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Q2239801 Lynchius flavomaculatus (vernacular name: yellow-spotted Andes frog) is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is found in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru.
Q3544616 Akatsuki-iro no Senpuku Majo (暁色の潜伏魔女, lit. "Dawn-colored Hiding Witch") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Mera Hakamada, who has also written The Last Uniform. The manga was serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Comic High! between August 22, 2006 and April 22, 200...
Q6028670 Inez Beverly Prosser, teacher and school administrator, is often regarded as the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D in psychology. After growing up in Texas, Prosser was educated at Prairie View Normal College, the University of Colorado and the University of Cincinnati. She was killed in a car ac...
Q6128234 Mudan (Chinese: 牡丹車站; pinyin: Mǔdān Chēzhàn) is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Yilan line located in Shuangxi District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Q3842912 Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix is a remix album by American hip hop duo Madvillain. The album is a re-working of the 2004 debut album, Madvillainy. It was released via Stones Throw Records in 2008.It has been released on the Stones Throw Records online store as a box set including the primary CD, a 7-inch vin...
Q645715 The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with Les Quatre Cents Coups, directed by François Truffaut and closed with The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens.In 1959, the Marché du Film (lit. Film M...
Q8190017 Hama-Koshimizu Station (浜小清水駅, Hamakoshimizu-eki) is a railway station on the Senmō Main Line in Koshimizu, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).
Q16848137 India won three gold, seven silver and 23 bronze to finish a commendable 10th in the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games. For India, all the three gold were won by women and two came in kurash, a form of upright jacket wrestling originated in Uzbekistan.Shally Manral gave India their first gold in the women's 52 kg...
Q5270920 Diamond Silk Mill, also known as York Silk Manufacturing Company, is a historic silk mill located at Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1900. The mill is a 3 1/2-story, brick building with heavy timber frame trussing on a stone fo...
Q7657184 The Men's 50 metre backstroke S5 swimming event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was competed on 20 September. It was won by He Junquan, representing China.
Q16256000 The 2013 ABSA Under-19 Provincial Championship will be contested from 12 July to 26 October 2013. The tournament will feature the Under-19 players from the fourteen provincial rugby unions in South Africa.
Q28452347 New Skin is the debut studio album written and conducted by alternative pop singer and songwriter JONES. It was released on 7 October 2016 through 37 Adventures Records as the succeeding project to her debut extended play, entitled Indulge. The lead single from the album, entitled "Indulge", was released as a...
Q2686173 Bitoma vittata is a species of cylindrical bark beetle in the family Zopheridae. It is found in North America.
Q24694198 Comilla-11 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Mazibul Hoque of the Awami League.
Q1092839 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, N...
Q1591239 Tickell's blue flycatcher (Cyornis tickelliae) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family. This is an insectivorous species which breeds in tropical Asia, from the Indian Subcontinent eastwards to Bangladesh and western Myanmar. The Indochinese blue flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific. They ...
Q3517302 Established in 1988, Telehouse is a major carrier-neutral colocation, ICT solutions and managed services provider based in Docklands, London. It operates eight facilities spread between London, Paris and Frankfurt. Part of the global Telehouse network of data centres, the brand has 45 colocation facilities in ...
Q3237295 Lewis J. Selznick (born Laiser Zeleznick, May 2, 1870 or 1869 – January 25, 1933) was an American producer in the early years of the film industry. After initial involvement with World Film at Fort Lee, New Jersey, he established Selznick Pictures in California.
Q7062334 Not The Captain's Birthday Party? is an album released on July 1986 by The Damned. The album is based on a live performance recorded by Engineer Tony Taverner, using La Maison Rouge mobile, on 27 November 1977 at the Roundhouse.Essentially, the album is a swift re-issue of The Captain's Birthday Party release ...
Q5322825 The EDAG Biwak is an estate concept car from the EDAG (Engineering + Design AG) firm based on the Volkswagen New Beetle. The EDAG Biwak appears as a sport utility vehicle or a two-door estate car with the body of the Volkswagen New Beetle. In the Geneva Auto Show in 2006, it appeared as a concept car. EDAG Bi...
