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Q14950046 Gitte Kousgaard Pedersen (born 22 January 1979) is a Danish international footballer, currently playing for B93/HIK/Skjold in the Elitedivisionen. While in a relationship with male footballer Thomas Gravesen, she previously played in Germany with SV Hamburg and England with Everton. Gravesen was playing profe... |
Q16152644 The 1918–19 Lancashire Cup was the eleventh competition for this regional rugby league tournament and the first since 1914–15. This quickly arranged competition was won by the holders Rochdale Hornets who beat local rivals Oldham in the final at The Willows, Salford by a score of 22-0. The attendance at the f... |
Q20649002 Miss Earth India or Miss India Earth is a title given to the Indian woman who represents India in the Miss Earth Pageant, an annual, international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. The national pageant which chooses the Indian representative for Miss Earth is Miss Divine Beauty of India, which... |
Q19952774 Tarek Abdallah is an Egyptian oud player, composer and musicologist who lives in France. |
Q7123343 Paddle-to-the-Sea is a 1941 children's book, written and illustrated by American author/artist Holling C. Holling and published by Houghton Mifflin. It was recognized as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942.The film Paddle to the Sea, based on this book but omitting many details, was produced by the National Film Bo... |
Q5524627 Gary James Ayres (born 28 September 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club. He is currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q7947038 WTOU is a radio station in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, owned by Duey Wright's Midwest Communications, Inc. It broadcasts in the AM radio band at 930 kHz. Established in 1948 as WBCK, the station simulcasts an urban adult contemporary format with WNWN (1560 AM). |
Q7408685 Samantha Ketipe (born February 15, 1974) is a Sri Lankan-born Italian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler who has represented Italy since 2002.Ketipe first represented Italy at a 2002 European Championship warm-up match, making his debut against Austria, and taking three wic... |
Q101204 Erwin Conradi (* February 12, 1935, Frankfurt am Main) was as head of Metro AG one of the most important managers in trade business.He studied industrial engineering, then worked from 1959 at IBM and from 1971 at Metro.From 1996 until 2000 he was chairman of the board, after Kaufhaus, Asco and Cash & Carry had ... |
Q615413 Vambery or Vámbéry may refer to:Vambery - Vámbéry, a Hungarian surname.Ármin Vámbéry - Arminius Vambery (1832–1913), Hungarian traveller, philologistRusztem Vámbéry - Rustem Vambery (1872–1948), Hungarian jurist, politician.Robert Vambery (1907-1999), Hungarian émigré librettist |
Q503372 Hahnbach is a municipality in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria in Germany. There are living at the moment about 5000 people. The most important districts are: Fronbergsiedlung, Friedhofsiedlung, Süd 3, Markt. About 2000 of the 5000 people are not living in Hahnbach by itself, they are living in villag... |
Q597502 Nicola Ascoli (born 11 September 1979 in Vibo Valentia) is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender. He spent most of his career playing in Serie B and Serie C.In 2012, Ascoli became the director of sport at Serie D side Asti and joined the coaching staff under Enrico Pasquali after obtaining his c... |
Q2096670 Misterton is a village and civil parish 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of Crewkerne, Somerset, England. |
Q4879521 Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson (born 7 March 1974) is a British food writer, journalist and historian and the author of five books on food-related subjects. |
Q5034431 Charles Andrew "Cap" Peterson (August 15, 1942 – May 16, 1980) was an American Major League Baseball player. An outfielder who appeared in eight MLB seasons, he played with the San Francisco Giants from 1962 to 1966, the Washington Senators from 1967 to 1968, and the Cleveland Indians in 1969. He split time be... |
Q487285 Vladimir Jovančić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Јованчић, pronounced [ʋlǎdimiːr jǒʋaːntʃitɕ]; born 31 May 1987) is a Serbian footballer. |
Q7260093 Punduloya is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. |
Q7854034 Turbonilla cinctella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
Q3409558 Austroderia is a genus of five species of tall grasses native to New Zealand, commonly known as toetoe. The species are A. toetoe, A. fulvida, A. splendens, A. richardii and A. turbaria. They were recently reclassified in 2011 from the genus Cortaderia, although their distinctiveness had been recognized as ear... |
Q16216749 Guy Rucker (born July 27, 1977) is a retired professional basketball power forward who played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Golden State Warriors during the 2002–03 season. Born in Inkster, Michigan, he attended the University of Iowa and played on their basketball... |
