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Q1711813 Julia Kathleen Beckett (born 4 July 1986) is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympics and FINA world championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. Beckett was born in Winchester, Hampshire, England, and attended Loughborough University.At the 2006 Commonwealth Ga... |
Q7947642 WCBZ-LP was a low-power television station in Central City, Louisiana, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 7 as an affiliate of My Family TV. The station was affiliated with Central's local newspaper, the Central City News. The station is managed by former state senator Woody Jenkins, who once owned and mana... |
Q429685 The Central region is one of four regions in the country of Uganda. As of Uganda's 2014 census, the region's population was 9,529,227. It is coterminous with the Kingdom of Buganda, one of the ancient African monarchies that are constitutionally recognised in Uganda. |
Q247376 Rafał Dębski (born 1969) is a Polish writer of fantasy, historic, sensational and criminal novels. He works as a psychologist. Since June 2009 he has been editor in chief of the magazine Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.He debuted in Nowa Fantastyka in its May 1998 issue with his tale "Siódmy liść".In 2005 ... |
Q897231 The Hochfirst is a wooded mountain between Saig and Titisee-Neustadt in the Black Forest in Germany with a height of 1,190.1 m above sea level (NHN). |
Q5131201 Clema is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:Clema deserti Semenov, 1900Clema elegans Obenberger, 1923Clema freudei Cobos, 1963 |
Q5034479 Capacities is the third album from the Filipino independent band Up Dharma Down. |
Q18164964 Andrew Bruce Harvey is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2014 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Carleton-Victoria as a member of the Liberal Party.Harvey was named to the Select Committee on Cannabis, pursuant to Motion 31 of ... |
Q4339805 Yuri Otkupshchikov (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Откупщиков; 29 August 1924, Kazan – 25 September 2010, St. Petersburg; also spelled Otkupscikov, Otkupsikov, Otkupschikov, Otkupschtschikov) was a Soviet and Russian philologist and linguist. For more than 50 years, he taught at the St. Petersburg State University... |
Q11221622 GirlsAward (ガールズアワード), sometimes abbreviated as GA, is a semi-annual fashion and music event held at Yoyogi National Gymnasium 1st Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the biggest fashion events in Japan, with approximately 30,000 people attending each time. It is organized by GirlsAward Inc. under the slo... |
Q3176081 Jeanne Joulain (22 July 1920 – 1 February 2010) was a French organist, concertist and music educator. |
Q16527037 Colonel Albert Barnes Steinberger (December 25, 1840 – May 1, 1894, Massachusetts), was an American agent who became the first Prime Minister of Samoa in 1875, in a context of colonial rivalries around the archipelago. |
Q2709312 "Stay Together for the Kids" is a song recorded by American rock band Blink-182 for their fourth studio album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001). It was released as the third and final single from the album on February 19, 2002. The track was composed primarily by guitarist Tom DeLonge, who based its lyric... |
Q277364 The Chocolate Soldier (German title: Der tapfere Soldat or Der Praliné-Soldat) is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus (1870–1954) based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man. The German language libretto is by Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson. It premiered on 14 November 1908 at the... |
Q16993995 Higgledy House is a British children's television show which originally aired as part of Tikkabilla on the CBeebies channel. It stars Justin Fletcher and Sarah-Jane Honeywell, as two adolescent friends who share a house and whose eccentric exploits are the subject of the show. The BBC described the show as "c... |
Q628397 NPO Mashinostroyeniya (Russian: НПО машиностроения) is a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, Russia. During the Cold War it was responsible for several major weapons systems, including the UR-100N Intercontinental ballistic missile and the military Almaz space station program.India is Mashinostroyeniya's sec... |
Q5387605 Eric Talbot is an American comic book writer and artist known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series under Mirage Studios. He was hired by long-time classmate and friend Kevin Eastman.Talbot co-wrote the graphic novel The Melting Pot along with Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley, which was used as... |
Q42893 Rogeno (Brianzöö: Rògen) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Milan and about 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of Lecco. Rogeno borders the following municipalities: Bosisio Parini, Costa Masnaga, Eupilio, Merone, Molteno... |
