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Q16479355 Alexeyevsk (Russian: Алексеевск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Q15918207 Maxwell is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Kepler microarchitecture. The Maxwell architecture was introduced in later models of the GeForce 700 series and is also used in the GeForce 800M series, GeForce 900 series, and Quadro Mxxx series, all manufactured ...
Q24034447 "Loud Places" is a song by English electronic music producer Jamie xx, with featured vocals from Romy Madley Croft of The xx. It was released as a single on 27 March 2015. A music video for the song was released on the same day through YouTube. The song peaked at number 55 on the French Singles Chart and numb...
Q154346 Jozef Tiso (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzɛf ˈtisɔ]; 13 October 1887 –18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who governed the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. After the war, he was executed in 1947 for war crimes and crimes against hu...
Q7528405 Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, SL (30 January 1606 – 25 June 1674) was an English common law jurist, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Q4639851 The 509th Infantry Regiment is an Airborne Infantry regiment of the United States Army. Previously titled the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment or 509th (PIR), this battalion was activated at fort Benning, Georgia as the 504th Parachute Infantry Battalion in October 1941. After qualifying its first paratrooper...
Q5307882 Drive is the debut solo album by New Zealand artist Bic Runga, released in August 1997 in New Zealand. The album was released the following year in Australia and Europe, and on 21 July 1998 in the United States.This album went seven times platinum in New Zealand. The album won New Zealand Music Award for Albu...
Q4743408 American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey v. Schundler, 168 F.3d 92 (3rd Cir. 1999), is a United States federal case establishing standards for a government-sponsored holiday display to contain religious symbols. It was decided by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on February 16, 1999.
Q701034 The arrondissement of Commercy is an arrondissement of France in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region. It has 135 communes.
Q1144640 Weldon Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, Texas, United States.
Q6519783 Leighton Road (Chinese: 禮頓道) is a main road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. It begins east of Causeway Road and ends at the west of the junction with Morrison Hill Road and Canal Road.
Q513236 The 1987 Davis Cup was the 76th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 71 teams would enter the competition, 16 in the World Group, 32 in the European Zone (including 11 in the Africa Zone), 13 in the Eastern Zone, and 11 in the American Zone. Sweden defeated India i...
Q4942648 Chen Yufeng (Chinese: 陈玉凤, born January 17, 1970) is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics.In 1996 she won the silver medal with the Chinese team. She played two matches.
Q4728644 All Broken Up and Dancing is a novel written by the Singaporean author and musician Kelvin Tan. It deals with the main protagonist Brinsley Bivouac's search for identity and self-worth. Tan published the novel when he was 26 years old. The first edition was published by Thesaurus Media Publications in 1992, ...
Q7625444 Struthio linxiaensis is an extinct species of ratite from the Miocene of China.
Q6407086 Kill Casino is an English rock band, featuring Karen Luan on lead vocals and bass, Chris Ryan on guitar and Paul-Luc Gifford on drums.
Q5306269 Dream is a sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m (equivalent to £2.37 million in 2018), it was funded through The Big Art Project in coordination with the Arts Council England, The Art Fund and Channel 4.
Q6512193 Lectionary 275, designated by siglum ℓ 275 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.Scrivener labelled it as 181e,The manuscript has complex contents.
Q6633980 The district of Rother, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex, has more than 120 current and former places of worship. As of 2019, 87 active churches and chapels serve the mostly rural area, and a further 38 former places of worship still stand but are no longer in religio...
Q7370213 Rotafolia songziensis is a species of the extinct Sphenophyllales horsetails.
Q14522823 Xyleutes xanthotherma is a moth in the family Cossidae described by George Hampson in 1919. It is found in Peru.
Q24950126 Tetavali is a small village in Dapoli Taluka, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state in Western India. The 2011 Census of India recorded a total of 2,008 residents in the village. Tetavali is 761.84 hectares in size.
Q26130414 Michael Edward Tobey (born October 10, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Valencia Basket of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers.
Q7869338 USS Fearless (AM/MSO-442) was an Aggressive-class minesweeper. She was the third United States Navy ship to carry the name.Fearless was launched on 17 July 1953 by Higgins, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Higgins, Jr.; and commissioned on 22 September 1954, Lieutenant J. Roberts in comman...
