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Q4919574 Bjarni Halldórsson (c. 1703 – 1773) was an Icelandic legal figure and theologian. He is best known for being a county magistrate. He first lived in Víðidalstungu but most of his life he lived in Þingeyrar. |
Q7750197 The Manifesto Group was a parliamentary alliance of British Labour MPs led by Dickson Mabon (who preferred to be known as 'Dick Mabon'), who were opposed to what they perceived to be the leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. |
Q15862287 Leptostylopsis viridicomus is a species of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Fisher in 1942. |
Q7365525 Ronda Trese (English title: Thirteen Patrol) was a late evening news broadcast of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, aired from February 21, 2000 to February 8, 2002. |
Q13220702 Abacetus loricatus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Laferte-Senectere in 1853. |
Q18349909 Little Texas is an unincorporated community in Macon County, Alabama, United States.Little Texas has been noted for its unusual place name. |
Q1678542 Jahmar Thorpe (born September 2, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Bambitious Nara in Japan.Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Thorpe played basketball at Morristown High School. |
Q1553018 The term multiple endocrine neoplasia encompasses several distinct syndromes featuring tumors of endocrine glands, each with its own characteristic pattern. In some cases, the tumors are malignant, in others, benign. Benign or malignant tumors of nonendocrine tissues occur as components of some of these tumor... |
Q323847 The rock hyrax (Procavia capensis), also called rock badger, rock rabbit, and Cape hyrax, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie (/dasiː/), it is one of the five living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only ... |
Q1512150 John Albert Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016) was an American actor and comedian. He was known for playing Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show and for voicing Stu Pickles in the Rugrats franchise. |
Q51277 Ana Lucia Cortez is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Michelle Rodriguez. Ana Lucia made her first appearance as a guest star in the first season finale, and became part of the main cast for season two. After Oceanic Flight 815 splits in mid-air, the tail section and fuselage cra... |
Q7962876 Sir Wallace "Wally" Alexander Ramsay Rae (31 March 1913 – 18 March 2006) was a member of the Queensland Parliament and served in various State Government ministries. Rae worked as a stock and station agent before serving as a bomber pilot in World War II. After the war, he brought a property located between Bl... |
Q3063903 Fabrice Levrat (born October 18, 1979), is a retired French football midfielder. He played for AS Monaco, AC Ajaccio, Amiens SC, FC Gueugnon, Stade Laval, and US Boulogne. |
Q5779628 Johnny Gylling (born 1956) is a Swedish Christian democratic politician, member of the Riksdag 1998–2006. |
Q6820995 Meryl Tankard AO (born 1955, Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian dancer and choreographer who has a wide national and international reputation. |
Q7912600 Valsa abietis is a plant pathogen infecting Douglas-firs. |
Q6984495 The Neath Guardian was a local weekly newspaper published between 1925 and 2009 covering Neath, Wales, and the surrounding area. At the time of its closure, it was published weekly, on a Wednesday, in the tabloid format by Media Wales (formerly Western Mail and Echo), part of the Trinity Mirror group.The newsp... |
Q5472029 Hypolytrum pseudomapanioides is a species of plant in the family Cyperaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q16282445 Vic or Vik is short for Victor. It may refer to:Vic Aldridge (1893–1973), American Major League Baseball pitcherVic Bellamy (born 1963), American football playerVic Chesnutt (1964–2009), American singer-songwriterVic Chou, Taiwanese actor, singer and commercial modelVic Damone (1928–2018), American singer and... |
Q4671845 Acanthais is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, known as the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q883297 The Petersberg, at 250.4 m above sea level (NN), is the highest point in the district of Saalekreis in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.Its name is derived from St. Peter's Church, which is on the hill. Until the 14th century the Petersberg was known as the Lauterberg. |
Q5530407 Geleh (Persian: گله) is a village in Susan-e Gharbi Rural District, Susan District, Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 122, in 22 families. |
