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Q14809870 Obereopsis flaveola is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1957. |
Q18397620 Božidar Munćan (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Мунћан), also known by his nickname Boža (Serbian Cyrillic: Божа), was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. |
Q1785973 The ANA Inspiration (formerly known most recently as the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and still sometimes referred to as the Dinah Shore) is one of the five major championships of professional women's golf. An event of the LPGA Tour, it is held yearly at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Californ... |
Q782592 Joseph "Jos" Montferrand (born Joseph Favre; October 25, 1802 – October 4, 1864) was a French-Canadian logger, strong man and hero of the working man, who was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw.Joseph Montferrand, dit Favre was born in the St. Lawrence district of Montreal i... |
Q1519049 Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage and Mark Perez. The plot follows a group of high school graduates who create their own fake college after being rejected from the colleges to which they applied. The story takes place in Wickliffe and a fic... |
Q968313 Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967. Chicken Shack has performed with various line-ups, Stan Webb being th... |
Q5279314 Dionciel (Donny) Armstrong (born December 29, 1973) is an American writer, director, and producer in the film industry. He is currently the president and CEO of Mind Vision Productions. The youngest of five siblings, Armstrong was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. |
Q1441659 Wat Si Muang or Simuong (Lao: ວັດສີເມືອງ) is a Buddhist temple in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. |
Q6317659 Justin Harper (born February 24, 1985 in Catawba, North Carolina) is an American college football coach and former professional Canadian football wide receiver. He served as the Interim Head Coach at Virginia State University. He became the Wide Receivers Coach at Towson University in Towson, Maryland during t... |
Q6126084 Jalan Belimbing (Pahang state route C19) is a major road in Pahang, Malaysia. It is also a main route to Lake Chini. |
Q5014477 Minerul Mehedinți was a Romanian professional football club from Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania, founded in 1994 and dissolved in early 2015. |
Q7727055 The Company Band is the debut eponymous studio album by rock supergroup The Company Band. |
Q4548811 The 12th Light Infantry Division is a formation of the Iraqi Army. It was activated in the 1970s or 1980s, probably disbanded after 1991, but reformed in 2008. It was an armoured division during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The U.S. 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) , Task Force 1-41 Infantry, and 2nd Armored ... |
Q3665264 Santiago González and Travis Rettenmaier were the defending champions but decided not to participate this year.Another Mexican-American pair: Daniel Garza and Eric Nunez won in the final of this year's edition. They defeated Alejandro González and Carlos Salamanca 7–5, 6–4 in the final. |
Q3034454 Hōjō Domain (北条藩, Hōjō-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Awa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on what is now part of the modern city of Tateyama, Chiba.In the han system, Hōjō was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and p... |
Q3227668 A Song for Tibet is a 1991 Canadian short documentary film about efforts of Tibetans in exile, led by the Dalai Lama, to free their homeland and preserve their heritage. Directed by Anne Henderson, A Song for Tibet received the Award for Best Short Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards as well as the People's C... |
Q7690250 Taylors Mills is an unincorporated community located within Manalapan Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The main road that runs through the area is named for the community, Taylors Mills Road. |
Q15427908 The UAE Oaks is a flat horse race in the United Arab Emirates for three-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over 1900 metres on dirt at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai in late February or early March.It was first contested in 2001 over 1800 metres on dirt at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse before being transferred to Meydan... |
Q16904025 Yeadon railway station was a goods only railway station in West Yorkshire that operated between 1894 and 1964. A station for Yeadon was first proposed in 1881 when the North Eastern Railway were approached to build a line between Horsforth and Guiseley via Yeadon. The North Eastern declined to be involved so... |
Q18149075 Coin Drop! is an iOS game developed by Full Fat and released on April 19, 2011. |
Q24748044 Eastern Railway Divisional Stadium or Loco Ground is a multi purpose stadium in Asansol, West Bengal. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The stadium has hosted a Ranji Trophy match in 1982 when Bengal cricket team played against Orissa cricket team but sinc... |