Q3396768 The Viau Bridge (officially in French: Pont Viau; formerly called the Ahuntsic Bridge, French: Pont Ahuntsic) was built in 1930, rebuilt in 1962 and widened in 1993.The bridge spans the Rivière des Prairies between the Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville and the Laval neighbourhood of Pont Viau. It is pa...
Q6646878 This is a list of World War I-related lists:List of Australian corps in World War IList of Australian divisions in WWIList of British armies in WWIList of British corps in WWIList of British divisions in WWIList of Canadian soldiers executed during World War IList of German weapons of World War IList of Indian...
Q1050178 Menkyo (免許) is a Japanese term meaning "license." It refers to the license to teach used by practitioners of various Japanese classical arts and martial arts certifying some license within the school or ryū. The menkyo system dates back to the 8th century.
Q571546 Black seadevils are small, deepsea lophiiform fishes of the family Melanocetidae. The five known species (with only two given common names) are all within the genus Melanocetus. They are found in tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, with one species known only from the Ross ...
Q16734784 T. Pushparaju is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate from Alangudi constituency in 1977 election and from Thirumayam constituency in 1984 election.District President in ...
Q7697038 Television in Mali was introduced in 1983. The following is a list of television channels broadcast in Mali.
Q3036019 Gomiljani (Serbian Cyrillic: Гомиљани) is a village in the municipality of Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Q1652479 Hüseyin Kalpar (born 25 February 1955) is a Turkish former professional footballer, and later a manager. He managed several Turkish clubs.
Q7378755 Ruin Arm (ルインアーム) is a 1995 Japan-exclusive Action role-playing video game for the Super Famicom.
Q918149 Rising (also known as Rainbow Rising) is the second studio album by the British rock band Rainbow, released in 1976. In issue 4 of Kerrang! magazine (cover-dated October 1981), Rising was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time. In 2017, it was ranked 48th at Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Metal Albums ...
Q19663942 Gregory J. Goff ("Greg") is an American businessman the President and Chief Executive Officer of Andeavor, formerly Tesoro, where he has been since May 2010.
Q21062354 Martyn Bal is a Dutch fashion designer.
Q22006852 Frank L. Meyskens Jr. (born around 1946) is the Daniel G. Aldrich Chair and Director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.
Q28657339 The House-Museum of Mitrofan Grekov (Russian: Дом-музей Митрофана Грекова, tr. Dom-muzyey Mitrofana Grekova) opened in 1957 in Novocherkassk, Rostov oblast, Russia and is devoted to the exhibition of the Soviet battle painter's things, sketches, as well as to the research and study of his creative output. It ...
Q4176108 The Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project (本州四国連絡橋, Honshū-Shikoku Renraku-kyū) is a system of bridges connecting the islands of Honshu and Shikoku across the Inland Sea of Japan, which were previously only connected by ferry. It consists of three major connections. All bridges are now controlled by the Honshu-Shikoku...
Q168346 A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series of uncombined initials is properly referred to as a cypher (e.g. a r...
Q1195792 The Intel Core microarchitecture (previously known as the Next-Generation Micro-Architecture) is a multi-core processor microarchitecture unveiled by Intel in Q1 2006. It is based on the Yonah processor design and can be considered an iteration of the P6 microarchitecture, introduced in 1995 with Pentium Pro. ...
Q887790 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 2006.
Q772466 The Gachalá Emerald, one of the most valuable and famous emeralds in the world, was found in the year 1967, in the mine called Vega de San Juan, located in Gachala, a town in Colombia, located 142 km (88 mi) from Bogota. Gachalá Chibcha means "place of Gacha." Presently the emerald is in the United States, wher...
Q18034847 Nuclear envelope pore membrane protein POM 121 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the POM121 gene. Alternatively spliced variants that encode different protein isoforms have been described but the full-length nature of only one has been determined.
Q303963 Abdelmalek Ziaya (born 23 January 1984) is an Algerian footballer who plays for Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 club USM Annaba.
