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Q146563 Perspicaris is a fossil arthropod from the Cambrian period. It was 2–3 centimetres (0.8–1.2 in) long and bivalved. The valves, encasing the thorax, were joined together by a dorsal hinge.It is difficult to establish the lifestyle of Perspicaris. Its large eyes and other parts would suggest a swimming animal, yet it lacks claws, which seems to suggest a bottom feeder.Two species of Perspicaris are found in the famous Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. 202 specimens of Perspicaris are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.38% of the community. |
Q5312059 Dudleya lanceolata is a succulent plant known by the common name lanceleaf liveforever. This plant is native to the mountains of Southern California and Baja California, where it is found in rocky areas and slopes. |
Q7646191 Surgery is the third full-length album by American psychedelic rock band The Warlocks. It was released by major label Mute in 2005, and was produced by the high profile Tom Rothrock.The album also marks the first time the US and UK releases have featured identical track listings. |
Q5982019 John P. McKay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976, where he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of history. McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history.In 1970 McKay won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (1970). He has translated Jules Michelet's The People (1973) and has written Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (1976), as well as more than a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews. He contributed to Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997), edited by Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, as well as Europe, 1789-1914 (2006), edited by John Merriman and Jay Winters.Among other publications, McKay has written the textbooks A History of World Societies and A History of Western Society, both published in several editions. A History of Western Society is often used in Advanced Placement European History classes. |
Q6228204 John D. Jones (1849–1914) was a Minnesota politician and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.Jones was born in Pennsylvania. First elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1894, he served two terms, becoming speaker in 1897. In 1898, Jones successfully ran for a seat in the Minnesota Senate, where he served until 1902. |
Q7188796 Phyllodesmium guamense is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.The specific name guamense refers to the island of Guam, its type locality. |
Q6925728 Mountaintops is an album by Mates of State released through Barsuk on September 13, 2011. |
Q8049990 Yahuhiro Une is a paralympic athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T52 sprinting events.Yasuhiro competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics where he won gold in the 200m and silver in the 100m. |
Q3369700 Ellef Mohn (13 August 1894 – 4 January 1974) was a Norwegian footballer who played for the clubs Lyn (Gjøvik) and SK Frigg and the Norwegian national team. |
Q7269189 Quarrier is an unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along Cabin Creek.The community was named after the local Quarrier family. |
Q18161728 Dame Barbara Estelle Shenfield (née Farrow, later Mrs G I Lewis; 9 March 1919 – 17 June 2004) was a British academic and Liberal Party politician. She was Chair of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1986. |
Q21063196 Mark J. Millan is a neuroscientist specialising in the study and improved treatment of disorders of brain. He is currently the Director of Pharmacological Innovation for the Central Nervous System (CNS) at the Institute de Recherché de Servier (IDRS) in Paris, France. He is also the Secretary of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he is the son of former Scottish Labour Party Leader and European Commissioner, Bruce Millan, studied at Cambridge University and then spent ten years at the Max Planck Institut fur Psychiatrie, Munich, before moving to Paris. |
Q22087209 Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1936. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.Six of the thirty nine seats up for election were uncontested.After the election for the councillors and the aldermanic election (held on 9 November 1936), the composition of the council was: |
Q24988339 Amblin Television is the television production division of Amblin Partners. |
Q20728050 Mário Rogério Reis Micale (born 28 March 1969), known as Rogério Micale, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is a manager. |
Q29571616 Conor Russomanno is an entrepreneur, creative technologist, and lecturer, specializing in the development of advanced human-computer interfaces. He is the co-founder and CEO of OpenBCI, a company dedicated to open source innovation of brain-computer interface technologies. Conor is also a teacher, having taught graduate level courses at Parsons School of Design and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. |
Q6967 1819 (MDCCCXIX)was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1819th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 819th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1819, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. |
