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Q6757529 Marco Ray Evoniuk (born September 30, 1957 in San Francisco, California) is a retired male race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1984. Evoniuk had qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 ...
Q10772673 Julia’s Idia (Idia julia) is a species of litter moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from southern Canada south to Georgia and Texas.The wingspan is about 17 mm. There is one generation in the north and multiple generations in the south.Larvae feed on detritus, including dead leaves.
Q6555981 Lioptilodes cuzcoicus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Ecuador and Peru.The wingspan is about 23 mm. Adults are on wing in August.This species is characterized by the relatively small second lobe of the forewing.
Q7592857 St Columba's-by-the-Castle is a congregation of the Scottish Episcopal Church in central Edinburgh, Scotland. The church is located close to Edinburgh Castle, on the south slope of Castle Hill, and is protected as a category B listed building.The church was constructed in 1846–1847 in an Early English Gothic s...
Q4457315 Thymosin α1 is a peptide fragment derived from prothymosin alpha, a protein that in humans is encoded by the PTMA gene.It was the first of the peptides from Thymosin Fraction 5 to be completely sequenced and synthesized. Unlike β thymosins, to which it is genetically and chemically unrelated, thymosin α1 is pr...
Q6699741 Lugazi Power Station is a 9.5 megawatts (12,700 hp) bagasse-fired thermal power plant in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.
Q7970074 Warren Braun (born June 12, 1934) is a former member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Q10706953 Tychicus is a spider genus.
Q14103050 Piletocera flavidiscalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found in Sikkim, India.
Q19869652 The 142nd Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (142nd BfSB) was located at Decatur, Alabama. The 142nd BfSB was a Major Command (MACOM) of the Alabama Army National Guard.The 142nd BfSB stood up as a brigade in the Alabama Army National Guard Surveillance Brigade of the United States Army in 2011.The brigade was ...
Q1364243 The Hann River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia.The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range on Cape York Peninsula northeast of the settlement of Kimba. The river flows in a north easterly direction, joined by four minor tributaries, crosses the Peninsula Developmental Road and th...
Q1418875 Sealab 2021 is an American adult animated television series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson. It was shown on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Cartoon Network aired the show's first three episodes in December 2000 before the official inception of the Adult Swim block on Septemb...
Q4680736 An adaptive enzyme or inducible enzyme is an enzyme that is expressed only under conditions in which it is clearly of adaptive value, as opposed to a constitutive enzyme which is produced all the time.The Inducible enzyme is used for the breaking-down of things in the cell. It is also a part of the Operon Mode...
Q497506 "No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song first became known in 1974 from the studio album Natty Dread. This studio version used a drum machine. The live version from the 1975 album Live! was released as a single and is the best known version; it was included on the greatest ...
Q916988 Brikama is one of the largest cities in the Gambia, also called as 'SATEY BA' by the locals meaning big Settlement, lying south of the country's capital, Banjul. Brikama is the headquarters of the Brikama Local Government Area (formerly the Western Division), being the largest city in the division with a popula...
Q2353326 M-57 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. The 105.377-mile (169.588 km) highway connects US Highway 131 (US 131) near Rockford on the west end to M-15 near Otisville in the Lower Peninsula. In between, the mostly rural highway passes through farmland and connects several highway...
Q7780449 Preveza (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Πρέβεζας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Preveza.
Q155263 53311 Deucalion ( dew-KAY-lee-ən; from Greek: Δευκαλίων), provisional designation 1999 HU11, is a trans-Neptunian object from the classical Kuiper belt, located in the outermost region of the Solar System, approximately 130–210 kilometers (81–130 miles). The cubewano belongs to the cold population and was disco...
Q7697179 Telex Communications, originally Telex Corporation, was a Burnsville, Minnesota-based manufacturer of hearing aids and audio equipment. Founded in 1936 as a maker of hearing aids, it entered the computer peripherals businesses in the 1960s. Telex Communications was structured as a subsidiary of Telex Corp in ...
Q874753 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Queenstown (Latin: Queenstovnen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Queenstown in the Ecclesiastical province of Cape Town in South Africa.
