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Q15045708 Musha is a village in Rwanda. It was a site of a major massacre in the Rwandan Civil War where over 1,000 people were killed.Now it is known as a health center for the region. |
Q7967844 Wangdue Phodrang Province (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་; Wylie: dbang-'dus pho-brang) was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.Wangdue Phodrang Province occupied lands in central Bhutan, corresponding roughly to modern day Wangdue Phodrang District. It was administered from the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong i... |
Q629851 Margarita is a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain. |
Q18153412 The Instituto Irlandés Hermosillo is a private school in Hermosillo, Sonora. It serves preschool through bachillerato (senior high school). |
Q22018743 James Lyman Merrick (11 December 1803 in Monson, Massachusetts – 18 June 1866 in Amherst, Massachusetts) was the first American missionary to Muslims in Persia, and in 1852 became Professor of Oriental Literature at Amherst College.As a young man, Merrick was caught up in the zeal for Christian missions that ... |
Q3182543 The 1934 Latvian coup d'état, known in Latvia as the May 15 Coup or Ulmanis' Coup, was a self-coup by the veteran Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system in Latvia. His regime lasted until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940.On the night of May 15–16 Ulmanis, with the support of Mini... |
Q26436369 Kamil Stachyra (born 23 May 1987) is a Polish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He formerly played for Górnik Łęczna, Flota Świnoujście, Stal Rzeszów, Motor Lublin, and JKS 1909 Jarosław. |
Q15396468 Eucalyptus broviniensis is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and conical fruit. |
Q2870821 Audrey Bastien (born 10 December 1991) is a French actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2010. |
Q81242 A sea breeze or onshore breeze is any wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass; it develops due to differences in air pressure created by the differing heat capacities of water and dry land. As such, sea breezes are more localised than prevailing winds. Because land absorbs solar radi... |
Q4934313 Robert Paul Warman (born 11 October 1946) is an English television presenter. |
Q2375534 The Seven Messengers (Italian: I sette messaggeri) is a collection of short stories written by Dino Buzzati and published as a book in 1942. It contains nineteen short tales, in which the characters often interact with the presence of the fantastic and/or death, many of which are left unconcluded, leaving the ... |
Q7857585 The Twelve Brothers in Silk, also known as The Silk Brothers, is a group of fictional comic book villains, a family of killers that have fought the Birds of Prey in the DC Comics Universe. They were created by artist Joe Bennett and writer Gail Simone. |
Q7531555 Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye is a book written by Brad Warner, an author and ordained Zen priest. The work serves as both an autobiography and an introduction to Dogen's (道元) work Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵), (Treasury of the ... |
Q6170656 Jean Flammang (9 March 1905, in Esch-sur-Alzette – 1 October 1990) was a Luxembourgian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to Arthur Beavis. |
Q5377073 Energy in Burkina Faso is a growing industry with tremendous potential. |
Q6983620 Naši furianti (in English: Our Swaggerers) is a Czech play based on a story by Ladislav Stroupežnický, performed for the first time in 1887. In 1937 a film adaptation was made, directed by Vladislav Vančura. |
Q4596596 The 1st SS-Standarte was a regimental command of the Allgemeine-SS and one of the most important units in the General-SS order of battle. |
Q5082664 Charles Sterling Bunnell (December 4, 1901 – April 23, 1988), was an American banker. Following graduation from Yale University in 1924, Bunnell began his career at the First National City Bank of New York where he held the positions of Senior VP and Chairman of the Credit Policy Committee. At the onset of Wor... |
Q5500191 Free at Last is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1969 and released on the ECM label. The album was the first release on the influential European jazz label. |
Q7561243 Canal Walk is an outdoor shopping court in the International Business District Songdo IBD of Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. The court comprises four sections, one for each season, and is located along a stretch of a man-made canal running north to south. It stretches 2,625 feet within D1-D4 blocks. Each block... |
Q5259978 Deolali is one of the 288 constituencies of the Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) of Maharashtra state in Western India. It is located in the Nashik district and is contained within the larger Nashik Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency. |
