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Q2825057 Adriaen de Grijef (1657 – 1722), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Q14437392 Syndemis supervacanea is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Shanxi, China.
Q18619011 Lawrence Wayne Conjar (born October 28, 1945) is a former American football running back who played four seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Colts. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 1967 NFL Draft. He played colle...
Q3365162 The 1905 Paris–Roubaix was the tenth edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 23 April 1905 and stretched 268 km (167 mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Louis Trousselier from France.
Q14922309 Nanularia obrienorum is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
Q3244413 This is a list of people on stamps of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp.Because no postage stamps had been designed, the first Irish stamps were issued by the Provisional Government of Ireland and were the then-current British definitive postage stamps bearing a portrait of George V th...
Q582019 Bob Dishy (born January 12, 1934) is an American actor of stage, film, and television.Dishy was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Amy (Barazani) and Nissim Dishy. He is married to former actress Judy Graubart (The Electric Company).He is best remembered today for playing Sergeant Wilson, Columbo's polite, ...
Q5281014 Dirty Hands is a 2008 political drama. The story shows war's cyclical nature and the psychological and human destruction ultimately caused to both sides.
Q7634449 Sueños y Pesadillas del Tercer Mundo is the debut album of The Dominican rock group, Toque Profundo. The album was released independently with only the band's members financial help. The album helped them become tops In the mainstream rock of the Dominican Republic and was a total success. Songs Like "El Gevit...
Q7748576 The Lost Children is a French fairy tale collected by Antoinette Bon in Revue des traditions populaires.It is Aarne-Thompson type 327A. Another tale of this type is Hansel and Gretel; The Lost Children combines with that type several motifs typical of Hop o' My Thumb, which is typical of French variants.
Q1983662 Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.
Q6242662 John Keister (born Manchester, 11 November 1970) is a former footballer and coach who currently manages the Sierra Leone national team. Although born in England he has gained international caps for Sierra Leone.Keister started his career at Sierra Leone side Tigres in 1992 before moving to England in 1993. Sin...
Q6190879 Jhanjha was Shilahara ruler of north Konkan branch from 910 CE – 930 CE.Vappuvanna was followed by Jhanjha . He is mentioned by Al-Masudi as ruling over Samur (i.e., Chaul in the Kolaba district) in 916 CE. He was a very devout Shaiva. He is said to have built twelve temples of Shiva and named them after him...
Q7387113 In enzymology, a S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.28) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactionS-methyl-5'-thioadenosine + phosphate ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } adenine + S-methyl-5-thio-alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphateThus, the two substrates of ...
Q2809793 Events from the year 1811 in the United States.
Q719081 Sarkhon Kalateh (Persian: سرخنكلاته‎, also Romanized as Sarkhon Kalāteh and Sorkhan Kalāteh) is a city and capital of Baharan District, in Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census its population was 6,507, in 1,794 families.
Q6895922 Somchai (Thai: สมชาย, pronounced [sǒm.tɕʰāːj]) is a Thai given name used by males. It is the most common male given name in Thailand, with 240,000 persons using the name in 2012.Persons with the given name Somchai include:Somchai Wongsawat, former Prime Minister of ThailandSomchai Neelapaijit, human rights act...
Q353812 Stanisław Baczyński aka "Adam Kersten", "Bittner", "Akst" (27 July 1890 in Lwów – 27 July 1939 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer, literary critic, journalist, soldier of the Polish Legions and captain of the Polish Army. Father of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński.
Q5335963 Edward Dawson (16 January 1913 – 1970) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Dawson started his career with non-league Blyth Spartans before signing for Manchester City in 1934. He joined Bristol City in 1936 without having made a first team appearance for Manchester City. He made 66 league appe...
Q14702748 Euderces proximus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Giesbert and Chemsak in 1997.
Q11409455 Fumihito Haraguchi (原口 文仁, Haraguchi Fumihito, born March 3, 1992 in Yorii, Saitama, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Hanshin Tigers.