Q7319001 Rew Street is a village on the Isle of Wight. It is located three kilometres southwest of Cowes in the north of the island. The village lies along the main road between Porchfield and Gurnard (where the 2011 Census population was included) and consists of several farming communities. As a result, many of the ...
Q52298 Bursins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Q3572692 Imagawa Yoshitada (今川 義忠, February 26, 1436 – March 1, 1476) was the father of the famed Imagawa Ujichika and the 9th head of the Imagawa clan. Yoshitada spent most of his time invading Tōtōmi Province, attacking the Katsumada and Yokota clans. However, after Yoshitada thought he had destroyed the clans of Kat...
Q6499397 Laura Sabia, (September 18, 1916 – October 17, 1996) was a Canadian social activist and feminist.Born Laura Villela in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Italian immigrants, she played an important part, in the National Chair of the Committee for the Equality of Women, in the creation of the Royal Commission o...
Q7245054 Principal Edwards Magic Theatre was an English performance art collective in the United Kingdom made up of about 14 musicians, poets, dancers, and sound and lighting technicians. It existed between 1968 and 1971, after which core members formed a more conventional rock band under the shortened name Principal ...
Q12672 Alins is a municipality in the comarca of the Pallars Sobirà in Catalonia, Spain. It adjoins France and Andorra. It covers the valleys of the Noguera de Vallferrara and Tor rivers in the north of the comarca. The Pica d'Estats (3142 m, the highest point in Catalonia) is part of the Montcalm Massif on the frontie...
Q7978357 Weaver Junction is a railway junction on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The junction connects the section of line from Ditton to the WCML via Runcorn Railway Bridge, opening on 1 April 1869. Trains bound for Liverpool from London diverge from the WCML at this junction. Weaver Junction is the oldest flying...
Q29616933 Robert Burns Rae (23 July 1912 – 1981) was an English first-class cricketer active 1934–1947 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Littleborough; died in Ulladulla, New South Wales. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. Rae was a Second XI player at Lancashire and appeared only once f...
Q16999016 Night Dubbing is the third album by British soul/dance group Imagination, produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and released in 1983. The album consists of dub remixes of tracks from Imagination's first two albums, Body Talk and In the Heat of the Night, and reached No 9 on the UK Albums chart.All tracks f...
Q6250067 John N. Christenson is a vice admiral in the United States Navy and currently the United States Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, in Brussels, Belgium. He was the 53rd President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from March 2011 to July 2013.
Q7694034 Theodore Kenzo 'Teddy' Kayombo (born 25 January 1991 in Lyon) is a French born Congolese professional footballer, who currently plays for FC Bourgoin-Jallieu.
Q4827203 Yukarıakın is a village in the central district (Karaman) of Karaman Province, Turkey. At 36°53′N 33°01′E it is situated in the Taurus Mountains. Its distance to Karaman is 59 kilometres (37 mi). The population of the village was 151 as of 2011. According to page of Karaman news, the founders of the villa...
Q15031917 Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in TriBeCa, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Artists Space provided an alternative support structure for young,...
Q14187006 Pseudatteria bradleyi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Bolivia.The length of the forewings is about 14 mm. The forewings are deep reddish orange, but cream white in the subcostal area and the external third of the wing. The markings are blue-black. The hindwings are deep reddish...
Q13381186 Lambula nigra is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by van Eecke in 1929. It is found on Buru.
Q16823924 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid 4-O-glucoside is a glucoside of p-hydroxybenzoic acid. It can be found in mycorrhizal (Picea abies-Lactarius deterrimus and Picea abies-Laccaria amethystina) and non-mycorrhizal roots of Norway spruces (Picea abies).The enzyme 4-hydroxybenzoate 4-O-beta-D-glucosyltransferase can be found...
Q3713656 Donald Maurice Washington, Jr. (born April 22, 1952) is an American former professional basketball player. He played for the Denver Nuggets and Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association before embarking on an international professional career that lasted until 1989.He played college basketball for the ...
Q24944734 From the Shallows was a deathcore band from Toledo, Ohio. The band formed in 2005, but over the years, has gone a hiatus. The band has had many members, that included a former member of The Black Dahlia Murder. The band has gotten good reviews from sites such as AllMusic and MetalSucks. The band's debut (and ...
