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Q28941096 Coptosia nigrosuturata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Leopold Heyrovský in 1950. It is known from Israel.
Q3807471 Javier Beirán Amigo (born May 22, 1987) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Herbalife Gran Canaria of the Spanish Liga ACB. Beirán usually plays as small forward.
Q906899 Etchū Province (越中国, Etchū-no-kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Etchū bordered on Noto and Kaga Provinces to the west, Shinano and Hida Provinces to the south, Echigo Province to the east and the Sea of Japan to the north. Its abbreviated form name was Esshū (越州).
Q681864 Teisendorf is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria in Germany.
Q7775036 The Wimbledon Trilogy consists of three books written by Nigel Williams set in Wimbledon, London and published by Faber & Faber:The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990, ISBN 978-0-571-16131-7) : Henry Farr, a struggling solicitor is desperate to get rid of his wife, Elinor and decides to poison her, following the example of Everett Maltby, the original Wimbledon Poisoner. He obtains a quantity of thallium from a chemist using a forged optician's order and bastes a roast chicken with it. Unfortunately his wife is not feeling hungry and neighbour Donald arrives unexpectedly as the meal is served and takes a large portion with tragic results. Soon his friends and neighbours are dying in great numbers as the poisoning continues to misfire, and at every turn Henry is dogged by Inspector Rush, a friend of Elinor's...They Came from SW19 (1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16836-1) : 14 year-old ufologist Simon Britten's father has just died and his spiritualist mother attempts to contact him through the advocacy of The First Church of Christ the Spiritualist, South Wimbledon of which she is a member. At the same time the regular UFO watch on Wimbledon Common also makes contact of a different kind. Simon is caught between the church and aliens and struggles to find the truth...East of Wimbledon (1993, ISBN 978-0-571-17151-4): Robert Williams passes himself off as a Muslim to get a job at the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys Day School. This pretence is soon under pressure as Robert knows very little about Islam. He is also entrusted with the care of Hasan a blind pupil who is believed by the so-called 'twenty-fourthers' (cf. twelvers), a sect of the nizari ismailis, to be the twenty-fourth imam (cf. Twelfth Imam), whose occultation they eagerly await...They were collected together in a combined volume entitled The Wimbledon Trilogy in 1995 (ISBN 978-0571176335).Scenes from a Poisoner's Life (1994, ISBN 978-0-571-17403-4), is a series of 12 linked stories, one for each month of the year concerning characters from the Wimbledon Trilogy.
Q2837227 Alithia (Greek: Η Αλήθεια, meaning "The Truth") is one of the largest newspapers by circulation in Cyprus, with about 11,000 copies daily. It is headquartered in Nicosia and connected with the leadership of the conservative Democratic Rally party. According to the advertisement published in the Phileleftheros newspaper on 24 August 2014, citing as a source the company RAI Consultants, the Alithia Sunday issue's circulation in May 2014 was 6,722, and therefore it came sixth. Alithia published its first issue as a weekly on 5 December 1880 in Limassol. Therefore, it is the oldest still-circulating Greek paper on the island. In 1982, it became a daily publication.
Q1379570 Eva & Adam (Eva och Adam) is a Swedish TV series consisting of two seasons. The original airdate for the first episode was 30 January 1999.The show is about a boy, Adam Kieslowski, and a girl, Eva Strömdahl. Adam has Polish ancestry; his father is Polish. Eva is a Swedish girl. The two children live in Liljeholmen, a district of the Swedish capital Stockholm. During the show, Eva and Adam fall in love. Sometimes there are obstacles, but after a while (mostly in the second season) a true love has developed. Other storylines in the show include friendship and bullying.The show is based on the comic books with the same name. There was also a successful feature film made, called Eva & Adam – fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko (Eva & Adam: Four Birthdays and a Fiasco).
Q1190988 Bright Star is a 2009 British-French-Australian biographical fiction romantic drama film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny. It was directed by Jane Campion, who wrote the screenplay inspired by Andrew Motion's biography of Keats; Motion served as a script consultant on the film. The film was in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and was first shown to the public on 15 May 2009. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats titled "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art", which he wrote while he was with Brawne.
Q927921 Sde Tzvi (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה צְבִי, lit. Zvi Field) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 652.
Q7239684 Predikant [pred-ik-ant] is a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. Predikant is the Afrikaans term for "pastor".The word 'predikant' is also used in the Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish languages.
Q6764560 Mario Belgrano (April 7, 1884 in Paris – 1947 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine historian.His parents were Juan Carlos Belgrano Martínez and Gregoria Flora "Florita" Vega Belgrano y Belgrano, and his brothers were Manuel Belgrano Vega, Néstor Belgrano Vega and Mario Belgrano Vega. He got married with Blanca Cigorraga Pondal in May 15, 1919, and his sons were Mario Carlos Belgrano Cigorraga, Miguel Manuel Belgrano Cigorraga and Blanca Flora Belgrano Cigorraga.He wrote books about the 19th century general Manuel Belgrano. He worked at the National Academy of History of Argentina and the Belgranian National Institute.
Q6120563 Jacques Dinet (1584-1653) was a French Jesuit, confessor to Louis XIII and an associate of René Descartes.
