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Q597232 The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign (Greek: Panagia or Παναγία Ορωμένη or Παναγία Πλατυτέρα; Church Slavonic: Ikona Bozhey Materi "Znamenie"; Polish: Ikona Bogurodzicy "Znak") is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), facing the viewer directly, depicted either full length or half, ... |
Q7287198 Ralph B. Hodges (also known as R. B. Hodges) was born and raised in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He earned his J. D. degree from the University of Oklahoma. After serving as Bryan County Attorney and as District Judge, Hodges was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court by Governor Henry Bellmon on April 19, 1965, as As... |
Q696859 Pretzsch is a village and a former municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Meineweh. |
Q1111632 Thomas Vogel (born 28 June 1965 in Weimar) is a German football coach and a former player who works as a presidential advisor at FC Carl Zeiss Jena. |
Q5919821 Howard H. Dunn (1867 in Minnesota – 1942) was a Minnesota Republican politician and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Dunn served as city attorney for Fairmont, Minnesota, and was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1896. He served only one term in the Senate, but was elected to the Minnesota... |
Q4743401 The American Civic Association (ACA) was a United States organization for making better living conditions in America, with an emphasis on improving the physical and structural growth of communities. Its purpose was briefly stated as "the cultivation of higher ideals of civic life and beauty in America, the pro... |
Q7943067 Vriesea scalaris is a plant species in the genus Vriesea. This species is native to Brazil and Venezuela. |
Q6752625 The Manuel Hawk was a homebuilt single-seat glider designed and constructed in the UK around 1970. Only one example was flown. |
Q5004039 Byecroft Farm Complex, also known as "Old Congress," is a historic home and farm complex located in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The oldest section of the main house was built in 1702, with three later additions. It consists of a central block with three wings. The central block was built... |
Q15627766 Rubí, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and originally transmitted by Telesistema Mexicano. |
Q10712590 Vanderbylia vicina is a species of poroid fungus in the family Polyporaceae, and the type species of the genus Vanderbylia. |
Q983302 Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy. |
Q3526679 Théophile Moreux (20 November 1867 – 13 July 1954) was a French astronomer and meteorologist. |
Q4885695 Benjamin Paul Futcher (born 4 June 1981) is an English former professional footballer and was assistant manager of Mansfield Town, following his then-manager at Swindon Town, David Flitcroft, who was appointed to Mansfield Town on 1 March 2018, until the contracts of both were terminated 14 May 2019.As a playe... |
Q624131 The Hyundai Universe (hangul:현대 유니버스) is a heavy-duty luxury coach built by Hyundai Motor Company. It is primarily available as luxury hi-classic tourist buses.It is distinguishable by a front 'Universe' badge by Hyundai's global standard luxury coach, but the common Hyundai badge is luxurious bus design usuall... |
Q1062185 Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, the bottle palm or palmiste gargoulette, is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is native to Round Island, Mauritius. |
Q7177522 Peter W. Breene was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. He was a Republican and served from 1885 to 1887 under Governor Benjamin Harrison Eaton.Breene was born in August, 1846 in Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland. He immigrated to Indiana and became a miner. He moved to Leadville, Colorado in 1877 and amasse... |
Q7497899 Shioya may refer to:Shioya, Tochigi, town in Tochigi Prefecture, JapanShioya Station (disambiguation), train stations in JapanShioya (surname) |
Q1232757 Dmitriy Vyacheslavovich Klokov (Russian: Дмитрий Вячеславович Клоков; born February 18, 1983) is a Russian former Olympic weightlifter, and World Champion. He competed in the 105 kg category. |
Q7282108 Rafael Domingo may refer to:Rafael Santo Domingo, retired Major League Baseball pinch hitterRafael Domingo Osle, Spanish jurist |
Q6812364 Melieria pallipes is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Melieria of the family Ulidiidae. |