Q919771 Dobrów [ˈdɔbruf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczawin Kościelny, within Gostynin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Szczawin Kościelny, 15 km (9 mi) south-east of Gostynin, and 97 km (60 mi) west of Warsaw.
Q710363 Feng Zhenghu (born 1 July 1954) is a Chinese economist and scholar based in Shanghai. Citing Amnesty International, The Guardian said that Feng was "a prominent human rights defender" in China. In 2001 he was sent to prison for three years ostensibly for "illegal business activity". He was released in 2004 and ...
Q7162081 Pen Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in Western India. It is located in the Raigad district.
Q644871 Ialibu-Pangia District is a district of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Ialibu. The population was 63,478 at the 2011 census.
Q8061032 The Yuma County Library District serves the population of Yuma County, Arizona. Today the library district consists of the nearly 80,000 square foot Main Library located in Yuma as well as branches in downtown Yuma, the Foothills, Somerton, San Luis, Wellton, Dateland, and Roll. The first Yuma Library, a Car...
Q637702 House of Yes: Live from House of Blues is a double live CD by progressive rock band Yes. It was also released as a triple album on vinyl in a single sleeve. The album was recorded on Halloween night in 1999 at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, during touring obligations for the band's studio alb...
Q4742349 Ameltolide, a 4-aminobenzamide derivative, is an experimental anticonvulsant agent, effective at inhibiting seizures in animal models. It is non-toxic at dosing levels and no undesirable side effects are attributable to its application.
Q15994326 Andrew M. Brass is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in the School of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences.
Q15713313 Cilvia Demo (also referred to as Cilvia) is the debut EP by American rapper Isaiah Rashad. It was released on January 28, 2014, by Top Dawg Entertainment. The EP features guest appearances from Jean Deaux and Michael Da Vinci, as well as his Top Dawg label-mates SZA, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock. The EP's product...
Q20716031 Nagesh Bapurao Patil Ashtikar (Marathi: नागेश बापूराव पाटील आष्टिकर) is Shiv Sena politician from Nanded district, Marathwada. He is member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Hadgaon Assembly Constituency.
Q20739611 Denis Cotter (1862 – 18 November 1905) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1887 and 1889.
Q21598370 Raynold Theriault Sr. (May 12, 1936 – June 5, 2015) was an American politician from Maine. Theriault served six terms in the Maine Legislature. He was first elected as a Democrat to the Maine House of Representatives in November 1980, where he spent three terms. In 1986, Theriault was elected to the Maine Sen...
Q28100789 General George Washington at Trenton is a large full-length portrait in oil painted in 1792 by the American artist John Trumbull of General George Washington at Trenton, New Jersey, on the night of January 2, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. This is the night after the Battle of the Assunpink Cree...
Q2079294 Grecia (Spanish: meaning "Greece") is the capital city of the canton of Grecia in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito (Spanish, meaning "district") that includes the city. The district of Grecia covers an area of 6.86 km², and has a population of 15,457.The city lies at ...
Q189210 In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server computer program which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a web browser. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, and online auction.
Q3492080 Not to be confused with InnisfailInnisfil is a town in Ontario, Canada, located on the western shore of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County, immediately south of Barrie and 80 kilometres north of Toronto. It has historically been a rural area, but growth in the Barrie area and the Greater Toronto Area has meant great...
Q5665711 Harrison H. Jeffords (August 21, 1834 – July 3, 1863) was the Colonel of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. He was noted for his heroism on July 2, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he gave his life while protecting the U...
Q1358894 The goldeye is a freshwater fish found in Canada and the northern United States. It is one of only two remaining species in the family Hiodontidae, the other species being the mooneye (Hiodon tergisus). The species name alosoides means shad-like. It is also called Winnipeg goldeye, western goldeye, yellow he...
Q504736 Villanders (German pronunciation: [fɪˈlandɐs]; Italian: Villandro [vilˈlandro]) is a village and comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy with 1875 inhabitants (12/31/2013). It is situated in the Isarco Valley (Italian: Valle Isarco; German: Eisacktal) above Klausen (Italian: Chiusa).
