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Q6602286 This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 266 of the United States Reports:Ziang Sung Wan v. United States, 266 U.S. 1 (1924)Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis v. United States, 266 U.S. 17 (1924)Love v. Griffith, 266 U.S. 32 (1924)McCarthy v. Arndstein, 266 U.S. 34 (1924)Michae... |
Q7302727 Reconciliation (originally named Reunion) is a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos.Originally created in 1977 and entitled Reunion, it depicted a man and woman embracing each other ]. In May 1998 it was presented to University of Bradford as a memorial to the University's first Vice-Chancellor Professor Te... |
Q6411262 Linwood C. "King" Bailey (November 1870 – November 19, 1917) was a baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Born in Virginia, he died in Macon, Georgia. He played only one entire baseball game for the Cincinnati Reds during his career, which he won, on September 21, 1895. He batted and threw left-handed. |
Q2807904 14 Greater Poland Infantry Division (Polish: 14 Wielkopolska Dywizja Piechoty) was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period, which took part in the Polish September Campaign.It was created in January 1919 in Poznań, as part of Polish forces fighting in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919). Its or... |
Q7298770 Raymond Fabien (born 1 October 1945 in Port-of-Spain) is a retired sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago.He competed in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1968 Olympic Games, but the team consisting of Fabien, Carl Archer, Edwin Roberts and Winston Short was knocked out in the semi-final. Fabien later competed in both 10... |
Q5643913 Hama-Taura Station (浜田浦駅, Hama-taura eki) is a railway station on the Hidaka Main Line in Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). |
Q3054242 The Ouergha River (Berber: Asif n Wergha)(Arabic:واد ورغة) is a watercourse in Morocco that is tributary to the Sebou River. |
Q15504116 The molecular formula C21H25NO3 may refer to:N-Ethyl-3-piperidyl benzilateMoramide intermediateNalmefene |
Q5585877 Gordon Matthew Strachan (16 November 1947 – 3 May 2016) was a Scottish rugby union player who was capped five times by his country. |
Q5583887 In Oceania, Google Street View is available in most parts of Australia and New Zealand.On 4 August 2008, the long-anticipated image collection of Australia was introduced. At this time, 18 camera icons were added. Extensive mapping of New Zealand was included on 1 December 2008. On 9 December 2008, Darwin, Aus... |
Q15716270 Museum (ミューゼアム:国立博物館美術誌, Myūzeamu: Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan bijutsushi) is an academic journal covering research on Oriental art, museology, and conservation science, with a particular focus on Japanese art. It is published bimonthly in Japanese by the Tokyo National Museum, with some summaries in English. |
Q12138255 Michael H – Profession: Director (German: Michael Haneke – Porträt eines Film-Handwerkers) is a 2013 documentary film directed by Yves Montmayeur about the Austrian film director Michael Haneke. |
Q15979345 St George the Martyr's Church, North and South Clifton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in North Clifton, Nottinghamshire. |
Q18756627 Charlotte Palmer (about 1762 – 1834 or after) was a British teacher and writer who was mentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography. She published a small number of novels. |
Q78581 Josef Gartner (24 January 1954 – 1 June 1986) was a Formula One and sports car endurance driver from Austria. After a successful lower formula career, including a win in the Formula Two Pau Grand Prix, he participated in eight Formula One Grands Prix for Osella during the 1984 season, scoring no points. He was k... |
Q5950319 Maryam Zandi (born 1946 in Gorgan, Iran) is an Iranian documentary photographer and author. She is best known for her photographs during the Iranian Revolution. |
Q7757209 The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party is a book first published in 1995 by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, and currently in its 5th edition. The book, in which the authors argue that homosexuality in the Nazi Party contributed to the extreme militarism of Nazi Germany, has been widely debunked and... |
Q924345 Manfred Schmorde (born 18 September 1946 in Großsteinberg, Saxony) is a German rower. He competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo and won medals at international rowing competitions. |
Q1111263 Butot-Vénesville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. |
Q7786697 A Tholos (pl. tholoi), from Ancient Greek θόλος), in Latin tholus (pl. tholi), is an architectural feature that was widely used in the classical world. It is a round structure, usually built upon a couple of steps (a podium), with a ring of columns supporting a domed roof. In Roman cities they could often be f... |
