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Q5182221 Cranmoor is an unincorporated community located in the town of Cranmoor, Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.The name "Cranmoor", an amalgamation of cranberry and moor, was adopted in 1898 for the community's role as a trading center of cranberries. A post office was established at Cranmoor in 1898, and remained in operation until 1932.
Q4349833 The RAKAA Professional League is the First Division in Saudi Arabia.In the end of the Season 2012–13 the league was called Saudi First Division, but the league name has been renamed to RAKAA Professional League and the name stands for a Holding provider called RAKAA which is now become an official sponsor of the First Division.
Q15260806 Naihati Junction is a Kolkata Suburban Railway junction station on the Sealdah-Ranaghat line and Naihati-Bandel link. It is located in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Naihati and the surrounding areas.
Q24060547 Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1815.
Q2880390 Benton Township is a township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,908 at the 2010 census. The village of Fleetville is in Benton Township.
Q981710 Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (sometimes written as Lemonnier) (27 June 1717 – 7 September 1799) was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.He was born near Vire as the son of Pierre Le Monnier (1675–1757), who was a scientist himself and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Louis-Guillaume's older brother was the astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier.Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier worked in physics, geology, medicine, and botany. In 1739 he accompanied the expedition of César-François Cassini de Thury and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to extend the Meridian of Paris and documented mines and the geology and botany along the route. In the same year, he also began working at the hospital of Saint Germain en Laye as a physician. He researched electrical phenomena, sending a current from a Leyden jar through a wire 950 toises (about 1,850 m) long and concluded that electricity propagated "instantaneously" in the wire. Later research of his on electrical phenomena was concerned with thunderstorms and the "fair weather condition".Like his father and his brother before him, Louis-Guillaume became a member of the Académie des sciences on 3 July 1743, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 7 February 1745, of which his brother also was a member. On 30 June 1746, one year after his brother, he also became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.With Claude Richard he was one of the original organizers of Louis XV's botanic collection at Petit Trianon, an undertaking quickly joined by Bernard de Jussieu. Lemonnier was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin du Roi (later the Jardin des Plantes) in 1759, filling a spot left by the death of Bernard de Jussieu's brother Antoine in April of the previous year. In 1786 he was succeeded as professor of botany by René Louiche Desfontaines.For Diderot's Encyclopédie he wrote several entries, among them "Electricité", "Magnétisme", "Aimant" (Magnet), and "Aiguille aimantée" (Compass needle). After 1759, he stopped publishing, though. In his later career, he became in 1770 "Premier médecin ordinaire" and in 1788 "Premier médecin du Roi".His lover was Marie Louise de Rohan, Madame de Marsan, future Governess of the Children of France.His publications include:Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs et sur la nature et les propriétés de l'air (1742).Observations d'histoire naturelle faites dans les provinces méridionales de France, pendant l'année 1739 (1744).Recherches sur la Communication de l'Electricité (1746).Observations sur l'Electricité de l'Air (1752).
Q2038405 Adele of Meaux (c. 934 – c. 982) was a French noblewoman. She was Countess of Chalon and later Countess of Anjou.Adele was a daughter of Robert of Vermandois, Count of Meaux and Troyes, and Adelaide de Chalon. Adele died in 982.
Q2600851 The 1970–71 AHL season was the 35th season of the American Hockey League. Eight teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The Baltimore Clippers finished first overall in the regular season. The Springfield Kings won their first Calder Cup championship, since being renamed from the Indians.
Q5397332 Escola Catolica Estrela do Mar (Chinese: 澳門海星中學) or E.M is a Catholic preschool through secondary school in São Lourenço (Saint Lawrence Parish), Macau, China. The school has an annual event held on 8 December each year which commemorates the construction of the school.The registration school serial number at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (Macau) ("Direcção dos Serviços de Educação e Juventude" or DSEJ; 教育暨青年局) is 004 and 005 for the branch.
Q1655486 Ian Douglas Cole (born February 21, 1989) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Q594857 José Alonso Valero (born 12 February 1957 in El Vendrell, Tarragona) is a retired Spanish hurdler, who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. During the indoor season he competed over 400 metres, winning two medals at the 1985 and 1986 European Indoor Championships.
Q5747051 Wyliny-Ruś [vɨˈlinɨ ˈruɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szepietowo, within Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.The village has a population of 120.Graves of 2 Polish soldiers killed in 1939
Q5049423 Cassina Gambrel Was Missing is a 1999 novel by William Watkins.
Q7643870 Superman ice cream is an ice cream that comes as a swirl of three colors: blue, red, and yellow, the three colors of Superman's costume. The name of the ice cream comes from the colors of the comic book superhero Superman, though it is not licensed through DC Comics.
