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Q5643700 Halunda Tavaru (Kannada: ಹಾಲುಂಡ ತವರು) is a 1994 Kannada drama movie starring Vishnuvardhan and Sithara in the lead roles. It was directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by Vizag Raju. The music and lyrics were written and composed by Hamsalekha. The film went on to become a musical blockbuster hit. The movie...
Q7756239 The Passage is a novel series by Justin Cronin. There are three published books in the series. The film rights were acquired by Fox Entertainment Group in 2007 for adaptation into a film trilogy, but after 12 years of development and planning, it has been changed to a television series, premiering in January 2...
Q7191114 The Picton railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main South line in the south-western Sydney suburb of Picton in the Wollondilly Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1863 to 1919. It is also known as the Picton Railway Station group. The pro...
Q1189027 Guy Ryder (born 3 January 1956) is a British political scientist and union organiser who is the tenth and current Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO). He was previously General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (2006–2010) and previous to that position...
Q7332238 Ricky Yang is an Indonesian professional pool player of Chinese ancestry. His nickname is "The Piranha".On Sunday, June 5, 2009, Yang made history in the world of pool by completing his magical winning streak at the 2009 Philippine Open Pool Championship with a smashing 11–4 triumph over Jeff de Luna in the fi...
Q6824534 The Metro Cinema was an independent cinema in Derby, with one screen. It showed many independent, arthouse and foreign films, as well as some older mainstream films.For most of its life, the cinema was located on Green Lane, but it relocated to the University of Derby campus in 2007. In 2008, it closed, in pre...
Q4886828 Benalcázar is an urban parish in the northeastern part of the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador. The parish was named after conquistador Sebastián de Benalcázar. Today its official name is "Inaquito"Located in this parish is the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium, where two local football teams regularly play, Sociedad...
Q1099402 Ochey is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
Q2815904 Hisai Station (久居駅, Hisai-eki) is a railway station on the Nagoya Line in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Kintetsu Railway. Hisai Station is 74.0 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kintetsu Nagoya Station.
Q6436933 Kresimir Marusic (Croatian: Krešimir Marušić; born 23 November 1969) is a former Australian football player who played for several National Soccer League clubs, including Melbourne Knights, Sydney United, Carlton SC, Northern Spirit FC and Sydney Olympic. Marušić won the Johnny Warren Medal for player of the y...
Q2394432 Tarnów Opolski [ˈtarnuf ɔˈpɔlski] (German: Tarnau) is a village in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Tarnów Opolski. It lies approximately 15 km (9 mi) south-east of the regional capital Opole.Before 1945 the area was pa...
Q6497382 The Natural History Museum of Latvia is a natural history museum in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1845 by the Riga Balto-German intelligentsia as part of the Riga Naturalist Society which also established a library. It contains the oldest collection of natural history in the Baltic States.
Q2359422 Birger Cederin (20 April 1895 – 22 March 1942) was a Swedish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Q5620618 Gus Bevona (October 20, 1940 – September 21, 2010) was an American labor leader who served starting in 1981 as head of Local 32B-32J of the Service Employees International Union, who helped his local's elevator operators and janitors who work in New York City commercial and residential buildings some of the be...
Q984836 Dr. Francisco Soca or Soca is a small city in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay.Soca is also the name of the municipality to which the city belongs.
Q5438599 "Favor" is a song by American recording artist Lonny Bereal, featuring guest vocals from American singer Kelly Rowland. Originally recorded by Chris Brown, Lonny Bereal, Teyana Taylor. It was released by Notifi Music Group as the lead single from his upcoming debut album The Love Train on May 17, 2011, and has...
Q6142421 James Marmaduke Rose (31 August 1849 – 18 August 1939) was an Australian politician.Born in Melbourne to James and Mary Ann Rose, he attended Spring Street Model School and became a student teacher and Methodist minister. In 1869 he married Alice Fawkner in Fitzroy, with whom he had nine children; he later mar...
Q16858563 This is a list of football clubs in Finland.
