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Q830318 Barcones is a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 42.
Q3810295 Jojo Draven is an Indonesian-born American musician and film score composer. She is a cast member of the Blue Man Group. She has worked with illusionist Criss Angel as his sole musician in his touring show The Supernaturalists. She was also the guitarist for the Shrapnel Records/Geffen Records recording artist all-female heavy metal band Phantom Blue and was the co-founder and original member of the all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens.
Q8082871 Štefan Malík (born 11 February 1966 in Šurany, Nitra Region) is a retired male race walker from Slovakia, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country.
Q4922235 Black and White Farm Barn is a historic barn located near Sonyea in Livingston County, New York. It is a large two story wood frame building built in 1884 on a 600-acre (2.4 km2) farm. The barn is rectangular in plan and measures 160 feet (49 m) in length and 200 feet (61 m) in depth. It features a central courtyard which measures approximately 80 feet (24 m) in length and 120 feet (37 m) in depth.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Q7659744 Sydaphera is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Q6820602 Mersin station (Turkish: Mersin istasyonu) is the main railway station in the city of Mersin, Turkey. The station is located in the district of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.
Q5448510 Filip Racko (born July 20, 1985) is a Czech footballer who played in the First League for Banik Ostrava and 1. FC Slovácko.
Q5510684 Future Home Building was a television show in the early 1960s. The show was a public-access television show that was a do it yourself guide for home improvement. The home improvements in the show were based on the "futuristic" aesthetic trend in the 1960s.The show was a mere 8 episodes, but is remembered as being the original do it yourself home improvement show. It was broadcast out of Georgia and was produced by Johnny Nixon, from Birmingham, AL and hosted by Bobby Villa from Fort Payne, AL. A scandal was caused when the unedited version of the sixth episode was "accidentally" aired instead the final copy. A scene showed Bobby Villa in the heat of an argument with his right-hand man and former business partner Jorge Ramirez. Villa accused Ramirez of trying to impede his success and repeatedly stated that Ramirez was going to sabotage his television career. Things got even more heated when Villa referred to Ramirez as "Bean Burrito" for the duration of the episode.During the episodes following the "Bean Burrito" incident, Villa and Ramirez began to escalate the name calling and hostility. The words exchanged began as simple spiteful insults and eventually episodes were filled with racial slurs and profanity during the heated arguments. Public outrage began to mount as the episodes went on television profane and unedited. When interviewed by the local news team of WAGA-TV - Fox 5 Atlanta, Nixon (the producer also tasked with editing at the time) divulged that he had left the shows unedited on purpose. He was quoted as saying, "...Bob wanted out of his contract after an incident with Jorge, but we were required to shoot and air an entire 12 episode season. I owed Bob around $5,000 that I had spent on designer hallucinogenic drugs, and he told me that getting the show taken off the air would pay the debt back. So I thought that airing their arguments with all the swear words was the quickest way to get it taken down." Nixon is currently living in Birmingham and working with John Grisham on his account of the story tentatively titled, "The N-Word, LSD, and 8 Other Ways to Not Build a House on Public Access Television".
Q1657708 Ampampamena Airport (IATA: IVA, ICAO: FMNZ) is an airport serving Ambanja, Madagascar.
Q1283854 The 1975-76 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Agen beating Béziers in the final.
Q5857147 Zangi Choqa (Persian: زنگي چقا‎, also Romanized as Zangī Choqā) is a village in Dorudfaraman Rural District, in the Central District of Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 243, in 48 families.
Q15644504 Parabohaiornis is an extinct genus of bohaiornithid enantiornithean dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. It contains a single species, Parabohaiornis martini.
Q19867025 The 1934–35 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1934–35 season. Under the first year of head coach Tom Dowler, the team finished the season with a 10–5 record. This was the 30th season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe. William & Mary played the season as an independent.
Q24083859 Ben Crocker (born 19 February 1997) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).After captaining the Oakleigh Chargers to a premiership, Crocker was drafted by Collingwood with the 65th pick of the 2015 national draft.Crocker made his debut for Collingwood on 7 May 2016 against Carlton.He was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School.
Q20688554 The canton of Sainte-Maxime is an administrative division of the Var department, southeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Sainte-Maxime.It consists of the following communes:
Q7749202 Living Lutheran is the primary publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The editorial offices are at the Lutheran Center at 8765 West Higgins Road in suburban Chicago, Illinois with the denominational offices. While circulation fulfillment is done by Augsburg Fortress Publishers, the ELCA publishing house located on South Fifth Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all editorial, advertising, marketing and online functions are done in the Chicago offices. Originally historically titled The Lutheran with antecedents going back to the 1831, the magazine changed names in the 2010s.
Q676723 Silk is a film adaptation of Italian author Alessandro Baricco's novel of the same name. It was released in September 2007 through New Line Cinema and directed by The Red Violin director, François Girard.American actor Michael Pitt stars in the lead role of the French silkworm smuggler Hervé Joncour, with British actress Keira Knightley as his wife, Hélène, a teacher and keen gardener. Japanese actors Miki Nakatani and Kōji Yakusho are also featured. Exterior Japanese scenes were filmed in the city of Sakata. Knightley's scenes were filmed in Sermoneta, Italy, a small medieval village near Latina.
