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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 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.
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 style, to designs by architect John Henderson. Stone for the building was brought from the palace of Mary of Guise, 16th-century queen regent of Scotland, on the Royal Mile. Its layout was inspired by the reforms of Anglican worship arising from the Oxford Movement.St Columba's-by-the-Castle is part of a local ecumenical partnership (LEP) with Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk (Church of Scotland) and Augustine United Church (United Reformed Church). It is also part of Edinburgh Churches Together and Action of Churches Together in Scotland.During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it has been used by the promoter C venues as a venue.
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 produced as a 28-amino acid fragment, from a longer, 113-amino acid precursor, prothymosin α.
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 tasked to improve the situational awareness for commanders at division level or higher, so they can adapt their units combat power for the current operations. For this the Battlefield Surveillance Brigades can deploy unmanned aerial vehicles, signals gathering equipment, human intelligence collectors and long range surveillance patrols.The 142nd BfSB was composed of:Headquarters & Headquarters Company, Decatur, Alabama, Alabama Army National Guard31st Brigade Support Company, Ozark, Alabama, Alabama Army National GuardCompany A, 136th Signal Battalion, Arab, Alabama, Alabama Army National Guard115th Signal Battalion, Florence, Alabama, Alabama Army National Guard 1st Squadron, 131st Cavalry Regiment, Enterprise, Alabama, Alabama Army National Guard67th Network Support Company, Billings, Montana, Montana Army National Guard321st Military Intelligence Battalion, Austin, Texas, U.S. Army ReserveThe 142nd BfSB conducted intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations. It held an inactivation ceremony on September 18, 2016 at the Fort Quarles-Flowers Armory in Decatur, Alabama.
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 then enters the Lakefield National Park where it forms a series of braided channels then re-forms to a single channel and discharges into the North Kennedy River northwest of Lakefield. The river descends 167 metres (548 ft) over its 140-kilometre (87 mi) course.The river has a catchment area of 9,557 square kilometres (3,690 sq mi) of which an area of 227 square kilometres (88 sq mi) is composed of estuarine wetlands.The floodplain is composed of reddish grey sand loam produced from the underlying sand material of Cainozoic age. The underlying geology is predominantly alluvium of Quaternary age with areas of older rock made up of sandstone of Middle Jurassic age in the Bathurst Range and the granite of Late Silurian age in the Great Dividing Range of the upper catchment. Fringing vegetation is made up of Stringybark, Bloodwood, Moreton Bay Ash and Ironbark trees with a ground cover of coarse grasses such as speargrass.The river was named after the explorer and pastoralist William Hann who explored the area in 1872. It was named by the prospector James Venture Mulligan in 1875.
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 September 2, 2001, with the final episode airing on April 24, 2005. Sealab 2021 is one of the four original Williams Street series that premiered in 2000 before Adult Swim officially launched, the others being Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.Much like Adult Swim's Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the animation used stock footage from a 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon, in this case the short-lived, environmentally-themed Sealab 2020, along with original animation. The show was a satirical parody of the original Sealab series, and the conventions of 1970s animated children's series generally. While there was initial resistance from several of the original series' creators to the reuse of their characters, production moved forward on the series. Sealab 2021 was produced by 70/30 Productions, which eventually closed on January 9, 2009.
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 Model, which illustrates a way for genes to turn "on" and "off".The Inducer causes the gene to turn on (controlled by the amount of reactant which turns the gene on). Then there's the repressor protein that turns genes off. The inducer can remove this repressor, turning genes back on. The operator is a section of DNA where the repressor binds to shut off certain genes; the promoter is the section of DNA where the RNA polymerase binds. Lastly, the regulatory gene is the gene for the repressor protein.An example of inducible enzyme is COX-2 which is synthesized in macrophages to produce Prostaglandin E2 while the constitutive enzyme COX-1 (another isozyme in COX family) is always produced in variety of organs in body (like stomach).