Q7233387 Possession is a young adult dystopian novel trilogy written by Elana Johnson and published by Simon Pulse. The first book in the series, Possession, was published on 7 June 2011, and was followed by Surrender (5 June 2012) and Abandon (4 June 2013). The series follows Vi, a rebellious teen girl who is unwillin...
Q5226899 Dastgerd Rural District (Persian: دهستان دستگرد‎) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Kiar County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,120, in 1,527 families. The rural district has 4 villages.
Q15411017 Trichocladus crinitus (syn. Trichocladus peltatus and Trichocladus vittatus) is a species of the genus Trichocladus, in the family Hamamelidaceae. It is also called Black Witch-hazel.
Q1299141 Jan Schoemaker ((1882 -05-29)29 May 1882 – (1954-05-27)27 May 1954) was a Dutch footballer. He was part of the Netherlands national football team, playing 2 matches. He played his first match on 29 April 1906.
Q974668 Silverton is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The village was formed out of Columbia and Sycamore townships, but withdrew from both and formed a paper township. The population was 4,788 at the 2010 census.
Q3622538 Lucius Trebius Germanus was a governor of Roman Britain in 127, and suffect consul with Gaius Calpurnius Flaccus, the proconsul of Cyprus in 123, at an uncertain date. He is known from a military diploma published in 1997 that bears the date 20 August 127.Anthony Birley provides further information on Trebius ...
Q40129 Marina Bay is a bay located in the Central Area of Singapore surrounded by the perimeter of four other planning areas, the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South and Straits View. The area surrounding the bay itself, also called Marina Bay, is a 360 hectare extension to the adjacent Central Business District. ...
Q7744288 The Kids from OWL was a 26 part children's television series made in New Zealand and shown in 1983 and 1984 during the 1980s. OWL (The Organisation for World Liberty) was a secret government organisation whose agents were young people with physical disabilities. Using devices like laser-beam-firing crutches ...
Q5076368 Charles Colcock Jones Sr. (December 20, 1804 – March 16, 1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia.
Q608036 Richard Henry Clarke (February 9, 1843 – September 26, 1906) was a politician and U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Q2480658 Maryland Route 619 (MD 619) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Sixth Street, the state highway runs 1.09 miles (1.75 km) from an intersection with 5th Avenue north to an interchange with MD 313 and MD 404 within the town of Denton in central Caroline County. MD 619 is the old alignmen...
Q4870089 Battle Poker is a WiiWare game by Left Field Productions that was released in North America on July 20, 2009. It's also available on PlayStation Portable on December 10, 2009.
Q4904362 Biegodzin [bjɛˈɡɔd͡ʑin] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Łobżenica, within Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Łobżenica, 46 km (29 mi) north-east of Piła, and 108 km (67 mi) north of the regional capit...
Q822448 Eugene Tzigane (IPA - Ju:dʒi:n tsi'ga:n) is a symphonic and operatic conductor. He served as Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Germany, until April 2014.
Q5092300 "Cherry Bomb" is a 1976 punk-influenced hard rock single by the all-female band the Runaways from their self-titled debut album, and is often regarded as the band's signature song. "Cherry Bomb" was also ranked 52nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. It peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Ho...
Q4945516 Boriç i Vogël is a settlement in the former Gruemirë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. The village is inhabited by a majority of Serb-Montenegrins, and minority of Albanians, and is part of the wider Vraka regi...
Q2710242 Lacinius is a genus of harvestmen in the family Phalangiidae.
Q2070744 Kossi Prince Segbefia (born 11 March 1991 in Lomé) is a Togolese football player who plays as a midfielder for Gazişehir Gaziantep. Segbefia is a Togolese international and made his debut in September 2011 against Botswana. His older brother, Alikem, is also a footballer who plays for Al-Jaish SC Damascus in S...
Q6400854 Khasian may refer to:Kasian (disambiguation)Khasian languages
Q17011118 The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Summer TV Series.
Q15706242 Sheriff of Wichita is a 1949 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Robert Creighton Williams. The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Lyn Wilde, Clayton Moore and Gene Roth. The film was released on January 22, 1949, by Republic Pictures.