Q20716081 Tribhuvan Ram is an Indian politician and member of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Ram is a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party, and represents Ajagara constituency of Uttar Pradesh. |
Q1035727 NGC 208 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 229 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on October 5, 1863 by Albert Marth. |
Q28136283 High Seas Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act of 1992 is United States declaration citing an observance of the United Nationsinternational driftnet fishery conservation program to restrict large scale driftnet fishing in high seas or international waters. The Act of Congress acknowledges the United Nations Gen... |
Q28370268 Armand Richard Vial (born September 28, 1954) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives. He represented the 26th district, which covers parts of southern Washington County and the extreme west of Clackamas County. |
Q473919 Lectoure (French pronunciation: [lɛktuʀ]; Gascon: Leitora [lejˈtuɾɔ]) is a commune in the Gers department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France.It is located 32 km (20 mi) north of Auch, the capital of the department, 30 km (19 mi) south of Agen and approximately 76 km (47 mi) northwest of Toulouse. |
Q492112 The Andraus Building is a well-known building in the República area of downtown São Paulo, Brazil, on the corner of São João Avenue and Pedro Américo Street. It is 115 metres tall and has 32 floors, and its construction ended in 1962. On February 24, 1972, the building suffered a great fire which caused the dea... |
Q5313713 Dumber & Dumberest was a comedy programme produced by Square Donkey for British television channel Five. |
Q6905212 Montenegro Shipping Lines, Inc. (MSLI) is a domestic shipping line with headquarters at the port of Batangas City in the Philippines. It operates passenger, cargo and roll-on/roll-off for vehicular traffic traveling between islands of the Philippines. |
Q5533620 Gentiana clausa, the bottle gentian, is a 1'–2' tall flowering plant in the Gentianaceae family. It is native to Eastern North American moist meadows and woods at higher elevations, from Quebec in the north, through the Appalachian range to North Carolina and Tennessee in the south. It has paired, lanceolate l... |
Q4570685 The 1962 Boston Red Sox season was the 62nd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished eighth in the American League (AL) with a record of 76 wins and 84 losses, 19 games behind the AL pennant winner and eventual World Series champion New York Yankees. |
Q1631119 Peñalba de Ávila is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 123 inhabitants.Peñalba de Ávila is 17 kilometers away from Madrid. It comprises 23 kilometers of surface area and its altitude is 1073 meters a... |
Q824100 Delray Beach is a coastal city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population of Delray Beach was estimated at 68,749 in 2017. That is up from 60,522 according to the 2010 United States Census. Situated 52 miles north of Miami, Delray Beach is in the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an e... |
Q4777140 Antonius de Liedekerke, also Antonie Charles de Liedekercke (1587–1661) was a Dutch sea captain and ambassador to the court of the king of Morocco Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir in the 17th century.Liedekerke was born in Antwerp. In 1627 he married Willemina van Braeckel (1604/5-after 1661). In 1637 the couple... |
Q3520743 The End of Days is the eleventh album by steampunk band Abney Park, and their third steampunk-themed album. The album was released on October 15, 2010. |
Q6793670 Maurie "Mocha" Dunstan (25 March 1929 – 17 May 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Dunstan had been on Collingwood's radar since his late teens but was only convinced by the club to join them after spending two seasons with Preston in the ... |
Q6733523 Mahatma Gandhi Road is a station of the Kolkata Metro. The station is located at Burrabazar. |
Q12786354 Branka Jurca (24 May 1914 – 6 March 1999) was a Slovene writer, best known for her work for children and young adults.Jurca was born in Kopriva in the Karst region of what is now Slovenia in 1914. After the First World War the family moved to Maribor where she grew up. She worked as a teacher until the outbre... |
Q6992793 Neoepimorius lineola is a species of snout moth in the genus Neoepimorius. It was described by Whalley in 1964, and is known from Brazil (including Sao Paulo, the type location). |
Q16057818 A Kind of Childhood is a 2002 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Tareque Masud and Catherine Masud. The film was awarded the Jury Prize at the International Video Festival of India in 2003. |