Q2486326 New York State Route 153 (NY 153) is a 3.03-mile (4.88 km) long north–south state highway located in the eastern suburbs of Rochester, New York, in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 96 in the village of Pittsford. Its northern terminus is at an interchange with NY 441 in the town o...
Q4598471 The 2001 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was played from March 7 to March 10, 2001. The tournament was played at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The winner was named champion of the Atlantic 10 Conference and received an automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament...
Q7900371 In enzymology, an ureidoglycolate hydrolase (EC 3.5.3.19) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction(S)-ureidoglycolate + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } glyoxylate + 2 NH3 + CO2Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are (S)-ureidoglycolate and H2O, whereas ...
Q383136 Châteauneuf-de-Bordette is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
Q1049843 Authezat is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.
Q804287 BakéGyamon (妖逆門) is an anime and manga series. Kazuhiro Fujita created the original concept. Mitsuhisa Tamura created the story and art of the manga. The series ran in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 2006 vol. 13 through 2007 vol. 16 and was collected in five volumes. The anime series, directed by Hiroshi Negishi, wa...
Q3018858 Oxythecta acceptella is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is found in Australia.
Q5055317 In differential geometry, Cayley's ruled cubic surface is the surface 3 z − 3 x y + x 3 = 0. {\displaystyle 3z-3xy+x^{3}=0.\ }
Q16958129 Trifecta Entertainment & Media is an American entertainment company founded in 2006. The company's founders previously held jobs as executives at MGM Television. Trifecta is primarily a distribution company and also handles advertising sales in exchange for syndication deals with local television stations, ca...
Q7899129 Uppland Runic Inscription 80 or U 80 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runic inscription that is located in Sundby, which is in Solna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.
Q7399286 Sagitcho was an element of the New Year festivities in Japan during the Heian period. It involved burning the paraphernalia of the festival, including fans, pine branches and poems, on a pyre constructed from three tied bamboo rods. It took place on January 15. The burning ceremony was the climax of the festiv...
Q17078626 Mowtowr-e Mojtame-e Keshavarzi Shahid Atiqi (Persian: موتورمجتمع كشاورزي شهيدعتيقي‎, also Romanized as Mowtowr-e Mojtame`-e Keshāvarzī Shahīd ʿAtīqī) is a village in Saadatabad Rural District, Pariz District, Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population...
Q18352645 Antonie is a Dutch and Romanian masculine given name cognate to Anthony and a Southern German feminine given name cognate to Antonia. Notable persons with the name include:
Q20675759 Harold Eugene Wagoner (February 27, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was a prominent twentieth-century American ecclesiastical architect who designed many notable churches, including Coral Ridge Presbyterian and National Presbyterian, as well as helping design the interior of the United States Air Force Academy Cadet C...
Q1687279 Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south.Founded in the late nineteenth century as a ranchi...
Q353619 Brad Walker (born June 21, 1981 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American pole vaulter. He was the American recordholder and was the 2007 World Champion in the event.
Q1953488 Ram Records (Royal Audio Music) was a Shreveport, Louisiana, based record label, founded in 1955 by Mira Ann Smith(1926–1989). The label recorded regional rhythm and blues, rockabilly, blues and country music artists. Ram's pressings were made by RCA. Ram also issued recordings on the Clif Records and K Record...
Q7613835 Stephen Farris Saint (born January 30, 1951) is an Ecuadorian-born business entrepreneur, pilot, and author. He is known for being the son of Nate Saint, a famous missionary pilot, as well as for his own work among indigenous tribes.
Q1255736 The 10th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 10 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, South America and the Atlantic Ocean.At this latitude the sun is visible for 12 hours, 43 m...
Q963216 Commander James Spratt born in Dublin (1771–1853), was an officer in the Royal Navy and became known as one of the heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar. Spratt was also the father of Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, English vice-admiral, hydrographer and geologist.Commander James Spratt was famous for having dived into...
