text
stringlengths
19
150k
Q3358197 Bogale (Burmese: ဘိုကလေးမြို့ [bòɡəlé mjo̰n]; also spelled Bogalay) is a small city located in the Bogale Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar (Burma). It is located on the south-western part of Myanmar/Burma on the mainland section of the country. It can be reached by both water transportation and by land.
Q1036008 The Tōgū Palace (東宮御所, Tōgū-gosho) is located in the Akasaka Estate in Akasaka, Tokyo. Tōgū literally means "East Palace", the traditional name for the residence of the Crown Prince in East Asia.
Q597816 Glorianes is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Q7910782 Valentin Kulev (Russian: Валентин Кулев, born July 10, 1948) is a Russian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics.In 1972 he was part of the Soviet team which finished fifth. He played all six matches and scored 13 goals.
Q7260895 Purbia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Q2367363 Kullimaa is a village in Käru Parish, Rapla County in western-central Estonia.
Q139832 France competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, between 27 July and 12 August 2012. French athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era. The French Olympic Committee sent a total of 330 athletes to the Games, 183 men and 147 women, to compete in 24 sports.France left London with...
Q6247146 John Mathew Gutch (1776-1861) was an English journalist and historian.
Q2164333 The AAC Honey Badger is an integrally suppressed personal defense weapon based on the AR-15. It is chambered in .300 AAC Blackout and produced by Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC), a subsidiary of Remington Outdoor Company. The weapon is named after the honey badger.
Q16980554 The 2013–14 Saint Joseph's Hawks basketball team represented Saint Joseph's University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hawks, led by 19th year head coach Phil Martelli, played their home games at Hagan Arena and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the sea...
Q18348229 Villains and Vigilantes is a Role-playing game in the superhero genre. It was an early rpg, originally published in 1979 and has currently been through two editions. A revision to the second edition, known as version 2.1, has been published by Monkey House Games, though some controversy surrounds this editio...
Q17634956 May Blossom is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by David Belasco based upon his 1884 play. The film stars Russell Bassett, Donald Crisp, Marshall Neilan, Gertrude Norman, and Gertrude Robinson. The film was released on April 15, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Q19595935 Ardeae is a clade that of birds that contains Eurypygimorphae and Aequornithes, named in 2014 by genome analysis. Initially members of Eurypygimorphae were originally classified in the obsolete group Metaves, and Aequornithes were classified as the sister taxon to Musophagiformes or Gruiformes.
Q21855212 The Face Thailand season 2 began audition on 2 August 2015 at Royal Paragon Hall in Siam Paragon in Bangkok. Lukkade Metinee was reprised their roles as coaches again. Bee Namthip and Cris Horwang was the new coach in this season. Khun Chanon was a host replaced Utt Uttsada and Janie Tienphosuwan was a specia...
Q4282549 Debra Martin Chase (born October 11, 1956) is an American motion picture and television producer. Her company, Martin Chase Productions, is affiliated with Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Television Group. It was affiliated with the Walt Disney Company from 2001 to 2016. She is the first Afric...
Q1037659 Carl Alfred Erhardt (15 February 1897 in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom – 3 May 1988) was an English ice hockey player who captained the British national team to numerous international championships in the 1930s, including Olympic gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Q3072473 The 1974 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1973–74 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Milwaukee Bucks 4 games to 3 to win the NBA championship.
Q4671057 The Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Spanish for Chilean Language Academy) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Chile. It is a member of the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española.It was founded in Santiago de Chile on June 5, 1885. It started out with 18 membe...
Q942314 Villanueva is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.
Q7693707 Ted William Schellenberg (born 11 August 1952) is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. Schellenberg served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.Born in Dauphin, Manitoba, Schellenberg was elected at the Nanaimo—Alberni electoral district in the 1984 federal elec...
Q225183 Bain-de-Bretagne (Breton: Baen-Veur, Gallo: Bóen) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Q7086025 Oleg Mikhailovich Babenkov (Russian: Олег Михайлович Бабенков; born 21 June 1985) is a Russian professional football player. He plays for FC Sokol Saratov.
