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Q5273209 Richard Valentine Moore, (14 February 1916 – 25 April 2003), known as Dick Moore, was an officer of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who was awarded the George Cross for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he showed in rendering mines safe during the Blitz of 1940 despite having "no practical tr... |
Q7844746 Trkusów (German 1939-1945 Genzmühl) [ˈtrkusuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Skalmierzyce, within Ostrów Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Skalmierzyce, 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Ostrów Wielk... |
Q5646314 The Hampton Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Hampton Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 653 students a... |
Q7404273 Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilein) is a coastal village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, overlooking Salen Bay which is an inlet of the sea loch, Loch Sunart. Located in the Scottish council area of Highland, it is on the road to Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly point of mainland Britain. |
Q16826471 The Cheshire Mid by-election of 1873 was contested on 7 March 1873, due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, George Legh. It was won by the Conservative candidate Egerton Leigh. |
Q18124686 Russia competed at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12 and 17 August 2014. A delegation of 93 athletes were sent to represent the country. |
Q19872534 Armenia–Mexico relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Armenia and Mexico. |
Q20805322 The 1943 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football championship game. It was held during World War II and was contested between merged clubs. Norwood-North beat Port–Torrens 82 to 61. |
Q21622940 Rafael Almeida Soromenho (born 4 April 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Sporting Clube Farense B, as a midfielder. |
Q22097089 Vera Songwe is an Economist and Banking executive from Cameroon who has worked for the World Bank since 1998, and in 2015 became Western and Central Africa's regional director for the International Finance Corporation. Vera Songwe is the first woman to head the U.N.s Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at t... |
Q30704857 Darrell Jerome "D. J." Johnson Jr. (born October 8, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League. Standing at 2.06 m (6'9"), he plays the power forward and the Center positions. After playing five years of college basketball at Kansas State, Johnson en... |
Q26262031 Ioannis Kiriazis (Greek: Ιωάννης Κυριαζής; born 19 January 1996) is a Greek track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw.His personal best in the event is 88.01 metres set in Austin, Texas in 2017. |
Q1182530 Gilbertsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwest Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Douglass Township at the junction of Routes 73 and 100. The population was 4,832 at the 2010 census, and the ZIP code is 19525. The name is also applied to an indeterminate adjacent s... |
Q223696 The Škoda Octavia is a small family car produced by the Czech manufacturer Škoda Auto since 1996. It shares its name with an earlier model produced between 1959 and 1971. Three generations of the modern-era Octavia model have been introduced to date, delivered with five-door liftback saloon or five-door estate ... |
Q3524922 Thomas Blackwell the younger (4 August 1701 – 6 March 1757) was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment." |
Q146846 Zangberg is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany. |
Q2005961 Jan Peka (July 27, 1894 – January 21, 1985) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics, the 1928 Winter Olympics, and at the 1936 Winter Olympics.Born in Rataje nad Sázavou, Austria-Hungary, Peka fought in the First World War and was captured, becoming a prisoner of war in Gr... |
Q5488004 Frank Long was a trackcutter and prospector. In 1882 he discovered the Zeehan-Dundas silver-lead field on the West Coast of Tasmania.He had been part of Charles Sprent's Mount Heemskirk expedition in 1876 – and was known as a hardy and strong bushman.He was Tasmanian – having been born to ex-convicts in Launce... |
Q6021280 Indian Prairie Township is located in Wayne County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 626 and it contained 268 housing units. |
Q2220650 Noble Township is one of sixteen townships in Cass County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 367. |
Q3405800 Llyn Eiddwen Welsh pronunciation is a lake and site of special scientific interest near Trefenter in Ceredigion, Wales. It is the source of the River Aeron.This natural lake provides an environment to preserve rare local water-plant life and seasonal animals. It is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust of S... |
