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Q3873762 The Zimbabwe national basketball team is the national basketball team representing Zimbabwe. It is administrated by the Basketball Union of Zimbabwe (BUZ).Squad ...
Q6827640 Miandasht Wildlife Refuge is a reserve in northeastern Iran. It comprises 844 square kilometres of semi desert and shrub land and is home to the endangered Asiatic cheetah.
Q13416331 Sir (Leslie) Brian Freeston (11 August 1892 – 16 July 1958) was a British colonial official.
Q4873463 Bauer und Arbeiter ('Peasant and Worker') was a German-language communist newspaper published in Baku in 1924. The newspaper was launched in July 1924. It was the organ of the German Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Azerbaijan. The newspaper was published weekly. A. A. Erf...
Q15830926 Alessandro Alves (born June 11, 1983) is a Brazil professional footballer who plays as a Centre-Back for Regional League Division 2 club Ubon UMT United.
Q17282241 On 23 June 2014, a German Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet and a Learjet 35 business jet participating in a military exercise collided mid-air over Olsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Learjet subsequently crashed to the ground with the loss of both crew members on board. The Typhoon was damaged but m...
Q19271551 Ljubomir Đurković (born 13 November 1952 in Cetinje, Montenegro) is a Montenegrin author and poet.
Q20795960 Rose Mukantabana (born 31 August 1961) is a lawyer and women's rights activist. She is the former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda and was the first woman elected to the post. She was elected to serve as chair of the African Parliamentary Union from 2013-2015.
Q21527620 Down to the Sea is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Robert Lee Johnson and Wellyn Totman. The film stars Russell Hardie, Ben Lyon, Ann Rutherford, Irving Pichel, Fritz Leiber and Vince Barnett. The film was released on May 30, 1936, by Republic Pictures.
Q2031224 Notomulciber carpentariae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Blackburn in 1894. It is known from Australia.
Q9036215 Bartlett Township is an inactive township in Shannon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.Bartlett Township was erected in 1905, taking its name the community of Bartlett, Missouri.
Q15900007 The 18th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:第18屆金馬獎) took place on October 30, 1981 at Kaohsiung Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Q10580561 Melanoplus calidus, the sacramento short-wing grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America.
Q2402350 The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is a film festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado during Labor Day weekend.
Q2440356 Listed below are the dates and results for the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification.A total of 33 UEFA teams entered the competition. Moreover, Israel were also assigned to the Europ...
Q321084 Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (21 March 1672 – 16 April 1742) was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo Pallavicino (1630?-1688). (Their surname Pallavicino is sometimes spelt Pallavicini.)Pallavicino was born in Padua. He worked at the courts of Dresden and Düsseldorf as a ...
Q8055761 Yorkshire Traction was a bus operator in Yorkshire that operated from 1902 until 2005.
Q1305068 The Comoros fody (Foudia eminentissima), also known as the red-headed fody, is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Comoros, Mayotte and Seychelles. The taxon aldabrana, was previously oftenconsidered a subspecies of the Comoros fody. Previously, the forest fody from Madagascar w...
Q704697 John Christopher "Chris" Ethridge (February 10, 1947 – April 23, 2012) was an American country rock bass guitarist. He was a member of the International Submarine Band (ISB) and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and co-wrote several songs with Gram Parsons. Ethridge worked with Nancy Sinatra, Judy Collins, Leon Rus...
Q6416941 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) is a 2001 British comedy film written and directed by Stewart Sugg. It features Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Penn, and Paul Bettany.
Q16018533 Frank Morris (May 20, 1923 – April 10, 2009) was a professional Canadian football offensive lineman and defensive lineman who played 14 seasons in the Canadian professional leagues for the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos. He was a part of six Grey Cup championship teams (three with the Argonauts an...
Q4778186 "Any Way At All" is a ballad by American singer Donna Summer recorded as a new track for her Endless Summer: Greatest Hits compilation in 1994. It was released as a single in selected countries, with the B-side consisting of a medley of four of her original disco hits from the 1970s: "Dim All the Lights", "Hot...
Q7898836 Upper Ohio is a community of the Municipality of the District of Shelburne in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Upper Ohio is one community in Nova scotia that is still not on the power grid.