Q5091519 Chenoa is the debut album from Spanish artist Chenoa, recorded in Miami, Madrid, London, Bratislava and Milan at the months of March and April 2002, after she left the Operación Triunfo academy as the fourth finalist.The albums contains many genres and touches of different music styles including Pop, R&B, Latin, Dance and Fado in the Dulce Pontes' cover of "Cançao do Mar", titled in Spanish "Oye, Mar" ("Listen, Sea"). The album also contains two songs in English, "Love Story" and "Mystify"."Chenoa" sold over 500,000 copies in Spain after 61 weeks in Top 100 chart, and she was nominated for the Spanish music industry awards Premios Amigo as best female new artist, and best female artist. Year 2002 finished with a Spanish tour that included more than 70 dates.
Q6396817 Kevin M. Ross is the president of Lynn University. He became the institution's fifth president on July 1, 2006, succeeding his father, Donald E. Ross, who was president for 35 years. He is a founding board member of Boca Raton Educational Television, a member of the Board of Directors of Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, an Advisory Board member of Pope John Paul II High School and on the Lynn University Board of Trustees.Prior to his appointment as president, he was chief operating officer of the university while his dad was President of the University. During that time he initiated Lynn 2020, a 15-year plan for the future of the school.In October 2006, he announced the money for a formal inauguration would instead be spent on an Innovation Prize to fund projects benefiting the university.He has two children, Ainsley and Graham.
Q4634923 The 320th Missile Squadron is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 90th Operations Group, stationed at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. The 320 MS is equipped with the LGM-30G Minuteman III Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with a mission of nuclear deterrence.
Q6849835 Miki Igarashi (五十嵐 美紀, Igarashi Miki, born August 22, 1971 in Gunma, Japan) is a retired Japanese female long-distance runner. She represented Japan at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in 14th place in the women's 10,000 metres. She set her personal best (31.45.82) in the event in 1994.
Q1553435 Guiar is one of six parishes in Vegadeo, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.The parroquia is 5.55 km2 (2.14 sq mi) in size with a population of 44 (INE 2011).
Q4756072 Andrej Wiebauer is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed in the mid-2000s. He won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Zagreb.
Q3155496 Isodiametridae is a family of Acoela.
Q1557870 Vestfjarðagöng is the longest tunnel in Iceland, located in Westfjords in northwestern Iceland. It has a length of 9,113 m (29,898 ft) and was opened in September 1996.The tunnel has three entrances and the three arms meet at junction in the tunnel. The three arms are known as:Breiðadalur, 4,150 m (13,615 ft), which gives access to Flateyri and the south-western part of the Westfjords;Botnsdalur 2,907 m (9,537 ft), which gives access to the village of Suðureyri to the west, a dead end route;Tungudalur 2,103 m (6,900 ft), which gives access to Ísafjörður and the northern part of the Westfjords.Only the Tungudalur arm has two lanes throughout. Much of the rest of the tunnel has only one lane with passing places, with traffic light control to avoid collisions.The tunnel avoids the Breiðadalsheiði road pass, whose summit at 610m was formerly the highest pass in regular use in the Westfjords. It was frequently blocked by snow and prone to avalanches.
Q6921098 Mount Hayter is a peak in Antarctica, 2,690 metres (8,830 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) southeast of Laird Plateau on the west side of Olson Neve. It was seen by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1964–65) and named for Adrian Hayter, leader at Scott Base in 1965.
Q7017559 The 2012 Newcastle City Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Newcastle City Council in North East England. This was on the same day as other 2012 United Kingdom local elections.
Q16886529 Carrie Wheeler (born c. 1970) is an American businesswoman. She was a partner in the Texas Pacific Group from 1996 to 2017. She headed the firms retail investments and was the sole female partner when she left. From 1993 to 1996 she was an Analyst in the mergers and acquisitions department and the principal investment area at Goldman, Sachs.
Q16821175 The John and Susanna Ahlf House is a historic residence in Grants Pass, Oregon, United States. Built in 1902, it is the finest remaining example of the Queen Anne style in Grants Pass, and was the most prominent home in the city prior to World War I. It was built for John Ahlf (1856–1932), a German immigrant and meat packer who became one of the leading businessmen of the Rogue Valley.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Q16734731 Prince Saydee is a Liberian footballer who plays for Barrack Young Controllers FC.
Q18379752 Caio Rangel da Silva (born 16 January 1996) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Paraná as a right winger.
Q19818356 Rogers is an unincorporated community in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The community is on New Mexico State Road 235 6.8 miles (10.9 km) east-northeast of Dora. Rogers has a post office with ZIP code 88132.
Q20683780 The 2015–16 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team representsed Davidson College during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wildcats, led by 27th year head coach Bob McKillop, played their home games at the John M. Belk Arena and were second year members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Davidson finished the season with a record of 20–13, 10–8 record in A-10 play, finishing in sixth place. They lost to eventual tournament champion, Saint Joseph's, in the semifinals of the A-10 Tournament. They received an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to Florida State.
