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Q6261977 John Victor Anderson (August 8, 1918 – December 31, 1982) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in the official opposition. |
Q7942564 Vracenky is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1990. |
Q7762040 The Sailor's Return is a 1925 British novel by David Garnett. In Victorian England, a black woman "marries" a sailor and faces hostility from the local community in Dorset. |
Q3170904 Odostomia valdezi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.This species is considered by R. Tucker Abbott (1974) as a synonym of Odostomia tenuisculpta Carpenter, 1864 |
Q3761304 Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were the defending champions but Bopanna decided not to participate.Qureshi plays alongside Jean-Julien Rojer and won the title beating Treat Conrad Huey and Scott Lipsky in the final, 6–3, 6–4. |
Q15242414 Linefork is an unincorporated community located in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. |
Q16894828 Mazraeh-ye Hajji Zeynal (Persian: مزرعه حاجي زينل, also Romanized as Mazra‘eh-ye Ḩājjī Zeynal; also known as Mazra‘eh-ye Zeynal) is a village in Nasrabad Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 101, in 43 families. |
Q17513632 Delta Human Resources Area Public Transportation (also known as Delta HRA Public Transit for short) is a non-profit transportation service that provides service between Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale and rural Shelby County, Tennessee, whose region is collectively known as the "Delta Region." The service was for... |
Q20311505 In the FIFA Women's World Cup, the following female players have been named in the national team squad in at least four finals tournaments. |
Q19757452 William M. Plummer (1873–1943) was an African American cabinetmaker and inventor from Smyth County, Virginia. His decorative work is part of both the tradition of American decorative arts and of African American folk art. |
Q957968 Joachim Gutkeled (died in April 1277) was an influential lord in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was Ban of Slavonia between 1270 and 1272 and from 1276 to 1277, and three times Master of the treasury between 1272 and 1275. He was also ispán, or head, of many counties, including Baranya and Pozsony. |
Q3361323 Palazzo Prosperi-Sacrati is a Renaissance-style palace located on Corso Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. The palace with its protruding marble portal and balcony, with a corner balcony, was designed and built in 1493-1498 by Biagio Rossetti as part of the Addizione Erculea. It is fl... |
Q30968357 The 2017–18 season was Chornomorets Odesa's 23rd season in the top Ukrainian football league. Chornomorets competed in Premier League and Ukrainian Cup. After finishing at 11th place in Premier League, Chornomorets lost to FC Poltava in play-offs and was relegated to First League. However on 21 June 2018 FC P... |
Q844085 Alette is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. |
Q511296 Musica ricercata is a set of eleven pieces for piano by György Ligeti. The work was composed from 1951 to 1953, shortly after the composer began lecturing at the Budapest Academy of Music. The work premiered on 18 November 1969 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Although the ricercata (or ricercar) is an established contr... |
Q7138132 Park Village is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It lies at an elevation of 709 feet (216 m). |
Q7494693 The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel is a 152.7 m (501 ft), 51-story hotel located in New York City near Times Square. It faces 7th Avenue, West 52nd Street, and West 53rd Street. It is one of the world's top 100 tallest hotels, and one of the tallest hotels in New York City. |
Q5133765 Clinical Hospital Dubrava (Croatian: Klinička bolnica Dubrava) is a public teaching hospital in Zagreb, Croatia. |
Q5151272 Come Share the Wine is an album by Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, released through Rounder Records on August 21, 2007. In 2008, the album won the group the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. |
Q7299877 Radislav Raša Papeš (Serbian Cyrillic: Радислав Раша Папеш) is a Serbian writer, satirist and aphorist, born in 1947 in Belgrade, in the urban settlement known as Čubura (Serbian Cyrillic: Чубура).He writes short stories and aphorisms that are published in many newspapers and magazines such as Nin, Literary Wo... |
Q4820324 Karacaören is a village in the District of Şuhut, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. |
Q13359785 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on the nonprofit and voluntary sector. The journal's editors-in-chief are Angela Bies (University of Maryland), Chao Guo (University of Pennsylvania), and Susan Phillips (Carleton University). It was established ... |
Q7832353 Šampita (Cyrillic: Шампита) is a whipped meringue dessert with egg yolk crust, originating in the Balkans. |
Q5437996 Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise is a 1993 adventure video game developed by Humongous Entertainment. It is the second game by Humongous Entertainment, the first being Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. It is also the first and only installment of the Fatty Bear point-and-click games, although the character was also us... |
Q6807779 Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1942 novel by Sally Benson. It is the basis for the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. |
Q4170510 Rabbi Elazar Rokeach, also known as Eleazar ben Samuel (c. 1665—1742), was the author of Maaseh Rokeach, and Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam.He was born at Kraków about 1665; died at Safed, Palestine, 1742.According to tradition, he was a descendant of the house of King David. He was named after his great-grandfather... |