Q985210 Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail. Named after the nearby Victoria Street (not the Queen), the main line station is a terminus of the Brighton main line to Gatwick Airport and Brighton and the Chatham main line to Ramsgate and Dover via Chatham. From the main lines, trains can connect to the Catford Loop Line, Dartford Loop Line, and the Oxted line to East Grinstead and Uckfield. Southern operates most commuter and regional services to south London, Sussex and parts of east Surrey, while Southeastern operates trains to south east London and Kent. Gatwick Express trains run direct to Gatwick. The Underground station is on the Circle and District lines between Sloane Square and St. James's Park, and the Victoria line between Pimlico and Green Park. The area around the station is an important interchange for other forms of transport: a local bus station is in the forecourt and Victoria Coach Station is nearby.Victoria was built to serve both the Brighton and Chatham main lines, and has always had a "split" feel of being two separate stations. The Brighton station opened in 1860 with the Chatham station following two years later. It replaced a temporary terminus at Pimlico and construction involved building the Grosvenor Bridge over the River Thames. It became immediately popular as a London terminus, causing delays and requiring upgrades and rebuilding. It was well known for luxury Pullman train services and continental boat train trips and became a focal point for soldiers during World War I.Like other London termini, steam trains were phased out of Victoria by the 1960s, to be replaced by suburban electric and diesel multiple unit services. Despite the end of international services following the opening of the Channel Tunnel, Victoria still remains an important London station, and its Underground facilities, in particular, suffer from overcrowding. The Gatwick Express service provides easy access between Central London and Gatwick Airport for international travellers. |
Q493166 Stanwell Park is a picturesque coastal village and northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is the northernmost point of the Illawarra coastal strip and lies south of Sydney's Royal National Park. It is situated in a small valley between Bald Hill to the north, Stanwell Tops to the west and Mount Mitchell to the south. It has two lagoons from the village's two creeks, Stanwell and Hargrave Creeks and a beach running between headlands. Like other towns in the region the village is known colloquially known as TFOE, this is an acronym for the postcode (2508). |
Q477193 Sella Nevea (Friulian: Nevee, German: Neveasattel, Slovene: Na Žlebeh), at an altitude of 1,195 m (3,921 ft), is a high mountain pass in the Julian Alps, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy. Sella Nevea also lends its name to a frazione of the Chiusaforte municipality and the nearby Kanin-Sella Nevea Ski Resort. |
Q3509400 Ilawe Ekiti (also Ilawe or Ilawe-Ekiti) is a town in Ekiti State, Nigeria. In 1995, the population was around 179,900. Its geographic coordinates are 7° 35' 60 N and 5° 5' 60 E. |
Q13527986 For the similarly named hospital in Simcoe, Ontario, see Norfolk General Hospital.Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (SNGH) is a large academic hospital, which serves as the primary teaching institution for the adjacent Eastern Virginia Medical School. Located in Norfolk, Virginia, in the Ghent neighborhood and adjacent to Downtown, the hospital serves as the Hampton Roads region's only Level I trauma center. The hospital is interconnected to the Sentara Heart Hospital, however, it is considered a separate institution. Together with the adjacent Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School and the Norfolk Department of Health, the Eastern Virginia Medical Center is the largest conglomerate center for health in Hampton Roads. For a time, the U.S. News & World Report rated it the best in Virginia. In 2016, SNGH is tied with VCU Medical Center ranked as #2 while University of Virginia Health System ranked first. |
Q4800454 Arthur Thompson (15 June 1922 – July 1996) is a former professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town. He was born in Dewsbury. |
Q2018308 Mgr. Leo Soekoto, SJ (born in Jali, Gayamharjo, Prambanan, Sleman, October 23, 1920 - December 30, 1995) was Archbishop of Jakarta from August 15, 1970 to his death. He was appointed priest on August 22, 1953 at the age of 32 years.Soekoto died on Saturday, December 30, 1995 in RS St. Elisabeth, Semarang from cancer of the spinal cord, and was buried in the cemetery complex area Girisonta Retreat House, Central Java. |
Q5061641 North Pointe Community Church is an evangelical pentecostal church affiliated with Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The senior pastor is Mike Voll. |
Q6147609 Yukio Takeuchi (竹内 行夫, Takeuchi Yukio, born July 20, 1943) is a member of the Supreme Court of Japan. |
Q7955218 WLXF (105.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Macon, Georgia. |
Q5536786 George Bassett (1818–1886) was the founder in 1842 of Bassett's, a confectionery firm in Sheffield. The company (after his death) introduced Liquorice allsorts. He went on to become Mayor of Sheffield (1876). Whilst Mayor, he had US President Ulysses S. Grant as a house guest. He was born in Ashover, Derbyshire, and married as his first wife, Sarah Hodgson, they had six daughters. He married as his second wife, Sarah Ann Hague: they had two sons. He is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery..Bassett was the great-uncle of noted conservationist and countryside campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite (1894-1986). |