Q24525666 Johnson v. Transportation Agency, 480 U.S. 616 (1987), is the only United States Supreme Court case to address a sex-based affirmative action plan in the employment context. The case was brought by Paul Johnson, a male Santa Clara Transportation Agency employee, who was passed over for a promotion in favor of...
Q28125792 The Snowden House is a historic building located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. William Snowden was a local pharmacist. He had this house built in 1878. It became the home of the Waterloo Women's Club in 1922. The house is a two-story, brick, rectangular Italianate structure. It features a hip roof, a...
Q33101524 You Don't Know Lonely is the third studio album by Australian rock band Tex, Don and Charlie. It was released in June 2017 and debuted at number 14 on the Australian charts.
Q454963 Rik Van Steenbergen (Arendonk, 9 September 1924 – Antwerp, 15 May 2003) was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists.
Q5155119 The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line (CHSL) is a heritage streetcar line in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which follows original streetcar right-of-way between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska and is operated by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum. The heritage line was originally developed in the 1970s by the Minnesota Transpor...
Q581009 Roderick Tracy Long (born February 4, 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Auburn University and left-libertarian blogger. He also serves as an editor of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, director and president of the Molinari Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society.
Q207873 Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born November 28, 1984) is an American actress and singer. Her first significant role came as Jessica Bennett on the NBC soap opera Passions (1999–2000). She went on to appear in such films as the superhero comedy Sky High (2005). Winstead came to wider recognition as a scream queen for...
Q1839715 Old Wave is the ninth studio album by the Beatles' former drummer, Ringo Starr. It was originally released in June 1983, on the label Bellaphon, and is the two-year follow-up to his 1981 album Stop and Smell the Roses.The title is a play on new wave music.
Q1708622 Josiah Butler (December 4, 1779 – October 27, 1854) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New Hampshire.
Q5504496 Fright Fest (formerly known as Fright Nights) is a Halloween-oriented haunt event held annually at Six Flags theme parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It mainly features haunted attractions, themed areas named Scare Zones, and live entertainment.
Q797977 Didier Gailhaguet (born 22 August 1953 in Béziers, France) is a former French figure skater and the president of the Fédération française des sports de glace.Gailhaguet was a central figure in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, in which French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne said that she had jud...
Q2363566 Altus Lacy Quaintance (December 19, 1870 – August 7, 1958) was an American entomologist who specialized in the study of insect pests of fruit trees. He was recognized as an expert on Aleyrodidae, a family of white flies that are major pests of citrus and greenhouse plants.
Q1892540 Hamilton Township is a township in Decatur County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 180.
Q6766756 Mark Blandford (born 1957 in Hereford) is the founder of Sportingbet plc, at one time the world's largest bookmaking operation and a pioneer in online gambling. Blandford is also the former Chairman and CEO.
Q4612505 The 2008-09 Biathlon World Cup/Mass start Women will start at Sunday January 11, 2009 in Oberhof and will finish Sunday March 29, 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk at the final event of the season. Defending titlist is Magdalena Neuner of Germany.
Q8014561 William Light is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 124th district. He has served since 1999.
Q2522073 Masaki Yokotani (横谷 政樹, Yokotani Masaki, born May 10, 1952) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Q5432255 Fallen London, originally titled Echo Bazaar and developed by Failbetter Games, is a browser-based interactive narrative game set in "Fallen London", an alternative Victorian London with gothic overtones. The franchise subsequently expanded to other games, including a PC game of "survival, discovery and lonel...
Q14716768 Old St. Patrick's Church (also known as Old North Primary School) is a historic church at 512 N. Main Street in Wellington, Ohio.It was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.Parish website: StPatrickWellington.com
Q4587569 The 1992 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of five races in 4 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 5th edition. The series consisted of 4 regular world cup races and the world cup final.
Q20805425 The 1969 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the Lansdowne Club and Royal Aero Club in London from 11–16 January 1969.Heather McKay (née Blundell) won her eighth consecutive title defeating Fran Marshall in the final.
Q26438412 Umeki (written: 梅木) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:Mami Umeki (梅木 真美, born 1994), Japanese judokaMiyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, 1929–2007), American actress
Q28464539 Angela Merkel – The Unexpected is a 2016 documentary film directed by Torsten Körner and Matthias Schmidt. The television premier on Arte was on 6 December 2016.