Q6289137 Joshua Aaron Mandel (born September 27, 1977) is an American Republican politician who served as the State Treasurer of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. Mandel is a former city councilman and member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was the unsuccessful Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown i...
Q16149451 The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose members include one of the longest-serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries.
Q6081712 Eslam Mohamed Zaki Sarhan (Arabic: إسلام محمد ذكي‎, English: Mohamed Zaki, born 18 January 1988) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays for Selangor United in the Malaysia Premier League.
Q4712108 The Alberto Maranhão Theatre is a theatre located in the city of Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.At the Teatro Alberto Maranhão, by its history, architectural beauty and tradition, the happiness of being here, walking in this place so full of artistic past.
Q7184192 Philip P. Pan (born 20th century) is an American journalist and author. He is currently Asia Editor of The New York Times, after reporting for more than a decade as a foreign correspondent based in China and Russia for The Washington Post.
Q8021135 Williams v Compair Maxam Ltd [1982] ICR 156 is a UK labour law case, concerning unfair dismissal, now governed by the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Q8082599 Ştefania Iuliana Vătafu is a Romanian football midfielder currently playing for Anderlecht in Belgium's Super League Vrouwenvoetbal. She is a member of the Romanian national team.
Q17068131 Mario Huys is a former professional triathlete from Belgium who is currently living in Austria. He is the head coach and managing director of Mario Huys Coaching. Huys holds a master's degree in sports science. He is a former coach of the Oakley Transition Ironman Team and founding member of Triangel Institut...
Q20744938 Dmitri Eduardovich Kotov (Russian: Дмитрий Эдуардович Котов; born 14 May 1992) is a Russian football player.
Q28222040 The Cyprus national under-18 and under-19 basketball team is a national basketball team of Cyprus, administered by the Cyprus Basketball Federation.It represents the country in international under-18 and under-19 (under age 18 and under age 19) basketball competitions.
Q37676217 Lanto Griffin (born June 15, 1988) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Griffin was born in Mount Shasta, California and moved with his family at a young age to Blacksburg, Virginia. He played college golf at Virginia Commonwealth University where he was the 2009 Colonial Athletic Association ...
Q1763315 Doordarshan (abbreviated in English as DD) is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. One of India's largest broadcasting organisations in studio and transmitter infrastructure, it was es...
Q97197 Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (15 October 1886 – 12 October 1944) was a Colonel of the Wehrmacht, member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany and the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.
Q7459648 Señor Boombox (2002) is an album by Disco Biscuits.The album charted on two Billboard Magazine entries; Top Electronic Albums at #13 and Top Independent Albums at #46.
Q806653 Santander Bank Polska SA, formerly Bank Zachodni WBK (BZ WBK) (eng. West WBK Bank - the WBK abbreviation below) is a Polish universal bank based in Wrocław, Poznań and Warsaw. It is the third largest bank in Poland in terms of assets value and the number of outlets. It was formed in 2001 by the merger of Bank ...
Q1706705 Hathin is a town and a Municipal Committee in Haryana, India.
Q5233588 David Fedderly (born 1953) is an American orchestral tuba player and teacher.
Q7355796 Rocky Ray Hartberg is an American underground comic and commercial artist residing in Langford, South Dakota. He graduated from Northern State University in (Aberdeen, South Dakota) in 1975 with an art degree. In 2003, Hartberg received a second art degree from Northern.He is best known for his hard-boiled det...
Q5063162 Century High School is located in Eldersburg, Maryland within the Carroll County Public School District. The school was built in 2000/2001 on 65 acres (260,000 m2) of land and cost $21.2 million to complete. The building is 204,161 square feet (18,967.2 m2) in size.The school's colors are emerald green, gold, ...
Q8563732 Flemington Speedway was a motor racing circuit in Flemington, New Jersey which operated from 1915 to 2002. The track was known for being the fastest 5/8 dirt track in the United States. Later it was for hosting four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races and its pioneering use of foam blocks used to lessen the i...
Q4953523 Brachyotum jamesonii is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Q4577892 Morten Diderik Emil Lambrechts (4 October 1824 – 28 May 1900) was a Norwegian jurist and politician.He was born and died in Christiania. He was the father of Sigurd Lambrechts and a grandfather of Finn Lambrechts.As a politician, he was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1868, 1871, 1874 and 1880, represen...