Q15435915 Bernard Lloyd (30 January 1934 – 12 December 2018) was a Welsh actor noted for his television roles. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.Perhaps his most famous role is as The Traveller, the man who tries to unravel signalman Denholm Elliott's ...
Q74120 Jost Schömann-Finck (born 8 October 1982 in Zell) is a German rower.
Q13380050 Guan (simplified Chinese: 关; traditional Chinese: 關; pinyin: Guān) is a Chinese surname. Guan is 394th in the Hundred Family Surnames.In Hong Kong, the surname is romanised as Kwan in Cantonese. In Taiwan, the Wade–Giles spelling Kuan is used. In Macao, the surname is as Kuan due to the Portuguese influence...
Q309777 Pentaceraster is a genus of sea stars in the family Oreasteridae.
Q757806 Atsushi Sato (佐藤敦之, born 8 May 1978) is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. He is the Asian record holder in the half marathon with his time of 60:25 minutes. His marathon best of 2:07:13 hours is the fourth fastest by a Japanese athlete. He is married to Miho Sato (née Sugimori), wh...
Q7924536 Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1151 is an English tort law and UK labour law case, which held that a worker can have more than one employer at the same time, who will be vicariously liable for the worker.
Q14861857 "Wasting All These Tears" is a song by American singer-songwriter Cassadee Pope, written by Caitlyn Smith and Rollie Gaalswyk. It was released as Pope's debut solo single from her debut solo studio album Frame by Frame on May 31, 2013. It is the first song by Pope to reach Gold status, and has since been cer...
Q16841416 Hartsville Community Center-Hartsville Community Market is a historic community center and public market complex located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1935-1936 utilizing federal loans from the Public Works Administration. The Hartsville Community Center is a two-story, fi...
Q18581766 Royal George was a three-decker East Indiaman launched in 1777. She made one voyage to Madras and China for the British East India Company. Her voyage took place during the American War of Independence, and she had just set out on her second voyage when a Spanish fleet captured her on 9 August 1780, together ...
Q20814767 Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (Italian: Cifrato speciale, Spanish: Cifrado especial, French: Message chiffré, also known as Special Code and Special Cypher) is a 1966 Italian-Spanish-French Eurospy film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Lang Jeffries. Set in Istanbul, it was shot almost entirely...
Q19968998 Andreas Vangstad (born 24 March 1992) is a Norwegian cyclist riding for Joker Icopal. He was named in the startlist for the 2015 UCI World Time Trial Championships.
Q7339103 Rezik Zechariah Hassan has been the Governor of Lol State, South Sudan since 24 December 2015. He is the first governor of the state, which was created by President Salva Kiir on 2 October 2015.He was previously Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal.
Q61032 Cleveland County (formerly Dorsey County) is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 8,689 at the 2010 U.S. census. The county seat is Rison.Cleveland County is included in the Pine Bluff, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR...
Q1914598 Protivin is a city in Chickasaw and Howard counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 283 at the 2010 census. Early settlers named the city after the Bohemian town of Protivín in what is now the south of the Czech Republic. The current mayor of Protivin is Michael Lensing.
Q1100605 Clericis laicos was a Papal bull issued on February 5, 1296 by Pope Boniface VIII in an attempt to prevent the secular states of Europe, in particular France and England, from appropriating church revenues without the express prior permission of the pope. The two expansionist monarchies had come to blows, and ...
Q8072495 Zion Canyon (also called Little Zion, Mukuntuweap, Mu-Loon'-Tu-Weap, and Straight Cañon; weap is Paiute for canyon) is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River. Nearly the entire canyon is located within the western half of Zion National Park.
Q4928072 Bloody Jack, fully titled Bloody Jack: Being An Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship's Boy is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer. It is centered on an orphaned girl in London in the early 19th century. The story is continued in Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger, In the Bell...