Q1209740 Richard Otis "Dick" Meredith (born December 22, 1932 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American ice hockey player. He won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics. |
Q7030870 Nidom [ˈnidɔm] (German: Niederau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czerniejewo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Czerniejewo, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Gniezno, and 43 km (27 mi) east of the r... |
Q1581117 Jennifer Kaye Ringley (born August 10, 1976) is an Internet personality and former lifecaster. She is known for creating the popular website JenniCam. Previously, live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at coffee pots. Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view ... |
Q7534720 Sketch is the second album by Miami Beach-based indie rock band Ex Norwegian. It was self-produced and originally self-released in June 2010. On November 15, 2011, it was released by Dying Van Gogh Records with the song Girl WIth The Moustache replacing Tired Of Dancing. The album reached #87 on the CMJ chart... |
Q634079 Stefanos Paparounas (Greek: Στέφανος Παπαρούνας, born 22 January 1990 in Trikala) is a Greek diver. He competed in the 3 m springboard event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. |
Q2319903 Ciglenik is a village in municipality of Oriovac in the central part of Brod-Posavina County. |
Q18127701 MAK College of Pharmacy (MAKP) is an Indian private non-minority technical institute located in Telangana, India, affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH), India. It is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and registered by Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) |
Q18161544 Acinos troodi, Troödos rock thyme is a perennial spawling herb with a woody rootstock and reddish-green 5–20 cm long hairy shoots. Leaves opposite, simple, obscurely dentate, broadly ovate, 2-7 x 2–8 mm, petiolate, thinly hairy. Flowers in congested verticillasters, corolla bifid, pink or purple, much longer ... |
Q14845865 Ancylistes lacteomaculatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957. |
Q30325347 Mary Lawson (August 15, 1924 – September 6, 1997) was an American backup outfielder and right handed hitter who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia.Lawson spent her only season in the league as a member of the Peoria Redwings during its inaugural se... |
Q4583713 Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels. |
Q3335210 Nain or Naina (Inuit: Nunajnguk) is the northernmost permanent settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located about 370 kilometres (230 mi) by air from Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The town was established as a Moravian mission in 1771 by Jens Haven and other missionaries. As of 2011, the... |
Q3892207 The Kami are an ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. In 2000 the Kami population was estimated to be 16,411 [1].The Kami language is a Bantu language, sharing substantial lexical similarities with Kutu, Kwere, Zaramo, Doe, and Luguru. |
Q1155688 Thesaban (Thai: เทศบาล, RTGS: thetsaban, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.bāːn]) are the municipalities of Thailand. There are three levels of municipalities: city, town, and sub-district. Bangkok and Pattaya are special municipal entities not included in the thesaban system.The municipalities assume some of the responsib... |
Q4786598 Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again is a 1990 American live-action made-for-television comedy film based on comic book characters published by Archie Comics. It was produced by DiC Entertainment and premiered on NBC Sunday Night at the Movies on May 6, 1990. It was shown in Britain as Weekend Reunion. |
Q4664961 Tomopterna milletihorsini (common name: Mali screeching frog) is a species of frog in the Pyxicephalidae family. It is endemic to Mali where it is known from near Bamako (its type locality) and Nara. This species was transferred from Arthroleptis to Tomopterna in 2008, the old placement still being reflected i... |
Q5464740 Sideroxylon stevensonii is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is found in Belize and Guatemala.The faisán or pheasant zapote is a large tree of the Mopan river region of Belize. It is used primarily for lumber. Latex from this tree is used regionally as a substitute for gum. The chewy fruits are... |
Q1603015 Valencina de la Concepción is a town located in the province of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Valencina is an interesting tourist destination, as it is a charming Andalusian town just 6 km from the sights and tourist attractions of Seville. Valencina de la Concepcion dates back to 2500BC when archaeological remai... |