Q7888341 The United Nations Association of Slovenia (UNA Slovenia) was established in 1951, supporting the United Nations in its role as a keeper of global peace and stability. Following the Slovene Declaration of independence on 25 June 1991, Slovenia was accepted as the 176th member state of the UN. Soon thereafter, on 6 November 1992, UNA Slovenia was accepted into the circle of United Nations Associations as a member of World Federation of United Nations Associations.The main objective of UNA Slovenia, which was formulated in 1951, is to inform the public about the ideas, goals and activities of the UN.The association is gathering and providing information on the role and activities of the UN. They maintain a library with informative and specialized publications by the UN and its agencies, as well as other publications on various other subjects.To keep the public informed about issues surrounding the UN the association cooperates with the United Nations Information Service Vienna (UNIS Vienna).In cooperation with the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, the association gathers, translates and makes available various international documents, books and other publications on the subject of UN and international relations.Various issues on the UN agenda are also addressed on regular lectures and panels. Those lectures used to be an important part in the education of university students. The association also carries out an educational programme for primary schools pupils with the aim to introduce the goals and activities of the UN to the youngest.UNA Slovenia every year on UN Day awards prizes to graduate and post-graduate students for ten best dissertations on UN topics, with the aim for furthering research work on the UN.Another event is the celebration on Human Rights Day, when the association also awards prizes, here for essays, photographs and drawings made by primary and secondary school pupils on the issue of human rights.Excursions to various UN institutions have the aim to make everyone interested acquainted with the actual work of the UN agencies.Most of the work is done by volunteers, who are mostly law school and international relations students, who represent an informal Youth section within the organization.
Q7781502 Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946) is a Dutch radio & TV-producer, who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in The Netherlands since 1965. His training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in The Netherlands those days. He started as a 19-year-old apprentice reporter for a daily radio news-show. Made radio-documentaries and variety-shows. In 1969 he was invited to contribute to a television-magazine, which portrayed interesting ordinary people. He remained working for television the next decades. In a wide variety and range of shows, as a director, as a contributor, as an editor, as an executive-producer alternately. He traveled the world from Siberia to The Marshall Islands to report, from Peru and Morocco to just around the corner. He did shows and documentaries on countries, people, history, politics, dance, music. In 1985 he directed a TV-recording of Ástor Piazzolla, the renowned bandoneon-player from Argentina. He made a 16-episodes series on Dutch language. He wrote a comedy on housekeeping. And about 250 productions more. He retired in 2013, after a fifty years spanning career in media.
Q2690245 Kruščica is a village in the municipality of Arilje, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 360 people.
Q7773100 The Vortex is a 1928 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello, Willette Kershaw and Simeon Stuart. It was an adaptation of the Noël Coward play The Vortex and was made by Gainsborough Studios. The film's sets were designed by Clifford Pember.
Q5307898 /DRIVE is an automotive network and popular YouTube channel with web video series dedicated to car reviews, driving adventures, motorsports coverage, and detailed looks at the manufacturing of high-end cars. Launched on January 2, 2012, /DRIVE was the first new series to air as part of Google's original content initiative. Michael Spinelli of Jalopnik.com, Gumball 3000 veteran Alex Roy of Team Polizei 144, Matt Farah of TheSmokingTire.com, and Chris Harris formerly of Autocar and EVO Magazine, were part of the initial launch season and remain key contributors to the /DRIVE channel.
Q13851621 Microcolona cricota is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It is found in southern India and Assam.The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with blackish, sometimes forming a streak connecting discal tufts and a dorsal blotch before the middle. The base is tinged with ochreous whitish. There is an indistinct ochreous-whitish transverse line at one-fifth and a tuft mixed with black beneath the fold at one-fourth of the wing. There is a minute black dot circled with ochreous-whitish towards the costa at two-fifths. There is an elongate blackish mark along the costa at about two-thirds and an ochreous-whitish dot preceding a tuft towards the dorsum in the middle. There is also a tuft on the disc at three-fourths, edged posteriorly with black. Towards the apex, there are some scattered pale golden-metallic scales in the disc, as well as two small black dots on each margin. The hindwings are light grey.
Q28867976 Edward W. Scruggs (1904 – unknown) was a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court from August 5, 1964 to January 4, 1965. Scruggs served the third shortest tenure in the court's history.Scruggs was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and moved to Tucson with his parents as a child. Scruggs first worked as a laborer for the local railroad express company and in an automobile garage. Obtaining training as a stenographer, Scruggs found work with the U.S. immigration service in Tucson and then started working for the federal district court. Scruggs was admitted to the Arizona bar in 1933.Scruggs served as clerk of the United States District Court in Arizona from 1936 until January 1946, serving under Judges W. H. Sawtelle, Fred C. Jacobs, Albert M. Sames, David Ling, and Howard Speakman. After leaving the federal court clerk, Scruggs started his own law practice in Tucson.In 1947, Scruggs was a Republican candidate for the Tucson city council, campaigning for "larger fire and police departments, more street paving, adequate water and sewer systems, and many other Improvements."In 1953, Scruggs was the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.Governor Paul Fannin appointed Scruggs to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Renz L. Jennings. Jennings retired to seek the Democratic nomination for U. S. senator. Scruggs sought reelection but faced former Senator and Governor Ernest McFarland who defeated Scruggs in the election.Scruggs later became a special counsel to the Pima County Attorney's Office.
