division. Secunderabad Railway Station is the busiest station after Vijayawada Junction Station. And the third biggest junction in SCR after

title: Dibrugarh railway station

text: passenger traffic on 16 July 1883. The metre gauge railway track earlier laid by Assam Bengal Railway from Chittagong to Lumding was extended to Tinsukia on the Dibru-Sadiya line in 1903. The project for the conversion of the Lumding-Dibrugarh section from metre gauge to wide broad gauge was completed by the end of 1997. Train services commenced from the new station at Banipur on 13 December 2009. The Dibrugarh - Kanyakumari Vivek Express, introduced in 2011, is a train service with the longest route in India. The train runs for across the states of Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh,

title: Sonpur, Bihar

text: the 8th (and 2nd longest at the time of construction) longest platform in the world at . It is connected by two rivers, the Ganges and the Gandak. Sonepur is a town located in the Saran District of Bihar and is easily accessible via Railways, Roadways, Waterways. Sonepur is nearly 3 Km from Hajipur and 25 km from Patna and 58 km from Muzaffarpur in Bihar & 60 km from Chhapra, the headquarter of Saran District. Buses, Taxis and Auto-rickshaws are easily available. The Nearest Railway Station is Sonepur Junction railway station. It has the 8th Largest Railway Platform in

title: Gwalior

text: narrow gauge and broad gauge railways tracks are operational. Gwalior is the terminus for the longest narrow gauge route operating in the world, covering a distance of 198 km from Gwalior Junction to Sheopur. Gwalior Junction is a five railway track intersection point. It won an award for the best and cleanest station of North Central Railway zone. Gwalior is one of the major commercial railway stations of the North Central Railway, whose zonal headquarters is centred in Allahabad. The station has won awards from Indian Railways for excellent clean infrastructure in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1992. It is in

title: Tadepalligudem railway station

text: Tadepalligudem railway station Tadepalligudem railway station (station code:TDD), located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serves Tadepalligudem in West Godavari district. It is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway zone. It is 225th busiest railway station in India. Between 1893 and 1896, of the East Coast State Railway, between Vijayawada and Cuttack was opened for traffic. The southern part of the West Coast State Railway (from Waltair to Vijayawada) was taken over by Madras Railway in 1901. Tadepalligudem railway station is a "‘A’–category" station and also recognized as "Model station" in the Vijayawada railway division. SCR

title: Narsinghpur railway station

text: Narsinghpur railway station Narsinghpur railway station is a railway station serving Narsinghpur city, in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh State of India. It is under Jabalpur railway division of West Central Railway Zone of Indian Railways. It is located on Jabalpur-Itarsi main line of the Indian Railways. It is located at 353 m above sea level and has two platforms. As of 2018, electrification of existing double Broad Gauge railway line is completed and at this station, 85 trains stops. "Survey of new rail line Chhindwara-Kareli-Sagour Rail line is in progress. This will help in connecting Villages of Chhindwara, Narsinghpur

title: Railway platform

text: A railway platform is an area – normally paved or otherwise prepared for pedestrian use, and often raised to a greater or lesser degree – provided alongside one or more of the tracks at a railway or metro station for use by passengers awaiting, boarding, or alighting from trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger stations having multiple platforms. The world's longest station platform is at Gorakhpur Junction in India at 1,355.40 metres.

title: Railway platform