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 hits compilation Legend, and was recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on July 17, 1975 as part of his Natty Dread Tour.The live version of the song ranked No. 37 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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 population of over 57,000. Brikama is the birth place of the Gambian music industry with most of the famous musician hailing from Brikama.Brikama is known for wood carving and for its musicians. Local attractions include the Makasutu Culture Forest.Brikama is also home to numerous educational institutions including The Gambia College, which trains the nation's teachers, and the Regional Education Office for the Western Region of the country. In addition, there are several Secondary Schools (Kinderdorf Bottrop, Kunte Kinte, st.vincent, Maahad, and Methodist Academy) as well as a number of basic cycle schools.Brikama also has its own football club, the Brikama United Football Club.
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 highways and smaller towns together. Three of these highways are freeways: US 131, US 127 and Interstate 75 (I-75). Along the way, between 3,700 and 22,300 vehicles use the highway daily.The current highway that bears the M-57 moniker is the second to do so. The first is now M-75 in the Northern Lower Peninsula. This second highway was designated in the 1930s along a different, but parallel, routing. The first major changes shifted that routing southward to the current corridor in stages. Through additional extensions and truncations, the modern routing was formed by the 1970s.
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 discovered on 18 April 1999, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States. It was named after Deucalion, from Greek mythology.
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 the 1970s. Telex Corp was acquired by Memorex in 1988, which renamed itself Memorex Telex NV. The hearing aid portion of Telex Corp. was subsequently spun out as in 1989 as Telex Communications, an independent company. Memorex retained Telex Corp's peripherals businesses.In February 1998 Telex Communications merged with Electro-Voice.In August 2006, the company was acquired by Germany's Bosch Group for $420 million, becoming a business unit under the name "Bosch Communications Systems".One of its chairmen, Roger Wheeler was murdered by the Winter Hill Gang in 1981 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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 in the 2012 U.S. Senate election. In 2016, he announced his intention to again challenge Brown in 2018; he withdrew on January 5, 2018, citing family health reasons.
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, Ironman Nice and Ironman 70.3 Monaco.
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 Player of the Year. He turned professional in 2010.Griffin played on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2015 and 2016. He won the Roberto De Vicenzo Punta del Este Open Copa NEC in 2015. Also in 2015, Griffin won the Virginia Open.Griffin played on the Web.com Tour starting in 2017. He won the Nashville Golf Open, becoming the first player on tour in 13 years to win an event after making the cut on the number. He finished 23rd on the regular season Web.com Tour money list to secure his PGA Tour card for the 2017–18 season.
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 established on 15 September 1959. Doordarshan, which also broadcasts on digital terrestrial transmitters, provides television, radio, online and mobile service throughout metropolitan and regional India and overseas through the Indian Network and Radio India.
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 Zachodni S.A. and Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy SA. Since 2011, the Bank has been owned by the Spanish bank Santander Group.On 4 January 2013, Bank Zachodni WBK merged with Kredyt Bank which Santander bought from a its Belgian owners KBC Bank. This consolidated its Polish banking business and made Bank Zachodni WBK the third largest bank in Poland by market share. Bank Zachodni WBK has a network of ca. 1000 branches and provides services to 3.5m customers.On 10 September 2018, Bank Zachodni WBK changed its name to Santander Bank Polska SA. Also, the Bank's headquarters were moved from Wrocław to Warsaw.In 4th quarter of 2018 year, retail part of Deutsche Bank Polska SA has been incorporated into Santander Bank Polska SA.
