Freebase: Discussion about Location

Mmankgodi: Mmankgodi

2009-11-09T01:20:50.0027Z

Mmankgodi is a village in Kweneng District of Botswana. It is located 35 km from Gaborone and around 30 km from the border with South Africa. The population of Mmankgodi was 4,997 in 2001 census. Residents of Mmankgodi are called Bahurutshe and the tribal chief is Mr. L.M Thobega.

The village has one junior secondary school, Thobega CJSS, and two primary schools namely Letlole & Mmonye Primary Schools. Other developments include a clinic, post office, dam, mobile phone satellites, lodges, poultry farms and electricity coverage.

The vegetation is shrub land with patches of sandy soil. The village is entirely surrounded by range hills. Kolobeng river traverse the village on the western boarder. Roads are made of gravel with the tarred main thoroughfare connecting to neighboring villages.

The residents are actively involved in football activities having several football teams at various BFA staging divisions. These include Digodi FC (Mantsuaphamola), Black Forest, Sevillah Spurs (Tsa-ga Mma ke ya kae le motho) all of which are at second division followed by Tourism FC and Roman Cosmos both at third division.

Baron de Hirsch Cemetery: Don't merge

2009-11-06T18:52:35.0020Z

These seem to be two different cemeteries, one in Halifax and one in Montreal.

Roke: Split

2009-11-05T03:21:55.0019Z

Definitely split the fictional location from the real one.

BT Tower: BT Tower Restaurant

2009-11-03T09:33:57.0013Z

Seems like the "Top of the Tower" (rotating) restaurant is about to reopen after almost 30 years of closure. Opened in about 1965, closed in 1980, may reopen 2009 or 2010

Mount Morris: Split/delete

2009-11-03T01:54:54.0018Z

Split off the wikipedia ID 496704 and associated article. They are from a Wikipedia disambiguation page.

Pingtung Airport: Split, not merge

2009-11-01T07:04:04.0013Z

The Wikipedia article describes two different airports. They need to be split, not merged into the separate topic representing the south airport.

Elveden Forest: Subsidiary or Resort?

2009-10-29T09:57:56.0005Z

I knew this would raise some questions. I have a Center Parcs brochure from 2000 and was sent to "visit" one of them at the time. Then it was just Center Parcs Ltd (that's who I paid) but has since become a PLC. At that time it seemed it was one company owning the 3 or 4 "resorts" in UK. The resorts in Europe may well be one company operating in the various countries, but as they presumably own their resorts (and are thus not "hotel operators" only), I assume that there must be a series of subsidiary companies under one European "Center Parcs" umbrella. I assume that even in the late 1990's each EC country required a national company to own land and businesses. I think most of them still do now. Thus on filling in the items yesterday I assumed that they would all be separate companies by now, one for each resort. Maybe a financial return can confirm how they are in fact organized. Thanks.

Elveden Forest: Subsidiary or Resort?

2009-10-29T01:03:30.0020Z

I'm not sure that the villages of Center Parcs are actual subsidiaries, but instead resorts (which I think are like hotels in that there is a hotel and then a hotel owner). Can you please let me know where you got the information that the resorts are subsidiaries?

In addition, it looks like Center Parcs UK and Center Parcs Europe (all non-UK) are not legally related to each other. I tried to clean it up so that the Belgium, Germany, Holland and France are under Center Parcs Europe, and removed them from Center Parcs.

In addition, I think the main Center Parcs record is for the overall brand and not for a specific company, based on the wikipedia article. Can you please confirm?

Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of St. Mary: References?

2009-10-27T04:52:12.0000Z

dsinclair - The reason I deleted the Web link is because it was to a photo of Newark Abbey in Pyrford, Surrey -- an entirely different place.

Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of St. Mary: References?

2009-10-27T04:46:39.0020Z

Building on Jeff's excellent research, here's a pretty definitive citation, at least for the Earl. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zl8VAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q=&f=false

There's a good history of the college itself at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38184

Would it be OK if we switched the canonical name to something along the lines of "Church of the College of the Newarke" or "Church of the College of the Annunciation of St. Mary?" It seems to be a much more frequently cited name in reliable sources (as opposed to internet genealogies).

Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of St. Mary: References?

2009-10-26T20:07:11.0013Z

Outstanding work jeff!

Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of St. Mary: References?

2009-10-26T19:58:38.0013Z

This is almost certainly the (former, since it's been destroyed) Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of St. Mary, which was to hold the ducal mausoleum of the Lancasters. The part of the castle grounds on which it was built was called the Newarke. See this history (scroll down to the sections "The Newarke" and "Later History") and also this genealogy of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, which places his burial in this church.

Kuiper belt: Titius-Bode anomaly

2009-10-26T04:19:59.0013Z

The Pluto/Neptune anomaly of the Titius-Bode progression is predicted in the Initial Mass Displacements. Although the total Ceres mass includes an asteroid belt (2.8 AU), the total Pluto mass is unique. Excluding Neptune, a variety of objects (_Kuiper Belt_) between 48.8 AU and 28.8 AU had a total mass of 10 Earth Masses (i.e., Pluto Initial Mass). Eris is not a part of the Kuiper Belt. Eris is from the Initial Displacement of Bmass (77.2 AU).