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1,995,922 | AHS Centaur | 1,154,836,674 | Hospital ship shipwreck in Queensland, Australia | [
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"Monuments and memorials in Qu... | Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943. Of the 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard, 268 died, including 63 of the 65 army personnel.
The Scottish-built vessel was launched in 1924 a... |
14,105,035 | Watching the River Flow | 1,171,111,718 | Song by Bob Dylan | [
"1971 singles",
"1971 songs",
"American blues rock songs",
"Bob Dylan songs",
"Columbia Records singles",
"Songs written by Bob Dylan"
] | "Watching the River Flow" is a blues rock song by American singer Bob Dylan. Produced by Leon Russell, it was written and recorded during a session in March 1971 at the Blue Rock Studio in New York City. The collaboration with Russell formed in part through Dylan's desire for a new sound—after a period of immersion in ... |
993,445 | Battle of Arras (1917) | 1,166,757,422 | British offensive during the First World War | [
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"Battles of World War I involving Canada",
"Battles of World War I involving Germany",
"Battles of World War I involving New Zealand",
"Battles of World War I involvin... | The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare h... |
7,947,894 | Letter-winged kite | 1,164,670,913 | Raptor native to Australia | [
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"Birds of prey of Oceania",
"Birds of the Northern Territory",
"Diurnal raptors of Australia",
"Elanus",
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"Taxa named by John Gould"
] | The letter-winged kite (Elanus scriptus) is a small, rare and irruptive bird of prey that is found only in Australia. Measuring around 35 cm (14 in) in length with a wingspan of 84–100 cm (33–39 in), the adult letter-winged kite has predominantly pale grey and white plumage and prominent black rings around its red eyes... |
224,443 | Procellariidae | 1,167,644,612 | Family of seabirds which includes petrels, shearweters and prions | [
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"Extant Rupelian first appearances",
"Procellariidae",
"Seabirds",
"Taxa named by William Elford Leach"
] | The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels.
The procellariids are the mo... |
8,580 | Diocletian | 1,173,520,128 | Roman emperor from 284 to 305 | [
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"311 deaths",
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"Deified Roman emperors",
"Diocletian",
"History of Split, Croatia",
"Illyrian emperors",
"Imperial Roman consuls",
"Imperial Roman slaves ... | Diocletian (/ˌdaɪ.əˈkliːʃən/, DYE-ə-KLEE-shən; Latin: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Ancient Greek: Διοκλητιανός, romanized: Diokletianós; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed "Jovius", was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmati... |
25,529,736 | Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) | 1,166,737,278 | RAAF officer | [
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"1979 deaths",
"Australian World War I flying aces",
"British Army personnel of World War I",
"British World War I prisoners of war",
"British emigrants to Australia",
"Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau",
"English aviators",
"English escapees",
"Escapees from German detention... | Charles Eaton, OBE, AFC (21 December 1895 – 12 November 1979) was a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and later served as a diplomat. Born in London, he joined the British Army upon the outbreak of World War I and saw action on the Western Front before transferring to the Royal Flying... |
13,624,264 | Drowned God | 1,172,108,169 | 1996 science fiction adventure game | [
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"Cyberpunk video games",
"First-person adventure games",
"Inscape (company) games",
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"Single-player video games",
"Video games developed in the United Kingdom",
"Windows games",
"Windows-only games"
] | Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages is a 1996 science fiction adventure game developed by Epic Multimedia Group and published by Inscape. The game propounds the conspiracy theory that all of human history is a lie and that the human race's development and evolution were aided by extraterrestrials. The player attempts t... |
51,112,555 | Heaven Upside Down | 1,164,251,335 | null | [
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"Concept albums",
"Glam rock albums by American artists",
"Gothic rock albums by American artists",
"Loma Vista Recordings albums",
"Marilyn Manson (band) albums",
"Punk rock albums by American artists"
] | Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on October 6, 2017, by Loma Vista Recordings and Caroline International. The record had the working title Say10 and was initially due to be issued on Valentine's Day. However, the release was delayed by numerous events, m... |
64,408,154 | 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election | 1,151,319,267 | Historic American electoral contest | [
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"1789 Virginia elections",
"1st United States Congress",
"James Madison",
"James Monroe",
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"United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia"
] | The first election for Virginia's 5th congressional district took place on February 2, 1789, for a two-year term to commence on March 4 of that year. In a race that turned on the candidates' positions on the need for amendments (the Bill of Rights) to the recently ratified U.S. Constitution, James Madison defeated Jame... |
15,237,123 | El Señor Presidente | 1,156,748,346 | 1946 novel by Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) | [
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"Dictator novels",
"Fictional Guatemalan people",
"Guatemalan magic realism novels",
"Manuel Estrada Cabrera",
"Novels by Miguel Ángel Asturias",
"Novels set in Guatemala",
"Spanish-language novels"
] | El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society. Asturias makes ea... |
6,813,717 | Pigeye shark | 1,170,977,655 | Species of shark | [
"Carcharhinus",
"Fauna of Java",
"Fish described in 1839",
"Fish of the Indian Ocean",
"Marine fish of East Africa",
"Marine fish of West Africa"
] | The pigeye shark or Java shark (Carcharhinus amboinensis) is an uncommon species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, found in the warm coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic and western Indo-Pacific. It prefers shallow, murky environments with soft bottoms, and tends to roam within a fairly localised area. ... |
1,616,224 | Martha Layne Collins | 1,165,081,922 | American businesswoman and politician | [
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"21st-century American women",
"American women academics",
"Baptists from Kentucky",