Q6919217 Mount Aaron (74°31′S 64°53′W) is a mountain in the northwest part of the Latady Mountains in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for W.T. Aaron, electrician with ...
Q7626745 Stuart John Laughton (born August 19, 1951 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. He is Founder and Artistic Director of The Forest Festival in Ontario's Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve.In his youth, Laughton studied trumpet with Joseph Umbrico in Toronto and became one of the original memb...
Q6667292 Logansville (also Loganville) is an unincorporated community in central Pleasant Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States. It lies along State Route 47 at its intersection with County Road 24. The Great Miami River flows southward along the western edge of Logansville. The community lies 2½ miles (4 km) nor...
Q5072225 Channappa D. Uttangi (28 October 1881 in Uttangi what is now the Karnataka State in South India – 1962 in Karnataka State) was an Indian author and poet.Channappa Uttangi began his Theological studies at the age of twenty at the Basel Seminary. Upon completing his studies Uttangi joined Basel Mission as an Eva...
Q7345911 Robert J. Hill (died May 29, 1953), nicknamed Bobil, was a draftsman, designer and the art director of the bronze division of Gorham, Inc. in Rhode Island. He designed in 1926 the General Custer Trophy, and in 1935 the Borg-Warner Trophy. He retired in 1948.
Q669591 Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary school teacher and her relationships with those around her. The film was well received by critics and resulted in a number of awards for Mike Leigh's direction and s...
Q2159621 Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC (born in White Plains, New York) is a BAFTA nominated American cinematographer.
Q5962674 The Hyundai Team Matches were a series of golf tournaments from 1994 to 2002. The matches features four two-player teams from the LPGA Tour, the PGA Tour, and the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour). Within each tour, the teams competed in a match play format. It was played at three different locations in...
Q277097 Witthaya Thamwong (Thai: วิทยา ทำว่อง; born 18 September 1987 in Lampang, Thailand) is a Thai archer. He competed in the individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Q7680932 Tamas Dobozy (born 26 August 1969) is a Canadian writer and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Q18389218 The Polish United Party (Polish: Polskie Zjednoczenie Ludowe, PZL) was a political party in Poland.
Q9608042 Tongzhou or Tong Prefecture (Chinese: t 衕州, s 同州, p Tòngzhōu) was a prefecture of imperial China seated in modern Dali County, Shaanxi. It existed intermittently from AD 554 to 1913.Between 1735 and 1913 during the Qing dynasty it was known as Tongzhou Prefecture (t 衕州府, s 同州府, p Tòngzhōufǔ).
Q19869805 The 1969 British Hard Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth in England. It was the 40th edition of the tournament and the second edition in the Open Era of tennis. The tournament was held from 28 April through...
Q21775784 Kerf is an outdoor series of two pigmented cast concrete sculptures by Thomas Sayre, installed at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek station in the southeast Portland, Oregon portion of the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, which straddles the border between Portland (and Multnomah Count...
Q25840959 Candidimonas humi is a Gram-negative bacterium from the genus Candidimonas which has been isolated from sewage sludge in Portugal.
Q7384990 Rye Township is a township in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,364 at the 2010 census.
Q3188034 Joyce Audrey Botterill (27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015), known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Q1376690 Jason Paul London (born November 7, 1972) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993) and as Jesse in The Rage: Carrie 2.
Q162818 Ranunculus aquatilis, the common water-crowfoot or white water-crowfoot, is a plant species of the genus Ranunculus, native throughout most of Europe and western North America, and also northwest Africa.This is an aquatic plant, growing in mats on the surface of water. It has branching thread-like underwater le...
Q8001822 Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson (September 29, 1935 – August 29, 1988) was a United States (FBI) Federal Bureau of Investigation informant from 1966 to 1985. He provided the FBI, who code-named him "Wahoo" because of his Native American heritage, with information relating to John Gotti and other members of the Ga...
Q6627940 This List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature shows the members of one of the three departments of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.After being nominated by current members, new members are selected in two elections, the first by the department they join (Art...