Q707716 Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (25 October 1791 – 15 January 1841) was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pioneer of Russian and Estonian scientific mountaineeri...
Q7988649 Westfield Brandon, formerly known as Brandon Town Center and Westfield Shoppingtown Brandon, is a shopping mall located eight miles (13 km) east of Tampa, Florida, in the suburban community of Brandon. The mall is owned by Australian-based Westfield Group, and is one of five Westfield shopping centers in the s...
Q706218 Allan James McGregor (born 31 January 1982) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Rangers. McGregor has also previously played for St Johnstone, Dunfermline Athletic, Turkish team Beşiktaş, English club Hull City, Welsh side Cardiff City and the Scotland n...
Q18396 Nadia Hordijenko Andrianova (Надія Миколаївна Андріанова-Гордієнко in Ukrainian; 1921–1998) was a Ukrainian writer and translator of the language Esperanto. She studied literature and journalism in Kiev and published articles and translations in Paco and Hungara Vivo. In 1987, the Hungarian Esperanto Association...
Q1765367 Master Olof (Swedish: Mäster Olof) is a historical drama in five acts by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The story is about the reformer Olaus Petri's struggle against the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. First written in 1872, Strindberg rewrote it many times in both prose and verse.Ludvig...
Q8030248 Wolica [vɔˈlit͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogoria, within Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Bogoria, 16 km (10 mi) north-east of Staszów, and 56 km (35 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kielc...
Q925629 David McKendree Key (January 27, 1824 – February 3, 1900) was a United States Senator from Tennessee, United States Postmaster General and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tenn...
Q7996834 Whittemore's Tavern is a historic building at 473 Auburn Street in the Auburndale village of Newton, Massachusetts. It was operated as a tavern for a time in the 18th century, but it is now a private residence. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1724, probably by William Robinson II, sone of one of ...
Q8063806 Zach Howell was the national chairman of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC). A native of Sandy, Utah, he was elected in June 2009 at the CRNC's biennial convention, in Washington, DC, by delegates from states nationwide.The CRNC is one of the leading 527 groups in the United States, and provides...
Q7573062 Spanby is a village and former civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) south from the town of Sleaford. Since 1931 the village has been part of the civil parish of Threekingham. It is in the civil parish of Osbournby.The 1086 Domesday Book lists the village as...
Q16992328 The Protyre 2012 Formula Renault BARC season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conf...
Q16010385 Tristram Paul Hillier (11 April 1905 – 18 January 1983) was an English surrealist painter. He was a member of the Unit One group led by Paul Nash.
Q14382514 Stathmopoda biclavis is a species of moth in the Stathmopodidae family. It is found in the Seychelles on Aldabra island in the Indian Ocean.This species is close to Stathmopoda auriferella.
Q15978906 The Boer War Memorial stands in the shopping precinct of Winsford, Cheshire, England. It consists of the statue of a soldier in uniform standing on a plinth, and it was unveiled in 1906. It originally stood on a different site in the town and was moved to its present position in the 1960s. In addition to r...
Q969759 Ihor Luchkevych (Ukrainian: Ігор Валерійович Лучкевич; born 19 November 1973) is a former Ukrainian professional football midfielder and current Ukrainian coach.
Q19957566 Thomas Robert "Tom" Dooley (born December 9, 1945 in San Francisco, California) is an American racewalker who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Q4524055 Pantaleon Józef Szyndler or Szendler (26 July 1846, Lipie – 31 January 1905, Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Academic style. He is primarily known for nudes, religious works and Orientalist paintings. Some of his canvases were inspired by Polish Romantic poetry and he was a close friend of Cyprian Norwid.
Q13363328 Aequationes Mathematicae is a mathematical journal. It is primarily devoted to functional equations, but also publishes papers in dynamical systems, combinatorics, and geometry. As well as publishing regular journal submissions on these topics, it also regularly reports on international symposia on functional...
Q39073126 Beast Epic is the sixth full-length studio album by Iron & Wine, released August 25, 2017 via both Black Cricket Recording Company and Sub Pop.