"Democratic Party governors of Kentucky",
"Georgetown College (Kentucky) faculty",
"Heads of universities and colleges i... | Martha Layne Collins (née Hall; born December 7, 1936) is an American former businesswoman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky; she served as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987, the first woman to hold the office and the only one to date. Prior to that, she served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor o... |
68,573,268 | Northolt siege | 1,154,875,702 | 1985 hostage-taking in London | [
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"1980s murders in London",
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"1985 in London",
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"20th century in the London Borough of Ealing",
"Crime in the London Borough of Ealing",
"December 1985 events in the United Kingdom",
"Hostage rescue ope... | The Northolt siege took place in Northolt, West London, England, on 25 and 26 December 1985. It resulted in the shooting of the hostage-taker, Errol Walker. It was the first shooting by an officer from the Metropolitan Police's specialist Firearms Wing. After a domestic dispute, Walker forced entry into his sister-in-l... |
4,337,705 | Nimrod Expedition | 1,147,545,527 | First of three Antarctic expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton, 1907–09 | [
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"1909 in Antarctica",
"Antarctic expeditions",
"Ernest Shackleton",
"Expeditions from the United Kingdom",
"Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration",
"History of the Ross Dependency",
"South Pole",
"United Kingdom and the Antarctic"
] | The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three successful expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second expedition to the Antarctic. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the So... |
36,624,220 | Abuwtiyuw | 1,167,967,423 | An Egyptian dog, one of the earliest documented domestic animals | [
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"Ancient Egyptian culture",
"Egyptian Museum",
"Giza",
"Individual dogs",
"Year of birth unknown"
] | The Egyptian dog Abuwtiyuw, also transcribed as Abutiu (died before 2280 BC), was one of the earliest documented domestic animals whose name is known. He is believed to have been a royal guard dog who lived in the Sixth Dynasty (2345–2181 BC), and received an elaborate ceremonial burial in the Giza Necropolis at the be... |
579,947 | Wood stork | 1,170,151,784 | Wading bird found in the Americas | [
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"Birds of Brazil",
"Birds of Central America",
"Birds of Cuba",
"Birds of the Americas",
"ESA threatened species",
"Mycteria",
"Native birds of the Southeastern United States",
"Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus"
] | The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks), the only member of the family to breed in North America. It was formerly called the "wood ibis", though it is not an ibis. It is found in subtropical and tropical habitats in the Americas, including the Caribbean. In ... |
21,782,459 | Tropical Storm Faxai (2007) | 1,164,019,838 | Pacific severe tropical storm in 2007 | [
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"2007 disasters in the Philippines",
"2007 in Japan",
"Tropical cyclones in 2007",
"Typhoons in Japan",
"Typhoons in the Philippines",
"Western Pacific severe tropical storms"
] | Severe Tropical Storm Faxai, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Juaning, was a short-lived tropical storm that had minor effects on land. The twentieth named storm of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season, Faxai originated from a tropical depression over the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean in late October. T... |
1,125,711 | Operation Hurricane | 1,170,488,657 | 1952 British atomic bomb test | [
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"Montebello Islands archipelago",
"October 1952 events in ... | Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, Britain became the third nuclear power, after the United States and the... |
6,852,933 | Slate industry in Wales | 1,171,970,169 | null | [
"Industrial history of Wales",
"Mining in Wales",
"Roof tiles",
"Slate industry in Wales",
"The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales"
] | The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry grew slowly until the early 18th century, then rapidly during the Industrial Revolution in Wales until the late 19th century, at which time the most import... |
1,210,286 | Tommy Amaker | 1,168,542,702 | American basketball player and coach (born 1965) | [
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"1986 FIBA World Championship players",
"20th-century African-American sportspeople",
"21st-century African-American sportspeople",
"African-American basketball coaches",
"African-American basketball players",
"All-American college men's basketball players",
"American men's basketball c... | Harold Tommy Amaker Jr. (/ˈæməkər/; born June 6, 1965) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University... |
52,310,203 | Operation Grandslam | 1,145,204,351 | 1962–1963 UN offensive in the Congo | [
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"Battles involving Ireland",
"Battles involving Sweden",
"Conflicts in 1962",
"Conflicts in 1963",
"Congo Crisis",
"December 1962 events in Africa",
"January 1963 events in Africa",
"United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
] | Operation Grandslam was an offensive undertaken by United Nations peacekeeping forces from 28 December 1962 to 15 January 1963 against the forces of the State of Katanga, a secessionist state rebelling against the Republic of the Congo in central Africa. The Katangese forces were decisively defeated and Katanga was for... |
200,128 | BAE Systems | 1,173,418,482 | British defence, security, and aerospace company | [
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"Air traffic controller schools",
"Aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom",
"BAE Systems",
"British Shipbuilders",
"British brands",
"British companies established in 1999",
"Collier Trophy recipients",
"Companies... | BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London. It is the biggest manufacturer in Britain as of 2017. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenues. Its largest operations are in the United K... |
14,687,065 | Partners in Crime (Doctor Who) | 1,165,070,753 | null | [
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"Doctor Who stories set on Earth",
"Films directed by James Strong (director)",
"Television episodes about obesity",
"Television episodes set in London",
"Television shows written by Russell T Davies",
"Tenth Doctor episodes"
] | "Partners in Crime" is the first episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008. The episode reintroduced actor and comedian Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, who had previously appeared in the 2006 Christmas Special "The Runaway Bride"... |