Q16994632 I'll Be Your Sweetheart is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie. It was the first and only musical film produced by Gainsborough Studios. Commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, it was set at the beginning of th... |
Q16825813 Affair in the Snow (樹氷のよろめき, Juhyô no yoromeki) is a Japanese black-and-white film released in 1968. It was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Toshiro Ishido. |
Q13531757 Poliodule xanthodelta is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Lower in 1897. It is found in Australia. |
Q24287375 JinJoo Lee (born November 15, 1987) is a Korean American musician and guitarist. She is best known as the guitarist for the pop rock band DNCE. |
Q24947324 Velivennu is a village in West Godavari district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located on the east side of Tadepalligudem at a distance of 26 km and 82 km from Eluru. It is under of Kovvur revenue division. |
Q27837139 Aleksei Igorevich Orlov (Russian: Алексей Игоревич Орлов; born 24 March 1997) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Zorky Krasnogorsk. |
Q27704801 The 2017–18 FA WSL was the seventh edition of the FA WSL since it was formed in 2010. It was the first season of WSL which ran as a winter league. It started in September 2017 and ended in May 2018, with ten teams competing in both leagues.The Football Association removed promotion and relegation between the ... |
Q418705 Glycyrrhizin (or glycyrrhizic acid or glycyrrhizinic acid) is the chief sweet-tasting constituent of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice) root. Structurally, it is a saponin used as an emulsifier and gel-forming agent in foodstuffs and cosmetics. Its aglycone is enoxolone assessed as a prodrug used in Japan to reduc... |
Q2745130 Les Champs magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) is a book by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. It is famous as the first work of literary Surrealism. It was published in 1920; the authors used a surrealist automatic writing technique.The book is considered Surrealist, rather than Dadaist, because it attempts t... |
Q581316 The Chigorin Defense is a chess opening named for 19th century Russian grandmaster Mikhail Chigorin. An uncommonly played defense to the Queen's Gambit, it begins with the moves:1. d4 d52. c4 Nc6The Chigorin Defense violates several classical principles: Black does not maintain the center pawn at d5, the c-paw... |
Q1155373 Gavrilov is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the south of the heavily eroded crater Vernadskiy, and north of Vetchinkin.This is a circular and relatively symmetric crater formation with some erosion of the outer rim. There are some small craterlets in the eastern half of the interi... |
Q16091616 Jacques Rougeau Sr. (May 27, 1930 – July 1, 2019) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was the father of wrestlers Jacques Rougeau, Armand Rougeau and Raymond Rougeau. |
Q2033296 Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى بشير النجفي) (born 1942) is a Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Big Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, his family moved to Pakistan and... |
Q2592236 Hoath is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish. |
Q5111794 Christophe Pratiffi is a classical guitar player born in France. He has played since the age of 5. Passionate about the guitar, he began his musical studies under the supervision of James Szura at the Conservatoire National of the Metz Region (France). He finished his studies in 1998 and was unanimously awarde... |
Q7201002 Plane Daffy is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. |
Q1259467 Drnovice is a village and municipality (obec) in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of 7.99 square kilometres (3.08 sq mi), and has a population of 1,152 (as at 28 August 2006).Drnovice lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Blansk... |
Q6666285 Lodewijk "Lo" Jacobs (born 3 July 1951) is a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event and the repechages of the K-2 1000 m event. |
Q5044095 Carnival Music Company is an indie music publishing company located in Nashville, Tennessee. Carnival was founded in 1997 by Travis Hill and Frank Liddell (Liddell has also produced Miranda Lambert, David Nail, Lee Ann Womack, Brandi Carlile, Charlie Worsham, Jack Ingram, the Eli Young Band, and Kellie Pickl... |
Q15301986 The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson. |
Q5256469 Den Monastery is a small Buddhist monastery in Ganzi, Sichuan, China. |
Q8001100 Wilder Andrés Medina Tamayo (born 21 February 1981) is a retired Colombian footballer. |
Q7878338 Ukleja is a river of Poland. It is a tributary of Rega river south of Płoty. |
Q10472593 Dikter från ett hjärta was released on 23 August 1999, and is a Markoolio studio album. |
Q20807572 William Stanley Furr (22 July 1891 – 1975) was an English professional football outside right who played in the Football League for Leicester Fosse. |
Q564004 Anna Šabatová (born 23 June 1951) is a Czech politician, who is the current ombudsman of the Czech Republic. She was a signatory to Charter 77 and its spokesperson in 1986. Šabatová was awarded the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1998. She received the Czech Medal of Merit (First Grade) in ... |
Q6123057 Sebsebe Demissew (born June 14, 1953) is a Professor of Plant Systematics and Biodiversity at Addis Ababa University and Executive Director of the Gullele Botanic Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
Q1589793 The grey treepie, also known as the Himalayan treepie, (Dendrocitta formosae) is an Asian treepie, a medium-sized and long-tailed member of the crow family. They are widely distributed along the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Indochina, southern mainland China and Taiw... |
