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Q6399646 Khalifa Khamis (born 21 April 1966) is a Bahraini fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Q5844989 Tang-e Rud (Persian: تنگ رود‎, also Romanized as Tang-e Rūd) is a village in Faryab Rural District, in the Central District of Rudan County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 389, from 78 families.
Q3612228 Hiroshi Mihara (三原 弘嗣, Mihara Hiroshi, born October 20, 1983) is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Hiroshi Yamato (大和　ヒロシ, Yamato Hiroshi) who currently works as a freelancer. Trained by the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, he started his career in February 2007 working in Mexico for the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) promotion, where he won the 2007 Rey del Ring tournament. Yamato returned to Japan and his home promotion in February 2008 and during the next five years went on to become a one-time World Junior Heavyweight and All Asia Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2012 Junior Hyper League. In June 2013, Yamato left All Japan in a mass exodus to join the new Wrestle-1 promotion. In January 2016, Yamato won the Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship. Yamato also worked as a trainer and sales manager for Wrestle-1 until his departure from the promotion in 2018.
Q7668593 The T. Pierson Farm is a historic farm located at Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes three contributing buildings. They are a stone house (c. 1810) with late-19th century frame addition, a stone and frame bank barn (c. 1820), and a mid-19th century frame outbuilding. The house is a two-story, two-bay, gable-roofed building that is constructed with rubble fieldstone. It has a two-story, three-bay, frame wing to form a five-bay main facade. The barn features a pyramidal-roofed cupola with louvered sides atop the gable roof.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Q14833652 Eligmoderma politum is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Nonfried in 1895.
Q1825253 Lillyn Brown (born Lillian Thomas; April 24, 1885 – June 8, 1969), sometimes credited as Lillyan Brown, was an American singer, vaudeville entertainer and teacher who claimed to have been "the first professional vocalist to sing the blues in front of the public", in 1908. She was billed as "The Kate Smith of Harlem" and "The Original Gay 90's Gal".
Q28164198 National Highway 113 (NH 113) is a National Highway in North East India that connects Hawa Camp and Kibithu in Arunachal Pradesh. It is a secondary route of National Highway 13. NH-113 runs entirely in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Kibithu is located on the last road head of extreme northeast of India.
Q20981801 New PowerChutes (Pty) Ltd (also called New Powerchutes) was a South African aircraft manufacturer based in Alberton, Gauteng. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.The company seems to have been founded about 2001 and gone out of business in 2006. The Managing Director was Tim Stiff. The company was a proprietary company under South African law.The company produced the New PowerChutes Gemini, a two-seat powered parachute design.
Q20874475 Blood of the Werewolf is a platform game developed and published by American indie studio Scientifically Proven for the PC Windows in 2013. An updated version was ported for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in 2014.
Q665955 Paul-Émile (Paul Emil) Janson (30 May 1872 – 3 March 1944) was a francophone Belgian liberal politician and Prime Minister (1937–1938). During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German concentration camp in 1944.
Q3028269 The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazine is also noted for its photography, especially relating to fashion and style.The magazine also includes various puzzles, which have been popular features since their introduction.
Q7308483 Regina High School was a private, Catholic all-girls high school located in South Euclid, Ohio. It was run by the Sisters of Notre Dame, who also run Notre Dame College, which is located next door. It was a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Approximately one fifth of the teachers were nuns; the remaining teachers are both male and female lay persons. The school offered the students the ability to grow in an environment that supports them and encourages them to be who they are. The school announced in October 2009 that the 2009-2010 school year would be its last. Regina's last day of class was June 4, 2010.
Q2975541 Claremont is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated six miles south of the city, and is one of the so-called "Southern Suburbs", it is situated alongside Lansdowne. It is an important commercial and residential area, which is currently experiencing significant growth and development.
Q54591 Caraffa del Bianco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Catanzaro and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 605 and an area of 12.3 square kilometres (4.7 sq mi).Caraffa del Bianco borders the following municipalities: Bianco, Casignana, Ferruzzano, Sant'Agata del Bianco.
Q6374284 Kashiharajingū-nishiguchi Station (橿原神宮西口駅, Kashiharajingū-nishiguchi-eki) is a railway station in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan.
Q7547020 Snake Island is a sand island, located in Corner Inlet in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It has an area of 35-square-kilometre (14 sq mi) and is the largest island in Corner Inlet. Snake Island lies within the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park and is part of a complex of barrier islands that protect a large marine embayment from the pounding waves of Bass Strait. The Aboriginal Gunai name for the island is Negima.As the island is remote and relatively unspoilt it is popular for bushwalkers and many tracks crisscross the island. Care must be taken on the oceanic beaches as they have rapidly changing tides. A diverse range of flora and fauna makes the island particularly interesting for naturalists.
Q4213522 The Colt Lightning Carbine or Colt Lightning Rifle was a slide-action (pump-action) rifle manufactured by Colt from 1884 to 1904 and was originally chambered in .44-40 caliber. Colt eventually made the Lightning Rifle in three different frame sizes, to accommodate a wide range of cartridges, from .22 Short caliber and .38-40 to .50-95 Express. Its profile somewhat resembles the pump-action rimfire rifles made by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Remington Arms. The Lightning saw use as a sporting arm in America and was adopted for use by the San Francisco Police Department, but was never as popular or as reliable as the various lever-action rifles of its day.