Q24045596 Pierre Ghisellini (born 15 October 1943) is a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1970 Tour de France.
Q15764641 Culture, Theory and Critique is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal primarily in the fields of Social Theory and Cultural Studies.
Q3769064 Gisella Orsini (born 8 December 1971) is a born Swiss female writer and former racewalker, who won a silver medal with the Italian team at the World Race Walking Cup.
Q1753114 21 at 33 is the fourteenth studio album by Elton John. Including other releases (three compilation albums, two live albums, one film soundtrack and one EP) it is the 21st official release, and was released when Elton John was 33 years old; hence the title.It was recorded at Super Bear Studios, Nice, France, in August 1979, and Rumbo Recorders and Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California between January to March 1980.The album sold over 900,000 copies in the United States, narrowly missing a Platinum certification.
Q2352981 John Campbell Brown (born 4 February 1947) is an astronomer, former Regius Professor, now Emeritus at University of Glasgow, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and is an honorary professor at both University of Edinburgh and University of Aberdeen.He is an Emeritus member of, and till 2010 he led, the Glasgow University research group in theory and modeling of solar and stellar plasmas and is especially involved in diagnosing solar high energy particles using data from spacecraft. For his world leadership in this field and his other contributions to astrophysical research and public outreach he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He participated in teaching astronomy at all levels, from 1st year undergraduate to postgraduate. In his role as Astronomer Royal for Scotland, he gives public talks and performances with the objective of generating wider awareness of astronomy as a fun subject as well as a fundamental part of our culture.He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1984. Brown was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the promotion of astronomy and science education.
Q7079408 The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (previously the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations and Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations) is an Australian Government statutory office appointed by the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act). The Registrar has powers similar to those of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for corporations registered at the national level set up by Indigenous Australians. Incorporation of Indigenous Australian bodies and companies can also occur at the State and Territory level. The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) assists the Registrar in administering the CATSI Act and in supporting and regulating corporations for indigenous people throughout Australia.
Q1868098 Dinsdale railway station serves the village of Middleton St George in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is located on the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. It is closely linked with the history of the Stockton & Darlington railway (S&DR), the station having replaced the earlier Fighting Cocks station on the original S&DR line.The station was named after the village of Low Dinsdale, commonly called Dinsdale. In the early 19th century the station served Dinsdale Spa.
Q391833 The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (English: "Fraternity of Knights of the Wine-Tasting Cup") is an exclusive bacchanalian fraternity of Burgundy wine enthusiasts. It was founded in 1934. It is headquartered at the 12th century Château of Clos de Vougeot in the Côte d'Or region of France. It maintains chapters worldwide, called Sous-Commanderies, but because of its Gallic origins, its name and many of its ceremonial titles are always maintained in French.
Q2210941 Euathlus affinis is a species of spider belonging to the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas). It is found in Chile.
Q2913044 President Beaches is a series of beaches which extend for 6 nautical miles (11 km) along the broad western end of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Start Point to the north and Devils Point to the south.The name "West Beaches" was proposed by K.R. Everett, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) researcher who made a reconnaissance soil survey in the area during February 1969. The proposed name is locationally appropriate but would be repetitious. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) has chosen instead to restore a historical name to the vicinity. In the early part of the 1820-21 season, the Stonington sealers used the name "President's Harbor" (now New Plymouth) for the anchorage immediately off these beaches.
Q2950203 Statistics of Scottish Football League in season 1976/1977.
Q4822061 Aura Zambrano is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who ended up as 1st runner-up at Miss Venezuela 2001 and was appointed as the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 2001 pageant held in Tokyo, Japan, on October 5, 2001, when she also ended up as 1st runner up. Zambrano also competed in the 2002 Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant, held in Fürth, Germany, on June 8, 2002, when she ended up as 4th runner up.Zambrano competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela 2001 and obtained the title of Miss Venezuela International. She represented Táchira state.
Q6576116 The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest award in the military of the Third Reich. Recipients are grouped by grades of the Knight's Cross. During World War II, 23 German sailors and officers of the Schnellboot (Fast Attack Craft) service, which was a part of the Kriegsmarine, received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Of these, 8 officers received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub).
Q7809509 Tisaleo is a location in the Tungurahua Province, Ecuador and is the seat of the Tisaleo Canton.
Q6216540 Johannes Benedictus Klingenberg (28 April 1817 – 8 July 1882) was a Norwegian military officer and engineer.He was a son of bailiff Johan Nicolai Klingenberg (1777–1865), and also the uncle of pianist Alf Klingenberg (1867-1944), and the maternal grandfather and paternal granduncle of Odd Sverressøn Klingenberg and Kaare Sverressøn Klingenberg.He worked in the country's capital Christiania. He organized the waterworks of the city in 1855, and had a national influence in this field. He became leader of the city fire department in 1861. In the military, he held the rank of major.From 1860 to 1861 and 1872 to 1874 he was the chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society.