Q5592184 Graeme is an English-language surname. It is a habitational name, derived from Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. |
Q3297396 Mass Hysteria is a French heavy metal band formed in 1993 that released eight albums between 1997 and 2015. Their breakthrough came in 1999 with their second album Contraddiction. |
Q7823904 "Too Much" is a single by American rock band Cheap Trick, released as the third and final single from their 2003 album Special One. |
Q16865564 Choge is a surname of Kenyan origin that may refer to:Augustine Kiprono Choge (born 1987), Kenyan long onwealth Games championJulius Kirwa Choge (born 1978), Kenyan marathon runner and 2010 winner of the Marathon Oasis de Montreal |
Q18611377 "From The Doctor to my son Thomas" is a viral video recorded by actor Peter Capaldi and sent to Thomas Goodall, an autistic nine-year-old boy in England, to console the child over grief from the death of Goodall's grandmother. Capaldi filmed the 42-second video in character as the 12th incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who. Capaldi's message had a positive effect on Thomas; his father said that the boy smiled for the first time since learning of his grandmother's death, and gained the courage to go to her funeral.Thomas' father Ross Goodall posted the video to YouTube on 6 November 2014. He later explained to the media that he wanted to make the video available to his family and had no idea it would become popular online. CNN reported that after its appearance on YouTube, the video was viewed over 200,000 times in its first 48 hours online. This more than doubled the next day, and less than a week later it had over 900,000 total views. BBC News observed that Capaldi's message had become a viral video, and ITV News described response to the video as a global phenomenon.The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph called the recording by Capaldi a touching video to a young child suffering from grief. CNN and MTV characterised the video similarly, as did Spanish and Dutch media. The Independent wrote that Capaldi displayed a kinder face of his personality by sending the message. BT commented it was Capaldi's best contribution as the character of the Doctor to date. The video had a positive impact on those with mental health problems. Autism Daily Newscast reported favourably on the Doctor's actions. The Hollywood Reporter observed that as his character the Doctor, Capaldi was using his role to support mental health. Hollywood Life said their reporters were moved to tears after watching Capaldi's video. Peter Harness, writer of the episode "Kill the Moon", said that Capaldi's video was his favourite highlight from ten years of Doctor Who. |
Q20649596 This list charts the most successful Pakistani films screened at cinemas in Pakistan and overseas. Pakistani films generate income from several revenue streams including box office sales (admissions), theatrical exhibitions, television broadcast rights and merchandising. See List of highest-grossing films in Pakistan for domestic gross figures. |
Q19667883 Henry George Woods (16 June 1842 – 19 July 1915) was an Anglican clergyman and academic. He was President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1887 to 1897 and Master of the Temple from 1904 to 1915. |
Q1884763 Granite is a city in Grant County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The city had a population of 38 in 2010, up from 24 in 2000. In 2010, it was the fourth-smallest incorporated city by population in Oregon. The smaller cities were Shaniko (36 people), Lonerock (21), and nearby Greenhorn (0). |
Q525493 Dieburg is a small town in southern Hessen, Germany. It was formerly the seat of the district ("Kreis") of Dieburg, but is now part of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. |
Q2712936 Anglo-Saxon runes are runes used by the early Anglo-Saxons as an alphabet in their writing. The characters are known collectively as the futhorc (or fuþorc), from the Old English sound values of the first six runes. The futhorc was a development from the 24-character Elder Futhark. Since the futhorc runes are thought to have first been used in Frisia before the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, they have also been called Anglo-Frisian runes. They were likely used from the 5th century onward, recording Old English and Old Frisian.They were gradually supplanted in Anglo-Saxon England by the Old English Latin alphabet introduced by Irish missionaries. Futhorc runes were no longer in common use by the eleventh century, though manuscripts show that fairly accurate understanding of them persisted into at least the twelfth century. |
Q3751776 Ostorhinchus fleurieu (flower cardinalfish, gold cardinalfish, bullseye cardinalfish, cardinalfish, ring-tail cardinalfish or ringtailed cardinalfish) is a species of cardinalfish native to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, and the waters around East Africa, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan region, and Hong Kong., south to the Ashmore Reef, Western Australia. It is the type species of the genus Ostorhinchus. The specific name honours the French explorer and hydrogapher Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu (1738-1810) who was a of colleague and friend of Lacepède's. |
Q5760389 Hikari to Kage (光と影, "Light and Shadow") is Japanese singer songwriter Fayray's seventh studio album. The album was released on January 25, 2006.The total length of this album is 48:57, and it peaked at number 40. |