Q774099 Kingsbridge is a market town and tourist hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards bear the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the northern end of the Kingsbri... |
Q461564 Hiro Yamamoto (山本 紘, Yamamoto Hiro, born April 13, 1961) is an American bassist who was a founding member of grunge band Soundgarden, along with Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell in 1984. He left the band in 1989, and two years later, he started the independent rock band Truly together with Screaming Trees drummer M... |
Q724974 Edwin Hanson Webster (March 31, 1829 – April 24, 1893) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, serving the second district for two terms from 1859 until 1865. |
Q774093 The U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (commonly shortened to U15) (French: U15 Regroupement des universités de recherche du Canada) is an association of 15 Canadian public research universities. It is headquartered in Ottawa and was established in 1991 to represent its members' interests, primarily to... |
Q3012532 Come Clean is a 1931 American Pre-Code short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne and produced by Hal Roach. |
Q5048652 Cash Explosion, known as Cash Explosion Double Play from 1989 until 2012, is an official Ohio Lottery TV game show, which is broadcast on television stations throughout Ohio. The show originated in Cleveland and is now taped by Mills James Productions in Columbus, Ohio.Cash Explosion originally aired from Febr... |
Q2670449 Taufiq Ismail (born 25 June 1935) is an Indonesian poet, activist and the editor of the monthly literary magazine "Horison" Ismail figured prominently in Indonesian literature of the post-Sukarno period and is considered one of the pioneers of the "Generation of '66". He completed his education at the Universi... |
Q1009061 Bailleul-la-Vallée is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. |
Q3931983 Sofia Arvidsson was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Meilen Tu.Venus Williams won in the final 6–1, 6–1, against Shahar Pe'er. |
Q4810985 Aston Kajara is a Ugandan lawyer and politician. He is the current State Minister of Finance for Privatization in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. In the cabinet reshuffle of 1 March 2015, he retained his cabinet post. Prior to that, from 16 February 2009 until 1 March 201... |
Q3066318 The Inírida (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈniɾiða], Spanish: Río Inírida) is a river in the north-west of South America, in the territory of Colombia, the largest tributary of the Guaviare (the Orinoco River basin).The length of the river is 1,300 kilometres (810 mi), 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) of which are navigab... |
Q7059633 Northport Traction Company was a trolley service in the Town of Huntington in New York. It ran from 1902 to 1924 and served East Northport and Northport, New York. The company only had one line throughout its history which ran from Northport (LIRR station) to Northport Harbor, at what is today Cow Harbor Park.... |
Q7024278 Nicholas Johnson (born April 15, 1983) is an American rugby union player. Johnson played flanker and Number 8 for the USA Eagles. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe, and represented the US at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, where he started three matches.He started p... |
Q2459050 Petelovo (Bulgarian: Петелово) is a village in Chernoochene Municipality, in Kardzhali Province, in southern-central Bulgaria. It is located 194.259 kilometres (120.707 mi) southeast of Sofia. It covers an area of 7.276 square kilometres and as of 2007 it had a population of 280 people. |
Q3479986 The Bean's sawtooth eel (Serrivomer beanii, also known commonly as the longfin sawpalate, the saw-tooth snipe eel, the sawtooth eel, the shortnosed snipe eel, and the stout sawpalate) is an eel in the family Nemichthyidae (snipe eels). It was described by Theodore Gill and John Adam Ryder in 1883. It is a mari... |
Q3224945 Le Mémorial d'Aix was a bi-weekly French-language newspaper in Aix-en-Provence from 1837 to 1944. |
Q18128489 George Summers (born 30 July 1941) is a Scottish retired professional football forward, manager and coach who played in the Football League for Brentford. He later moved to South Africa. |
Q28223959 Three Rivers is a locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. |
Q31839237 V-Partei3, known officially as V-Partei³ – Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans (German: V-Partei³ – Partei für Veränderung, Vegetarier und Veganer) is a German political party that started in April 2016. The principal focus of the party is animal rights and environmentalism. It is the sole political part... |
Q7183292 Philip D. Burden is a geographer, map dealer and historian. He is best known as the author of The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511–1670 and The Mapping of North America II: A List of Printed Maps 1671–1700. These books are widely considered the authoritative works on the topic of historic... |
Q2531058 Akilathirattu Ammanai (Tamil: அகிலத்திரட்டு அம்மானை; akilam ("world"), thirattu ("collection"), ammanai ("ballad")), also called Thiru Edu ("venerable book"), is the main religious text of the Tamil belief system Ayyavazhi. The title is often abbreviated to Akilam or Akilathirattu.Akilam includes more than 15,... |
Q1815313 Bageshwar District is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Bageshwar is the district headquarters. The district of Bageshwar was established in the year 1997. Prior to this, Bageshwar was part of Almora district.Bageshwar district is in the eastern Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, and is... |