Q17744244 Mathern Mill, Mathern, Monmouthshire is a watermill dating from either the late 18th or early 19th centuries. It continued in use as a functioning mill until 1968. Retaining much of its 19th century mill workings, it is now open to the public on an occasional basis. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Q739510 Krečaves is a settlement (naselje) in the Sveti Ivan Zelina administrative territory of Zagreb County, Croatia. As of 2011 it had a population of 256 people.
Q108247 Dinant (French pronunciation: ​[di.nɑ̃]) is a Walloon city and municipality located on the River Meuse, in the Belgian province of Namur. It lies 90 kilometres (56 mi) south-east of Brussels, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south-east of Charleroi and 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Namur. Dinant is situated 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the border with France.The municipality includes the old communes of Anseremme, Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dréhance, Falmagne, Falmignoul, Foy-Notre-Dame, Furfooz, Lisogne, Sorinnes, and Thynes.
Q258081 The Continental System or Continental Blockade (known in French as Blocus continental) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. As a response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British government on 16 May 1806, Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on 21 November 1806, which brought into effect a large-scale embargo against British trade. The embargo was applied intermittently, ending on 11 April 1814 after Napoleon's first abdication. The blockade caused little economic damage to the UK, although British exports to the continent (as a proportion of the UK's total trade) dropped from 55% to 25% between 1802 and 1806. As Napoleon realized that extensive trade was going through Spain and Russia, he invaded those two countries. His forces were tied down in Spain—in which the Spanish War of Independence was occurring simultaneously—and suffered severely in, and ultimately retreated from, Russia in 1812.The Berlin Decree forbade the import of British goods into any European countries allied with or dependent upon France, and it installed the Continental System in Europe. All connections with Britain were to be cut, even the mail. British merchants smuggled in many goods and the Continental System was not a powerful weapon of economic war. There was some damage to British trade, especially in 1808 and 1812, but British control of the oceans led to replacement trade with North and South America, as well as large scale smuggling in Europe.The loss of Britain as a trading partner also hit the economies of France and its allies. Angry governments gained an incentive to ignore the Continental System, which led to the weakening of Napoleon's coalition.
Q6960145 Nakagawa Kiyohide (中川 清秀; 1542 – June 6, 1583) was a daimyō in Azuchi–Momoyama period. His childhood name was Nakagawa Toranosuke (中川 虎之助). His common name was Nakagawa Sebe (中川 瀬兵衛).
Q7412493 Samuel Jacob Rodman (born c. 1898, date of death unknown), was an American double-agent during World War II. Rodman was employed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and spied for the Soviet Union at the same time. Rodman was a member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and his previous occupations were teaching and journalism.Bernard Schuster was Rodman's contact with Soviet intelligence. Rodman was engaged in espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union while working in Yugoslavia for UNRRA.
Q7928401 Viera Scheibner (Slovak: Viera Scheibnerová; born 27 March 1935, Bratislava) is a Slovak-Australian anti-vaccination activist and retired micropaleontologist. From 1958 until 1968 she was assistant professor in the department of geology at Comenius University, Bratislava. Since her retirement from the Department of Mineral Resources, New South Wales, Australia in 1987, Scheibner has been active in the anti-vaccination field, writing and giving lectures opposing vaccines and vaccinations.A number of critics have questioned her qualifications, research abilities, and honesty.
Q2216684 Sam Winans is an American film and television composer. He studied music theory in college and privately with Merv Kennedy, a jazz musician, and then studied orchestration with Spud Murphy, creator of the Equal Interval System (EIS). His music has appeared on TV shows such as Lizzie McGuire, Harts of the West, Flight 29 Down, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, and Kids Incorporated, and the 1988 animated feature Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw.
Q5030047 The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) is a national non-profit organization that has been dedicated to advancing civil justice reform through research and advocacy since 1998. CFCJ strives to make the civil justice system more accessible, effective and sustainable by leading and participating in projects that place the citizen at the center of our civil justice system.CFCJ was established in response to recommendations presented in the Systems of Civil Justice Task Force Report released in 1996 by the Canadian Bar Association. This report sought to "develop strategies and mechanisms to facilitate modernization of the justice system so that it is better able to meet the current and future needs of Canadians."In 2011, CFCJ moved from the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta to York University where it is affiliated with Osgoode Hall Law School and the York Centre for Public Policy and Law.
Q7325941 Richard Girling is a British journalist and author, known for his writing on the environment.
Q16197541 Stefan Beese (born October 28, 1969) is a German production designer and architect. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1999, where he founded the firm Beesign in Los Angeles.
Q7378456 Rugby union in Saint Barthélemy is a minor, but growing sport.
Q6983929 Nea Dimmata (Greek: Νέα Δήμματα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northeast of Polis Chrysochous.
