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Q3246682 An Ina Bauer is a "moves in the field" element in figure skating in which a skater skates on two parallel blades. One foot is on a forward edge and the other leg is on a backwards and different parallel edge. The forward leg is bent slightly and the trailing leg is straight. If the leading leg is on the inside...
Q6163539 Jason Charles Staurovsky (born March 23, 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a former American football placekicker from 1987 to 1992. He attended Bishop Kelley High School and the University of Tulsa, for whom he is the all-time leading scorer. He played for the St Louis Cardinals in 1987, the New England Patriots fr...
Q48481 Torri del Benaco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 130 kilometres (81 miles) west of Venice and about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Verona, on the eastern coast of the Lake Garda.Torri del Benaco borders the following municipalities: Brenzone, Costerman...
Q4581238 Ytste Skotet is a complete, preserved, historical farm located in Stordal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The historic farmyard and museum, which is part of the Sunnmøre Museum Foundation, is located on the steep shores of the Storfjorden in the Sunnmøre district of the county. The farm is lo...
Q472024 Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Зельдин; 10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1915 – 31 October 2016) was a Russian theatre and cinema actor. A centenarian, he was among the longest-serving stage performers and continued acting up until his death.
Q1268139 Duékoué (French: [dwekwe]) is a city in western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Duékoué Department. It is also the seat of Guémon Region in Montagnes District and a commune. In the 2014 census, the population of Duékoué was 185,344, making it the ninth-largest city in the country.
Q1209742 Petter's sportive lemur (Lepilemur petteri) is a sportive lemur endemic to Madagascar. It is one of 26 species in the genus Lepilemur. It is one of the smaller sportive lemurs with a total length of about 49 to 54 cm (19 to 21 in), of which 22–25 cm (8.7–9.8 in) are tail. Petter's sportive lemur is found in ...
Q5320369 Dönük Qırıqlı (also, Dënyuk Kyrykly and Denyuk-Kurukhly) is a village and municipality in the Tovuz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,577.
Q5398912 The Esperanza River is a river of on Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in Magallanes Region, Chile. It is very cold.
Q530784 Kyle Nissen (born August 23, 1979) is a Canadian freestyle skier.Born in Calgary, Alberta, Nissen competes in aerials, and made his World Cup debut in December 1999. He made his first World Cup podium later that season, winning an event in Heavenly, California.Nissen has won one other World Cup event, at Mont ...
Q629104 The Cavone is a river in the Basilicata region of southern Italy. Its source is west of Accettura in the province of Matera near the border with the province of Potenza. The river flows northeast near Oliveto Lucano and Garaguso before curving southeast. It flows near Salandra and San Mauro Forte before being j...
Q6457048 LAN Chile Flight 160 was a Boeing 727-116 on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile carrying 8 crew and 52 passengers which crashed during approach to Santiago on April 28, 1969.
Q7965163 Major General Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven, 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland, 2nd Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, (6 June 1870 – 16 April 1956), known as Master of Ruthven from 1870 to 1921, was a senior British Army officer. He served as Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding Lond...
Q15999617 Isabel Frances Longworth (1 June 1881 – 13 January 1961) was an Australian dentist and peace activist.Born Isabel Frances Swann in Temora, she was the daughter of English-born schoolteacher William Swann and Elizabeth, née Devlin. Isabel was registered as a dentist on 20 June 1902 and began practising at Parr...
Q4648111 Alexander Louis ("Lou") London (August 31, 1913 – March 19, 2008) was an American mechanical engineer and professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.London was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the theory and applications of compact heat exchangers, especially...
Q17013420 Diego Palmero Andrade (born 27 January 1951) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz.
Q1633386 Hubert Sattler (21 January 1817 – 3 April 1904) was an Austrian landscape painter who worked under the pseudonyms Louis Ritchard, E. Grossen, and Stähly-Rychen.
Q23808601 An Evening with Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle is the second solo album and the first live album of actress and singer Sutton Foster, released through Ghostlight Records on March 15, 2011. The album was recorded during her An Evening with Sutton Foster tour (2010-11).