Q1263713 Dudley Chase Haskell (March 23, 1842 – December 16, 1883) was a nineteenth-century politician and merchant from Kansas. He was the grandfather of Otis Halbert Holmes.He is the namesake of Haskell County in southwestern Kansas.
Q10798070 Neomphalus fretterae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neomphalidae.This species common name is the Galapagos rift limpet
Q4705058 Al khadra may refer to:Al khadra', Jizan, Saudi ArabiaAl khadra', Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Q6577561 The following is a list of managers of Maidstone United Football Club and their honours from the reformation of the club in 1992 to the present day.
Q276670 Presidential and vice-presidential elections were held in South Korea on 20 July 1948, following the Constitutional Assembly elections in May. The president was to be elected by the members of the National Assembly, as instructed by the 1948 Constitution. Of the 198 members of the National Assembly, 196 were pr...
Q7651644 Svanshall is a small fishing village on the western coast of northwest Skåne County, southwest Sweden, about 25 km north of Helsingborg. The nearest village to the south is Jonstorp; north along the coast are the villages of Skäret and Arild. The village has a small marina and lighthouse. On July 15, 1749 it w...
Q1220528 Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia is a Venezuelan public official. He served as Venezuela's Minister of Defense.
Q16007450 George Edwin William Monk (a.k.a. Ed Monk, Sr.) (Jan 1, 1894 - Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Washington, to Jan 21, 1973) was a shipwright and naval architect in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He was active from 1914 to 1973. He designed pleasure and commercial vessels, both power and sail.
Q16525650 Al-Mourabitoun (Arabic: المرابطون‎, romanized: al-Murābiṭūn, lit. 'The Sentinels') was an African militant jihadist organisation formed by a merger between Ahmed Ould Amer, a.k.a. Ahmed al-Tilemsi's Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa and Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Al-Mulathameen. In 4 December 2015, it j...
Q10610058 "One More Reggae for the Road" is a song written by Bill Lovelady and Aubrey Cash, and performed by Bill Lovelady himself, scoring major successes in Sweden and Norway.Ingmar Nordströms recorded the song on their 1980 studio album Saxparty 7. They also recorded it with lyrics in Swedish by Olle Bergman, as "T...
Q9069921 Li Yuan (Chinese: 李遠; born 31 October 1951), better known by his pen name Hsiao Yeh (小野), is a Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter.
Q19662779 Esin Hakaj (born 12 December 1996) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for KF Teuta Durrës in the Albanian Superliga.
Q21664680 Lewis Harvie Blair (June 21, 1834 – November 26, 1916) was an American businessman, economics expert, and author.
Q33418372 Łukasz Krzysztof Wielewiejski (16 October 1660 – 28 January 1743) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of Cambysopolis (1726–1743).
Q773853 Venice is a residential, commercial, and recreational beachfront neighborhood within Los Angeles, California. It is located within the urban region of western Los Angeles County known as the Westside.Venice was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it merged with ...
Q2311711 Pieksämäen maalaiskunta is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2004 it was joined to new municipality of Pieksänmaa with Jäppilä and Virtasalmi.
Q4348265 The 1976 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Democratic Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the United States Bicentennial celebration. Although almost half of the seats decided in this election changed parties, Carter's narrow victory did not pr...
Q351126 Project Blinkenlights was a light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin that transformed the building front into a giant low-resolution monochrome computer screen. The installation was created by the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and went online on 11 September 2001 as...
Q7996367 Whitewater recreation in British Columbia is available in most of the province. Except for north-central and northeast British Columbia, the province is mainly mountains with a correspondingly large number of rivers. The largest drainages are the Peace River in the northeast, the Fraser River from north centra...
Q5360262 Eli Kirk Price (July 20, 1797 – November 14, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a Whig member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district from 1853 to 1855, as commissioner of Fairmount Park from the time of its founding, and as a member of the ...
Q5446072 "Fever Dream" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1948 for Weird Tales. It deals with the issues and anxieties suffered by teenagers that result from bodily change, in a somewhat Gothic light.