Q15509 Gironella is a municipality in the comarca of the Berguedà in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the left bank of the Llobregat river to the south of Berga. The local economy is traditionally based on cotton spinning and textile manufacture, although tourism is now more important: the company towns or "colonies... |
Q7860537 Tyneside was a parliamentary constituency in the Tyneside area of north-east England, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 18... |
Q7757407 The Platinum Brothers are an American record production duo based in Atlanta, Georgia. Consisting of Adam Gibbs and Mike Chesser, the duo produced "Let's Chill" and "So Hot" from Charlie Wilson's album Charlie, Last Name Wilson which has gone on to sell over 300,000 copies.In 2002, The Platinum Brothers provi... |
Q46656 Lewis Clive (8 September 1910 – 2 August 1938) was a British rower who won a gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in action. |
Q7562264 Sonpu is a village in Shwegu Township in Bhamo District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma. |
Q1761144 Elaphrus uliginosus is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic and the Near East. In Europe, it is found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain including Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides and Isle of Man, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, Finland, mainla... |
Q5644390 Hamden is an unincorporated community in northern Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It is seven miles southeast of Antlers, Oklahoma.A United States Post Office was established at Hamden, Indian Territory on March 31, 1894 and operated until May 15, 1924. Hamden is on the boundary separating Choctaw County and Pushma... |
Q878809 Bitinkodji is a village and rural commune in Niger. |
Q5565050 The Gitanjali Literary Prize is a Franco-Indian literary award established in 2012. It was founded by the Mohsen Hachtroudi Foundation and CHG Earth Group (a hotel company in India). A Francophone author and an Indian author each receive a prize which includes a Gitanjali Medal, a literary sojourn of 15 days, ... |
Q20657835 Heath is an unincorporated community in Fergus County, in the U.S. state of Montana. |
Q18280265 George Schick (September 28, 1908 in Prague – March 7, 1985 in Manhattan) was a Czechoslovakian conductor, vocal coach, accompanist, and music educator. He served as accompanist for Richard Tauber on his 1946/7 tour of North, Central and South America, also for Elizabeth Schumann, including what proved to be ... |
Q27062104 Frede Blaabjerg is a Danish professor at Aalborg University. At Aalborg, he works in the section of Power Electronic Systems of the department of Energy Technology. Blaabjerg's research concerns the applications of power electronics including adjustable-speed drives, microgrids, photovoltaic systems, and win... |
Q15631305 Mercy Mwethya Joseph (born 21 March 1992) is a Kenyan badminton player. She was selected among the 14 best African players to be a member of the Road to Rio Program organised by the BWF and Badminton Confederation of Africa, to provide financial and technical support to African players and the lead-up to the ... |
Q27985550 Fretwell Branch is a stream in Lewis County in the U.S. state of Missouri.Fretwell Branch has the name of Leonard and Nancy Ann Fretwell, pioneer citizens. The Fretwells are cited as original owners of the site. |
Q6959347 William Gordon Claxton DSO, DFC & Bar (June 1, 1899 – September 28, 1967) was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with 37 victories. He became the leading ace in his squadron. |
Q7432872 In mathematics, the Schreier refinement theorem of group theory states that any two subnormal series of subgroups of a given group have equivalent refinements, where two series are equivalent if there is a bijection between their factor groups that sends each factor group to an isomorphic one.The theorem is na... |
Q587509 K. Beringen-Heusden-Zolder was a Belgian football club, from the municipalities of Heusden-Zolder and Beringen in Limburg. Its stadium has been located in the municipality of Beringen-Mijn from 2004 to 2006 (after its relegation from the Belgian First Division). |
Q1936930 Pasighat is the headquarters of East Siang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Situated at the eastern foothills of the Himalayas at 155 meters above mean sea level, Pasighat is Arunachal's oldest town. The Government of India included Pasighat in the Smart Cities Mission development scheme in J... |
Q7419774 The Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas is one of the original monasteries of Cistercian nuns in Spain. It is located within the city of Valladolid in the Duero region. |