Q5415583 Evan Zimmermann is the President and CEO of Antiquorum, a Swiss auction house, established in 1974, that specializes in selling watches. In the 10 years that he has been leading Antiquorum, the auction house has experienced growth in its Auction sale from $37 million to $90 Million. During the same period that Antiquorum experiences this growth, it solidified its position as the largest watch auction house in the world.In 2008, Forbes recognized Mr. Zimmermann as an important collector of vintage Rolex sport watches.Under Mr. Zimmermann's management, Antiquorum sold Mahatma Gandhi's pocket watch for just under $2.1 million, Steve McQueen's Rolex Submariner for $234,000 (more than 20 times its estimate), setting a new world record for its reference, and Albert Einstein's Longines wristwatch for $596,000 (over 2000 percent of its estimate).
Q4610986 The 2008 FA Trophy Final was the 39th final of the Football Association's cup competition for levels 5–8 of the English football league system. It was contested by Ebbsfleet United and Torquay United on 10 May 2008 at Wembley Stadium in London.Ebbsfleet United won the match 1–0 to win the competition for the first time in their history.Martin Atkinson was the referee.
Q7100156 Orca Peak (54°16′S 36°32′W) is a peak, 395 m, standing west of Grytviken on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1930 British Admiralty chart. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Orca Peak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
Q426659 The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Germany, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Austria, Faroe Islands and Kazakhstan.The group winners, Germany, qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Sweden placed among the eight best runners-up and advanced to the play-offs, where they were drawn to play home-and-away matches against Portugal. However, they lost both matches and thus failed to qualify for the World Cup. Germany went on to win the tournament, defeating Argentina in the final.
Q210452 "One More Night" is a song performed by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The song was released on June 18, 2012, as the second single from their fourth studio album Overexposed (2012). It was written by Adam Levine, Shellback, Max Martin, and Savan Kotecha, while production was handled by Shellback and Martin. It is a reggae-influenced pop song. Lyrically, it talks about not getting along with someone and hoping he only stays with her just "one more night". It is built upon the idea that the heart, mind, and body usually want opposing things.The song received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Most of them complimented the reggae influence on the track, Levine's vocals and labeled it a "summer catchy song". However, some critics perceived a lack of identity and criticized the song's melody. "One More Night" spent nine consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has also been a success on the Australian Singles Chart and on the Canadian Hot 100, reaching number two and topping the New Zealand Singles Chart and the South Korean Gaon International Chart. "One More Night" has sold 6.9 million copies, becoming the 8th best selling song worldwide in 2012.A music video directed by Peter Berg, premiered on MTV on June 25, 2012. In the video, Levine becomes a boxer working to support his girlfriend and baby daughter. As he spends time training for a big fight, he struggles to stay close to his girlfriend while raising their child together. Though Levine appears determined, his girlfriend seems troubled by his bloody profession and lack of financial stability for their daughter and leaves him in the end. Maroon 5 performed "One More Night" for the first time on The Today Show concert series on June 29, 2012, also performing with the song on Late Show with David Letterman and the Overexposed Tour.
Q25114036 Maravich is a surname of Serbian origin.Notable people with the surname include:Pete Maravich, American basketball playerPress Maravich, American basketball player and coach
Q13839802 Mesepermenia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Epermeniidae described by Reinhard Gaedike in 2004. Its only species, Mesepermenia malgachica, was described by the same author in the same year. It is found on Madagascar.
Q20020108 Yul Anderson (born April 23) is an American pianist, guitarist, singer and inventor who plays a blend of gospel, blues and soul as well as European classical music of the 18th and 19th century.
Q24196909 Steven G. Farrell (born 1954 in Kenosha, Wisconsin) is the author of Mersey Boys, a novel, play and screenplay. The three books were published in 2013 by Celtic-Badger Publishers. Mersey Boys is about an American art professor, Al Moran, moving to Liverpool, England in 1959, where he encounters a rebellious student by the name of John Lennon. Moran and Lennon clash in the classroom and over Ginny Browne, a beautiful but independent woman. Gradually Lennon, Moran and Browne merge into a friendship that leads to the forming of the Beatles. The filming of Mersey Boys was announced by La Muse Venale Theatre in 2013 and was to be filmed exclusively in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island by director M. Stefan Strozier. Strozier struggled to complete the work and 58 minutes of the "Unfinished Mersey Boys Film" was put up on YouTube in March 2016 in three parts.Greenville Technical College did a stage reading on Mersey Boy in March 2016, starring Dan Robbins as Moran, Nick Heredia as Lennon and Erin Kathleen Shealy as Browne. Paddy Murphy and Celtic Badger of Limerick, Ireland agreed to be the filmmakers for Mersey Boys.In June 2017 Paddy Murphy, director of the film "The Three Don'ts," gave an interview to Crypt Magazine in which he announced his intention of working in collaboration with Farrell on the "Mersey Boys" project by the end of the year.Paddy Murphy and Barry Fahy of Celtic Badger Media Films announced the filming of "A Letter From Al Moran," based on the "Mersey Boys on a podcast from Limerick, Ireland on October 22, 2017. The two interviewed author Steven G. Farrell and actor Rachel Cobb. Farrell played the part of Gerard Moran and Cobb played the part of Moira Moran. They shot in Galway on October 21, 2017. Jessica Messenger, an English actor from Manchester, England, agreed to fly to Ireland to play the female lead of Ginny Browne. A cast and crew of fifteen people spent twelve hours shouting on October 28, 2017, including Messenger, Fiach Kunz as Professor Al Moran, Robert Bourke as John Lennon, Mikey Casey as Paul McCartney, Ben Collope as George Harrison, Rachel Cobb as Moira Moran, Grahan Gill as Squire Clancy, and Steven G. Farrell as Gerard Moran. "A Letter From Al Moran" will be entered into the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in France.
