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Q3040853 Klobuk is a village in the municipality of Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located about 12 km north-west of the town of Ljubuški along the regional road M-6 (Grude - Ljubuški - Čapljina - Metković) and some 5 km away from the border crossing with Croatia. It has got its name from the Klobuk hill, that... |
Q7556472 An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 17, 1923. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most ... |
Q255418 The 66th Military Intelligence Brigade ("Six-Six-M-I" and 66th MIB) is a United States Army brigade, subordinate to United States Army Intelligence and Security Command and based at Wiesbaden Army Airfield, Wiesbaden, Germany.After years of history as a counter intelligence/intelligence group with headquarters ... |
Q4641157 5 Star Specials is a weekly drama anthology aired every Wednesday evenings on TV5 from March 22, 2010 to September 1, 2010. The drama anthology features prime talents in their various portrayals. Initially aired on Mondays from March 22 to May 3, 2010, and moved to Wednesdays from May 19 until it ended on Sept... |
Q7755528 "The Other Side" is a single by Canadian country music artist Charlie Major. Released in 1994, it was the fourth single from Major's debut album The Other Side. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in August 1994. |
Q4886863 Benarkabud-e Seh (Persian: بناركبودسه, also Romanized as Benārkabūd-e Seh, meaning "Benarkabud 3") is a village in Teshkan Rural District, Chegeni District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 165, in 36 families. |
Q16221176 Sam Sims (born January 10, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter born in Huntsville, Alabama and calls Melbourne, Florida his new home away from home. He began his musical journey at age seven, learning piano from his mother, and start writing original songs by age fourteen.Sam continued to pursue his music... |
Q18084618 The Airbus A330neo ("neo" for "New Engine Option") is a wide-body jet airliner developed by Airbus from the Airbus A330 (now A330ceo – "Current Engine Option"). A new version with modern engines comparable to those developed for the Boeing 787 was called for by owners of the current A330. It was launched on... |
Q11532246 Takahiro Matsuba (松葉 貴大, Matsuba Takahiro, born August 14, 1990 in Kanzaki District, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for the Orix Buffaloes. |
Q4534603 Leiognathus brevirostris, commonly known as the shortnose ponyfish, is a fish of brackish and marine waters found from Indo-West Pacific to the Indian coasts and off Sri Lanka to China and south of Australia. Like its relatives, the fish is an amphidromous, demersal species which feeds on diatoms, copepods, Lu... |
Q20967606 Dyscourse is a survival adventure video game developed and published by Owlchemy Labs. It was released on March 25, 2015 for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game has he player take on the role of Rita, a barista stuck on a desert island after a plane crash. Along with five others, Rita has to lead the group to ... |
Q24288334 Benjamin Bannan (1807–1875) of Pottsville, Pennsylvania was a journalist and political economist. Bannan is best known for his work as editor of the Miners’ Journal. The Miners’ Journal reflected Bannan’s belief in the Whig and then Republican ideology with which he closely identified. Bannan’s connection to ... |
Q2060 1992 (MCMXCII)was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1992nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 992nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1990s decade.1992 was designated as:International Space Yea... |
Q1566568 The Luckiamute River is a tributary of the Willamette River, about 61 miles (98 km) long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of Central Oregon Coast Range and the western Willamette Valley northwest of Corvallis.It rises in the remote mountains of southwestern Polk County, about 10 miles... |
Q4735373 Colonel Alphonse Kotiga, also known as Kotiga Guérina, was a Chadian military officer and politician. He was one of the leaders of the coup d'etat which overthrew and killed Chadian President François Tombalbaye on April 15, 1975, and then became a minister in the government of the new president, Félix Malloum... |
Q5059466 The Center for Advanced Engineering Environments (CAEE) is a department center of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. The center was created in 2001 to serve as a focal point for research activities pertaining to Collaborative distributed Knowledge discovery and e... |
Q4899054 Betulodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. |
Q5088328 Chaunrah is a village in Kanpur Dehat district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.It is located in Amraudha development block of Bhognipur tehsil. |
Q2978027 Claude Pujade-Renaud (born 1932) is a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. Since that time she has published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in... |
Q2201914 Osteobrama vigorsii is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Osteobrama. It is known to occur in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa in the drainage systems of the Krishna, Godavari and Mahanadi. It is found in fast flowing streams and rivers as wel... |
Q5076916 Charles Donaldson-Hudson (12 February 1840 – 18 April 1893) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.Donaldson-Hudson was born as Donaldson, the son of John Donaldson of Wigton Cumberland, and his wife Catherine Halliley, daughter of Anthony Halliley. He was educ... |