Q6544969 Life Showcase TV was a British television channel owned and operated by Life TV Media, the second television channel from the company after Life TV. With Life 24, the company merged its channels into Life One on 20 August 2007. The Channel Four Television Corporation brought its three Sky Digital EPG slots and... |
Q3768117 Giovanni Scuderi (born 24 May 1935 in Avola) is an Italian politician and General Secretary of the Italian Marxist–Leninist Party, established by him and others on 10 April 1977 in Florence. |
Q516332 Gregorio "Goyo" Manzano Ballesteros (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡɾeˈɣoɾjo manˈθano]; born 11 March 1956) is a Spanish football manager. |
Q2381520 Yannis Kyriakides (Greek: Γιάννης Κυριακίδης, born 1 August 1969) is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music. He has focused in the majority of his work on wa... |
Q3737037 The South American Basketball Championship 1961 was the 18th edition of this regional tournament. It was held from April 20 to April 30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eight teams competed. |
Q3391964 The Solucar Complex is a complex in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain, used primarily for solar power developments.The complex includes:PS10 Solar Power PlantPS20 Solar Power PlantSolnova Solar Power Station |
Q5281626 Discolized is the debut album from the Danish House DJ and producer Kato in collaboration with a number of DJs and vocal artists. The album was co-produced by Kato and Ahmad Darwich. Discolized was released on 1 March 2010 reaching No. 6 on the Danish Albums Chart. The album was reissued on 4 April 2011 under ... |
Q7421360 Sar Hadd (Persian: سرحد, also Romanized as Sar Ḩadd and Sarḩad; also known as Sarḩad-e Bālā) is a village in Alqurat Rural District, in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 173, in 47 families. |
Q26261864 The Bayer designation Omega Cygni (ω Cyg / ω Cygni) is shared by two star systems, in the constellation Cygnus:ω¹ Cygniω² Cygni |
Q6844679 Miguel Mir Rodon (born 18 April 1956) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. |
Q7339354 Road Maps And Heart Attacks is the debut studio album from rock band This Time Next Year. It was released on October 20, 2009 through Equal Vision Records. The album was produced by Brian McTernan, who worked with The Movielife. On April 7, 2010, it was announced the band made Road Maps and Heart Attacks avail... |
Q20648644 WTSQ-LP (88.1 FM) is a Freeform community radio station in Charleston, West Virginia, that specializes in alternative and indie rock programmed by its disc jockeys. Its broadcasting license is owned by Masque Informed, an independent 501(c)(3) organization. There are weekly programs dedicated to other musical... |
Q1506343 Motala ström is the river system that drains lake Vättern, the second largest lake in Sweden, into the Baltic Sea in Norrköping. It is named from the city Motala where it begins. In the early 19th century, the Göta Canal was constructed in parallel with Motala ström. |
Q839512 Mammary intercourse is a sex act, performed as either foreplay or as non-penetrative sex, that involves the stimulation of a man's penis by a woman's breasts and vice versa. It involves placing the penis between a woman's breasts and moving the penis up and down to simulate sexual penetration and to create sexu... |
Q412907 Vinclozolin (trade names Ronilan, Curalan, Vorlan, Touche) is a common dicarboximide fungicide used to control diseases, such as blights, rots and molds in vineyards, and on fruits and vegetables such as raspberries, lettuce, kiwi, snap beans, and onions. It is also used on turf on golf courses. Two common fung... |
Q8002972 Will Meugniot is an American writer, storyboard and comics artist, film producer and director. He is known for his work on animated shows in the 1990s and 2000s. |
Q5049919 The Tiburon paintbrush or Tiburon Indian paintbrush (Castilleja neglecta syn. for Castilleja affinis subsp. neglecta) is an endangered taxon of flowering plant in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae. It is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the United States, where it occurs in Marin, Napa,... |
Q2999324 The 1977 Memorial Cup occurred May 8–14 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was the 59th annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey Leagu... |
Q2310651 Spilomelinae is a very large subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. They were formerly included in the Pyraustinae as tribe Spilomelini; furthermore taxonomists' opinions differ as to the correct placement of the Crambidae, some authorities treating them as a subfamily (Crambi... |
Q7191015 The Pico Pan de Azúcar, at 4680 meters above sea level, is the ninth highest mountain of Venezuela, and the third highest of the Sierra de la Culata range in the Mérida State. Its name, which translates as "Bread of Sugar", is due to the sandy slopes of the mountain, which resembles "Pan dulce", a kind of brea... |