Q6057711 Dr. Intisar-Ul-Haque (20 October 1935 - 4 August 1996) M.A. (Punjab), Honours (London University), Ph. D. (Edinburgh), is a Pakistani philosopher.He is retired Professor, and was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, at University of Peshawar.He is holder of Post-doctoral Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fell... |
Q9379149 Wyczółki [vɨˈt͡ʂuu̯ki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sochaczew, within Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Sochaczew and 51 km (32 mi) west of Warsaw.The village has a population of 130. |
Q4908709 William "Bill" Davis (born 6 March 1959) is a former American professional darts player who played for the British Darts Organisation and Professional Darts Corporation events. |
Q7767537 The Surrogate is a 1984 Canadian erotic thriller film directed by Don Carmody and starring Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Shannon Tweed, and Jackie Burroughs. The film was written by Don Carmody and Robert Geoffrion, produced by Don Carmody and John Dunning, and executively produced by André Fleury and André Link. ... |
Q7813149 Togetherness is the fifth studio album by Los Angeles, California -based band, L.T.D., released in 1978 on the A&M label. |
Q5542130 George Maragos (born March 17, 1949) is the 13th Comptroller of Nassau County, New York. He was first elected in 2009 for a four-year term. Maragos was then re-elected in 2013 for a second four-year term. |
Q1973987 Gizhiga (Russian: Гижига) is a rural locality (a selo) in Severo-Evensky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Gizhigin Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk, on the right bank of the Gizhiga River just upstream from its mouth where there is a poor but usable harbor. Population: 288 (2012 est.). |
Q8046714 Yagi Masao (八木正生, November 14, 1932 – March 4, 1991) was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. Robin D. G. Kelley's, in his b... |
Q321264 Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles (Faro, 27 July 1847 – Lisbon, 7 June 1921), also known as Sousa Teles or in contemporary Portuguese as Sousa Telles, was a Portuguese politician and military officer who, among other functions, served briefly as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) from 11 Apr... |
Q7255827 Psilocerea vestitaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found in Madagascar.Its wingspan is 48.3 mm.The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:Psilocerea vestitaria, nov.(Fem). Grey with a slight pinkish tinge, uniform in coloration, irrorate... |
Q5863963 Incheh Salah-e Sofla (Persian: اينچه صلاح سفلي, also Romanized as Īncheh Şalāḩ-e Soflá) is a village in Chaldoran-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Chaldoran County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 167, in 23 families. |
Q17627011 Lyman Spencer Perry (March 10, 1897 – June 2, 1975) was an American football player and naval officer. He played college football for the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy. After the 1918 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1918 College Football All-... |
Q18763857 Weems Oliver Baskin III (March 9, 1936 – February 12, 2018) was an American politician in the state of South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1972 to 1974, representing Richland County. He attended the University of South Carolina.He died on February 12, 2018. |
Q6078810 Sven Gunnar Rosborn (born 1949 in Malmö, Sweden) is a Swedish archaeologist, historian and writer best known for his contributions to the archaeology of the Viking Age in the province of Scania and for his leadership of archaeology and history research and education foundations. He is recognized for the discov... |
Q231822 Vendel (Breton: Gwennel, Gallo: Vandèu) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Rives-du-Couesnon. |
Q539630 Freinsheim (German: [ˈfʁaɪnshaɪm]; Palatine German: Fränsem) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With about 5,000 inhabitants, it is among the state’s smaller towns. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality. |
Q17116070 The Saipan Jungle Fowl is a breed of domestic chicken. The Saipan male can stand 2–3 feet tall, with tight feathering, a shorter tail than most birds and as a 2-3 year old becomes very muscular, with an upright posture. Hens can weigh as much as 8-9 lbs and roosters as much as 9-13 lbs. |
Q6367537 Kara Musa Pasha ("Musa Pasha the Courageous" in Turkish; Bosnian: Kara Musa Paša; also known as Kapıcıbaşı Musa Pasha; died 1649) was an Ottoman soldier and statesman of Bosniak origin who was named grand vizier by Sultan Ibrahim I 16 September 1647 after Nevesinli Salih Pasha's execution, holding the office f... |