Q6843673 Miedwiecko [mjɛdˈvjɛt͡skɔ] (German: Madüsee) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Kobylanka, within Stargard County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.The settlement has a pop...
Q14706848 The Luther Forest Technology Campus or LFTC is a 1,414-acre (573 hectares) site in the towns of Malta and Stillwater, New York, specifically designed for semiconductor and nanotechnology manufacturing and other innovative technologies. The site has Interstate highway access 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away.
Q7291306 Rancho Santa Manuela was a 16,955-acre (68.61 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Francis Ziba Branch. The grant encompassed present-day Arroyo Grande.
Q3440163 The People of Juvik is a series of six historical novels by Norwegian author Olav Duun. The books chronicle the lives of the Juvikings, an old Norwegian landowning peasant family living in the Namdal valley. The series covers six or seven generations of Juvikings, starting with Per Anders Juvika, the last of...
Q5012048 CJDV may refer to:CJDV-FM, a radio station (107.5 FM) licensed to Cambridge, Ontario, CanadaCKDQ, a radio station (910 AM) licensed to Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CJDV from 1958 to 1981
Q6990542 Nelson "Nellie" Greene is a former award-winning Canadian Football League player.Coming from the St. Lambert Combines junior program, Greene joined the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1947 and won the Gruen Trophy as the Eastern Conference (the Big Four) rookie of the year. No official stats were kept that season and t...
Q2374438 Kandyagash (Kazakh: Қандыағаш, Qandyaǵash) is a town and the administrative center of Mugalzhar District in Aktobe Region of western Kazakhstan. Population: 29,169 (2009 Census results); 25,553 (1999 Census results).
Q11125025 The Wuling Farm (Chinese: 武陵農場; pinyin: Wǔlíng Nóngchǎng) is a tourist attraction farm in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan.
Q27814064 "When Will You Fall for Me" is a song by Australian duo Vika and Linda. The song was written by Mark Seymour, and was released as the first single from their debut studio album Vika and Linda (1994). The single peaked at number 51 in Australia in July 1994 and remained in the ARIA top 100 for 16 weeks.The duo...
Q28405482 The Cutting Room 3 is the sixth mixtape by American hip hop producer and recording artist The Alchemist. It was released on December 25, 2013, through his own record label, ALC Records. It serves as a follow up to The Cutting Room 2 (2008).
Q3312181 Microdisney was an Irish rock band formed in Cork in 1980. It was founded and led by the songwriting team of Cathal Coughlan (keyboards, vocals) and Sean O'Hagan (guitar). They reached the Irish top 40 with the 1987 single "Town to Town", and were one of the few Irish bands of the 1980s to achieve internationa...
Q496837 Lincang (simplified Chinese: 临沧; traditional Chinese: 臨滄; pinyin: Líncāng) is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.
Q1937577 TP-2.com (an abbreviation of Twelve Play-2) is the fourth solo album by American recording artist R. Kelly, released on November 7, 2000 by Jive Records.
Q11487163 The Siege of Hiketa (引田の戦い) was a battle during the Azuchi–Momoyama period (16th century) of Japan.The siege of Hiketa was a certain battle that was fought by Sengoku Hidehisa against Chōsokabe Motochika. In the end however, Motochika won this victory. Hiketa was to be a further stage within the Chōsokabe's c...
Q1383486 The Excelsior-Mascot was a German automobile manufactured in Cologne-Nippes from 1911 until 1922. Only a few, with two- and four-cylinder proprietary engines of 8 hp to 18 hp, were produced.
Q7900596 Uriel Waizel (born September 18, 1973 in Mexico City) is a music critic and radio broadcaster.
Q5459362 Microtropis argentea is a species of tree in the family Celastraceae. It is endemic to Borneo, where it is confined to Sarawak.
Q2561389 Grytøya (Norwegian) or Rivttek (Northern Sami) is an island in Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The 108-square-kilometre (42 sq mi) island lies just north of the large island of Hinnøya and south of the island of Bjarkøya. It is surrounded by the Vågsfjorden in the east and the Andfjorden in the ...
