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Q30137098 Lithuanian Rhapsody (Polish Rapsodia litewska) in A minor, Op. 11 is the third of Mieczysław Karłowicz's six symphonic poems. A typical performance lasts 18—20 minutes.
Q34191901 The portrait of Count István Széchenyi (Hungarian: Gróf Széchenyi István) is a monumental painting by Friedrich von Amerling in the Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest portraying the founder of the institution. It has the same elaborate Rococo frame as the contemporary painting of ...
Q5370730 Weedon is a village and civil parish north of Aylesbury and south of Hardwick in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The toponym is derived from the Old English for "hill with a heathen temple". In records dated 1066 the village was recorded as Weodune.Weedon has a Methodist Chapel and a p...
Q754094 Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead singer of alternative rock band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist, with "Lonely No More" released in 2005 becoming his biggest solo c...
Q2606938 La Libertad (Spanish pronunciation: [la liβeɾˈtað]) is a municipality in the Chontales Department of Nicaragua.It is the birthplace of President Daniel Ortega, Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo, and Vice President Omar Halleslevens.
Q7596036 Stacy Glen Jones (born December 19, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is currently the musical director and drummer for Miley Cyrus and Life of Dillon, and is also known for being the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of American Hi-Fi, and as the drummer for Let...
Q403712 Aichinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Gregor Aichinger (1564–1628), German composerIlse Aichinger (1921–2016), Austrian writerOskar Aichinger, Austrian jazz pianist
Q6563294 This is a list of notable alumni of Ball State University.
Q2830545 Sport Bissau e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica de Bissau, is a football club from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, that plays in the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau, the top flight of Bissau-Guinean football.Benfica Bissau is considered to the top clubs of Guinea-Bissau alongside Sporting Bissau.
Q7856140 Turone's goal (Italian: Il gol di Turone) has been for decades one of the most debated events in the history of Italian Football. It refers to the disallowing of a goal scored by Roma versus Juventus in a crucial match for the 1980–81 Serie A championship. It occurred during one of the last matches of the leag...
Q7560087 "Something Deep Inside" is the second single taken from Billie Piper's second album, Walk of Life. The single debuted and peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her last top-ten single and penultimate hit. The song also reached the top 20 in Australia and New Zealand, becoming Piper's last son...
Q7254319 Pseudendoclonium is a genus of green algae, in the family Kornmanniaceae.
Q1960581 Archibald Ross Colquhoun (; March 1848 – 18 December 1914) was a British explorer and the first Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. He held office from October 1890 until September 1892, the period of the founding of Fort Salisbury (now Harare) after the arrival of the Pioneer Column. At this time the administ...
Q1083503 Moussoulens is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.
Q1100722 Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France.
Q3099753 Gazette d'Amsterdam (also known as Gazette d’Hollande or Nouvelles d'Amsterdam) was one of the most important international European newspapers of the Enlightenment period and a major source of political information. It was a French language bi-weekly newspaper published in Amsterdam from the second half of t...
Q6221436 John Bell (1783 - 1864) was a printer and avid collector of ballads who played a major part in the recording of the lyrics of popular songs in the north east of England.
Q2883431 Campo de Ourique (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkɐ̃pu ð oˈɾikɨ]; English: Field of Ourique) is a Portuguese civil parish (freguesia), located in the municipality of Lisbon. This new parish was created with the 2012 Administrative Reform of Lisbon, merging the former parishes of Santo Condestável and Santa Isabel...
Q19462358 Hoke County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Raeford, Hoke County, North Carolina. It was designed by the architectural firm of Milburn, Heister & Company and built in 1912. It is a three-story Classical Revival style tan brick building fronted by a tetrastyle pedimented Ionic order po...
Q19650270 Tricia Santos (born Patricia Mae Santos) is a Filipina volleyball player, actress, and TV host. She started her career as a housemate in Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 3 in 2010. She later became a volleyball player and played for the UST Growling Tigers for UAAP Season 76 and later join the CSB Lady Blazers...
Q4527849 Shumy (Ukrainian: Шуми; Russian: Шумы) is a settlement in the administrative area of the city council of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 57.4 km NNW from the centre of Donetsk city.The War in Donbass, that started in mid-April 2014, has brought along both civilian and military casualties.
Q2998646 The Couac, also called (kwak in Creole) is a semolina or flour, made from cassava root, peeled, soaked in water, grated and drained to remove the poisonous cyanide it contains. Cassava roots are sold in markets as the kramangnok (cramanioc) for sweet varieties, and processed under the kwak names; kasav, cassav...
Q1926214 Monmouth is a city in Jackson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 153 at the 2010 census.
Q5508308 Fullhurst Community College is an over-subscribed 11-16 comprehensive school in Braunstone, West Leicester. In October 2012 Ofsted graded the school ‘Good’, which reflected the improvements the school has made and the record summer examinations results over the last 3 years. The Acting Principal is Steven Pigg...
Q2591970 Concours Eurovision is the Swiss Eurovision national selection. This has been held on an irregular basis since 1956. During the 1980s, the contest tended to have ten participating songs - three in French, three in German, three in Italian and one in Romansch.A number of Swiss entrants have made multiple appear...
Q5634257 HMS Scourge was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship was sold to the Netherlands postwar, where it saw action in the West New Guinea dispute.
Q10395914 Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings. An animal with this condition is said to be apterous.Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa. These groups are said to be primarily apterous.Apterous animals which belong to or are phy...
Q1334992 Roye-sur-Matz is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
Q518802 The W-League is the top-division women's soccer league in Australia, run by Football Federation Australia (FFA). The W-League was established in 2008 and was composed of eight teams of which seven had an affiliation with an A-League club, and the other was a new entity based in Canberra. The league is currently...