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 detective, Cole Black, featured in a variety of comix between 1976 and 2006. These comics include Cole Black Comix (1976), Cole Black Comics (1980–1984), Cole Black (1985–1986), Cole Black: the Missing Issue (2006), and Cole Black Comics (born 2006). Other comic books by Hartberg include Lonesome Cowboy Comix (1977) and White Knight Comics (1978). His work can also be found in a number of fanzines, mostly in the late-1970s and early-1980s.In the early-1980s, the market for small independent comics flourished driven by the success of Cerebus the Aardvark and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Investors hoping to cash in on the next black and white success were quick to purchase new issues, and new black and white titles flooded the comic shop market. However, this craze was short lived and the resulting black and white comics implosion in the mid-1980s damaged the circulation of Cole Black. Distribution problems forced the cancellation of the comic with issue #3 of the 1985 series. Three additional issues of Cole Black were finished but remained unpublished for 20 years.In the mid 1980s, Rocky owned and operated a comic book store Aberdeen's Super City Shopping Mall. Through this business, Rocky was able to share his love of comic and graphic art and storytelling. Some of the stories that were being published during this time include: Frank Miller's initial Daredevil run, John Byrne's Alpha Flight and Fantastic Four, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, and George Pérez's Teen Titans.Hartberg continued to work in independent comics for several years but in 1991 turned to commercial art and "colorful and action-packed acrylic paintings." In 2006, Boardman Books in Tennessee published one of the abandoned stories as Cole Black volume 1, number 6: the Missing Issue
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, black, and white, and the mascot is a knight, chosen by the original principal, Dave Booz.
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 impact of crashes, which led to the adoption of the SAFER barrier and was America's longest-running Saturday night shorttrack until its closing.
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, representing the constituency of Christiania, Hønefos og Kongsvinger. This was before political parties existed in Norway, but Lambrechts was described as conservative-leaning.In the judicial field, Lambrechts climbed the career ladder. He became Supreme Court judge and later assessor. He ultimately served as the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1887 to 1900.He was decorated Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1868, Commander, First Class in 1889, and was awarded the Grand Cross with Collar in 1891.
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 the earliest documented graves), and is the only tangible remainder of the early settlement of the area. It was the resting place of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, Abigail Adams and Louisa Adams (respectively), before they were moved to the crypt in the United First Parish Church.The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.The cemetery markers and graves have recently been digitized on Google Maps and Google Earth.
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 restricted to prescription in others (Czech Republic).Pseudoephedrine, one of the naturally occurring alkaloids of ephedra, is a sympathomimetic used as a decongestant. It produces a decongestant effect that is facilitated by the vasoconstriction in the mucosal capillaries of the upper respiratory areas.Loratadine is a long-acting antihistamine (H1 histamine antagonist) that is less sedating than older substances of its type.
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 Athletics Indoor Championships.He held the world junior record of 22.73 m with the 6 kg shot. His personal best with the senior implement is 22.20 m.He won the gold medal in the shot put competition at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, and the Silver Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.Storl is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, and Dani Samuels) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.Storl uses the glide technique for shot putting.
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 chart and number 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The record has been certified gold by the RIAA.
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 Herzegovina mountains are relatively absent in Visočica, resulting in enough water sources, even at heights around 1500–1700 m. Springtime lakes, though, tend to dry out soon towards the summer. Some smaller streams source from these mountains as tributaries to its bordering rivers: the Ljuta in the east, the Rakitnica on its northern and western slopes and the Neretva towards the south.Notable peaks are Džamija (1974 m.), Vito (1960 m.), Veliko Ljeljen (1963 m.), Crveni Kuk (1733 m.) and Veliko Toholj (1837 m.).
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.The original stimulus for the initiative was a call by Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and Nobel laureates Gabriel García Márquez, Alfonso García Robles and Alva Myrdal for the presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and Panamato act as mediators in the conflicts.The group first met on Contadora Island (Panama) in 1983.The initiative drew international attention to Central America's conflicts and pressured for a softening of the militarist stance of the United States in the region.The peace plan was supported by the United Nations Security Council, the General Assembly and many regional and international bodies.In September 1983, mediated by the Contadora group, the foreign ministers of the Central American countries adopted a Document of Objectives in Panama City. This document declared their intent to promote democratization and to end armed conflict in the region, to act in compliance with international law, to revitalize and restore economic development and co-operation in Central America, and to negotiate better access to international markets.A year later, in September 1984, the Contadora Act on Peace and Co-operation in Central America was also presented. This document included a range of detailed commitments to peace, democratization, regional security and economic co-operation. It also provided for regional committees to evaluate and verify compliance with these commitments.The following year, representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay met in Lima and created the Contadora support group.The Contadora Act was tentatively approved by the Central American presidents, but did not gain the crucial backing of the United States due to its de facto recognition of the government of Nicaragua. The United States was also not supportive of the plan because it prohibited unilateral action by the US in protection of its interests. Moreover, the US succeeded in blocking in the plan any recourse to the World Court and United Nations as required by international law.A revised version of the accord failed to assuage the objections raised and was finally laid to rest with its formal rejection by Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras in June 1986.While the Contadora group ultimately failed to establish a credible peace formula with the backing of all regional governments, it did lay the foundations for such a plan to emerge in subsequent years. Under the leadership of Costa Rican president Óscar Arias, the so-called Esquipulas Peace Agreement emerged from the remains of Contadora in 1986 and led to a fundamental reshaping of Central American politics.
