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Q1359450 Barr & Stroud Limited was a pioneering Glasgow optical engineering firm. They played a leading role in the development of modern optics, including rangefinders, for the Royal Navy and for other branches of British Armed Forces during the 20th century. There was a non-military arm of the company which made medical equipment, like photocoagulators and electronic filters, some of which were used by the BBC. The company and its intellectual property passed through Pilkington group to Thales Optronics. The Barr and Stroud name was sold on to an importer of optical equipment who use the trademarked name for a line of binoculars and similar instruments.
Q7636423 Sullivan Ridge (84°47′S 177°5′E) is a massive ridge, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, displaying a steep, irregular east slope overlooking Ramsey Glacier and a low gradient, ice-covered west slope overlooking Muck Glacier. The ridge extends generally north from Husky Heights and terminates at the confluence of Muck and Ramsey Glaciers. Discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Walter S. Sullivan of the New York Times staff, who has written extensively on Antarctic research and exploration. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Sullivan Ridge" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
Q7610940 Stevens, Shanks & Sons Ltd. was an English type foundry formed in 1933 by the merger of the Figgins Foundry with P. M. Shanks (Patent Type Foundry) to form Stevens, Shanks. Sometime after 1971 the foundry ceased operations and all materials (including Figgins' punches and matrices) went to St. Bride's Printing Library.
Q7399654 Sahithya Jagannathan is a sports presenter, VJ, anchor, columnist, model, actress and beauty pageant winner of the Vivel Miss Chennai competition in 2009.
Q16887607 Jesús Alexander Aguilar (born June 30, 1990) is a Venezuelan professional baseball first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2014 with the Cleveland Indians. Aguilar was an All-Star in 2018.
Q6479480 Lakhajirajsinhji II (17 December 1885 – 2 February 1930) was the ruler of the Indian princely state of Rajkot from April 1890 until his death, holding the title Thakore Saheb. He came to the throne at the age of four, following the death of his father and his three older brothers. However, he did not govern in his own right until the age of 21, in 1907. Lakhajirajsinhji became one of the most progressive princely state rulers, introducing some of the first democratic institutions in India. He also fostered a culture of openness and intellectualism that laid the foundation for Rajkot as a centre of the Indian independence movement.
Q12242889 The Freedom Theatre (Arabic: مسرح الحرية) is a Palestinian community-based theatre and cultural center in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern part of the West Bank. Established in 2006, the theatre aims to generate cultural resistance through the fields of popular culture and art as a catalyst for social change in the occupied Palestinian territories. The theatre’s goals are to "develop a vibrant and creative artistic community [that] empowers children and young adults to express themselves freely and equally through art [while] emphasizing professionalism and innovation." The theatre teaches courses in film, photography, creative writing, and theatre.
Q19839804 776 Naval Air Squadron (776 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
Q14826589 Mesosa irrorata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1939. It is known from China.
Q2582295 Abrayevo (Russian: Абраево, Bashkir: Абрай) is a rural locality (a village) in Chuvalkipovsky Selsoviet of Chishminsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 320 as of 2010. There are 5 streets.
Q1948170 Kirby is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 493 at the 2010 census.
Q3249878 In English, the word like has a very flexible range of uses, ranging from conventional to non-standard. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, filler, and quotative.
Q2526468 Vincennes University (VU) is a public university with its main campus in Vincennes, Indiana. Founded in 1801 as Jefferson Academy, VU is the oldest public institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory and in Indiana. VU was chartered in 1806 as the Indiana Territory's four-year university and remained the state of Indiana's sole publicly funded four-year university until the establishment of Indiana University in 1820. In 1889, VU was chartered by the State of Indiana as a two-year university. From 1999 to 2005, Vincennes University was in a state-mandated partnership with what became the Ivy Tech Community College. In 2005, VU began offering baccalaureate degrees.VU's campus in Vincennes is a residential campus nestled along the banks of the Wabash River. Other VU sites include a campus in Jasper, Indiana, the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics in Fort Branch, Indiana, along with centers for Aviation, Logistics, Advanced Manufacturing, and American Sign Language, in the Indianapolis area.
Q531847 The Potez 630 and its derivatives were a family of twin-engined aircraft developed for the French Air Force in the late 1930s. The design was a contemporary of the British Bristol Blenheim (which was larger and designed purely as a bomber) and the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 (which was designed purely as a fighter).The Potez 630 was in use by several operators during the Second World War. Following the Battle of France, both the Vichy French Air Force and Free French Air Forces used the type; a number of captured aircraft were operated by several air wings of the Axis powers. After the end of the conflict in 1945, a handful of aircraft were used for training purposes for some time.
Q967078 Howard Scott (April 1, 1890 – January 1, 1970) was an American engineer and founder of the Technocracy movement. He formed the Technical Alliance and Technocracy Incorporated.