4,292,915 | First Roumanian-American Congregation | 1,128,948,945 | Church in Manhattan, New York | [
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"Buildings and structures demolished in 2006",
"Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan",
"Demolished churches in New York City",
"Former Presbyterian churches in New York City",
"Former synagogues in New York (state)",
"Lower East Side",
"Orthodox s... | The First Roumanian-American Congregation, also known as Congregation Shaarey Shomayim (Hebrew: שַׁעֲרֵי שָׁמַיִם, "Gates of Heaven"), or the Roumanishe Shul (Yiddish for "Romanian synagogue"), was an Orthodox Jewish congregation that, for over 100 years, occupied a historic building at 89–93 Rivington Street on the Lo... |
54,410 | Triceratops | 1,173,523,812 | Genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous | [
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"Fossil taxa described in 1889",
"Hell Creek fauna",
"Lance fauna",
"Laramie Formation",
"Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America",
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"Maastrichtian genus first appearances",
"Maastrichtian life",
"Ornithischian genera",
"Paleontology in Albe... | Triceratops (/traɪˈsɛrətɒps/ try-SERR-ə-tops; lit. 'three-horned face') is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America. It was one of the last-known non-avian dinosaurs and... |
11,963,035 | Dreadnought | 1,173,081,701 | Early 20th century battleship type | [
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"20th-century military history",
"Battleships",
"Ship types"
] | The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. Her d... |
13,539,706 | Navenby | 1,155,741,334 | Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England | [
"Civil parishes in Lincolnshire",
"North Kesteven District",
"Villages in Lincolnshire"
] | Navenby /ˈneɪvənbi/ is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Lying 8 miles (13 km) south from Lincoln and 9 miles (14 km) north-northwest from Sleaford, Navenby had a population of 2,128 in the 2011 census and in March 2011, it was named as the 'Best Value Village' in Engla... |
52,942,253 | Porlock Stone Circle | 1,156,565,988 | Neolithic stone circle in Somerset, England | [
"Archaeological sites in Somerset",
"Buildings and structures in Somerset",
"History of Somerset",
"Megalithic monuments in England",
"Scheduled monuments in Somerset",
"Stone circles in England"
] | Porlock Stone Circle is a stone circle located on Exmoor, near the village of Porlock in the south-western English county of Somerset. The Porlock ring is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, over a... |
40,608,295 | Yugoslav destroyer Beograd | 1,152,555,417 | Yugoslav ship active in WWII | [
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"Beograd-class destroyers",
"Maritime incidents in April 1945",
"Maritime incidents in May 1945",
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"Naval ships of Yugoslavia captured by Italy during World War II",
"Scuttled vessels",
"Ships built in France",
"Shipwrecks ... | Beograd was the lead ship of her class of destroyers, built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in France during the late 1930s, and designed to be deployed as part of a division led by the flotilla leader Dubrovnik. She entered service in April 1939, was armed with a main battery of four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns in single mounts,... |
69,901,138 | Black Christian Siriano gown of Billy Porter | 1,171,452,612 | Tuxedo dress worn by Billy Porter | [
"2019 in LGBT history",
"2019 in fashion",
"African-American cultural history",
"Black dresses",
"Cross-dressing",
"Outfits worn at the Academy Awards ceremonies"
] | American actor Billy Porter wore a black velvet tuxedo dress designed by Christian Siriano on the red carpet of the 91st Academy Awards on February 24, 2019. At the time, Porter had recently come into public view for his breakout role in the FX television series Pose and had been receiving attention for his boundary-pu... |
18,471,049 | Forrest Highway | 1,173,218,510 | Highway in Western Australia | [
"Articles containing video clips",
"Bypasses in Australia",
"Highway 1 (Australia)",
"Highways in rural Western Australia",
"Peel (Western Australia)",
"South West (Western Australia)"
] | Forrest Highway is a 95-kilometre-long (59 mi) highway in Western Australia's Peel and South West regions, extending Perth's Kwinana Freeway from east of Mandurah down to Bunbury. Old Coast Road was the original Mandurah–Bunbury route, dating back to the 1840s. Part of that road, and the Australind Bypass around Austra... |
1,046,985 | Battle of Öland | 1,168,582,605 | Naval battle between an allied Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea | [
"1676 in Denmark",
"Conflicts in 1676",
"Naval battles involving the Dutch Republic",
"Naval battles of the Franco-Dutch War",
"Naval battles of the Scanian War",
"Öland"
] | The Battle of Öland was a naval battle between an allied Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, off the east coast of Öland on 1 June 1676. The battle was a part of the Scanian War (1675–79) fought for supremacy over the southern Baltic. Sweden was in urgent need of reinforcements for its north Germ... |
1,903,166 | Loggerhead sea turtle | 1,170,914,734 | Species of marine reptile distributed throughout the world | [
"Caretta",
"Cosmopolitan vertebrates",
"EPBC Act endangered biota",
"Endangered animals",
"Nature Conservation Act endangered biota",
"Reptiles described in 1758",
"Sea turtles",
"Symbols of Florida",
"Symbols of South Carolina",
"Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus"
] | The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around 90 cm (35 in) in carapace length when fully grown. The adult loggerhead sea turtle weighs approximately 135 kg ... |
31,984,199 | Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin | 1,173,487,401 | Painting by Rogier van der Weyden | [
"1430s paintings",
"Paintings by Rogier van der Weyden",
"Paintings depicting Luke the Evangelist",
"Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston",
"Paintings of the Madonna and Child"
] | Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is a large oil and tempera on oak panel painting, usually dated between 1435 and 1440, attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, it shows Luke the Evangelist, patron saint of artists, sketching the Virgin Mary as she nur... |
285,284 | Altrincham | 1,168,803,532 | Town in Greater Manchester, England | [
"Altrincham",
"Geography of Trafford",
"Market towns in Greater Manchester",
"Towns in Greater Manchester",
"Unparished areas in Greater Manchester"
] | Altrincham (/ˈɒltrɪŋəm/ OL-tring-əm, locally /ˈɒltrɪŋɡəm/) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Manchester, 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Sale and 10 miles (16 km) east of Warrington. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 52,419.