Q6602539 This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 470 of the United States Reports:United States v. Young, 470 U.S. 1 (1985)United States v. Dann, 470 U.S. 39 (1985)Shea v. Louisiana, 470 U.S. 51 (1985)Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985)United States v. Louisiana, 470 U.S. 93 (1985)Chemical Mfrs. Assn. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 470 U.S. 116 (1985)NAACP v. Hampton County Election Comm'n, 470 U.S. 166 (1985)Heckler v. Turner, 470 U.S. 184 (1985)Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd, 470 U.S. 213 (1985)County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., 470 U.S. 226 (1985)Supreme Court of N. H. v. Piper, 470 U.S. 274 (1985)Oregon v. Elstad, 470 U.S. 298 (1985)Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 470 U.S. 373 (1985)Air France v. Saks, 470 U.S. 392 (1985)St. Louis Southwestern R. Co. v. Dickerson, 470 U.S. 409 (1985) (per curiam)Herb's Welding, Inc. v. Gray, 470 U.S. 414 (1985)National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co., 470 U.S. 451 (1985)Federal Election Comm'n v. National Conservative Political Action Comm., 470 U.S. 480 (1985)United States v. Gagnon, 470 U.S. 522 (1985) (per curiam)Cleveland Bd. of Ed. v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532 (1985)Anderson v. Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564 (1985)First Nat. Bank of Atlanta v. Bartow County Bd. of Tax Assessors, 470 U.S. 583 (1985)Wayte v. United States, 470 U.S. 598 (1985)Bennett v. New Jersey, 470 U.S. 632 (1985)Bennett v. Kentucky Dept. of Ed., 470 U.S. 656 (1985)United States v. Sharpe, 470 U.S. 675 (1985)Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion, 470 U.S. 729 (1985)Winston v. Lee, 470 U.S. 753 (1985)Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management, 470 U.S. 768 (1985)Hayes v. Florida, 470 U.S. 811 (1985)Heckler v. Chaney, 470 U.S. 821 (1985)Ball v. United States, 470 U.S. 856 (1985)Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Ward, 470 U.S. 869 (1985)Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City v. National Gay Task Force, 470 U.S. 903 (1985) (per curiam)Fugate v. New Mexico, 470 U.S. 904 (1985) (per curiam) |
Q7997799 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality is a book by Dwight A. McBride on ethno-relational mores in contemporary gay African America with a nod to black, feminist and queer cultural contexts "dedicated to integrating sexuality and race into black and queer studies." |
Q1452541 Frederick Walker was a professional footballer. He played for Leeds City and Huddersfield Town. He was also first manager for Huddersfield Town and their only player-manager. He is the English footballer for Leeds and Huddersfield. |
Q217803 Méréville is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. |
Q332483 George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. Between 1987 and 2015, except for 2010–12, he was a Member of Parliament for four constituencies, firstly for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party. After becoming the youngest ever chair of the Scottish Labour Party in 1981, he was general secretary of the London-based charity War on Want from 1983 until elected as MP for Glasgow Hillhead (later Glasgow Kelvin) at the 1987 general election. In 2003, Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party for bringing the party into disrepute, including having called on Arabs to fight British troops.In 2004, he became a member of Respect–The Unity Coalition, later known as the Respect Party, becoming party leader by late 2013. Having decided not to seek re-election for Glasgow Kelvin, he stood for Respect in the 2005 general election for Bethnal Green and Bow, defeating the sitting Labour MP, Oona King, and served for one parliamentary term. He did not fight the 2010 General Election and returned to the House of Commons at the Bradford West by-election in 2012, but lost his seat at the 2015 general election. Galloway stood as a Respect candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, but lost to the Labour nominee, Sadiq Khan; finishing in seventh place with 1.4% of the vote. He stood as an independent for election to parliament in 2017, in the Manchester Gorton constituency, gaining 5.7% of the vote. Galloway was initially an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but has been accused by David Aaronovitch and Christopher Hitchens of supporting the Iraqi leader when it became Western policy not to, a charge he denies. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations' Oil for Food Program. Galloway supports the Palestinian side in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, opposes Zionism, and was involved in the Viva Palestina aid convoys.Galloway has supported Jeremy Corbyn since his election campaign and subsequent election victory in September 2015. In the 2016 EU membership referendum, he advocated a "Leave" vote, campaigning with the cross-party, pro-Brexit organisation Grassroots Out, while before the 2019 European Parliament election he announced on Twitter that, "for one-time only", he would support Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. |
Q4614118 The 2009 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team represented the University of Kentucky in the sport of baseball during the 2009 college baseball season. The Wildcats competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Cliff Hagan Stadium, on the university's Lexington, Kentucky campus. The team was coached by Gary Henderson, who was in his first season at Kentucky. |