Q5973815 Pyrgus maculatus is an East Palearctic butterfly in the Hesperiidae (Pyrginae) family. It is found in South Siberia (Altai to Ussuri) and Japan. The larva feeds on Spiraea species (including Spiraea ussuriensis and Spiraea media) and Potentilla freyniana. |
Q599903 The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) in rugby union. They are ranked third in the world by World Rugby as of 18 March 2019. The team competes annually in the current Six Nations Championship, which they have won four... |
Q8022765 Wilmington Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly, and while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, they presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographi... |
Q16014928 Willard Warren Marshall (February 8, 1921 – November 5, 2000) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1942 through 1955, Marshall played for the New York Giants (1942, 1946–1949), Boston Braves (1952[start]), Cincinnati Reds (1952[end]-1953) and Chicago White Sox (1954–1955). He batted left-handed ... |
Q4699613 Ajax Orlando Prospects was an American soccer team, founded in 2002. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.The Prospects played their home ga... |
Q6602116 This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 133 of the United States Reports: |
Q7105421 The Orăștie is a left tributary of the river Mureș in Romania. It discharges into the Mureș near the town Orăștie.The upper reach of the river is also known as Godeanu. The middle reach is locally known as Grădiștea or Beriu. The lower reach, downstream of the confluence with the Sibișel is known as Apa Orașul... |
Q938821 In computer science, more specifically computational complexity theory, Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness is an influential textbook by Michael Garey and David S. Johnson.It was the first book exclusively on the theory of NP-completeness and computational intractability. The... |
Q1107778 ʻUiha is an island in Lifuka district, in the Haʻapai islands of Tonga. It had a population of 638 in 2006 and an area of 5.36 km2 (2.07 sq mi). |
Q1331393 Aluf (Vice Admiral) Eliezer (Eli) Marom ("Chayni") (Hebrew: אליעזר "אלי" מרום "צ'ייני", born in 1955, Sde Eliezer, Upper Galilee, Israel) was the Commander of the Israeli Navy in the years 2007–2011. As of 2015 he serves as the head of the Israel Airports Authority. |
Q350221 For Nuremberg-born composers of the late 17th century, see Johann Krieger and Johann Philipp Krieger.Adam Krieger (7 January 1634 – 30 June 1666) was a German composer. Born in Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche... |
Q10305052 James Arthur Ray (born November 22, 1957) is a leadership and performance advisor, life coach, and author who was found directly responsible for the deaths of three people and convicted of felony negligent homicide. He is the author of Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want, which was a N... |
Q6886891 www.MobileSpeedway.netMobile International Speedway is a 1/2 mile paved oval North American Auto racing track along U.S. Highway 90 in the Mobile County, Alabama community of Irvington. It was built by Walter "Skip" Wetjen, and opened in 1965. |
Q7626150 Stuart Fisher is an English musician, notable for being drummer of alternative rock band Hole between 2009 and 2011. Prior to becoming a member of Hole, Fisher was also the drummer of English psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles and also Fingermonster. He was raised on the Isle of Wight, later relocating to S... |
Q5870644 The history of Heidelberg University starts from its founding in 1386. |
Q5012996 The CMR University School of Legal Studies, formerly CMR Law School, is a law school located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is approved by the Bar Council of India, and it is a constituent college of CMR University, Bangalore. |
Q5193939 The Lexington Historical Museum is a museum with a collection of historic items related to Lexington, Missouri. The Greek Revival building was constructed in 1846 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Old Neighborhoods Historic District. |
Q21176846 Fred A. Mueller (born November 15, 1868 in North Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Mueller was elected to the Assembly in 1924. Additionally, he was Town Clerk of Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. He was a Republican. |
Q27870158 Zapopan is the thirty-sixth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on 18 November 2016. It is his tenth release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings.Zapopan features reworked/remixed and re-titled versions of songs which were originally released on Saber, Querer, Osar... |
Q29915509 My Hero Academia has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump July and 23 volumes have been collected in tankōbon format. The series has been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media, and began serialization in their weekly digital manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump on February 9, 2015. The story follo... |