W... |
19,345,883 | Anbar campaign (2003–2011) | 1,172,764,698 | Large-scale fighting between Coalition forces and Sunni insurgents during the Iraq War | [
"Al Anbar Governorate",
"Articles containing video clips",
"Battles of the Iraq War involving Iraq",
"Battles of the Iraq War involving the United States",
"Campaigns of the Iraq War",
"Occupation of Iraq",
"United States Marine Corps in the Iraq War"
] | The Anbar campaign consisted of fighting between the United States military, together with Iraqi security forces, and Sunni insurgents in the western Iraqi governorate of Al Anbar. The Iraq War lasted from 2003 to 2011, but the majority of the fighting and counterinsurgency campaign in Anbar took place between April 20... |
46,865 | Manzanar | 1,173,347,998 | World War II Japanese-American internment camp in California | [
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"1942 establishments in California",
"1945 disestablishments in California",
"1972 establishments in California",
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"California in World War II",
"Historic American Buildings Survey in California",
"History museums in California",
"History of C... | Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada ... |
43,449 | Ming dynasty | 1,173,734,752 | Imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 | [
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"1644 disestablishments in Asia",
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"17th century in China",
"Dynasties of China",
"Former countries in Chinese histor... | The Ming dynasty (/mɪŋ/), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beij... |
8,446,088 | New York State Route 28N | 1,078,465,077 | Highway in New York | [
"State highways in New York (state)",
"Transportation in Essex County, New York",
"Transportation in Hamilton County, New York",
"Transportation in Warren County, New York"
] | New York State Route 28N (NY 28N) is an east–west state highway in the North Country of New York in the United States. It extends for 50.95 miles (82.00 km) through the Adirondack Mountains from Blue Mountain Lake to North Creek. The route is a northerly alternate route to NY 28 between both locations; as such, it pass... |
1,190,305 | Stanford Memorial Church | 1,170,419,975 | Church at Stanford University in California, US | [
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"Churches completed in 1903",
"Religious buildings and structures in Santa Clara County, California",
"Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in California",
"Romanesque Revival church buildings in California",
"Stanford University b... | Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland. Designed by architect Charles A. Coolidg... |
15,665,413 | The Other Woman (Lost) | 1,161,303,472 | null | [
"2008 American television episodes",
"Lost (season 4) episodes",
"Television episodes written by Drew Goddard"
] | "The Other Woman" is the 78th episode of the serial drama television series Lost and the sixth episode of the show's fourth season. It aired on March 6, 2008 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States and on CTV in Canada. The episode was written by co-executive producer Drew Goddard and executive ... |
8,904,819 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | 1,170,326,035 | 1974 nonfiction book by Annie Dillard | [
"1974 books",
"American non-fiction books",
"Books about Appalachia",
"Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works"
] | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by American author Annie Dillard. Told from a first-person point of view, the book details Dillard's explorations near her home, and various contemplations on nature and life. The title refers to Tinker Creek, which is outside Roanoke in Virginia's Blue Ridge ... |
21,591,896 | If Day | 1,149,271,660 | Simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1942 | [
"1942 in Canada",
"1942 in military history",
"Canada in World War II",
"History of Winnipeg",
"World War II propaganda"
] | If Day (French: "Si un jour", "If one day") was a simulated Nazi German invasion and occupation of the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and surrounding areas on 19 February 1942, during the Second World War. It was organized as a war bond promotion by the Greater Winnipeg Victory Loan organization, which was led by... |
16,095 | Jimi Hendrix | 1,173,298,823 | American guitarist (1942–1970) | [
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"20th-century American guitarists",
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"African-American United States Army personnel",
"African-American guitarists",
"A... | James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of... |
66,781 | Oberon (moon) | 1,170,086,756 | Moon of Uranus | [
"Astronomical objects discovered in 1787",
"Discoveries by William Herschel",
"Moons with a prograde orbit",
"Oberon (moon)",
"Things named after Shakespearean works"
] | Oberon /ˈoʊbərɒn/, also designated Uranus IV, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second-largest, with a surface area that is compareable to the area of Australia, and second most massive of the Uranian moons, and the ninth most massive moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in... |
16,304,859 | U.S. Route 45 in Michigan | 1,096,859,003 | US Highway in Michigan | [
"Transportation in Gogebic County, Michigan",
"Transportation in Ontonagon County, Michigan",
"U.S. Highways in Michigan",
"U.S. Route 45"
] | US Highway 45 (US 45) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Mobile, Alabama, to the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the state of Michigan. The highway forms a part of the state trunkline highway system that is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). It enters the state fr... |
1,886,978 | Battle of Pulo Aura | 1,172,321,414 | Minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars | [
"Conflicts in 1804",
"February 1804 events",
"Naval battles involving France",
"Naval battles involving the Batavian Republic",
"Naval battles involving the British East India Company",
"Naval battles involving the United Kingdom",
"Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars",
"Strait of Malacca"
] | The Battle of Pulo Aura was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 14 February 1804, in which a large convoy of Honourable East India Company (HEIC) East Indiamen, well-armed merchant ships, intimidated, drove off and chased away a powerful French naval squadron. Although the French force was much s... |
626,663 | Cliff Thorburn | 1,169,176,705 | Canadian snooker player (born 1948) | [
"1948 births",
"Canadian autobiographers",
"Canadian snooker players",
"Living people",
"Masters (snooker) champions",
"Members of the Order of Canada",
"Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia",
"Winners of the professional snooker world championship",
"World number one snooker players"
] | Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn CM (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recognised as the sport's first w... |
27,600,851 | Holy Thorn Reliquary | 1,160,338,810 | 14th-century reliquary made for John, Duke of Berry | [
"1390s works",
"Christian reliquaries",
"Crown of thorns",
"God the Father in art",
"Gold objects",
"Medieval European objects in the British Museum",
"Works in vitreous enamel"
] | The Holy Thorn Reliquary was probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry, to house a relic of the Crown of Thorns. The reliquary was bequeathed to the British Museum in 1898 by Ferdinand de Rothschild as part of the Waddesdon Bequest. It is one of a small number of major goldsmiths' works or joyaux t... |