Q1010000 Catrine is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which was formerly a centre of cotton manufacture.
Q7648128 Susan Lynn Hefle (October 23, 1959 - August 30, 2006) was an American food scientist who specialized in food allergens, specifically their detection and safety. Hefle was also a cyclist and a cyclist judge.
Q1336532 Marek Čech (born 8 April 1976) is a Czech football goalkeeper who last played for Delhi Dynamos.
Q7964036 Walter Joseph "Moose" Moryn (April 12, 1926 – July 21, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Moryn's professional baseball career began in 1948 after he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. He played in the Majors from 1954 through 1961 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. He stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 205 pounds (93 kg), batted left-handed and threw right-handed.Moryn appeared in 785 games played over eight big-league seasons, collecting 667 hits, with 116 doubles, 16 triples and 101 home runs. He had 354 runs batted in, and batted .266. He spent four successive seasons (1956–59) as a regular outfielder for the Cubs, the first two as a right fielder and the latter pair as a left fielder, and he swatted 82 of his career homers during that period.Moryn's career highlight was a dramatic shoe-string catch on the last out of the May 15, 1960, no-hitter by Don Cardwell of the Cubs. Cardwell's gem came in his Cubs debut after being acquired in a trade. Moryn himself was traded exactly a month later, at the trading deadline, when he was sent to the Cardinals. He was a member of the National League team for the 25th anniversary 1958 All-Star Game, but did not play in the game.Moryn died of a heart attack in Winfield, Illinois, at the age of 70, and is buried in Assumption Cemetery in Wheaton.
Q6616501 This page lists diplomatic missions resident in Norway. At present, the capital city of Oslo hosts 70 embassies. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited to Norway, with most being resident in Stockholm, Copenhagen and London.
Q3038028 Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (born February 12, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He also writes political commentary, such as "The Flapjack File", a column for The New Republic.McGrath was nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA award for his Bullets over Broadway screenplay. He was twice nominated for a Writers Guild of America award, in 1995 for Bullets over Broadway, and in 1997 for Emma.McGrath is the son of Beatrice and R. Searle McGrath, an independent oil producer from Midland, Texas. He is an alumnus of Trinity School of Midland, The Choate School, and Princeton University. At Princeton, he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and joined its board of directors after graduation. In 1995, McGrath married Jane Read Martin, a former assistant of Woody Allen's and sister of author Ann M. Martin. She and McGrath have a son named Henry.
Q7086478 Olewin [ɔˈlɛvin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wieluń, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Wieluń and 84 km (52 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
Q3801245 Bērzpils parish (Latvian: Bērzpils pagasts) is an administrative unit of the Balvi Municipality, Latvia.
Q7108862 Otites michiganus is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Otites of the family Ulidiidae.
Q6391961 The Kent Women cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English county of Kent. They play in Division One of the Women's County Championship, which they have won a record eight times, most recently in 2019. The team is a part of Kent County Cricket Club, one of the 18 first-class cricket counties.As of 2019 the team is based for most home matches at the County Cricket Ground, Beckenham. The team also plays occasional matches at the St Lawrence Ground and at the Polo Farm in Canterbury, a ground also used by Kent men's Second XI and Academy sides.Canterbury Christ Church University are the team's official sponsors.
Q7426493 Satsukino Station (さつき野駅, Satsukino-eki) is a train station in Akiha-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
Q16067075 William Ruff (30 January 1883 – 18 August 1943) was a British wrestler. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Q18151652 The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in the U.S. state of Maine.
Q22278030 Jane Grimwood is a British microbiologist who later moved to the United States, settling in the state of Alabama.
Q18602819 Luis Alegre Zahonero (born 16 March 1977) is a Spanish philosopher and writer, a professor in the Complutense University of Madrid, and a founding member of Podemos.
Q1771302 Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Originally a humorist focused on life in Chicago, he authored Boss, a scathing negative biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1971. He was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Q937075 Rhythm changes are a common 32-bar chord progression in jazz, originating as the chord progression for George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". The progression is in AABA form, with each A section based on repetitions of the ubiquitous I–vi–ii–V sequence (or variants such as iii–vi–ii–V), and the B section using a circle of fifths sequence based on III7–VI7–II7–V7, a progression which is sometimes given passing chords. This pattern, "one of the most common vehicles for improvisation," forms the basis of countless (usually uptempo) jazz compositions and was popular with swing-era and bebop musicians. For example, it is the basis of "Shoeshine Boy" (Lester Young's 1936 breakout recording with Count Basie) and Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" as well as Charlie Christian's "Seven Come Eleven," Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts," and Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-a-Ning". The earliest known use of rhythm changes was by Sidney Bechet in his September 15, 1932 recording of "Shag" with his "New Orleans Feetwarmers" group.