Q10296265 Acacia calligera is a bush belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae. It is native to a few small areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Q3036994 Dore is a large village in South Yorkshire, England. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf which gave Sheffield its name, and until 1934 was part of Derbyshire, but it is now a suburb of the city. Dore is served by Dore and Totley railway station on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manche...
Q5161793 Connex Melbourne was a train operator in Melbourne, Australia. Formed in October 1997 as Hillside Trains, a business unit of the Public Transport Corporation, it was privatised in August 1999 becoming a subsidiary of Connex.In April 2004 it became the sole operator of Melbourne suburban rail services, taking o...
Q6212446 Joe Sparks is an American video game developer, animator, songwriter, web publisher, and multimedia consultant from San Francisco, California.He is mostly notable for creating the Radiskull and Devil Doll web-cartoons which were published on the Macromedia Shockwave website, and saw some Internet popularity ar...
Q8030820 Women's Armed Services Integration Act (Pub.L. 80–625, 62 Stat. 356, enacted June 12, 1948) is a United States law that enabled women to serve as permanent, regular members of the armed forces in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the recently formed Air Force. Prior to this act, women, with the exception of nu...
Q579461 Hariclea Darclée (née Haricli; later Hartulari; 10 June 1860 – 12 January 1939) was a celebrated Romanian operatic soprano of Greek origin who had a three-decade-long career.Darclée's repertoire ranged from coloratura soprano roles to heavier Verdi roles, including many in the Franco-Italian lyric repertory. Th...
Q14912142 Growth differentiation factor 10 (GDF10) also known as bone morphogenetic protein 3B (BMP-3B) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GDF10 gene.GDF10 belongs to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily that is closely related to bone morphogenetic protein-3 (BMP3). It plays a role in head format...
Q1011675 Golubinci (Serbian Cyrillic: Голубинци) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Stara Pazova municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and sizable Croat minority and its population numbering 5,129 people (2002 census).
Q388382 Löbenicht (Lithuanian: Lyvenikė; Polish: Lipnik; Russian: Лёбенихт) was a quarter of central Königsberg, Germany. During the Middle Ages it was the weakest of the three towns that composed the city of Königsberg, the others being Altstadt and Kneiphof. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of K...
Q510441 Stephen Bainbridge (born 7 October 1956) is a former England international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured with the British and Irish Lions on their tour to New Zealand and in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He played amongst other teams for club rugby for Fylde, Gosforth and Orrell R.U.F.C.
Q931772 The 2008 Dakar Rally would have been the 30th running of the annual off-road race. The rally was to start in Lisbon, Portugal on 5 January 2008, running through Europe and Africa until the finish in Dakar, Senegal on 20 January. The event was cancelled one day before the intended start date, due to concerns ove...
Q663377 Henry Laurens (born 1954) is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world. He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab World at the Collège de France, Paris.Laurens specializes in several related areas of research: European-Ottoman contacts in the ...
Q28817373 Speranza pustularia, the lesser maple spanworm, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Mississippi, north to North Dakota and Saskatchewan.The wingspan is 18–27 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July in the south and from June to August in the north. There is o...
Q7941080 Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) is national nonprofit dedicated to building a network of free primary health care clinics for the uninsured and medically underserved.
Q5342726 Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay (2 July 1822 – 16 March 1897) was a British jurist. He was an English High Court judge (Chancery Division) from 1881 to 1890, and a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1890, when he was made a Privy Councillor, until his retirement in January 1897.He was born in Meadowcroft near Rochdale and gr...
Q5946468 Hurdsfield House is a former country house, now surrounded by housing, in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It was built for a branch of the Brocklehurst family. During the 20th century it was used as a welfare clinic. The house dates from about 1800, with later additions and alterations. It is ...
Q15242618 Logan Furnace Mansion is a historic home located at Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It is an "L"-shaped building, consisting of a 2 1/2-story, 5-bay stone main house, with a 2-story, stone kitchen ell. The ell was the original home, built 1798 to 1800, and the main house was built in 1818.It wa...
Q7429408 Sazeman-e Shakrian (Persian: سازمان شاكريان‎, also Romanized as Sāzemān-e Shāḵrīān) is a village in Sheykh Musa Rural District, in the Central District of Aqqala County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 137, in 29 families.