Q7138119 The Park Valley of Arizona is a small, northwest by southeast trending valley centered on the Gila River in central-east Yuma County. The southeast border of the valley is the northern Sentinel Plain of Maricopa County which drains northwestwards toward the Gila River Valley.Interstate 8 is on the south perimeter of the valley, with towns on I-8 of Dateland in the southwest, Aztec on the center-south, and further east, Sentinel on the southeast.Tenmile Wash, of the Tenmile Wash Watershed has its outfall on the Gila River on the southwest of Park Valley. The coordinates for Dateland, Arizona, on the southwest border of Park Valley are 32°47′47″N 113°32′28″W
Q5865199 Tavakkolabad (Persian: توكل اباد‎, also Romanized as Tavakkolābād; also known as Moţaharābād) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, in the Central District of Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 9 families.
Q19872364 Holly Cram (born 30 April 1984) is a female field hockey forward from Scotland. She won 140 caps playing for the Women's National Team.Cram was born in Glasgow and went to school at Glasgow Academy. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an honours degree in literature. She then completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Physical Education at the University of Strathclyde.She reached the 100 cap mark by August 2011. She played club hockey for Glasgow Western.Cram is a Game On Scotland ambassador for Glasgow 2014.She works as a hockey coach at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire.
Q21642742 Zahid Mahmood (born 20 March 1988) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for Hyderabad. He made his first-class debut for Hyderabad in the 2009–10 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 9 November 2009, making a duck in the first innings and finishing 16 not out in the second. He finished his maiden first-class season with twenty-nine runs and four wickets from three matches. He made his List A debut for Hyderabad in the Royal Bank of Scotland Cup in the 2009–10 season, taking two wickets.
Q25206518 Still the King is an American sitcom created by Travis Nicholson, Potsy Ponciroli and Billy Ray Cyrus. The series stars Billy Ray Cyrus, Joey Lauren Adams, Madison Iseman, Travis Nicholson, Lacey Chabert and Leslie David Baker. The series premiered on June 12, 2016, on CMT. On July 27, 2016, CMT renewed Still the King for a 13-episode second season, which premiered on July 11, 2017. On November 17, 2017, the series was cancelled after two seasons.
Q24062199 LaGrange County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located on Detroit Street in LaGrange, LaGrange County, Indiana. It was designed by Thomas J. Tolan, & Son, Architects of Fort Wayne, Indiana and built in 1878-1879. It is a two-story, rectangular red brick building with Second Empire and Georgian style design elements. The front facade consists of a central clock tower flanked by square corner pavilions.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1980.
Q27818533 Eternally Even is the second solo album by My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, first available as an advance stream on NPR First Listen on October 27 and released on November 4, 2016.
Q38250697 The District Council of Minlaton was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 to 1997 seated at Minlaton on the Yorke Peninsula.
Q7094933 The Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) (French: Centre de demande d’admission aux universités de l’Ontario) is a non-profit organization based in Guelph that processes online applications for admission to universities in Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1971 by the Council of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Universities' Council on Admissions, to reduce the duplication and costs involved in processing applications.The OUAC processes applications to undergraduate programs, medical school, law school, teacher education, and rehabilitation sciences programs at nearly all of Ontario's 21 universities - only the RMCC does not process applications through the OUAC.
Q1403434 For the U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, see Felix Hebert.Felix Edward Hébert (October 12, 1901 – December 29, 1979) was an American congressman from Louisiana. He represented the New Orleans-based 1st congressional district as a Democrat for 18 consecutive terms, from 1941 until his retirement in 1977. He remains Louisiana's longest-serving U.S. representative.
Q18230505 A Pretzel knot may refer to:Pretzel link: a concept in mathematicsSoft pretzel with garlicStafford knot: a rope knot used in sailing and heraldry
Q6224012 John Burridge (born 3 December 1951) is an former English goalkeeper who is now working with Indian Super League top division club Kerala Blasters as a goalkeeping coach. In his senior career he played for 29 clubs in a career that lasted nearly 30 years. Overall, Burridge played 771 league games in the English and Scottish leagues, and several more at non-league level. Burridge (nicknamed Budgie), played for fifteen Football League teams, which is a still-existing record.
