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Q4886702 Ben Williams (1900–1968) was a Welsh international footballer who played for Swansea Town, Everton and Newport County. |
Q15999563 Bertram Burleigh (1890 – 1961) was a British actor of the silent era. |
Q895640 The Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant is a hydroelectric power station utilizing pumped-storage technology in Markersbach, Germany. Planning for the power plant began in 1961, construction began in 1970 and the generators were commissioned in 1979. The power station generates electricity by moving water be... |
Q2299527 Pseudomallocera auriflua is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Pseudomallocera. |
Q19902330 Greensmith is a surname. Notable people with the name include:Bill Greensmith (born 1930), English cricketerGus Greensmith (born 1996), British rally driverHarry Greensmith (1899–1967), Australian rules footballerRon Greensmith (born 1933), English footballer |
Q16993646 The Ford Rotunda was a tourist attraction originally located in South Side Chicago, Illinois and later was relocated to Dearborn, Michigan. At one point, it was the fifth most popular tourist destination in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. This futuristic structure received more visits in the 1... |
Q19605224 The Vermont gubernatorial election of 1970 took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Deane C. Davis ran successfully for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Democratic candidate Leo O'Brien, Jr. |
Q20963733 Stoyan Petrov (Bulgarian: Стоян Петров, 31 March 1956) is a Bulgarian former cyclist. He competed in the 1000m time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. |
Q20899095 The Sony Xperia Z5 is an Android smartphone produced by Sony. Part of the Sony Xperia Z series, the device, at that point known by the project code name "Sumire", was unveiled along with the Xperia Z5 Compact and Xperia Z5 Premium during a press conference at IFA 2015 on September 2, 2015. The device was lau... |
Q22249418 Valentín Vada (Spanish pronunciation: [balenˈtim ˈbaða]; born 6 March 1996) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Ligue 1 side AS Saint-Étienne, on loan from Girondins de Bordeaux, as a midfielder. |
Q28456176 Peter Hermann Hrdlitschka (born November 6, 1955 in Reutlingen, Germany) is a former Canadian competition swimmer. At 2 years of age, Hrdlitschka immigrated, along with his parents Doris and Frank, to Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada where, at age 5, his competitive swimming career began with a 3rd-place... |
Q23775602 Holodance is a collaborative multiplayer virtual reality rhythm video game developed and published by narayana games for Microsoft Windows in which players can either dance with dragons to have an environmentally themed story unfold with each of the twelve levels, or play any osu!-beatmap in one of the fiftee... |
Q6153911 Turieno is a town in the municipality of Camaleño (Cantabria, Spain). |
Q169033 10BASE2 (also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors. During the mid to late 1980s this was the dominant 10 Mbit/s Ethernet standard, but due to the immense demand for high speed networking, the low cost of ... |
Q524177 Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Jr. is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Harry Shearer, and first appeared in the episode "The Telltale Head".Rev. Lovejoy is the minister at The First Church of Springfield—the Protestant church in Springfield. Initially kind-hearted... |
Q1634879 Encephalomyelitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Various types of encephalomyelitis include:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or postinfectious encephalomyelitis, a demyelinating disease of the brain and spinal cord, possibly triggered by viral infection.Encephalomyelitis disseminata, a synon... |
Q8020076 Sir William Watson (2 August 1858 – 11 August 1935) was an English poet, popular in his time for the celebratory content, and famous for the controversial political content, of his verse. Initially popularly recognised, he was then neglected because of changing tastes. |
Q2920477 The Emerald Coast is an unofficial name for the coastal area in the US state of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico that stretches about 100 mi (161 km) through five counties, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay, from Pensacola to Panama City. Some south Alabama communities on the coast of Baldwin County... |
