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Q560800 L'as des as (The Ace of Aces; alternate English title: The Super Ace) is a 1982 French-German comedy film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Gérard Oury.
Q5142921 Colegio Tecnico Comercial Santa Maria Goretty is a technical school located in downtown Cali in Colombia.It started as a small primary school and has become a high school technical with accounting specialization. It takes its name from Maria Goretti (16 October 1890 – 6 July 1902), an Italian virgin-martyr of ...
Q7536826 Skrzyszów [ˈskʂɨʂuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostrów, within Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Ostrów, 7 km (4 mi) west of Ropczyce, and 33 km (21 mi) west of the regional capital Rz...
Q6008352 Imre Szöllősi (born 19 February 1941) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics. He won two silver medals in 1960: in the individual 1000 m and 4×500 m relay events, and a bronze in 1968 in the fours. In 1964 he placed fourth-fifth in the doubles and fours.Szöllősi also wo...
Q3267962 HTV-1, also known as the HTV Demonstration Flight or HTV Technical Demonstration Vehicle, was the first Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle, launched in September 2009 to resupply the International Space Station and support the JAXA Kibo (きぼう, Kibō?, Hope) laboratory or JEM. It was an unmanned c...
Q2583592 The IAF Aerobatic Team is the aerobatic display team of the Israeli Air Force. Until summer 2010 the team flew the IAI Tzukit, a variant of the French Fouga Magister manufactured under license by Israel Aerospace Industries. Since then the team operates four Beechcraft T-6 Texan II aircraft (#478, #484, #493, ...
Q4632579 The 27th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised in 1915 as part of the all-volunteer First Australian Imperial Force for service during World War I. During the conflict, the battalion saw action briefly at Gallipoli before later fighting on the Western Front between...
Q773518 Escalera's bat (Myotis escalerai) is a European bat in the genus Myotis, found in Spain (including the Balearic Islands), Portugal, and far southern France.Although the species was first named in 1904, it was included in Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri) until molecular studies, first published in 2006, demonst...
Q4812131 Asymphorodes holoporphyra is a moth of the Agonoxenidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1934. It is found on the Marquesas Archipelago.
Q5846353 Mah Khatuni (Persian: ماه خاتوني‎, also Romanized as Māh Khātūnī and Mah Khatooni) is a village in Tiab Rural District, in the Central District of Minab County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 177, in 35 families.
Q5823587 Siah Kamar-e Olya Maruf (Persian: سياكمرعليامعروف‎, also Romanized as Sīāh Kamar-e ‘Olyā Ma‘rūf; also known as Sīāh Kamar-e Ma‘rūf and Sīāh Kamar-e ‘Olyā) is a village in Mahidasht Rural District, Mahidasht District, Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 21, in 6 ...
Q22079956 Kilkenny United Women's Football Club (Irish: Cumann Peile Cill Chainnigh Aontaithe na mBan) is an Irish women's football team, based in Kilkenny. In July 2015 the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) announced the formation of the club as an expansion team for the upcoming 2015–16 Women's National League se...
Q28169911 The 2011 Bengal alcohol poisonings killed 167 people in December 2011 in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after consumption of spurious liquor mixed with methanol (methyl alcohol).
Q41201157 Katherine (Katie) Hinde is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University, where she researches lactation. She is also a science writer and science communicator.
Q656486 The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) is a hiking trail which runs from the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin, Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it follows a ferry route to Newfoundland, a...
Q7763223 The Seeing Stone, or Arthur: The Seeing Stone, is a historical novel for children or young adults, written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Orion in 2000, the first book of the so-called Arthur trilogy (2000 to 2003). Set primarily in the March of Wales during A.D. 1199 and 1200, it features a young ...
Q758902 Audiovision was a Swedish "melodic metal band" which produced at least two albums, the second in 2010.
Q1028093 The Greenpoint Avenue Bridge is a drawbridge that carries Greenpoint Avenue across Newtown Creek between the neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Blissville, Queens in New York City. Also known as the J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge, the bridge is named after James J. Byrne, who served as Brooklyn Borough Pre...