Q3490242 Felix Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 45 was composed in October 1838. |
Q6280341 Josefina Gabrielle (born October 1963) is a British stage and television actress, and a former ballet dancer, best known for her performances in West End musicals and plays. |
Q8328979 I kongens klæ'r is a 1954 Danish comedy film directed by Poul Bang and starring Dirch Passer. |
Q1126023 In the 1974 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared. This year marked the first edition a club from Turkey took part. |
Q5355612 The Electoral district of Lyell was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It included the towns of Queenstown and Strahan in the West Coast region of Tasmania.The seat was created in a redistribution in 1899, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clar... |
Q7981474 Wellington Row is a row of buildings along the south side of State Street in Albany, New York. It spans from 132 to 140 State Street and includes the Wellington Hotel, its namesake, the former Elks Lodge No. 49, former Berkshire Hotel, and a couple of row houses south of the Wellington Hotel (132 and 134 State... |
Q5395131 Ernst (Ernest) Sabila (Belarusian: Эрнст Сабіла or Эрнэст Сабіла, born March 18, 1932) is a Belarusian Protestant religious leader, dissident and Gulag survivor.Born in the village Dziehciarouka (now part of Minsk), he studied at the Minsk Medical Institute.In 1951, while still a student, he was arrested by So... |
Q15829870 María Isabel Studer Noguez is Executive Director for Mexico and Northern Central America of The Nature Conservancy. She was Director General for International Economic Cooperation at the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation, where she launched the Partnership for Sustainability with the aim of engagin... |
Q17098641 Just Behind the Door (German: Dicht hinter der Tür) is a 1984 Austrian drama film directed by Mansur Madavi. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. |
Q4000749 All the Fault of Paradise (Italian: Tutta colpa del paradiso) is a 1985 Italian romance-comedy film directed by Francesco Nuti.For his performance Nuti won the Ciak d'oro for best actor. |
Q17364417 Luis David Martínez (American Spanish: [lwiz ðaˈβið maɾˈtines]; born 12 May 1989 in Lara) is a Venezuelan tennis player.Martínez has a career high ATP singles ranking of 390 achieved on 10 February 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 142 achieved on 6 May 2019.Martínez has represented Venez... |
Q22072996 Howe is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. |
Q16168730 Apollonides (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης) of Chios was during the eastern expedition of Alexander the Great one of the leaders of the Persian party in his native island; but while Alexander was in Egypt, Apollonides was conquered by the king's admirals, Hegelochus and Amphoterus. He and several of his partisan... |
Q28912630 Cuddy (formerly Cuddy Hill, Morgan and Morgan Hill) is a small unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is served by the South Fayette Volunteer Fire Department. Cuddy has a post office, with the zip code 15031. |
Q526554 Tayeb Braikia (born 8 March 1974 in Århus) is a Danish former cyclist. |
Q21056400 Laurent Clerc (born 12 April 1972) is a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. |
Q37470 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), charged with ensuring international peace and security, accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its charter. Its powers include the establishment of peacekeeping operations a... |
Q1900951 The Hamingja was a kind of female guardian angel in Norse mythology. It was believed that she accompanied a person and decided his luck and happiness. Consequently, the name was also used to indicate happiness, and that is what it means in modern Icelandic. When a person died, the hamingja passed to a beloved ... |
Q275552 The Vultee P-66 Vanguard was a United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft. It was initially ordered by Sweden, but by the time the aircraft were ready for delivery in 1941, the United States would not allow them to be exported, designating them as P-66s and retaining them for defensive and training purposes... |
Q2847695 André Dumortier (1 October 1910, in Comines, Belgium – 3 September 2004, in Tournai) was a Belgian pianist.He participated in the Concours Eugène Ysaye (future Queen Elisabeth Music Competition) in 1938, and it has been said that he is firmly entrenched in the public memory of Tournai. After the Second World W... |
Q583251 Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, located on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris.The church also contains the tombs of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine. Jean-Paul Marat is buried in the chu... |