Q68916 Patrice Babatunde Bart-Williams (born July 9, 1979 in Kerpen, North Rhine-Westphalia), better known as Patrice, is a Sierra Leonean-German singer-songwriter, music producer and film-maker. Raised by a Sierra Leonean father and a German mother, Patrice Bart-Williams grew up listening to Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Cha... |
Q6484662 Landis Everson (October 5, 1926 – November 17, 2007) was an American poet. In the late 1940s, he was a member of the Berkeley Renaissance along with his friends Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser. Everson was the inaugural recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation. |
Q939739 Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929 – 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. Throughout the course of her caree... |
Q6016055 Independence Arena (also known as Ix-Xagħra tal-Furjana) was a multi-use stadium in Floriana, Malta. The stadium has fallen in a state of disrepair and is now used as a parking. The stadium was used mostly for football matches and was the home training pitch of Floriana. The stadium held 3,000 people. |
Q6797556 This is a round-up of the 1987 Mayo Senior Football Championship. Ballina Stephenites regained the Moclair Cup after defeating old rivals and holders Castlebar Mitchels in the final. |
Q2758752 Zminec (pronounced [ˈzmiːnəts]; German: Sminz) is a village on the left bank of the Poljanščica River in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. |
Q5260364 The Department of Kansas was a Union Army command department in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War. This department existed in three different forms during the war. |
Q761644 Tejstymy [tɛi̯sˈtɨmɨ] (German: Teistimmen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolno, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Kolno and 32 km (20 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.Before 1772 t... |
Q6646465 Listening for Lions is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan, first published in 2005. Set in 1919, it concerns an orphaned girl who becomes involved in an inheritance swindle. |
Q5758770 The Highland Falls Village Hall is located on Main Street in Highland Falls, New York, United States. It is a three-story Italianate-style brick buildings erected about 1894.Originally it housed a bank for many years. It became the village hall in 1967. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Place... |
Q7587494 The Church of St. Charles Borromeo is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 211 West 141st Street Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1888.On May 8, 2015, the parish was merged with that of All Saints Church. |
Q13629125 Hutchinson is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Harmony Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, that was defined as part of the 2010 United States Census. As of the 2010 Census, the CDP's population was 135. |
Q3102152 Georges Poubennec (born in Brest, France, 17 July 1930; died 16 March 2012 in Plougastel, France), better known under the name Georges Aber, was a French singer-songwriter. During the 1960s, he adapted the lyrics of many popular songs from English into French. |
Q2805601 Verena Hoehne (14 January 1945 in Lausanne – 25 January 2012 in Zürich) was a Swiss journalist and author. |
Q1522629 Grodno Voivodeship (1793) was created during the Grodno Sejm in November 23 1793. The Voivodeship had capital in Grodno. It was not fully organised because of the start of Kościuszko Uprising in 1794.The Voivodeship consisted of three parts:Grodno LandWołkowysk LandSokółka Land |
Q16928375 Herring soup is a fish soup consisting of a thick mix of water, barley-meal and red herring. |
Q7909455 Valdosta Regional Airport (IATA: VLD, ICAO: KVLD, FAA LID: VLD) is a public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Valdosta, a city in Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. It is owned by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Airport Authority. The airport is mostly u... |
Q11723050 The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611). |
Q6148568 Masao Kawai (河合 雅雄, Kawai Masao, born January 2, 1924) is a Japanese primatologist, who forwarded the concept of kyokan as a means of studying primates in his book Life of Japanese Monkeys (1969). |
Q51372 Montesilvano (Italian pronunciation: [ˌmontesilˈvaːno]) is a town and comune of the province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The name Montesilvano is apparently derived from the Latin which means woody hill (woods - silva). |
Q7543376 SNORD64 (also known as HBII-13) is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the biogenesis (modification) of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar ... |