Q5647024 Hancock Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Hancock Street in Quincy Square, across the street from the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after Reverend John Hancock (1702–1744), father of Founding Father John Hancock.The cemetery was founded c. 1640 (the date of th...
Q4794558 Arne Espeland (6 July 1885 – 22 April 1972) was a Norwegian writer.He was born in Lista, and used local history as a theme for many of his books. Novels include Klar til batalje (1961) and Med livet i nevane (1964).
Q17143203 Pseudoephedrine/loratadine (trade names Claritin-D, Clarinase, Clarinase Repetabs, Lorinase, Rhinos SR) is an orally administered combination drug used for the treatment of allergic rhinitis and the common cold. This drug can be bought "over the counter" in some countries (United States, Hong Kong), but it is...
Q1758 David Storl (born 27 July 1990) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put. He was successful on the youth and junior athletics circuit, winning gold medals at the World Youth Championships and World Junior Championships. Storl won his first senior medal, a silver, at the 2011 European At...
Q7562695 "Soon as I Get Home" is a song by the American R&B recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Evans and Sean Combs for her debut studio album Faith (1995) and released as the album's second single following her debut single "You Used to Love Me". The song peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 ch...
Q385782 Visočica is a mountain range in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geologically, Visočica is part of the Dinaric Alps and formed largely of secondary and tertiary sedimentary rock, mostly limestone and dolomite. Due to subterranean non-porous geological layers, the typical karst characteristics of the nearby Herze...
Q6047092 Konrad Pettersson (1 July 1903 in Älvsbyn, Sweden – 18 November 1976 in Piteå, Sweden), was a Swedish cross-country skier. He won Vasaloppet in 1927. He represented Luleå SK in club competitions.
Q16028468 French Cops Learning English, originally copyrighted in the United States as French Interpreter Policeman, is a 1908 French short silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1288–1293 in its catalogues.
Q18911176 Jean Starr Untermeyer (March 13, 1886 – July 27, 1970) was an American poet, translator, and educator. She was the author of six volumes of poetry and a memoir. She was married to the poet Louis Untermeyer.
Q1128460 The Contadora Group was an initiative launched in the early 1980s by the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela to deal with the Central American crisis (military conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala), which were threatening to destabilize the entire Central American region.Th...
Q7366537 Roosville, British Columbia, Canada is a tiny farming community bordering the U.S. state of Montana near Lake Koocanusa, at the southeast corner of Tobacco Plains Indian Reserve No. 2. The Roosville border crossing is a primary entry into Southeast British Columbia from Northwest Montana. The name of this comm...
Q6858116 Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case that rejected the argument that a separate opinion privilege existed against libel. It was seen by legal commentators as the end of an era that began with New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and continued with Gertz v. Robert...
Q7366921 Rory McLeod (born 1957) is a British folk singer-songwriter from London. He grew up in Camberwell before moving to Northolt and later West Kilburn. His career has included being a fire eater and circus clown and his performances include storytelling in the tradition of the traveling minstrel or troubadour, and...
Q6236709 John H. Balsley (May 29, 1823 – March 12, 1895) was a master carpenter and inventor, inventing a practical folding wooden stepladder and receiving the first U.S. patent issued for a safety stepladder in the year. He was born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania to George H. and Sarah (Shallenberger)...
Q1175238 David "Dave" Liffiton (born October 18, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and the Colorado Avalanche.
Q161039 Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, or simply Josué (born 19 July 1979 in Vitória de Santo Antão), is a former Brazilian defensive midfielder.He played for the Brazil national football team from 2007 to 2010, winning the 2007 Copa América and playing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Q87527 Erich Bachem (12 August 1906 in Mülheim an der Ruhr - 25 March 1960) was a German engineer.In the 1930s Erich Bachem designed the Aero-Sport camping trailer built from plywood by the glider company Wolf Hirth in Kirchheim unter Teck. Until 1942 Bachem served as technical director for the aircraft manufacturer Fi...