Q1876725 Melitoma taurea, the mallow bee, is a species of chimney bee in the family Apidae. It is found in North America. |
Q7875756 Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Zeilin after Brigadier General Jacob Zeilin (1806–1880), the first general officer of the United States Marine Corps, and the seventh Commandant of the Marine Corps (1864–1876).USS Zeilin (DD-313) was a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and d... |
Q5575356 Goatacre is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Calne and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Lyneham on the A3102 road. It is in the parish of Hilmarton and the closest major town is Swindon, some 10 miles (16 km) to the northeast. The hamlet of New Zealand is nearby, to the north... |
Q2538872 Sonnet 153 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare. |
Q16225016 Mark Anthony George Nelson (born 24 September 1986, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire) is an English cricket player who has represented Northamptonshire. He is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He currently represents Great brickhill Cricket Club in Minor Counties cricket.He previously pl... |
Q5386759 Eric Mayorga Howlett (December 27, 1926 – December 11, 2011) was the inventor of the LEEP (Large Expanse Extra Perspective), extreme wide-angle stereoscopic optics used in photographic and virtual reality systems.According to Wayne Carlson, professor of design at Ohio State University:The Large Expanse, Extra ... |
Q4638234 The 45th Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Philippine Scouts in the Philippine Division. |
Q276299 Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes. It was written by Justin Haythe and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. This is the second on-screen collaboration among Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates, all of whom previously co-st... |
Q1305523 The flame-crested manakin (Heterocercus linteatus) is a species of bird in the Pipridae family.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. |
Q2064519 A Business Affair is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Charlotte Brandström and starring Carole Bouquet. Christopher Walken and Jonathan Pryce. The film was produced by the United Kingdom in coordination with France, Germany and Spain and much of the film was shot in London. On one film poster of the fil... |
Q106229 Eugen Täubler (October 10, 1879 – August 13, 1953) was a German historian born in Gostyń.He studied history in Berlin under Otto Hirschfeld (1843–1922), receiving his doctorate in 1904 with a dissertation titled Die Parthernachrichten bei Josephus. From 1910 to 1914 he worked as a lecturer at the Hochschule für... |
Q540059 Sólveig Arnarsdóttir (born 26 January 1973 in Iceland) is an Icelandic actress.Sólveig Arnarsdóttir is the daughter of Icelandic actor Arnar Jónsson and Icelandic actress and politician Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir. Arnarsdóttir graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch" in Berlin. She worked on stage at the Ic... |
Q7029327 Nicolae Soltuz was a Bessarabian politician. |
Q6694297 Loxodonta atlantica is an extinct species of elephant in the genus Loxodonta, from Africa. It was larger than the modern African elephant, with more progressive dentition. It includes Pleistocene fossils from Ternifine, Middle Pleistocene fossils from Elandsfontein and Late Pliocene fossils from the Omo River,... |
Q4117295 The al-Jalili family (Arabic: الجليلي), are an Iraqi family who served as effective rulers of the city of Mosul, Iraq, between 1726 until 1834, during its integration as a district of the Ottoman Empire. They are credited with investing considerable capital in religious institutions and charitable activities, ... |
Q6112576 Jack Franses (1927–2010) was a world expert on Islamic art, carpets and textiles. |
Q14713032 Orange County Airport (ICAO: KOMH, FAA LID: OMH) is a county-owned, public-use airport in Orange County, Virginia, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Orange, Virginia. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for... |
Q16880214 Siah Bisheh (Persian: سياه بيشه) may refer to:Siah Bisheh, AmolSiah Bisheh, Chalus |
Q27989250 Kiah Creek, a shortened version of "Hezekiah's Creek", is a major tributary of the East Fork of Twelvepole Creek in Lincoln and Wayne counties, West Virginia. |
Q27862024 The 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup in England was contested by eight teams. The top four teams in the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship qualified automatically, while the other four places in the tournament were filled by the top four teams in the 2017 Women's World Cup Qualifier, a ten-team tournament. |
Q29017454 Sachiko Murakami (born 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet. She is most noted for her 2008 collection The Invisibility Exhibit, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2008 Governor General's Awards and the Gerald Lampert Award.H... |
