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Q4764556 Anielin [aˈɲelin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skaryszew, within Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Skaryszew, 20 km (12 mi) south-east of Radom, and 110 km (68 mi) south of Warsaw. |
Q4660062 A Thin Ghost and Others is a horror short story collection by British writer M. R. James, published in 1919. It was his third short collection. |
Q16881216 Pigeon River may refer to the following streams in the U.S. state of Michigan:Pigeon River (Huron County, Michigan), in Huron County in the Thumb of Michigan, flowing west and north into the Saginaw Bay of Lake HuronPigeon River (Mullett Lake), with headwaters in Otsego County, flowing mostly northward throug... |
Q6371665 County Road 862 (Norwegian: Fylkesvei 862) is a Norwegian county road in Troms county, Norway. The road is 115.6 kilometers (71.8 mi) long and it runs between the village of Straumsbotn in Berg Municipality and the city of Tromsø in Tromsø Municipality. Part of the route is one of eighteen designated National... |
Q9067174 The Magonista Rebellion of 1911 was an early uprising of the Mexican Revolution organized by the Liberal Party of Mexico (known in Spanish as the Partido Liberal Mexicano or PLM), which was only successful in northern Baja California. It is named after Ricardo Flores Magón, one of the leaders of the PLM. The M... |
Q19838826 The Istanbul Region (Turkish: İstanbul Bölgesi) (TR1) is a statistical region in Turkey. |
Q13477322 Preptothauma is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. Its only species, Preptothauma oxydiata, is found in Colombia. Both the genus and species were described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1931. |
Q22002469 Johanna Freda Gertrude Wilhelmsen (née Stelling; January 16, 1913 – March 19, 2005) was an American track and field athlete and softball player. She represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, placing seventh in the women's javelin throw and eighth in the discus throw. |
Q5671621 Amalia Heredia Livermore (1830–1902) was a Spanish patron, collector, researcher, and philanthropist, as well as a promoter of arts and culture. |
Q2166905 Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979) is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont, director of the snowboarding program at the Stratton Mountain School in Stratton, Vermont and a philanthropist. |
Q4905484 Big Cove may refer to either one of two Canadian topics:Big Cove YMCA Camp, in Nova ScotiaElsipogtog First Nation, a First Nation community in Canada |
Q7981507 The Wellington Steel Tube. Co.Ltd was a family business mainly based on the borders of West Bromwich and Tipton, Staffordshire, England and which closed in 1969. Owned by the Turner family - who also owned the Upper Arley estate in Worcestershire and created many injokes about Wellington there - it employed ge... |
Q3715604 DuMont Laboratories was an American television equipment manufacturer. The company was founded in 1931, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, by inventor Allen B. DuMont. Among the company's developments were durable cathode ray tubes that would be used for TV. Another product was a DuMont invention, the magic eye t... |
Q17125535 Upham is a surname, and may refer toAlexander Upham (1802–1841), farmer, merchant, ship builder and political figure in Nova Scotia, CanadaAlonzo S. Upham (1811–1882), New York politicianBill Upham (1888–1959), U.S. major league baseball pitcherCharles Upham VC and Bar (1908–1994), New Zealand soldier, most d... |
Q3995065 The 2002–03 NBA season was the Raptors' 8th season in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Raptors acquired Lamond Murray from the Cleveland Cavaliers, but missed the entire season with a foot injury. Things looked bleak for the Raptors early in the season as Hakeem Olajuwon announced... |
Q1389062 Saint-Jean-la-Bussière is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. |
Q5241915 Davis Island is a large island located in the Mississippi River. It lies mostly in Warren County in the state of Mississippi but is also partly in Madison Parish, in the state of Louisiana. It is located about 20 miles southwest of Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA.The island is approximately 30,000 acres (120 km2) ... |
Q305014 Jana Kask (born 11 November 1991) is an Estonian singer and the winner of Eesti otsib superstaari 2008, the second season of the Estonian version of Pop Idol. In the final she competed against Arno Suislep, winning it by getting 52,9% of the votes. Her first studio album was released in late 2009.For now she ho... |
Q7410157 Sampli (Saimply Sahib) is a small village in the Bassi Pathana block of Fatehgarh Sahib district, in the Indian state of Punjab. This village is around 25 kilometres from Chandigarh-the capital of Punjab, 45 km from Patiala-academic city of Punjab, and about 75 km from Ludhiana-industrial city of Punjab. |
Q1189917 Dedric Willoughby (born May 27, 1974, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'3" guard, Willoughby began his college basketball career at the University of New Orleans, then transferred to Iowa State University. His coach at both schools was Tim Floyd. During each of... |