Q1674923 Izumrud (Russian: Изумруд, meaning "Emerald") was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy, and the lead ship in the two-ship Izumrud class. Izumrud and her sister ship Zhemchug were based on the German-built Novik. |
Q6619229 A list of fantasy films released in the 1970s. |
Q6643164 This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Massachusetts and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendr... |
Q4294934 The office of Minister for Defence (Abkhazian: атәыла хьчара аминистр, Georgian: თავდაცვის მინისტრი, Russian: министр обороны) has been one of the most important in the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia due to the ongoing conflict with Georgia. The position was created 11 October 1992, shortly after the outbreak ... |
Q7386423 The Usabón River (Spanish: Río Usabón) is a river of Aibonito and Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. |
Q4283204 Shigeri Sada (佐田 繁理, Sada Shigeri, born 13 December 1954) is a former Japanese football player. He is the younger brother of singer Masashi Sada. |
Q5320112 Dávid Hegedűs (born 6 June 1985) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Kazincbarcikai SC. |
Q5463187 Fly Me to the Moon is an album by Michael Feinstein, released in 2010 through DuckHole Records. The album reached a peak position of number 39 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. |
Q5003903 Central District (Sirik County) (Persian: بخش مرکزی شهرستان سیریک; meaning "Desert") is a district (bakhsh) in Sirik County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38,251, in 6,623 families. The District has 2 cities: Sirik and Kuhestak. The District has 2 rural districts (dehestan... |
Q2253132 Mordella atroapicalis is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1917. |
Q16217283 Seán Finn is a retired Irish association football defender who played professionally in the USL A-League.In 1996, Finn began his collegiate career at Southern Wesleyan University. He would go on to become a two-time, NAIA All American at Southern Wesleyan. In 1999, Finn transferred to Stetson University wh... |
Q1259231 Gerd Schmückle (1 December 1917 – 28 May 2013) was a German four-star general. Schmückle served in the 7th Panzer Division under Erwin Rommel during the Fall of France. With this division he later fought in the Soviet Union where he was wounded six times. In early 1944, he was promoted to the German General St... |
Q16852036 The Kerry by-election of 1872 was fought on 6 February 1872[20 3]. The byelection was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP Valentine Browne succeeding to the peerage as Earl of Kenmare. It was won by the Home Rule candidate Rowland Blennerhassett. The by-election was important in the decline of the Catholi... |
Q17008159 The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to Malayalam writers for writing poetry of literary merit. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. |
Q14169641 Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus, the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kyparissos).Species that are commonly kno... |
Q7697040 Television in Montenegro was first introduced in 1956.This is a list of television channels that broadcast in Montenegro. |
Q5444964 Fernando Melciades Zevallos González, also known as Fernando Melciades Zevallos Gonzáles, is the founder and owner of what was Peru's largest airline, Aero Continente. The airline operated from 1992 until 2004, but was forced to close that year after Mr Zevallos was added to America's list of drug kingpins and... |
Q4648990 The A202 is a primary A road in London. It runs from New Cross Gate to London Victoria station. The section forming part of the London Inner Ring Road is known as Vauxhall Bridge Road. |
Q1758311 Trident Racing is a motor racing team that competes in single-seater formula racing. It was founded in 2006 in order to compete in the GP2 championship, which is Europe's highest-ranking single-seater formula below Formula One. Trident is headquartered at San Pietro Mosezzo in the Piedmont region of Italy. |
Q3211426 Die tödlichen Wünsche (The Deadly Wishes), Op. 27, is an opera by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on La Peau de chagrin by Honoré de Balzac. It consists of fifteen lyrical scenes in three acts. It premiered on 14 June 1959 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, conducted by Reinhard Pet... |
Q1567631 Rosai–Dorfman disease, also known as sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy or sometimes as Destombes–Rosai–Dorfman disease, is a rare disorder of unknown cause that is characterized by abundant histiocytes in the lymph nodes or other locations throughout the body. |