Q571835 Jacques Bourboulon (born 8 December 1946) is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography. In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud, and Carven. In the mid-1970s he switched to nude photography.Bourboulon's pictures were shot... |
Q6311075 Jump is a 1999 film, directed and written by Justin McCarthy, and starring James LeGros, Mark Rosenthal and Jessica Hecht. |
Q2388966 Dan Lacksman (born 19 May 1950, Werl), is a Belgian composer and sound engineer, artist and member of Telex, director of numerous acoustic albums, pop or jazz.He released the album Electric Dreams on 17 May 2013. |
Q6823634 Methiini is a tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cerambycinae, containing the following genera:ColeomethiaCyanomethiaMethiaMethiculaParatessaropaPseudomethiaStyloxusTessaropa |
Q5137700 Coal Bluff Campground and Park is a semi-private campground and recreation area located along the Pearl River in Scott County, Mississippi, near the community of Ludlow. The area is managed by Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRVWSD). |
Q16007634 Alexander Frederick Harris (1897–1974) was a Welsh Spiritualist medium. |
Q16131655 Eitan Broshi (Hebrew: איתן ברושי, born 17 June 1950) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and Labor Party between 2015 and 2019. |
Q20813330 Detente is an album by the American jazz fusion group, the Brecker Brothers. It was released by Arista Records in 1980. |
Q28935130 Fay Barbara King (March 1889 – presumed dead [after 1954]) was an American illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist. Some of her work represents an early example of autobiographical comics.King worked for newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century (at least from 1912 to 1937), moving to New York i... |
Q29946264 Mark S. Kamlet is an American political scientist currently the University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
Q4254760 Tylobolus uncigerus is a species of millipede in the family Spirobolidae. It is found in North America. |
Q2810992 This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1903. |
Q3774440 Manuel Bretón de los Herreros (December 19, 1796, Quel (Logrono) – November 8, 1873, Madrid) was a Spanish dramatist, educated at Madrid. Enlisting on 24 May 1812, he served against the French in Valencia and Catalonia, and retired with the rank of corporal on 8 March 1822. He obtained a minor post in the civi... |
Q3502194 The Battle of Placentia was fought in 194 BC, near Placentia, between the Roman Republic and the Boii. The Roman army won the battle. The following year, another battle with the Boii would take place in the same region; known as the Battle of Mutina, it would end the Boii threat. |
Q13054229 Nancy Jean Kricorian (Armenian: Նենսի Կրիկորյան) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997) and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013. |
Q1209615 The 1917 Far Eastern Championship Games was the third edition of the regional multi-sport event, contested between China, Japan and the Philippines, and was held from 8–12 May 1917 in Tokyo, Empire of Japan. A total of eight sports were contested, following the dropping of cycling from the programme after the ... |
Q1519733 The Blue Mosque (Azerbaijani: گؤی مسجید, Goy Masjed; Persian: مسجد کبود, Masjed-e Kabūd) is a historic mosque in Tabriz, Iran. The mosque and some other public buildings were constructed in 1465 upon the order of Jahan Shah, the ruler of Kara Koyunlu.The mosque was severely damaged in an earthquake in 1780, l... |
Q6635665 This is a list of public libraries in Ontario. |
Q2300929 Unión Deportiva Pájara Playas de Jandía was a Spanish football team based in Pájara, island of Fuerteventura, in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded in 1996 and dissolved in 2011, it held home games at Estadio Benito Alonso, with a capacity of 3,000 seaters. |
Q389472 Japan competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States. |
Q963527 Þangbrandr was a missionary sent to Iceland by king of Norway Óláfr Tryggvason to convert the inhabitants to Christianity. Snorri Sturluson described him as follows: |
Q134454 The Honda Civic Tour is an annual concert tour, sponsored by American Honda Motor Company and produced by Marketing Factory. Since 2001, each year's headlining band customizes a Honda Civic that is given away to a fan. |
Q168632 The Chitande aulonocara (Aulonocara ethelwynnae) is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi, only occurring in the north-west of the Lake near Chitande ISland. It occurs over habitats of mixed rock and sand and it feeds on benthic invertebrates. The males show territorial behaviour al... |
Q1751251 Pedrosa de Río Úrbel is a municipality and town in Burgos Province, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 269 inhabitants. |
Q2708507 Clematis pubescens, known locally as common clematis, is a climbing shrub of the Ranunculaceae family with white blooms, found in coastal regions of southern Western Australia. |
Q1321617 Espère (Languedocien: Espèra) is a commune in the Lot département in south-western France. |
Q7128376 The Palmetto Railroad was a Southeastern railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina in the late 19th century.The Palmetto Railroad was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1882 and the North Carolina General Assembly in 1883.The line stretched from Hamlet, North Carolina, to Cheraw, ... |
Q849903 The Brivio de Brokles (in Latin and Hungarian: Brivius de Brokles) were a Hungarian and Italian noble family, supposed to be a branch of the more famous Brivio family from Milan. |
Q1273721 Drago Štajnberger (born Adolf Steinberger; 15 February 1916 – 3 March 1942) was a Croatian Jewish Partisan and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.Štajnberger was born on 15 February 1916 in Zagreb to a Jewish family of Mavro Štajnberger. In his early youth he joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia. In 1937... |