Q1609757 Juan Victor Séjour Marcou et Ferrand (2 June 1817 – 20 September 1874) was an American expatriate writer who worked in France. Though mostly unknown to later American writers, his short story "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") is the earliest known work of fiction by a Creole author.
Q5340871 Education Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. V c. 39), often known as the Fisher Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was drawn up by H. A. L. Fisher. Herbert Lewis, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, also played a key role in drawing up the Act. Note that the "Education Act 1918" applied to England and Wales, whereas a separate "Education (Scotland) Act 1918" applied for Scotland.This raised the school leaving age to fourteen and planned to expand tertiary education. Other features of the 1918 Education Act included the provision of ancillary services (medical inspection, nursery schools, centres for pupils with special needs, etc.).By the 1920s, the education of young children was of growing interest and concern to politicians, as well as to educationalists. As a result of this rising level of public debate, the Government of the day referred a number of topics for enquiry to the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education, then chaired by Sir William Henry Hadow. Altogether the Hadow Committee published three very important reports – 1926, 1931 and 1933.These reports led to major changes in the structure of primary education. In particular, they resulted in separate and distinctive educational practice for children aged 5–7 (infants) and those aged 7–11 (juniors).The Reports recommended child centred approaches and class sizes of no more than thirty. These recommendations marked a triumph of 'progressive' educational thought and practice over the more 'traditional' ideas and proved to be popular with many policy makers and teachers alike.
Q7723162 The City Academy Bristol is a mixed gender secondary school with Academy status, located in the Easton area of Bristol, England.
Q488243 Ewha Womans University Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 2. As its name indicates, it serves the nearby Ewha Womans University, although Sinchon Station on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line is closer to the school. Although technically the station has one island platform with both rail tracks running on opposite sides, the two boarding areas with screen doors are essentially blocked off from each other, and are connected only by a few long and narrow passageways. Some people mistake this station to have two side platforms that are adjacent to each other.Nearby Shopping AreaAs many schools and residential buildings are close to Ewha Woman's University Station, there are many shops selling clothes at relatively low price. The main street selling clothes is named Ewhayeodae 5-gil.
Q915979 Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company (a.k.a. Lockheed Shipbuilding), was a shipyard in Seattle, Washington on Harbor Island at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Founded in 1898 as the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, the company that built Harbor Island, it was purchased by Lockheed in 1959. The shipyard was permanently closed in 1988.The Lockheed Shipyard Operable Unit consisted of an 18-acre (73,000 m2) shipyard facility located on the west side of Harbor Island at 2929 16th Avenue Southwest. The Lockheed Shipyard was a shipbuilding facility from the 1930s until 1988. It was bounded on the north by Southwest Lander Street, on the east by 16th Avenue Southwest, on the south by the Fisher Mill property, and the west by the West Waterway of the Duwamish River.In the 1960's the shipyard built several of the initial ferries after the formation of the Alaska Marine Highway.Lockheed constructed several Knox-class frigates for the United States Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These ships included USS Rathburne, USS Reasoner, USS Stein, USS Bagley, and USS Robert E. Peary.Beginning in the mid-1960s and extending into 1971, Lockheed built and delivered seven landing platform dockships (LPDs) of the Cleveland and Trenton classes for the US Navy. These were USS Denver, USS Juneau, USS Coronado, USS Shreveport, USS Nashville, USS Trenton, and USS Ponce.Between 1971 and 1977, Lockheed built two Polar-class icebreakers for the US Coast Guard.Lockheed won the largest shipbuilding contract in its history in 1974, when the US Navy ordered two submarine tenders to support the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. A subsequent order announced with launch of the lead ship, USS Emory S. Land in 1977, added a third ship to the class. Emory S. Land and USS Frank Cable joined the fleet in 1979, with USS McKee joining in 1981.In 1978, Lockheed won the contract to construct USS Whidbey Island, an amphibious support transport ship. Lockheed delivered the Whidbey Island-class ships USS Germantown and USS Fort McHenry in 1986 and 1987 respectively.
Q7986229 West Pittsburg is a census-designated place in southern Taylor Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the banks of the Beaver River just 5 miles (8 km) south of New Castle. Its main street is the north-south Pennsylvania Route 168, which crosses the river at the southern end of the community. As the name implies, it is west of Pittsburgh, although it is actually more north-northwest of the city, which is approximately 47 miles (76 km) away.
Q3269440 Lyle Tayo (born Lyle Minnie Shipman; January 19, 1889 – May 2, 1971), aka Lyle Barton, was an American film actress who appeared in 59 films between 1921 and 1948, appearing in many short comedies at the Hal Roach Studios, several in support of Laurel and Hardy. Born in Elmdale, Kansas, she and her elder sister, Birleen (or Birdeen), were raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Tayo died in 1971, aged 82, and is interred in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Q1161724 The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira (Portuguese: Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira) is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal.