Q7047693 Noise Pop Festival is an annual week-long music and arts festival that takes place throughout the San Francisco Bay Area produced by Noise Pop. Since 1993, Noise Pop Festival has provided exposure to some emerging artists, many of which have gone on to widespread acclaim, including The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes and Yoko Ono.Noise Pop Festival began in 1993 as a "5 bands for 5 dollars show"at the Kennel Club (now the Independent). Tickets were $5 and although it was only one day, it was called the S.F. Noise Pop Festival. It has expanded to a nine-day festival across nearly every major and independent venue in San Francisco.
Q1027934 Iñaki Lejarreta Errasti (1 September 1983 – 16 December 2012) was a Spanish mountain biker. He was a junior world champion in 2001, and national mountain bike champion in 2007. He competed in the cross-country cycling at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and was professionally part of the Orbea cycling team. In 2012, Lejarreta was killed in a training accident when his cycle was struck by a car. He was 29.
Q17066008 Radio Magic (German: Funkzauber) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Werner Krauss, Xenia Desni and Fern Andra. The film's art direction was by Gustav A. Knauer and Willy Schiller. It premiered on 30 September 1927. The runtime is 60 minutes.
Q17067236 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal is a non-fiction book written by the Canadian journalist Laina Dawes. First published in 2013, the book explores how black women musicians and fans navigate the metal, hardcore, and punk music genres that are regularly thought of as inclusive spaces and centered on a community spirit, but fail to block out the race and gender issues that exist in the outside world. It features a foreword by Skin of Skunk Anansie.
Q19460408 The Baynham House is a historic house on Stephens Street in Success, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame structure with a hip-and-gable roof, and a porch extending across the width of the front. It was built in 1911 by J. W. Baynham, a local lumber merchant, and is one of the few buildings in the community to survive from its heyday as a lumber town in the early 20th century.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Q20311185 HD 115600 is a star in the constellation Centaurus and a member of the Scorpius–Centaurus Association, the nearest OB association to the Sun and the host star of a bright Kuiper belt-like debris ring.The star has a spectral type of F2/F3V and is about 50% more massive than the Sun and is located approximately 110.5 parsecs (360 ly) distant from Earth. It is around 15 million years old. Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed a large infrared excess consistent with the presence of a luminous, dusty circumstellar disk.
Q21068104 Proximus TV channels are presented differently in the electronic programme guide (EPG) depending on which part of the country the subscriber is. Namely in the capital region of Brussels, northern part of Belgium i.e. Flanders, or southern part of Belgium i.e. Wallonia
Q26222273 George Albert Watts (16 December 1885 – 25 January 1957) was a British justice of the peace, councillor and the mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, London, from 1938 to 1939. He was born in Finsbury, Clerkenwell, the son of George and Caroline Watts. He is buried in Southgate Cemetery along with his wife, Pamela Jane Watts (died 23, May 1948) and their daughter Joyce Evelyn Potter (died 11 May 1989).
Q6031333 Tatlıca Waterfalls is a series of waterfalls in Sinop Province, north Turkey.
Q19614135 Nico Walther (born 7 June 1990) is a German bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics winning a silver medal.
Q4706977 Alan Jerrard, VC (3 December 1897 – 14 May 1968) was an English aviator and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.An officer of the South Staffordshire Regiment he was 20 years old when, attached as a lieutenant in No. 66 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, he performed an act of bravery for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Q17021164 Hite v. Fairfax, (Original Case Citation: 4 Call 42) 8 Va. 42 (1786) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia that upheld the original title of land granted to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron over what was known as the Northern Neck of Virginia, a large tract of land located between the headwaters of the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers claimed by Jost Hite. Future Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall successfully represented the successors of Fairfax to the title. The land currently makes up what is currently considered Northern Virginia and the Fairfax namesake county, Fairfax County, comprises the majority of this land. Marshall represented the tenants of Lord Fairfax, and won his case. From this time, as an examination of Call's Virginia Reports, which cover the period, shows, he maintained the leadership of the bar of Virginia. The case is available in Virginia Reports--Jefferson-33 Gratten--1730-1880--Call's Reports Volumes 1-6, page 646Marshall's argument at the bar is available here beginning in the third paragraph with "Marshall, for such of the tenants...."
Q2224408 "Two Hearts Beat as One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the seventh track on their 1983 album, War, and was released as its second single in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia on 21 March 1983.
Q6409014 Kim Kelly (born April 4, 1962 in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Kim Ackles) is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She currently throws skip stones for Colleen Jones, whom she has won five national championships and two world championships.In 2019, Kelly was named the eighth greatest Canadian curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.Kelly had retired from competitive curling in 2006 but returned in 2010 playing third for Nancy Delahunt, failing to secure a spot in the provincial playdowns. She would then go onto join former teammate Mary-Anne Arsenault, playing the second position for the 2011/2012 season.For the 2012/2013 season Arsenault and Kelly reunited with former skip Colleen Jones, with the goal of reaching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Jones will either play third or second position, while Arsenault will skip. Arsenault's current lead Jennifer Baxter, will play lead, while her third Stephanie McVicar, is expected to join the team as the fifth. Nancy Delahunt has offered to join the team as coach or manager. Since this announcement McVicar has left the team to play with Heather Smith-Dacey, and Delahunt has joined the team as the 5th. Jones will play third, and Kelly will remain at second.Kelly (as third) joined Jones, Mary Sue Radford and Delahunt to win the 2016 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, following that with an undefeated run to win the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Q7193679 Piki is a bread made from blue corn meal used in Hopi cuisine.