Q7238901 Prawdziwe życie is the debut album of Polish punk rock band Bulbulators. The album was released as an MC in 2000 and re-released as CD in 2004. |
Q7621217 Strand was a British brand of cigarettes which was owned and manufactured by W.D. & H.O. Wills (a now defunct subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco) |
Q1560106 Gülhane Park (Turkish: Gülhane Parkı, "Rosehouse Park"; from Persian: گلخانه Gulkhāna, "house of flowers") is a historical urban park in the Eminönü district of Istanbul, Turkey; it is adjacent to and on the grounds of the Topkapı Palace. The south entrance of the park sports one of the larger gates of the pal... |
Q2266005 Paku Alam VII acceded to the throne of the Pakualaman principality Kadipaten Pakualaman in 1903, and died in 1937.Pakualaman (also written Paku Alaman) became a small hereditary Duchy within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, as a mirror-image of the Mangkunegaran principality in the territory of the Susuhunanate of... |
Q5357713 An electrical contractor is a business person or firm that performs specialized construction work related to the design, installation, and maintenance of electrical systems.An electrical contractor is different from an electrician; an electrician is an individual tradesman and an electrical contractor is a bus... |
Q1784730 In mathematics, the Fortuin–Kasteleyn–Ginibre (FKG) inequality is a correlation inequality, a fundamental tool in statistical mechanics and probabilistic combinatorics (especially random graphs and the probabilistic method), due to Cees M. Fortuin, Pieter W. Kasteleyn, and Jean Ginibre (1971). Informally, it s... |
Q6772116 Marmaroxena is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Marmaroxena autochalca, which is found on Samoa. |
Q807670 Skrunda-1, also known as Skrunda-2, is a ghost town and former Soviet radar station located 5 km (3 mi) to the north of Skrunda, in Raņķi Parish, Latvia. It was the site of two Dnepr radar (NATO "Hen House") radar installations constructed in the 1960s. A Daryal radar was being built there before the collapse o... |
Q2364760 Enchelybrotula is a genus of deep-water cusk-eels. |
Q6771063 Marcos dos Santos Moraes (born 21 January 1991), commonly known as Marquinhos, Markinhos or even Markisio, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Lebanese club Riada Wal Adab. |
Q5862087 Kaliri (Persian: كليري, also Romanized as Kalīrī) is a village in Abtar Rural District, in the Central District of Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 402, in 85 families. |
Q3666444 Charles Blachford Mansfield (8 May 1819 – 26 February 1855) was a British chemist and author. |
Q11666058 Salt poisoning is an intoxication resulting from the excessive intake of sodium (usually as sodium chloride) in either solid form or in solution (saline water, including brine, brackish water, or seawater). In medicine, the circumstance of salt poisoning is most frequently encountered in children or infants w... |
Q27985799 Ivy Branch is a stream in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Missouri.Ivy Branch derives its name from a corruption of the surname of Anderson Ivie, the original owner of the site. |
Q20951 Jacques Élisée Reclus (French: [ʁəkly]; 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was award... |
Q595397 Scabdates is the second official live recording from the band The Mars Volta. It was released on November 8, 2005 and features music recorded between May 2004 and May 2005 during the tours in support of De-Loused in the Comatorium and Frances the Mute. In 2011, NME magazine named it one of the 50 greatest live ... |
Q2504297 State Highway 356 runs from State Highway 183 in Irving, Texas to Interstate 35E in Dallas, Texas. |
Q218222 Zoe Rahman (born 20 January 1971) is an English jazz composer and pianist. |
Q7781424 Theo Avgerinos (born September 22, 1978 in New York City) is a feature film director who directed, Fifty Pills, an independent, features Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristen Bell, John Hensley, Nora Zehetner, Michael Peña, Jane Lynch, Monica Keena, and Eddie Kaye Thomas. |
Q3529088 Timothy Williams (born 1946) is a bilingual British author who has written six novels in English featuring Commissario Piero Trotti, a character critics have referred to as a personification of modern Italy. Williams' books include Black August, which won a Crime Writers' Association award. His novels have bee... |
Q7012725 New Year's Evil is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery crossover novel. It was published in 1991.Nancy and the two brothers head out to Quebec City, Canada, Nancy to investigate sabotage on the set of Dangerous Loves, a television show with romance and thriller elements, and the brothers curious as to why... |
Q3404688 North Macedonia–Turkey relations are the bilateral relations between the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Turkey. |