Q281048 Eduard Franz (born Eduard Franz Schmidt; October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1983) was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story ... |
Q16257261 Cock-a-Doodle Dandy is a 1949 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey.Regarded by O'Casey as his best play, this is a darkly comic fantasy in which a magic cockerel appears in the parish of Nyadnanave and forces the characters to make choices about the way they live their lives. It is a parable of mid-century Ir... |
Q6415032 Kirchol [ˈkirxɔl] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Zagórów, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.The settlement has a population of 4. |
Q4373199 Port Moller Airport (IATA: PML, ICAO: PAAL, FAA LID: 1AK3) is a publicly owned, private-use airport located 87 nautical miles (161 km; 100 mi) northeast of the central business district of Cold Bay, in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the U.S. Department of the Interior, B... |
Q6202870 Jinxian South railway station is a railway station of Hangchangkun Passenger Railway located in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China. |
Q5096555 Chicoreus territus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q7404541 Ch. Salilyn's Condor (born October 5, 1987) also known as Robert, was an English Springer Spaniel, best known for being Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in Feb. 1993. He was the first Westminster winner to sire another, when his daughter Ch. Salilyn 'N Erin's Shameless won Best in Show in 2... |
Q11158392 Fakhri 'Abd al-Nur (15 June 1881 - 9 December 1942) was a Coptic Egyptian politician. |
Q13543991 Naulakha is a major village in Fatehgarh Sahib District, in the Indian state of Punjab.It is situated on Sirhind-Patiala road, 13 km from Sirhind and 19 km from Patiala. It is a historic village. Guru Tegh Bahadur ji, the ninth guru of Sikhs, and Mata Gujri ji are two of the most well-known visitors. Today, G... |
Q19666594 Juan de Mancicidor (died before 30 May 1618) was secretary of state and war to the Archduke Albert from 1596 to his death in 1618.Mancicidor served in Madrid under Philip II's secretary of state, Juan de Idiáquez. When Archduke Albert was sent to the Low Countries as Governor General in 1596, he accompanied h... |
Q20983005 This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of archaeological materials (考古資料, rekishi shiryō) for the Prefecture of Wakayama. |
Q14665095 Nearcticorpus is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies. |
Q1826605 Love Songs is an English language compilation of mainly love songs by Julio Iglesias released in 2004. It contains his greatest English language hit - his duet with Willie Nelson on "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" which reached the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. It also features a duet with Dolly Parton ... |
Q5581708 Gong Xiantian (Chinese: 巩献田; Pinyin: Gŏng Xiàntián; born November, 1944) is a professor of jurisprudence at Beijing University Law School. In 2005, he openly challenged the constitutionality of the draft of the Property Law.His challenge was considered a reason for delaying the submission of the draft to the ... |
Q7746279 The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class. The title character is a Harvard-educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston. It's an epistolary novel, made up mostly of letters to and from the title character.The book was acclaimed as the fir... |
Q5253534 C. Delbert Hosemann Jr. (born June 30, 1947) is the incumbent Secretary of State of Mississippi, serving since 2008. |
Q7956154 WWRE (105.1 FM) is a Classic Hits formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Bridgewater, Virginia, serving Harrisonburg/Staunton area. WWRE is owned and operated by Saga Communications, through licensee Tidewater Communications, LLC. |
Q1157678 Le Plessis-Dorin is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France. |
Q7844572 Triumph of Love (Italian: Il Trionfo dell'amore) is a 1938 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Paola Barbara. |
Q7323601 Richard A. Snyder (March 26, 1910 – June 17, 1992) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 13th district from 1961 to 1984. |
Q3628310 The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 4 & August 5. |
Q4725226 Ali Sleiman (Arabic: علي سليمان; born 28 March 1947) is a Lebanese fencer. He competed in four events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Q4779245 Apatsahayesvarar Temple, Alangudi or Guru Sthalam or Tiru Irum Poolai is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva located in the village of Alangudi in the Valangaiman taluk of Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Shiva is worshipped as Apathsahyesvarar, and is represented by the lingam. His consort Parvati i... |