Q2507588 In 1933, the U.S. state of Virginia renumbered almost all of its state highways. This renumbering was caused by the assignment of numbers from 600 up to the new secondary system, but all three-digit numbers were affected. At the same time, all numbers that conflicted with U.S. Routes - except State Route 13 - were renumbered, and all long overlaps with U.S. Routes were eliminated. Several new routes had the same numbers as U.S. Routes and served as their extensions.
Q1384599 Mecistogaster is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Pseudostigmatidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are eleven species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.Members of this genus have very long abdomens which they use to deposit their eggs in the water-filled rosettes of bromeliads growing on trees in the forest.Species include:Mecistogaster amalia (Burmeister, 1839) - Amalia HelicopterMecistogaster amazonica Sjöstedt, 1918Mecistogaster asticta Selys, 1860Mecistogaster buckleyi McLachlan, 1881 - Blue-tipped HelicopterMecistogaster jocaste Hagen, 1869Mecistogaster linearis (Fabricius, 1776)Mecistogaster lucretia (Drury, 1773)Mecistogaster martinezi Machado, 1985 (nomen obscurum)Mecistogaster modesta Selys, 1860Mecistogaster ornata Rambur, 1842 - Ornate HelicopterMecistogaster pronoti Sjöstedt, 1918 - Atlantic Helicopter
Q282705 3DMLW (3D Markup Language for Web) is an open-source project, and a XML-based Markup Language for representing interactive 3D and 2D content on the World Wide Web.The project has been inactive since 2009; as of 2016, the website, including the documentation, is no longer available.
Q2804725 Jean-Luc Molineris (born 25 August 1950 in Grenoble) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Jean-Luc Molineris is the son of cyclist Pierre Molineris. In 1974, Molineris won a stage in the 1974 Tour de France. In 1976, he won Paris–Bourges.
Q4876469 This article is for the settlement north of Fort Babine. For the other settlement in British Columbia to the north of Prince George, see Bear Lake, British Columbia. For other uses see Bear Lake (disambiguation).Bear Lake, formerly known as Fort Connelly or Fort Connolly, or Connolly's Lake, is an unincorporated settlement located on the northeast side of the lake of the same name, which lies to the north of Babine Lake and Takla Lake in the northwestern end of the Omineca Country in the North-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. At the same location is Takla Lake First Nation's Bear Lake Indian Reserve No. 4.
Q16971742 The 1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University Bloomington and were the winners of the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament, the school's third national championship. The Hoosiers included three All-Americans and were led by head coach Bob Knight, in his fifth year, to an undefeated 32–0 record. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.
Q4853232 Balım Sultan (d. circa 1517/1519) was a Bektashi sufi who established and codified the Bektashi Order at the beginning of the 16th century. The mystical practices and rituals of the Bektashi were systematized and structured by Balım, after which many of the order's distinct practices and beliefs took shape. He is considered the primary personality in the Bektashi Order after Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli (Haji Bektash) and is regarded as the “Second Pir” (pīr-e ṯānī or the second elder).
Q4638732 The 491st Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 341st Bombardment Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas where it was inactivated on 25 June 1961.The squadron was first activated during World War I as the 79th Aero Squadron. It deployed to France in 1917 and was redesignated the 491st Aero Squadron. It served as a construction unit before returning to the United States, where it was demobilized in 1919. It was consolidated with the 491st Bombardment Squadron in 1936.The 491st Bombardment Squadron was constituted as an Organized Reserve unit in 1924. It was activated in 1925, at Sand Point Airport, Washington, but was only nominally manned. The squadron was consolidated with the 491st Aero Squadron in 1936, but inactivated the following year. it was disbanded in May 1942, as were all the other Organized Reserve units in the Air Corps.The 491st Bombardment Squadron (Medium) was constituted and activated in India during World War II. It participated in combat in the China-Burma-India Theater until the end of the war, when it returned to the United States and was inactivated.The squadron was activated in the Air Force Reserves in 1947, but was discontinued when Continental Air Command reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization plan. In 1958, it was consolidated with the first 491st Bombardment Squadron and activated at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas when Strategic Air Command expanded its Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings to four squadrons. The squadron was inactivated at Dyess in 1961.
Q7435935 William Scott Baker (born March 4, 1964) is an American political commentator and former television news anchor. He was an evening news anchor for thirteen years at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He co-founded The Blaze, serving as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2016.
Q13129245 Illogan Highway is a village on the A30 main road west of Redruth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Carn Brea.Thomas Merritt (1863-1908), who composed several Christmas carols, including "Hark the Glad Sound! The Saviour Comes" and "Lo! He Comes, an Infant Stranger" was organist at the Methodist church (pictured) from 1889 until his death in 1908. Merritt was born at Illogan, the son of Thomas Merritt; he also composed an oratorio “The Christian Soldier” and a sacred cantata “Shepherd of Israel”. Thomas Merritt, whose carols are sung by Cornishmen worldwide and who was commissioned to write the 1902 Coronation March for Edward VII, is buried in Illogan churchyard.