Q12060959 Kaprassery is a village in the district of Ernakulam and is situated on the National Highway 47 (India) (NH47) that stretches from Salem to Kanyakumari. It is located between the two major towns of the Indian state Kerala, namely, Aluva and Angamaly. |
Q5851565 Shirazi-ye Buri (Persian: شيرازي بوري, also Romanized as Shīrāzī-ye Būrī) is a village in Qarah Su Rural District, in the Central District of Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q15713095 Stay More: The World of Donald Harington is a 2013 documentary film about author Donald Harington, produced by Brian Walter based on interviews that Walter conducted with Harington and his wife in 2006–07. |
Q18684117 The Boy and the Beast (Japanese: バケモノの子, Hepburn: Bakemono no Ko, literally "The bakemono's child") is a 2015 Japanese animated action-adventure fantasy film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The film stars the voices of Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shōta Sometani, Suzu Hirose, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mamoru Miy... |
Q20706762 Chionodes repertor is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona. |
Q2964166 Chlosyne theona, or theona checkerspot, is a species checkerspots in the family of butterflies known as the Nymphalidae found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for C. theona is 4508. |
Q21605381 Petter Wærness (born 23 April 1947) is a Norwegian rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Q1389014 Nowina (Polish pronunciation: [nɔˈvina]) is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The original clan consisted of only 24 families. |
Q2339424 The Raft River is a 108-mile-long (174 km) tributary of the Snake River located in northern Utah and southern Idaho in the United States. It is part of the Columbia River Basin. |
Q6386309 Kelly Wayne Stouffer, (born July 6, 1964), is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. He spent most of his career with the Seattle Seahawks from 1988–1992. He graduated from Rushville High School in Rushville, Nebraska and attended Colorado State University.He is a television color analyst for coll... |
Q4705312 The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers were any of the informal groups participating in four recorded Sacred Harp singing sessions in Alabama in the 20th century, who were thereafter credited by that name as artists or performers in the published versions of those recordings.The informal nature of Sacred Harp singing... |
Q6298858 Juan Antonio Buschiazzo (October 29, 1845 – May 13, 1917) was an Italian-born Argentine architect and engineer who contributed to the modernisation of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1880s and to the construction of the city of La Plata, the new capital of the Buenos Aires Province.Born in 1845 in Pontinvrea, P... |
Q1144494 Chip an' Dale is a 1947 animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures. The film depicts Donald Duck's first encounter with the two chipmunks Chip 'n' Dale when he unknowingly chops down their tree for firewood. The title of the film is the... |
Q5491118 The Payne, later Payne-Gallwey, later Frankland-Payne-Gallwey Baronetcy, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 December 1812 for General William Payne, Governor of the Leeward Islands. Payne-Gallwey (as he became) was the half-brother of Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington, who ... |
Q1140060 The pont Saint-Louis is a bridge across the River Seine in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. It links the Île de la Cité with the Île Saint-Louis. It is served by the Cité stop of the Paris Metro |
Q3504233 Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway, a dominant chiefdom in southern Maryland on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay at time of contact with English settlers. Piscataway, also known as Conoy (from the Iroquois ethnonym for the tribe), is considered a dialect of N... |
Q2910416 Izi Dorot (1916–1980), born Isidore Roth, was an Israeli military person, and director of the Shabak between 1952 and 1953.Born in Poland in 1916, Dorot immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936, and served in the Jewish Settlement Police. In World War II he volunteered and served in the British A... |
Q4944622 The Border Union Railway was a railway line which connected places in the south of Scotland and Cumberland in England. It was authorised on 21 July 1859 and advertised as the Waverley Route by the promoters - the North British Railway. It connected the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway at Hawick with Carlisle. |
Q3951534 Secret Scandal (Italian: Scandalo segreto) is a 1989 Italian film which was written and directed by Monica Vitti. It was starred by the same Monica Vitti, Elliott Gould, Gino Pernice, and Catherine Spaak. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.For the movie, Monica Vi... |