Q16988097 Pigmentiphaga kullae is a gram-negative, oxidase and catalase-positive, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Pigmentiphaga which has the ability to decolorize the azo dyes-compound 1-(4'-carboxyphenylazo)-4-naphthol aerobically and uses it as a sole source of carbon and energy. |
Q5192292 Columbia is a National Wildlife Area in British Columbia, Canada. |
Q24928965 Bamhori is a village in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in the Berasia tehsil. |
Q24085233 Presland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Craig Presland (born 1960), New Zealand cricketer and business executiveEddie Presland (born 1943), English footballer and cricketerGary Presland, Australian archaeologist and writer |
Q23759119 Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (born October 12, 1999) is an Irish actor and musician. He is best known for playing Conor 'Cosmo' Lawlor in his debut film Sing Street in 2016, and as King Alfred the Great in Vikings. |
Q2851545 Oophoritis is an inflammation of the ovaries. It is often seen in combination with salpingitis (inflammation of the fallopian tubes). It may develop in response to infection. |
Q7771596 Universalist Herald is a publication of the Universalist Herald Publishing company. "Universalist Heritage and Spirit Today" and "The Oldest Continuously Published Liberal Religious Periodical in North America" are the subtitles of the modern edition. |
Q5328984 The East Midlands Electricity Board (EMEB) was formed in 1947 as one of the United Kingdom's 12 area electricity boards specified under the Electricity Act 1947. In 1990 it was floated on the stock market as East Midlands Electricity plc, which went through several changes of ownership. |
Q4792960 Armed Forces & Society is an international, interdisciplinary, quarterly peer-reviewed academic publication that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on a wide variety of topics including civil–military relations, military sociology, veterans, military psychology, military institutions, conflict manag... |
Q2432662 State Road 238 (SR 238) is a state highway in Union and Columbia counties in Florida. It is 15 miles (24 km) long from U.S. Route 41-441 at Ellisville, Columbia County to State Road 100 in Lake Butler, carrying only 0.1 miles (0.2 km) of State Road 231. The entire route of SR 238 is only 2 lanes wide. Oddly, i... |
Q5449528 The Finance Act 2001 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prescribing changes to Excise Duties, Value Added Tax, Income Tax, Corporation Tax, and Capital Gains Tax. It enacts the 2001 Budget speech made by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.In the UK, ... |
Q4553382 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people. |
Q926863 Davide Tizzano (born 21 May 1968 in Naples) is a retired rower from Italy and a double Olympic gold medalist. He won his first gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, in the quadruple scull. Eight years later he formed a team with Agostino Abbagnale, with whom he triumphed in the men's double scull eve... |
Q5027592 Elisha Harrison Skinner (June 25, 1897 – August 4, 1944) was a reserve outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly at center field for the New York Yankees (1922) and Boston Red Sox (1923). Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 165 lb., Skinner batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Dougla... |
Q6814115 Melvinder Kanth is an award-winning documentary film-maker and actor who has appeared in several TV films and theatre in the United Kingdom and Singapore since 1996. He appeared in 2008's Kallang Roar the Movie as Captain of the Legendary Singapore national football team of the 1970s. Melvinder Kanth trained a... |
Q5709538 Professor Helmut Beckmann (22 May 1940 – 3 September 2006) was a German psychiatrist. He was one of the founders of neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia and biologically based psychiatry in Germany.Beckmann's major scientific interests were psychopharmacology, neuropathology of endogenous psychoses, and ... |
Q7536202 The Skolfield–Whittier House is a Victorian museum of the Pejepscot Historical Society, located at 161 Park Row in Brunswick, Maine. It is often referred to as a "time capsule" because it has been virtually untouched since the Victorian era. |
Q6372723 Karmayogi (English: Supreme Self; Hindi: कर्मयोगी) is a 1978 Bollywood Action drama film, produced by Anil Suri on A. R. Productions banner and directed by Ram Maheshwari. It stars Raaj Kumar, Jeetendra, Mala Sinha, Rekha in the lead roles and music composed by Kalyanji Anandji. The film was remade in Telugu ... |
Q28164159 Nabagram is a census town in Raghunathpur II CD Block in Raghunathpur subdivision of Purulia district in West Bengal, India. |