Q28405825 Bradyrhizobium ingae is a bacterium from the genus of Bradyrhizobium which has been isolated from the nodules of the tree Inga laurina in Cerrado in Brazil.
Q28154514 Mejiro-no-Mori (目白の森, Mejiro-no-Mori) is a public wooded area in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Officially, it is not a public park, but a "forest for the residents of the ward" (区民の森 (Kumin-no-Mori)) as designated by Toshima Ward. It is open throughout the year.
Q28452854 The 2016 President's Cup (Maldives) Final was the 66th Final of the Maldives President's Cup.
Q38251769 The Winona and St. Peter Railroad Freight House is a former freight house in Winona, Minnesota, United States. Built from 1882 to 1883, it is the city's last surviving freight facility of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for havin...
Q5358589 In particle physics, the electroweak scale, also known as the Fermi scale, is the energy scale around 246 GeV, a typical energy of processes described by the electroweak theory. The particular number 246 GeV is taken to be the vacuum expectation value v = ( G ...
Q780548 The praetexta or fabula praetexta was a genre of Latin tragedy introduced at Rome by Gnaeus Naevius in the third century B.C. It dealt with historical Roman figures, in place of the conventional Greek myths. Subsequent writers of praetextae included Ennius, Pacuvius and Lucius Accius. The name refers to the tog...
Q1190748 Dalavaipatti is a census town in Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
Q928894 Publius Cornelius Scipio (b. 48 BC) was a Roman senator active during the Principate. He was consul in 16 BC as the colleague of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. Scipio was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio and Scribonia. He was elder brother to Cornelia Scipio and the elder half-brother to Julia the Elder, the d...
Q428620 Réaux is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Réaux-sur-Trèfle.
Q13062 Futrono (from the Mapudungun: Futronhue, meaning "place of smoke") is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Futrono. It is located in Ranco Province in Los Ríos Region, on the northwest shore of Ranco Lake.
Q355960 Sadou Hayatou (15 February 1942) is a Cameroonian politician. Hayatou served as the 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon from 26 April 1991 to 9 April 1992.
Q3813559 Calgary/Okotoks (Rowland Field) Aerodrome (TC LID: CRF4) is located 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) south of Calgary and about 1.6 NM (3.0 km; 1.8 mi) north of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada.
Q7105075 The Orto Botanico di Portici (20,000 m²), also known as the Orto Botanico della Facoltà di Agraria dell'Università di Napoli-Portici, is a botanical garden operated by the University of Naples Agriculture Department, and located at Via Università, 100 – 80055 Portici, Province of Naples, Campania, Italy. It is...
Q8007446 William D. Clay Jr. is currently a special adviser to the United Nations.Clay serves as a special adviser in the Division of Nutrition and Consumer Protection for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Clay, who resides in Rome, Italy, has visited and worked in more than 90 countries thro...
Q698602 Wanfang Community station is a station on Brown Line of the Taipei Metro, located in Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Q16427150 Radomirești is a commune in Olt County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Călinești, Crăciunei, Poiana and Radomirești.
Q3471977 Sandrine Martinet (born 10 November 1982), also known as Sandrine Aurières-Martinet, is a Paralympic judoka who won a gold medal for France at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She had also won a silver medal for France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. She had also won a silver four years earlier at the Athens Games...
Q4826435 Automated Weather Source (AWS) was a partnership and later a corporation founded in 1992 by James Michael “Mike” Bailey and Charles “Topper” Shutt of Montgomery County, Maryland, whose purpose was to create a network of weather stations located at public schools and recreational facilities throughout the Mid-...
Q3506796 Sydalen is a village in the municipality of Vågan in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the west coast of the island of Austvågøya, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the Gimsøystraumen Bridge on the European route E10 highway. The village of Gravermarka lies about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Syd...
Q5820434 Ahuiyeh (Persian: اهوييه‎, also Romanized as Āhū’īyeh) is a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 524, in 128 families.
Q23073800 Property Club is an Australian property investment club headquartered in Brisbane. Property Club provides members education on property investment through seminars, workshops, conferences and mentoring, as well as assisting members to source investment properties. Property Club provides members with a support...