Q564958 A Simple Plan is a 1998 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Scott B. Smith, based on Smith's 1993 novel of the same name. The film stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda. Set in rural Minnesota, the film follows brothers Hank (Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Thornton), who, along with Jacob's friend Lou (Brent Briscoe), discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million in cash. The three men and Hank's wife Sarah (Fonda) go to great lengths to keep the money a secret but begin to doubt each other's trust, resulting in lies, deceit and murder.Development of the film began in 1993 before the novel was published. Mike Nichols purchased the film rights, and the project was picked up by Savoy Pictures. After Nichols stepped down, the film adaptation became mired in development hell, with Ben Stiller and John Dahl turning down opportunities to direct it. After Savoy closed in November 1997, the project was sold to Paramount Pictures. John Boorman was hired to direct, but scheduling conflicts led to his replacement by Raimi. An international co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan, the film was financed by Mutual Film Company, its investors and Newmarket Capital Group, which allocated a budget of $17 million. Principal photography began in January 1998 and concluded in March after 55 days of filming in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The score was produced and composed by Danny Elfman.A Simple Plan premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was met with critical acclaim. The film's appearance at the festival preceded a limited release in the United States on December 11, 1998, followed by a general release in North America on January 22, 1999. It underperformed at the North American box office, grossing $16.3 million. Reviewers praised various aspects of the film's production, including the storytelling, performances and Raimi's direction. A Simple Plan earned multiple awards and nominations, among them two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Thornton) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Smith).
Q6164053 Jasper Taylor (January 1, 1894, Texarkana, Arkansas – November 7, 1964, Chicago) was an American jazz drummer.Taylor performed in Wild West revues and minstrel shows in his teens, touring the American South and Mexico. He played in Memphis, Tennessee in 1913, on washboard, drums, wood blocks, and xylophone. As a xylophonist he collaborated with W.C. Handy, and later played with Jelly Roll Morton.In 1917 he moved to Chicago, where he was based out of for most of his career. He played in the 365th Infantry Band in France during World War I, and played with Handy, Will Marion Cook, the Chicago Novelty Orchestra, and Clarence Williams in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Later in the 1920s he worked with Dave Peyton and Fess Williams.Due to the downturn in opportunities to perform during the Great Depression, he quit music in the 1930s and became a cobbler. In the 1940s he returned to active performance with Freddie Shayne and others; in the 1950s he played for several years with Natty Dominique. Shortly before his death he led his own Creole Jazz Band.
Q6381886 Kałek [ˈkawɛk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulejów, within Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Sulejów, 9 km (6 mi) south-east of Piotrków Trybunalski, and 52 km (32 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.
Q5035083 The Cape Tourville Lighthouse is an unmanned, automatic lighthouse built in 1971 by private contractors (Hurburgh and Olbrich). The road was constructed through virgin eucalypt forest, along with the powerline, with minimal disruption to the National Park. The top of the granite headland was levelled by blasting to provide the base for the lighthouse and parking area.This lighthouse was built at the same time as the new lighthouse at Point Home, near Triabunna, to provide better guidance for the bulk carriers carrying wood chips from the Triabunna wood chip mill.It replaced the Cape Forestier Lighthouse which had been situated nearby on another headland jutting off the Freycinet Peninsula known as Lemon Rock.
Q973193 Huai'an District (simplified Chinese: 淮安区; traditional Chinese: 淮安區; pinyin: Huái'ān Qū) is one of four districts of the prefecture-level city of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, China. The southeast district was formerly named Shanyang County (山阳县; 山陽縣; Shānyáng Xiàn), Huai'an County (淮安县; 淮安縣; Huái'ān Xiàn) and Chuzhou District (楚州区; 楚州區; Chǔzhōu Qū).The district is the home town of historical figures Zhou Enlai, Wu Cheng'en，Han Xin，Guan Tianpei etc.
Q7577136 Spies of the Air (also known as Spies in the Air and The Fifth Column) is a 1939 British adventure film directed by David MacDonald and based on the play Official Secret by Jeffrey Dell. The film stars Barry K. Barnes, Edward Ashley and Felix Aylmer. Spies of the Air involves espionage in the period just before the outbreak of war in Europe that spawned a number of similar propaganda films linking aeronautics and spies. Films in both Great Britain and the United States centred on "... spies and fifth columnists (as) the staple diet of films made during the first year of the war."
Q5306261 Dream is the fourth album by the duo Captain & Tennille and their final album with A&M Records.
Q5066937 Chah-e Amiq Akbar Ghofrani (Persian: چاه عميق اكبرغفراني‎, also Romanized as Chāh-e ʿAmīq Āḵbar Ghofrānī; also known as Chāh-e Ghofrānī) is a village in Doreh Rural District, in the Central District of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q3531333 Jahan-e Ketab is a monthly literary magazine and a platform in Iran.
Q14690408 Flippin is an unincorporated community located in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. A small residential village is located on Highway 249, approximately 3.6 miles (5.8 km) south of the Monroe-Barren County line. The village and community surround the intersection of Highway 249, Highway 678, and Highway 100. Flippin is situated northwest of Gamaliel, west of Tompkinsville, and east of Fountain Run. The two forks of Indian Creek, a tributary of the Barren River, merge at these crossroads in Flippin.
Q13396791 Arragonia kautzi is a moth of the Autostichidae family. It is found in Spain.The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is ochreous yellow with bluish-grey scales. The hindwings are shining greyish yellow.
Q5663478 Aliabad (Persian: علي اباد‎, also Romanized as ‘Alīābād) is a village in Sarajuy-ye Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Maragheh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 336, in 62 families.