Q7701077 Teodoro de Ardemans or Ardmans (ca. 1661–1726) was a Spanish architect and painter.Ardemans was born in Madrid to a German father.He was a disciple of the painter Claudio Coello, although he mainly practiced architecture; the municipality of Toledo named him master of the Cathedral of Toledo. In 1702, King Philip V of Spain named him to succeed José del Olmo as the master for Royal works, and in 1704 as their chamber painter. He worked on the extensive renovations of the Palace of Aranjuez, including completing the facade to a design of Francisco Herrera. He also helped in the decoration of the Palace of la Granja de San Ildefonso, including the chapel.
Q3665702 Chabi-Couma or Chabi-Kouma is a town and arrondissement in the Atakora Department of northwestern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Kouandé. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 6,870.
Q1609177 Conasprella rachelae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Like all species within the genus Conasprella, these cone snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Q6403152 Khurto Hajji Ismail (Kurmanji: Xurto Hecî Îsmaîl) is the current Baba Sheikh or Axtîyarê Mergê Bavê Şêx—religious leader—of the Yazidi community of Iraq. He has held this position since 2007. He lives in Ain Sifni, Iraq.
Q7235339 Potthastia gaedii is a non-biting midge species in the genus Potthastia.
Q5803924 Kigeh Olya (Persian: كيگه عليا‎, also Romanized as Kīgeh ʿOlyā; also known as Kīgeh) is a village in Mahru Rural District, Zaz va Mahru District, Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 76, in 17 families.
Q12125420 Knuckle is a 2011 film about the secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle boxing. The film was made in stages over 12 years.
Q17031076 The Laurel Sanitarium for Nervous and Mental Diseases was a prominent sanitarium, and later a women's nursing home, and landmark building along U.S. Route 1 in Laurel, Maryland. The sanitarium was founded in 1905 by Dr. Jesse C. Coggins and Dr. Cornelius DeWeese to treat patients with mental illness and addiction. It was converted to a women's nursing home in 1950. The facility closed after Coggins' death in 1963, and was demolished by controlled fire in 1964.
Q13802931 Macrobathra notomitra is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in India.
Q13642868 Glaucocharis lathonia is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1966. It is found on the Moluccas and Solomon Islands.
Q18003196 StarTalk is a podcast on space, science, and popular culture hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, with various comic and celebrity co-hosts and frequent guests from the worlds of science and entertainment. Past co-hosts have included Colin Jost, Lynne Koplitz, Leighann Lord, Eugene Mirman, Chuck Nice, John Oliver, and Kristen Schaal. Guests have included astronaut Buzz Aldrin, actor Morgan Freeman, George Takei, comedian Joan Rivers, Arianna Huffington, Richard Dawkins and writer Mary Roach. StarTalk has a segment called Cosmic Queries, in which listeners send in questions about the universe to be answered on the show.In May 2014, Rolling Stone ranked StarTalk at number 13 on its list of "The 20 Best Comedy Podcasts Right Now".On February 29, 2016, it was announced that there would be a spinoff podcast, StarTalk All-Stars, whose rotating hosts will be former StarTalk guests. In addition, the regular StarTalk comedy co-hosts will appear.Starting on February 1, 2017, a second spinoff, Playing with Science, was launched to discuss the science of sports. It is hosted by Gary O'Reilly and frequent StarTalk co-host Chuck Nice.StarTalk is partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.As an homage to Jack Horkheimer, an astronomer who hosted the weekly television show Star Gazers on PBS, Tyson frequently ends his podcast with Horkheimer's trademark sign-off "Keep looking up!"
Q26923602 Johnny Holton Jr. (born August 22, 1991) is an American football wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Cincinnati and was signed by the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent in 2016. He has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Q604505 Gaius Nautius Rutilus was consul of the Roman Republic in 475 BC and 458 BC.In his first consulship he was the senior consul, and his colleague was Publius Valerius Poplicola. Nautilus was given command of Roman forces against the Volsci who had invaded Latium. Nautilus ravaged the Volscian territory, but there was no significant engagement with the enemy.Nautius held the consulship a second time in 458 BC with Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus. During his second consulship, he successfully carried on war against the Sabines. That same year, the Aequi attacked the allied city of Tusculum and defeated his colleague, Minucius. Nautius Rutilus returned to Rome to oversee the Roman Senate electing a dictator, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, to deal with the invaders.Nautius was probably the brother, or perhaps the son of Spurius Nautius Rutilus, consul in 488 BC.
Q3488737 Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956 to 1964. He later enjoyed a resurgence in the late 1980s with chart success as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and with his Mystery Girl album which included the hit single "You Got It". At the height of his popularity, 22 of Orbison's songs placed on the US Billboard Top 40 chart, and six peaked in the top five, including two number one hits. In the UK, Orbison scored ten top-10 hits between 1960 and 1966, including three No. 1 singles.Born and raised in Texas, Orbison got his start in a rockabilly band in high school. According to the official Roy Orbison discography by Marcel Riesco, Orbison's first release was in March 1956 on the Je-Wel label. He broke into professional music under Sam Phillips at Sun Records in the summer of 1956, but found only marginal success there. After a couple years writing for other musicians (including "Claudette" recorded by The Everly Brothers), Orbison recorded several songs at Monument Records under producer Fred Foster starting in 1959. With Foster, Orbison and his frequent songwriting partners Joe Melson and Bill Dees tailored many of Orbison's songs for his unique voice; his most popular songs were dramatic ballads ending with emotional crescendos that showcased his powerful vocals. After his biggest hit in 1964, "Oh, Pretty Woman", Orbison continued to record and chart intermittently in the UK, but it was not until 1987 that he again found the level of popular worldwide success he had known in the early 1960s, when his original recording of "In Dreams" was used in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet. The following year, Orbison co-founded the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. Lynne produced Orbison's final album Mystery Girl, which was released posthumously in February 1989.This discography shows main official U.S. and U.K. releases. According to Riesco's official Orbison discography, there were numerous international single and album releases of importance (not released in the U.S. or U.K.) like the German "San Fernando" b/w "Mama" (London DL 20 726).