Q6688765 Louise Grandjean (1870–1934) was a French operatic soprano who was particularly admired for her portrayals of Wagner and Verdi heroines. She began her career in Paris in 1894 where she became a popular and active singer until 1911. She also regularly appeared in Germany during the first decade of the twentieth...
Q1314996 Ricardo Villar (born August 11, 1979 in São Paulo) is a former Brazilian footballer.
Q7286759 Rakowo [raˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skulsk, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Skulsk, 30 km (19 mi) north of Konin, and 94 km (58 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.
Q6395008 Keshavpura is a town in the Kota district of Rajasthan in India. The town has been divided into 10 sectors. Keshavpura has its own culture and traditions. Most people of Keshavpura speak Harauti. Dewali, Holi, Rakhi, Eid, Teej, Gangor, Makar Sankranti are the most famous festivals of Keshavpura. Besides all th...
Q7067664 Ntuli v Donald was a 2010 privacy case involving Take That singer Howard Donald in which the singer attempted to use a privacy injunction to prevent details of a former relationship being made public.
Q7160293 Peeler Lake is a California landform within the Toiyabe National Forest and on the west edge of the Hoover Wilderness. One of the few bodies of water on the Great Basin Divide, Peeler Lake's inflow is sufficient for outlet streams over 2 Sierra Crest sills of similar elevation to respectively drain westward t...
Q10858618 Mehrabad (Persian: مهراباد‎, also Romanized as Mehrābād and Meharābād; also known as Magrīābād) is a village in Amiriyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Arak County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 633, in 183 families.
Q16462427 Madim (Persian: مديم‎) may refer to:Madim-e GodarMadim-e Olya
Q2831212 Wojciech Grzymała (23 April 1793 - 16 December 1871), also known as Albert Grzymala or Albert Grzymała, was a Polish soldier, politician, and banker who was a close associate in Paris of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.Grzymała was born in Dunajowce in the Duchy of Warsaw (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine). He began att...
Q18164134 Connemara Station also often spelled as Connemarra Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station in Queensland.The property is situated approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) east of Augathella and 100 kilometres (62 mi) north east of Charleville. The ephemeral Ferrer's Creek runs throu...
Q19869871 The 1974 Hackney Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.
Q26997505 Nelson Muguku Njoroge was a Kenyan entrepreneur, investor and one of the country's wealthiest persons.
Q9372313 Ian Fok Chun-wan, SBS, JP (Chinese: 霍震寰; born 12 May 1949) is the Chief Executive of the Fok Ying Tung Foundation and the life honorary chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. He is the incumbent Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress.Son of famous pro-China tycoon Henry Fok, he was ...
Q199691 In mathematics, the Laplace transform is an integral transform named after its inventor Pierre-Simon Laplace (). It transforms a function of a real variable t (often time) to a function of a complex variable s (complex frequency). The transform has many applications in science and engineering.The Laplace trans...
Q330059 Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monagha...
Q7441344 Sean Gregory Palmer is an actor, singer, and dancer of both stage and screen. His most recognizable role on television is that of Stanford Blatch's boyfriend, Marcus, on the HBO series Sex and the City. He played Prince Eric in the stage version of The Little Mermaid, which began on January 10, 2008.Palmer ca...
Q6488559 Lara Larramendi Blakely is a former mayor of Monrovia, California as well as numerous other governmental office positions.
Q7372341 Roxana Sand (also known as Roxanne Carmine, née Golda Glickman) was an erotic dancer and fan dancer whose performance at Minsky's Burlesque, in August 1936, resulted in a crackdown on burlesque shows in New York City. She was one of five dancers who performed strip-tease acts, which led to the conviction of Sa...
Q5453285 The First Methodist Church of Burlington is a historic church located at 21 Buell Street (corner of S. Winooski Avenue) in Burlington, Vermont. Built in 1869 to a design by Alexander R. Esty, it is the city's only example of ecclesiastical Romanesque Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Registe...
Q7380217 Rupaund is a town in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, India.