Q18685243 Caroline Nilsson Troy (born Caroline Nilsson in 1962 in Lewiston, Idaho) is a Republican Idaho State Representative since 2014, representing District 5 in seat B in northern Idaho.
Q22031505 Ideas in Motion (Italian: Idee in Movimento, IM) was a left-wing political party in San Marino.
Q14834696 Desmiphora undulatofasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1942. It is known from Brazil.
Q11583980 Koichi Yaguchi (矢口 洪一, Yaguchi Kōichi, February 20, 1920 – July 25, 2006) was the 11th Chief Justice of Japan (1985–1990). He was graduate of Kyoto University. He was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia flowers.
Q12222508 General Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal (1920-2014) born in Mosul, Iraq was an Iraqi senior officer and war minister for a very long period of time, also he held the position of minister of military affairs and chief of staff.He graduated from the Iraqi military college in Baghdad in 1940 (cycle 18), and he participated in most of Iraq wars including:Anglo-Iraqi WarBarazan movements1948 Arab–Israeli WarFirst Iraqi–Kurdish War1967 Arab Israeli war or Six-Day WarOctober 1973 war or Yom Kippur WarSecond Iraqi–Kurdish WarIran–Iraq WarGulf War.
Q372245 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design. A non-profit organization based at the Monroe Building in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, the CTBUH announces the title of "The World's Tallest Building" and is widely considered to be an authority on the official height of tall buildings. Its stated mission is to study and report "on all aspects of the planning, design, and construction of tall buildings." The Council was founded at Lehigh University in 1969 by Lynn S. Beedle, where its office remained until October 2003 when it moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Q4901978 Scheendijk is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht (province). It is a part of the municipality of Stichtse Vecht, and lies about 10 km northwest of Utrecht.The statistical area "Scheendijk", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 320.Scheendijk is found in an area known for its lakes and ribbed sand islands, called the Loosdrechtse Plassen, which thousands of tourists visit every year. The lake area is dotted with houses along embankments with yachting marinas.
Q1544561 Alfred James Elliott (June 1, 1895 – January 17, 1973) was a Democratic Representative from California.He was born in Guinda, California and moved with his parents to Winters, California, in 1901, and to Tulare, California, in 1910, where he resided until his death in 1973. He worked as a farmer and livestock breeder and was the owner and publisher of the Tulare Daily News. From 1933-1937, he served as the chairman of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors. From 1935 to 1936, he was a member of the California Supervisor Association of the State welfare board and in 1936 he served on the California State Safety Council. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1937, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry E. Stubbs. He was re-elected to represent California's 10th congressional district five times and served from 1937 to 1949. He retired in 1965.Elliot was among the most outspoken in expressing bigotry toward Japanese Americans. In 1943 he protested the release of some Japanese Americans from the relocation camps, repeating his earlier statement that "the only good Jap is a dead Jap," and declaring that "When the war is over, as far as I am concerned, we should ship every Jap in the United States back to Japan . . ."United States Congress. "Alfred J. Elliott (id: E000119)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Q6567056 Criminal gangs are found throughout China but are most active in Chongqing, Shanghai, Macau, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Guangzhou as well as in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. The number of people involved in organized crime on the mainland has risen from around 100,000 in 1986 to around 1.5 million in the year 2000.Since the new century, there are two academic books focusing on Chinese organized crime. Based on rich empirical work, these books offer how Chinese criminal organizations survive in the changing socio-economic and political environment. Y. K. Chu's Triads as Business looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international markets. Peng Wang's The Chinese Mafia examines the rise of mainland Chinese organized crime and the political-criminal nexus (collusion between gangs and corrupt police officers) in reform and opening era of China.
Q7332487 Ride Again is a live album by The Purple Helmets, released on the New Rose label as Rose 160 CD.
Q626329 Bersée is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Q1154873 Alfred Hauge (17 October 1915 – 31 October 1986) was a Norwegian educator, journalist, novelist, poet and historian. He wrote extensively about life on the Ryfylke islands and about Norwegian-American emigration.
Q6804240 The Meat Industry Workers Federation (in Spanish: Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne, abbreviated FOIC) was a trade union of meat workers in Argentina. The union was founded in the early 1930s. FOIC was led by the Communist Party of Argentina. José Peter was the general secretary of FOIC.
Q7390251 The SIAI S.17 was an Italian racing flying boat built by SIAI for the 1920 Schneider Trophy race.
Q2473300 Čokešina is a village in the municipality of Loznica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 881 people.
Q5343222 Edward H. "Ed" Cook (born 1935) is an American businessman from Oklahoma. Cook has held numerous positions with the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, that City's chamber of commerce, serving as that organization's president. After a return to the private sector, Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating appointed him as his Secretary of Tourism and Recreation in 1995. Serving in that position until 1999, Cook oversaw all efforts to promote Oklahoma as a tourism destination.