Q7565498 The South African Railways Class 25NC 4-8-4 of 1953 was a steam locomotive.Between 1953 and 1955, the South African Railways placed fifty Class 25NC steam locomotives with a 4-8-4 Northern type wheel arrangement in service. The Class 25NC was the non-condensing version of the Class 25 condensing locomotive, of... |
Q1895524 Bharat Vir Wanchoo is an Indian political figure who was the Governor of Goa from May 2012 to July 2014. Previously, he was Director of the Special Protection Group until 2011. |
Q20981732 The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. |
Q4570878 The 1962 Volunteer 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on April 29, 1962, at Bristol International Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes mad... |
Q4381664 Protasiv Yar (Ukrainian: Протасів Яр) is a ski complex close to the downtown of Kiev, Ukraine. It is self-administered and was given a special status as the center for Olympic preparations.There are several pistes and some with light for night skiing. There is snowmaking available if little or no snow is prese... |
Q19609766 Elisabeth Bouchaud (born Tibi) is a French physicist, playwright and actress born 1 March 1961. She is a member of Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and works at Ecole Superieure de Chimie et Physique de la Ville de Paris. Since 2015, she is also the Director of the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris... |
Q23770432 Eric Visser (born 4 June 1951) is the founder of both the Dutch publishing house De Geus and the Dutch-based publishing house World Editions. |
Q27909540 Yakov Kozalchik (1902 – 13 June 1953) was a known Polish-Israeli strongman and professional wrestler. Kozalchik was the head of the Jewish police in the town of Krynica-Zdrój, a Kapo in the Auschwitz concentration camp. |
Q14803800 Polyrhaphis kempfi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Lane in 1978. It is known from Brazil. |
Q240279 The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. The premiere was a huge success and received an ovation that ... |
Q6601630 This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations: a gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical coordinates. |
Q5392903 Ernest Childers (February 1, 1918 – March 17, 2005) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his valorous actions in World War II. |
Q3461500 Sahanivotry Mandona is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Antsirabe II, which is a part of Vakinankaratra Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 10,000 in 2001 commune census.Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. It is ... |
Q6697935 Lucky Landing Marina and Seaplane Base (FAA LID: 06B) is a privately owned, public-use seaplane base located seven nautical miles (13 km) north of the central business district of Bangor, a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It is located on Pushaw Lake. |
Q6739655 Making Waves is a 1980 album released by the pop group The Nolans. In the UK, the album went gold and featured four top 20 singles. Worldwide, it became their biggest-selling album selling over 5million copies. It was certified double platinum in Australia and reached No.2 in Sweden and Ireland and No.1 in New... |
Q6820947 Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt KP MVO (16 July 1880 – 21 March 1947) was an Irish peer. |
Q6503487 The Law of the Playground is the second studio album by British indie pop band The Boy Least Likely To. Released on Too Young to Die (which is their own label), The Law of the Playground was released in April 2009. |
Q453591 Menso Alting (Eelde, 9 November 1541 – Emden, 7 October 1612) was a Dutch Reformed preacher and reformer.Menso Alting was born in Eelde and was raised in a Catholic family. After visiting several schools in the Netherlands and Germany, he studied theology at Cologne. In 1564 he was named vicar to Haren. A few m... |
Q7737074 The Golden Link is a 1954 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring André Morell, Thea Gregory and Patrick Holt. |
Q6787813 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1907 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated previous legislation relating to maintenance payments to separated and divorced women. It was designed in response to one cause of poverty amongst mothers and their children, marriage break-up. Support for the ... |
Q6398741 Kgosiemang may refer to:Kabelo Kgosiemang, Botswana high-jumperConstance Kgosiemang, Namibian tribal chief |
Q7006072 Route 910 is a 45.6-kilometre (28.3 mi) long north to south secondary highway in the southern portion of New Brunswick, Canada. |