Q13869002 Myrmecia vindex is a species of Myrmecia which is native in Australia. As a subgroup of the Myrmecia gulosa species group, these ants are also commonly known as the Bull Ant. The Myrmecia vindex was collected and described by Frederick Smith in 1858. |
Q3807308 Jardim Botânico is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. |
Q456989 Willem Verhulst or Willem van Hulst was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the second (provisional) director of the New Netherland colony in 1625–26. Nothing is known about his life before and after this period. |
Q3564964 Syuichi Nakano (中野 主一, Nakano Shuichi, born September 11, 1947) is a Japanese astronomer. He specializes in the study of comets, in particular calculating their orbits and making predictions about when periodic comets will return for another perihelion approach. It is considerably more difficult to predict th... |
Q6750580 Manley Field House is a multi-purpose arena in Syracuse, New York. The arena opened in 1962 and at one time held 9,500 people for home games. It was home to the Syracuse Orange men's and women's basketball teams, the indoor track team, and the women's volleyball team before the Carrier Dome opened in 1980. It ... |
Q135791 Alestes is a genus in the family Alestidae, known as the "African Characidae" as they are found exclusively on that continent. As suggested by that name, they Alestidae was formerly included in Characidae. Myletes is a synonym of Alestes, but the former name has historically also been used for various South Ame... |
Q1762516 The Javanese flying squirrel (Iomys horsfieldii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. |
Q5024740 Calyptranthes nodosa is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. |
Q7956542 WUAL-FM (91.5 FM) is an American non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The station, established in 1972, is owned by the University of Alabama, and is the flagship affiliate of Alabama Public Radio, airing the network's programming consisting of news and talk programmi... |
Q946833 Division is 10 Years's fourth studio album and second major label release which was released May 13, 2008. The first single was "Beautiful". It has so far sold over 250,000 copies in the US. |
Q5627522 Głogowa [ɡwɔˈɡɔva] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Władysławów, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Władysławów, 11 km (7 mi) north-west of Turek, and 109 km (68 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań. |
Q2291524 Skandawa [skanˈdava] (German: Skandau) is a village in northern Poland, lying close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. Located in the administrative district of Gmina Barciany, Kętrzyn County, and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship,It lies 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Barciany, 23 km (14 m... |
Q4987691 Bulbophyllum conchidioides is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q6974771 The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) was a South Australian Government agency founded in 1972 to manage protected areas previously under the control of a range of agencies within government. The NPWS is reported as being a division of the following government departments until September 1993 - the D... |
Q5385845 Ergänzungs-Jagdgruppe West (EJGr West) (Supplementary Fighter Group, West) was a fighter pilot training unit of the German Luftwaffe in World War II. It was formed on 6 February 1942 in Cazaux and renamed Jagdgruppe West (JGr West) on 30 November 1942. |
Q5116672 Church Road Garston railway station was a station in Garston, Liverpool in England, it was situated on the west side of Church Road. |
Q828330 Rohrbach is a river of Hesse, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Fulda in Ludwigsau. |
Q16986092 VA-154 was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established as Bombing Squadron VB-153 on 26 March 1945, redesignated as VA-15A on 15 July 1948, and finally designated as VA-154 on 15 July 1948. In October 1945, the squadron participated in a 1,200-plane flyover of New York City in honor of Navy Day. T... |
Q18129420 The Zetland Gold Cup is a flat Handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three-year-old and up. It is run at Redcar over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 1 yard (2,013 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year at the end of May or beginning of June. |
Q18165897 The Brisbane Handball Club is a handball Club based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia.They are members of the Queensland Handball and play in the Brisbane Premier League as well as hosting their own league for juniors which is supported by local government |
Q18378177 Aubrey Neville McDonald (born 3 February 1988 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with club side Rustenburg Impala. He is a utility back that can play as a fullback, winger or centre. |
Q919682 British Lions were a short-lived British rock band, together from 1977 to 1980, with former members of Mott and Medicine Head. They released just two studio albums with little commercial success in the UK. |
Q952822 Cozad is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,977 at the 2010 census. The town is on the Great Plains of central Nebraska, along the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Highway 30, just north of the Platte River. The 100th meridian, which roughly marks the eastward boundary of the ... |
Q1090235 Chysauster Ancient Village (Cornish: Chisylvester, meaning Sylvester's house) is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard. To the... |