Q4785785 The Archdeacon of Macclesfield is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Chester. As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within its six rural deaneries: Bowdon, Congleton, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Mottram Nantwich, Chadkirk, Cheadle and Stockport.The arch... |
Q6712158 M.C. Ahamed was a Sri Lankan politician, a former Member of Parliament for Kalmunai electorate and former chairman of Kalmunai town council. A close ally of the Late Srimavo Bandaranayake under the SLFP Government. He was a strong member of the SLFP. He didn’t care about race or religion, was a nationalist who... |
Q7157709 The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Peachtree Creek of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is listed separately. |
Q17421296 Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow (30 June 1876 – 20 December 1957) was Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps (1941–46) and an Honorary Surgeon to King George V. |
Q1094640 Cladiella is a genus of soft corals native to the Indo-Pacific region. These corals are commonly known as colt corals or finger leather corals and are often kept in reef aquaria. They grow fast, have short rounded or conical lobes and are sticky to the touch owing to the production of much mucus. They are cre... |
Q1487860 The 1980 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 30th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league. |
Q28172844 Warangal Police Commissionerate is a city police force with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the districts of Warangal Urban, Warangal Rural and Jangaon. |
Q4400208 Alexander Rusakov (born December 31, 1980) is a Russian trampoline gymnast who made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth position in the Men's Individual competition. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
Q17622564 The canton of Ifs is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Ifs. |
Q4437154 This is a list of topics that have, at one point or another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers. Discussion about these topics is done on their main pages. These characterizations were made in the context of educating the public about questionable or potentially fr... |
Q3179548 The 2001 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly active Atlantic hurricane season that produced 17 tropical cyclones, 15 named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. The season officially lasted from June 1, 2001, to November 30, 2001, dates which by convention limit the period of each year when tr... |
Q7552354 The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is an association of business journalists. Its headquarters is at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Ariz..The Society of American Business Editors and Writers, or SABEW, was formed in 1964... |
Q2997024 Corb Lund is a Western and country singer/songwriter from Taber, Alberta. He has released nine albums, three of which are certified gold. Lund tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia, and has received several awards in Canada and abroad. |
Q43469 Uyugan, officially the Municipality of Uyugan (Ivatan: Kavahayan nu Uyugan; Tagalog: Bayan ng Uyugan), is a municipality in the province of Batanes in the Cagayan Valley (Region II) of the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 1,297 people. |
Q439168 Salvador Puig Antich (Catalan pronunciation: [səlβə'ðo ˈpudʒ‿ənˈtik]; 1948–1974) was a Catalan militant anarchist whose unpopular execution under Francoist Spain made him a cause célèbre for Catalan autonomists, pro-independence supporters, and anarchists. After fighting the Spanish State with the Iberian Liber... |
Q6336565 KRCQ (102.3 FM, "Real Country 102") is a radio station broadcasting a classic country music format. The station is licensed to serve Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, United States. The station is currently owned by Leighton Broadcasting, and features "Real Country" syndicated programming from Citadel Media. |
Q912803 Ouallam is a department of the Tillabéri Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Oullam, which is designated an Urban Commune. The department also includes the Rural Communes of Simiri and Tondikiwindi, as well as the towns of Bani Bangou and Dingazi. As of 2011, the department had a total population ... |
Q6597921 This article lists the Speakers of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe and its historical antecedents: Southern Rhodesian House of Assembly 1923-1953, Federal Assembly 1953-1963, Southern Rhodesian House of Assembly 1963-1965, Rhodesian House of Assembly 1965-1979. |
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