Q16847736 The Football League play-offs for the 2013–14 season were held in May 2014 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London.The play-offs began at the semi-final stage with all semi-finals being played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football L... |
Q18701816 The 2015 FAI Senior Challenge Cup, also known as the 2015 FAI Irish Daily Mail Senior Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 95th season of the national football competition of the Republic of Ireland. The winners of the competition earned a spot in the first qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.A... |
Q14720345 Pothyne flavostictica is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1940. |
Q26270582 Maksim Niastsiarenka (Belarusian: Максім Несцярэнка; born 1 September 1992) is a Belarusian athlete competing primarily in the triple jump. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the final.His personal bests in the event are 16.85 metres outdoors (+1.9 m/s, Grodno 2016) ... |
Q9078417 Independent Socialists of Extremadura (Spanish: Socialistas Independientes de Extremadura, SIEx) is a centre-left regionalist political party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Extremadura. |
Q3032643 Bauer's leaf-toed gecko (Dixonius aaronbaueri) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to southern Vietnam. |
Q1783525 Sweet Fanny Adams is the second album by Sweet, their first of two released in 1974, and also their first album simply as Sweet. The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound. It featured more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop records.The album title is English (originally Royal Navy)... |
Q2038175 Providence is a 1977 French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by David Mercer. It explores the processes of creativity through a portrayal of an ageing novelist, played by John Gielgud, who imagines scenes for his latest novel which draw upon his past history and his relationships with m... |
Q3617492 Body and Soul (1931) is an American Pre-Code action and drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Charles Farrell, Elissa Landi, Humphrey Bogart and Myrna Loy. The story, adapted from the stage play Squadrons by Elliott White Springs and A.E. Thomas, depicts Royal Air Force pilots in World War One. |
Q7373825 Royal Blue Express Services was a coach operator in the south and west of England from 1880 until 1986. |
Q5619333 Kajetanowo [kajɛtaˈnɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jedwabne, within Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. |
Q8041196 Wężowiec [vɛ̃ˈʐɔvjɛt͡s] (German: Nogathaffkampen; until 1896: Strauchkampen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Dwór Gdański, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) east of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 44 km (27 mi... |
Q1029404 Glossodoris is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae. |
Q5149778 Columbia National Wildlife Refuge is a scenic mixture of rugged cliffs, canyons, lakes, and sagebrush grasslands. Formed by fire, ice, floods, and volcanic tempest, carved by periods of extreme violence of natural forces, the refuge lies in the middle of the Drumheller Channeled Scablands of central Washington... |
Q6844964 Miguel Ángel de la Campa y Caraveda (8 December 1882 – 19 August 1965) was a Cuban diplomat, lawyer and author.Campa was the son of Spaniards Miguel Angel de la Campa-Alvarodiaz and Maria Teresa Caraveda.He graduated from the Colegio de Belen in 1900 and later the University of Havana School of Law.He served i... |
Q290528 Drosera kenneallyi is a carnivorous plant in the genus Drosera and is endemic to the Kimberley region in northern Western Australia. Its leaves are arranged in a compact basal rosette appressed to the soil. Narrowly oblanceolate petioles emerging from the center of the rosette are typically 1.5–2.2 mm wide at t... |
Q7325131 Lieutenant General Richard Dawson (died c. 1800) was a soldier and administrator who served as the second Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. |
Q4799230 Arthur James Mason (4 May 1851 – 24 April 1928) was an English clergyman, theologian and classical scholar. He was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. |
Q5829127 Siah Sang (Persian: سياه سنگ, also Romanized as Sīāh Sang) is a village in Qalandarabad Rural District, Qalandarabad District, Fariman County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 103, in 23 families. |
Q7359684 Rohan J. Smith (born 28 June 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). |
Q15841506 The 2012 season was the eighth for the Rabobank Women Cycling Team cycling team, which began as the DSB Bank team in 2005. |