Q2014623 Blessed Pierre-François Jamet (13 September 1762 - 12 January 1845) was a French Roman Catholic priest who refused to take the oath of allegiance during the French Revolution. He is also called the "Second Founder" due to restoring the dwindled order of the Sisters of the Bon Sauveur. In 1827 he was awarded th...
Q28873673 Khaliq Ur Rehman is a Pakistani Politician and member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa representing Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf hailing from Dag Ismail Kheil, Pabbi, Nowshera. He won elections in 2013 under constituency of PK-12 Nowshera.
Q77074 Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the American continents, publishing Nova genera et species plantarum quas in peregrinatione ad...
Q4859067 Barbara Kolanka or Barbara Kołówna h. Junosza (end of the 15th century–1550) was a Polish noblewoman. She is best known as the mother of queen Barbara Radziwiłł and Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł.
Q57439 Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
Q2077739 Peter Rasmussen (born 2 August 1974) is a Danish badminton player. A former World Champion and European Champion, Rasmussen ranks among the best Danish badminton players of all time.
Q7801586 "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" is the ninth episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Its script was originally titled "Secrets and Lies".Actor Edward James Olmos, who portrays Commander Adama on the show, directed this episode.
Q5003613 Richard Warren "Buzzy" Wilkinson (November 18, 1932 – January 15, 2016) was an American basketball player who was selected by the Boston Celtics in the third round (30th pick overall) of the 1955 NBA Draft but never played in the NBA. A 6'2" guard-forward from the University of Virginia and a prolific scorer, ...
Q7788008 Thomas Building was a high rise building in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was completed in 1895 and had 13 floors. It was primarily used for office space. It was destroyed by fire in November 1973.
Q2053375 Luis Antonio Liendo Asbún (born February 25, 1978 in La Serena) is a retired Chilean-Bolivian football midfielder, who has played in different leagues throughout South America, Europe and North America. He also played for the Bolivia national team.
Q7816108 Thomas Paul Hart (29 June 1896 - 25 May 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Norwood in South Australia.Originally with Norwood, Hart was a half forward flanker. He was wounded in France during World War 1 combat, at the age of 20, but survi...
Q6239273 John Charles Hill (22 May 1862 – 29 March 1943) was the inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Hulme from 1924 until 1930.Hill was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. After curacies in Kensington and Rotherham he was Rector of Halesowen then Rural Dean of Bury before his appointment to the episcopat...
Q2818466 The men's 800 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20, 21 and 23 August.In the first semifinals heat, Marcin Lewandowski fell over Bram Som who had tripped over Abubaker Kaki, who had fallen on his own account. After a protest, both Lewandowski and Som were all...
Q4753343 "And Our Feelings" is the third single released from Babyface's album For the Cool in You. It peaked at number 21 on the U.S. Hot 100 singles chart and at number 8 on the U.S. R&B chart.
Q2600866 Dolomedes scriptus is a fishing spider found in the United States and Canada, known as the striped fishing spider. Female spiders can grow to be over 6 cm in legspan. The spider is a pale brown colour with lighter stripes around its legs and a stripe down each side of the body. It is similar to D. tenebrosus.
Q4530067 Einion ap Collwyn (sometimes "ap Gollwyn") (fl. 1093), was a Welsh prince and warrior supposed to have existed in the eleventh century. Not mentioned in medieval chronicles, he is the subject of possibly legendary or fictional writings from the sixteenth century onwards, the oldest surviving report being that ...
Q12053115 Holy Cross is a Church of England parish church in Bearsted, Kent begun in the 13th century.
Q6406596 Paramisgurnus dabryanus is a species of loach occurring in East Asia from Russia to China and Taiwan. It is the only species in its genus.
Q5342772 Edward Elworthy (1836 – 22 January 1899) was a New Zealand farmer and businessman.Elworthy was born in Wellington, Somerset, England, in 1836. He moved to Toowoomba, Australia, in 1860, then to the Timaru area of New Zealand in 1864. He bought a sheep run called Pareora, which came to be known as Holme station...
Q447514 Beryl Penrose (born 22 December 1930) is an Australian former international tennis player. She competed in the Australian Open eight times, from 1950 to 1957. Penrose won the singles title in 1955 defeating compatriot Thelma Coyne Long in the final in straight sets.In January 1948 she won the Australian girls s...