Q6690426 Love Can't Wait (Korean: 사랑은 아무도 못말려; RR: Sarang-eun Amudo Monmalryeo) is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Hong Kyung-min and Lee Young-ah. It aired on MBC from January 2 to June 30, 2006 on Mondays to Fridays at 20:20 for 124 episodes.It tells the love story of an immature 19-year-old senior fro... |
Q5132719 Henry Clifford Parker (6 September 1913 – 1983) was an English footballer born in Denaby, Yorkshire, who played as an outside left for Doncaster Rovers and Portsmouth in the Football League. During the War he worked at the aircraft factory in Hamble-le-Rice and also played football for their works team Folland... |
Q3951908 Jaime Yzaga was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.Tim Mayotte won the tournament, beating Johan Kriek in the final, 5–7, 6–3, 6–2. |
Q5435075 Farfantepenaeus aztecus is a species of marine penaeid shrimps found around the east coast of the USA and Mexico. They are an important commercial species in the USA. The FAO refers to them as the northern brown shrimp; other common names, used in the USA, are brown shrimp, golden shrimp, red shrimp or redtail... |
Q4628250 The 2012–13 Kuwaiti Federation Cup is the 6th edition to be held and started on the 22 November 2012.This edition will see all 14 teams play in one group, rather than the previous editions which have had two groups of 7 sides.It is unclear at the moment if games are played on a home and away basis or if the te... |
Q16968590 Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield III, billed as "The Final Chapter", was a professional boxing match contested on November 4, 1995. The non-title match marked the third and final fight in the Bowe–Holyfield trilogy. |
Q15639092 Auratonota nugax is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in Ecuador.The wingspan is about 11 mm. The costal half of the forewings is yellowish and the dorsal half is more creamy. The hindwings are pale brownish cream, but more fuscous apically. |
Q23761353 Yim Fung was the joint chairman and chief executive of Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Guotai Junan Securities, one of the largest securities brokers in China. |
Q16027984 Amadou M'Baye (born 31 May 1964) is a Senegalese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics. |
Q82335 Nicholas James Bollettieri (born July 31, 1931) is an American tennis coach. He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school, and helped develop many leading tennis players during the past decades, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. He has also worked with Maria Sharapova, D... |
Q387410 "It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song published in 1933 with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose. It was originally titled "If You Believed in Me," but later went by the more popular title "It's Only a Paper Moon." The song was written for an unsuccessful 1932 Broadway play calle... |
Q7123027 A packing house is a facility where fruit is received and processed prior to distribution to market.Bulk fruit (such as apples, oranges, pears, and the like) is delivered to the plant via trucks or wagons, where it is dumped into receiving bins and sorted for quality and size. In the case of citrus, ripe fruit... |
Q5333792 The economy of Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the Indian state of Kerala, mostly consists of tourism and leisure, information technology, rubber plantations, coffee production, tea production, and education. There are many manufacturers, such as Travancore Titanium Products Ltd and English Indian Clays (The T... |
Q911378 Mesomys is a genus of South American spiny rats in the family Echimyidae.The genus name Mesomys derives from the two ancient greek words μέσος (mésos), meaning "middle of, between", and μῦς (mûs), meaning "mouse, rat". It refers to the fact that this rodent — literally the "middle mouse" — has been considered a... |
Q5457987 Flattop Island is an island in the San Juan Islands of the U.S. state of Washington.The name was given by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842, describing the island's terrain. During World War II, the island was used for practice bombing, using sacks of flour. |
Q7868208 The third USS Chanticleer (ASR-7) was the lead ship of her class of submarine rescue ships in the United States Navy during World War II.Chanticleer was launched 29 May 1942 by Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Oakland, California; sponsored by Mrs. W. K. Kilpatrick; commissioned 20 November 1942, Lieutenant... |
Q3046521 East Linga is one of the Shetland Islands. It lies between Whalsay (to the west), and Grif Skerry to the east. |
Q7131931 Dr. Pantula Rama is a Carnatic Music vocalist. |
Q866301 Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, Inc. (formerly Blue Castle Games), more commonly known as Capcom Vancouver, was a video game developer owned by Capcom in partnership with Microsoft Studios. As Blue Castle Games, the company was the creator of several successful baseball sports video games, including The Bigs, MLB... |