Q6298539 Joílson Rodrigues da Silva, referred to simply as Joílson (born December 8, 1976), is a former Brazilian football midfielder. He was born in Arataca, near Itabuna.
Q6845752 Mikawa Yatsuhashi Station (三河八橋駅, Mikawa Yatsuhashi-eki) is a railway station operated by Meitetsu on the Mikawa Line, located in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture Japan. It is located 3.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Mikawa Line at Chiryū Station.
Q7870698 USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID-3020) was a cargo ship and troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
Q6908984 Moraea viscaria is the type species of the genus of Moraea in the Iridaceae that is named after the sticky secretion on the stem and branches.It is a cormous geophyte 20 – 45 cm in height with white flowers. The outer tepals are 15 – 23 mm long and inner tepals 14 – 20 mm long. The flower is sweetly scented and pollen bright red. The stem is branched and sticky, dry at flowering. It flowers from October to December.Its habitat is reported as sandy or stony flats in the Western Cape between Saldanha in the west and Cape Agulhas in the east.
Q4714363 Aleesha is a Konkani film released in 2004 in Goa, India. It was directed by Rajendra Talak and featured Priyanka Bidaye and Rajeev Hede in the lead roles.
Q5188391 The Cross River (Gunflint Lake) is a river of Minnesota.
Q1604071 Salif Keïta (born 19 October 1975 in Dakar) is a Senegalese professional footballer who currently plays for AS Douanes.
Q14917719 Francis Constant Florini (September 7, 1919 – October 17, 2008) was an American politician who served as the twenty-sixth Mayor of North Adams, Massachusetts.Born in North Adams on Sept. 7, 1919, son of John B. and Mary A. Rosasco Florini, he graduated from Drury High School and received his agricultural management degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in May 1949An Army veteran of World War II, he enlisted in 1942 and was assigned to the 1st Division (the Big Red One) as a staff sergeant. He served as a radio corpsman in the North Africa campaigns in Algeria, French Morocco and Tunisia. During the 1943 invasion of Sicily, he was severely wounded in both legs by shrapnel. He spent 2 1/2 years in rehabilitation at Framingham Hospital and was awarded the Purple Heart and Good Conduct medal, among his decorations and citations.Mr. Florini worked on the family farm in his early years and at the family's popular restaurant Florini's Italian Garden.While in North Adams, he was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Chamber of Commerce, and served on the board of the YMCA.Florini was the first mayor elected under North Adams' A Form of government, which made the executive position stronger. He oversaw a number of projects that changed the face of the city, including the start of urban renewal in the downtown. He was elected three times, serving from 1962 to 1967. He also was the city's acting postmaster until his election as mayor.In 1968, he was appointed director of the Office of Central Services in the state Department of Community Affairs in Boston, working under Gov. John A. Volpe. He was re-elected to office in 1978 as an alderman for Ward 6 in Beverly.Mr. Florini retired in 1981 and moved to East Boothbay, Maine, where he served on the town Water Board from 1985 through 1995.While in East Boothbay, he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and was involved with the Railway Museum and Land Trust.Former Mayor Francis Constant "Frank" Florini, died at the age of 89, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. He was a longtime civic leader, serving at the state and local level.He made a difference to people in many communities and countless have been touched by his hard work and good will.
Q4053307 The 14th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 28 June to 12 July 1985. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Soviet film Come and See directed by Elem Klimov, the American film A Soldier's Story directed by Norman Jewison and the Greek film The Descent of the Nine directed by Christos Siopahas.
Q16826892 Alcaligenes aestus is a bacterium from the genus Alcaligenes.
Q17068826 DXWZ broadcasting as 94.3 Wild Zee is an FM radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network in the Philippines. This station studio and transmitter is located at Brgy. 26 Osmena Extension Cagayan de Oro City. 94.3 Wild Zee operates 24 hours a day except Saturdays where they sign off at 12 midnight and during Holy Week each year where it signs-off at 12:15 AM of Maundy Thursday until 4:00 AM of Easter Sunday.
Q16967848 Providence Town Center is a lifestyle center located near Collegeville in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is located at the interchange between U.S. Route 422 and Pennsylvania Route 29. The Providence Town Center has Wegmans, Movie Tavern, Best Buy, LA Fitness, Dick's Sporting Goods, Michaels, and PetSmart as anchors.
Q18355901 The Formula Volkswagen Germany was a short-lived single-seater category in Germany between 2001 and 2003.
Q19517899 John D. McDonald (August 2, 1816 – October 31, 1900) was an American farmer and politician.Born in Johnstown, New York, McDonald moved to Summit, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Territory and settled on a farm. He served as chairman of the Summit Town Board. In 1870 and 1871, McDonald served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Democrat. He died in Summit, Wisconsin.