Q4613024 The 2008–09 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Bo Ryan, coaching his eighth season with the Badgers. The team played its home games at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. |
Q7158863 Pectinivalva gilva is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is found along the south-eastern coast of New South Wales.The wingspan is about 5.7 mm for females.The larvae probably feed on Eucalyptus species. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant. |
Q6625190 The following is a list of leaders of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It lists heads of state, heads of government and heads of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply Russia, the Russian SFSR was a sovereign state in 1917–1922, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–1991, having its own legislation within the Union in 1990–91. |
Q122414 Peter Karl Henrici (13 September 1923 – 13 March 1987) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. |
Q16062885 Angelo Ribossi (1822-1886) was an Italian painter. |
Q20313066 Brigadier-General David Craig Aitchison is a Canadian military officer, who is currently serving as the Deputy Commander US Army Alaska. He is the former Director of Army Staff and Director of Infantry for the Canadian Forces, the former Commandant of the Infantry School, and the former Commander of the Combat Training Centre. BGen Aitchison holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick. a master's degree in Defence Studies from the Joint Command and Staff Program at the Canadian Forces College, as well as a master's degree in Military Art and Science from the United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Aitchison was initially promoted to Brigadier General, acting while so employed, while serving as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC-I). |
Q23137184 Lech Poznań is a Polish football club based in Poznań. This was their 93rd season overall. They competed in Ekstraklasa, the highest ranking league in Poland. |
Q920802 Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (1746-1779), was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV of France from 1762 to 1765. They had a son Benoît-Louis Le Duc (1764-1837). She reportedly amused the king with her frank ways. In contrast to most other mistresses of the king, she was not married afterwards, but lived as guest in a convent, and became known for her adventurous life style. |
Q42888082 Bristol Bruises Rugby League are a rugby league club based in Bristol who will compete in League 1 from 2019. |
Q1389033 George Hedley Swindin (4 December 1914 – 26 October 2005) was an English football player and manager.Playing as a goalkeeper, Swindin made more than 300 appearances in the Football League with Bradford City and Arsenal, where his 18-year career was interrupted by the Second World War. As manager, he led Peterborough United to three Midland League titles before spending a less successful spell with Arsenal. He also managed Norwich City and Cardiff City of the Football League and Kettering Town and Corby Town in non-league football. |
Q5325830 General Earl Edward Anderson (June 24, 1919 – November 12, 2015) was an American Marine Corps general. The youngest active duty Marine ever promoted to the rank of general and the first active duty Marine Naval Aviator to be promoted to a 4-star rank, became Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps on April 1, 1972. He was promoted to general on March 31, 1972. General Keith B. McCutcheon had been promoted to four-star rank the day of his retirement for medical reasons on July 1, 1971. During his 35-year Marine career, he has served in combat actions in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. |
Q139559 Nepenthes aristolochioides is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra, where it grows at elevations of 1800–2500 m above sea level. It has an extremely unusual pitcher morphology, having an almost vertical opening to its traps. It is critically endangered by overcollection.The specific epithet aristolochioides is formed from the genus name Aristolochia and the Latin ending -oides, meaning "resembling". It refers to the similarity that the pitchers of this species bear, in both shape and pigmentation, to the specialised flowers of Aristolochia. |
Q645181 The Lateran Obelisk is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Italy. It originally weighed 413 metric tons (455 tons), but after collapsing and being re-erected 4 meters (13 feet) shorter, now weighs around 300 metric tons (330 tons). It is located in Rome, in the square across from the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and the San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital. |
Q16073471 Angus 'Horrie' Mason (30 April 1903 – 23 August 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s.Originally from Tasmania where he had been a premiership player with North Hobart Football Club, Mason debuted for St Kilda in the 1922 VFL season. He was a wingman but towards the end of his career was used as a ruckman. In 1926 Mason tied with Harold Matthews for St Kilda's Best Player award and represented Victoria at interstate football for the first of six times. After leaving St Kilda he became the coach of Camberwell Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), and he was later named coach of the Camberwell Team of the Century. He also played for Kyneton. |