Q5515327 Gabe Ford (born June 8, 1973) is an American musician probably best known as the current drummer for Little Feat. He was born into a musical family. His father, Patrick, is also a musician as are his uncles Mark Ford and Robben Ford. He plays drums, guitar and keyboards.
Q7922631 Versant was a Swedish and American band from Vänersborg, Sweden and Newbury Park, California that formed in the summer of 2008. Versant features vocalist Carah Faye Charnow, of the band Shiny Toy Guns, guitarist/keyboardist Daniel Johansson, drummer Richard Ankers, formerly of the band Melody Club, Johan Grettve, and bassist Nicholas Oja. Recently, Versant has announced their relocation from Sweden to California to work on an album.
Q6603495 The Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire was responsible for the defence of the county of Gloucestershire, England.
Q5043927 Carnegie Library is located in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1904 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1988.
Q15998113 Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr. (1882–1951) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Q1659702 Imane Khalifeh (1955–1995) was a Lebanese educator and peace activist.
Q22956914 Agripina Kundu (born (1993-04-24)24 April 1993) is a Kenyan volleyball player, playing as a libero. She is part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.On club level she played for Kenya Pipeline Company in 2014.
Q26464637 Sharon Lee Stewart (born 17 August 1965) is a retired Australian middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. She represented her country at one outdoor and one indoor World Championships. In addition, she won the bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.Her personal bests in the event are 2:00.17 outdoors (Oslo 1991) and 2:03.98 indoors (Seville 1991).
Q16158739 Bassam Al-Ansari (born 1971) is an Emirati swimmer. He competed in three events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Q29907561 Vivian Rothstein, née Leburg (born 1945) is an activist.
Q235086 Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language in underpinning the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis". It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s.The language was first generally released as Smalltalk-80. Smalltalk-like languages are in continuing active development and have gathered loyal communities of users around them. ANSI Smalltalk was ratified in 1998 and represents the standard version of Smalltalk.Smalltalk took second place for "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2017, but it was not among the 26 most loved programming languages of the 2018 survey.
Q2516125 Buchanan is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,456 at the 2010 census. The city is located at the southeast corner of Buchanan Township, about 5 miles (8 km) west of Niles.
Q8037067 The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Needlemakers were given Letters Patent by Oliver Cromwell in 1656, and received a Royal Charter in 1664. The Company gradually lost its role as a trade association, now acting as a supporter of the needle industry instead. Like the majority of Livery Companies, the Needlemakers' Company is also a charitable institution. The Needlemakers' Company ranks sixty-fifth in the order of precedence of City Livery Companies. Its motto is They Sewed Fig Leaves Together and Made Themselves Aprons.
Q5122695 The Citizens Flag Alliance (CFA) is an American organization advocating in favor of the Flag Burning Amendment project. CFA was founded in 1989 by the American Legion and originally called the Citizens' Flag Honor Guard.
Q3308014 Giulia Daysi Gam (born December 28, 1966) is a Brazilian actress.
Q1936390 Chatuchak Park (Thai: สวนจตุจักร) is the name of a public park in Chatuchak district, Bangkok, Thailand. It is also the name of the Chatuchak Park MRT Station that lies under the park.Chatuchak park is one of the oldest public parks in Bangkok. Construction began in 1975 on land donated by the State Railway of Thailand. The park opened on 4 December 1980. It has an area of 0.304 square kilometres. It was later augmented with Queen Sirikit Park and Wachirabenchathat Park, though they are separated from Chatuchak Park by Kampaengphet 3 Road. An artificial lake runs along this thin and long park with numerous bridges crossing the lake. A train museum is situated inside the park.Chatuchak park include Wachirabenchathat park in the summer (March to April) every year is a time when pink poui are blooming, especially along the Phaholyothin Road adjacent to the Chatuchak Park MRT Station, makes the highly scenic.
Q958457 Dog of Two Head is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo released by Pye Records. At the time of recording, the band consisted of Francis Rossi (credited on the sleeve as Mike Rossi), Rick Parfitt (credited as Ritchie Parfitt), Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan (credited as John Coughlan).March 1971 saw the new four-man lineup of the band release another non-album single: a Rossi/Young song called "Tune to the Music". The single was not a hit. The band then set to work writing and recording a new album. A couple of the songs, such as the opening track "Umleitung" (German for 'diversion') had been written as far back as 1970.In November 1971 the album was released.A single from the album, Rossi and Young's "Mean Girl", was to become a UK #20 hit some time later, in April 1973, after they had their third top ten British hit single with "Paper Plane", from their next album Piledriver.When "Mean Girl" charted, the record company decided to release another single from the album: a rerecording of "Gerdundula", the B-side to their 1970 single "In My Chair". This was released in July 1973, and failed to chart. The B-side to this single was Rossi and Parfitt's "Lakky Lady", taken from the band's previous album Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon.