Q965529 Navalmoral de la Mata is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, western Spain. In 2016, the municipality had a population of 17,247 inhabitants.
Q7524021 Singles Live Unreleased is a compilation album by Royal Trux. It was released in 1997 by Drag City as a triple LP box set and a double CD.
Q1453113 Frederik Hendrik Kreuger (14 May 1928 – 10 January 2015), was a Dutch high voltage scientist and inventor, lived in Delft, the Netherlands, and was professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. He was also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive bio...
Q6175322 The Jeffair Barracuda is a high-performance sporting monoplane that was developed in the United States in the 1970s and is marketed for homebuilding. Designed and built by Geoffrey Siers, the prototype won the prize for "Most Outstanding New Design" at the EAA Fly-in in 1976. It was a low-wing cantilever monop...
Q6920796 Mount Francis is a massive, ridgelike mountain, 2,610 metres (8,560 ft) high, that overlooks Tucker Glacier from the north, standing between Tyler Glacier and Staircase Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, ...
Q7775929 The World According to Ion B. (2010) (Romanian: Lumea văzută de Ion B.) is a HBO Romania and Alexander Nanau Production documentary film. The film was written, produced, directed, and photographed by Alexander Nanau.The film depicts the dream of a man living on the streets: to one day become famous and leave b...
Q4611866 The 2008 Salwator Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2008 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Kraków, Poland between 3 and 9 November 2008.
Q15517506 Oussama Khatib (Arabic: أسامة الخطيب‎) is a roboticist and a professor of computer science at Stanford University, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is credited with seminal work in areas ranging from robot motion planning and control, human-friendly robot design, to haptic interaction and human motion synthesis. ...
Q16972661 The 2009 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division I World Series was played at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, FL from May 22 to May 28. The ninth tournament's champion was Colorado State University. This was Colorado State's fifth title in the last six years and second in a row. The Most Valuable...
Q22683784 The 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference was an international meeting of political leaders and activists to discuss environmental issues. It was held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 7-18 November 2016. The conference incorporated the twenty-second Conference of the Parties (COP22), the twelfth meeting of t...
Q27663374 Nitin Pandit is an Indian cricket umpire. He has stood in matches in the Ranji Trophy tournament.
Q2104150 Sapintus fulvipes is a species of antlike flower beetles in the family Anthicidae. It is found in the Caribbean and North America.Taxonomic note:Chandler (1999) determined that the publication date of LaFerté's Monographie des Anthicus is probably May, 1849.
Q504704 Romano Scarpa (September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
Q1975818 Mežciems is a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the eastern part of the city. The name is literally translated from Latvian as forest village. Mežciems is encircled by Šmerlis and Jugla forests. In the northern part of the neighbourhood there is Gaiļezers lake. In its beginnings Mežciems was part...
Q2578051 Psammophis is a genus of snakes in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus comprises 34 species, which are found in Africa and Asia. Psammophis are diurnal and prey on lizards and rodents which they actively hunt. All species in the genus are venomous, and the venom is considered mild and not dangerous to humans.
Q14957006 Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed-to-be University) is a deemed university in the city of Udaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It got the status of deemed university in 1987. It is one of the oldest universities of Udaipur.
Q9034686 Montana Skies is a pair of musicians hailing from Georgia and combines the sounds of cello and guitar for a unique musical sound.Their name is a metaphor for musical freedom, and they continue to follow their creative instincts far beyond traditional boundaries. In concert, these award winning musicians delve...
Q139033 Zaborowo [zabɔˈrɔvɔ] (German: Saborowen, 1938-45: Reichenwalde in Ostpreußen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kalinowo, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Kalinowo, 16 km (10 mi) east of Ełk, and 138 km (86 ...
Q5530725 Gemma O'Toole is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Newcastle United Jets.
Q7699567 Tenda dos Milagres is a 1977 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, based on the novel of the same name by Jorge Amado. It stars Hugo Carvana, Sonia Dias and Severino Dada. The director satirizes and exposes racism in Brazilian society. The most notable example where this is done is in a f...