Q4897435 Beth Am is a Conservative synagogue in Baltimore, Maryland. The congregation is located in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill community, and is considered to be one of the city's historic synagogues. It is one of two non-Orthodox synagogues in Baltimore's inner city. Beth Am is an urban, egalitarian congregation affil... |
Q5481289 Francis Hitching (born 1933) is a British author, dowser, journalist and filmmaker. |
Q15112044 Port of Corpus Christi is the fourth-largest port in the United States in total tonnage. Port Corpus Christi is located on Corpus Christi Bay in the western Gulf of Mexico, with a straight 45-foot-deep (14 m) channel. The port is located close to downtown Corpus Christi in Nueces County, Texas, but the port i... |
Q12144078 La Crème de la crème (also titled Smart Ass) is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Kim Chapiron. The film received three nominations at the 20th Lumières Awards, where Thomas Blumenthal and Jean-Baptiste Lafarge were nominated for Most Promising Actor and Alice Isaaz for Most Promising Actress. |
Q19895023 "Parade" is a song performed by American recording artist Dev, produced by NanosauR. It was written by Dev herself and chosen as a single extracted from her EP Bittersweet July Pt. 2 after being acclaimed by the fans. The song was released on the radios and on VEVO on March 24, 2015. "Parade" is a electropop ... |
Q24887472 Bones Knob Radar Station is a heritage-listed radar station at Bowcock Road, Tolga, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1943. It is also known as WWII RAAF 220 Radar Station. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 May 2010. |
Q28130543 Sperotto is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:Giannantonio Sperotto (born 1950), Italian footballerNicolò Sperotto (born 1992), Italian footballer |
Q21051916 The 2015 Campeonato Internacional de Tênis de Campinas was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Campinas, Brazil between 21 and 27 September 2015. |
Q474068 The Barbarians were an American garage rock band formed in Cape Cod, Massachusetts that were active between 1964 and 1967, and briefly re-formed in 1973 to cut an album under a different lineup. At the height of their popularity, the band was touted as an American counterpart of The Rolling Stones. Particularl... |
Q3402846 The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (commonly called the Price-Anderson Act) is a United States federal law, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026. The mai... |
Q632925 Kolonija "B" Zmaj or colloquially Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Колонија "Б" Змај) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. |
Q8020797 William de Landallis (died 1385) was a 14th-century Bishop of St. Andrews. |
Q6589376 Marvel Comics is an American comic book company dating to 1961. This is a list of the publications it has released in its history under the "Marvel Comics" imprint. The list does not include collected editions or trade paperbacks nor does it include series published by other Marvel imprints such as Epic, Icon... |
Q5343904 Edward Joseph Kelly (31 March 1883 – 25 September 1944) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was a solicitor, barrister-at-law and Senior Counsel (SC).He was the son of Peter Kelly JP of Ballyshannon, County ... |
Q7884359 Unfit to Practise is the second album from the parody duo Amateur Transplants. |
Q468642 Torn from the Flag is a 2007 documentary film about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film encompasses the tense Cold War era (1945–1991) and presents the rivalry of the superpowers during that time. It shows the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as the first catalyst for the... |
Q4606605 The 2006 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Michigan State competed as a member of the Big Ten Conference, and played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. The Spartans were led by fourth-year hea... |
Q4760323 Andwell Brewing Company was started by Adam Komrower in 2008, and was based at Lodge Farm behind Newlyns farmshop in North Warnborough, Hampshire, England. The brewery's beer is supplied to pubs within a 30-mile radius of the brewery, and to farmshops, off-licences and beer festivals.The brewery brewed its fir... |
Q2848841 André de Brancas or Amiral de Villars (died 24 July 1595) was a French admiral.He fought for the Catholic League and the Spanish, wishing to make Normandy an independent lordship. He remained in Rouen even after the abjuration of Henry IV of France, and did not submit until 1594. He was made an Admiral of Fran... |
Q7316811 Retire Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological characteristics, in mid Cornwall, England, UK. |
Q4728092 The 1993 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Glen Rovers, who defeated Mullagh from Galway in the final, played at Ballinasloe. |