Q3563834 Ano Diakopto (Greek: Άνω Διακοπτό, before 1940: Πέρα Μαχαλάς - Pera Machalas) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Diakopto, Achaea, Greece. It is 6 km southeast of Diakopto. The 2011 census showed a population of 304 for the village and 317 for the community, which includes the village of Pounta. Ano Diakopto suffered damage from the 2007 Greek forest fires.
Q228021 The 38 cm Belagerungshaubitze M 16 (38 centimetres (15 in) Siege Howitzer Model 16) was a super-heavy siege howitzer used by Austria-Hungary during World War I.
Q21449007 Letta is an Italian surname and an African given name. It may refer to:Gianni Letta (born 1935), an Italian politician and member of Forza ItaliaEnrico Letta (born 1966), Prime Minister of ItalyLencho Letta, Ethiopian politician, activist and founding member of Oromo Liberation FrontLetta Mbulu, a South African jazz singer
Q6782216 Volutomitra glabella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.
Q6742985 Malegaon Outer Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.Before the delimitation of Vidhan Sabha constituencies in 2008, Dabhadi (74) was a constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly between 1977-2004.The Malegaon Outer (115) constituency belongs to the Dhule parliamentary constituency
Q6867633 The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Persian: وزارت راه و شهرسازی‎) is an Iranian government body in charge of providing and regulating the country's transport infrastructure (including roads, railroads, shipping lanes and airways), as well as setting policies for the housing sector and construction industry. This Ministry was formed on 27 June 2011, when the two ministries of Housing and Urban Development and Roads and Transportation were merged.Companies and organizations, such as Iran Air, I.R. Iran Railways, and Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) function under the supervision of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.The Ministry follows a set of objectives and missions in the transport, urban development and housing sectors. These include, but are not limited to: formulating and implementing policies in these sectors, providing and maintaining infrastructure, creating national plans for urban development and fostering urban regeneration, coordinating efforts in the aforementioned sectors with the private sector, as well as administrative affairs on a national level.
Q5367727 Elspeth Duxbury (23 April 1909 – 10 March 1967) was a British actress born in Mhow, India.Known primarily for working in theatre, she had one television role in 1938 but did not make her big screen debut until 1960 in the Terry-Thomas hit comedy Make Mine Mink.She followed this with a role on Alfred Hitchcock Presents the following year in the episode "I Spy". Concentrating more on theatre, she had two further television roles, one a biography of Alexander Graham Bell and the other in the twice weekly BBC comedy drama series Swizzlewick.In 1966 she appeared in two films including the fourth St Trinian's movie, The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery.Her final screen role (and one she had performed on stage) was a televised version of the well known farce Big Bad Mouse with Eric Sykes and Jimmy Edwards.Elspeth Duxbury died on 10 March 1967 aged 57.
Q4877910 Beauty World, also known as Tang Gong Meiren Tianxia and World of a Beauty, is a Chinese fantasy-supernatural television series set in the Tang dynasty. It was directed by Lee Wai-chu, produced and written by Yu Zheng, and starred Zhang Ting, Ming Dow, Li Xiaolu, Mickey He, Zheng Guolin, Yang Mi and Tong Liya in the leading roles. The series is regarded as a counterpart to Beauty's Rival in Palace, a similar 2010 television series set in the Han Dynasty. It was first aired on 21 October 2011 on Guangzhou Zonghe Channel in mainland China.
Q4598986 The 2001 Odisha Assembly attack was a high-profile attack by Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Durga Vahini.
Q7195734 Pingasa nigrolineata is a moth of the family Geometridae which is endemic to Cameroon. The species was first described by Timm Karisch in 2006.
Q18154476 This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Mississippi, U.S.
Q14826197 Nanohammus alboplagiatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1944. It is known from Malaysia and Borneo.
Q14220720 Khejuri (also spelled Khajuri) is a village and gram panchayat, in Khejuri II CD Block in Contai subdivision of Purba Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Q2717210 Aga Khan I (Persian: آغا خان اوّل‎, romanized: Āghā Khān-i Awwal or Persian: آقا خان اوّل‎, romanized: Āqā Khān-i Awwal), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (Persian: حسن علی شاه‎, romanized: Ḥasan ‘Alī Shāh) (1804 – 1881), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian subcontinent.