Q5218783 Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator (born 10 December 1953) is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 1999, he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (jointly with Robert Tarjan) for the splay tree data structure.He was one of the pioneers in amortized analysis of al... |
Q3942657 Rumors is a farcical play by Neil Simon. |
Q140575 Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley. |
Q1390786 The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, New York. The paper is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. It was for decades the only newspaper fully owned by that company. |
Q2727352 Kalpana, a computer-networking equipment manufacturer located in Silicon Valley, operated during the 1980s and 1990s. Its co-founders, Vinod Bhardwaj, an entrepreneur of Indian origin, and Larry Blair named the company after Bhardwaj's wife, Kalpana, whose name means "imagination" in Sanskrit. Charles Gianca... |
Q1086484 Christopher Maurice Andrew, FRHS (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. |
Q582546 Ananthapuram is a panchayat town in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. |
Q16212970 Harley Lewis (born May 5, 1974) is an American professional wrestler and shoot fighter who competes for independent promotions in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Japan. He has had successful stints in the United States Wrestling Association International World Class Championship Wrestling, the Nati... |
Q25427231 A timeline of the Holocaust in Norway is detailed in the events listed below. |
Q7162262 The Penarth Group is a Rhaetian age (Triassic) lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which is widespread in Britain. It is named from the seaside town of Penarth near Cardiff in south Wales where strata of this age are exposed in coastal cliffs southwards to Lavernock Point. This sequence of roc... |
Q18712616 VroomGirls is an American online automobile magazine targeting the female auto buyer. |
Q16223154 Dominic Harington (born 4 June 1984) is an English snowboarder. He has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. |
Q4502525 Ernst Huth (27 December 1845, Potsdam – 5 August 1897) was a German naturalist and botanist.He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin, later working as a secondary school teacher in Frankfurt an der Oder. Beginning in 1883 he published the Monatliche Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein... |
Q13395972 Leptozestis psoralea is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales. |
Q3289521 Marcelino Pan y Vino, released as Marcelino (マルセリーノ) in Japan, is a Japanese-Spanish animated series.In 2000, VIP Toons of Spain, PMMP and TF1 of France and Nippon Animation of Japan created the first TV series adaptation of the story, also titled Marcelino Pan y Vino after the original novel. The first 26-epi... |
Q25171977 Henry Sampson (also Samson, 13 March 1813 – 29 March 1885) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Sheffield Cricket Club between 1839 and 1860. |
Q28456205 McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine is a medical research institute which is a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. |
Q28405120 Michael R. Morgan (born 1955) is an American judge from the state of North Carolina. Morgan is currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Previously, he served as a judge on the 3rd division of North Carolina Superior Court for Judicial Circuit 10B.In the 2016 election, Judge Morgan d... |
Q5419190 Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1866), was an important United States Supreme Court case involving the disbarment of former Confederate officials. |
Q132945 Bushehr Province (Persian: استان بوشهر, Ostān-e Būshehr ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country, with a long coastline onto the Persian Gulf. Its center is Bushehr, the provincial capital. The province has ten counties: Asaluyeh, Bushehr, Dashtestan, Dashti, Deyr, Deylam, Jam, K... |
Q4927946 Bloodhype (1973) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is eleventh chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series, though it was written second; the main characters since they only appear in the last third of the book. Foster originally started the novel as a stand-alone work, b... |
Q1152713 Pierre François Olive Rayer (8 March 1793 – 10 September 1867) was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitology. |
Q535555 Guaraná Jesus is a Brazilian soft drink produced by Eduardo Lago, a Coca-Cola bottler based in São Luís. The drink is popular within the region, reportedly outselling Coca-Cola, and is made from extracts of the guarana plant, which contains caffeine (sometimes called "guaranine"), theophylline, and theobromin... |
Q6514628 Lee Myung-Sun (Korean: 이명선; born 12 February 1976) is a retired South Korean shot putter. Her personal best throw is 19.36 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Shanghai. This is the current South Korean record. |
Q3889774 Palazzo Canossa is a palace in Verona, northern Italy.It was erected by commission of the Marquises of Canossa to architect Michele Sanmicheli in 1527, not far from the Arco dei Gavi and the Castelvecchio. Palazzo Canossa is in Mannerist style, with the entrance preceded by a notable portico. One of the ceilin... |
Q5460865 Olea chimanimani is an olive shrub or small tree, growing 2–3 meters tall, in the family Oleaceae. It is found only in the Chimanimani mountains (whence its name), which lay on the border dividing Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Confined only to a relatively small (600 km²) area, it is locally common, growing in scru... |
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