Q5444352 Ferma (Russian: Ферма) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:Ferma, Novosibirsk Oblast, a railway halt platform in Moshkovsky District of Novosibirsk OblastFerma, Perm Krai, a settlement in Permsky District of Perm KraiFerma, Saratov Oblast, a khutor in Saratovsky District of Saratov Oblast |
Q12016480 Khobna (also written Krebna) is a village in the commune of Trifaoui, in Hassi Khelifa District, El Oued Province, Algeria. The village is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Trifaoui and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of the provincial capital El Oued. |
Q17099318 Svetlana Forsova (Russian: Светлана Форсова) is a Russian writer from Korenovsk, city in Kuban region of Russian Federation. Svetlana Forsova has written few articles and two books dedicated to the history and culture of the Kuban region. |
Q18636777 Edward Bates was a department store located in Chatham, Kent with a subsidiary Blake & Co based in Maidstone. |
Q26207447 Taylor Terrell (July 22, 1991 – July 21, 2016) was an American news anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today at WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia. Terrell died on the eve of her 25th birthday after slipping over Rainbow Falls, a waterfall in North Carolina. |
Q26703042 Driss Moussaoui is a Moroccan psychiatrist and one of the first psychiatrists in Morocco. He is the founder of the Department of Psychiatry of Casablanca and former president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry.He is the author and co-author of numerous books, including on subjects such as religion ... |
Q2980815 Cnemaspis argus, also known as the Argus rock gecko, Dring's gecko, or Lawit Mountain rock gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to western Malaysia. |
Q950295 Basketball is a sport contested at the Summer Olympic Games. A men's basketball tournament was first held at the 1904 Olympics as a demonstration; it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1936. In the 1972 Olympics, the final game between the United States and the Soviet Union was a controversial one, as... |
Q5533809 Genuine American Monster is an album by Raymond Watts, under the name PIG. It was initially released in Japan in 1999, and did not see a release in the United States until 2002 October 22 on Metropolis Records. The US release adds one song originally from the Prime Evil EP, bringing the album's total running ... |
Q378943 Vitosha (Bulgarian: Витоша), the ancient Scomius or Scombrus, is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Vitosha is one of the symbols of Sofia and the closest site for hiking, alpinism and skiing. Convenient bus lines and rope ways render the mountain easily accessible. Vitosha h... |
Q738153 Ileus is a disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the intestine due to the malfunction of peristalsis.Ileus originally referred to any lack of digestive propulsion, including bowel obstruction,but current medical usage restricts its meaning only to those disruptions caused by the failure of the system's... |
Q20967618 Doctor Who Unbound is a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. Free from the constraints of continuity, the Doctor Who Unbound audios present a series of "What if...?" scenarios, and cast new actors in the role of the Doctor.David Warner reprised his version of the Doctor in 2016, in volum... |
Q1161776 This is a list of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes in New Zealand. |
Q5599797 Great Pond is a 268-acre (1.08 km2) water body located in Rockingham County in southeastern New Hampshire in the United States. The lake lies near the center of the town of Kingston. Kingston State Park, a small preserve with a swimming beach, occupies the northeastern end of the lake, near the town center. Th... |
Q4987174 Bukówek [buˈkuvɛk] (German: Buchwald) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Środa Śląska, within Środa Śląska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Środa Śląska, and 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the regional capital ... |
Q836793 Ferrous lactate, or iron(II) lactate, is a chemical compound consisting of one atom of iron (Fe2+) and two lactate anions. It has the chemical formula Fe(C3H5O3)2. |
Q7299262 Saint Raymond of Piacenza (1139/40 – 26 July 1200), called the Palmer or Zanfogni, was a Catholic pilgrim and religious who practiced charity to the poor and ill. Raymond's nickname, "the Palmer", derives from his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, from which he brought back the customary palm frond. Such a pilgrim was ... |
Q7597930 Stanley Simpson Turner (21 October 1926 – 28 April 1991) was an English footballer. A tough-tackling defender, he made 246 appearances (227 in the league, 18 in the FA Cup and 1 in the Coronation Cup) for Port Vale during one of the club's brightest periods. He helped the "Valiants" to win the Third Division N... |
Q3908409 Serpent Men are a fictional race created by Robert E. Howard for his King Kull tales. They first appeared in "The Shadow Kingdom," published in Weird Tales in August 1929.They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in Ku... |