Q960401 Weaubleau is a town in Hickory County, Missouri, United States, founded in 1867. The population was 418 at the 2010 census. |
Q5130787 Clear Stream is an 11.8 mile long (19.0 km) river in northern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Androscoggin River, which flows south and east into Maine, joining the Kennebec River near the Atlantic Ocean.Clear Stream flows out of Dixville Notch, a dramatic gap through the mountain... |
Q4806192 Ashwin Navin is an Indian-American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has been compared to more traditional TV measurement firms like Nielsen which re... |
Q3739820 Whiteford Point Lighthouse is located off the coast at Whiteford Point near Whiteford Sands, on the Gower Peninsula, south Wales. |
Q8028975 Woburn Place is a street in central London, England, named after Woburn Abbey. It is located in the Bloomsbury area of Camden.To the north is Tavistock Square and to the south-east is Russell Square. Past Tavistock Square the road becomes Upper Woburn Place until the junction with Euston Road. The Royal Nation... |
Q4705269 The Alabama International Airport Authority was a commission designated with the task of developing a proposal for a new international airport within the state in the 1990s. The airport was envisioned to relieve air traffic from Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport in addition to serving as a replacement... |
Q1109065 NGC 4121 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco. |
Q22828899 Hira Station may refer to:Hira Station (Aichi), JapanHira Station (Shiga), Japan |
Q1338762 Margny-lès-Compiègne is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. |
Q6385533 Keld Markuslund (9 July 1921 – 20 October 1972) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1951 and 1973. |
Q3653253 The Light welterweight competition was the median weight class featured at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and was held at the Mediolanum Forum. Welterweights were limited to a maximum of 64 kilograms in body mass. |
Q20720719 The 2016 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was played between March and April 2016, with the Final Four played April 3 & 5. The regional locations were four neutral sites: Bridgeport, Connecticut, Dallas, Lexington, Kentucky, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Final Four was played at Bankers Life... |
Q7494669 The Sheraton Aleppo Hotel is a former five-star hotel opened in 2007 in the ancient part of Aleppo city, within the historic walls, on Al-Khandaq street, Aqabeh district, near the Bab al-Faraj clock tower. The architecture of the hotel reflects the old traditional style of the Aleppine buildings, combining a h... |
Q7356828 Rodney & the Tube Tops were a short-lived American alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band — which was more of a side-project — included members of Hole, Sonic Youth and White Flag and were eponymously named after frontman, DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. |
Q7312269 Colonel Remy Van Lierde (14 August 1915 – 8 June 1990) was a Belgian pilot and fighter ace who served during World War II in the Belgian and British Air Forces, shooting down six enemy aircraft and 44 V-1 flying bombs, and achieving the RAF rank of Squadron Leader. Van Lierde was made Deputy Chief of Staff to ... |
Q7828299 Totem Bight State Historical Park is a 33-acre (13 ha) state park in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located north of Ketchikan. |
Q17612688 Nancy Glenn-Nieto (born September 20, 1944) is an American-Mexican actress, model, and fine art painter. She is perhaps best known as a model and an actress in Mexico City; however, her art work has become highly collectable. She is the widow of Mexican Oaxacan painter Rodolfo Nieto. |
Q18094005 Jealous Gods is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. It was released on 19 September 2014. The record debuted at number-one on the Finnish Top 40 album chart. |
Q22098293 The Bowmaker Tournament was an invitation pro-am golf tournament played from 1957 to 1970. Except in the first and final years the tournament was held at Sunningdale Golf Club. The main event was a 36-hole stroke play event for the professionals played over two days. There was also a better-ball event for the... |
Q38001983 Marian Brackenridge (16 April 1903, Buffalo, New York – 17 March 1999, Sonoma, California) was an American sculptor known for her portrait busts, bas-reliefs and religious works.She was born in Buffalo, New York, the eldest of the three daughters of William A. and Margaret Brackenridge. Her father was a hydro... |
Q7089224 The Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom is a digital camera manufactured by Olympus. It was first announced during the 2004 Photo Marketing Association Annual Convention and Trade Show. A significant (though not exclusive) feature of the C-770 Movie is its ability to record VGA MPEG-4 video at 30 frames/second. It featu... |