Q4858275 Baraki Rajan (Dari/Pashtun: برکی راجان) is a town within the Baraki Barak District of Logar Province, Afghanistan. Baraki Rajan lies approximately 3 km south of the town of Baraki Barak, the capital of the Baraki Barak District. Baraki Rajan is the location of the largest bazaar in the Baraki Barak District, w...
Q6561858 This is a list of Arabic language writers.
Q801430 Shepherd's Bush station is a railway station located in the district of Shepherd's Bush in Greater London, England, UK. It opened in 2008 on the West London Line and Route and is served by London Overground and Southern rail services. It lies within Travelcard Zone 2.A number of stations in the area both past a...
Q7758360 The Printed Blog is a print magazine composed entirely of blogs and other aggregated online content that operates out of its offices in Chicago.Published monthly, It offers a wide range of content from the web, chosen by a team of staff and guest editors active in the fields of blogging and photography. If it...
Q5976351 "I Call It Love" is a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Mel McDaniel. It was released in December 1983 as the lead single from McDaniel's album Mel McDaniel with Oklahoma Wind. It peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 29 on...
Q7115169 Oxelumab is a human monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of asthma.Oxelumab was developed by Genentech and co-developed by Roche.
Q6866887 The Ministry of Energy of the Kingdom of Thailand (Abrv: MoE; Thai: กระทรวงพลังงาน, RTGS: Krasuang Phalangngan) is a cabinet ministry in the Government of Thailand. Its budget for fiscal year 2019 (1 October 2018–30 September 2019) is 2,319 million baht.
Q3906003 Pizzo Paglia is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, overlooking the Val Cama in the canton of Graubünden. The border with Italy runs 300 metres south of the summit.
Q3696146 Andre Agassi was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.Tommy Haas won the tournament, beating Dmitry Tursunov in the final, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3.
Q6008341 Imre Simkó (born 6 January 1939) is a Hungarian former sport shooter who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Q4832408 Tekke, Kazan is a village in the District of Kazan, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Q16004958 Yangervis Alfredo Solarte (born July 3, 1987), nicknamed "Pituki", "Tutu", is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He made his MLB debut for the New York Yankees on April 2, 2014, and has also played for the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue J...
Q18156040 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2006. He led the Cuban Revolution which overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista. This is a list of places, buildings and other things named for Castro.
Q18217482 Kenneth C. Kauth (August 18, 1924 – January 2, 2019) was an American politician in the state of South Dakota. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1969 to 1978. Kauth was a businessman, owning a tire business.
Q19867237 Big Town After Dark is a 1947 American film noir drama film directed by William C. Thomas and written by Whitman Chambers. The film stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer and Robert Kent. The film was released on December 12, 1947, by Paramount Pictures.
Q22080351 The Australian Government Department of Communications was a department responsible for helping to develop a vibrant, sustainable and internationally-competitive broadband, broadcasting and communications sector in Australia and promoting the digital economy.The head of the department was the Secretary of the...
Q7307167 National referendums are seldom used in Canada. The first two referendums saw voters in Quebec and the remainder of Canada take dramatically opposing stands, the third saw most of the voters take a stand dramatically opposed to that of the politicians in power.
Q733545 John Hanbury (6 August 1744 – 6 April 1784) was a British heir and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1784.
Q6231322 John Edward McCarthy (1911–1977) was a radio actor and announcer. Born on a farm near Parnell, Michigan, he attended St. Thomas High School in Ann Arbor, and attended the University of Michigan.Before World War II, he was an announcer at radio stations WMBC and WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan. On WXYZ in the late 19...
Q6777115 Martinelli Building (in Portuguese: Edifício Martinelli), with 30 floors, was the first skyscraper in Brazil. It is located in São Paulo.The construction of the building began in 1922 and it was inaugurated in 1929 with 12 floors. The construction of the building followed until 1934. The work ended when the bu...
Q3440912 Roman Valiyev (born 27 March 1984 in Russian SFSR in Orenburg) is a Kazakhstani triple jumper.He finished fourth at the 2005 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the final.His personal best jump is 16.98 metres, achiev...