Q5707226 Bakhsh Kandi (Persian: بخش كندي, also Romanized as Bakhsh Kandī) is a village in Lakestan Rural District, in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 366, in 91 families. |
Q16246965 This is a complete filmography of Betty Grable, an American actress, dancer, and singer. As a major contract star for 20th Century-Fox during the 1940s and 1950s, she starred in a succession of musicals and romantic comedies.Grable began her career in 1929 at age twelve, after which she was fired from a contr... |
Q16852543 Kalaimanokahoʻowaha (also known as Kanaʻina) was an aliʻi high chief of the island of Hawai'i who lived during the period of Captain James Cook's visit and western naming of the Sandwich Islands. He was the chief said to have struck the first blow to Cook when he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the king of ... |
Q3154125 Jo Jo Dan (born Ionuț Dan Ion; 9 August 1981) is a Romanian professional boxer and world title challenger. He currently fights out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
Q2609396 Stator vachelliae is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America, North America, and South America. |
Q490513 A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country. It is thus distinguished from a foreign portfolio investment by a notion of direct control.The origin of the investment does not impact the definition, as... |
Q7097677 Operation Union II was a search and destroy mission in the Quế Sơn Valley carried out by the 5th Marine Regiment. Launched on May 26, 1967 the operation ended June 5. U.S. reported the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) lost 594 killed and 23 captured, while U.S. casualties were 110 killed and 241 wounded. |
Q5149078 Colors is a Gizmondo game that uses the console's GPS system to allow the player to play in the area where the player is located in real life, in the game. Colors was intended to be the world’s first GPS video game, but due to Gizmondo’s bankruptcy, it was never officially released.There was a mostly complete ... |
Q717618 Michael David Kors (born Karl Anderson Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is the chief creative officer of his brand, Michael Kors, which sells men's and women's and ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, jewelry, footwear and fragrance. Kors was the first women's ready-to-wear designer for ... |
Q899217 In organic chemistry, hyperconjugation is the interaction of the electrons in a sigma orbital (e.g. C–H or C–C) with an adjacent empty (or partially filled) non-bonding or antibonding σ or π orbital to give an extended molecular orbital. Increased electron delocalization associated with hyperconjugation increas... |
Q968627 Angelo Ruffini (Pretare of Arquata del Tronto,1864 – 1929) was an Italian histologist and embryologist.He studied medicine at the University of Bologna, where beginning in 1894 he taught classes in histology. In 1903 he attained the chair of embryology at the University of Siena.He was the first to describe sma... |
Q7967325 Wandynów [vanˈdɨnuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koło, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Koło and 124 km (77 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań. |
Q16211870 Khristinn Kellie Leitch FRCSC (born July 30, 1970) is a Conservative MP in the House of Commons of Canada and former surgeon. She was first elected in 2011, succeeding Member of Parliament Helena Guergis who was dismissed from the Conservative Party caucus. Following her election, Leitch was appointed as th... |
Q5483067 Francisco Castro Ada (September 26, 1934 – March 2, 2010) was a Northern Mariana Islands politician. Ada served as the first Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from January 9, 1978, until January 11, 1982, under Carlos S. Camacho, the territory's first governor.Ada is cred... |
Q6592954 For the Summer Olympics, there have been seven venues that have been or be used to host taekwondo. |
Q6499778 Laurel Creek Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located near Lillydale, Monroe County, West Virginia. It was built in 1910. The shortest covered bridge in the state, it measures 34 feet, 6 inches long and 13 feet, 2 1/2 inches wide. It has wood siding painted red and a galvanized metal roof. By 1981... |
Q7441669 Search for the Gods is a 1975 television film directed by Jud Taylor, and stars Kurt Russell and Stephen McHattie. It was intended to be the pilot episode of a TV series that never made it into production. |
Q7876392 Ubalanka is one of the Village in Ravulapalem Mandal in East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh State. |
Q2963309 The Indo-Pacific shorttail conger (Coloconger scholesi), also known as the short-tail conger, is an eel in the family Colocongridae (worm eels/short-tail eels). It was described by Chan William Lai-Yee in 1967. It is a marine, deep-water dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including southern Moz... |