Q4910212 William Kirk Mohn (April 22, 1899 – 1952) was an American football player for the University of Notre Dame. He was born in South Bend, Indiana.In Knute Rockne's first year as the head football coach at Notre Dame in 1918, Mohn was the quarterback for a very thin squad that had been decimated due to the military enrollment for World War I. The team went 3-1-2 in a shortened season that was declared "unofficial" by the university. Among Mohn's career highlights were scoring the lone touchdown for the Irish in a 7-7 tie against Great Lakes Navy and a 73-yard punt return for a touchdown in a 26-6 win at Purdue. |
Q6366071 The Kaohsiung Astronomical Museum (Chinese: 高雄市立天文教育館; pinyin: Gāoxióng Shìlì Tiānwén Jiàoyùguǎn) is an astronomical museum in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The museum was established in 2000. |
Q5548060 The Georgian Troupe (Georgian: ქართული დასი, K’art’uli dasi) is a left-wing Georgian opposition political party with a strong nationalist component set up in January 2007 and chaired by Jondi Bagaturia, formerly a leading activist of the Georgian Labour Party. Bagaturia left the Labour Party following his disagreement with the party leader Shalva Natelashvili in December 2006. The party has promised to nationalize companies and property bought by foreigners. It has been part of the United Opposition alliance since November 2007. |
Q7361031 Second Chub Lake is a lake of Digby County, in Nova Scotia, Canada at an elevation of about 140 m. It is in the drainage basin of the Sissiboo River. |
Q7322441 A ribu is a mountain that reaches a topographic prominence of at least 1,000 metres (3,281 ft). "Ribu" is an Indonesian word meaning "thousand".In Indonesia and Malaysia, three categories of ribus are known according to the absolute height of the peak. The "Sangat Tinggi" (Indonesian for "very high") category is for peaks higher than 3000 meters, "Tinggi Sedang" (Indonesian for "medium height") for peaks between 2000 and 3000 meters, and "Kurang Tinggi" (Indonesian for "less high") for peaks with an elevation of between 1000 and 2000 meters. Currently, a total of 270 Ribus are known across the Indonesian archipelago, including those in Malaysia and East Timor. Some are popular hikes, such as Mount Rinjani, Mount Semeru, and Mount Kerinci, while others are much more obscure, and some do not even have official names.Some famous Indonesian mountains, such as Mount Bromo and Tangkuban Perahu, are not ribus because they are connected to higher peaks by high passes and therefore do not achieve enough topographic prominence. However, a subsidiary category of spesial (Indonesian for "special") peaks contains those deemed of such significant touristic interest that they merit inclusion, albeit subjectively, in a secondary list. At the moment, the Gunung Bagging website counts 115 Indonesian spesials.The list of the Indonesian ribus was compiled by Andy Dean and Daniel Patrick Quinn. As of October 2018, nobody is known to have completed the list.While the term "ribu" has been adopted to describe "mountains that exceed a prominence of 1000 meters" also outside Indonesia, the "spesial"-category remains acknowledged only there. |
Q3006665 Polemon gabonensis, or the Gaboon snake-eater, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae. It is endemic to Africa. |
Q5464000 Foel Goch may refer to:Foel Goch (Arenigs), a 611m mountain in north-east WalesFoel Goch (Hirnant), a 613m subsidiary summit of Esgeiriau GwynionFoel-goch, a mountain in Snowdonia, north-west Wales |
Q8015691 William George Mitchell (born 1925) is an English sculptor, artist and designer. He is best known for his large scale concrete murals and public works of art from the 1960s and 1970s. His work is often of an abstract or stylised nature with its roots in the traditions of craft and "buildability". His use of heavily modelled surfaces created a distinctive language for his predominantly concrete and glass reinforced concrete (GRC) sculptures. After long years of neglect, many of William Mitchell's remaining works in the United Kingdom are now being recognised for their artistic merit and contemporary historic value, and have been granted protective, listed status. |
Q2811531 The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1931 in Switzerland. |
Q5975195 The Licoreros de Pampero was a baseball club who played from 1955 through 1962 in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. The team joined the league as a replacement for the Patriotas de Venezuela and played its home games at the Estadio Universitario in Caracas. |
Q16851513 Candidatus Legionella jeonii is a candidatus bacterium from the genus Legionella. Previously known as X-bacterium, Candidatus Legionella jeonii grows symbiotically in Amoeba proteus. This endosymbiotic relationship was first noticed by Kwang Jeon in 1966.A more recent reference dropped "Candidatus" from its name. |
Q20996116 Dumm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Andrew Dumm (born 1985), American long-distance runnerEdwina Dumm (1893–1990), American writer and cartoonistGary Dumm, American comics artist |
Q20931751 Raudel Lazo Blanco (born April 12, 1989) is a Cuban professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins. |
Q22921223 Giselle Gómez Rolón (Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 30, 1988) is an Argentine model, showgirl and panelist. |
Q1931146 Michelle Kit Ying Chan (born 19 May 1987) is a New Zealand female badminton player. |