Q34429 Porto Viro, or Taglio di Porto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Venice and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of Rovigo. It was first created during the Fascist era, but subsequently suppressed. It was established anew o... |
Q16037939 Sahib Muhammad Ja'faar ud-Din Mirza Mridha (born 1876 in Bengal, died 1921 in Natore) was a feudal lord in Bengal, British Empire who served as the second Zamindar of Natore from the House of Singra and Natore and the "Mridha" (Defense Minister) under the Maharajas of Rajshahi. |
Q5475910 Piper huigranum is a species of plant in the Piperaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. |
Q10410527 Harold Bodle (4 October 1920 – 1 January 2005) was an English footballer who played as an inside left or wing half. He played for Birmingham City in the top flight and for several clubs in the North of England in the lower divisions of the Football League. He was particularly noted for juggling the ball, a sk... |
Q7848035 Truro Island lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is one of the mid-waterway islands in the McDougall Sound between Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island. Long and narrow, the island is 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi). |
Q7353735 Rocco Morabito (November 2, 1920 – April 5, 2009) was an American photographer who spent the majority of his career at the Jacksonville Journal.Morabito won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for "The Kiss of Life", a Jacksonville Journal photo that showed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation between tw... |
Q7648837 Susarla Dakshinamurthi Jr. was an Indian film music director, playback singer, record producer, Carnatic musician, multi-instrumentalist, and an eminent violinist known for his works in South Indian film industry, Hindi cinema, Sri Lankan cinema, and Hollywood.Dakshinamurthi is the grandson of Sr. Susarla Daks... |
Q4671998 Acanthonyx dentatus, the toothed decorator crab, is a species of crab in the family Inachidae. |
Q3195789 Akbaruddin Owaisi (born 14 June 1970) is an Indian politician and an MLA of the Telangana Legislative Assembly. He is a member of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and is its floor leader in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. |
Q4727605 Not to be confused with the larger constituency with similar name of Aljunied Group Representation Constituency, which is the first Group Representation Constituency to be won by an opposition party in 2011 Singapore General Elections.Aljunied Single Member Constituency (Traditional Chinese: 阿裕尼單選區; Simplified... |
Q7696935 Cable Ready is the eighth volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series of compilation albums by TVT Records. The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles-based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after ... |
Q17065405 The Georgian diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from Georgia. The countries with the largest Georgian communities outside Georgia are Turkey and Russia. |
Q15059518 Maria Jacobsen (November 6, 1882 – April 6, 1960) was a Danish missionary and a key witness to the Armenian Genocide. Jacobsen wrote the Diaries of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919, which according to Armenian Genocide scholar Ara Sarafian, is a "documentation of the utmost significance" for research o... |
Q20981741 The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. |
Q15278467 Horst Hahne (born 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany), is an Australian sculptor, medallist and designer. Signature: "HH" |
Q17027371 Khieu Chum (Khmer: ខៀវ ជុំ Khmer pronunciation: [kʰiəw cum], 1907-1975) was a prominent Cambodian Buddhist monk and activist who was a member of a small group of people responsible for planning the Cambodian coup of 1970 which overthrew the monarchy and placed General Lon Nol as leader of a new Khmer Republic... |
Q28343283 Mustafa Mauludi is the leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iran). He was selected as leader by central committee of KDP (Iran) on 15 January 2017 after resignation of Khaled Azizi. |
Q332055 Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981), more commonly known as Omar Torrijos, was the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and the de facto dictator of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, but instead held titles including "Maximum Lea... |
Q289605 Étienne Desmarteau (4 February 1873 – 29 October 1905) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics. |
Q34082274 Dippenaar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Boeta Dippenaar (born 1977), South African cricketerLauritz Dippenaar (born 1948), South African businessmanStephan Dippenaar (born 1988), South African rugby union footballer |
Q4680408 The Adams Street Double House is a historic double house located at 106-108 East Adams Street in Sandusky, Ohio. |
Q6836494 Michel A. Monnin was appointed a judge of the Manitoba Court of Appeal on July 27, 1995. His appointment became effective on August 3, 1995. He replaced Alan R. Philp, who chose to become a supernumerary judge.Monnin graduated from the University of Manitoba Law School in 1969, and was called to the Manitoba... |
Q6930841 Mubarak Ata Mubarak (born 17 December 1981) is a Saudi Arabian hurdler. His personal best time is 13.68 seconds, achieved in July 2004 in Lapinlahti.He won the gold medal at the 2000 Asian Championships, the silver medal at the 2002 Asian Championships and finished fifth at the 2005 Asian Championships. He als... |
Q7680314 Talpa is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. |
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