Q27986296 Spencerburg is an unincorporated community in Pike County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Q21223206 Phaeocalpida is an order of cercozoans in the class Phaeodarea.
Q30592677 The Malawian ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Lilongwe to the Government of the United States. The Ambassador to the United States also serves concurrently as the non-resident High Commissioner to Canada, High Commissioner to the Bahamas, Ambassador to Cuba, and Ambassador to Mexico.
Q11686077 Andrzej Selerowicz (born 25 April 1948), originally from Poland, living in Austria, is a LGBT activist, writer and literature translator from the English and German languages into the Polish language.Since 1976 he has been living in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the LGBT organisation Homosexuelle Initiative Wien (HOSI Wien). Since 1982, he has been the chairman of EEIP (Eastern Europe Information Pool), as part of ILGA. He has been responsible for collecting and archiving an open, official, and accessible collection of media and publication sources about the situation of gays and lesbians in Eastern Europe until 1989. In 1984 he published a monograph about his research: (1984) Rosa Liebe unter dem Roten Stern: zur Lage d. Lesben u. Schwulen in Osteuropa, Published by: Frühlings Erwachen in Hamburg, ISBN 3-922611-86-9Since 1983, he has supported the creation and development of the Polish gay and lesbian movement. Beginning in 1983, he started writing and spreading information among Polish gays with an illegal newsletter entitled Etap, which later gave the name to the first LGBT clandestine group in Wrocław. In a 1984 edition, he first used the term gej in order to create a neutral sounding Polish substitution for homosexual to substitute for the many derogatory words that existed. Since then it has been a broadly accepted term in the Polish language.From 1987 to 1988 he was a consultant for the Warszawski Ruch Homoseksualny (Warsaw Gay Movement). As there were no books about being LGBT, and the issue was completely taboo in Polish media, he started translating and editing (from English and German) classical and well-known homoerotic literature (Wilde, Baldwin, etc.). Starting in 1990 he cooperated for 10 years with the editorial staff of the Polish magazine Inaczej in Poznań, regularly writing articles and essays. In Poland, he published books referring to LGBT themes:(1993): Leksykon kochających inaczej. Fakty, daty, nazwiska (LGBT Lexicon- Facts, Dates, and Names), published by Wydawnictwo Softpress, Poznań, ISBN 83-900208-6-6(2017): Zbrodnia, której nie było (The Crime that Never Was), published by Wydawnictwo Novae Res, Gdynia, ISBN 978-83-8083-604-4(2018): Ariel znaczy lew, published Wydawnictwo Novae Res, Gdynia, ISBN 978-83-8083-835-2His participation in the Polish LGBT movement has been mentioned in:(2012): Gejerel. Mniejszości seksualne w PRL-u (pages: 44, 350–351, 355, 370), author: Krzysztof Tomasik, published by Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-62467-54-9(2012): Kłopoty z seksem w PRL (chapter: Początki ruchu gejowskiego w Polsce 1981–1990), co-authors leading: Marcin Kula, co-published by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego and Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-235-0964-6(2017): Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland (pages: 67–69, 106, 138, 224, 232), author: Lukasz Szulc, published by Global Queer Politics, London, ISBN 978-3-319-58900-8He translated these books into Polish:(1990) Gore Vidal: The City and The Pillar (pl: Nie oglądaj się w stronę Sodomy), published by Fundacja Polonia, ISBN 83-85080-01-5(1991) James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room (pl: Mój Giovanni), published by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw, ISBN 83-06-02048-0(1992) Oscar Wilde: Teleny, published by Wydawnictwo Softpress, Poznań, ISBN 83-900208-0-7(2011) Oscar Wilde: Teleny, published by Wydawnictwo Interwers, ISBN 978-83-623-4407-9In 2000, he worked at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance archives in Vienna, where he collaborated in the research about the persecution by the German and Austrian Nazis and about bringing them to trial after World War II. He was also coauthor of research results published in 2009 in Austria. He took part in several scientific conferences in Austria, Germany and Poland about this topic and published several articles.On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Operation Hyacinth, he published a novel, combining authentic historical facts with a fictional story, giving a focused picture of the interrogation of 11,000 gay men by the police and security agents in Poland from 1985 to 1987 and the resulting "pink files". It was published in Cracow: (2015): Kryptonim Hiacynt (Codename Hyacinth), published by Queermedia.pl, ISBN 978-83-935246-5-5
Q380678 Harold Egbert Camping (July 19, 1921 – December 15, 2013) was an American Christian radio broadcaster, author and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that broadcasts to more than 150 markets in the United States. In October 2011, he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still maintained a role at Family Radio until his death. Camping is notable for issuing a succession of failed predictions of dates for the End Times, which temporarily gained him a global following and millions of dollars of donations.Camping first predicted that the Judgment Day would occur on or about September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur, he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2. In 2005, Camping predicted the Second Coming of Christ to May 21, 2011, whereupon the saved would be taken up to heaven in the rapture, and that "there would follow five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth, with millions of people dying each day, culminating on October 21, 2011, with the final destruction of the world."His prediction for May 21, 2011 was widely reported, in part because of a large-scale publicity campaign by Family Radio, and it prompted ridicule from atheist organizations and rebuttals from Christian organizations. After May 21 passed without the predicted incidents, Camping said he believed that a "spiritual" judgment had occurred on that date, and that the physical Rapture would occur on October 21, 2011, simultaneously with the final destruction of the universe by God. Except for one press appearance on May 23, 2011, Camping largely avoided press interviews after May 21, particularly after he suffered a stroke in June 2011. After October 21, 2011 passed without the predicted apocalypse, the mainstream media labeled Camping a "false prophet" and commented that his ministry would collapse after the "failed 'Doomsday' prediction".Camping was reported to have retired from his position at Family Radio on October 16, 2011, only days before his last predicted date for the end of the world. However, his daughter later clarified that he had not retired outright, but was maintaining a role at Family Radio while working from home. Camping admitted in a private interview that he no longer believed that anybody could know the time of the Rapture or the end of the world, in stark contrast to his previously staunch position on the subject. In March 2012, he stated that his attempt to predict a date was "sinful", and that his critics had been right in emphasizing the words of Matthew 24:36: "of that day and hour knoweth no man". He added that he was now searching the Bible "even more fervently...not to find dates, but to be more faithful in [his] understanding." After the failure of Camping's prophecies, Family Radio suffered a significant loss of assets, staff and revenue.