Q41463 Maersk Oil (Danish: Mærsk Olie og Gas A/S) was a Danish oil and gas company owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. with a maximum operated production of 550,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Production came from Denmark, the UK, Qatar, Kazakhstan, the US Gulf of Mexico, Algeria and Brazil. The company had exploration activities in Angola, Norway, Greenland, Kurdistan Region of Iraq and in the producing countries.
Q6664126 Local Government Leadership is one of the six bodies that form the Local Government Group in England and Wales overseen by the Local Government Association (LGA). Its purpose is to develop leadership skills among both local authority (elected) members and (unelected) officials. It has played a leading role in recent high-profile policy initiatives including 'Total Place' and 'Community Budgets'.It was formed in 2004 as the Leadership Centre for Local Government (LCLG for short) on the recommendation of the Leadership Development Commission set up by the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. In 2008, it acquired charitable status and it was renamed to its current title in July 2010, at the same time as other members of the Local Government Group as part of the latter's 'Getting Closer' initiative.It is funded by grant funding from UK government departments and fee income from chargeable services. Unlike most other parts of the Local Government Group, it is not one of the bodies specified in law to receive money 'top-sliced' from local authorities' Revenue Support Grant (RSG) payments from the UK government. The current Chairman is Lord Peter Smith.
Q3661827 The Bruneri-Canella case, called in Italian the case of the Smemorato di Collegno (the Collegno Amnesiac), is a notorious judicial and media affair concerning the alleged reappearance in 1926 of a man who had gone missing in World War I. The question of his identity was thoroughly discussed in newspapers and in courtrooms, and endured for almost 40 years. Due to nationwide interest in the case, the term smemorato di Collegno became a common saying since the 1930s, meaning a person who forgets something.The man was originally identified as Professor Giulio Canella, an Italian philosophy scholar and teacher who had gone missing in action in World War I. His wife, Giulia Concetta Canella, had refused to give up hope of seeing him again. When she saw a newspaper photograph of a man who claimed to have no memory of his past or name, she thought she recognized him. She went to the mental hospital where he had been confined. After a few visits, she became convinced that he was her husband.However, a few days after he was released to her, an anonymous letter was sent to the Quaestor of Turin, claiming that the man was actually an anarchist and petty criminal with an extensive police record named Mario Bruneri. After an inquiry and several trials and appeals, the court found that he was indeed Bruneri.During that time, the couple had lived together and had three children. After the final verdict was rendered, they moved to Brazil to get away from the scandal. Bruneri died there in 1941. Giulia Concetta Canella tried without success to have the decision overturned. She died in 1977.
Q6636703 A list of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany:
Q7323622 Richard Abingdon (by 1491 – 1545), of Bristol, was an English politician.He was elected Sheriff of Bristol for 1515–16 and mayor of Bristol for 1525–26 and 1536–37. He was constable of the staple for 1526–27 and 1543–44 and an alderman by 1538 until his death. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Bristol in 1529.He was married to Isabel and had at least 3 sons.
Q6693716 Lower Pontnewydd railway station was a railway station in the village of Pontnewydd in Torfaen, South Wales, UK, originally opened by the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway.
Q16996263 Chelsea Leyland is an English disc jockey, cannabis and epilepsy activist, and model. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Q13531328 Seydelia turlini is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1976. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
Q18196371 Oxynaspididae is a family of goose barnacles in the order Lepadiformes.
Q6974551 National nature reserves in Derbyshire, England, are established by English Nature and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.List of reserves:Biggin DaleCalke Park NNRDerbyshire Dales National Nature ReserveKinder Scout NNROther national nature reserves all over England:National nature reserves in EnglandEnglish Nature
Q206223 Francis II (Italian: Francesco II, christened Francesco d'Assisi Maria Leopoldo; 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861. He was the last King of the Two Sicilies, as successive invasions by Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia ultimately brought an end to his rule, as part of Italian unification. After he was deposed, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Sardinia were merged into the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.
Q490453 Eckernförde (Danish: Egernførde, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör) (German pronunciation: [ɛkɐnˈføːɐ̯də] (listen)) is a German town in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, on the coast of the Baltic Sea approximately 30 km north-west of Kiel. The population is about 23,000. Eckernförde is a popular tourist destination in northern Germany.
Q686711 Amanda is a fictional character in the television series Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, portrayed by actress Elizabeth Ward Gracen. She is one of the Immortals, immune to old age and death except by taking the head off. Some Immortals play The Game, seeking each other out for a duel to the death, for which the survivor is rewarded with a Quickening.Amanda was created to be a former lover of fellow Immortal Duncan MacLeod, the protagonist of the Highlander: The Series television series. She originally appeared in the 1993 episode "The Lady and the Tiger" as a "villain of the week" type character. However, the writers and fans enjoyed her cunning, lying, immoral, selfish, and manipulative ways and she remained a part of the series. She then starred in a short-lived series of her own, Highlander: The Raven.