Q5025591 Cambridge University Health Partners is an academic health science centre that brings together the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. It is largely located on the Cambridge Bio...
Q9001489 Gustav Sennholz (5 March 1850 in Frankfurt am Main – 24 August 1895 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian gardener and horticulturist.Following studies in Kassel (Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe), he was associated with the "Gärtnerlehranstalt" in Potsdam (1869–70). From 1874 to 1884, he worked as a gardener in Bockenheim, a...
Q400306 Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, also known as Chaacal and Akul Anab I, (July 5, 465 – November 29, 524), was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled from June 5, 501 AD to his death.
Q837890 The Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區基本法, Portuguese: Lei Básica da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China) is the constitutional document of Macau, replacing the Estatuto Orgânico de Macau. It was adopt...
Q7730585 "The Dolphin's Cry" is a song by American alternative rock band Live. It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from their fourth studio album The Distance to Here. The song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads.
Q42637 The Ragamuffin is a breed of domestic cat. It is a variant of the Ragdoll cat and was established as a separate breed in 1994. Ragamuffins are notable for their friendly personalities and thick, rabbitlike fur.
Q632065 Joel Griffiths (born 21 August 1979) is an Australian football (soccer) player who last played for Wellington Phoenix in the Australian A-League.
Q3296862 Multiple biblical characters with the name Hadad (Hadar) existed. Hadad is the name of Semitic storm god.Abraham's son Ishmael had a son named Hadar who was a chief.Hadad ben Bedad, an early king of Edom.Hada, the last king of Edom He ruled from Pau, Edom, which some biblical scholars identify as an Egyptian c...
Q1785256 The parrot-billed sparrow (Passer gongonensis) is found in the arid lowlands of eastern Africa. At 18 centimetres (7.1 in) and 42 grams (1.5 oz), it is largest of the sparrows of the family Passeridae. It is often considered a subspecies of the grey-headed sparrow.
Q462158 Mor Karbasi (born April 23, 1986) is a singer-songwriter born in Jerusalem, and now based in Seville after five years in London.One of her main projects is Ladino music, also known as Judezmo, Spanyolit, or Sephardic—the ancient language and music of the exiled Jews of Spain. She writes original material, as w...
Q8031527 Historically and presently, in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine (as physicians or surgeons for instance) has been significantly discouraged. However, women's informal practice of medicine in roles such as caregivers or as allied health professionals has been widespre...
Q7367127 Rosa Sonneschein (1847–1932) was the founder and editor of The American Jewess magazine. It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women.
Q3440511 Raymond E. Lawler (February 22, 1888 – June 28, 1946) was an American amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.In 1904 he was a member of the Christian Brothers College team, which won the silver medal in the soccer tournament. He played all four matches...
Q7991400 What Waits Below is a science-fiction adventure film (initially released under the title Secrets of the Phantom Caverns) released in 1984. Directed by Don Sharp, produced by the Adams Apple Film Company, the film runs for 88 minutes and stars Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, and Lisa Blount. The tagline for the...
Q7961246 Walter Hartley 'Wal' Phillips (17 October 1908 in Tottenham, England – 1998) was an international motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the first ever World Championship final in 1936.
Q4781959 A total lunar eclipse will take place on April 14, 2033.
Q5540877 George Huntington (August 24, 1796 Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut — November 19, 1866 Bath, Steuben County, New York) was an American farmer and politician from New York.
Q15036781 Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers or Net Force Explorers is a series of young adult novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as a spin-off of the military fiction series Tom Clancy's Net Force.
Q13191314 Yana Ucsha (possibly from Quechua yana black, very dark, uqsha (locally), uqsa high altitude grass, Hispanicized spellings Yana Ucsha, Yanaucsha, Yanauscha, Yanahucsha, also Yanauksha) is a ridge in the Huaytapallana mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,300 metres (17,388 ft) high. It is also the name...
Q22909300 The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 is an Australian law that amends the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (TIA Act) and the Telecommunications Act 1997 to introduce a statutory obligation for Australian telecommunication service providers t...