Q1004283 Khanaqin (Arabic: خانقين; Kurdish: Xaneqîn خانه‌قین) is a city in Iraq in Iraq's Diyala Governorate, near the Iranian border on the Alwand tributary of the Diyala River. It is the administrative center of the Khanaqin District, which comprises several towns (such as As-Sadiyah and Jalula) as well as hundreds of villages. The city is divided into two parts by the Alwand, which has played a significant role in land cultivation and the establishment of a strong rural society in the area.
Q4678767 Adam Mark Boyd (born 25 May 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Bishop Auckland. Boyd plays as a striker and started off playing in school while attending Grange Primary School, in his hometown of Hartlepool.During his studies at Hartlepool Manor School of Technology, he played for Hartlepool United, making his debut in 1999. Signing professional forms there, he stayed at his hometown club until 2006, save for a short loan spell at Boston United in 2004. He then moved to Luton Town for a fee of £500,000, but found the style of football employed in the Championship difficult to adjust to, and left a year later, joining Leyton Orient on a free transfer. After spending two seasons at Orient, he returned to Hartlepool United. However, his second spell at the club was not as successful as his first, and he was quietly released in 2012. Since then, he has played non-league football, with Celtic Nation, Lincoln City, Spennymoor Town and Bishop Auckland.
Q737540 Father Tadeusz Rydzyk (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛuʂ ˈrɨdzɨk]), born 3 May 1945 in Olkusz, Poland, is a Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist, founder and director of the conservative Radio Maryja station, and founder of the University of Social and Media Culture in Toruń.
Q3778568 Lews Castle College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaisde a' Chaisteil [ˈkʰɔl̪ˠɪʃtʲə ə ˈkʰaʃtʰal], meaning literally "College of the Castle") is a further and higher education college in the Western Isles of Scotland. The main campus is in the grounds of Lews Castle, Stornoway. The College also has two learning centres in Benbecula and Barra. The The college is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands.The college opened in September 1953; its first principal was Colonel John Macsween. It was originally run by the local authority. It had 83 students and 9 full-time faculty members. In 1993, the College became an independent entity under the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992. Lews Castle was originally used as accommodation for the students, but it is currently needing renovation.In December 2012, the college had 2,700 students enrolled in 150 full-time, part-time and online courses, representing nine different nationalities, and employed 130 staff.In 2014 the college announced a new Gaelic Scotland degree course to cover Highland history, heritage and literature. The course is to be taught in English but will also allow a range of language-learning pathways. It also has Gaelic language degrees taught through the medium of Gaelic.The college has a subsidiary company, Lews Castle College (Trading) Limited, which provides Gaelic translation services.
Q21484522 Bayhaqi (meaning "from Bayhaq") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Ahmad Bayhaqi, Persian Islamic scholarAbolfazl Beyhaqi, Persian historianAbu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi, Iranian polymath
Q10534686 Imbrus (; Ancient Greek: Ἴμβρος) , in Greek mythology, is one of the sons of Aegyptus and Caliadne. He was married to (and was murdered by) Euippe, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo.
Q5935720 Jorge Nisco (born March 6, 1956 in Bernal, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine director and assistant director best known for Killer Women (2005), Epitafios (2004), and Malparida (2010).[1]
Q99533 Matthias Hinze (7 February 1969 in Berlin – 13 April 2007 in Berlin) was a German actor and voice actor.
Q7149715 Paul Carberry is a retired Irish National Hunt jockey.
Q7948565 WDRK (106.5 FM) was a small FM radio station which served Greenville, Ohio, and the surrounding Miami Valley. WDRK epitomized the role of local media. It super served the community. Colorful and local personalities such as John Hieby, Clancy Plessinger, Jim Short, Bill Booker, John and Jeffrey Kennedy, Frank and Greg Tantum provided local news, farm reports, coverage of high school sports and academics. A highlight each year was broadcasting live from the Great Darke County Fair. The rock group The McCoys made one of their first appearances on Frank Tantum's weekend show. It had a life of nearly two decades before the broadcast license was challenged and finally denied by the Federal Communications Commission.
Q6520462 Leiv Magnus Vidvei (born 11 September 1923) is a Norwegian economist, civil servant and politician for the Liberal Party.He was born in Time as a son of teacher Tor Vidvei (1888–1969) and Olga Gudmestad (1895–1972). In 1954 he married Alfhild Stene.He finished his secondary education in 1943 and took Stavanger Commerce School in 1944. In 1950 he graduated with the cand.oecon. degree from the University of Oslo. He was hired as a secretary in Statistics Norway in 1949 and was promoted to acting assisting secretary in 1954 before moving on to become head of department in the Bank of Norway in 1955.He was a member of Riksskattestyret from 1967 to 1971, and also deputy member of Bærum municipal council during the same period. From 1970 to 1971 he was appointed to Borten's Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Customs. He has also worked in NATO and the International Monetary Fund.He resides in Bekkestua.