Q23022960 John Christie has worked as both a visual artist and a broadcast film-maker over the years. As a maker of artists’ books since 1975, he has produced more than 20 limited editions for both the renowned Circle Press and his own imprint Objectif. He co-authored, with John Berger, the award-winning book I Send Yo...
Q27184951 Serpentine Dominion is an American death metal supergroup consisting of Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, Cannibal Corpse vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and former The Black Dahlia Murder drummer Shannon Lucas. They released their debut album on October 28, 2016.
Q18744997 Emmanuel Vermignon (born 20 January 1989 in Fort-de-France, Martinique) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Club Colonial in the Martinique Championnat National and internationally for Martinique.He made his debut for Martinique in 2010. He was in the Martinique Gold Cup squads for the ...
Q366601 RTV B92, or simply B92, is a Serbian news station and television and radio broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia.Founded in 1989 as radio station, it was a rare outlet for Western news and information in FR Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milošević, and was a force behind many demonstra...
Q885043 Raymond Earl Baldwin (August 31, 1893 – October 4, 1986) was a United States Senator, the 72nd and 74th Governor of Connecticut. Baldwin, a conservative Republican, was elected governor of Connecticut in 1938 during a Republican landslide. He promised a balanced budget, government aid to private business, and l...
Q4750174 An Ode To Life (Chinese: 三十风雨路) is a 40-episode blockbuster Chinese drama aired in Singapore. It was telecast in August 2004. The show is set in the 1970s and goes through history all the way to the modern days of the 2000s. The drama achieved the highest viewership rate in Year 2004 (17%) despite being broadc...
Q2183208 Spare Parts is the second studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, and the final one in the psychedelic vein. It is also the first in which the group's roadie Bob Young began writing and co-writing songs for and with the band.The album covers a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, "You're Jus...
Q7612183 Steven James "Steve" Centanni is a former American news reporter for Fox News Channel.
Q6555438 Lion Red is a New Zealand lager-style beer brewed by Lion Breweries in Auckland, part of Lion. The beer is 4.0% alcohol. Because of its relatively low alcohol content it is widely regarded as an excellent 'session' beer, that is, a beer that can be consumed freely over a long session of time without all the ad...
Q7239439 Precious Collection 1995–2002 is a singles collection released by Japanese dance unit, MAX. It was released on March 20, 2002 on the avex trax label. The album compiled all of the group's first 23 singles on a two disc set. Due to lead vocalist Mina's pending hiatus because of pregnancy, the album replaced the...
Q3735752 Eva-Riitta Siitonen (born May 31, 1940 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician. She represents the National Coalition Party.She was a member of the Finnish parliament between 1983 and 1989, Governor of the Province of Uusimaa between 1990 and 1996 and first female City Manager of Helsinki between 1996 and 2005.Sh...
Q6793805 Mauritius competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August in Berlin.
Q6965836 Naresha Malla (Nepali: नरेश मल्ल) (died 1644), often referred to as Naresh or Narindra, was a Malla Dynasty King of Bhaktapur, Nepal from 1637 to 1644. He was succeeded by his son Jagat Prakasha Malla in 1644.During Naresha's relatively short reign of seven years, he undertook renovation work in the Taleju tem...
Q5406643 Eudonia isophaea is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Q2496901 Unsere schönsten Jahre is a German television series.
Q8061395 Yunus Rahmatullah is a citizen of Pakistan arrested in Iraq by British forces in 2004 and then rendered to a US prison in Afghanistan where he was secretly held without charge or trial for at least seven years.The legal charity Reprieve said: "Rahmatullah had been unable to contact his family or a lawyer and w...
Q2607458 John Doe Amsterdam is a Dutch design and advertising company. John Doe was founded in 2001 by Diederiekje Bok and Hein Mevissen. John Doe created a few of the most successful virals for MTV in 2005 called Deutschland Liebt Günther and Das Ist So Togo in 2006. In 2007 they made a film called Rocket Bros for the...