Q28130569 The Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) is an international technology conference held in Dublin, Ireland. The first summit took place on 15 and 16 February 2017, at the Convention Centre Dublin in the city's Silicon Docks area.The summit aims to run annually, and to attract more than 10,000 attendees. It is reputedly f...
Q3519532 The Tepalcatepec Valley garter snake (Thamnophis postremus) is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. It is found in Mexico.
Q467172 Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف‎, romanized: Abdullah Yusuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and the founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Sh...
Q5210837 Dalgaranga crater is a small meteorite impact crater located on Dalgaranga pastoral station 75 km west of Mount Magnet (or north of Yalgoo) in Western Australia. It is only 24 m in diameter and 3 m deep, making it Australia's smallest impact crater (with exception of the smallest members of the Henbury crater ...
Q2719760 "53rd & 3rd" is a song by the American punk rock band the Ramones.
Q1076816 Chowking (Chinese: 超群) is a Philippine-based restaurant chain. The concept combines Western fast food service with Chinese food menu. Chowking predominantly sells noodle soups, dim sum and rice bowls with toppings. Chowking set up its first store in 1985 under the company of Robert Kuan at a time when American...
Q5106030 Chris Burnett (born Christopher LeRoy Burnett on November 2, 1955) is an American saxophone player, composer, veteran of US military jazz bands and band leader. Born in Olathe, Kansas, Burnett's family moved relatively frequently during his early childhood due to his father being a member of the active US mili...
Q839384 State Trunk Highway 112 (often called Highway 112, STH 112 or WIS 112) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It runs in a north–south in northwest Wisconsin from Marengo to Ashland.
Q7685080 Tara Jane O'Neil (born November 22, 1972) (last name sometimes spelled "ONeil", sometimes known as TJO) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, audio recording engineer, and visual artist based out of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Q5301500 Douglas Robert Gain (born 29 December 1976 in Johannesburg), is a South African cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler.He captained the South Africa Under 19s during their tour of India, against the Indian Under 19s. In the three match series, in which he captain...
Q2334893 The 13th European Film Awards were given on 2 December 2000 in Paris, France.
Q7191453 Pieczyn [ˈpjɛt͡ʂɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Złotów, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 km (5 mi) west of Złotów and 109 km (68 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań.Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland,...
Q7624396 Stromerichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch.
Q403536 Möldri may refer to:Möldri, Saare County, village in Salme Parish, Saare CountyMöldri, Rõuge Parish, village in Rõuge Parish, Võru CountyMöldri, Vastseliina Parish, village in Vastseliina Parish, Võru County
Q3395221 The foreign relations of Nazi Germany were characterized by the territorial expansionist ambitions of Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler, anti-communism and antisemitism. The Nazi regime oversaw Germany's rise as a militarist world power from the state of humiliation and disempowerment it had experienced followin...
Q5776428 Rukh (Persian: روخ‎, also Romanized as Rūkh) is a village in Gowharan Rural District, Gowharan District, Bashagard County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 21, in 5 families.
Q1937205 Mordella flavonotata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1891.
Q16890198 Charmahin (Persian: چرمهين‎, also Romanized as Charmahīn) is a village in Kachu Rural District, in the Central District of Ardestan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 55, in 21 families.
Q18152627 Keever David Jankovich (January 6, 1928 – February 23, 1979) was an American football player who played two seasons in the National Football League with the Dallas Texans and Chicago Cardinals. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 1952 NFL Draft. He first enrolled at Santa Ana Juni...
Q19663591 Clint de Ganon is an American drummer and percussionist from Hastings, New York. Clint has played in many Broadway hits including Hairspray and Footloose - writing the drum score for both. He was also the drummer for the movie adaption of Hairspray. Currently, Clint can be found at the Stephen Sondheim Theat...
Q1415311 Kasper Lindholm Jessen (born (1985-01-31)31 January 1985) is a Danish male track cyclist, riding for the national team. He competed in the sprint and keirin event at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Q24950192 Ilane is a small village in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state in Western India. The 2011 Census of India recorded a total of 277 residents in the village. Ilane's geographical area is 344 hectares (850 acres).