Q5505694 From the Outside is the fifteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released as a limited edition of 500 copies in Belgium in 1985. From The Outside was available in the UK as well, but the label is unknown.Colin Harper describes the album on his Bert Jansch biography, "Dazzling Stranger": "Towards ...
Q6834386 Michael Sidney Timpson (born February 26, 1970 in Mountain View, California) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Q8081262 Łęczna [ˈwɛnt͡ʂna] (German: Henningswalde) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoty, within Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Płoty, 13 km (8 mi) south of Gryfice, and 58 km (36 mi) north-east of the regiona...
Q7134730 The following are the national records in athletics in Paraguay maintained by its national athletics federation: Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo (FPA).
Q7174268 Elder Peter Godsday Orubebe (born 6 June 1959) was appointed Nigerian Minister of Niger Delta on 6 April 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.
Q7500490 Shoot Low Sheriff is a Western Swing band based in Dallas, Texas. Formed in 2008, the 7-piece group consists of vocalist Erik Swanson (formerly of Cowboys & Indians and the Texas Gypsies), Brandon Lusk (trumpet), Dustin Ballard (fiddle/electric mandolin), Jessica Munn (guitar), Larry Reed (bass), Geoff Vinton ...
Q6076138 Of a multicultural heritage, conductor Isaac Chueke perfected his studies of piano, composition and conducting in Europe and the US. Among his principal teachers Karl Österreicher in Vienna and Maurice Peress in New York City, he also followed the masterclasses of Sergiu Celibidache and Georg Solti, attended r...
Q7263406 Pyrausta pellicalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Spain and North Africa, including Algeria.
Q745399 Bar Raion (Ukrainian: Барський район) is one of the 33 regions of Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Bar. Population: 53,007 (2015 est.)
Q17103012 The following is a list of awards and nominations received by William Shatner. Shatner earned Saturn Award nominations for his performances in the Star Trek films (as the awards did not reward television series at the time). He earned five Best Actor nominations: the first for Kingdom of the Spiders, the four...
Q5539819 George Gordon Stott, Lord Stott, PC, QC (22 December 1909 – 12 April 1999) was a Scottish advocate, sheriff and Lord Advocate, the chief legal officer for the Crown and government in Scotland. In retirement Gordon Stott published three volumes of extracts from the diaries he had been keeping throughout his leg...
Q16018670 Franz M. Benteler (1 June 1925 – 12 March 2010) was a German-born American virtuoso violinist from Chicago, Illinois. A favorite of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, Benteler was known as the "Ambassador of Music for Chicago".
Q16729396 Miljan Govedarica (born 26 May 1994) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian professional footballer who plays for HŠK Zrinjski Mostar in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Q18128540 National Disaster Management Authority, abbreviated as NDMA, is an agency of the Ministry of Home Affairs whose primary purpose is to coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response. NDMA was established through the Disaster Management ...
Q18619473 Julien Romain Gambetta (born 23 February 1996) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bergerac Foot.
Q3254762 The following is the list of the 62 stations on the Rotterdam Metro system in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Rotterdam Metro has five metro lines, lines A through E. Line E is also referred to by the brand name RandstadRail, although it is operated by the same company as lines A through D. At Beurs station, one c...
Q43451 Itbayag, officially the Municipality of Itbayag (Ivatan: Kavahayan nu Itbayag; Tagalog: Bayan ng Itbayag), is a municipality in the province of Batanes in the Region 2 of the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 2,867 people.Itbayat is the country's northernmost municipality, located...
Q1657914 Terrinches is a municipality located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 773 (2014). It contains the church of Santo Domingo de Guzman.
Q13562437 Joan L. Millman (born April 20, 1940) represented District 52 in the New York State Assembly, which consists of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Vinegar Hill, Gowanus, DUMBO, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and Prospect Heights.Chosen in a special election held in 1997, Mi...
Q4727192 Alison Starling-Alexander is an American television news anchor and journalist. She is a co-anchor of WJLA-TV's weekday 4 PM, 5PM and 11PM newscasts.
Q6849467 Mikey Post (April 29, 1982 - February 17, 2018) was an American actor. He had dwarfism and was three feet two inches tall.He appeared in the films Black Knight, Rest Stop, Rest Stop 2, Killer Pad, Skid Marks, Bedtime Stories, TV shows MADtv, Boardwalk Empire, 90210 and on Animal Planet's Reality Show Pit Boss...