Q7399093 Sagda connectens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae. |
Q7810850 To Be Still is the second studio album by indie folk musician Alela Diane, released February 17, 2009 on Rough Trade Records. |
Q506969 Jan Bernd Bicker (27 August 1746, Amsterdam – 16 December 1812, Wassenaar) was a Dutch merchant, politician and a very powerful member of the Bicker family. After studying law and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, he settled in Amsterdam and became a successful merchant. He served as an alderman of Ams... |
Q5288307 Dogar (Persian: دوگر, also Romanized as Do Gar; also known as Do Gol) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, Sirvan District, Sirvan County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 47, in 10 families. |
Q13160791 Yaare Neenu Cheluve (English: who are you Mrs.beauty) is a 1998 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by Rockline Venkatesh. The film stars V. Ravichandran, Sangita and Heera Rajgopal in the lead roles. Popular actors such as Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind, Jaggesh and Pr... |
Q19364817 The women's heptathlon event at the 1995 Summer Universiade was held on 30–31 August at the Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium in Fukuoka, Japan. |
Q11692328 Al-Andalus Mosque (Spanish: Mezquita de al-Ándalus) is a mosque in the neighbourhood of Arroyo del Cuarto city of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. |
Q26838003 Yineisy Paola Reyes Marinez (born (1993-11-08)8 November 1993) is a Dominican Republic female weightlifter, competing in the 58 kg category and representing Dominican Republic at international competitions. She competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.She competed at world championships, most recently at th... |
Q2805802 Jean-Baptiste Victor Chazelas (* 23. April 1885 in Bussière-Galant, ; † 29. December 1953 in Nice) was a French colonial administrator. He served as acting lieutenant governor of Mauritania from August 1934 to 1 November 1934 and from 15 April 1935 to 10 November 1935.Victor Chazelas was the son of innkeepers ... |
Q2960185 Charles Samaran (28 October 1879 – 15 October 1982) was a 20th-century French historian and archivist, who was born in Cravencères (in the Gers) and died at Nogaro (also in the Gers), shortly before his 103rd birthday. |
Q606125 Kejuan Muchita (born May 21, 1974), better known by his stage name Havoc, is an American rapper and record producer. He was one half of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep with Prodigy. |
Q7265030 Ficinia spiralis (pīngao, pīkao, or golden sand sedge) is a coastal sedge endemic to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands). Originally widespread, it has suffered severely from competition with introduced marram grass and animal grazing and now has only a patchy distribution. |
Q5569372 Not to be confused with Glenalta, South Australia.Glenunga is an inner southeastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It is located in the City of Burnside, five kilometres southeast of the Adelaide city centre. The name Glenunga is a composite of Aboriginal and Scottish words, "unga" meaning... |
Q5878569 Pivovar Holba a.s. is a brewery situated in Hanušovice. Major owner is a brewer company PMS Přerov a.s. Annual production is over 350 000 hectoliters. The most notable product is Holba Šerák, medium strong beer, named after the nearby mountain. The motto of the brewery is Pure Beer from Mountains. |
Q3901335 Philip Martelli Sr. (born August 31, 1954) is an American college basketball coach, currently an assistant coach for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team and the former coach of the Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team. He led Saint Joseph's to seven NCAA Tournaments and six NITs in 24 seasons a... |
Q111755 Friedrich Staphylus (27 August 1512 – 5 March 1564) was a German theologian, at first a Protestant and then a Catholic convert. |
Q15241934 The Laurentian Upland (or Laurentian Highlands) is a physiographic region which, when referred to as the "Laurentian Region" or the Grenville geological province, is recognized by Natural Resources Canada as one of five provinces of the larger Canadian Shield physiographic division. The United States Geologic... |
Q735439 The Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo (Latin: Dioecesis Aliphana-Caiacensis o Caiatina) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Campania, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historic Diocese of Alife was united with the Diocese of Caiazzo. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.In ... |
Q7534999 Skibice [skiˈbit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabowiec, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Grabowiec, 32 km (20 mi) north-east of Zamość, and 88 km (55 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin. |
Q4819813 Audio magazine was a periodical published from 1947 to 2000, and was America's longest-running audio magazine. Audio published reviews of audio products and audio technology as well as informational articles on topics such as acoustics, psychoacoustics and the art of listening. Audio claimed to be the successo... |