Q6629659 New Brunswick is the eighth-most populous province in Canada with 747,101 residents as of the 2016 Census, and the third-smallest province in land area at 71,389 km2 (27,563 sq mi). New Brunswick's 104 municipalities cover only 9.8% of the province's land mass but are home to 68.9% of its population.Municipali...
Q1670006 Simon Tüting (born 7 September 1986 in Bramsche, Lower Saxony) is a German footballer who plays for FV Fortuna Heddesheim.
Q7784561 Thinkalaazhcha Nalla Divasam (English: Monday, an Auspicious Day) is a 1985 Malayalam drama film, written and directed by P. Padmarajan. It stars Mammootty, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Karamana Janardanan Nair and Srividya in pivotal roles. It tells the story of a man who wants to sell his ancestral house and put his m...
Q366007 Kōsaku Hamada (濱田 耕作, Hamada Kōsaku, February 22, 1881 – July 25, 1938), also known as Seiryō Hamada, was a Japanese academic, archaeologist, author and President of Kyoto University.
Q4962538 Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott is an equestrian statue in Washington, D.C., that honors career military officer Winfield Scott. The monument stands in the center of Scott Circle, a traffic circle and small park at the convergence of 16th Street, Massachusetts Avenue and Rhode Island Avenue NW. The statue ...
Q7578363 Splash is part of the Landmark Group, one of the biggest retail conglomerates in the Middle East and India.Founded in 1993 as a single-brand store in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, Splash has grown to over 150 stores and 50 brand stores across 14 countries in the India, Middle East, Pakistan, Tanzania a...
Q2698397 Årset is a village in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located along the Ellingsøyfjorden on the southern shore of the island of Ellingsøya (northeast of the city center of Ålesund), about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the village of Myklebost and about 12 kilometres (7.5...
Q25245132 Jack Burkman is an American lobbyist and conspiracy theorist. Burkman drew significant media attention in 2014 for organizing a protest against the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL after the team signed Michael Sam, an openly gay football player, to its practice squad. He is also known for his involvement with far-r...
Q18378568 William 'Bill' Byrne (14 August 1896 – 19 July 1930) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).His brother Charlie Byrne also played with him at Fitzroy.
Q13256939 Hyalobathra variabilis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1971. It is found in Rapa Iti, French Polynesia.
Q25222626 This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1970, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by Radio Mil. Also included are the number-one songs according to the Record World magazine.
Q28419341 Baltej is an Indian male given name that may refer toBaltej Pannu, Punjabi journalistBaltej Singh (born 1990), Indian first-class cricketer
Q1073661 Glyptostrobus, is a small genus of conifers in the family Cupressaceae (formerly in the family Taxodiaceae). The sole living species, Glyptostrobus pensilis, is native to subtropical southeastern China, from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan, and also very locally in northern Vietnam and Borikhamxai Province o...
Q562312 This article is about the small islands of Korea.
Q16155706 Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Force (電脳戦機バーチャロン フォース, Dennō Senki Bācharon Fōsu) is a 3D mecha fighting game developed by Sega AM3 (formerly Hitmaker) and published by Sega. It was released in Japanese arcades only on the Sega Hikaru arcade system board in 2001. Following its initial release, there was initially ...
Q3372816 Ride Him, Cowboy is a 1932 pre-Code Western film directed by Fred Allen for Warner Brothers, starring a 25-year-old John Wayne. Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Kenneth Taylor Perkins, the film is a remake of The Unknown Cavalier, a 1926 Ken Maynard Western, with lots of stock footage from the origi...
Q5515785 Gabriel Pedro Paternain is a Uruguayan mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics in DPMMS at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College. He obtained his Licenciatura from Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay in 1987, and his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 19...
Q7336748 Ritjawng is a village in Hsawlaw Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
Q5376162 Endless Bummer is the fifth studio album by Sloppy Seconds. It was released in 2008, ten years after More Trouble Than They're Worth.The album was originally set to be released on June 24, 2008, but someone at the pressing plant found "Endless Bummer" offensive and refused to manufacture the CDs and LPs. In re...
Q16062278 John Decker (May 15, 1823 – November 18, 1892) was an American businessman, politician and firefighter. He served as the last Chief Engineer of the old New York City Fire Department, the original colonial-era volunteer firefighters of New York City, from 1860 until 1865. He led the fire department during the ...