Q2850263 Anjou–Louis-Riel is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located in northern Montreal and consists of the Anjou borough of Montreal plus a part of the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.The riding was created in 1972 under the name A...
Q364040 Asier Arranz Martín (born 28 March 1987), known simply as Asier, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Gimnástica Segoviana CF as a left midfielder.
Q1945045 Hyperolius zonatus is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae.It is found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and possibly Liberia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Q7526659 Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet (18 April 1859 – 20 April 1949) was a Welsh civil engineer and politician.The son of a sea captain, he was brought up in Fishguard and studied at the University of Bristol. He qualified as a civil engineer and was involved in the building of the Severn Tunnel and the Manches...
Q144837 Lepidodendrales (from Gr. "scale tree") were primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plants related to the lycopsids (club mosses). They thrived during the Carboniferous period, and some reached heights of over 30 meters, with trunks often more than one meter in diameter. Sometimes called "giant club moss...
Q4710685 Albert Lauder (11 October 1898 – 4 September 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Lauder was at Collingwood during a prolific period for the club, and despite playing only 36 league games he played in three premiership sides. He always play...
Q4842280 Bahadurpura is a town and Union Council of Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is part of Kasur Tehsil, and is located at 31°3'49N 74°23'54E with an altitude of 185 metres (610 feet).
Q4643447 75th Division was an infantry division of the British Army in World War I. It was raised in the field by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) in 1917 and it included British, Indian and South African troops. It served in the Middle East during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign being involved in the Battles of...
Q16234219 Marcus Earl Stroman (born May 1, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Stroman is listed at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m), making him one of only six pitchers shorter than 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) to...
Q16844981 Edward Partherich (c. 1630 – buried 1705), of Littleport, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician.
Q14079538 Pericyma atrifusa is a moth of the family Erebidae.
Q16946384 This was the first edition of the event.Andrej Martin and Igor Zelenay won the title, defeating Błażej Koniusz and Mateusz Kowalczyk in the final, 6–1, 7–5.
Q25222163 One Piece is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda that has been translated into various languages and spawned a substantial media franchise. It follows the adventures of the seventeen-year-old boy Monkey D. Luffy, whose body gained the properties of rubber when he accidentally ate a s...
Q2569078 Vienna porcelain is the product of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory (German: Kaiserlich privilegierte Porcellain Fabrique), a porcelain manufacturer in Alsergrund in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1718 and continued until 1864. The firm was Europe's second-oldest porcelain factory after Meissen porcelain, ...
Q426150 Julius Rudel (6 March 1921 – 26 June 2014) was an American opera and orchestra conductor. He was born in Vienna and was a student at the city's Academy of Music. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 17 in 1938 after the country was annexed by Germany.He studied conducting at the Mannes College of Mus...
Q409162 Asisite (Pb7SiO8Cl2) is a yellow tetragonal mineral. It is found at Kombat Mine, Kombat, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. It was named for a farm, Asis, which covers the mine where it was found. It was discovered in 1988.
Q922043 Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster (Harlequin, or The Windows, BV 270) is a one-act opera with spoken dialog by Ferruccio Busoni, with a libretto in German, composed in 1913. He completed the music for the opera while living in Zurich in 1916. It is a number opera written in neo-classical style and includes ironic a...
Q5335238 Edward Anderson (born November 27, 1970) is an East Coast hip-hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, better known by his stage names Ed O.G. and Edo G.. Although not widely known in the mainstream, Ed O.G. has a cult following in Boston, and an international fanbase.
Q2504242 State Highway 321, or SH 321, is a north–south highway in southeastern Texas, starting at US 90 in Dayton and ending at Loop 573 in Cleveland. The route was designated on October 30, 1939.In Cleveland, SH 321 is also known as Houston Street, providing the main street for downtown Cleveland. It is a two lane ur...
Q6924570 Mount White is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Sydney. It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area.It is home to a minor interchange on the Pacific Motorway.