Q23199299 Jean-Pierre Bellet (born 5 June 1932) is a French rower. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with the men's eight where they came fourth.
Q2212425 The Sherbrooke Saint-François was a minor league professional ice hockey team based in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The team was part of the minor professional league Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). The Saint-Francois played at the Palais des Sports.In the past, they were known as the Windsor Papetiers and the ...
Q186010 Richard Luigi Di Natale (born 6 June 1970) is an Australian politician who serves as a senator for Victoria and leads the Australian Greens. Di Natale was elected to the Australian Senate in the 2010 federal election. A former general practitioner, Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian...
Q507425 Schuyler Skaats Wheeler (May 17, 1860 – April 20, 1923) was an American electrical engineer and manufacturer who invented the electric fan, the electric elevator, and the electric fire engine. He helped develop and implement a code of ethics for electrical engineers.
Q7831450 Tracie Peterson (born 1959) is an author of Christian fiction. She writes many historical novels, with romantic threads in them, as well as writing with other Christian authors on joint novels. Many of her books are published by Bethany House. She originally used the pen name of Janelle Jamison.Several of h...
Q6592829 The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt, Norfolk, England.
Q3593262 Seal Island (also known as Great Seal Island) is an island on the outermost extreme of Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Municipality of the District of Argyle in Yarmouth County. It is approximately 4.3 kilometres (2.7 mi) long and 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) wide and is surrounded on its east, south and ...
Q4069758 Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End (Swedish: Arn – Riket vid vägens slut) is an epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knights Templar Arn Magnusson. It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 22 August 2008 and is the sequel to the 2007 film Arn – The Knight Templar, but both films wer...
Q7875739 The third USS Yuma (YTM-748) was a medium harbor tug that served in the United States Navy from 1964 to 1976.Yuma was built at San Diego, California, by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), for the United States Army, which took delivery of her in 1954, and designated her "large tug" LT-2078. The ...
Q7308188 Reginald Edward Attache (February 5, 1894 – June 22, 1955), aka Laughing Gas, was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1922 season for the Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans and coached by Jim Thorpe.At...
Q7774706 "The Whole World Lost Its Head" is one of three new songs from all-female pop rock/new wave band The Go-Go's 2-disc retrospective Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's. The single only 'bubbled under' on the US charts at #108, but became the band's first and only Top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at #29.The accompan...
Q6151262 Jane Coles is a British playwright. She won the 1994 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Q4827645 Avances Magazine is a monthly bilingual publication aimed at middle to upper income Hispanics and is the largest Hispanic magazine in the Intermountain West, which includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Utah. The magazine is based in Orem, Utah in the United States. With its first edition in 2009, Avances Magaz...
Q5683415 "Have a Little Faith" is a 1968 song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton and recorded by David Houston. "Have a Little Faith" was David Houston's fourth number one single on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the chart. It also ...
Q5534332 Geoffrey Parnell Storey (8 August 1904 – c. 1975) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Storey, a lock, was born in Strathfield, New South Wales and claimed a total of 8 international rugby caps for Australia.
Q7195769 The Pingat Perkhidmatan Setia (Loyal Service Medal or Loyalty Service Medal) is a medal awarded by the Sarawak State Government as a token of gratitude towards a Civil Service Personnel who has served for 20 continuous or 25 accumulated years of service.The medal is usually presented by the Chief Minister of S...
Q865777 Birnbrot (literally pear bread) or Birnweggen (literally pear buns) are a traditional pastry originating in Switzerland with a filling of dried pears. They exist throughout Switzerland and popular variations include "Bündener Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Graubünden), "Glarner Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Glarus), "...
Q6414035 Kinnaripuzhayoram is a 1994 Malayalam romantic comedy film directed by Haridas and written by Priyadarshan. It stars Sreenivasan, Siddique, Devayani, Mukesh in the main roles. Tilakan is a well established Ayurvedic doctor in the village. He has two sons, Siddique and Srinivasan. Siddique is studying medicine ...
Q17129636 Babitzin is a surname that may refer to:Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin (1950–2007), Finnish singerMarija "Muska" Babitzin (born 1952), Finnish singerSammy Babitzin (1948–1973), Finnish singer