Q6511905 Lectionary 130, designated by siglum ℓ 130 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. |
Q6765681 For information on all Marist College sports, see Marist Red FoxesThe Marist Red Foxes football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Marist College located in the U.S. state of New York. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the... |
Q1816157 Olivedos is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. |
Q3159171 Jacques Jaubert (born 26 July 1957) is a French prehistorian and professor of Paleolithic archaeology at University of Bordeaux 1. |
Q11707754 Lord Nelson was an East Indiaman, launched in late 1799, sailing for the East India Company. She made five voyages, of which she completed four. On her second voyage the French privateer Bellone captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her within about two weeks. On her fifth voyage Lord Nelson foundered i... |
Q25351453 The Exchange is an a cappella band from the United States founded in 2012 by Rochester, NY native Aaron Sperber. The group consists of Sperber, Alfredo Austin, Christopher Diaz, Jamal Moore, and Richard Steighner. The band was a finalist on Season 5 of NBC's musical reality television show "The Sing-Off" and ... |
Q16841289 The Bharatiya Rashtravadi Paksha ('Indian Nationalist Party') is a political party in Gujarat, India. The party was registered in 2003. It has its headquarters in Mehsana. The party fielded a single candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, who got 11,459 votes.The party fielded a single candidate in the 2009... |
Q20805477 The Copa Polla Gol 1980 was the 10th edition of the Chilean Cup tournament. The competition started on February 13, 1980 and concluded on April 13, 1980. Only first level teams took part in the tournament. Deportes Iquique won the competition for their first time, beating Colo-Colo 2–1 in the final. The point... |
Q20807325 The men's decathlon event at the 2015 Summer Universiade was held on 8 and 9 July. |
Q27984014 Prathersville is an unincorporated community in Boone County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Prathersville was named after William Prather, a local merchant. It is located in north Columbia. |
Q28324995 Judy Hunt, MRVCS (born Darwen, 16 April 1957) is an English priest, who served as Archdeacon of Suffolk from 2009 to 2012.Hunt was educated at the University of Bristol, the Royal Veterinary College, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. She trained as a vet and was a lecturer in equine v... |
Q16406147 Astrid Lepa (7 April 1924 – 30 November 2015) was an Estonian stage, television, voice, and film actress, screenwriter, and television director whose career began in the 1940s and ended shortly before her death, spanning over sixty years. |
Q6846776 Michael "Mike" Feldman (born c. 1928) is a former politician in Toronto, Ontario. He was a municipal councillor from 1992 to 2010, and served as Deputy Mayor from 2003 to 2006. |
Q1196990 "The Soul of Man under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of "The Soul of Man" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin.In "The Soul of Man" Wi... |
Q1185753 Nyírlövő is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. |
Q7661480 Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 15 in D major, Perger 41, Sherman 15, MH 150, is believed to have been written in Salzburg after 1771. This work was at one time attributed to Joseph Haydn, the first work in D major so attributed.Scored for flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strings, in four movements:Allegro... |
Q1761658 The Congo gerbil or Congo tateril (Taterillus congicus) is a species of gerbil found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and possibly Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. |
Q6889266 A modex is a number that is part of the Aircraft Visual Identification System, along with the aircraft's tail code. It usually consists of two or three numbers that the Department of the Navy, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps use on aircraft to identify a squadron's mission and a specific aircraft within a squ... |
Q5275120 Dieter Voigt (born 18 February 1939) is a German ice hockey player, who competed for SC Dynamo Berlin. He won the bronze medal with the East German national ice hockey team at the 1966 European Championships. Voigt also competed for East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. |
Q1327075 Beatrix Tóth (born 10 March 1967) is a retired Hungarian handball player. She won a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships and a bronze at the 1996 Olympics. |
Q6722737 Macau competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August in Berlin. |
Q3052691 Matthew Parr (born 1 March 1990) is an English figure skater. He is a four-time British national champion (2009–10, 2013–14). |