Q202677 Gazpacho (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaθˈpatʃo]; Andalusian: [ɡahˈpa(t)ʃo]) or Andalusian gazpacho is a cold soup made of raw, blended vegetables. A classic of Spanish cuisine, it originated in the southern region of Andalusia. Gazpacho is widely eaten in Spain and Portugal, particularly during hot summers, as it is refreshing and cool.There are other recipes called gazpacho, such as gazpacho manchego, which is very different from Andalusian gazpacho. There are also a number of dishes that are closely related to Andalusian gazpacho and often considered variants thereof, such as ajoblanco, salmorejo, pipirrana, porra antequerana (closer to a bread soup), cojondongo and Portuguese gaspacho (Portuguese: [ɡɐʃˈpaʃu]). |
Q381570 The Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), was the air force of the Royalist "Badoglio government" in southern Italy during the last years of World War II. The ACI was formed in southern Italy in October 1943 after the Italian Armistice in September. As by this point the Italians had defected from the Axis and had declared war on Germany, the ACI pilots flew for the Allies. |
Q5122963 CityLine is a Canadian talk show and lifestyle television program hosted by Tracy Moore produced for the Citytv network at flagship station CITY-DT. Each show has a theme that changes daily. These include "Around the House", "Family Day", "Home Day", and "Fashion Friday". It is Canada's longest running, daytime show specifically targeted to women. The show also airs on some television stations in the United States, such as syndication on ABC affiliate WMDTOriginally hosted by Dini Petty, the show was hosted by Marilyn Denis between September 1989 and May 23, 2008. Subsequent to Denis's departure to host The Marilyn Denis Show for CTV, a series of guest hosts were used, including Jessica Holmes, Jennifer Valentyne, Jody Vance, Liz West, Dina Pugliese, Christine Cardoso, Tracy Moore, Catherine Marion and Nalini Sharma. Moore was named the new permanent host in 2008.Prior to fall 2008, Cityline was aired live. However, Cityline is now taped in advance and then aired exactly a week from the date it was recorded. CityLine airs on all Citytv stations across Canada, and formerly also aired on the A-Channel network as well as BCTV and ATV, which was co-owned with City until it was sold. It is currently managed by Rogers Communications Inc. under their Rogers Media brand. |
Q1659385 The American Finance Association (AFA) is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939. Its main publication, the Journal of Finance, was first published in 1946. |
Q7561613 Songs of the Vilna Ghetto is a compilation LP record featuring twelve Yiddish songs from World War II era. The songs were composed by the inmates of the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust and are sung by Nechama Hendel, Chava Alberstein, and Shimon Israeli with accompaniment from the CBS Israel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Gil Aldema. The album contains an 8-page booklet with lyrics in the Hebrew language, photographs from the ghetto, and historical information about the songs in English. According to the liner notes, the recording "was prepared by the Yitzhak Kalznelson House of the Ghetto Fighters, at Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel, in co-operation with the Vilna Organisation [sic] of Haifa." |
Q1065894 Charles Haskell Revson (October 11, 1906 – August 24, 1975) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as a pioneering cosmetics industry executive who created and managed Revlon through five decades. |
Q5005669 Błądzim [ˈbwɔnd͡ʑim] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cekcyn, within Tuchola County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. |
Q3744716 "Fight the Blues" is Hikaru Utada's second Japanese digital single and 29th single overall. It was released on March 27, 2008 as a promotional single for her fifth Japanese studio album. "Fight the Blues" was tied-in as the CM song for the program 報道特集NEXT (News Report NEXT) for her Heart Station album. This digital single reached number one in virtually every online music store in Japan prior to the Heart Station album's release, including the most used store in Japan, iTunes Japan, as well as OnGen, among others. |
Q3841995 The Macchi M.8 was an Italian reconnaissance/bomber flying boat designed and built by Macchi. It was used by the Italian Naval Aviation and was later flown by crews from the United States Navy. |
Q950101 The Hutsul Republic was a short-lived state, formed in the aftermath of World War I. The republic was declared on January 8, 1919, when original plans to unite this area with the Western Ukrainian People's Republic failed and the territory was occupied by Hungarian police.The legislature of the Hutsul Republic was the 'Ukrainian People's Council' with 42 members, and its executive power (government) was the 'Council' with 12 members. |
Q7788451 Thomas Claughton (c. August 1773 – 8 March 1842) was a politician in England.He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1818 until 1825. His sons Thomas Legh Claughton and Piers Claughton became bishops in the Anglican Church (Thomas of Rochester then St Albans; Piers of St Helena then Colombo) while his grandson Gilbert Claughton (son of Thomas) was created a baronet in 1912. |
Q6295046 The Journal of Controlled Release is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal and the official journal of the Controlled Release Society. The journal covers research on the controlled release and delivery of drugs and other biologically active agents. Announcements and reports of future meetings pertaining to the activities of the Controlled Release Society are also included. |
Q7115819 Oxycanus hamatus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in New South Wales. |