Q16958239 Indonesia participated in the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Incheon, South Korea on 29 June – 6 July 2013.Indonesia sent 76 athletes which will compete in 6 sports.
Q17087020 The bill H.R. 3008, long title "To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in Los Padres National Forest in California, and for other purposes" is a bill that would authorize the exchange of 5 acres of land in the Los Padres National Forest for unspecified lands owned by th...
Q16971723 Boschetto v. Hansing, 539 F.3d 1011 (9th Cir. 2008) is a diversity jurisdiction case brought by California resident, Paul Boschetto ("Boschetto") against certain private corporations with their principal place of business in Wisconsin. The case involved the determination of the question whether the sale of a...
Q43302626 Michael Snyder may refer to:Michael Snyder (accountant) (born 1950), British businessman and politicianMichael James Snyder (1950–2018), American business executiveMichael P. Snyder (born 1955), American genomicist, systems biologist, and entrepreneur
Q19561458 T. P. McAuley was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897.
Q7592325 Kroer Church is a "long church" (Norwegian: langkirke) dating from 1925 in the Deanery of Søndre Follo in Ås, Akershus County, Norway. It is built of wood and can accommodate 120 people. It was designed by Harald Sund. There were three previous churches in Kroer before the present one was built. The earlier on...
Q6275380 Jonesboro High School is a public high school for students in grades 10 through 12 located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Jonesboro High School is one of eight public high schools in Craighead County and is the sole high school of the Jonesboro Public Schools. As of 2018, the principal is Dr. Shannon L...
Q1044567 Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon (24 October 1869, India – 24 October 1942, Tucson, Arizona) was an English literary critic. In 1913, she was appointed Hildred Carlisle Professor of English at the University of London and became head of the Department of English at Bedford College, London. She was the first w...
Q1101260 Sir Clifford Darling GCVO (6 February 1922 – 27 December 2011) was the fourth Governor-General of the Bahamas from 1992 until his retirement on 2 January 1995.
Q7064200 Route 327 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.It is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and connects Sydney at Trunk 4 with Gabarus.In Sydney it runs on "Alexandra Street." South of Exit 7 on Highway 125 it is known as the "Gabarus Highway."
Q1826427 In statistics, a random effects model, also called a variance components model, is a statistical model where the model parameters are random variables. It is a kind of hierarchical linear model, which assumes that the data being analysed are drawn from a hierarchy of different populations whose differences rel...
Q6216955 Johannes Roberts (born 24 May 1976) is a British film director, producer, and writer.
Q7492362 The Sheemore ambush was an ambush carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 4 March 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. It took place at Sheemore near Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim.The ambush was carried out by the IRA's South Leitrim Brigade on a British Army and Auxiliary Division convoy...
Q439806 Vera Viktorovna Timanova (18 February 1855 – 22 February 1942) was a Russian pianist. Vera Timanova was born into a well-to-do family in Ufa, where she spent her childhood. She showed musical aptitude at an early age, and at age six began taking piano instruction from local teachers, with her first public perfo...
Q6866123 The Ministry of Finance (Portuguese: Ministério das Finanças, MINFIN) is a cabinet-level ministry of the government of Angola. It traces it origin to 1976, and was created as a replacement for the Portuguese colonial-period Direcção dos Serviços de Fazenda e Contabilidade. The current Minister of Finance is Ar...
Q19665476 Ravi Bhatia (born 30 November 1988) is an Indian television actor. He is known for his portrayal of Salim in Zee TV's Jodha Akbar. He is from Rewalsar Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He is a vegetarian. He has studied in JNV Mandi (H.P). Yash Bhatia is his younger brother who is also a model.
Q4580913 The 1983 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Pat Dye, the team finished the season with an 11–1 record and won their first Southeastern Conference (SEC) title since 1957. The team was named national champion by NCAA-designated majo...
Q5433366 Family of Love is the second EP by American indie pop band Dom, released on August 9, 2011 by Astralwerks.