Q5448230 Fikr Taunsvi real name Ram Lal (7 October 1918 – 12 September 1987) was an Urdu poet, born in a village of Taunsa Sharif, then part of India. He was famous for his satires and was a Hindu by religion. He wrote twenty books in Urdu and eight in Hindi.
Q7982137 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council is the local authority for the Welwyn Hatfield non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom. Welwyn Hatfield is located in the centre of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region. The Council itself is based in Welwyn Garden City, the largest settlement in the d...
Q7507444 After the May 12, 2008, earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan, there was a series of allegations of corruption against officials involved in the construction of schools in regions affected by the quake. It gained momentum in May and June 2008, and the allegations culminated in protests from grieving pa...
Q1300340 István Sztáni (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈiʃtvaːn ˈstɒni]; born 19 March 1937) is a former football manager and a retired Hungarian football striker.Sztani left Hungary for Eintracht Frankfurt and faced a one-year FIFA ban. With the Main siders he won the German championship in 1959. At the end of the season h...
Q3296841 A referendum on resolving the border dispute with Croatia was held in Slovenia on 6 June 2010. Voters were asked whether the dispute should be brought before an international arbitration tribunal. The results showed 51.54% of voters in favour, with a voter turnout of 42.66%.
Q5450670 Finn Tarp (1951–present) is a Danish Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen (where he completed his MSc and PhD) and former Director of UNU-WIDER (2009-2018), Helsinki, Finland.
Q4606746 The 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships were 7–16 July at 3 locations in Queensland, Australia. This was the sixth edition of the Championships, and featured competitions in: swimming—7, 8, 10 + 12 July at Trinity Anglican School in Cairns;open water swimming—9 + 12 July at Palm Cove Beach;synchronized swimmin...
Q7840233 4x Mixed Relay Triathlon was part of the triathlon at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics programme. The event consisted of a relay with each athlete performing 250 metres (0.16 mi) of swimming, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of cycling, and 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) of running. It was held on 19 August 2010 at East Coast Par...
Q427010 Qustaki al-Himsi (Arabic: قسطاكي الحمصي / ALA-LC: Qusṭākī al-Ḥimṣī; 1858–1941) was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement (the Arabic renaissance), a prominent figure in the Arabic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the first reformers of the traditional Arabic poetry. With his book Th...
Q3635131 Prince Edward's Gate is a city gate at the entrance to Prince Edward's Road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It cuts through Charles V Wall, one of the 16th century fortifications of Gibraltar at the former southern limit of the city. The gate is adjacent to the west wall of the Flat Bastion, an...
Q14834549 Diadelia paracostipennis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1970.
Q148656 Acer stachyophyllum is an Asian species of maple. It is native to China (Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan), Myanmar, northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal.Acer stachyophyllum is a deciduous tree up to 15 meters tall with smooth yellow-brown bark. It is dioecious, meaning that male and f...
Q2334125 The Poseidon of Melos is a statue of Poseidon in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (NAMA), with the inventory number 235, which is dated to the last quarter of the second century BC. It is believed to be dated back to the Hellenistic Period.The statue was found in 1877 on the island of Melos. It is ma...
Q13313352 Amblypodia narada is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Thomas Horsfield in 1828. It is found in Southeast Asia (Java, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, southern Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra).
Q981479 Carl Celian Icahn (; born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate holding company based in New York City, formerly known as American Real Estate Partners. He is also Chairman of Fe...
Q7909064 Val Anderson was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1991 general election, as a candidate of the BC Liberal Party, and was re-elected in the 1996 and 2001 elections.During his youth, Anderson had been a member of the Saskatchewa...
Q6521902 Leonard Matheson Norris, better known as Len Norris (1913 in London, England – 1997 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada), was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Canadian newspaper Vancouver Sun from 1950 to 1988. Called by Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo, "the best in the business", Norris' cartoons ske...
Q488042 The Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Raj...
Q1329397 The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity, the first of three node modules, and conn...
Q14875557 Overdale was a small residential district in downtown Montreal which became a famous symbol of the struggle between urban conservationists and land developers.In the mid-1980s, two developers, Robert Landau and Douglas Cohen—operating under an array of names, including Les Galleria Dorchester, and Grinch Real...