Q6437955 Kristian Meisingset (born 9 June 1981) is a Norwegian editor on culture in the conservative quarterly periodical Minerva. He has a master in literature from the University of Oslo, and is now Norwegian language-teacher at Sonans Privatgymnas. Meisingset has been famous for criticising the genre opera for being...
Q5193219 Cultura Géminis is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Comas, Lima, Peru.
Q1524081 Gilbert Trigano (1920–2001) was a French businessman.
Q5849734 Kolah Kabud (Persian: كلاه كبود‎, also Romanized as Kolāh Kabūd) is a village in Hasanabad Rural District, in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 233, in 47 families.
Q2354267 The Route of Megalithic Culture (German: Straße der Megalithkultur) was first created as a tourist route that meanders from Osnabrück to Oldenburg in North-West Germany. Signposted with brown road signs it links many places of archaeological interest from the Megalithic era.Signs for the route started going u...
Q16956291 The 2014 Championship 1, known as the Kingstone Press Championship 1 for sponsorship reasons, will be a semi-professional rugby league football competition played in England, the third tier of the sport in the country.One team will be promoted from Championship 1, due to the restructure of Super League and th...
Q16012954 Mary Ann DeWeese (1913–1993) was an American sportswear designer. Appliquéd swimsuits and matching his-and-hers swimwear and sportswear are among the fashion firsts credited to DeWeese.The Kansas-born designer worked for Los Angeles Knitting Mills beginning in the 1930s and created sportswear for Sandeze befo...
Q16835304 Aufklärungsgruppe 11 (11th Reconnaissance Group) was a German Air Force air reconnaissance group that participated in the Axis-led invasion of Yugoslavia during World War II.
Q19604938 Teresa S. Pierce is an American politician from Maine. Pierce, a Democrat from Falmouth, Maine, has served in the Maine House of Representatives since December 2014.Prior to serving in the Legislature, Pierce served for nine years (three terms) on the Falmouth Town Council.
Q23305798 The UK R&B Chart is a weekly chart that ranks the 40 biggest-selling singles and albums that are classified in the R&B genre in the United Kingdom. The chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company, and is based on physical and other physical formats. This is a list of the UK's biggest R&B hits of 2002.
Q28445910 The 1962 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1962 college football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 6–4 overall and 5–2 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Abe Martin in his tenth year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games ...
Q28446206 The 1919 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1919 college football season. The Central Michigan football team compiled a 2–2–3 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined to...
Q3461752 Eatons Neck is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 1,406 at the 2010 census. Students attend the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District. There is a United States Coast Guard station on the northern tip of...
Q52876 Javier Adelmar Zanetti (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ saˈneti]; Italian: [dzaˈnetti]; born 10 August 1973) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.He started his career in Argentina, first with Talleres, and then Banfield. From 1995 to 2014 he played for Italian cl...
Q1047410 Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), also referred to as Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films, short films, and television specials for The Walt Disney Company. Founded on October 16, 1923, it is a division of Walt Disney Studios, and is headquartered at the Wa...
Q5955787 Hyflux Ltd (Hyflux) is a global sustainable solutions company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), and employs over 2,500 staff in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It maintains more than 10 research laboratories in Singapore, including a knowledge centre, an "innovative process ...
Q2485198 Route 31 is a highway in northwestern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 169 in northwestern De Kalb County; its southern terminus is at US 169 southeast of St. Joseph. Route 31 was one of the original 1922 state highways. Its northern terminus was originally five miles further north in King C...
Q2526083 Monica Luisa Macovei (Romanian pronunciation: [moˈnika luˈisa makoˈvej]; born 4 February 1959) is a Romanian politician, lawyer and former prosecutor, currently a Member of the European Parliament from the European Conservatives and Reformists and formerly a member of the Romanian Democratic Liberal Party. She...
Q101139 Ghisalba is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Milan and about 13 kilometres (8 mi) southeast of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2010, it had a population of 5,967 and an area of 10.2 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi).Ghi...
Q7738358 The Grouchy Ladybug, also known as The Bad-Tempered Ladybird, is a 1977 children's book written by Eric Carle Published by Greenwillow Books., best known as the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Bo...
Q6710284 Lyssa: Rural Gods and Astonishing Punishments is the seventh album by the Greek metal band Nightfall.