Q6436774 The Krepost Sveaborg was an Imperial Russian system of land and coastal fortifications constructed around Helsinki during the First World War. The purpose of the fortress was to provide a secure naval base for the Russian Baltic fleet and to protect Helsinki and block routes to Saint Petersburg from a possible... |
Q6589262 The Margraviate of Meissen was a territorial state on the border of the Holy Roman Empire. The margravines of Meissen were the consorts of the margraves of Meissen. |
Q6418675 Kitwood is a hamlet in Hampshire, England. The nearest town is Alton at 6 miles (9.7 km) and the nearest railway station is the Medstead and Four Marks railway station at the village of Four Marks, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) away.In 1932, due to the new parish plan of the village of Four Marks, Kitwood's f... |
Q24920796 Kadassa River (Indonesian: Luku Kadahang) is a river of Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. |
Q5615354 The Guiberson A-1020 is a four-stroke diesel radial engine developed for use in aircraft and tanks. |
Q7018613 Newmills railway station served the village of Newmills in County Donegal, Ireland.The station opened on 9 March 1903 when the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway opened their Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension Railway, from Letterkenny to Burtonport. It closed on 3 June 1940 when the LLSR closed the line f... |
Q7776233 The Worthless (Finnish: Arvottomat) is a 1982 Finnish film directed by Mika Kaurismäki, who also co-wrote the film with his brother Aki Kaurismäki. It is a road movie about two men and a woman driving around the country as they are being chased by a group of criminals and the police.Mika Kaurismäki won the Jus... |
Q28120835 Umpire is an unincorporated community in southwestern Wright County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.The community is located on the north side of the Gasconade River, approximately five miles north of Mansfield. |
Q6019381 The Miss Nicaragua 2013 pageant, was held on March 2, 2013 in Managua, after weeks of events. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, The winner will represent Nicaragua at Miss Universe 2013 later that year in Russia. The rest of the finalists would enter in different pageants. |
Q30033065 Anette Prehn (born 1975) is a Danish author, sociologist, keynote speaker and MD of Centre for Brain-Based Leadership and Learning.She is the author of five non-fiction books about the rules of the brain, which are published in seven languages, among these English, Chinese, Russian and German.Her book Play Yo... |
Q6858714 Mille Roches is an underwater ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958.Families and businesses in Mille Roches were moved to the new town of Long Sault before the seaway construction c... |
Q16192696 Brian Faloon is a musician born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He played drums for Highway Star, who were to become Stiff Little Fingers, having met two of the other band members at Belfast Boys' Model School. Faloon stayed with SLF long enough to record their first album Inflammable Material but decided the r... |
Q5480577 Francis Collings is a journalist working as a TV News correspondent. Formerly with the BBC, is now with TRT World in Istanbul.Whilst at the BBC he presented on the BBC News channel, and on BBC World News. He also presented on BBC One news bulletins as well as BBC Breakfast.He has experience of covering events ... |
Q4922762 Blackcastle Hill is an iron age hill fort south of Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland. It is near Cocklaw in the Lammermuir Hills at grid reference NT729724, at a height of 280 metres (920 ft) above sea level. The fort has a single defensive bank. |
Q5053003 Catherine of Castile may refer to:Catherine of Lancaster, Queen consort of CastileCatherine of Castile, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Duchess of VillenaCatherine, Princess of AsturiasCatherine of Aragon, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Queen consort of EnglandCatherine of Austria, Infanta of Castile and Aragon... |
Q16958186 I'll Be Around is the fifth studio album by the American bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released on October 15, 2008 (see 2008 in music). It is significant in that this is the first studio album after former guitar player Kirk Rundstrom's death, and it is dedicated to his memory. Also of note in the lin... |
Q5409693 Eunaticina is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. |
Q5290869 General elections were held in Dominica on 24 March 1975. The result was a victory for the Dominica Labour Party, which won 16 of the 21 seats. Voter turnout was 79.0%. |
Q7460029 Shabana Football Club, more commonly known as simply Shabana or sometimes Shabana Kisii, is a FKF Premier League club based in Kisii. The club was formed in 1980 by Kisii based businessman Dogo Khan. They won the division title in 2014.They were promoted back to the FKF Premier League after winning the Zone B... |