Q2754793 Frohen-le-Grand is a former commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France. Since 1 January 2007, Frohen-le-Grand and Frohen-le-Petit have combined into the new commune of Frohen-sur-Authie. |
Q3555015 Peter Lindbäck (born 14 June 1955, Helsinki) is the governor of the Åland Islands.He was born in 1955 and studied at the University of Helsinki, from which he graduated in law in 1981.Lindbäck was appointed governor of the Åland Islands on 5 March 1999 when his predecessor Henrik Gustafsson retired. |
Q504578 Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin (1884–1937) was a Bolshevik leader, who was People's Commissar for Agriculture in the original soviet government formed on the day of the Bolshevik revolution, but resigned in protest against Vladimir Lenin's decision to impose one party rule. |
Q5349744 Einfeldia is a genus of European non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae. |
Q1042487 Naka-ku (中区) is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 17.94 km² and a population of 121,377. The population density is 6,766 per square kilometer. The name means "Central Ward."The wards of Sakai were established when Sakai became a city designated by government ordina... |
Q1309960 Phalaenopsis deliciosa is a species of orchid occurring from the Indian subcontinent to Malesia. |
Q1593605 Heerfordt syndrome, is a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis. The symptoms include inflammation of the eye (uveitis), swelling of the parotid gland, chronic fever, and in some cases, palsy of the facial nerves. |
Q7068501 The 9th Nuestra Belleza México pageant, was held at the World Trade Center of Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico on September 6, 2002. Thirty-three contestants of the Mexican Republic competed for the national title, which was won by Marisol González from Coahuila, who later competed in Miss Universe 2003 in Panam... |
Q6526025 Leonardo Mancuso (born 26 May 1992) is an Italian footballer who plays as a winger for Serie B club Empoli. |
Q16885411 South Fork Lytle Creek is a tributary of Lytle Creek in San Bernardino County, California. |
Q23763096 Just Being Honest is the sixth comedy album by Craig Ferguson. |
Q30646344 The 2017 Liga 3 Bali is the second edition of Liga 3 (formerly known as Liga Nusantara) Bali as a qualifying round for the national round of 2017 Liga 3. Pro Kundalini, winner of the 2014 Liga Nusantara Bali are the defending champions, as the 2015 Liga Nusantara Bali was not held and the 2016 ISC Liga Nusant... |
Q2980928 Cnemaspis wicksi is a species of gecko endemic to the Andaman Islands. |
Q16208163 Shon Gables is currently a evening news anchor with WGCL-TV in Atlanta. |
Q1367872 Pierre Franqueville, generally called Pietro Francavilla (1548 — 25 August 1615), was a Franco-Flemish sculptor trained in Florence, who provided sculpture for Italian and French patrons in the elegant Late Mannerist tradition established by Giambologna. |
Q738467 Father Murphy is an American television western drama series that aired on the NBC network from November 3, 1981, to September 18, 1983. Michael Landon created the series, was the executive producer, and directed the show in partnership with William F. Claxton, Maury Dexter, Victor French and Leo Penn. |
Q1424270 The Juba Conference was a June 1947 meeting attended by British and Sudanese delegates in the city of Juba, then regional capital of Equatoria Province in South Sudan (and today the national capital of South Sudan).Britain organised the conference to combine northern and southern Sudan into one political entit... |
Q1579424 The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) is a multinational initiative that provides its participating nations assured access to military airlift capability to address the growing needs for both strategic airlifts and tactical airlifts. SAC, established in 2008, is an independent, multinational program that prov... |
Q7257693 Milton Keynes in England has a collection of modern art, primarily sculpture, in its public buildings and open spaces. |
Q7590849 The St. Nicholas Breaker was a historic coal breaker in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. |
Q2260967 Route 213 is a state highway in southeastern Connecticut, running in a fishhook pattern from Central Waterford to downtown New London via the shoreline. |
Q14712967 Nomini Grove is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. |
Q888955 Qir (Persian: قير, also Romanized as Qīr) is a city and capital of Qir and Karzin County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16,839, in 3,722 families. It has an altitude of 771 metres (2,530 ft).On 10 April 1972, Qir was completely destroyed by a large earthquake, killing 3,399 peop... |