Q7327089 Richard Kingi (born 17 March 1989 in Tauranga, New Zealand) is an Australian professional Rugby union footballer. While his usual position is half back, he often plays on the wing and sometimes at fullback.
Q2991319 Balgarchevo is a village in Blagoevgrad Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria on the right bank of the Struma river 5 kilometers northwest of Blagoevgrad.
Q15436454 Joseph John Jones (1909–1963) was an American painter, landscape painter, lithographer, and muralist. TIME magazine followed him throughout his career. Although Jones was never a member of the John Reed Club, his name is closely associated with its artistic members, most of them also contributors to the New...
Q7619963 Store Svarthorn Peak (71°35′S 12°33′E) is a very prominent black peak (2,490 m) rising abruptly at the southwest extremity of Mittlere Petermann Range, in the Wohlthat Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered and given the descriptive name "Grosses Schwarz-Horn" (great black peak) by the German Antarctic Exped...
Q97470 Rosa Maria Antonetta Paulina Assing (née Varnhagen; 28 May 1783, Düsseldorf – 22 January 1840, Hamburg) was a German lyric poet, prose-writer, educator, translator and silhouette artist. She was the elder sister of Karl August Varnhagen, the sister-in-law of Rahel Levin, and the mother of Ottilie and Ludmilla As...
Q7147633 Patrick C. Shea is an attorney in California. He was the federal court-appointed attorney that represented 170-plus municipal entities with investments of over $5 billion in the Orange County, California Chapter 9 bankruptcy. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which ...
Q7177499 Peter Vince (born Peter Robert Vince) was an English sound engineer, producer and operations manager at Abbey Road Studios.
Q1591910 Jatun Wila Qullu (Quechua jatun, hatun big, great,Aymara wila red or blood, qullu mountain, "great red mountain", hispanicized spelling Jatun Wila Kkollu, Jatun Willa Kollu) is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia, about 5,214 m (17,106 ft) high. It is located south east of Poopó Lake in the Oruro Department, Ch...
Q17198993 Farlinville is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, in the United States.
Q13402055 Atagema molesta is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.
Q30158359 Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley were the defending champions, but chose not to play together. Whiley played alongside Diede de Groot, but lost in the semifinals to Marjolein Buis and Kamiji.Buis and Kamiji went on to win the title, defeating Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot in the final, 6–3, 7–5.
Q14930469 Aphorista is a genus of handsome fungus beetles in the family Endomychidae. There are at least three described species in Aphorista.
Q503218 The International Football Association Board (IFAB) is the body that determines the Laws of the Game of association football. IFAB was founded in 1886 to agree standardised Laws for international competition, and has since acted as the "guardian" of the internationally used Laws. Since its establishment in 1904...
Q1826406 West Tisted is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 6.7 miles (10.8 km) northwest of Petersfield, just off the A32 road.The nearest railway station is the restored Ropley station on the Watercress Line, trains from which connect with the nearest NATIONAL rail station 7.8 ...
Q7850138 Tsun Jin High School is a Chinese independent high school situated along Jalan Loke Yew in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, established in 1955. It was founded as an expansion of Tsun Jin Primary School (ms), founded in 1913.The early 20th century witnessed a sweeping worldwide trend to establish schools. With the aim ...
Q15462463 Horace White (August 10, 1834 – September 16, 1916) was a United States journalist and financial expert, noted for his connection with the Chicago Tribune, the New York Evening Post, and The Nation.
Q4917847 The Bishop of Grahamstown is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Grahamstown in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.The Bishop's residence is Bishopsbourne, Grahamstown
Q307202 Cordulegaster mzymtae is a species of dragonfly in the family Cordulegastridae. It is found in Georgia and Turkey. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Q17496304 The Camidge family supplied York Minster with organists for 103 years. Its members were:John Camidge (1735–1803), in office 1756–1803John's son Matthew Camidge (1758–1844), in office 1799-1842), as well as some psalm chants still in the Anglican repertoire, Matthew wrote "Six Concertos for the Organ or grand ...