Q223274 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.
Q7227971 Ponsonby is an unincorporated rural community on Wellington County Road 7 in Centre Wellington township, Ontario, Canada.The Upper Grand District School Board maintains Ponsonby Public School on Wellington Road 7. Ponsonby Recreation Club hosts softball and fastball leagues at the Ponsonby ball diamonds on Second Line East near Ponsonby.
Q2334715 The first season of Law & Order premiered on NBC on September 13, 1990, and concluded on June 9, 1991.
Q2429181 Uttoxeter railway station pronounced (listen) in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, is served by trains on the Crewe-Derby Line, which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains.The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost, but there are no retail facilities at this station. It is closest railway station to Alton Towers, however there are no road transport options to the Theme Park, though a taxi rank exists just next to the station.
Q209667 Volver (Spanish pronunciation: [bolˈβeɾ], meaning "to go back") is a 2006 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast also starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends.The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995), where it features as a novel which is rejected for publication but is stolen to form the screenplay of a film named The Freezer. Drawing inspiration from the Italian neorealism of the late 1940s to early 1950s and the work of pioneering directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Volver addresses themes like sexual abuse, loneliness and death, mixing the genres of farce, tragedy, melodrama, and magic realism. Set in the La Mancha region, Almodovar's place of birth, the filmmaker cited his upbringing as a major influence on many aspects of the plot and the characters.Volver premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It received critical acclaim and ultimately won two awards at the festival, for Best Actress (shared by the six main actresses) and Best Screenplay. The film's Spanish premiere was held on 10 March 2006 in Puertollano, Spain, where the filming had taken place. Cruz was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Spanish woman ever to be nominated in that category.
Q10963586 Jeevan Naiya is a 1936 Hindi film directed by Franz Osten, and produced by Himanshu Rai for his studio Bombay Talkies. It is famous for being the screen debut early superstar Ashok Kumar. The film is about the ostracism of dancing girls. The film was one of several successful Bombay Talkies collaborations between Franz Osten, Himashu Rai, screenwriters J. S. Kashyap and Niranjan Pal, and their leading lady of the time, Devika Rani.It also featured the famous song Koi Humdum Na Raha, sung by Ashok Kumar, with music by Saraswati Devi and by Jamuna Swarup Kashyap (J. S. Kashyap), later sung by Kishore Kumar in the film Jhumroo (1961).
Q1377405 Ulrik Jansson (born 2 February 1968) is a former Swedish footballer.
Q7935916 Visakha Express is a 2008 Telugu action thriller film directed by Mullapudi Vara. The film stars Allari Naresh, Rajiv Kanakala, Preeti Jhangiani, and Sindhu Tolani. The basic plot of the story is taken from Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train (1951), which is about the two strangers and exchange of murders. It was dubbed in Hindi under the title Aur Ek Takkar (English: One More Clash).
Q5583378 The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association is America's largest association catering to street rods, custom cars and show cars. The Goodguys Association has over 70,000 active members worldwide. Goodguys stages 20 annual rod & custom car show events throughout the United States as well as vintage drag races.Founded by Gary and Marilyn Meadors, Goodguys corporate headquarters are in Pleasanton, California. Their son, Marc Meadors serves as company president. The largest event Goodguys produces annually is the PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio at the Ohio Expo Center. It attracts over 6,500 rods, customs, classics and street machines through 1972 vintage. The Goodguys Street Machine of the Year and the Goodguys Street Rod of the Year awards are presented at this event.
Q4731777 Allen Meadows is an American wine critic and publisher of the Burghound.com quarterly newsletter and website. He was a financial executive and private wine collector until a profile published in Wine Spectator in 1997 led him to decide to follow his passion for wine. By 2000, Meadows had left his role of CFO at a publicly traded insurance company and launched the Burghound.com site, which offers subscribers newsletters with reviews of Burgundy wine and California and Oregon Pinot noir wines. Meadows also regularly speaks on Burgundy and other wine subjects. Burghound.com also organizes wine events such as the Asia Symphony of Wine and Flavours - Burghound in Asia, which is held in Singapore.Within a relatively short time following its launch, and despite a relatively high cost of subscription, the service came to be viewed by many as "the definitive word on matters Burgundian", and Meadows "a leading Burgundy critic".Among the reasons cited for the success of Burghound.com are that Meadows already held a strong online discussion-group reputation, and that Robert Parker had ceased to cover Burgundy for The Wine Advocate in 1996, and delegated coverage of the region to Pierre Rovani with limited success, providing an opening for Meadows. As Parker already had strained relations with the Burgundy wine community, wine critics of global coverage such as Stephen Tanzer and Clive Coates were perceived to dominate the field. It has been suggested that the Burghound coverage of the 2005 vintage of Burgundy did as much to Meadows' reputation as 1982 Bordeaux did for Robert Parker.In 2010, Meadows and his wife Erica self-published a book entitled The Pearl of the Côte on the subject of the history and vineyards of Vosne-Romanée, while opting not to list the book on channels such as Amazon.com.