Q16845458 Emil Løjborg Kristensen (born 20 September 1992) is a Danish ice hockey defenceman. He is currently under contract with KooKoo of the Finnish Liiga. He signed a one year contract with the team in 2017 after playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). |
Q16977486 Ignazio Corrao (born 14 January 1984) is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement and he is a member of the European Parliament since 2014.Corrao was born in Rome and grew up in Alcamo, Sicily.He is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Development and the European Parliament Committee on C... |
Q20898436 Robert D. Lukens, Ph.D., (c. 1973 – August 2, 2015) was an American collection manager, historian and columnist. During his career, Lukens oversaw exhibitions at the United States Capitol Visitor Center in Washington D.C. He served as the President of the Chester County Historical Society from 2011 until 2015... |
Q18596565 Rivomarginella is a genus of freshwater snails, gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.Rivomarginella is the only freshwater genus in the marine family Marginellidae. |
Q21535108 Achille Simonetti (1838–1900) was a sculptor in Australia. He undertook many important commissions. |
Q4258156 The Leningrad Okrug (Russian: Ленингра́дский о́круг) was an okrug that briefly existed within the Leningrad Oblast in the Soviet Union, between 1927 and 1930. It covered the city currently known as Saint Petersburg, which was named Leningrad at the time. On July 23, 1930, the okrugs were abolished and the dist... |
Q1905813 Great Scott Township is a township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 561 at the 2010 census.U.S. Highway 169 and Saint Louis County Highway 25 (CR 25) are two of the main routes in the township. Highway 169 runs east–west throughout the township. CR 25 runs north–south throu... |
Q4728979 All India Radio are an Australian electronic band. The music is lo-fi, downtempo and instrumental. They are a partially live band and partially studio-based project. The founding (and constant) member of the band is Martin Kennedy, formerly of Melbourne band Pray TV.All India Radio has released nine albums sin... |
Q5029920 Engineers Canada (French: Ingénieurs Canada) is the national organization of the 12 provincial and territorial associations that regulate the practice of engineering in Canada. Engineers Canada serves these associations, which are its sole members, by delivering national programs for standards of engineering e... |
Q7544226 Smash Our Stuff is an internet phenomenon that features a group of Canadian men from planetboredom.net purchasing a popular product, and destroying it in front of other people who are waiting in line to purchase it. The site started as "Smash My iPod", which involves smashing an iPod in front of the waiting cr... |
Q5471904 Fort Reno is a former United States Army cavalry post west of El Reno, Oklahoma. It is named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain in the American Civil War. |
Q7561860 Sonic Postcards was an educational sound art recording project first conducted within UK primary schools in which children recorded their local environment and constructed short "sonic postcard" musique concrète pieces. Sonic Postcards was awarded the New Statesman New Media Award for education in 2006. It was... |
Q6184604 Jerry Wampfler (born August 6, 1932) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colorado State University from 1970 to 1972, compiling a record of 8–25. Prior to being hired at Colorado State, Wampfler was an assistant football coach at the University of Notre Dam... |
Q6387163 The Kemptville 73's are a Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team based in Kemptville, Ontario. They play in the Central Canada Hockey League of the Ottawa District Hockey Association. |
Q842817 Idaho State Highway 43 is a state highway located in Bonneville County, Idaho. SH-43 is 3.868 miles (6.225 km) long and runs from its southern terminus at U.S. Route 26 in Beachs Corner to its northern terminus at U.S. Route 20 in Ucon. The highway is maintained by the Idaho Transportation Department. |
Q7681730 The Tampa Spartans football program was an intercollegiate American football team for the University of Tampa (UT) located in Tampa, Florida that began play in 1933. The program competed against other small college programs in the forerunner of today's NCAA Division II for almost forty years before moving to t... |
Q7247181 The Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers were first published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 1847. The Proceedings were published under this single title until 1963, when they began to be published in two parts. The Proceedings have since expanded further, in part by i... |
Q2246388 Schmiede- und Schlossermuseum Schwalbach is a museum of smithery and locks in Saarland, Germany. |
Q6830454 The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, known as the McMaster University School of Medicine prior to 2003, is the medical school of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences. It is one of two medical programs in Canada, along with the Unive... |