Q5319792 The cheese fly (Piophila casei) is a species of fly known for infesting human foodstuffs. The larvae of this fly are known as cheese skippers due to their ability to launch themselves several inches into the air when alarmed. When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis.
Q16261780 The Art of Mathematics (Korean: 수학의 정석 suhakui jeongseok), written by Hong Sung-Dae (Korean: 홍성대 Hong Sung-Dae), is a series of mathematics textbooks for high school students in South Korea (한국 고교를 위한 수학 교과서 시리즈 han-goog go-gyo-reul wee-han soo-hak gyo-gwa-seo si-ri-zeu) . First published in 1966, it is aguably the best-selling mathematics textbook series in South Korea, with about 37 million copies sold as of 2006. In Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province, the hometown of Hong Sung-Dae, a street is named Korean: 수학정석길 Suhakjeongseok-gil in honor of the author.'
Q16003634 European Spring (Spanish: Primavera Europea; PE) was a Spanish electoral list in the European Parliament election in 2014 made up from several left-wing parties, including Coalició Compromís and Equo.
Q10857452 Zdenka Procházková (born 4 April 1926) is a Czech actress. She was married to Karel Höger, who she starred with in the 1949 film A Dead Man Among the Living, but they were already divorced by the time of his death in 1977.
Q482849 Moroni ( mər-OH-ny) is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,280 at the 2000 census.
Q19872117 GURPS Alternate Earths II is a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game.
Q10720045 Kugu-Muminh (Wik-Muminh), also known as Kugu- or Wik-Nganhcara (Wikngenchera), is a Paman language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by several of the Wik peoples. There are multiple dialects, only two of which are still spoken: Kugu-Muminh itself, and Kugu-Uwanh.
Q7882116 Una Jaula no tiene secretos (A Cage Has No Secrets) is a 1962 Spanish-Argentine comedy film directed by Agustín Navarro.The script was written by Raúl GurruchagaThe movie premiered on October 3, 1962.The movie won the original screenplay award of the year.The plot revolves around the breakdown of a building's elevator, trapping its passengers.The breakdown occurs just before midnight on the last day of the year.The elevator operator is Alberto Olmedo, who still had some hair at the time.The light comedy includes various gags and humorous situations.The film was one of the last in which Carlos Gandolfo appeared as an actor. After being diagnosed with throat cancer, he turned to directing and teaching.
Q6342708 KZUM (89.3 FM) is a radio station licensed in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The station serves the Lincoln area and is currently owned by Sunrise Communications, Inc. It features a variety of programming, including jazz, blues, folk music, funk, soul and bluegrass, as well as a variety of locally and nationally focused news and talk programs.
Q941039 Warsaw Ochota (Polish: Warszawa Ochota) is a railway station in Warsaw, Poland located in the district of Ochota at Plac Zawiszy on the corner of Aleje Jerozolimskie and Towarowa Street. The station lies in a cutting. It has two island platforms, one on the suburban tracks of the Warsaw Cross-City Line for the regional trains run by Koleje Mazowieckie and Szybka Kolej Miejska and one for the Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa light railway. The station building, at the street level, was constructed between 1954 and 1962—it has a saddle roof in a distinct shape of a hyperboloic paraboloid. The location allows for convenient transfers to city trams and buses serving the western part of the city center.
Q28341110 Joe Hastings may refer to:Joe R. Hastings (1925–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipientJoe Hastings (American football) (born 1987), American football wide receiver
Q1664751 The Institut Ramon Llull (IRL) (Catalan pronunciation: [instiˈtud rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ], English: "Ramon Llull Institute") is a Catalan organization constituted in 2002 in order to "promote Catalan language and culture internationally". Created in 2002, it is a consortium based in Barcelona that -in 2018- comprises the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia), Balearic Islands Government and the Barcelona City Council, and its mission is the promotion of Catalan language and culture abroad. Its Director since September 2018 is Iolanda Batallé.The institute constitutes the Ramon Llull Foundation (FRL) together with other political institutions from the Països Catalans.Both the institute and the foundation are named after Ramon Llull, a Majorcan medieval writer and philosopher, who is considered the first notable writer in Catalan language.
Q6331308 KJAM-FM (103.1 FM, "Jammin' Country") is a full-service radio station licensed to serve Madison, South Dakota. The station is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Digity 3E License, LLC. It airs a country music format.Notable on-air personalities include Peg Nordling, JJ, Paul Vold, and the syndicated hosts Whitney Allen and Lia.KJAM-FM is also the home for area high school football and basketball broadcasts, as well as Dakota State University. During the summer, KJAM-FM also broadcasts amateur baseball games from the Corn Belt League.The station was assigned the KJAM-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 29, 1979.