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 community derives from the family Roo, early settlers in the area. The name was conferred in honour of a Roo family member who was postmaster.The community in Montana, across the Canada–United States border, is also named Roosville, as is the US port of entry.
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 Welch, Inc., in which the court clarified and greatly expanded the range and scope of what could be said in the press without fear of litigation.The case took a long time to come before the court, which twice declined to hear it. When it finally did, the justices suggested they would clarify once and for all the extent to which opinions could be expressed without fear of being held libellous. The actual decision, however, was regarded as having confused the issue somewhat instead. Several state courts have responded by recognizing an opinion privilege in some way as part of their state constitution.
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 playing a wide range of instruments including guitar, harmonica, trombone and his personally-made stomp box. WoMAD have said: "With Rory McLeod, you get the music of the world in one suitcase.[...] You can hear flamenco, calypso, blues and Celtic influences in his music, all wrapped together in an inimitable style". He has recorded and toured with (then) fellow Cooking Vinyl artist Michelle Shocked.He also performed on Puddle Dive, the 1993 album by fellow singer-songwriter, Ani DiFranco. In 1996, McLeod's song Invoking the Spirits, which was inspired by time he spent in Zimbabwe, was a BBC Radio 4 "pick of the week". McLeod played the theme tune for the TV animation series, Creature Comforts. Martin Newell has described McLeod as "a feral folk musician of enormous talent", and writing in The Guardian Robin Denselow called him a "rousing harmonica player and guitarist".In 2002, McLeod was the winner of the Best Live Act title at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.McLeod played harmonica on Nizlopi's 2008 album, Make It Happen.
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) Balsley. His father was also a carpenter. An odd coincidence is that in the borough of Connellsville in 1825, a new bourough office was created: Keeper of Ladders. The title of Ladder Keeper does not appear after 1831 (although there is a gap in records from 1835-1856). William Balsley, an uncle, was on the town council at the time the office was created. Although none of his family seems to have held this new office, one can only speculate whether it somehow stimulated an interest in ladders on the part of young John. John H. Balsley migrated to Dayton, Ohio before 1850.Although stepladders had been in use for many years before 1862, his primary contribution to safety was the replacement of round rungs by flat steps. He became a wealthy businessman because of his inventions. Balsley's home in the Oregon Historic District, built about 1877, still stands at 419 East Sixth Street, a reminder of his success. He was also a Trustee of the City of Dayton Water Works for a year from April 1870, his only known public service.John H. Balsley and Sophia C. Balsley (January 1827–27 September 1905), his wife, are interred in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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 Fieseler. In February 1942 he founded Bachem-Werke GmbH, a supplier of spare parts for the aircraft industry, in Waldsee, Baden-Württemberg.In 1944, he designed for the SS the vertical take-off manned rocket plane Bachem Ba 349 Natter. The only manned test flight on 1 March 1945 ended with pilot Lothar Sieber being killed.In 1947/48 Erich Bachem left Germany through Denmark and Sweden in order to settle in Argentina. Possibly he wished to escape US agents who planned to send him to the USA with Wernher von Braun's group as part of Operation Overcast. In Argentina, among other things, he constructed a factory for guitars with interchangeable bottoms.In 1952 Bachem returned to Germany to become technical director for the company of his father-in-law Heinrich Wilhelm Schwarz, Ruhrthaler Maschinenfabrik Schwarz & Dyckerhoff GmbH, in Mülheim. There he developed the modern streamlined mine locomotive Ruhrthaler Vollsicht along with various other pieces of mining machinery and long-distance diesel locomotives. He occupied this position until his untimely death.From 1957, together with Erwin Hymer at Hymer, he designed camping trailers sold as Eriba (Erich Bachem, or possibly Erika Bachem after his wife) with names like Troll, Puck, Touring, Nova.