Q7868672 USS Curb (ARS-21) was a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels.Curb (ARS-21) was launched 24 April 1943 by Basalt Rock Company in Napa, California; sponsored by Mrs. H. Peterson; and commissioned 12 May 1944, Li...
Q8028111 Witham Charterhouse, also Witham Priory, at Witham Friary, Somerset, was established in 1178/79, the earliest of the ten medieval Carthusian houses (charterhouses) in England. It was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.
Q3101939 George Stowers (born 14 February 1979) is a Samoan international rugby union player. He plays as a Flanker or a No.8.
Q8062223 Yuya Funatsu (船津 佑也, Funatsu Yūya, born November 22, 1983) is a former Japanese football player.
Q6863580 Mind the Gap (Swedish: Se upp för dårarna) is a 2007 Swedish film directed by Helena Bergström.
Q5199838 Cymothoe rebeli is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon.
Q6407081 Kill Alex Cross is the 18th book in the Alex Cross series, following Det. Alex Cross trying to solve two crimes - the president's kidnapped children and a case of someone poisoning the water supply.
Q19570981 Bayasade Banda Bhagya (Kannada: ಬಯಸದೇ ಬಂದ ಭಾಗ್ಯ)is a 1977 Kannada film written by Bala Murugan and directed by R. Ramamurthy. The film stars Vishnuvardhan and Balakrishna, with actors Manjula, Ram Gopal, and Sri Lalitha.
Q21025128 Dongcheon Station is a metro station located in Dongcheon-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It is located right next to the Gyeongbu Expressway and riders can immediately transfer to a bus on the highway via a bus transfer stop located directly at Exit 1.Frequent riders from Dongcheon Station t...
Q28824069 Amonkhet is a Magic: The Gathering expansion block consisting of the sets Amonkhet and Hour of Devastation. Amonkhet was released on April 28, 2017, and Hour of Devastation was released on July 14, 2017. The eponymous plane has an ancient Egyptian theme, and features concepts like mummies and embalming.
Q28946085 Bertha Matilda Sprinks Goudy (September 6, 1869-October 21, 1935) was an American typographer, fine press printer, and co-proprietor with Frederic W. Goudy of the Village Press from 1903 until her death in 1935.
Q30323604 Doug Lancio is a guitarist and record producer, based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked with a wide range of artists including John Hiatt, Nanci Griffith, and Patty Griffin.
Q27906742 Ben Rich is a British meteorologist and BBC Weather forecaster.
Q7801173 Tiffany "Tiffani" Jane Wood (born 8 November 1977), briefly known as Tiffani Cummins, is an Australian singer and songwriter, who is a former member of female pop group Bardot. Wood later established an independent solo career, and released her debut solo album Bite Your Tongue in 2006.
Q1382177 The term "muskroot" can also refer to spikenard or Adoxa moschatellinaSumbul, also called sumbal or muskroot, is a drug occasionally employed in European medical practice. It consists of the root of Ferula moschata , known formerly by the synonym Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant of the 'giant fennel' ...
Q6640175 This is a list of sound artists. Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There is contention as to which artists are “sound artists” or if another category might be more accurate such as experimental music, electronic m...
Q7005616 New Boston Independent School District is a public school district based in New Boston, Texas (USA). In addition to New Boston, the district also serves the community of Boston.In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
Q11442298 Tenshi No Uta (天使の詩, lit. "Angel's Song") is a role-playing video game series produced by Telenet Japan. The series has a motif of Celtic mythology, while with the theme of the love between man and woman.The series contains three titles: Tenshi No Uta (天使の詩) (1991), Tenshi no Uta II: Datenshi no Sentaku (天使の詩...
Q1079598 The 1983 European Cup Final was a football match held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, on 25 May 1983, that saw Hamburger SV of Germany defeat Juventus of Italy 1–0. A single goal from Felix Magath eight minutes into the game was enough for Hamburg to claim their first European Cup title.