Q952697 Godwin Okpara (born 20 September 1972) is a former football defender. He was part of the Nigeria squads that participated in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, 2000 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2000 Summer Olympics.Okpara was outstanding at the 1989 U-17 World Championship, and moved to Belgian club Beerschot. After some years of relative success playing for Eendracht Aalst, including winning the Belgian Ebony Shoe, he moved to play in France for RC Strasbourg and Paris Saint-Germain. His second season with PSG was miserable, making him return to Belgium and Standard Liège. Okpara retired after the 2003-04 season.
Q2989527 The following is a list of the 97 comuni of the Province of Lecce, Apulia, in Italy.
Q16238165 A list of chapters of the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity categorized by state. This list includes both active and inactive chapters.As of 2015, there are 45 active chapters and 7 colonies, all located within the continental United States.
Q1376817 Embroidery hoops and frames are tools used to keep fabric taut while working embroidery or other forms of needlework.
Q5993798 Igor Vidmar (born December 10, 1950) is a prominent Slovenian and former Yugoslav journalist, rock music promoter and manager, music producer and political activist.
Q6706790 Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (June 21, 1830 – August 24, 1882) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, journalist, lawyer, Republican and a prominent abolitionist.
Q6636430 This is a partial list of streets or roads in Metro Manila, Philippines, that underwent a name change in the past.
Q3429624 Vakil Babu is a Hindi movie, which was released in April 1982. The movie was produced by Jawahar Kapoor and P. K. Luthra and directed by Asit Sen. The film stars Raj Kapoor alongside his younger brother Shashi Kapoor and also features Zeenat Aman, Rakesh Roshan, Kader Khan, Aruna Irani and Kishore Sahu. This was Raj Kapoor's last leading film role and was also the first and only time he appeared onscreen with his brother Shashi, not counting Awara, wherein Shashi Kapoor appeared as a child actor.
Q17013984 In Your Eyes is the second solo studio album by James "D-Train" Williams, known also as part of the American urban/post-disco group D-Train. The record was released in 1988 by Columbia Records in the US and via CBS Records in the United Kingdom. The album's biggest hit single, "In Your Eyes" was a number 11 R&B hit in Billboard. The album itself reached number 46 on Billboard's R&B albums chart.In Your Eyes was remastered and expanded by "Funky Town Grooves" in 2011 including 4 bonus tracks.
Q43071481 Lescano is a surname. Notable people with the name include:Facundo Lescano (born 1996), Argentine football forwardJuan Carlos Lescano (born 1991), Argentinian footballerJuan Eduardo Lescano (born 1992), Argentinian footballerPablo Lescano (born 1977), Argentine singer, composer, keyboardistYonhy Lescano (born 1959), Peruvian lawyer and politician
Q18152899 Everett Edward "Tuck" Kelly (January 8, 1898 – August 15, 1983) was an American football player who was an All-Southern guard for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University.
Q18206208 Jack S. Curtis (March 25, 1912 – April 20, 2002) was an American politician from Springfield, Missouri, who served in the Missouri Senate. He served as city attorney for Springfield from 1941 until 1942. Curtis served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1944 until 1946.
Q71235 Hermann Krone (14 September 1827 – 17 September 1916) was a photographer from Saxony, Germany, who was born in Breslau. His father was a lithographer and he began an apprenticeship with him 1843. He produced his first calotype and daguerreotype photographs in 1843. He opened a studio in Leipzig in 1851 and in Dresden from 1852. He took landscape photographs of Saxon Switzerland. He married Clementine Blochmann and had four children including Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone.In 1855 he worked with collodion dry plates and in 1869 he established a publishing house. In 1872 he completed a photo book with views of 142 cities in the Kingdom of Saxony. He went on a journey to the Auckland Islands in 1874 to observe the passage of Venus in front of the sun and returned home via Australia and India. He published a compilation of his poetry in four volumes between 1899 and 1902. He also published The Standard Photographic Methods Retaining their Practical Value Forever (Die für alle Zeit von praktischem Wert bleibenden Photographischen Urmethoden) and established a museum of photography. In 1916 he died in Laubegast near Dresden.Krone is commemorated by a tablet at Bastei where he who took the first landscape photographs at the Bastei Bridge in 1853. The M-1306 Hermann Krone (Kriegsmarine), an auxiliary minesweeper, was sunk during World War II. It struck a mine and sank in the Skaggerak off Hanstholm, Denmark.
Q25231186 Gemini Ganeshanum Suruli Raajanum (English: Gemini Ganesan and Suruli Rajan) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film, written and directed by Odam Ilavarasu and produced by T. Siva. The film features Atharvaa and Soori in the title roles, while Regina Cassandra, Pranitha, Aishwarya Rajesh and Aaditi Pohankar play the leading actresses. Narrating the story of a college-time casanova heading back to deliver wedding invitations to his ex-girlfriends, the film was released on 14 July 2017.
Q30325265 The American Club Taipei (Chinese: 台北市美僑協會; pinyin: Táiběi shì měi qiáo xiéhuì), also known as the American Club in China ("ACC"), is a private member-owned club that serves the international community in the Greater Taipei area. The ACC is located in Zhongshan District, Taipei.
Q167186 The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational organizations in the world. Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The National Geographic Society's logo is a yellow portrait frame—rectangular in shape—which appears on the margins surrounding the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo. Through National Geographic Partners (a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company), the Society operates the magazine, TV channels, a website, worldwide events, and other media operations.