Q5550941 Gerlaw is an unincorporated community in Warren County, Illinois, United States. Gerlaw is 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northeast of Monmouth. Gerlaw had a post office, which closed on August 28, 2010.
Q14194 Lamandau Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Lamandau) is one of the thirteen regencies which comprise the Central Kalimantan Province on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. The town of Nanga Bulik is the capital of Lamandau Regency. The population of Lamandau Regency was 63,199 at the 2010 Census, but the latest official estimate (as at January 2014) is 67,672.
Q5077805 Charles François (born October 4, 1986) is a French Muay Thai kickboxer. He is the W.P.M.F. European Muaythai Champion and former W.P.M.F. World Muaythai Champion.
Q22096156 The Fairleigh Dickinson women's basketball team represents Fairleigh Dickinson University in Women's college basketball. Their colors are burgundy, white, and blue. This mid-major team competes in the Northeast Conference. The Knights host opponents in the Rothman Center, which can seat up to 6,000, in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Q16735102 Halli Reid is the first woman to swim across Lake Erie, which she accomplished in 1993 at the age of 24, swimming from Long Point, Ontario, to North East, Pennsylvania, in 17 hours. In acknowledgement of her accomplishment, a park in Freeport Beach, at the foot of Route 89 in North East Township in Pennsylvania, was renamed "Halli Reid Park" with a plaque designating it as such, and 9 August was designated "Halli Reid Day" by the mayor of North East, where Reid is from.Reid was inspired to reach her goal after seeing Bob North and Harvey Snell swim across Lake Erie four years earlier, and also hoped to become the first woman to finish the swim.
Q16058829 William Loch Heaphy (18 December 1888 – 21 May 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was from Tatura originally and went to Geelong College, but came to Essendon via West Melbourne, during the 1908 VFL season.
Q17045780 Sports Toto Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian company, which operates in the gambling sector.Founded and incorporated by the Malaysian Government in 1969, it was focused on the commercialisation of 4-Digits–based games. On 1 August 1985, the government in a non-tender privatisation, sold the company to businessman Vincent Tan who merged it into his Berjaya Group.Today, Sports Toto is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berjaya Sports Toto Berhad (MYX: 1562), which is listed on the main market of Bursa Malaysia. It claims to be the largest operator in Malaysia of 4D-based games, with 680 sales outlets offering a total of 7 games.
Q4159752 Kabibulla Kabenovich Dzhakupov (born 16 September 1949) is a Kazakhstani politician and civil engineer. He served as Chairman of the Mazhilis from 3 April 2014 to 25 March 2016. He has served as a member of the Mazhilis since 2007.
Q15399659 Corymbia novoguinensis is a member of the Corymbia genus native to the Queensland.The tree is found in far north Queensland and in the south of Papua New Guinea.
Q43081727 The 1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 9–1 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 268 to 30. The Cyclones won their first four games by a combined score of 194 to 0, and their only loss was to Minnesota by a 22-4 score. R. E. Jeanson was the team captain.Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as "New State Field".
Q381010 Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson (6 January 1493 – 19 April 1552), better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri (or less commonly, Olavus Petri), was a clergyman, writer, judge and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri (Lars Persson), became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden.
Q1287014 Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and movie appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science fiction series Lost in Space. Near the end of his career, he provided voices for the animated features A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2.
Q1122663 Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands. It lies 575 kilometres (357 mi) east of Pitcairn Island, and 300 kilometres (190 mi) east of Henderson Island, and has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), which includes the lagoon. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, measured northeast to southwest, and about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. The island is composed of four islets: Acadia, Pandora, Westward and Edwards.Despite its sparse vegetation, the atoll is known as the breeding ground of a number of bird species. More than 90% of the world population of Murphy's petrel nests on Ducie, while pairs of red-tailed tropicbirds and fairy terns make around 1% of the world population for each species.Ducie was first discovered in 1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, who named it Luna Puesta, and rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of HMS Pandora, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of HMS Bounty. He named the island Ducie in honour of Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie. In 1867, it was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act, but the United Kingdom annexed it on 19 December 1902 as part of the Pitcairn Islands. Due to its inaccessibility and the distance from Pitcairn Island, Ducie is rarely visited today.
Q2166120 Corey Glover (born November 6, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Living Colour and has toured as the vocalist for the funk band Galactic. As an actor, he played Francis in the 1986 war movie Platoon.