Q5123479 The CUNY Film Festival is the official film festival of CUNY. The festival promotes creative collaboration between filmmakers from CUNY's four-year schools, two-year schools, and graduate programs offering students a chance to promote their own work, review the work of their peers, and engage with industry pr... |
Q2120734 "I Wanna" is the first single taken from French music producer and DJ Bob Sinclar's studio album, Made in Jamaïca released in 2010. It features Balkan group Sahara (Andrea from Bulgaria and Costi Ionita from Romania) and Shaggy. |
Q5118022 The Church of the Parigoritissa or Paregoretissa (Greek: Παναγία ἠ Παρηγορήτισσα, "Panagia of Consolation") is the 13th-century Byzantine metropolitan church of the Greek city of Arta. Part of the building used to house the Archaeological Collection of Arta.The church was founded in ca. 1290 by the Despot of E... |
Q16829240 "Change Nothing" is the debut single of American recording artist and American Idol season 11 runner-up, Jessica Sanchez. The song was written by Jaden Michaels, Joleen Belle and Harry Sommerdahl. Sanchez first performed the song, her potential coronation song had she won the title, on May 22, 2012 American I... |
Q1678134 Jacques de Guyse (Latin: Iacobus de Guisia) (1334−1399) was a Franciscan historian of the County of Hainaut in the late 14th century. |
Q18589290 Lygephila vulcanea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Russia and Japan. |
Q20737576 Albert Leonard "Mick" Michael (January 1912 – 7 November 1987) was a British philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1978.Michael's first employment in the stamp trade was with H.E. Wingfield, a firm which he eventually owned. In 1962 Wingfield joined with Stanley Gibbons and Mi... |
Q19798702 Grady is a three-episode British television series which aired in 1970. It was a drama produced by Yorkshire Television. The series starred Anthony Bate in the titular role. Despite the wiping that was common among British broadcasters during the 1970s, the series still exists in the archives. |
Q21095057 The 4th Parliament of Great Britain was summoned by Queen Anne on 18 August 1713 and assembled on the 12 November 1713 (but was then prorogued until 16 February 1714). It was dissolved on 15 January 1715 and would be Queen Anne's last Parliament.The composition of the new House of Commons was the result of a... |
Q13858349 Thyris maculata, the spotted thyri, is a species of window-winged moth in the family Thyrididae.The MONA or Hodges number for Thyris maculata is 6076. |
Q2468465 Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Antietam, after the Battle of Antietam.USS Antietam (1864), was a sailing sloop launched in 1864 and used as a stores ship.USS Antietam (CV-36), was an aircraft carrier commissioned at the end of World War II, a combatant in the Korean War, and decommis... |
Q689816 Sonova Holding AG (Phonak Holding AG before 1 August 2007) is an internationally active Swiss company headquartered in Stäfa that specializes in hearing care solutions (hearing instruments, cochlear implants, wireless communication solutions). It is one of the largest providers in the sector worldwide. The grou... |
Q5458697 The Flesh Volcano was a side project of singer Marc Almond and Clint Ruin, also known as Foetus. Its sole release was the Slut EP, which was expanded to album length in a number of reissues. Almond and Ruin were formerly bandmates in the Immaculate Consumptive. |
Q7024910 Nichola Jane "Nikki" Theobald is an English film, television and voice-over actress, television presenter and fashion model.Nichola Theobald began her career in the modelling industry and appeared in a shopwindow worldwide campaign for French Connection and then went on to appear in many editorials in magazine... |
Q3930049 Randall Drew Denton (born February 18, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player.Denton graduated from William G. Enloe High School in 1967. A 6'10" center from Duke University, Randy holds the all-time Duke record for average rebounds per game at 12.7. Denton played six seasons (1971–1977) in... |
Q7712480 The Adventurer's (衝擊) is a TVB television series, premiered in 1980. Its theme song "The Adventurer's" (衝擊) and the sub theme song "The Sentimental Debts" (情債) had both composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, while the lyricist was Wong Jim. |
Q750412 The Patrouille des Glaciers (PDG) is a ski mountaineering race organised every two years by the Swiss Armed Forces, in which military and civilian teams compete. It takes place once every two years at the end of April, in the south part of the canton of Valais below the summits of the Pennine Alps.The Patrouill... |
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