Q208763 The African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of ibis, a wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae. It is native to Africa and the Middle East. It is especially known for its role in the religion of the Ancient Egyptians, where it was linked to the god Thoth. |
Q5725504 Henry Martin (born July 15, 1925, in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American cartoonist. His parents Lyman and Adele Martin were Christians. He has an older brother Lyman Jr. and a younger sister Adele. He went to high school at Texas Country Day (now St. Mark's School of Texas) in Dallas, then graduated from Pri... |
Q950723 Hidden Agenda (1990), directed by Ken Loach, is a political thriller about British state terrorism during the Northern Irish Troubles that depicts the fictional assassination of an American civil rights lawyer. |
Q7138701 Parkside Collegiate Institute, with a population of over 1,000 students, is the largest of four secondary schools in St. Thomas, Ontario. It is part of the Thames Valley District School Board. |
Q4819910 Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software solution for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users and under license for commercial video game developers. It features an audio authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine.Sony Interactive Entert... |
Q1349559 Diplotaxis siettiana, known in Spanish as jaramago de Alborán, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to Alborán Island in the western Mediterranean Sea, where it grows only around the helipad. The natural population became extinct in 1974, but was re-introduced in 1999. Its ... |
Q18032698 Prostate stem cell antigen is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PSCA gene.This gene encodes a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored cell membrane glycoprotein. In addition to being highly expressed in the prostate it is also expressed in the bladder, placenta, colon, kidney, and stomach. This gene ha... |
Q7907301 Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 244 (VMSB-244) was a dive bomber squadron in the United States Marine Corps. The squadron, also known as the “Bombing Banshees”, fought in World War II in the Pacific Theater as part of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. They were deactivated shortly after the end of the war. |
Q5387499 Eric Seymour Sibley (17 November 1915 – 1996) was a professional footballer who played as a defender for Bournemouth, Blackpool, Grimsby Town and Chester. |
Q5146640 College of Art, Delhi, established in 1942 under the arts department of the Delhi College of Engineering now the Delhi Technological University (DTU), is an art college for advanced training in Visual Art i.e. Creative and Applied Art, under the Faculty of Music & Fine Art, University of Delhi, and run by Gove... |
Q7994490 White Box Robotics was founded in 2000 by Thomas Burick.In 2005, White Box was acquired by Frontline Robotics of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and in working together the company designed, developed, manufactured and launched the 914 PC-BOT the first of the 9-series robots, a general service robot designed for digit... |
Q5035516 Capital City Green is the branding of the bus service 27 Cardiff, operated by Cardiff Bus. The route runs from the city centre to the north of the city, serving the Maindy, Heath, Birchgrove and Thornhill districts.The service forms part of the wider Cardiff Bus network and is one of three services to have a u... |
Q5204021 D214 state road is located in the eastern part of Slavonia region of Croatia connecting the cities and towns of Županja and Gunja to the state road network of Croatia, most notably to the A3 motorway Županja interchange via D55 state road and Gunja border crossing to Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The road is ... |
Q5354662 Curaçao elects a legislature called the Estates of Curaçao. It consists of 21 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. The first Estates of Curaçao were the succession of the Island council of Curaçao (a form of devolved government in the Netherlands Antilles), upon the dissolution... |
Q4650701 ACME was established in 2007 in London. The practice operates in the fields of contemporary architecture, urban planning, interior design and product design – working with private, corporate and public clients.Since 2007, ACME has received numerous awards, most notably winning international competitions such a... |
Q5461122 Florida's 27th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress and was created in South Florida during 2012, effective January 2013, as a result of the 2010 Census. The first candidates ran in the 2012 House elections, and the winner was seated for the 113th Congress on January 3, 2013.Th... |
Q11792198 This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the tenth and last parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in 1601.The Parliament met on 7 October 1601 and lasted until 29 December 1601 when it was dissolved. |
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