Q610870 António Ferreira (1528 – 29 November 1569) was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in Portuguese, and the second in modern European literature.
Q1701784 Sir John Smith Flett (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish physician and geologist.
Q4881254 Beilschmiedia lumutensis is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.
Q7409792 Samuel Julius Lilly IV (born February 12, 1965) is a former professional American football defensive back in the National Football League. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1989–1990), the San Diego Chargers (1990), and the Los Angeles Rams (1991–1992). He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team.
Q4620072 Xalxal (also, Xal-xal and Khalkhal) is a village and municipality in the Babek Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 19 km in the north from the district center, on the left bank of the Nakhchivanchay River, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with gardening, grain-growing, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 568.
Q7661749 Sympis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.
Q5111181 Christine Idris Smith (13 December 1946 – 8 May 1979) was an Australian alpine skier. She has been described as a "long-haired blonde with an 'all-Australian girl next door' image."Born in Cooma, Smith learned to ski at an early age. She was a "stylish and aggressive skier" who competed in the 1962 Commonwealth Winter Games and won the Thredbo Cup in Australia in 1963–64. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, Smith came 27th out of 43 in the downhill. She also came 28th and last in the slalom and was disqualified in the giant slalom. Her performances were affected by the death of a fellow competitor Ross Milne.In 1965, while recuperating from a ski accident in Europe, she was enlisted to teach The Beatles to ski for their film Help!, and performed in the movie in a short skiing sequence. Smith competed in the World Ski Championships in Chile in 1966, and taught skiing at Thredbo and other venues before establishing an interior design business in 1974. In 1977 she married Wayne Arthur Garland.In 1979, Smith committed suicide by swallowing chloral hydrate and paracetamol with salicylic acid.
Q2074465 Leib Glantz (Yiddish: לייב גלאנץ‎; June 1, 1898 - January 27, 1964) was a Ukrainian-born lyrical tenor cantor (chazzan), Composer, Musicologist of Jewish music, Writer, Educator and Zionist leader.He was born in 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His father and both grandfathers were important cantors with Chassidic backgrounds. Leibele, as he was fondly nicknamed, was eight years old when he first appeared as a cantor in Kiev. Word spread swiftly about the child prodigy, and he was engaged to appear in concerts all over Europe. In his teens he organized and conducted a large choir in his father's Talner Chassidic synagogue.Glantz studied piano with the Ukrainian pianist and composer, Nikolai Tutkovski, and later graduated in piano and composition under composer Reinhold Gliere at the Kiev Music Conservatory. In those years Glantz traveled numerous times as a delegate to congresses of the He'Chalutz movement and to World Zionist Congresses. He also assumed the position of chief editor of the Labor Zionist newspaper Ard Un Arbeit.In July 1926, due to his intensive Zionist activism, and the growing antagonism towards the Jews by the Romanian regime in Bessarabia, Glantz left Eastern Europe. His plan was to immigrate to Palestine, which was then governed by the British, in order to join those of his Zionist friends who had already immigrated to Israel. However, he first traveled to the United States to record with RCA his compositions Shema Yisrael and Tal. He was invited to appear in New York, made a great impression and was offered a prestigious position as chief cantor of the Ohev Shalom synagogue in New York. In America Glantz continued to develop his musical education, under the guidance of professor Aspinol, the vocal teacher of the opera singers Enrico Caruso and Benjamino Gigli.In 1929 he made a series of LP recordings at RCA included Shema Yisrael, Tefilat Tal, Shomer Yisrael, Kol Adoshem, Lechu Neranena, Birkat Kohanim, Ki Ke'Shimcha, Ki Hineh Ka'Chomer and Ein Ke'Erkecha.Glantz's appeared in concert tours all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, South Africa, and Palestine.In 1936 Glantz married Miriam Lipton. They had two sons, Kalman and Ezra [Jerry].In 1941, the family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Glantz served as Chief Cantor of Sinai Temple, and from 1949 to 1954 at the Sha'arei Te'filah synagogue. He was also professor of Jewish Music at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.In 1948 he lectured before the delegates of the First Annual Conference of the Cantors Assembly of America on the subject: How the different Jewish Nuschaot (Prayer modes) were created.He articulated his musical theories in a famous lecture to the delegates of the 5th Convention of the Cantors Assembly in 1952—a lecture that created serious debate, as his ideas were considered a new path toward the analysis of the ancient Jewish prayer modes, the Nusach. In general, his research and theories established a historical continuity of Jewish music from its beginnings in the Holy Temples of Jerusalem. Glantz theorized that many centuries ago the Jewish people transformed certain Greek scales and modes, in the process creating original Jewish combinations. These became the foundations for the Cantillation of the Torah (Ta'ameiHa'Mikrah) and the Jewish prayer modes (Nusach Ha'Tefila).Glantz continued to be active in the Zionist movement as one of its outstanding leaders. He was nominated to be a delegate at no less than eleven World Zionist Congresses from 1921 till 1961—the last two as a delegate representing Israel. Glantz lived in Israel for the last ten years of his life (1954–1964). Many of his most important compositions were composed in this period of his life. In total, Leib Glantz composed 215 compositions of Cantorial, Chassidic and Israeli music.In addition to his cantorial career, Glantz appeared in leading tenor roles in, among others, Alan Hovhaness' "Shepherd of Israel", Jacques Halevy's "La Juive", and Joseph Tal's "Saul at Ein Dor".In 1959 Glantz founded the Tel Aviv Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music, and an academic level conservatory for training cantors—the Cantors Academy (Ha'Akademia Le'Chazanut). He was also a founding member of AKUM, The Israel Music Institute, The Israel Composers' League, and was a member of the editorial board of "Bat Kol."Following Glantz's death on January 27, 1964, while in concert in Tel Aviv, the Tel Aviv Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music was transformed into the publishing organ of Leib Glantz's musical compositions, as well as his research and literary work. This body, in conjunction with the Israel Music Institute, has published seven books of Glantz's musical compositions, as well as the Hebrew book "Zeharim – In Memory of Leib Glantz."In 2008, his son, Dr. Jerry Glantz, published a new book (in English): Leib Glantz — "The Man Who Spoke To God." This book includes two compact discs with Leib Glantz singing 30 of his important compositions.