Q7563516 Sorken is a village in Engerdal municipality, Norway.Its population in 1999 was 235, but since 2001 it is not considered an urban settlement by Statistics Norway, and its data is therefore not registered.
Q848600 Csikós Post (Hungarian: [ˈt͡ʃikoːʃ ˈpoʃt]) is a galop in the key of E minor by the German composer Hermann Necke (1850–1912). Csikós is a Hungarian mounted horse-herdsman; Hungarian Post is an acrobatic riding performance where the rider stands on the back of two horses and drives three more horses in front (pickaxe arrangement). The melodic line in which the piece transitions to C major is a variation on a melody from Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.The piece has been used repeatedly in video games including Yoshi's Cookie for Super NES (as Action Music B), Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix (as Fishing Frenzy), Nintendogs + Cats (used as a music record which you could buy at the store), and Daigasso! Band Brothers (as Athletic Medley). It is also present in the music games O2Jam and pop'n music FEVER! and was also used as background music in the Family Computer game Downtown Nekketsu Kōshinkyoku and in the opening sequence of its sequel Bikkuri Nekketsu Shin Kiroku! (released in North America as Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge) and as a piece in the popular piano game, Piano Tiles.The piece has been remixed in Sexy Parodius (as Sonic Speed Bath) and by the group BanYa for the Pump It Up series. A version with parody lyrics was included in the 2001 Hong Kong animated movie My Life as McDull.
Q7916823 Vasio is a Celtic god, of whom little is known. He was the god presiding over the Roman town of Vaison-la-Romaine in the lower Rhone valley
Q14683396 The Montezuma Hills comprise a small range of low-elevation hills at the northern banks of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and southwestern Sacramento Valley in California in the United States.
Q1319200 The Systellommatophora (synonym Gymnomorpha) is a clade of primitive, air-breathing slugs, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). They are marine and terrestrial pulmonate gastropods within the Heterobranchia. There are two superfamilies in this clade. Slugs in the superfamily Onchidioidea are primarily marine (except for five land-dwelling or freshwater species), whereas slugs in the superfamily Veronicelloidea are primarily terrestrial.
Q4972289 Broadsheet was a Telefís Éireann television current affairs programme presented by John O'Donoghue, Brian Cleeve, and Brian Farrell and broadcast in Ireland live on weekday evenings from 1962 to 1963.
Q1763943 Statistics of League of Ireland in the 1941/1942 season.
Q2637014 Saudi Arabia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Q4939736 "Boll Weevil" is a traditional blues song, also known by similar titles such as "Boweavil" or "Boll Weevil Blues". Many songs about the boll weevil were recorded by blues musicians during the 1920s through the 1940s. However, a rendition by Lead Belly recorded in 1934 by folklorist Alan Lomax led to its becoming well-known. A 1961 adaptation by Brook Benton became a pop hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q6309744 Julius Dawkins is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 12th round of the 1983 NFL Draft. As a college football player with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, he set a Pitt record with four touchdown catches in a game. Dawkins also played for the Pittsburgh Gladiators.
Q376507 The Sächsische Verfassungsmedaille (Saxon Constitutional Medal) is awarded by the Free State of Saxony to persons who have rendered outstanding services to the liberal democratic development of the Free State.It was founded in 1997 to mark the fifth anniversary of the final vote on the constitution of the Free State of Saxony and to commemorate the peaceful revolution in 1989 and is awarded annually by the president of the Landtag of Saxony, the state parliament. From 1997 to 2010, the medal was awarded to 102 people.Selected recipients
Q7917395 Vaughton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Howard Vaughton (1861–1937), English footballerJonny Vaughton, Welsh rugby union playerWillis Vaughton (1911–2007), English footballer
Q16235403 Nemanja Gojačanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Гојачанин, born 29 April 1993) is a Montenegrin footballer who plays as a right-back.
Q5791516 Chali (Persian: چالي‎, also Romanized as Chālī) is a village in Sharq va Gharb-e Shirgah Rural District, Shirgah District, Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 915, in 245 families.
Q24579086 Percy Dufaur (1861 – 6 November 1944) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Auckland in 1882/83.