Q7531693 Sita Ram Kattel (Nepali: सिताराम कट्टेल) popularly known by his serial name Dhurmus is a Nepali comedian, actor, scriptwriter, director and social worker. He was one of the main characters of the Nepali TV series Meri Bassai. He also acted in the 2013 Nepali box office hit Chha Ekan Chha in a lead role along with Deepak Raj Giri, Kedar Ghimire, Neeta Dhungana, and Jeetu Nepal. His other movie Wada Number Chha was also a blockbuster. He is also active in social work.
Q7241688 Pressure & Time is the second studio album by American rock band Rival Sons. It was released on June 20, 2011 in the UK and was released in the United States on June 28, 2011 through UK independent label Earache Records. The cover artwork was designed by Storm Thorgerson, who had worked for Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd before. A music video has been released for title track "Pressure & Time", which features the band performing in different backgrounds. The title track was also used as the theme song of the 2013 action-adventure video game Ride to Hell: Retribution. The track Get Mine was featured in a Jeremiah Weed premium malt beverage television advertising campaign showing an arm wrestling competition.
Q16981140 The 2013–14 Southeastern Louisiana Lady Lions basketball team represented Southeastern Louisiana University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Lions were led by tenth year head coach Lori Davis Jones and played their home games at the University Center. They are members of the Southland Conference. The Lady Lions entered the season with only one assistant coach after Bob Austin was hired as the head coach at LSU-Alexandria.
Q16951878 The 2005 WAFL season was the 121st season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League. It saw reigning premiers Subiaco’s third consecutive minor premiership, despite the loss of key forward Brad Smith to the West Coast Eagles and knee surgery. Thirty-year-old reserves spearhead Lachlan Oakley proved a perfect replacement and scored eighty goals in his only full season before moving to Victoria and playing with Parkdale Vultures in the VAFA. The Lions were widely tipped to finish the season undefeated with their perceived depth, discipline and motivation, but after suffering only two defeats in the home-and-away season, the Lions collapsed severely in the finals for South Fremantle to claim their first premiership since 1997. The premiership was a wonderful finalé for Toby McGrath, who retired for an army career after the 2004 season, but returned to WA in February and rejoined the Bulldogs to win both the Sandover and Simpson Medals.The finalists were unchanged from 2004, and there was an exceptionally wide gap between the top teams and their weakest rivals, with the bottom four clubs winning only four matches against the top five all season. Perennial battlers Perth suffered the largest change in fortune by falling from ten victories to three, but this was generally expected before the season began due to the controversial loss of sixty-goal spearhead Chris Maguire to Swan Districts after the Demons refused to clear him, future Hawthorn and Sydney superstar “Buddy” Franklin and the retiring Drew Cornelius, which left them without almost their entire 2004 goal-to-goal-line.West Perth, also predicted to struggle due to the retirements of on-ballers Corey Johnson, Brendon Logan and Kim Rigoll, did better than expected after losing several players and continuing their bad injury run of 2004, whilst Peel Thunder, after finally achieving a permanent WAFL licence and not having to prove itself again by 2008, fell back from five wins to three.The 2005 season saw the WAFL’s judicial system use “video evidence”, introduced in the VFL/AFL in 1988, for the first time after demands from clubs in previous seasons when several offenders were completely unpunished. This new system was regarded as a success, with the number of reportable offences substantially reduced.Poor crowds at Subiaco Oval finals meant this was the last season where WAFL matches before the Grand Final would be played there; from 2006 finals were played at the higher-ranked club’s home ground. The problem was exacerbated by the issue of the WAFL as a family-orientated league and the lack of facilities for children to kick footballs around Subiaco.
Q21005501 Thomas-Steven Da Veiga (born 25 July 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left back, most recently for Chamois Niortais.Born in Neuilly-sur-Marne, near Paris, Da Veiga played junior football for several local clubs before being signed by AS Monaco in 2010 at the age of 15. While at Monaco, he was part of the side that won the French under-19 championship in 2013. He was signed by Niort in the summer of 2015, one of two left-backs brought in to replace the outgoing Quentin Bernard.Da Veiga made his professional debut for Niort on 11 August 2015, playing 77 minutes of the 2–3 defeat to Sochaux in the first round of the Coupe de la Ligue. He then played his first Ligue 2 game three days later, a 1–1 draw against the same opponents at the Stade René Gaillard. It was announced that he had left the club at the end of the 2015–16 season, but he was unable to find a new club and consequently remained with Niort until the end of his contract in 2017.
Q25190239 Chris Lee (born 9 September 1971) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Auckland and Wellington between 1991 and 1997.