Q5216289 Daniel Jacobus "Danie" Erasmus (11 December 1899– c. 1975) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Erasmus, a wing, was born in Pretoria and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.
Q4895691 Karl Bertil Karlsson (19 September 1919 – 31 December 2012) was a Swedish athlete who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He finished 13th in the men's 10,000 metres event and was eliminated in the heats of the men's 5000 metres. He was the Swedish champion in the 4,000 metre cross-country in 1949, the 5000 metre distance in 1950, and the 10,000 metre distance in 1952.
Q16960477 George Wada (和田 丈嗣, Wada Jōji, born 1978) is a Japanese anime producer at Production I.G and the president of IG Port subsidiary Wit Studio. He is known for his work on the series Guilty Crown, Attack on Titan, and Psycho Pass.
Q19570508 This is a list of Brazilian television related events from 2006.
Q19805803 Selk'nam mythology is the body of myths of the Selk'nam and Haush people, Tierra del Fuego.
Q4448948 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Revda (Russian: БК «Темп-СУМЗ-УГМК Ревда») is a basketball team of the second-tier Russian Super League based in Revda, Russia. The club was founded on the basis of the Temp sports complex and the Middle-Uralian Copper-Smelting Plant (Среднеуральский медеплавильный завод).
Q20384826 A list of films produced in Egypt in 1968. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films.
Q4318808 Nyzhnie Lozove (Ukrainian: Нижнє Лозове; Russian: Нижнее Лозовое) is a village in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 61.8 km NE from the centre of Donetsk city.The settlement was taken under control of pro-Russian forces during the War in Donbass, that started in 2014.
Q1152931 DECnet is a suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation. Originally released in 1975 in order to connect two PDP-11 minicomputers, it evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus transforming DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s. Initially built with three layers, it later (1982) evolved into a seven-layer OSI-compliant networking protocol.DECnet was built right into the DEC flagship operating system VMS since its inception. Later Digital ported it to Ultrix, as well as Apple Macintosh and IBM PC running variants of DOS and Microsoft Windows under the name DEC Pathworks, allowing these systems to connect to DECnet networks of VAX machines as terminal nodes.While the DECnet protocols were designed entirely by Digital Equipment Corporation, DECnet Phase II (and later) were open standards with published specifications, and several implementations were developed outside DEC, including ones for FreeBSD and Linux. DECnet code in the Linux kernel was marked as orphaned on February 18, 2010.
Q367272 Montreal Forum (French: Le Forum de Montréal) was an indoor arena located facing Cabot Square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Called "the most storied building in hockey history" by Sporting News, it was the home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996. The Forum was built by the Canadian Arena Company in 159 days.Located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West (Metro Atwater), the building was historically significant as it was home to 24 Stanley Cup championships (22 of the Canadiens and two of the Montreal Maroons, for whom the arena was originally built). It was also home to the Montreal Roadrunners and Montreal Junior Canadiens.
Q2290501 Chalatenango (known as "Chalate" by locals) is a town and municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department.
Q6476655 Lake Local Schools is a school district located in Stark County, Ohio, United States. As its name implies, it serves most of Lake Township, although it also extends slightly into Suffield Township in Portage County.The schools in this district include: Lake High School, Lake Middle School, Lake Elementary, Hartville Elementary, and Uniontown Elementary. The superintendent of the Lake Local School District is Kevin Tobin.
Q1002522 California's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.John Garamendi, a Democrat, has represented the district since January 2013.Currently, the 3rd district generally encompasses areas north and west of Sacramento. It consists of Colusa, Sutter, and Yuba counties plus portions of Glenn, Lake, Sacramento, Solano, and Yolo counties.Prior to redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission of 2011, the 3rd district consisted of Alpine, Amador, and Calaveras counties plus portions of Sacramento and Solano counties.