Q2412059 Clockwatchers is an American comedy-drama film released in 1997. Directed by Jill Sprecher, it stars Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Alanna Ubach as temporary office staffers in an office complex. The four become misfit friends in an office environment where they are ignored and mistrusted by their co-workers.
Q2170405 Abbeytown, also known as Holme Abbey, is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 819. It is located five-and-a-half miles south-east of Silloth, and six-and-a-half miles north-west of Wigton. The civil parish borders Holme Low to the north, Holme East Waver and Dundraw to the east, Bromfield to the south, and Holme St Cuthbert to the west. The county town of Carlisle is eighteen miles to the north-east. Other nearby settlements include Foulsyke, Highlaws, Kelsick, Mawbray, Pelutho, and Wheyrigg. The B5302 road runs through the village.Historically a part of Cumberland, Abbeytown was built around the former Cistercian Holmcultram Abbey, the nave of the church of which now serves the parish as St Mary's Church. On 9 June 2006 the church was set alight in an arson attack which devastated its roof parts of which had been in situ since it was erected 900 years ago.[1] The church has since been restored, and fully reopened in September 2015.The Village also has a recreational field, it regularly hosts football matches from around the Allerdale district. As of 2012 the recreational field is under construction, with the demolition of the former standing structural foundation making way for a new field. A designated area within this field, to house the soon coming children's play park.As of 2015 Abbeytown Archers have set up their club at the Recreational field, and outdoor shooting takes place on Monday evenings, with indoors held in the Holm Cultram Cof E school, also on Mondays.The village is located on the main Wigton to Silloth road and has a small range of local amenities including a pub, post office and a shop.Many buildings in the village date from the medieval period, especially those associated with the former abbey. Others are Victorian, when much of the village was concerned with the railway line to Silloth, and, more recently, a large number of houses were built at "Friars Garth".The village is located on the edge of the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Cumbria Coastal Way passes through the village.
Q4647851 Albert Hamer Reiser (August 31, 1897 – April 25, 1981) was a prominent community leader in Utah and a missionary and leader of the Sunday School in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).Reiser was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Albert S. Reiser and Nancy Ellen Hamer. He was a graduate of the University of Utah.As a career, Reiser was the manager of the Deseret Book Company in Salt Lake City. Without attending a university to study law, he nevertheless became a member of the Utah State Bar.Reiser was an active participant in community service in Utah. For eight years, Reiser was a member of the University of Utah Board of Regents. He was also a long-time member of the Great Salt Lake Council of Boy Scouts. Reiser was a member of the Utah State Parks and Recreation Commission and from 1938 to 1948, he served as the secretary to the Utah Centennial Committee.As a member of the LDS Church, Reiser held a variety of prominent positions. Beginning in 1921, David O. McKay selected him to be the secretary to the general superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union, a position he would hold for over 20 years. In 1926, Reiser became a member of the general board of the Sunday School, and in 1943 he became the second assistant to general superintendent Milton Bennion. In 1949, when George R. Hill succeeded Bennion, Reiser became Hill's first assistant in the general superintendency of the Sunday School organization. During his time in the Sunday School, Reiser wrote a variety of books and lesson manuals, including a 1945 history of the LDS Church for children.Reiser served in the Sunday School until 1952, when he was asked to become the president of the British Mission of the church. During his time in England, Reiser organized the church's purchase of the property for the construction of the London Temple.Reiser returned to Utah in 1955, and became an assistant secretary to the First Presidency of the church. He also was made the president of the Sugar House Stake of the church.From 1920 until his death, Reiser was married to Elizabeth R. Baxter; he was the father of eight children. Reiser died in Salt Lake City.
Q303796 Rodrigo Sperafico (born 23 July 1979) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He currently drives in the Stock Car Brasil series. He belongs to the Sperafico family of racing drivers, which includes twin brother Ricardo (with whom his career has been closely linked), along with cousins Alexandre and the late Rafael.
Q6945502 "My Friend (マイ フレンド)" is the 17th single by Zard and released 8 January 1996. The single debuted at #1 rank first week. It charted for 21 weeks and sold over a million copies and became third highest-selling single in her career. When she died, it was elected as her third best song on the Oricon polls.
Q4952044 Boy is a 2009 Philippine film by renowned and critically acclaimed Filipino director Auraeus Solito. The 83-minute film produced by recounts a young poet's infatuation with a young macho dancer.Boy (also as BoY) has been shown in many international film festivals. The Board of Film Censors in Singapore banned the showing of the movie because it "normalizes homosexuality and romanticizes sex between men." Boy was screened in the Philippines in June 2009.
Q5046351 The Carrier Mortar Tracked (CMT) vehicle is a self-propelled mortar system developed by the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India. It is manufactured by Ordnance Factory Medak.
Q5607949 Grevillea integrifolia, commonly known as entire-leaved grevillea, is a shrub that is endemic to the south west of Western Australia.It usually grows to between 0.6 and 2.5 metres in height and produces flowers between September and January (early spring to mid summer) in its native range. These have a white, cream or pale yellow perianth and a white to cream coloured style.The species was first formally described in Stirpium Australasicarum Herbarii Hugeliani Decades Tres in 1830 by Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher who gave it the name Anadenia integrifolia. The species was transferred to the genus Grevillea by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in 1856.