Q891234 The 2010–2012 European Nations Cup is the premier rugby union competition below the Six Nations Championship in Europe.The divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away. From 2009 onward, the title is awarded according to a one-year ranking. Georgia won the 2011 title.T... |
Q6416543 Shahrdari Yasuj Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Yasuj, Iran. They currently compete in the Iran Football's 2nd Division. |
Q99060 Johann Ludwig Tellkampf (28 January 1808 – 15 February 1876) was a German scholar and politician who taught in Germany and the United States. |
Q7670518 Thomas Tekanapu Rawakata ("TJ") Perenara (born 23 January 1992) is a New Zealand rugby union player who represents the All Blacks internationally, and is the current Vice-Captain of the Hurricanes in the Super Rugby competition and is signed to the Wellington Lions in the Mitre 10 Cup. He was part of the New Z... |
Q7614472 Steven Baker (born 1976 in Brisbane, Australia) is an arranger, orchestrator and record producer, best known for his work in the UK classical/pop crossover genre. He has worked on albums and projects for a wide range of artists over the years, including Katherine Jenkins, Joe McElderry, Alfie Boe, Russell Wat... |
Q3906698 A palmar crease is a type of crease on the palm. A single transverse palmar crease is sometimes associated with Down syndrome. Other types of creases include the Sydney crease and the Suwon, or double transverse palmar crease. |
Q18686112 Pentagón Jr. (born February 26, 1985) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) currently under contract with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is AAA World Tag Team Champion in his third reign.In America he is best known for his work with Impact Wr... |
Q1966933 State leaders in the 7th century BC – State leaders in the 5th century BC – State leaders by yearThis is a list of state leaders in the 6th century BC (600–501 BC). |
Q26914032 St. Mary's Church is a medieval church and National Monument in Callan, Ireland. |
Q28233018 The Ireland national 3x3 team is a national basketball team of Ireland, administered by Basketball Ireland. It represents the country in international 3x3 basketball competitions. |
Q995745 Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together. Dom... |
Q5601557 John McLeod Campbell (4 May 1800 – 27 February 1872) was a Scottish minister and Reformed theologian. In the opinion of one German church historian, contemporaneous with Campbell, his theology was a highpoint of British theology during the nineteenth century. James B. Torrance ranked him highly on the doctrine... |
Q7103370 Ormara Airport (IATA: ORW, ICAO: OPOR) is a domestic airport, located at Ormara, Balochistan, Pakistan. Though scheduled service used to be available at the airport, service is no longer available. |
Q448540 Parylene is the trade name for a variety of chemical vapor deposited poly(p-xylylene) polymers used as moisture and dielectric barriers. Among them, Parylene C is the most popular due to its combination of barrier properties, cost, and other processing advantages.Parylene is green polymer chemistry. It is self-... |
Q3389798 Saint Martin of Leon (Spanish: San Martín de León; c. 1130 – January 12, 1203) was a priest and canon regular of the Augustinian Order. Born at León, Martin, along with his father Juan, withdrew from the world to the canonry of St. Marcellinus in León after the death of his mother. Martin was educated at this ... |
Q57926 Oberwiesenthal (officially Kurort Oberwiesenthal) is a town and a ski resort in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony in Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, on the border with the Czech Republic, 19 km south of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 23 km northeast of Karlovy Vary. At 914 metres (2,999 ft), it is ... |
Q3754390 Pao suvattii, or Arrowhead puffer, is a species of pufferfish. It is a medium-sized pufferfish, reaching 11.5 cm (4.5 in) SL. It is also known as a Pignose Puffer or a Mekong Puffer. It is locally common in the Lower Mekong basin, and is exclusively a freshwater fish.The specific name honours Thai ichthyologis... |
Q4585751 The 198th Airlift Squadron (198 AS) is the flying squadron of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard 156th Airlift Wing located at Muñiz Air National Guard Base, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. The 198th is equipped with the WC-130H Hercules. |
Q4562618 The 1930 Chatham Cup was the eighth annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.The competition was run on a regional basis, with five regional associations (Auckland, Wellington, Manawatu, Canterbury, and Otago) each holding separate qualifying rounds. In all, "almost 30 teams" took part.Te... |
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