Q1263919 The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddle the broader cultural boundary that distinguishes Island Melanesia from several Polynesian outliers located in the neighbouring Solomon Islands...
Q60520 A sketchbook is a book or pad with blank pages for sketching and is frequently used by artists for drawing or painting as a part of their creative process.The exhibition of sketchbooks at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 2006 suggested that there were two broad categories for classifying sketches:Obs...
Q2062822 Usnea rubicunda, commonly known as the red beard lichen, is a type of arboreal lichen native to temperate regions in North, Central and South America, as well as Europe, Eastern Asia, and North Africa. This fruticose species forms hair-like hanging clusters that are orange to red in color. It is at risk of ext...
Q1533288 Jerome Patrick Butler (born February 27, 1951) is a Canadian retired ice hockey winger who spent 11 seasons in the National Hockey League. During his career, he was known as a fast, gritty defensive specialist with a limited offensive upside.
Q3004380 The Cameroon clawed frog (Silurana epitropicalis) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and possibly Sudan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical ...
Q5192866 Culbone Church, located in the village of Culbone in Somerset, is said to be the smallest parish church in England. The church, dedicated to the Welsh saint Beuno, has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building and the churchyard cross is Grade II*.The church is recorded in the Domesday B...
Q3260779 Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger (April 17, 1907 – June 14, 1989) was a Canadian politician. He first ran for the House of Commons of Canada in 1945 in the district of Charlevoix—Saguenay under the banner of the Social Credit Party of Canada, but was defeated. Much later, in the 1962 election, he ran again in...
Q335731 Abudwak (Somali: Caabudwaaq) (Arabic: عابد الواق‎) is a town in the central Galguduud province of Somalia. Abudwak is largely inhabited by members of the Marehan.
Q6521932 Lionel "Len" Richley (2 July 1924 – after 1970) was an English footballer who made 72 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Hartlepools United in the 1950s. He went on to manage non-league clubs Holbeach United and King's Lynn and league clubs Rochdale and Darlington.
Q4727064 Alison Elder is a former international cricketer. She played 4 Women's One Day Internationals for England in 1990, making her debut against the Netherlands in July. She scored 43 runs, with a best of 37 not out.
Q18579362 Eupterocerina is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.
Q7304846 The Red River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Upper Ordovician age in the Williston Basin. It takes the name from the Red River of the North, and was first described in outcrop in the Tyndall Stone quarries and along the Red River Valley by A.F. Foerste in 1929.
Q7985387 West Hill School is a historic school building located at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. It was designed by prominent local architect Archimedes Russell (1840-1915) and built 1891-1893. It is a ​3 1⁄2-story, stone masonry institutional building. It features a stone tower with open belfry containi...
Q7619437 Stoneyfields Park is a three hectare public park in Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet.The park is a mainly grassland area with a small wood, hedgerows and two play areas. Deans Brook, which crosses the park, has been dammed to create an ornamental lake. The lake has a fringe of vegetation dominated by gr...
Q3104168 Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, December 18, 1909 in Paris – March 15, 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress. She was at one time married to circus impresario John Ringling North.
Q7262365 Putney is an unincorporated community and coal town in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.
Q16010358 Ola Fritzner (26 July 1895 – 11 November 1983) was a Norwegian military officer. He was born in Vennesla. He served as a leading police officer during World War II, while also having contacts to leaders of the Norwegian resistance movement.He was decorated Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, and of the Order o...
Q28465151 Iris Tallulah Elizabeth Law (born 25 October 2000) is an English model.
Q28451504 Souvenir is the second album by indie pop band, POP ETC under their new name. Including their albums as the Morning Benders, it's the band's fourth album. The album was self-released on January 29, 2016. The album contained their first single to chart, "What Am I Becoming?" which reached 33 on the US Alternat...
Q27978948 Bali Padda is a British businessman and current active CEO of The Lego Group. Prior to this role, he was Lego's chief operations officer. He inherited the role of CEO from Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, who stepped down to lead the LEGO Brand Group in January 2017. He was the first non-Danish top-level executive to ru...