Q4728895 All I Want Is You is the debut studio album by American R&B singer and songwriter Miguel. It was released on November 30, 2010, by Jive Records and ByStorm Entertainment. After signing to ByStorm in 2007, Miguel recorded the album with producers Dre & Vidal, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, State of Emergency, and Salaam Remi. It was shelved by Jive for two years after legal issues with the singer's former production company. Selling poorly upon its release, it became sleeper hit on the Billboard 200 with the help of singles such as the title track and "Sure Thing". By September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies.All I Want Is You received positive reviews; critics found some of the music inconsistent but praised Miguel's singing and songwriting abilities while drawing comparisons to Prince. Miguel toured in promotion of the album as a supporting act for fellow R&B singers Usher and Trey Songz.
Q7123216 Padampur tehsil is one of the nine tehsils of the Ganganagar district in the north western Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located in the northern area of the district. The city of Padampur is the headquarters of the tehsil. Its north border touches Ganganagar tehsil. It has borders in the east with Sadulshahar Tehsil and with Hanumangarh district. The south-east border is with Suratgarh tehsil, the west by Raisinghnagar tehsil and north-west with Karanpur tehsil. The Village Delwan lies 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the north-west.The waters of the Ganges Canal irrigate the farms of this tehsil. Punjabi and Bagri (a dialect of the Rajasthani language) are spoken. Padampur, Gajsinghpur and Ridmalsar are the main towns and the Village Delwan of the tehsil.
Q1869764 The Lopausee is a man-made lake east of the village of Amelinghausen in Lüneburg Heath in North Germany. The lake, which has an area of about 12 hectares, has been created by impounding the River Lopau with a dam. The dam lies parallel to the road embankment of the B209 federal road that runs past the lake.The Lopausee is used exclusively as a nature reserve and for recreation. The water quality is rated as good and fishing and swimming are permitted. For the latter there is a bathing beach and a pontoon in the lake. Visitors can circumnavigate the lake on a roughly 2.2 km long footpath and cycleway. There is a restaurant on the lakeshore as well as a pedalo hire facility. For some time there has also been a ropes course by the lake. In the Lopaupark by the lake there is a children's playpark. Every year during the traditional Heath in Bloom Festival (Heideblütenfest) the lake is the stage for the big opening firework ceremony.
Q1712263 Julien Pierre Anne Lalande (1787 in Le Mans, France – 1844 in Paris) was a French Navy officer and politician. He became one of the main actors in the Oriental Crisis of 1840 when the French Levant Squadron did not stop the Ottoman Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral) Ahmed Fawzi Pasha who defected with the whole Ottoman Fleet to the Sultan´s enemy Muhammad Ali of Egypt ("Lalande affair").Britain and Russia supported the Ottoman Sultan and formed an alliance with Austria and Prussia against Egypt (Convention of London). France was politically isolated and, because it was threatened by a coalition of all its former enemies, France chose not to intervene when British and Austrian naval and infantry forces attacked Egyptian-held Beirut and Acre. Rear Admiral Lalande, however, offered his Prime minister Adolphe Thiers and his king Louis Philippe I a plan to stop the Russian Black Sea fleet by occupying a few Dardanelles forts, to attack and capture or destroy the Royal Navy Levant Squadron and to use the Egypt-Ottoman fleet to transport French troops for an invasion in Ireland. Lalande was called back to Toulon and removed from his command.After Thiers was replaced by François Guizot Lalande became a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1840 to 1842 and supported Guizot´s policy.
Q7913166 van Breda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Herman Van Breda (1911–1974), Belgian philosopherJacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda (1788–1867), Dutch biologist and geologistMichiel van Breda (1775–1847), first mayor of Cape TownScott van Breda (born 1991), South African rugby union playerthe family at the centre of the 2015 Van Breda murders in South Africa
Q7026667 Nicira is a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization. It was founded in 2007 by Martin Casado, Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker. Nicira created their own proprietary versions of the OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack networking projects.On July 23, 2012, VMware announced they intended to acquire Nicira for $1.26 billion, a deal which closed the following month. Today, Nicira continues to operate as a special division of VMware.
Q788806 Conrad of Bavaria (German: Konrad von Bayern; Italian: Corrado di Baviera) (c. 1105 – 17 March 1126 or 1154) was a Cistercian monk, the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria. The former Molfetta Cathedral, now renamed church of Saint Conrad of Bavaria, is dedicated to him, and he is also the patron saint of Molfetta, although formally speaking he was beatified rather than canonised.
Q5826134 Saqqez Industrial Estate (Persian: شهرك صنعتي سقز‎ – Shahrak-e Şanʿatī-ye Saqqez) is a village and company town in Sara Rural District, in the Central District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 56, in 17 families.
Q13472298 Cochylimorpha hapala is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Hong Kong) and on Borneo.
Q18169337 Commodore James Dalgliesh (1891-1964) served as the Chief of the Seaward Defence Force, which later became the South African Navy.