Q16879160 Nothrotheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 11.6 mya—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 11.49 million years. The nothrotheres have recently been moved from the tribe Nothrotheriini or subfamily Nothrotheriinae within Megatheriidae to their own family, Nothrothe... |
Q11997294 Recherchebreen is a glacier in Wedel Jarlsberg Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The glacier has a length of about 16 kilometers (9.9 mi). It is located in a valley between Martinfjella and Observatoriefjellet, and debouches into Recherche Fjord. Among its tributary glaciers are Foldnutfonna, Varderyggfonna, Dol... |
Q14980587 Comilla is one of the oldest cities in Bangladesh. The city is rich with its culture, education and history. There are many ancient education institutions. Among them, Comilla Zilla School and Nawab Faizunnesa Girls High School are over hundred years old and two of the finest schools in the country. Other tha... |
Q6099223 Bingöl is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system. |
Q16324373 The 31st Robert Awards ceremony was held on 26 February 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Organized by the Danish Film Academy, the awards honoured the best in Danish and foreign film of 2013. |
Q10863620 The Z17/18 Beijing-Harbin Through Train is a non-stop express train between Beijing and Harbin, capital of the Heilongjiang province, operated by Harbin Railway Bureau using 25T carriages. The 1242km journey spans across almost the entire Beijing–Harbin railway. The train from Beijing railway station to Harbi... |
Q21620755 Arturo Osvaldo Aranda Barreto (born 20 November 1998) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a Central Midfielder for Club Libertad. |
Q12882514 Peter Arkoudios (1562/1563 - 1633) was a Greek scholar of the 17th century and a Roman Catholic priest. |
Q23883702 John Regehr is a computer scientist specializing in compiler correctness and undefined behavior. As of 2016, he is a professor at the University of Utah. He is best known for the integer overflow sanitizer which was merged into the Clang C compiler, the C compiler fuzzer Csmith, and his widely read blog Embed... |
Q6730037 Mage Wars Arena is a customizable strategy card game by Arcane Wonders, and is the first game in the Mage Wars series. In Mage Wars Arena players take the role of powerful and experienced mages fighting in a gladiator style arena duel. Despite being a card game, Mage Wars Arena has several significant mechanic... |
Q3032194 Diuris nigromontana, commonly known as the Black Mountain leopard orchid, is a species of orchid which is endemic to the Australian Capital Territory. It was first formally described in 2008 by David Jones from a specimen collected on Black Mountain and the description was published in The Orchadian. Black Mo... |
Q1264581 The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland on 3 February 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry. The Dukedom was held along with the Marquessate of Queensberry until the death of the 4th Duke (and 5th Marquess) in 1810, when ... |
Q4681556 Adel Eid (born March 22, 1984) is an Egyptian-Finnish football player who is the son of an Egyptian father and a Finnish mother. He currently plays for PK-35. |
Q299509 Kerryn McCann (2 May 1967 – 7 December 2008) was an Australian athlete. She was best known for winning the marathon at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. |
Q6305183 Juice TV: The Music Volume 01 is a New Zealand compilation album released in 2002 as part of a Juice TV album series. |
Q6792311 Maude Robinson (1859–1950) was a Quaker writer of short stories and a memoir about growing up on a South Downs farm at Saddlescombe in the 1860s. She was the younger sister of the paediatrician Louis Robinson. |
Q12058265 Takeshi Aragaki (新垣 武, Aragaki Takeshi, born June 4, 1956) is a Japanese professional Go player. |
Q7759240 The Radio Pirates (Norwegian: Radiopiratene) is a Norwegian family film released in 2007, directed by first-time director Stig Svendsen and is based on a radio play by Gunnar Germundson. It stars Gard B. Eidsvold, Per Christian Ellefsen, Henrik Mestad and Ane Dahl Torp. |
Q6200476 James Thomas Jinks (born 19 August 1916 in Camberwell, London, England), is an English footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League. Whilst a Millwall player he also appeared as a guest player for West Ham United in World War II. |
Q10686682 "Switchboard Susan" is a song written by Mickey Jupp and recorded by Nick Lowe for his 1979 album, Labour of Lust. The song reached #81 in Canada and #107 on the US pop chart.The song was produced by Lowe. |
Q1312020 Mordellistena humeronotata is a beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1922 by George Charles Champion. |
Q5097977 Childhood cancer is cancer in a child. In the United States, an arbitrarily adopted standard of the ages used are 0–14 years inclusive, that is, up to 14 years 11.9 months of age. However, the definition of childhood cancer sometimes includes adolescents between 15–19 years old. Pediatric oncology is the branc... |
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