Q28402715 Ceylon Steel Corporation is one of the three industrial projects along with Ceylon Tire Corporation and Ceylon Sugar Corporation, which were established in Sri Lanka by the support of Soviet Union during the cold war era. After winning the 1960 parliamentary election, Sirimavo Bandaranayake continued with the pro-socialist vision of her late husband and further strengthen Sri Lanka's relations with socialist countries. The Ceylon Steel Corporation was started in 1962 under the supervision of Maithripala Senanayake who was the Commerce and Industrial Minister of her government. A. N. S. Kulasinghe was appointed the first director of the organisation. In 1996 the organisation was sold to Hanjung Steel, now a member of the Doosan Group of South Korea. This deal was considered as a corrupted one occurred during the period President Chandrika Bandaranayaka, who is the daughter of founder Sirimavo Bandaranayaka. In 2009 the company was acquired by the UAE based Onyx Group which owned by the Sri Lankan businessperson Nandana Lokuwithana and re-branded as "Ceylon Steel" Corporation Limited.
Q27978754 Razia Bhatti (Urdu: رضیہ بھٹی) (1944–1996), was a Pakistani journalist who served as editor of the Herald and Newsline magazines. When she died at the age of 52, the Pakistan Press Foundation called it "end of a golden chapter of journalism in Pakistan." Bhatti founded Newsline magazine with the help of other female journalists after leaving Herald magazine.She was editor of Pakistani magazine Herald for 12 years and then she founded Newsline and edited it for 8 years. In 1994, Bhatti received the “Courage in Journalism” award from the New York-based International Women's Media Foundation.
Q2570845 Hersiliola versicolor is a species of spiders of the family Hersiliidae that lives in Cape Verde. It was first described by John Blackwall in 1865 as Hersilia versicolor. The females have a total length of 3.75-4.58 mm.
Q22953359 Herberts Baumanis (born 5 January 1889, date of death unknown) was a Latvian sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1912 Summer Olympics representing the Russian Empire.
Q953939 The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Q50464 The states and federal territories of Malaysia are the principal administrative divisions of Malaysia. Malaysia is a federation comprising 13 states (Negeri) and three federal territories (Wilayah Persekutuan).
Q4993238 Jens Jensen (September 13, 1860 – October 1, 1951) was a Danish-American landscape architect.
Q4710801 Albert Elliot "Smiler" Marshall (15 March 1897 – 16 May 2005) was a British veteran of the First World War and the last surviving British cavalryman to have seen battle on the Western Front.Albert Elliott Marshall was born on 15 March 1897 in Elmstead Market, a village in the Tendring district of Essex, close to Clacton-on-Sea, Great Bentley, Wivenhoe and Colchester.Albert was the eldest of three children born to James William Marshall and Ellen Marshall, née Skeet. Albert’s mother, Ellen died in 1901 at the age of twenty-four, leaving James to raise their children on his own. They remained in Elmstead Market with them appearing on the 1911 census, showing Albert, by this time age fourteen as a farm labourer. James was a strict father; however Albert always stood his ground, both as a boy and as a man. When he was set upon by lads from a neighbouring village, Smiler was roundly beaten up. Cut and bruised he returned home to meet his father who burst out laughing, "Ah, at last you have met your Waterloo’ he cried, thereby acknowledging that his son could also hand out a little of the rough stuff when he wanted to.Marshall served in the 1/1st Essex Yeomanry and later the 8th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps between 1915 and 1919 and saw action at the Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arras, the Third Battle of Ypres, the Germany Offensive of 1918 as well as the Advance to Victory and the Army of Occupation campaigns at the end of the war. Marshall recalled the horrors of the battlefield and his memories of seeing many of his comrades blown to bits by enemy shells or mown down in No Man’s Land by a haze of bullets.Marshall joined the Essex Yeomanry in 1915, at the age of seventeen, after lying about his age; he took part in the first major Battle of Loos in the same year. Marshall was given the nickname, ‘Smiler’ after he threw a snowball at a drill sergeant who threatened to ‘give him something to smile about’. This event occurred during his basic training at Stanway. Smiler recalled to Richard van Emden that whilst doing physical jerks,"Sergeant Beavis of Clacton-On-Sea said ‘Trunk forward, bend!’ I bent down, and I was a bit of a lad – threw a snowball at the row in front and it hit a chap up the behind. He jumped up, and so did two or three of the others …"The Battle of the Somme, beginning on 1 July 1916 had no greater resonance for Smiler than all the other battles he had fought throughout the war. He had been sent to France in late 1915 and despite a number of periods of home leave had remained in or near the front line for the remainder of the war. He was present on the Somme for the first day of the offensive in which over twenty-thousand troops were killed in the first several hours, with forty-thousand more injured, making the battle one of the heaviest death and wounded tolls in the whole war. Marshall had been kept well behind the lines during the opening day of the Somme campaign waiting for a breakthrough, however it did not come.As a result of his unit being kept back during the Somme, Marshall was not credited with being the last veteran of that fateful day; however he was there and remembered the trauma and horror of that campaign and the images on the battlefield would remain with him until the day he died. Marshall later recalled to historian Richard Van Emden picking up and sending home the letters found next to the body of a man killed near Mametz Wood, an act of generosity and kindness that belied his tough exterior.In March 1917, Smiler suffered a 'blighty wound' in the hand and was sent home. On his return he joined the Machine Gun Corps and fought at the Battle of Cambrai where he was captured as a Prisoner of War by the Germans. Smiler was released by his captors as they were short of rations and returned to the front.When the First World War ended in 1918, Smiler Marshall volunteered for a tour of duty in Ireland and was stationed near Dublin. He was demobbed in 1921 and returned home to Tendring where he married Florence C. Day. The couple had five children, only one of whom was still living at the time of Albert’s death in 2005.In his later years he continued to reside in a small house, which was attached to a larger house in which he had worked for the owner since the Second World War. As old age began to take its toll on Smiler, efforts were made to allow him to remain as independent as possible, his bed, which had always been upstairs was moved down, for his convenience, as was his bedside table on which stood one of his numerous souvenirs of the First World War, a wooden cross taken from the rubble of Albert Basilica on the Somme. It was stuffed into the rear of a wagon and retrieved later; Smiler brought it home and kept it by his bedside for the rest of his life.In the final decade of his life, Smiler was awarded the Legion d’honneur and appeared on numerous television shows as well as attending the veterans’ party at Buckingham Palace. Furthermore, he took part in three pilgrimages to the battlefields of the First World War, including one to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, a battle in which he had been involved in.Albert Elliott ‘Smiler’ Marshall died at the age of 108 on 16 May 2005 in Ashtead, Surrey. At the time of his death he was survived by one son; twelve grandchildren; twenty-four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.Marshall’s legacy as a final veteran of the First World War was that he was able to claim a number of records: the last man to wear the 1914-15 Star; the last man to serve on the Somme and perhaps, the most significant for a man who had served in the Essex Yeomanry, the last man to have served in the cavalry.