39,543,672 | William Hely | 1,169,084,053 | Royal Australian Air Force senior commander | [
"1909 births",
"1970 deaths",
"Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire",
"Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath",
"Australian aviators",
"Australian recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)",
"Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies",
"Military personnel f... | Air Vice Marshal William Lloyd Hely, CB, CBE, AFC (24 August 1909 – 20 May 1970) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1930 before transferring to the RAAF as a cadet pilot. Hely came to public attention in 1936–37, first when he cras... |
5,583,645 | Banksia prionotes | 1,150,063,375 | Species of shrub or tree in the family Proteaceae native to the southwest of Western Australia | [
"Banksia taxa by scientific name",
"Drought-tolerant trees",
"Eudicots of Western Australia",
"Ornamental trees",
"Trees of Australia",
"Trees of Mediterranean climate"
] | Banksia prionotes, commonly known as acorn banksia or orange banksia, is a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae. It is native to the southwest of Western Australia and can reach up to 10 m (33 ft) in height. It can be much smaller in more exposed areas or in the north of its range. Thi... |
5,478,840 | Maraba coffee | 1,165,607,630 | Brewed beverage | [
"Agriculture in Rwanda",
"Alternative trading organizations",
"Coffee brands"
] | Maraba coffee (Kinyarwanda: Ikawa ya Maraba; French: Café de Maraba) is grown in the Maraba area of southern Rwanda. Maraba's coffee plants are the Bourbon variety of the Coffea arabica species and are grown on fertile volcanic soils on high-altitude hills. The fruit is handpicked, mostly during the rainy season betwee... |
31,294,183 | William Brill (RAAF officer) | 1,169,107,438 | Royal Australian Air Force officer | [
"1916 births",
"1964 deaths",
"Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order",
"Australian aviators",
"Australian recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)",
"Military personnel from New South Wales",
"Royal Australian Air Force officers",
"Royal Australian Air Force per... | William Lloyd Brill, DSO, DFC & Bar (17 May 1916 – 12 October 1964) was a senior officer and bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Born in the Riverina district of New South Wales, he was a farmer and a member of the Militia before joining the RAAF in 1940. After training in Australia and Canada, he wa... |
20,860,135 | Carabane | 1,173,727,883 | Village in Senegal | [
"Atlantic islands of Senegal",
"Populated places in Ziguinchor Region"
] | Carabane, also known as Karabane, is an island and a village located in the extreme south-west of Senegal, in the mouth of the Casamance River. This relatively recent geological formation consists of a shoal and alluvium to which soil is added by accumulation in the branches and roots of the mangrove trees which cover ... |
7,767,585 | Nestor Lakoba | 1,170,911,176 | Abkhazian communist leader | [
"1893 births",
"1936 deaths",
"Abkhazian murder victims",
"Abkhazian politicians",
"Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members",
"Deaf politicians",
"Great Purge victims",
"Old Bolsheviks",
"People executed by poison",
"People from Gudauta District",
"People from Sukhum Okrug",
"R... | Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba (1 May 1893 – 28 December 1936) was an Abkhaz communist leader. Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik power in Abkhazia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and served as the head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Bolshevik Red Army in 1921. While in power, Lakoba saw that Abkhazia was... |
26,015,575 | Alloxylon pinnatum | 1,160,858,375 | Tree of the family Proteaceae found in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales | [
"Alloxylon",
"Plants described in 1911",
"Proteales of Australia",
"Taxa named by Ernst Betche",
"Taxa named by Joseph Maiden",
"Trees of Australia"
] | Alloxylon pinnatum, known as Dorrigo waratah, is a tree of the family Proteaceae found in warm-temperate rainforest of south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales in eastern Australia. It has shiny green leaves that are either pinnate (lobed) and up to 30 cm (12 in) long, or lanceolate (spear-shaped) and up to 1... |
520,498 | Villa Park | 1,171,436,745 | Football stadium in Aston, Birmingham | [
"1897 establishments in England",
"1966 FIFA World Cup stadiums",
"Aston Villa F.C.",
"Darts venues",
"Defunct cricket grounds in England",
"Defunct velodromes in the United Kingdom",
"English Football League venues",
"Football venues in Birmingham, West Midlands",
"Premier League venues",
"Rugby ... | Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,657. It has been the home of Premier League side Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witton and Aston railway stations and has hosted sixteen England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899 and th... |
5,318,087 | Little Tich | 1,157,242,990 | English music hall comedian | [
"1867 births",
"1928 deaths",
"20th-century English comedians",
"Articles containing video clips",
"Burials at East Finchley Cemetery",
"Columbia Records artists",
"English male comedians",
"Music hall performers",
"Pantomime dames",
"Pathé Records artists",
"Vaudeville performers"
] | Harry Relph (21 July 1867 – 10 February 1928), professionally known as Little Tich, was a 4-foot-6-inch-tall (137 cm) English music hall comedian and dancer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was best known for his acrobatic and comedic "Big-Boot Dance", which he performed in Europe and for which he wore... |
961,258 | Geoff Bent | 1,168,889,645 | English footballer (1932–1958) | [
"1932 births",
"1958 deaths",
"English Football League players",
"English men's footballers",
"Footballers from Salford",
"Footballers killed in the Munich air disaster",
"Manchester United F.C. players",
"Men's association football fullbacks"
] | Geoffrey Bent (27 September 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Bent only made twelve first-team appearances for Manchester United, who alre... |
4,689,517 | Windsor Castle | 1,173,157,536 | Official country residence of British monarch | [
"11th-century establishments in England",
"11th-century fortifications",
"Art museums and galleries in Berkshire",
"Buildings and structures completed in the 11th century",
"Burned buildings and structures in the United Kingdom",
"Castles in Berkshire",
"Country houses in Berkshire",
"Edward Blore bui... | Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
The original castle was built in the 11th century, after the Norman invasion of England by Willia... |
1,041,160 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | 1,157,041,241 | 2004 novel by Susanna Clarke | [
"2004 British novels",
"2004 debut novels",
"2004 fantasy novels",
"Bloomsbury Publishing books",
"British alternative history novels",
"British historical novels",
"British novels adapted into television shows",
"Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington",
"Cultural depictions... | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Ce... |
14,629,980 | Getting It: The Psychology of est | 1,167,368,296 | Non-fiction book by Sheridan Fenwick | [
"1976 non-fiction books",
"English-language books",
"J. B. Lippincott & Co. books",
"Psychology books",
"Werner Erhard"