Q6823787 Methodist Episcopal Church, often called the Little Stone Church, is a historic church at Liberty and Whittier Street in Ottawa, Minnesota. It was one of the three oldest German Methodist congregations in Minnesota and was built in 1859 in locally quarried pink stone. The building closed in 1952, but was acq...
Q20679831 Shadow Lawn is a historic home located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built in 1826, and is a two-story, five-bay by two-bay, Federal-style brick mansion. It has a gable roof, is set on a full basement, and features three exterior end chimneys. It was the home of Congressman Charles ...
Q23418556 Chantal Butzek (born 25 February 1997 in Paderborn) is a German athlete competing in sprinting and hurdling events. She represented her country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships with reaching the semifinals.
Q1746037 Taber is a town in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Taber. It is located approximately 51 km (32 mi) east of the City of Lethbridge at the intersection of Highway 3 and Highway 36.Taber is famous for its corn due to the large amounts of sunshine the area receives. It is therefore know...
Q2455555 The Tropical Hockey League was an ice hockey league in Miami, Florida. The league had four teams, all based in Miami, and lasted for only one season, 1938–39, before folding. It was notable as the first attempt to establish professional hockey in Florida or the South in general, though it ultimately had no imp...
Q4822514 Aurora Community Channel is an Australian subscription television channel that screens locally produced community television programs. Launched in 2005 on the Foxtel, it is currently on channel 173, prior to the launch of Christian channels on Foxtel, it was on Channel 183. Aurora is available to all digital s...
Q3361200 In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a "tour card," mea...
Q772010 Billy Mundi (born Antonio Salas, September 25, 1942 in San Francisco – March 29, 2014) was an American drummer best known as a member of The Mothers of Invention and Rhinoceros. He also worked as a session musician. He sometimes used the name Tony Schnasse.A former Hells Angel, his career dates back to the late...
Q4890318 Bent Flyvbjerg (born 1952) is a Danish economic geographer. He is Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and the first Director of the University's BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and C...
Q1106217 Urbise is a commune in the Loire department in central France.It is located 47km north east of Vichy, on departmental route number D8, close to the border with Saône-et-Loire.
Q5984514 Ibrahim Didi (Dhivehi: އިބްރާހީމް ދީދީ) is a politician from the Maldives.
Q5545613 George Washington Freeman (June 13, 1789 – April 29, 1858) was the second Episcopal bishop of Arkansas and Provisional Bishop of Texas.Freeman was born of a Congregationalist family in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He did not initially intend a career in the clergy, but he afterward went to North Carolina and stud...
Q7344551 Hestiasula inermis is a species of praying mantis in the genus Hestiasula in the order Mantodea.
Q517220 Cornelius Stewart (born 7 October 1989) is a Vincentian footballer who currently plays for Maziya.
Q5904331 Hornet was an 1851 extreme clipper in the San Francisco trade, famous for its race with Flying Cloud.
Q5616585 Ripley Guinness Rishi (formerly Har Parkash, born (1942-07-07) July 7, 1942, India) holds a number of world records. He is most renowned for having over 200 world flags tattooed on his body, including 49 flags on his face and head. He also has 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' tattooed on his forehead and a map of...
Q1825666 Marcos Fernando Nang (born March 16, 1969) is a former Brazilian football player.
Q9096733 Xosé María Díaz Castro (b. Guitiriz, 19 February 1914 – d. Lugo, 2 October 1990) was a Galician poet and translator.Galician Literature Day is dedicated to him in 2014.
Q18379019 The mixed doubles soft tennis event was part of the soft tennis programme and took place on October 1, at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts.
Q18811128 Nigel Philip Godfrey (born 25 April 1951) is an Anglican priest: he has been the Dean of Peel since 2011.He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1980. He was Curate at St John the Divine, Kennington from 1979 to 1989; and then Vicar at Christ Church, Brixton until 2001. He was t...
Q13640364 Gaurena gemella is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet) and Nepal.Adults are similar to Gaurena florescens, but the colour of the forewings is chocolate brown and the markings are white and the spots in the cell are round and of ne...
Q19975670 Byun Kyung-soo (born 13 April 1958) is a South Korean sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Q1163639 Daniele Amati (born 11 August 1931 in Rome) is an Italian theoretical physicist, specializing in particle physics.