Q7709316 Thais langi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q220576 Albert Kónya (14 June 1917 – 16 March 1988) was a Hungarian physicist and politician, who served as Minister of Education between 1956 and 1957. He graduated in the József Attila University of Szeged. He fought in the Second World War from 1942 until the war's end. He was a prisoner of war for a short time in 1... |
Q1734779 The 2000–01 Kazakhstan Hockey Championship was the ninth season of the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, the top level of ice hockey in Kazakhstan. Seven teams participated in the league, and Kazzinc-Torpedo won the championship. |
Q3378534 Anna Maria Indrio (born 11 June 1943, Meina, Italy) is an Italian-Danish architect. She has designed several important cultural institutions and has played a leading role with C. F. Møller Architects in Copenhagen. |
Q18345524 The year 2005 is the 4th year in the history of the Universal Reality Combat Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Philippines. In 2005 the URCC held 2 events beginning with, URCC 6: Unleashed Fury. |
Q20098588 "Mother's Mercy" is the fifth season finale episode of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 50th overall. The tenth and final episode of the fifth season, the episode was written by the series creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed by David Nutter."Mother's Mercy" garnered cri... |
Q16856846 The 2014 Senior League World Series took place from August 10–16 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Houston, Texas defeated Willemstad, Curaçao in the championship game. |
Q16093106 Gadeok Bridge is a bridge in Busan, South Korea. The bridge was completed in 2010. The bridge is part of Busan–Geoje Fixed Link. |
Q18544 Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, since 2003, in Paris, France since 2016 and Parramatta Park, Sydney since 2019 & Flemington Racecourse Melbourne Australia since 2018. It is the most popular British summer rock and heavy metal festival and ... |
Q318742 Girolamo Zanchi (Latin "Hieronymus Zanchius," thus Anglicized to "Jerome Zanchi/Zanchius"; February 2, 1516 – November 19, 1590) was an Italian Protestant Reformation clergyman and educator who influenced the development of Reformed theology during the years following John Calvin's death. |
Q29343602 French pronouns are inflected to indicate their role in the sentence (subject, direct object, and so on), as well as to reflect the person, gender, and number of their referents. |
Q7321109 Rhodococcus rhodochrous is a bacterium used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture.gram positive,rod/cocci,oxidase negative, catalase positiveA 2015 study showed that Rhodococcus rhodochrous could inhibit the growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungal species responsible for White Nose Syn... |
Q5193579 Kochi, formerly known as Cochin, is a city and port in the Indian state of Kerala. The culture of the city can be termed as predominantly South Indian. Residents of Kochi are known as Kochiites; they are an important part of the South Indian weltanschauung. However, the city's culture is rapidly evolving, with... |
Q3411127 Puyuhuapi Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of cinder cones located at the head of Puyuhuapi Channel, in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of Chile.Puyuhuapi is one of the volcanoes in the southern segment of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone, which includes a number of stratovolcanoes. Sou... |
Q2501574 Pinamar Partido is a small partido on the Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants in an area of 63 km2 (24 sq mi), and its capital city is Pinamar, which is around 349 km (217 mi) from Buenos Aires.Until 1978 Pinamar was part ... |
Q6523509 Leo A. Brooks Jr. (born August 15, 1957) is a retired brigadier general of the United States Army. The Brooks family is noted for its military accolades and public service, as his brother is Army General Vincent K. Brooks and their father Leo A. Brooks Sr. was a major general in the United States Army. His unc... |
Q3645771 Bruno Gerber (born August 23, 1964 in Rothenfluh) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. He won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with three golds (Two-man: 1990, Four-man: 1989, 1990) and two silvers (Two-man: 1991, Four-man: 1991).Gerber also finished fifth in the... |
Q7677383 Takashi Tanihata (谷畑 孝, Tanihata Takashi, born January 10, 1947) is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Initiatives from Osaka party. A native of Osaka Prefecture and graduate of Kansai University he was elected for the first time ... |
Q7027910 Nicholas Setta (born May 6, 1981) is a professional Canadian football placekicker and punter who is a free agent. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. |
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