Q4600372 The 2002 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 131st Open Championship, held from 18–21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Ernie Els won his first Claret Jug and third major title in a playoff over Stuart Appleby, Steve Elkington, and ultimately in a sudden-death playoff over Thomas Levet.Tiger Woods' bid for the Grand Slam came to a halt on Saturday with the worst round of his career up to that time, an 81 (+10) in cold, gusty rain. It took him and others out of contention, but he rebounded on Sunday with a six-under 65 and finished at even par, six strokes back. Woods was the first in thirty years to win the first two legs (Masters, U.S. Open), last done by Jack Nicklaus in 1972. Nicklaus' grand slam bid also ended at Muirfield, runner-up by one stroke to Lee Trevino in 1972. The only one to win the first three was Ben Hogan in 1953. Entering the championship, Woods had won seven of the previous eleven majors.Scott Hoch, who had been critical of the Open and rarely played in it, was the only American to finish in the top 10.
Q6821816 Messages: Syntax / Error is a digitally released "two sided" EP released by Ki:Theory on April 14, 2011.
Q3624169 The artificer is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. This fictional class of characters first appeared in the 3.5 edition of D&D and was introduced in the Eberron campaign setting. The artificer is a unique base class that reflects many of the core themes of Eberron.
Q12008921 Valsøyfjord Church (Norwegian: Valsøyfjord kyrkje; historically: Otnes kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Halsa Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Valsøyfjord. It is one of two churches for the Halsa parish which is part of the Indre Nordmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1864 by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 300 people.
Q17053300 Colin Robert McKenzie Neave (born 1 December 1943) is an Australian business executive. He was the Australian Commonwealth Ombudsman from 2012 to 2017. He is President of the Administrative Review Council and Chairman of the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2005 for service to public administration and to the banking and finance industry, particularly through dispute resolution.He has served as the Chief Ombudsman of the Financial Ombudsman Service, Chairperson of the Legal Services Board of Victoria, the Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman and Vice Chair of the Australian Press Council. He has held senior management positions in the public sectors of several jurisdictions including as Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Managing Director of the Legal Aid Commission of NSW, Secretary of the Victorian Attorney-General's Department and Director-General of the South Australian Department of Public and Consumer Affairs.
Q20740966 Tyler Reed Hubbard (born January 31, 1987) is an American musician, best known as a member of the Nashville-based duo Florida Georgia Line. Hubbard, a native of Monroe, Georgia, had been involved with music since a young age. He moved to Nashville to begin school at Belmont University, where he met Brian Kelley, the other member of Florida Georgia Line.
Q5867371 Nezamabad (Persian: نظام اباد‎, also Romanized as Nez̧āmābād) is a village in Marhemetabad-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Miandoab County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 726, in 176 families.
Q17150454 This article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 2007 All-Africa Games (women's basketball tournament).
Q19458341 Fazel Baig (Persian: فاضل‌بیگ‎) is a neighborhood in Kabul city's west. It is a populated area of the city which lies beside the Kabul-Kandahar highway.
Q21069625 Eddie Schenk (12 March 1903 – 7 July 1974) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Q24915745 Heritage School, Cambridge is a mixed independent day school for pupils aged 4–16, located in Cambridge in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The school is housed in three Victorian Buildings within walking distance of Cambridge City Centre, close to the University Botanic Garden, with sports facilities a short distance away. There are approximately 180 pupils, class sizes are small with 16 pupils per class in the Junior school and 18 pupils per class in the Senior school.Heritage School has been influenced by the philosophy and practice of noteworthy Victorian educationalist Charlotte Mason the founder of the PNEU movement at the end of the 19th century.
Q2427494 Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.
Q185115 Edgar Steven Davids (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛdɡɑr ˈdaːvɪts] (listen); born 13 March 1973) is a Dutch former professional footballer. After beginning his career with Ajax, winning several domestic and international titles, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan, and later enjoyed a successful spell with Juventus, before being loaned out to Barcelona in 2004. He went on to play for Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur before returning to Ajax. Having struggled with injuries for two years, Davids returned to competitive football during a brief spell with Crystal Palace before retiring at the age of 37. In 2012, he was appointed player-manager at the English League Two club Barnet. He resigned by mutual agreement as manager in January 2014. He was capped 74 times by the Netherlands at international level, scoring six goals, and represented his country at the FIFA World Cup (once) and the UEFA European Championship (three times).One of the greatest and most recognisable players of his generation, Davids often stood out on the football field due to his dreadlocked hair and the protective goggles he wore due to glaucoma. A combative and energetic, yet creative and skilful midfielder, Davids was nicknamed "The Pitbull" by Louis van Gaal because of his marking ability, aggression, and hard tackling style of play. In 2004, he was one of the players chosen by Pelé to feature in the FIFA 100, his list of the world's greatest living footballers.
Q13365055 June 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 18All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For June 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 4.