Q14691847 St. Joseph Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de San José) is a Catholic cathedral located in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 22, 1990. |
Q16870321 Grisanti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Anthony Grisanti, American financial commentatorMark Grisanti (born 1964), American lawyer and politician |
Q5626163 Qeshlaq-e Musa Beyg (Persian: قشلاق موسي بيگ, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Mūsá Beyg; also known as Qeshlāq-e Mūsá Beyglū) is a village in Tirchai Rural District, Kandovan District, Meyaneh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 288, in 63 families. |
Q16211731 Tom Omey (born 24 April 1975 in Kortrijk) is a retired Belgian athlete who specialised in the 800 metres. He represented his country at three outdoor and two indoor World Championships. |
Q17515721 The 1996 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 29–March 3, 1996, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Western Carolina Catamounts, led by head coach Phil Hopkins, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1996 ... |
Q27975437 Veronika Malá (born 6 May 1994) is a Czech handballer for Paris 92 and the Czech national team.She participated at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship. |
Q315819 Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. |
Q275823 Michael Lauriston Thomas (born 24 August 1967) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1986 to 2001.During his time at Arsenal, he scored a last-minute goal in injury time during the final match of the 1988–89 season, which allowed the club to claim the First Division title ... |
Q737031 Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 22 September 1996. The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Costas Simitis was re-elected, defeating the liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Miltiadis Evert. |
Q1270249 The 2003–04 Danish Superliga season was the 14th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association. It took place from the first match on July 26, 2003 to the final match on May 29, 2004.The Danish champions qualified for UEFA Champions League 2004-05 qualification... |
Q1163074 ThinkFilm (stylized as TH!NKFilm) was a U.S. film distribution company founded in September 2001. It had been a division of David Bergstein’s Capitol Films since 2006.On October 5, 2010, five of Bergstein's companies in the film industry, Capitol Films, ThinkFilm, R2D2, CT-1 and Capco were forced into Chapter ... |
Q3967638 St Martin's Church in Bladon near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, is the Church of England parish church of Bladon-with-Woodstock. It is also the mother church of St Mary Magdalene at Woodstock, which was originally a chapel of ease. It is best known for the graves of the Spencer-Churchill family, including S... |
Q547781 Mauganj is a town and a nagar panchayat in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Bagheli is the regional language of Mauganj. Mauganj is seat of legislative assembly in Madhya Pradesh. |
Q6256184 John (Jack) S. Bowen (born circa 1927) is an American advertising executive and Advertising Hall of Fame inductee. He was CEO of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.He oversaw the merger of Benton & Bowles and D'Arcy MacManus Masius, then ushered in their drive toward globalization. He was inducted into the hall of ... |
Q2509876 "Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968, that won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. |
Q5001996 Busman's Holiday is a British television game show produced by Granada for the ITV network from 26 February 1985 to 28 June 1993. Its hosts over the years were Julian Pettifer (1985-8), Sarah Kennedy (1989–91) and Elton Welsby (1993). Charles Foster was the announcer. |
Q3860457 Astino Abbey (Italian: Monastero di Astino) is a former Roman Catholic monastery in the Astino Valley, in the Province of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. It is no longer active. The buildings were restored in 2015. |
Q3877496 Leebotwood is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is about 9 miles (14 km) south of Shrewsbury and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Church Stretton. |
Q7647812 Susan C. Fargo is the Massachusetts State Senator for the 3rd Middlesex district, which includes her hometown of Lincoln and eight other towns. She is a Democrat who has served since 1997. (Before 2003 she represented the Fifth Middlesex district.) Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature, she was a p... |
Q4631457 23,000 is a 2005 novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. The story is set in a brutal Russia of the near future, where a meteor has provided a mysterious cult with a material which can make people's hearts speak. The book is the final part in Sorokin's Ice Trilogy; it was preceded by Ice from 2002 and Br... |