Q4918785 Bitchfield Tower or West Bitchfield Tower is a 15th-century medieval pele tower near Belsay, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building.The three storied battlemented tower was built in the 15th century by the Middleton family who sold it to the Harbottles in 1502. Marjorie Harbottle the heiress to the Harbottle estate, married Sir John Fenwick of Fenwick Tower and in 1529 they conveyed the property to their second son Roger Fenwick. In 1622 Robert Fenwick built a new manor house adjoining the tower: a datestone inscribed 'RF 1622 JF' is incorporated into the buildingThe Fenwicks sold the estate in 1630 to Edward Grey, from whom it was sequestered in 1646. In 1680 it was acquired by Sir James Clavering and in 1802 the Claverings sold to Sir Charles MonckIt was in a state of ruin by 1930 but has since been restored
Q7885372 Union Avenue Opera (previously Union Avenue Opera Theatre) is an opera company based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded in 1994 by Scott Schoonover, the music director of Union Avenue Christian Church, which serves as the company's venue in St. Louis' Visitation Park neighborhood.
Q11102886 Ballikurava is a village in Prakasam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the mandal headquarters of Ballikurava mandal in Ongole revenue division.
Q3702738 Dark Shadows is a one-hour television pilot that was a remake of the 1966–1971 gothic soap opera television series Dark Shadows. The pilot was commissioned by The WB and produced in 2004, but not picked up for a series.
Q7692983 Edward D'Oyley Barratt (21 April 1844 – 27 February 1891) was an English cricketer who primarily played for Surrey in a first-class career that lasted from 1872 to 1886. A left-arm slow roundarm bowler with a remarkable capacity for drift, his most famous achievement was taking all ten wickets in an innings for the Players against the Australians in 1878. On three occasions, he took over 100 wickets in a season. His Wisden obituarist wrote of his bowling, "At his best Barratt was certainly a very fine slow bowler, being able on certain wickets to get more work on the ball than almost any other cricketers of his generation."
Q4852368 Balmonte is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Castropol, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The population is 260 (INE 2005).
Q1134566 Shiodome City Center (汐留シティセンター, Shiodome Shiti Sentā) is a skyscraper in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan managed by Mitsui Fudosan.Fujitsu's worldwide headquarters are in Shiodome City Center. The airline All Nippon Airways maintains its headquarters and a ticketing office at the building. The subsidiaries Air Nippon, ANA & JP Express, and All Nippon Airways Trading are headquartered in the building. Air Japan, an ANA subsidiary, has some offices in Shiodome City Center. Mitsui Chemicals has its headquarters in Shiodome City Center. Vanilla Air, when it was known as AirAsia Japan, was headquartered here.The building which opened in 2003, has a 1200% floor area ratio.
Q16956951 The Fancy River is a river of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Q1948695 Agonum ericeti is a species of ground beetle in the Platyninae subfamily that can be found in all Europe except for Spain and Portugal.
Q5332891 The Eckert II projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. In the equatorial aspect (where the equator is shown as the horizontal axis) the network of longitude and latitude lines consists solely of straight lines, and the outer boundary has the distinctive shape of an elongated hexagon. It was first described by Max Eckert in 1906 as one of a series of three pairs of pseudocylindrical projections. Within each pair, the meridians have the same shape, and the odd-numbered projection has equally spaced parallels, whereas the even-numbered projection has parallels spaced to preserve area. The pair to Eckert II is the Eckert I projection.
Q5867204 Western civilization describes the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient Greece, and generally spreading westwards. However, Western civilization in its more strictly defined sphere traces its roots back to Rome and the Western Mediterranean. It can be strongly associated with nations linked to the former Western Roman Empire and with Medieval Western Christendom.The civilizations of Classical Greece (Hellenic) and Roman Empire (Latin) as well as Ancient Israel (Hebraism) and early Christendom are considered seminal periods in Western history;. From Ancient Greece sprang belief in democracy, and the pursuit of intellectual inquiry into such subjects as truth and beauty; from Rome came lessons in government administration, martial organization, engineering and law; and from Ancient Israel sprang Christianity with its ideals of the brotherhood of humanity. Strong cultural contributions also emerged from the pagan Germanic, Celtic, Wendic, Finnic, Baltic and Nordic peoples of pre-Christian Europe. Following the 5th century Fall of Rome, Europe entered the Middle Ages, during which period the Catholic Church filled the power vacuum left in the West by the fallen Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) endured for centuries.