Q4774858 Francis of Denmark (15 July 1497 – 1 April 1511), was a prince of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the youngest son of King John of Denmark and Christina of Saxony. |
Q7421694 Sara or Sarah Losh (1785–29 March 1853) was an English architect and designer. Her biographer describes her as antiquarian, architect and visionary. She was a landowner from Wreay, Cumbria, where her main work is to be found, St Mary's Church. It anticipates the Arts and Crafts Movement and forms part of a group with various associated buildings and monuments which Losh constructed. |
Q13466716 Chrysochlorosia callistia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Bolivia. |
Q24568154 Pang Xunqin (Chinese: 庞薰琹; 1906–1985) was a Chinese painter and teacher who, after studying in Paris, moved back to China and gave "traditional decoration art a modern context." Pang was also a co-founding member of the Storm Society, which aimed to bring a Parisian-style art world to China. He was greatly inspired by the French Art Nouveau movement. |
Q25136846 SWINE is a film written and directed by film-makers and campaigners Robbie Lockie and Damien Clarkson. The film is their first collaboration under the name Growing Box Co. and it has been commissioned by the charity Viva! (Viva! or Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals, is a British animal rights group) as part of their ongoing campaign 'FaceOff'. The film suggests we are sleepwalking into a superbug pandemic. The film will be released online on 7 July 2016 and there will be a London screening. |
Q25752116 Stuart Barns Carter (April 25. 1906 – June 12, 1983) was a Virginia lawyer, farmer and businessmen who also served as the Democratic legislator representing Botetourt and Craig Counties: first as a delegate in the Virginia General Assembly and later as a State Senator from the 20th District. A lifelong Democrat, Carter helped lead his party's progressive faction, particularly as they opposed the Byrd Organization's policy of Massive Resistance to racial integration in Virginia's public schools. |
Q4238575 Krasnoye (Russian: Красное) is a rural locality (a selo) in Assokolayskoye Rural Settlement of Teuchezhsky District, the Republic of Adygea, Russia. The population was 299 as of 2018. There are 8 streets. |
Q327646 Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1985 as a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. Before its bankruptcy on December 3, 2001, Enron employed approximately 29,000 staff and was a major electricity, natural gas, communications and pulp and paper company, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000. Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron's reported financial condition was sustained by institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal. Enron has since become a well-known example of willful corporate fraud and corruption. The scandal also brought into question the accounting practices and activities of many corporations in the United States and was a factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The scandal also affected the greater business world by causing the dissolution of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, which had been Enron's main auditor for years.Enron filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York in late 2001 and selected Weil, Gotshal & Manges as its bankruptcy counsel. It ended its bankruptcy during November 2004, pursuant to a court-approved plan of reorganization. A new board of directors changed the name of Enron to Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., and emphasized reorganizing and liquidating certain operations and assets of the pre-bankruptcy Enron. On September 7, 2006, Enron sold Prisma Energy International Inc., its last remaining business, to Ashmore Energy International Ltd. (now AEI). |
Q27995878 The Greatest Generation, also known as the G.I. Generation and the World War II generation, is the demographic cohort following the Lost Generation and preceding the Silent Generation. Demographers and researchers typically use the early 1900s as starting birth years and ending birth years in the mid to late 1920s. They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary participants in World War II. |
Q241968 Capena (until 1933 called Leprignano) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region (central Italy). The town has borrowed its modern name from a pre-Roman and Roman settlement that was 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to its north. |
Q17025879 The Toboggan Stakes, formerly the Toboggan Handicap, is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the first week of March at Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, New York. Open to horses aged three and older, the Grade III event is contested over at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt and offers a purse of $150,000 added.The 123rd running of The Toboggan Handicap was run in 2016. Before 1896, it was called the Toboggan Slide because it took place on the downhill Eclipse course at Morris Park Racecourse in the Bronx. The Toboggan Slide was not run in 1891 or 1895. The Toboggan Handicap was not run in 1911 and 1912.In 2015, it was run in early February.Since inception, the Toboggan Stakes has been contested at two different distances:6 furlongs : 1890-1993, 2005–present7 furlongs : 1995-2004,2018 |
Q508744 Blaibach is a municipality in the district of Cham in Bavaria in Germany. |
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