Q1978959 Diethyl succinate is the diethyl ester of succinate.
Q6803474 Meadville Medical Center Foundation was established on May 30, 1992 by Larry Yartz, Meadville Medical Center Foundation President/CEO, and Anthony Defail, Meadville Medical Center President/CEO. Located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the foundation serves the greater Crawford County community by raising funds in...
Q17051854 DataNeutrality.org is a New York-based non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating socially responsible data collection protocols for the Internet. The non-profit has a board of directors that consists of representatives from operators of websites and mobile apps, consumer advocates, and data colle...
Q19875426 Frank McDowell (born 19 March 1934) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Q508746 Jean Bogaerts (19 January 1925 – 28 January 2017) was a Belgian professional racing cyclist. He won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 1945 and 1951.
Q27921794 Stanley William Penn (born January 12, 1928, New York, NY) was an American journalist who spent much of his career at the Wall Street Journal. In 1967, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting.
Q1501117 The canton of Gray is an administrative division of the Haute-Saône department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Gray.It consists of the following communes:
Q18696718 The Kyrgyz Land Forces, also commonly known as the Kyrgyz Army is the infantry branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. The current commander of the Kyrgyz Army is Colonel Nurlan Kiresheyev.
Q6332463 KLCC Property Holdings Berhad (KLCCP; MYX: 5235SS) is a Malaysian property investment company which owns and manages office, retail and hotel properties in Kuala Lumpur, mainly in the KL City Centre area. Among the properties owned or managed by the company and its stapled real estate investment trust are the ...
Q3629998 Australia Felix (Latin for "fortunate Australia" or "happy Australia") was an early name given by Thomas Mitchell to lush pasture in parts of western Victoria he explored in 1836 on his third expedition.On this expedition Mitchell was instructed to travel to Menindee, then down the Darling River to the sea, if...
Q2778991 The chiesa di San Salvatore di Ognissanti or more simply chiesa di Ognissanti (Italian: [ˈkjɛːza di oɲɲisˈsanti; ˈkjeː-]; "Church of All Saints"), is a Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church wa...
Q627786 This is about the place. For the Lutheran clergyman see Johann Albrecht Bengel.Bengel is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Q5644916 Hamilton East is an inner suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district.
Q16949574 "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)" is a song written by Kristyn Osborn, Coley McCabe and Jason Deere, and recorded by American country music group SHeDAISY. It was released in September 2000 as the fourth single from their album The Whole SHeBANG.
Q5296781 The Donoho Creek Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in South Carolina. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.
Q8530306 Mount Haynes el. 8,218 feet (2,505 m) is a prominent peak adjacent to the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park. The peak was named by then Yellowstone superintendent Horace Albright to honor Frank Jay Haynes (1853–1921), the first official photographer of the park. Prior to being named Mount Haynes, th...
Q2392645 Tanja Becker-Bender (born February 11, 1978) is a German violinist. She was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and now lives in Berlin and Hamburg.
Q5063452 Cephalotes pinelii is a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes, characterized by an odd shaped head and the ability to "parachute" by steering their fall if they drop off of the tree they're on. Giving their name also as gliding ants.
Q4594767 The men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 5.
Q3901384 The 1993–94 NBA season was the 76ers 45th season in the National Basketball Association, and 31st season in Philadelphia. During the offseason, the Sixers signed free agent Orlando Woolridge and acquired Dana Barros from the Charlotte Hornets, who acquired him from the Seattle SuperSonics two days prior. Shaw...
Q14956825 Blaina and District Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Blaina a'r Cylch) was a community hospital in Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. It was managed by the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
Q16253316 Moms' Night Out is a 2014 American faith-based comedy film directed by the Erwin Brothers, and written by Jon Erwin and Andrea Gyertson Nasfell. The film stars Sarah Drew, Sean Astin, Patricia Heaton and Trace Adkins. The film was released on May 9, 2014, in 1,044 theaters.
Q19281628 Uros Babic is a Serbian rugby union player who currently plays for Rugby Club Pobednik.