Q18353990 Sambhavam is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Chandrakumar and produced by Babu and Majeendran. The film stars Madhu, Srividya, Adoor Bhasi and Jose Prakash in the lead roles. The film has musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy. |
Q20642534 This is a list of seasons played by Cliftonville Football Club in Northern Irish and European football. |
Q19880647 Jan Wiley (February 21, 1916 – May 26, 1993) was an American film actress. |
Q15395768 Eremaea × phoenicea is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is thought to be a stabilised hybrid between two subspecies of Eremaea. It is an erect to spreading shrub with pointed, elliptic leaves and small groups of flowers, a shade of pink to red, ... |
Q25385797 The 2016 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2016 MotoGP season. It was held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on 14 August 2016. |
Q365574 Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the twenty-five years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as o... |
Q1773602 Gåsvatnet (Norwegian) or Sarvejællanjaevrie (Southern Sami) is a lake that lies in the municipality of Grane in Nordland county, Norway. The 2.32 km2 (0.90 sq mi) lake lies in the southeastern part of Lomsdal–Visten National Park, just north of Norwegian National Road 73. |
Q6331569 KJON (850 AM) is a radio station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex operating during the daytime hours only. This station is owned and operated by Chatham Hill Foundation, which runs the religious Guadalupe Radio Network.Because it shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station KOA in Denver... |
Q6956645 Naarda nodariodes is a species of moth. It belongs in the Naarda genus and family Erebidae.This species is known from Borneo. |
Q5366535 Elmer Ellis (July 27, 1901 – August 27, 1989) was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri, from 1955 to 1966, and first president of the University of Missouri System. He was instrumental in the expansion of the university to include the University of Missouri–Kansas City a... |
Q197298 Zhang Xi (born 19 April 1985 in Jiangsu) is a Chinese female beach volleyball player, measuring 183 centimetres (6 ft 0 in) in height. She won the gold medal in the women's team competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, partnering with comparator Xue Chen.Zhang Xi in 2002 and 2003 she played each game she... |
Q7984092 Wesoła [vɛˈsɔwa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nozdrzec, within Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of Nozdrzec, 13 km (8 mi) north of Brzozów, and 27 km (17 mi) south of the regional capital Rzeszów.The villa... |
Q5021516 "Call It What You Want" is a 1991 song by New Kids on the Block. Written and produced by Maurice Starr, the original version appears on the group's third album Step By Step. A club/house remix produced by Robert Clivillés & David Cole, which also featured a rap intro by Freedom Williams, later appeared on th... |
Q3813261 Edith Lagos was a Peruvian activist who was a member of the Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), one of the Communist Parties of Peru. Lagos was a prominent promoter of the group's agenda.Lagos was born in Ayacucho to a wealthy family. She studied law at Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Lima before... |
Q5027128 Camp Dodge is a military installation in the city of Johnston, Iowa. Centrally located near the capital of Iowa, it currently serves as the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard. |
Q3635285 Bartal Eliasen (born 23 August 1976) is a Faroese international footballer who plays professionally as a defender for ÍF Fuglafjørður. Eliasen started his career in ÍF Fuglafjørður and has also played for GÍ Gøta. He has been capped for the Faroe Islands at senior level. |
Q6911252 The Morehead City Marlins are a collegiate summer baseball team playing in the Coastal Plain League (CPL). The team is based in Morehead City, North Carolina and plays its home games at O'Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium in Morehead City. The team began play in the CPL in the 2010 season and competes in the le... |
Q1684921 Jean-Jacques Magendie (21 May 1766 in Bordeaux – 26 March 1835 in Paris) was a French Navy officer. He famously captained the flagship Bucentaure at the Battle of Trafalgar. |
Q2943867 The Jakarta Outer Ringroad (Indonesian: Jalan Tol Lingkar Luar Jakarta, abbreviated JORR) is a tolled ring road circling Jakarta, Indonesia. The JORR is divided into 7 sections, totalling up to 65 km. JORR was managed by four toll road companies: PT Jalantol Lingkarluar Jakarta, PT Hutama Karya, PT Jakarta Li... |