Q7917110 Vathikudy is a Gram panchayat in Idukki district in the Indian state of Kerala.
Q5320837 Dąbrówka Ludomska [dɔmˈbrufka luˈdɔmska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ryczywół, within Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
Q7561886 Sonipatii Lok Sabha constituency (earlier spelt as Sonepat) (Hindi: सोनीपत लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliantary) constituencies in Haryana state in northern India.
Q5983560 Iba-Balita was the first Filipino-language newscast of Studio 23 in the Philippines (Nicknamed as Iba-Balita Primetime) pitting up against Q's News on Q and later GMA News TV's State of the Nation with Jessica Soho. It is produced by ABS-CBN Corporation through ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. The newscast w...
Q7276165 RC Dinamo-Center (Moldovan: RK Dinamo-Center) is a Moldovan rugby club in Tiraspol. They currently play in the Ukraine Rugby Superliga, despite the city being located in within the borders of Moldova.
Q11692710 Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez (9 September 1888 - 29 September 1971) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos from 1924 until his death. He was the founder of the Xaverian Missionaries of Yarumal (1927) and the Missionaries of Saint Thérèse (1929) as well as the Contem...
Q16974020 Alcaligenes denitrificans is a Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, strictly aerobic, motile bacterium with peritrichous flagella, from the genus Alcaligenes. Based on 16S rDNA sequence analysis and the low degree of DNA relatedness between other members of Achromobacter species, Yabuuchi et al pro...
Q16352979 Donika Nuhiu (Albanian pronunciation: ['doʊnika nuː'hiu]; born 18 July 1999) is an Albanian singer. She rose to fame after appearing in various music television shows, concerts and other music events in the Albanian-speaking territories.An ethnic Albanian from Serbia, Donika developed her music career between...
Q20650100 Marc Robert Salvati (born 5 March 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for York City, in non-League football for Whitby Town, and was on the books of Manchester United without making a league appearance.
Q20977971 Cyril Dreyer (born 19 March 1994) is a French footballer who plays for Spanish club Sporting de Gijón B as a central midfielder.
Q9556686 A Climate for Killing (also known as A Row of Crows) is a 1991 American thriller-drama film written and directed by J. S. Cardone and starring John Beck, Katharine Ross, Steven Bauer and Mia Sara.
Q9155966 Annika Roloff (born 10 March 1991) is a German athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She competed collegiately for the University of Akron, where she won the 2014 NCAA Pole Vault Championhips.She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished in 21st place in the qualify...
Q27656158 Domingo de Oña, O. de M. or Pedro de Oña (1560 – 13 October 1626) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gaeta (1605–1626) and Bishop of Coro (1601–1605).
Q421233 The compound perbromic acid is the inorganic compound with the formula HBrO4. It is an oxoacid of bromine. Perbromic acid is unstable and cannot be formed by displacement of chlorine from perchloric acid, as periodic acid is prepared; it can only be made by protonation of the perbromate ion.Perbromic acid is a...
Q7580510 Spring Garden District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854. It corresponds largely (although not entirely) with today's Spring Garden ...
Q7661308 The Symmetric hypergraph theorem is a theorem in combinatorics that puts an upper bound on the chromatic number of a graph (or hypergraph in general). The original reference for this paper is unknown at the moment, and has been called folklore.
Q4213731 Gulzhan Zhanpeiskyzy Karagusova (Kazakh: Қарағұсова, Гүлжан Жанпейісқызы) member of Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan from Nur Otan party. Has served as the Minister of Labor and Social Protection in the Government of Kazakhstan since 2001. She is a speaker for Kazakhstan's Economic Forum.
Q7979364 "Weeds" (also known as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill") is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976.
Q5250181 Deep Falls is a historic home located at Chaptico, St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. It began as a one-story four-room frame house that was reportedly built in 1745. The house was apparently extensively remodeled at some time during the last two decades of the 18th century then again during the mid 1...
Q1401357 Andrea Caldarelli (born 14 February 1990 in Pescara) is an Italian racing driver. He has competed in such series as Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, the Formula Three Euroseries, GP2 Asia, the GP3 Series and the Super Formula series.He currently drives in Super GT. He undertook a Formula One test in 2008 with Toyo...