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 biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.
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 monoplane of wooden construction with retractable tricycle undercarriage and side-by-side seating for two. Around 150 sets of plans had sold by 1977.
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, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Henry S. Francis, Jr., Director of the International Cooperation and Information Program at the Office of Antarctic Programs, National Science Foundation. Francis wintered-over at Little America V Station in 1958 and made visits to Antarctica in other seasons.
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 behind a life of poverty, misery and humiliation. The title character, Ion Barladeanu, is on his way to becoming an important contemporary artist, but in May 2008 he was still anonymous and living homeless on the streets of Bucharest.It was the first Romanian film to win an American Academy Award when it won an International Emmy Award in 2010 on Arts Programming category.
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. His work's emphasis has been to develop theories, algorithms, and technologies, that control robot systems by using models of their physical dynamics. These dynamic models are used to derive optimal controllers for complex robots that interact with the environment in real-time.
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 Player was Bobby Moller of Colorado State University.
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 the parties for the Kyoto Protocol (CMP12), and the first meeting of the parties for the Paris Agreement (CMA1). The purpose of the conference was to discuss and implement plans about combatting climate change and to "[demonstrate] to the world that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is underway". Participants work together to come up with global solutions to climate change.The conference was presided over by Salaheddine Mezouar, the Moroccan Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Approximately 20,000 participants were expected to attend.On 2 May 2016, events firm GL Events signed the service contract. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also lent its support to the preparation for COP 22".
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 of Dreiliņi county characterized by single-family houses. The northern part of Mežciems was included in Riga in 1934. The southern part of Mežciems was built in the 1970s, when several apartment buildings were constructed, and included in city in 1974.
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 into music from Pink Floyd and Rush to Vivaldi, and House of the Rising Sun, as well as their own originals that have been featured everywhere from NPR to the Travel Channel. Montana Skies seemingly non-stop tour schedule has taken them all across the US as well as to Canada, Asia, and Russia; and their dedication to their musical vision has helped them build an enthusiastic grassroots fan base along the way. Combining elements of classical technique, jazz improv and the power and energy of rock n' roll; Jonathan's guitar wizardry and Jenn's blazing electric cello combine to create a sound that is truly remarkable. While the music defies simple categorization, it is a fusion in the truest sense of the word.
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 mi) east of the regional capital Olsztyn.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia).
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 flashback scene where Brazilians are shown listening with approving interest to Nazi race theories in the late 1930s. Tenda dos Milagres was shot in Salvador, Bahia.
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 out-of-date and for being "not able to affect the contemporary society".
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 up in 2008 and 2009. The whole 310-kilometre-long route was officially opened on 14 May 2009.The route links many sites of archaeological investigation and 33 stations where the public can visit archaeological sites, for example, with standing stones.On the 27th of August 2013, the route became part of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe initiative, with sections in a growing number of countries, including Denmark, England, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden.
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 the Championship, The top five sides will contest the play-offs the winner will be promoted. There is no relegation from this league as it is the lowest tier of professional rugby league.The only cup competition the teams will compete in is the 2014 Challenge Cup after the Northern Rail Cup was scrapped for 2014.