Q16977882 KHYX is a radio station airing a Hot AC format, licensed to Winnemucca, Nevada, broadcasting on 102.7 MHz FM. The station is owned by Jason and Kelly Crossett, through licensee Nomadic Broadcasting LLC. |
Q5787218 Pey Komak (Persian: پي كمك) is a village in Mahur Rural District, Mahvarmilani District, Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 49, in 14 families. |
Q19517094 The 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup was the nineteenth annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams. The competition started on 13 August 2014 and concluded on 9 November 2014. |
Q28035719 McLellan (also McLellen) is an unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. |
Q14825418 Niphona crampeli is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1961. |
Q1329941 Elisabeth Gram (born 17 April 1996) is an Austrian freestyle skier. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's halfpipe. |
Q5282219 DishnetDSL was a broadband internet service provider in India. VSNL, a part of the Tata group acquired DishnetDSL in 2004 and it is now a part of Tata Indicom Broadband.It was started by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran as part of Sterling Group. Initially DSL was a part of much bigger plan which is "Education To Hom... |
Q2696960 Mr. Young is a Canadian television series that premiered on March 1, 2011 on YTV. The series was filmed in Burnaby, British Columbia. The series was created by Dan Signer (who also worked on shows such as The Suite Life on Deck and A.N.T. Farm), and stars Brendan Meyer, Matreya Fedor and Gig Morton as attendee... |
Q6678929 Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (13 June 1825 – 4 April 1892) was a British Liberal Party politician.He was born in London on 13 June 1825, the second of three sons of Major-General Lord George William Russell and Elizabeth Anne Rawdon, daughter of the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon, himself second son of the 1st... |
Q248001 Psittaculini is a tribe of parrots of the family Psittaculidae. The subdivisions within the tribe are controversial. |
Q6195223 Jim Gilligan is a retired head baseball coach, primarily for the Lamar Cardinals baseball program.In his 38 seasons as head coach, Gilligan has guided Lamar's baseball team to 11 conference championships, 13 NCAA regional appearances, and five conference titles. He has been named the Southland Conference coach... |
Q1073431 Novak Djokovic was the defending champion and defended his title, defeating David Ferrer 6–2, 6–4 in the final. |
Q2310209 The gare d'Hendaye is a railway station in Hendaye, France, on the Bordeaux-Irun and Madrid-Hendaye lines. The station is served by TGV high speed trains, Lunéa night trains, Intercités long distance and TER local services operated by the SNCF, Trenhotel and Arco services operated by RENFE, and EuskoTren servi... |
Q2640717 Arbazhsky District (Russian: Арба́жский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-nine in Kirov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,416 square kilometers (547 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (an... |
Q15296816 Kill It Live is the first live album by American rock band New Found Glory. It was recorded during two sold-out shows at the Chain Reaction music venue in Anaheim, California between March 27—28, 2013. It was first released on October 7, 2013 in the United Kingdom, before its wider release in other regions so... |
Q5801270 Nahavis (Persian: نهاويس, also Romanized as Nahāvīs and Nahawis; also known as Nabawais and Nakhavais) is a village in Sojas Rud Rural District, Sojas Rud District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 390, in 103 families. |
Q17068073 This is the discography of Sharon Cuneta, a Filipino actress, singer and TV host. Her first exposure in Philippine music was in 1978 when at 12 years old, recorded the song "Mr. DJ". The song became a success and garnered her as 'DJ's Pet', which was the name also of her first album. Other hit albums followed... |
Q17143189 The Peace Crane Project was founded in 2013 by Sue DiCicco, in order to promote world peace and raise awareness of the International Day of Peace (21 September).A "peace crane" is an origami crane used as peace symbol, by reference to the story of Sadako Sasaki (1943– 1955), a Japanese victim of the long-term... |
Q14357847 Siskiwitia latebra is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Ronald W. Hodges in 1978. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arkansas and South Carolina. |
Q18619489 James Anstruther Smith FFARCS (1917 – 18 December 1986) was a Scottish consultant anaesthetist who was one of the pioneers of safe anaesthesia for cardiac catheterization in children. |