Q5496600 Fred Worthington (6 January 1924 – December 1995) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League. |
Q4733612 Alma Vetsera Hayne (1890–1919) was a New York City socialite who passed herself off as the daughter of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera and called herself Princess Vetsera of Austria. She claimed her son, Rudolph Hayne (1899-?), was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. |
Q5125128 The Breakup Girl is a 2015 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stacy Sherman, making it her feature film directing debut. The film stars Shannon Woodward, Wendi McLendon-Covey, India Menuez, Joe Lo Truglio, Mary Kay Place, and Ray Wise. The film is executive produced by The Hunger Games screenw... |
Q5637863 Hadid (Persian: حديد, also Romanized as Ḩadīd and Ḩedeyd; also known as Hamayat and Ḩemāyat) is a village in Jarahi Rural District, in the Central District of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 159, in 33 families. |
Q28451154 The 2017 King Cup (also known as The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup) was the 42nd edition of the King Cup since its establishment in 1957, and the 10th under the current format. It started on 18 January and concluded with the final on 18 May 2017. The winner qualifies for the 2018 AFC Champions League ... |
Q42794695 Angela Atim Lakor (born 1982), also Angela Lakor Atim, is a female Ugandan community activist, who is the co-founder of the Watye Ki Gen (We Have Hope) organisation, which supports former female abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The organisation assists the female returnees with their children's ... |
Q497890 Bamberg County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,987, making it the fourth-least populous county in South Carolina. Its county seat is Bamberg. |
Q1049736 Wiglaf (Old English Wīġlāf pronunciation: [ˈwiːjlɑːf]) is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is the son of Weohstan, a Swede of the Wægmunding clan who had entered the service of Beowulf, king of the Geats. Wiglaf is called Scylfing as a metonym for Swede, as the Scylfings were the ruling Swe... |
Q4436645 The following is a list of rap rock artists with articles on Wikipedia. The list includes bands and musicians that have been described as a form of rap rock, including the subgenres rapcore and rap metal, by professional journalists at some stage in their career. |
Q5019495 A calendar call is an occasion where a court requires attorneys representing different matters to appear before the court so that trials and other proceedings before the court can be scheduled so as not to conflict with one another. Although typically a mundane event, attorneys on opposite sides of a lawsuit w... |
Q3811347 Badger is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about six miles north-east of Bridgnorth. The parish had a population of 134 according to the 2001 census, falling to 126 at the 2011 census.Badger Parish is at grid map reference SJ 76834 99840. The boundaries of the parish contain the village of Ba... |
Q5321987 Sir Edward John Russell (31 October 1872 – 12 July 1965) was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943. He was responsible for hiring R.A. Fisher for statistical research at Rothamsted. Driven by concerns over a lack of international infor... |
Q6284578 Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi (7 March 1886 – 8 October 1953), was a Liberal Member of Parliament and later a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. |
Q30705076 Philip Clapp may refer to:Johnny Knoxville (Philip John Clapp, Jr., born 1971), American actor, comedian and stunt performerPhilip Greeley Clapp (1888–1954), American educator, conductor, pianist and composer |
Q7953328 WNEA (1300 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching radio format. It is licensed to Newnan, Georgia, and serves the Atlanta metropolitan area. The station is owned by Word Christian Broadcasting Inc. Much of the programming is simulcast with co-owned 1500 WDCY in Douglasville, G... |
Q16982508 The Nesmith Cougar is a light aircraft that was developed in the United States in the 1950s and marketed for homebuilding. |
Q16889223 Metropolitan Railway Country Estates (MRCE) was a limited company created in 1919 to manage and develop the land owned by the Metropolitan Railway, notably in what was known as Metro-land north-west of London. Some of the land had been previously handled by the Surplus Lands Committee, established in the firs... |
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