Q173593 Jorge Alberto Daponte (5 June 1923 – 9 March 1963) was a racing driver from Argentina.Daponte was born in Buenos Aires. He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, appearing for the first time on 17 January 1954, and scoring no championship points. He also participated in several non-Cham...
Q5515604 The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research Inc. (GDI) was formally incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 1980, to serve the educational and cultural needs of the Saskatchewan Métis and Non-Status Indian community. The Institute is designated as the official education arm of the M...
Q3381897 Anthony James Lucca (born January 23, 1976), is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is perhaps best known for starting his career on The Mickey Mouse Club. After the Mickey Mouse Club, Lucca went to Los Angeles, California, for a brief career as an actor, then became a full-time musician....
Q5184670 Crestwood Hills is a neighborhood within Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, located on the ridges to the north and east of Kenter Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. It is best known for its mid-century modern architecture, and contains several homes designated as architectural landmarks by the State of Ca...
Q483212 Seomyeon Station is a station on the Busan Metro Line 1 and Line 2 located in Bujeon-dong, Busanjin District, Busan.The station is connected underground to the main Busan branch of Lotte Department Store, Judies Taehwa, Daehyun Primall, and the Seomyeon Underground Shopping Center.Between 2010 and 2014, Seomye...
Q2906598 Mareno Michels (born 23 October 1984, in Dordrecht) is a darts player from the Netherlands. He competes in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Q7057163 The North Wales Weekly News is one of a group of newspapers published weekly in Llandudno.
Q7407543 Sam Greenblatt Was the vice president of technology and architecture (CTO) in the Enterprise Solution Group of the Dell Corrporation, he is heavily involved in the architecture, communication and technical promotion of Dell's Enterprise family of products. He helps to drive the ESG company's development teams...
Q5991746 Iglandini de Jesús González Pardo (born 5 February 1965) long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics in the women's marathon race (1996 and 2000). She set her personal best – and the Colombian national record (2:35:19) – in the classic distance on 3 March...
Q6858383 The Mill Reef Club is a 1,500-acre members-only club that includes five miles of shoreline and three islands on the east coast of Antigua.The Club was founded in 1947 by Connecticut architect Robertson 'Happy' Ward (1897–1988), with initial capital of $38,000. There were 45 founding members, each paying $7,500...
Q4872070 The Battle of Point Judith is the popular name for a naval engagement fought between the United States and Nazi Germany during World War II on May 5 and 6, 1945. American surface combatants and two blimps sank a German U-boat off Point Judith, Rhode Island in one of the last actions of the Battle of the Atlant...
Q4964895 Brian O'Connell is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, record producer and actor. He is the bassist and producer for Pakistani sufi rock band Junoon.O'Connell and Salman Ahmad were friends of one another since high school. O'Connell joined Junoon when keyboardist, Nusrat Hussain, left the b...
Q2187840 Thorsager is a small town in Jutland, Denmark with a population of 1,329 (1 January 2014 census), located in Thorsager Parish, 6 km north of Rønde. The town lies in Syddjurs Municipality and lies in the Central Denmark Region.Thorsager is especially known for its church, which is Jutland's only round church. I...
Q6949779 Márta Giba (Hungarian: [ˈmaːrtɒ ˈɡibɒ]; born 1943) is a former Hungarian handball player and World champion, who was voted the Hungarian Handballer of the Year in 1971.A one-team player, Giba played for Ferencvárosi TC between 1962 and 1979, during which period she won three Hungarian championships and as many...
Q7177677 Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson (born 24 February 1968) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Greens member of the Australian Senate since 21 June 2012. On 20 June 2012 he was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of former party leader Bob Brown on 15 June 2012.
Q6752999 Manuel de la Concha was a Spanish commissioned officer of the military forces under Félix María Calleja del Rey Bruder Losada Campaño y Montero de Espinosa, Viceroy of New Spain;his rank was Colonel. In 1815 Manuel de la Concha apprehended insurgent General José María Morelos y Pavón.
Q7728705 The Daily Outlook Afghanistan is the first independent English newspaper in Afghanistan. It covers national and international news with circulation of 10,000. It is published by Afghanistan Group of Newspapers, an independent media group which also publishes The Daily Afghanistan, the largest Dari and Pashto p...