Q3696121 The 1998 Mercedes-Benz Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on Hard in Los Angeles, United States that was part of the International Series of the 1998 ATP Tour. It was the seventy-first edition of the tournament and was held from 27 July – 2 August 1998. |
Q19865031 Jane Trahey (November 19, 1923 – April 22, 2000) was an American businesswoman and writer. She is best known as one of the pioneers of advertising during the 1960s. She was one of the first women to own and manage an advertising agency. After graduating from Mundelein College in 1943, she worked for Neiman-M... |
Q22906061 24 Postcards in Full Colour is the 2008 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on July 21, 2008 on 130701, an imprint of FatCat Records. The album was reissued on April 25, 2014 on Deutsche Grammophon. |
Q4002231 Fourth-seeded Virginia Ruzici was the defending champion but went out in the semifinals to Andrea Temesvári.Top-seed Temesvári won the final and $34,000 first prize money by defeating Zina Garrison in the final. |
Q24845730 George Mills (23 March 1867 – 13 March 1942) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Auckland, Hawke's Bay and Otago between 1887 and 1903. |
Q29094831 This is a list of rallies held by Donald Trump after his 2016 election. |
Q736114 Donald Boyd Wilson (11 September 1910, Dunblane, Scotland – 6 March 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967 and co-creating the series Doctor Who.He attended the Glasgow School of Art, following whi... |
Q36932 Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta is a Swiss professional ice hockey club and a member of the National League (NL). The club was founded September 19, 1937 and is also known as "Bianco-Blu" (English: white and blues). Though they have never won the league championship, the club has not been relegated to the Swiss League ... |
Q2219062 This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. |
Q13570122 A litmus test is a question asked of a potential candidate for high office, the answer to which would determine whether the nominating official would proceed with the appointment or nomination. The expression is a metaphor based on the litmus test in chemistry, in which one is able to test the general acidity... |
Q6859648 In mathematics, the Milliken–Taylor theorem in combinatorics is a generalization of both Ramsey's theorem and Hindman's theorem. It is named after Keith Milliken and Alan D. Taylor.Let P f ... |
Q157397 Veronica persica (common names: birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell) is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first rec... |
Q266350 Lock and Dam No. 13 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River above Fulton, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa, United States. This facility offers visitors a view of the barges and boats locking through on the widest pool in the Upper Mississippi River.The movable portion of the dam is 1,066 feet (324.9... |
Q527841 Barbara Ruick (December 23, 1930 – March 3, 1974) was an American actress and singer. |
Q6331290 Remixed is a remix album by KJ-52, featuring a reggaeton mix of Behind the Musik's "Jesus", "47 Emcees (Plus 18 More Mix)" which reimagines the originally beatbox-driven track with multiple layered beats, each corresponding to the verse's genre; East Coast, West Coast, old school, and Dirty South, and an angst... |
Q6908074 Moorabool is a closed railway station on the Geelong–Ballarat railway line, in the locality of Moorabool, Victoria, Australia. Until 1864 it was called Steiglitz Road. The station building was constructed for the Victorian Railways in 1861, by a private contractor, and comprises a single-storey, gable-roofed, ... |
Q5181574 Craig Marcus Watkins (born November 16, 1967) is an American lawyer. He was the district attorney for the Dallas County, Texas in the United States from 2007 to 2015. He became the first elected African American district attorney in Texas after he was elected in 2006. |
Q5585240 Gordon Hamilton (born 1982) is an Australian composer and conductor. Since 2009, he has been the Artistic Director of The Australian Voices. He was born in Newcastle, lived and worked in Bremen, Germany for five years as a conductor and composer and he now lives in Brisbane.He studied in Australia at the Univ... |
Q291557 Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch (born 24 July 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford, having gained the seat from Labour at the 2010 general election. She was appointed as Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness in 2017, but resigned i... |
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