Q642658 Expensive Taste (styled as Expen$ive Taste) was an American hip hop super-group formed by Paul Wall, Skinhead Rob (Transplants), and Travis Barker (The Aquabats, Blink-182, Box Car Racer, +44 and Transplants). Expensive Taste released a 15-track mixtape for free from a newly registered website. Travis Barker sa... |
Q6301869 The Jubilee Hospital is a community hospital in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian. |
Q561824 The Battle of Emsdorf was fought on 16 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War at Emsdorf in present-day Hesse, Germany, between forces of British, Hanoverian and Hessian troops under the Prince of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) against German troops in French service under Marechal de Camp von Glaubitz. It was ... |
Q82131 Ergnies is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. |
Q2666206 The Belarus national baseball team is the national baseball team of Belarus. The team competes in the bi-annual European Baseball Championship. |
Q3567122 The Tower of Calvi (Corsican: Torra di Calvi) is a Genoese tower in the commune of Calvi (Haute-Corse) on the Corsica.The tower was one of a series of coastal defences built by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem the attacks by Barbary pirates.In 1990 the tower together with the ramparts of th... |
Q6400147 The Khanaka River is a river of western Tajikistan. A tributary of the Kofarnihon River, it passes through the town of Hisor. |
Q1948457 Nordanö is a locality situated in Avesta Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 435 inhabitants in 2010. |
Q1341279 Luigi Ventura (born 9 December 1944) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been apostolic nuncio to France since 2009. He is under investigation by French authorities for sexual crimes since January 2019. In July 2019, it was announced that the Vatican had lifted diplomatic immunity for Ventura,... |
Q7945119 W.A.K.O. World Championships 1979 were the second ever world kickboxing championships hosted by W.A.K.O., organized by American Mike Anderson. They were open to amateur men only from across the world, with two styles of kickboxing - Full-Contact and Semi-Contact - on offer. This was the championships where t... |
Q4734176 Aloha, Bobby and Rose is a 1975 American road drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux about a young working-class couple who accidentally cause the death of a store clerk during their first date, and go on the run from the law. The film starred Paul Le Mat and Dianne Hull, in addition to Robert Carradi... |
Q5302070 Douglas W. Owsley, Ph.D. (born July 21, 1951) is an American anthropologist who is the current Head of Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He is widely regarded one of the most prominent and influential archaeologists and forensic anthropologists in the world i... |
Q17509817 This is a list of Yale Bulldogs football players in the NFL Draft. |
Q37990982 Anthimos Rotos (born 7 May 1977) is a Cypriot sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. |
Q38346527 The men's singles Badminton event at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held from August 27 to 29 at the Taipei Gymnasium in Taipei, Taiwan. |
Q172226 A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel. For climbing slopes, ski skins (originally made o... |
Q6562394 List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP may refer to :List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (nominal)List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP)List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (nominal) per capitaList of Oceanian countries by GDP |
Q7206023 Pniaki [ˈpɲaki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Secemin, within Włoszczowa County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Secemin, 16 km (10 mi) south-west of Włoszczowa, and 60 km (37 mi) west of the regional capital Kielce. |
Q6113055 John Gunnard "Jack, Jake" Hendrickson (born December 5, 1936 in Kingston, Ontario) is a retired professional hockey player. In 2004, Hendrickson was inducted into the Midland, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. |
Q1601108 Masdevallia wageneriana is a species of orchid found from Colombia into northern Venezuela. |
Q5040062 Carl Ewald Grunsky (April 4, 1855 – June 9, 1934) was a geologist and civil engineer throughout the mid 19th century. In 1896 Grunsky implemented the innovative gravity-based sewer channeling waste rapidly from North Point to Golden Gate or towards Oakland. He served as member on the Board of Trustees from 189... |
Q11760 Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska is a Polish theoretical computer scientist based in the United Kingdom. She is professor of computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, England, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. |