] | Getting It: The Psychology of est, a non-fiction book by American clinical psychologist Sheridan Fenwick first published in 1976, analyzes Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training or est. Fenwick based the book on her own experience of attending a four-day session of the est training, an intensive 60-hour personal-deve... |
4,714,392 | The Oceanides | 1,151,443,667 | Tone poem by Jean Sibelius | [
"1914 compositions",
"Music with dedications",
"Symphonic poems by Jean Sibelius"
] | The Oceanides (in Finnish: Aallottaret; literal English translation: Nymphs of the Waves or Spirits of the Waves; original working title: Rondeau der Wellen; in English: Rondo of the Waves), Op. 73, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written from 1913 to 1914 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, ... |
14,487,552 | No Way Out (2004) | 1,166,769,030 | World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view event | [
"2004 WWE pay-per-view events",
"2004 in California",
"Events in California",
"February 2004 events in the United States",
"Professional wrestling in California",
"WWE No Way Out",
"WWE SmackDown"
] | The 2004 No Way Out was the sixth No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown! brand division. The event took place on February 15, 2004, at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. The e... |
72,916,943 | The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection) | 1,172,272,039 | Fashion collection | [
"1990s fashion",
"Alexander McQueen collections",
"British fashion",
"September 1994 events in the United Kingdom",
"Works about Alfred Hitchcock"
] | The Birds (Spring/Summer 1995) is the fifth collection by British designer Alexander McQueen for his eponymous fashion house. The Birds was inspired by ornithology, the study of birds, and the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds, for which it was named. Typically for McQueen in the early stages of his career, the coll... |
40,027,591 | Allah jang Palsoe | 1,153,829,976 | Play written by Kwee Tek Hoay | [
"1910s debut plays",
"1919 plays",
"Chinese Malay literature",
"Indonesian plays",
"Plays based on short fiction"
] | Allah jang Palsoe (; Perfected Spelling: Allah yang Palsu; Malay for The False God) is a 1919 stage drama from the Dutch East Indies that was written by the ethnic Chinese author Kwee Tek Hoay based on E. Phillips Oppenheim's short story "The False Gods". Over six acts, the Malay-language play follows two brothers, one... |
30,871,074 | James B. Longacre | 1,172,447,717 | American portraitist and engraver (1794–1869) | [
"1794 births",
"1869 deaths",
"19th-century American male artists",
"19th-century American painters",
"19th-century American printmakers",
"19th-century engravers",
"American male painters",
"American people of Swedish descent",
"American portrait painters",
"Artists from Delaware County, Pennsylv... | James Barton Longacre (August 11, 1794 – January 1, 1869) was an American portraitist and engraver, and the fourth chief engraver of the United States Mint from 1844 until his death. Longacre is best known for designing the Indian Head cent, which entered commerce in 1859, and for the designs of the Shield nickel, Flyi... |
19,499 | Mariah Carey | 1,173,559,855 | American singer (born 1969) | [
"1969 births",
"20th-century African-American women singers",
"20th-century American actresses",
"21st-century African-American women singers",
"21st-century American actresses",
"21st-century American businesswomen",
"Actresses from New York (state)",
"African-American Episcopalians",
"African-Amer... | Mariah Carey (/məˈraɪə/; born March 27, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her songwriting, five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style and signature use of the whistle register. An influential fi... |
21,679,626 | Jersey Act | 1,172,753,322 | 20th-century British Thoroughbred horse regulation | [
"Horse breeding and studs",
"Horse racing in Great Britain",
"Horse racing in the United States"
] | The Jersey Act was introduced to prevent the registration of most American-bred Thoroughbred horses in the British General Stud Book. It had its roots in the desire of British horse breeders to halt the influx of American-bred racehorses of possibly impure bloodlines during the early 20th century. Many American-bred ho... |
657,814 | Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line | 1,173,191,847 | Rail service in Sydney, New South Wales,Australia | [
"1500 V DC railway electrification",
"1884 establishments in Australia",
"Featured articles",
"Illawarra railway line",
"Railway lines opened in 1884",
"Standard gauge railways in Australia",
"Sydney Trains"
] | The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line (numbered T4, coloured azure blue) is a commuter railway line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney and is a part of the Sydney Trains network. The line was constructed in the 1880s to Wollongong to take advantage of agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra area. ... |
58,521 | Eadred | 1,165,040,349 | null | [
"10th-century English monarchs",
"920s births",
"955 deaths",
"Burials at Winchester Cathedral",
"House of Wessex",
"Monarchs of England before 1066"
] | Eadred (c. 923 – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu, and a grandson of Alfred the Great. His elder brother, Edmund, was killed trying to protect his seneschal from an attack by a violent thief. Edmund's two sons... |
16,039,238 | Operation Sandwedge | 1,171,107,054 | 1971 proposed American intelligence-gathering operation | [
"Presidency of Richard Nixon",
"Watergate scandal"
] | Operation Sandwedge was a proposed clandestine intelligence-gathering operation against the political enemies of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration. The proposals were put together by Nixon's Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, domestic affairs assistant John Ehrlichman and staffer Jack Caulfield in 1971. Caulfie... |
13,411,107 | 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident | 1,173,184,566 | Accidental loading of warheads onto an aircraft | [
"2007 controversies in the United States",
"2007 in Louisiana",
"2007 in North Dakota",
"2007 in military history",
"2007 in the United States",
"21st-century history of the United States Air Force",
"21st-century military history of the United States",
"Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing B-... | On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missi... |
12,357,298 | Interstate 80 Business (West Wendover, Nevada–Wendover, Utah) | 1,172,680,176 | Interstate Highway business loop in Nevada and Utah in the United States | [
"Business Interstate Highways",
"Interstate 80",
"Interstate Highways in Nevada",
"Interstate Highways in Utah",
"Streets in Utah",
"Transportation in Elko County, Nevada",
"Transportation in Tooele County, Utah",
"U.S. Route 40",
"West Wendover, Nevada"
] | Interstate 80 Business (I-80 Bus) is an unofficial business loop of Interstate 80 (I-80) that is 2.26 miles (3.64 km) long and serves as the main street for the US cities of West Wendover, Nevada, and Wendover, Utah, along a roadway named Wendover Boulevard. Wendover Boulevard was originally part of US Route 40 (US 40)... |
37,548,442 | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate | 1,173,466,143 | 2007 non-fiction book | [
"2007 non-fiction books",
"American political books",
"Books about United States legal history",
"Books about freedom of speech",
"First Amendment to the United States Constitution",
"History of civil rights in the United States"
] | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment is a 2007 non-fiction book by journalist Anthony Lewis about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of thought, and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The book starts by quoting the First Amendment, which prohibits th... |
71,385,873 | John Raymond science fiction magazines | 1,171,957,313 | American magazines published 1952 to 1954 | [
"Defunct science fiction magazines published in the United States",
"Magazines disestablished in 1954",
"Science fiction digests",
"Science fiction magazines established in the 1950s"
] | Between 1952 and 1954, John Raymond published four digest-size science fiction and fantasy magazines. Raymond was an American publisher of men's magazines who knew little about science fiction, but the field's rapid growth and a distributor's recommendation prompted him to pursue the genre. Raymond consulted and then h... |
53,120,401 | 2017 EFL Trophy final | 1,170,271,711 | English football match between Coventry City and Oxford United | [
"2016–17 English Football League",
"2017 sports events in London",
"April 2017 sports events in the United Kingdom",
"Coventry City F.C. matches",
"EFL Trophy finals",
"Events at Wembley Stadium",
"Oxford United F.C. matches"
] | The 2017 EFL Trophy Final was an association football match that was played on 2 April 2017 at Wembley Stadium, London. It was played between League One teams Coventry City and Oxford United. The match decided the winners of the 2016–17 EFL Trophy, a 64-team knockout tournament comprising clubs from League One and Leag... |
17,443,368 | History of the Montreal Canadiens | 1,170,335,869 | History of the ice hockey club | [
"History of the Montreal Canadiens",
"Montreal Canadiens",
"National Hockey League history by team"
] | The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, formally Le Club de Hockey Canadien, was founded on December 4, 1909. The Canadiens are the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world. Created as a founding member of the National Hockey Association (NHA) with the aim of appealing to Montreal's francophone population, the... |
47,063,425 | The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished | 1,151,983,246 | Oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty | [
"1825 paintings",
"Collections of York Art Gallery",
"Paintings by William Etty",
"Paintings in National Galleries Scotland",
"Portraits of women",
"War paintings"
] | The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished is a large oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1825 and now in the National Gallery of Scotland. Inspired by the Elgin Marbles and intended by the artist to provide a moral lesson on "the beauty of mercy", it shows a near-nude warrior w... |
59,855,096 | Bajadasaurus | 1,171,919,657 | Genus of sauropod dinosaur | [
"Berriasian life",
"Cretaceous Argentina",
"Dicraeosaurids",
"Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America",
"Fossil taxa described in 2019",
"Fossils of Argentina",
"Neuquén Basin",
"Valanginian life"
] | Bajadasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch (late Berriasian to Valanginian stages, between 145 and 132.9 million years ago) of northern Patagonia, Argentina. It was first described in 2019 based on a single specimen found in 2010 that includes a largely complete skull and parts of the ... |
25,433 | Ronald Reagan | 1,173,775,116 | President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 | [
"1911 births",
"2004 deaths",
"20th-century American male actors",
"20th-century presidents of the United States",
"American actor-politicians",
"American anti-communists",
"American diarists",
"American male film actors",
"American male non-fiction writers",
"American male television actors",
"... | Ronald Wilson Reagan (/ˈreɪɡən/ RAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he was considered one of the most prominent conservativ... |
339,153 | Netley Abbey | 1,167,579,933 | Ruins of 13th-century abbey at Hampshire, England | [
"1239 establishments in England",
"1530s disestablishments in England",
"Abbeys in Hampshire",
"Christian monasteries established in the 13th century",
"Cistercian monasteries in England",
"Country houses in Hampshire",
"English Heritage sites in Hampshire",
"Grade II listed buildings in Hampshire",
... | Netley Abbey is a ruined late medieval monastery in the village of Netley near Southampton in Hampshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1239 as a house for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Despite royal patronage, Netley was never rich, produced no influential scholars nor churchmen, and its nearly 300-year hi... |
5,247,568 | The Bus Uncle | 1,168,351,963 | 2006 viral video | [
"2006 YouTube videos",
"2006 in Hong Kong",
"Culture of Hong Kong",
"Internet in Hong Kong",
"Viral videos"
] | The Bus Uncle is a Hong Kong Cantonese viral video depicting a verbal altercation between two men aboard a KMB bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006. The older and more belligerent of the two men was quickly nicknamed the "Bus Uncle", from the common Hong Kong practice of referring to older men as "Uncle" (阿叔). The alterca... |
87,021 | Don Bradman | 1,172,758,095 | Australian cricketer (1908–2001) | [
"1908 births",
"2001 deaths",
"20th-century memoirists",
"Australia Test cricket captains",
"Australia Test cricketers",
"Australia national cricket team selectors",
"Australian Anglicans",
"Australian Army officers",
"Australian Army personnel of World War II",
"Australian Christians",
"Austral... | Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. His cricketing successes have been claimed by Shane Warne, among others, to make Bradman the "greatest sportsperson" in history. Bra... |
18,664,179 | Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race | 1,169,516,923 | Cycle race at the Beijing Olympics | [
"2008 in road cycling",
"Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's road race",
"Men's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics",
"Road cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics"
] | The men's road race, a part of the cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, took place on August 9 at the Urban Road Cycling Course in Beijing. It started at 11:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8), and was scheduled to last until 17:30 later that day. The 245.4-kilometre (152.5 mi) course ran north across the heart of th... |
24,899,644 | Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) | 1,169,869,900 | Australian pilot (1886–1945) | [
"1886 births",
"1945 deaths",
"Australian Flying Corps officers",
"Australian flight instructors",
"Australian military personnel of World War I",
"Military personnel from Victoria (state)",
"People from Castlemaine, Victoria",
"Royal Australian Air Force officers",
"Royal Australian Air Force perso... | Eric Harrison (10 August 1886 – 5 September 1945) was an Australian aviator who made the country's first military flight, and helped lay the foundations of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
Born in Victoria, Harrison was a flying instructor in Britain when, in 1912, he answered the Australian Defence Department's... |
26,875,651 | Australian Air Corps | 1,147,305,255 | Australian military aviation unit (1920–21) | [
"Australian military aviation",
"Aviation history of Australia",
"Military units and formations disestablished in 1921",
"Military units and formations established in 1920"
] | The Australian Air Corps (AAC) was a temporary formation of the Australian military that existed in the period between the disbandment of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) of World War I and the establishment of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in March 1921. Raised in January 1920, the AAC was commanded by Major ... |