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 before joining Catalina Knitting Mills (see Catalina Sportswear), where she became a highly acclaimed designer known for her playful, well-constructed fashions. One of her many successful endeavors, the matching Sweethearts in Swimsuits line for men and women in the 1940s, she was loved for making her cobalt blue glass tiles. helped establish her reputation for innovation at Catalina. In 1951 she founded her own company in Los Angeles, DeWeese Designs, which produced sportswear and swimwear offering exceptional fit and construction. Her sundresses and loungewear were particularly successful, and she continued to use texture in unique ways and to introduce useful innovations such as the stretch strap for clothing and swimwear. DeWeese Designs remained in operation into the 1980s.
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 in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
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 total of 89 to 88. The team's victories were against Ferris State (7–0) and Bay City Western High School (34–6), the losses were against the Michigan Agricultural frosh team (6–14) and Detroit City College (14–42), and the ties were with Saginaw East High School (13–13), Grand Rapids Junior College (7–7), and the 1919 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team (7–7).Chief Nevitt was hired as the school's head football coach in March 1919. He was an alumnus of Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he played with Jim Thorpe; he had been the football coach at the Mount Pleasant Indian School for three years before being hired by Central Normal.
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 Eatons Neck.In 1927, the bulk of Eatons Neck consisting of what is today known as the Morgan Estate and Two-Acre Zone was subdivided and sold by the heirs of Cornelius H. DeLamater. The Eaton Harbors Corporation was created to hold title to, and maintain, all the private beaches and roads on the former estate.
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 club Inter Milan, and served as captain from 2001.With 1,114 official games played, he is seventh on the list of players in history with the most career appearances. He is also the foreign player with the most appearances in Serie A (615), and holds the fourth-most appearances in the league, behind only Paolo Maldini, Gianluigi Buffon and Francesco Totti. He is the most capped player in the history of Inter (858), and won 16 trophies with the club: five Scudetti, four Coppa Italia, four Supercoppa Italiana, one UEFA Cup, one Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. He is also the most capped player as captain in the Champions League (82).With the Argentina national team he played in 143 games, a figure that makes him the second player with the most appearances in the history of La Albiceleste, having held the record from 2007 to 2018. With Argentina he reached the final of the Copa América in 2004 and 2007, and the Confederations Cup in 1995 and 2005.Known for his versatility, he was adept on both the left and right wing, having played on both flanks as a full back. On retiring, the club retired his number 4 jersey and named him as its vice president. He has been named an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages project in Argentina by FIFA, and in 2005 he received the Ambrogino d'Oro award from the city of Milan for his social initiatives. Zanetti is also a Global Ambassador for the Special Olympics.
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 Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. The studio has produced 57 feature films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).It was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (formerly Walt Disney Cartoon Studios) in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. The studio was exclusively dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. In 1983, Walt Disney Productions named its live action film studio Walt Disney Pictures. During a corporate restructuring in 1986, Walt Disney Productions was renamed The Walt Disney Company and the animation division, renamed Walt Disney Feature Animation, became a subsidiary of its film division, The Walt Disney Studios. Its current name was adopted in 2007, after Pixar was acquired by Disney in the same year.For much of its existence, the studio was recognized as the premier American animation studio; it developed many of the techniques, concepts and principles that became standard practices of traditional animation. The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. The studio's catalog of animated features is among Disney's most notable assets, with the stars of its animated shorts – Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto – becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for The Walt Disney Company as a whole.Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
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 development centre", a materials and membrane products development centre as well as advanced machining, prototyping and industrial design functions.The company was founded in 1989 by Ms Olivia Lum, Group CEO, President and Managing Director.In 2006, the company was given the 'Water Company of the Year' award, at the 'Global Water Awards', by the Global Water Intelligence, UK.
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 City at Route 4. That section of Route 31 became part of U.S. Route 169.
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 was the Minister of Justice of Romania in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. In this position she was credited with implementing the justice reforms required for Romania to become a member state of the European Union. Macovei was also an independent candidate in Romania's 2014 presidential elections.
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).Ghisalba borders the following municipalities: Calcinate, Cavernago, Cologno al Serio, Martinengo, Mornico al Serio, Urgnano.
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 Books for Children."
Q6710284 Lyssa: Rural Gods and Astonishing Punishments is the seventh album by the Greek metal band Nightfall.