Q10365240 Rui Costa dos Santos (born January 18, 1963) is a Brazilian economist and politician. He is currently governor of Bahia since January 2015. He is affiliated with the Workers' Party (PT).In January 2007, invited by the Governor Jaques Wagner, Rui Costa took over the Secretariat of Institutional Relations (Serin), where he stayed until 2010. In Serin, Rui developed a new model of integration between the executive and legislative state with federal entities and movements social. The initiative was enhanced with the launch of the Institutional Relationship System (SRI), designed to speed up the progress of claims and standardize care.In 2010 he was elected federal deputy for the PT, again with the highest number of votes of the PT bench.Rui Costa was chosen as the PT candidate for the State of Bahia in elections in 2014, and elected in the 1st round with 54.53% of the votes, against 37.39% of his main opponent, Paulo Souto.
Q3029931 Mubarak Shah (r. 1421–1434) was the second monarch of the Sayyid dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate. He succeeded his father, Khizr Khan to the throne. The Sayyids were subservient to Timur's successor, Shah Rukh, and while Khizr Khan did not assume the title of sultan, Mubarak Shah was acknowledged as one by Sirhindi. However, it is also known that Mubarak Shah received a robe and a chatr (a ceremonial parasol) from the Timurid capital of Herat which indicates that the fealty continued in his time. He was murdered in 1434 and succeeded by his nephew, Muhammad Shah.
Q1247718 Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954.The original version of the series premiered on ABC on Wednesday, October 27, 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently.The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward.The show has had only two hosts, Walt Disney and former Disney Chairman Michael Eisner.The show is the second-longest-running primetime program on American television, behind its rival film anthology series, the Hallmark Hall of Fame, which is still on the air as of 2018.
Q4120325 U.S. Route 522 (US 522) is a spur route of US 22 in the U.S. states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Highway runs 308.59 miles (496.63 km) from US 60 near Powhatan, Virginia, north to US 11 and US 15 near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. US 522 serves many small cities and towns in the Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, and northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The highway serves the Virginia communities of Goochland, Mineral, Culpeper, the town of Washington, and Front Royal and the independent city of Winchester. US 522 then follows the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians north and then east through the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) stretch of Western Maryland, and South Central Pennsylvania to its terminus in the Susquehanna Valley. The highway serves Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Hancock, Maryland; and the communities of McConnellsburg, Mount Union, Lewistown, and Middleburg in Pennsylvania.
Q2993711 Baccaurea ramiflora, the Burmese grape, is a slow growing evergreen tree in the Phyllanthaceae family, growing to 25 m, with a spreading crown and thin bark. It is found throughout Asia, most commonly cultivated in India, Bangladeshand Malaysia. It grows in evergreen forests on a wide range of soils. The fruit is harvested and used locally, eaten as a fruit, stewed or made into wine; it is also used medicinally to treat skin diseases. The bark, roots and wood are harvested for medicinal uses.The fruit is oval, colored yellowish, pinkish to bright red or purple, 2.5–3.5 cm in diameter, glabrous, with 2–4 large purple-red seed, with white aril.Bark, roots and wood are dried and ground before boiling in water. Fruits can be kept fresh for 4–5 days, or boiled and mixed with salt after which it is keeps well closed jars. Marginal importance of the fruit, locally used and sold.The name of this fruit differs throughout asia the common names used with this fruit in Bangladesh is Bubbi in sylhet & in Dhaka its known as Lotkon
Q6143588 James Stern (26 December 1904 – 22 November 1993) was an Anglo-Irish writer of short stories and non-fiction. He was also known for his extensive letter writing and being a friend of the famous, Malcolm Cowley once remarked to Stern, “My God, you’ve known everybody, his wife, his boyfriend, and his natural issue!”
Q7332778 Ridgemont High School is a public high school in Mt. Victory, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Ridgemont Local Schools district. Their nickname is the Golden Gophers.
Q2521814 Dana Velďáková (born 3 June 1981 in Rožňava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak athlete specialising in the triple jump. A very regular jumper, qualifying for the final at almost every major competition, her biggest senior successes are two bronze medals at the European Indoor Championships, in 2009 and 2011, and the silver at the 2007 Summer Universiade.Her personal bests in the event are 14.51 metres outdoors, achieved in May 2008 in Pavia, and 14.40 metres indoors achieved in March 2009 in Turin. Both are current national records.She has a twin sister named Jana, who is a long jumper.
Q21353 Ottersthal (German: Otterstal) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Q8052632 Yermy Adalberto Hernández Alvarez (born on December 2, 1980) is a Honduran football defender who currently plays for Victoria in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.
Q644226 Sorik (Armenian: Սորիկ; until 1935, Zorba and Dzorba) is a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. The town is mostly populated by Yazidis.
Q4837481 Babaleshwar is a taluka place in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Bijapur Taluka of Bijapur district in Karnataka. It is 22 km from the district headquarters, the city of Bijapur.