30,472,281 | Mascarene grey parakeet | 1,171,729,955 | Extinct parrot from Mauritius and Réunion | [
"Bird extinctions since 1500",
"Birds described in 1973",
"Birds of Mauritius",
"Birds of Réunion",
"Extinct animals of Africa",
"Extinct animals of Mauritius",
"Extinct birds of Indian Ocean islands",
"Parrots of Africa",
"Psittacula",
"Taxa named by Daniel T. Holyoak",
"Taxobox binomials not r... | The Mascarene grey parakeet, Mauritius grey parrot, or Thirioux's grey parrot (Psittacula bensoni), is an extinct species of parrot which was endemic to the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Réunion in the western Indian Ocean. It has been classified as a member of the tribe Psittaculini, along with other parrots from... |
51,106 | Francis Walsingham | 1,158,191,645 | English spy and politician (c. 1532–1590) | [
"1530s births",
"1590 deaths",
"16th-century English diplomats",
"16th-century spies",
"Alumni of King's College, Cambridge",
"Ambassadors of England to France",
"Ambassadors of England to Scotland",
"Babington Plot",
"Burials at St Paul's Cathedral",
"Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster",
"Ch... | Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Born to a well-connected family of gentry, Walsingham attended Cambridge University and travelled in continental Europe before em... |
773,835 | U.S. Route 16 in Michigan | 1,158,686,893 | Former U.S. Highway in Michigan | [
"Former U.S. Highways in Michigan",
"Grand River Avenue",
"Interstate 96",
"Transportation in Clinton County, Michigan",
"Transportation in Ingham County, Michigan",
"Transportation in Ionia County, Michigan",
"Transportation in Kent County, Michigan",
"Transportation in Livingston County, Michigan",
... | US Highway 16 (US 16), also called Grand River Avenue for much of its length in the state, was one of the principal roads prior to the post-World War II construction of freeways in the state of Michigan. Before the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System in 1926, the highway had been designated as a state... |
388,148 | Marie Lloyd | 1,168,479,377 | English singer, comedian and actress (1870–1922) | [
"1870 births",
"1922 deaths",
"British women in World War I",
"Burials at Hampstead Cemetery",
"English women comedians",
"English women singers",
"Music hall performers",
"People from Hoxton",
"Vaudeville performers",
"Women of the Victorian era"
] | Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd (/ˈmɑːri/), was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as "The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery", "My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)" and ... |
4,372,977 | Terra Nova Expedition | 1,164,586,952 | 1910–13 British Antarctic expedition | [
"1910 in Antarctica",
"1911 in Antarctica",
"1912 in Antarctica",
"1913 in Antarctica",
"Expeditions from the United Kingdom",
"Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration",
"History of the Ross Dependency",
"Robert Falcon Scott",
"South Pole",
"Terra Nova expedition",
"United Kingdom and the Antarctic"... | The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leadi... |
7,821,699 | Rodrigues starling | 1,163,464,472 | Extinct species of bird that was endemic to Rodrigues | [
"Articles containing video clips",
"Bird extinctions since 1500",
"Birds described in 1879",
"Birds of Mauritius",
"Endemic fauna of Mauritius",
"Extinct birds of Indian Ocean islands",
"Fauna of Rodrigues",
"Sturnidae",
"Taxa named by Albert Günther",
"Taxa named by Alfred Newton"
] | The Rodrigues starling (Necropsar rodericanus) is an extinct species of starling that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. Its closest relatives were the Mauritius starling and the hoopoe starling from nearby islands; all three are extinct and appear to be of Southeast Asian origin. The bird was only repor... |
2,188,443 | Nicholas Hoult | 1,173,249,344 | English actor (born 1989) | [
"1989 births",
"21st-century English male actors",
"Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School",
"English expatriates in the United States",
"English male child actors",
"English male film actors",
"English male radio actors",
"English male stage actors",
"English male television actors",
"English ... | Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born 7 December 1989) is an English actor. His filmography includes supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He has received several accolades, including nominations for a British Academy Film Awa... |
22,586,948 | Persona (series) | 1,173,157,616 | Japanese media franchise | [
"Atlus games",
"Cultural depictions of Carl Jung",
"Megami Tensei",
"Persona (series)",
"Role-playing video games by series",
"Sega Games franchises",
"Social simulation video games",
"Urban fantasy video games",
"Video game franchises",
"Video game franchises introduced in 1996"
] | Persona, previously marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona outside of Japan, is a video game franchise primarily developed and published by Atlus, and owned by Sega. Focusing around a series of role-playing video games, Persona is a spin-off from Atlus' Megami Tensei franchise. The first entry in the series, Revelatio... |
68,301,404 | American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign | 1,158,898,845 | American supply during WWII | [
"Military logistics of World War II",
"Military logistics of the United States",
"Siegfried Line campaign",
"Western European Campaign (1944–1945)"
] | American services and supply played a crucial part in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American forces were engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive. In August 1944, the Supreme Allied ... |
17,545,729 | Weymouth, Dorset | 1,173,390,482 | Town in Dorset, England | [
"Civil parishes in Dorset",
"Jurassic Coast",
"Populated coastal places in Dorset",
"Seaside resorts in England",
"Tourist attractions in Dorset",
"Towns in Dorset",
"Weymouth, Dorset"
] | Weymouth (/ˈweɪməθ/ WAY-məth) is a sea-side town and civil parish in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, on the English Channel coast of England. Situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey, 11 km (7 mi) south of the county town of Dorchester, Weymouth had a population of 53,427 in 20... |
199,956 | Robert Catesby | 1,169,001,021 | English conspirator | [
"1570s births",
"1605 deaths",
"16th-century English people",
"17th-century English people",
"Alumni of Gloucester Hall, Oxford",
"Date of birth unknown",
"Deaths by firearm in England",
"English Roman Catholics",
"English rebels",
"People associated with the Gunpowder Plot",
"People from Warwic... | Robert Catesby (c. 1572 – 8 November 1605) was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University. His family were prominent recusant Catholics, and presumably to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy he left college ... |
885,386 | Mackensen-class battlecruiser | 1,158,014,755 | Class of German battlecruisers | [
"Battlecruiser classes",
"Cancelled ships",
"Mackensen-class battlecruisers",
"Proposed ships of Germany"
] | The Mackensen class was the last class of battlecruisers to be built by Germany in World War I. The design initially called for seven ships, but three of them were redesigned as the Ersatz Yorck class. Of the four ships of the Mackensen class, Mackensen, Graf Spee, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich were launched, and Fürst Bis... |
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