Q2306472 Neapolitan ragù (known in Italian as ragù alla napoletana [raˈɡu alla napoleˈtaːna] or ragù napoletano) is one of the two most famous varieties of meat sauces called ragù. It is a speciality of Naples, as its name indicates (the other variety originated in Bologna and is known in Italian as ragù bolognese or ragù alla bolognese).The Neapolitan type is made from three main parts: a soffritto, meat, and tomato sauce. However, a major difference is how the meat is used, as well as the amount of tomato in the sauce. Bolognese versions use very finely chopped meat, while Neapolitan versions use whole meat, taking it from the casserole when cooked and serving it as a second course or with pasta. Also, the Neapolitan soffritto contains much more onion compared to the Bolognese. Preferences for ingredients also differ. In Naples, white wine is replaced by red wine, butter by lard or olive oil, and lots of basil leaves are used where Bolognese ragù has no herbs. In the Neapolitan recipe, the content may well be enriched by adding raisins, pine nuts, and involtini with different fillings. Milk or cream is not used, and a relative abundance of tomato sauce in flavour, in contrast to Bolognese use of a minimal amount, is preferred. The tomato season is much longer in more southern Naples than in more northern Bologna. Like the Bolognese, Neapolitan ragù also has quite a wide range of variants, the best known of which is ragù guardaporta (doorman's ragù).Neapolitan ragù has many similarities with, and is ancestral to, the Italian-American "Sunday gravy", the primary difference being the addition of a greater variety of meat in the American version, most famously meatballs (whence spaghetti and meatballs), braciole, sausage, and pork chops.
Q937445 "Mysterious Ways" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the eighth track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby and was released as the album's second single on 25 November 1991. The song reached the top ten of the singles charts in several countries, including the band's native Ireland, where it went to number one. In the United States, the song topped the Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts and peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.The song began as an improvisation called "Sick Puppy", with the band liking only the bass part that bassist Adam Clayton composed. The band struggled to build a song from it, with vocalist Bono and producer Daniel Lanois arguing intensely during one songwriting session. The song's breakthrough came after guitarist the Edge began experimenting with the Korg A3 effects unit. "Mysterious Ways" features a danceable beat, funky guitar hook, and conga-laden percussion, as well as mystical lyrics by Bono about romance and women.The song received praise from critics after the release of Achtung Baby, many of whom called it one of the album's standout tracks and one that best illustrated the band's musical evolution on the album. A music video for the song was filmed in Morocco and incorporated distorted images of Bono and a belly dancer, Morleigh Steinberg, who eventually married the Edge. "Mysterious Ways" made its live debut on the Zoo TV Tour in 1992, when performances were accompanied by an on-stage belly dancer. The group has continued to perform the song on subsequent tours.
Q1750939 San José del Valle is a municipality located in the province of Cádiz, southern Spain.
Q3278345 Docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) designates any straight chain 22:5 fatty acid, that is a straight chain open chain type of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) which contains 22 carbons and 5 double bonds. DPA is primarily used to designate two isomers, all-cis-4,7,10,13,16-docosapentaenoic acid (i.e. 4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z-docosapentaenoic acid) and all-cis-7,10,13,16,19-docosapentaenoic acid (i.e. 7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z-docosapentaenoic acid). They are also commonly termed n-6 DPA and n-3 DPA, respectively; these designations describes the position of the double bond being 6 or 3 carbons closest to the (omega) carbon at the methyl end of the molecule and is based on the biologically important difference that n-6 and n-3 PUFA are separate PUFA classes, i.e. the omega-6 fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids, respectively. Mammals, including humans, can not interconvert these two classes and therefore must obtain dietary essential PUFA fatty acids from both classes in order to maintain normal health (see essential fatty acids).
Q3793189 The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho.
Q5246412 Dean Pithie (born 18 January 1974) is a British former professional boxer who fought in the super featherweight division.He is a former Commonwealth and WBO Inter-Continental super featherweight champion.
Q17142150 Payless DIY was the name of a chain of DIY stores in the UK during the 1980s.
Q3721512 Pleurotomella edgariana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.
Q7334911 Ringland Tavern is a historic building in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.It is designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.
Q7697493 "Tell Me Why" is a song written by Karla Bonoff and recorded by American country music artist Wynonna Judd. It was released in April 1993 as the first single and title track from Judd's album Tell Me Why. The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 1993 and number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada the following month.
Q4751443 Ananta Rau Sar Dessai (1910-?) was a Goan short-story writer, radio playwright and poet. He was one of a handful of Goan Hindus to have used Portuguese as his literary language, though he wrote also in Marathi. He was perhaps the only dedicated fictionist in Portuguese to have operated in Goa throughout the Estado Novo. 'His idiosyncratic language, raw provocative themes, and the great ambiguity with which he treats his subjects, make Sar Dessai one of the more interesting Goan writers to have worked in Portuguese'.
Q6062346 Iofina plc is the British holding company of a group of companies involved in the exploration and production of iodine and natural gas which have been discovered on acreages which the Group holds. The presence of both iodine and natural gas allows the Group to generate dual revenue streams over a single cost structure. The Group’s proprietary Wellhead Extraction Technology® (WET®) method is designed to allow low cost production metrics and high operational efficiencies.
Q3739068 Turbonilla magdalinensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

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