Q13498777 Cosmopterix neodesma is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1915. It is found in India (Coorg).
Q3590760 The Peru women's national basketball team is the official women's basketball team for Peru. It is administrated by the Peru Basketball Federation (Spanish: Federación Deportiva Peruana de Basketball) (F.D.P.B.).
Q36502710 Narin Afrin (b. c. 1974) is the nom de guerre of Meysa Abdo, a leader of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Women's Protection Units (YPJ), and Kobane resistance, notably during the 2014–2015 Siege of Kobanî.
Q2517040 Davide Casarotto (born 19 July 1971 in Vicenza) is a former Italian cyclist.
Q17743968 The Church of St Cadoc, Llangattock Vibon Avel, Monmouthshire is a parish church of medieval origins which was heavily restored in the 19th century. The estate church of The Hendre, it is closely connected with the Rolls family. The grave of Charles Stewart Rolls, the motoring and aviation pioneer is located in the churchyard. The church is a Grade II* listed building and remains an active parish church.
Q4913985 The Binder Twine Festival, or usually Binder Twine, is an annual festival held the first Saturday after Labour Day in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada. It is now one of the most popular festivals in southern Ontario, and marks the beginning of the harvest fair season in the Greater Toronto Area.In the late 19th century, farmers would come to the community to acquire binder twine with which they could bind sheaves of wheat. Charlie Shaw, a resident and owner of a hardware store, offered food and entertainment to those farmers, establishing the Binder Twine Night festival which was held annually until his death in the 1930s. In 1967, a committee of residents revived the concept as part of the Canadian Centennial celebrations.The festival is organized and operated entirely by volunteers, which once included author Pierre Berton, a famous resident of the village. Berton's wife Janet was an executive of the organizing committee from 1967 until 1996, during which time she published 16 booklets about the history of Kleinburg. Binder Twine has become a successful community event, and has resulted in new town signage and the creation of Binder Twine Park.There is a fee for admission except for those wearing pioneer period costumes, who are admitted for free.
Q5220890 Danny Tickle (born 8 April 1983) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays in the second-row for Workington Town in Betfred League 1, Tickle is also a noted goal-kicker.
Q550361 Christopher Tyng (born August 5, 1968) is an American composer for film and television. He composed the music for several television series, including Futurama, The O.C., The Job, Knight Rider, Suits, High Incident, and Rescue Me. He also composed the CGI animated holiday special, Olive, the Other Reindeer.The main theme for Futurama is strongly reminiscent of Pierre Henry's Psyche Rock..As was noted in the audio commentary of the Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers", Tyng is first and foremost a drummer; indeed, he accredits his composing proficiency to the awkwardness of lugging a drum set. As a convenience to him, his bandmates would often bring their instruments to his house for practice. Tyng, then, had access to many more instruments, which he then learned to play.
Q7661052 Sylvester Linnane (born 29 December 1956) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right corner-back for the Galway senior team.Born in Gort, County Galway, Linnane first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Galway minor team, before later joining the under-21 team. He made his senior debut during the 1976 championship. Linnane went on to play a key role for Galway for over a decade, and won three All-Ireland medals and two National Hurling League medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on four occasions.As a member of the Connacht inter-provincial team, Linnane won four Railway Cup medals. At club level he is a two-time Connacht medallist with Gort. In addition to this he also won two championship medals.Throughout his career Linnane made 28 championship appearances for Galway. His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1989 championship.Linnane is widely regarded as one of Galway's greatest-ever hurlers. He has often been voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at right corner-back on the Galway Hurling Team of the Millennium.
Q61690 Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925, – June 28, 2006) was an American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer".
Q16151378 Joseph M. Lyons is an American politician and former Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He served from 1996 until 2013 representing the 15th, and later 19th, district.
Q6733728 Mahendra Chandra Vinod (1922 – 2003) was a Fijian civil servant and editor who was also a member of the House of Representatives of Fiji.He was born in Nacokaika, Naitasiri, Fiji and was of Indian descent. After completing his Bachelor of Science from the University of Hawaii and Diploma in Journalism from New Delhi, joined the Fiji civil service. He retired from the civil service in 1979 and became the editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Shanti Dut in 1981. In August 1981, he was awarded an Imperial Service Order (ISO) from Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to Fiji.For the 1987 general election, the NFP–Labour Coalition chose him as a candidate for the Nausori/Levuka Indian Communal Constituency which he won easily, but was a member of Parliament for a month when the military coup of 1987 put a halt to his late entry into politics.
Q3036563 Dretelj is a village in Herzegovina, in Čapljina municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Q2209929 Sabine Skvara (born 15 April 1966) is a retired Austrian high jumper.She finished seventh at the 1985 European Indoor Championships. She became Austrian champion in 1981 and 1985.
Q4902784 Białe Błoto [ˈbjawɛ ˈbwɔtɔ] (German: Weißbruch) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Dzierzgoń, within Sztum County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Stary Dzierzgoń, 27 km (17 mi) south-east of Sztum, and 80 km (50 mi) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.The settlement has a population of 14.
Q7788556 Thomas Comber (1645–1699) was an English churchman, Dean of Durham from 1689.