Q7245891 Pristerodontia is a group of dicynodont therapsids that includes cryptodontids, geikiids, lystrosaurids, kannemeyeriids, and other related forms. Pristerodontians were one of the few groups of dicynodonts to survive the Permian–Triassic extinction event, diversifying in the Triassic. |
Q5270361 Diagonal ZeroZero (also Torre Diagonal ZeroZero, Diagonal 00) is a skyscraper in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building is 110 metres (360 ft) tall with 24 floors. It was designed by Emba Estudi Massip-Bosch arquitectes in Barcelona, founded and led by Enric Massip-Bosch.Diagonal ZeroZero hosts the corporat... |
Q4439353 Standard Zhuang (autonym: Vahcuengh (pre-1982: Vaƅcueŋƅ; Sawndip: 话壮); simplified Chinese: 壮语; traditional Chinese: 壯語; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) is the official standardized form of the Zhuang languages, which are a branch of the Northern Tai languages. Its pronunciation is based on that of the Yongbei Zhuang dialect... |
Q16891549 The Garde Arts Center is a non-profit performing arts center and cinema located at 325 State Street at the corner of Huntington Street in New London, Connecticut. It owns and operates the Garde Theatre, a historic movie palace. |
Q16970434 The 1912 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1912 college football season. |
Q12759709 Stefan Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Стефановић; 1797–1865), known as Tenka (Тенка), was a Serbian politician, member of the pro-Obrenović group that conspired against Prince Alexander Karađorđević. |
Q17182921 Atkinsons Building, which includes 2 and 4 Burlington Gardens, is a Grade II listed building on the corner of Old Bond Street and Burlington Gardens. It was built in 1926 in the Gothic Revival style and includes Arts and Crafts detailing.The architect was Vincent Harris (1876–1971). The building was designed ... |
Q18151328 E. B. Hamrick Hall is a historic academic building located on the campus of Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It currently houses the Godbold School of Business which encompasses both the undergraduate and graduate business programs of Gardner-Webb University. It ... |
Q19596831 Devosia albogilva is a Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped non-spore-forming bacteria from the genus of Devosia with a single polar flagellum which was isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexanedump site in India. |
Q18719089 Direct Hit! is a Milwaukee-based punk rock band formed in 2007 by singer/guitarist Nick Woods. Its current lineup consists of Nick Woods, Devon Kay, and Logan Stang. |
Q18816095 The 2014–15 Princeton Tigers women's basketball team represents Princeton University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Tigers, led by eighth year head coach Courtney Banghart, play their home games at Jadwin Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League.The Tigers finished the s... |
Q20739782 St. Louis Correctional Facility (SLF) is a Michigan prison, located in St. Louis, for adult male prisoners. |
Q3353517 The 1981 Florida Federal Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the East Lake Woodlands Racquet Club in Tampa, Florida in the United States that was part of the Toyota Series circuit of the 1981 WTA Tour and classified as category 4. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and... |
Q5197174 The Royal Gibraltar Regiment is the home defence unit for the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It was formed in 1958 from the Gibraltar Defence Force as an infantry unit, with an integrated artillery troop. The regiment is included in the British Army as a colonial force. In 1999, the regiment was gra... |
Q1607155 Henry Pickering Bowditch (April 4, 1840 – March 13, 1911) was an American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School.Following his teacher Carl Ludwig, he promoted the training of medical practitioners in a context of physiological research. His teaching career at Harvard spanned ... |
Q17012131 The Naval Consulting Board, also known as the Naval Advisory Board (a name used in the 1880s for two previous committees), was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas Alva Edison. Daniels created the Board with membership drawn from... |
Q823028 Bernardo Prudencio Berro (April 28, 1803 – February 19, 1868) was the President of Uruguay from 1860 to 1864. |
Q1330710 Pavetta sparsipila is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania. Pavetta sparsipila is classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List |
Q2010340 Ernest Joy (January 20, 1878 – February 12, 1924) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1911 and 1920. He was born in Iowa and died in Los Angeles, California. |
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