Q15216428 The Elesavetgrad Cemetery DCHBA is a 2.6 acre Jewish cemetery located in Southeast Washington, D.C. The cemetery was established in December 1911. This cemetery is adjacent to the Ohev Sholom, Adas Israel, Bet Mishpachah and Washington Hebrew cemeteries. |
Q17612233 Charles Davis Tull (born November 12, 1991) is an American football linebacker who is a free agent. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 2015. He played college football at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. |
Q18619263 Gizem Gönültaş (born July 13, 1993) is a Turkish women's football forward currently playing in the Turkish Women's First League for Beşiktaş J.K. with jersey number 10. She played in the national teams of Turkish girls' U-17, women's U-19, women's U-21 and lately in the Turkey women's team. |
Q25095161 Handle with Care is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band featuring performances recorded in Germany in 1963 for the Atlantic label. |
Q24971358 Forest–Southview Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in an exclusively residential section of Hammond. It developed between about 1912 and 1949, and includes notable... |
Q24572692 Jake Arnold Fraley (born May 25, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Seattle Mariners organization. |
Q2047097 The "V bombers" were the Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V force or Bomber Command Main Force. The three models of strategic bomber, known collectively as the V class, were the Vickers Valiant, ... |
Q312920 Marek Heinz (born 4 August 1977) is a Czech former professional football striker. |
Q7969370 The Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta is a regatta on the River Thames in England. It is the local regatta of the villages of Wargrave in Berkshire and Shiplake in Oxfordshire. Some of the boats used are of a traditional clinker-built style, others are fibre-glass.The regatta is believed to have been officially foun... |
Q7411638 Samuel Harrison Smith (January 27, 1772 – November 1, 1845) was an American journalist and newspaper publisher. He founded the National Intelligencer at Washington in 1800. |
Q6796874 Mayas-USA is a team of the World Basketball Association that began play in 2007. It is owned by the Liga Nacional Balonocesto Professional (the primary basketball league in Mexico)'s Mayas de Yucatan, and plays its games in Dallas, Texas. Mayas-USA defeated the Gwinnett Ravia-Rebels 114 to 104 in the 2007 leag... |
Q132217 George Murdock (June 25, 1930 – April 30, 2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on television. |
Q4822515 Greggory "Gregg" Nations is an American television writer and script coordinator. He wrote several episodes for The District and Nash Bridges with Carlton Cuse. Nations is a co-producer of the television show Lost, and created its Bible after re-reading the scripts and creating a timeline.He was nominated for ... |
Q874431 Henri Hiltl (born Heinrich Hiltl) (8 October 1910-25 November 1982) was an Austrian, naturalized French footballer. |
Q17036610 Note: For the song, see "What Love Has Joined Together"What Love Has...Joined Together is a 1970 album by R&B group The Miracles AKA "Smokey Robinson & The Miracles" on Motown Records' Tamla label (TS301). A concept album consisting solely of six extended-length love songs, it charted at #97 on the Billboard ... |
Q15451811 Harold Duane Vietor (December 29, 1931 – July 23, 2016) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. |
Q5082329 Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (Charles Lysberg) (1 May 1821 – 14 February 1873) was a Swiss pianist and composer. |
Q10513956 Masengo Ilunga is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder for club sides in Zaire, Greece and Cyprus. |
Q7127825 Pallepola Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Matale District, of Central Province, Sri Lanka. |
Q3576295 Zurab Mtchedlishvili (born 22 October 1971 in Tbilisi) is a former Georgian rugby union player. He played as a lock.He played for several teams in France, including Millau, Albi, Stade Domontais and Figeac.He had 45 caps for Georgia, from 1995 to 2007, scoring 4 tries, 20 points on aggregate. He was called for... |
Q16967661 Precocious (4 April 1981 – 25 August 2006) was an undefeated British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He raced only as a two-year-old, with his career being restricted to a period of less than four months between April and August 1983. After winning a highly competitive maiden race on his racecourse debut he ... |
Q18145198 Robert Moloney is a Canadian actor, best known for playing Professor Alistair Gryffen in the TV series K-9. |
Q23058385 The women's 200 metre Individual medley event at the 2015 All-Africa Games took place on 10 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex. |
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