Q2944883 Le Centre Sheraton Hotel is a skyscraper hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1201 René Lévesque Boulevard West in Downtown Montreal, between Stanley Street and Drummond Street.Le Centre Sheraton has 825 rooms and stands 118 metres (387 ft) tall with 38 floors. It was built by Le Group Arcorp an...
Q1676634 "JK Wedding Entrance Dance" is a viral video originally uploaded to YouTube on July 19, 2009, featuring the wedding of Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz, using "Forever" by Chris Brown as the song for their wedding march. In its first 48 hours, the video accumulated more than 3.5 million views. The original upload...
Q964171 Dmitri Vladimirovich Trush (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Труш, pronounced as Troosh; born February 8, 1973 in Voronezh) is a former Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 1996 Olympic Games. He won gold medal in the team competition
Q5489596 Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was Sinatra's second compilation of material released by Reprise Records, which like its predecessor, consisted of singles and songs from movie soundtracks. Vol. 2 picks up where Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits leaves off, so all of the tracks date from 1968 to 1971, except ...
Q5231816 David O'Neal Brown (born 1960) is an American law enforcement official who was the chief of the Dallas Police Department from 2010 to 2016. He has been widely praised for his reforms designed to reduce violent confrontations between police officers and the community and increase the department's accountability...
Q843771 Sivica (Hungarian: Muraszilvágy) is a village in Međimurje County, Croatia.The village is part of the Podturen municipality and had a population of 681 in the 2011 census. It is located around 9 kilometres from the centre of Čakovec, the county seat of Međimurje County. The main road going through the village c...
Q1955386 Hiromasa Tokioka (時岡 宏昌, Tokioka Hiromasa, born June 24, 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
Q4615240 The 2008–09 World Series of Poker Circuit is the 5th annual World Series of Poker Circuit.
Q5302453 Dover is an unincorporated community located in the town of Emery, Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
Q4726260 Alicia Moreno González is a Spanish football midfielder, currently playing for Levante UD in Primera División. Not anymore. She is now working as "not certain" role on UD Aldaia. She likes to hit her players in the face before every match.
Q7984181 WestConnex is a 33-kilometre (21 mi) predominately underground motorway scheme currently under construction in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The motorway scheme, a joint project of the New South Wales and Australian governments, encompasses:M4 Western Motorway (M4) wideningM4 East, an eastern extension o...
Q24707922 "Arar Mı?" is a debut single by Kaan Akalın produced in Istanbul; mastered, filmed and photographed in New York City. The single is released under the label DGL&DMC in 2016.As stated by him in his latest interview Habertürk newspaper, has been influenced by Michael Jackson's singing and dancing in this projec...
Q27856305 The 2016–17 South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball team represented South Dakota State University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Jackrabbits, led by first-year head coach T. J. Otzelberger, played their home games at Frost Arena in Brookings, South Dakota as members o...
Q3927111 In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart and close to the two solstices and two equinoxes.The significance of quarter days is now lim...
Q6455576 L'Anse Mitan is the name of both a road and a district located northeast of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. It is an alternative route to the nationally renowned La Retrait sea bathing spot. L'anse Mitan Road, at the mouth of the Moruga River, is noted as the site at which Christopher Columbus landed in Trinida...
Q263632 Platero y Tú (Spanish pronunciation: [plaˈteɾo i ˈtu]) was a Spanish rock and roll and blues rock band formed in Bilbao in the 1980s, and disbanded in 2001. Their lyrics mainly deal about drugs, bar issues and love, and their style, being mainly influenced by bands such as Status Quo, AC/DC or Leño, and guitari...
Q5300995 Douglas W. Weaver (born October 15, 1930) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University from 1960 to 1966 and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1974 to 1975, compiling a career college football re...
Q600439 Brazil competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
Q3424066 Challapalli, officially known as Challapalle, is a village in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Challapalli mandal of Machilipatnam revenue division. Challapalli is one of the villages in the mandal to be a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region.
Q7943337 Vuelvo a vivir, vuelvo a cantar is a 1971 Argentine film.
Q6910935 More Fire Crew was an East London-based English grime crew from Waltham Forest, and was one of the first crews in the grime scene.The crew was formed by Ozzie B, M.C. G Man aka Gary Greer and Lethal Bizzle, all of whom attended secondary school together. Ozzie and Lethal soon joined up with their friend Seani ...
Q6348734 Kaize Station (海瀬駅, Kaize-eki) is a train station in the town of Sakuho, Minamisaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Q2593162 Wooding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Chris Wooding (born 1977), British writerJohn Wooding (1857–1931), American politicianLisa Wooding (born 1979), English field-hockey playerNorman Wooding (1927–2005), British industrialistSam Wooding (1895–1985), expatriate American jazz pianist, ar...
Q6480111 Lala is a village in the Narowal District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°15'0N 74°48'0E with an altitude of 245 metres (807 feet). Neighbouring settlements include Seowal, Qila Sobha Singh and Depoke
Q7286600 Rakesh Gangwal is a former CEO and Chairman of US Airways Group. From June 2003 to August 2007, Gangwal was the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Worldspan Technologies, Inc., a provider of travel technology and information services to the travel and transportation industry. From 2002 to 2003...
Q7151114 Paul Hampshire (born 20 September 1981) is a Scottish former professional footballer. Hampshire started his career with Raith Rovers before signing for Berwick. He then moved to East Fife in 2005 before finding his way to junior football with Dunbar. Hampshire then moved to Cornwall, signing for Newquay.
Q10801422 Nipponaphera semipellucida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Q7769111 The Three Weird Sisters is a 1948 British melodrama film directed by Daniel Birt and starring Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam and Raymond Lovell. The film has Gothic influences. The screenplay was adapted by Dylan Thomas and Louise Birt from the novel The Case of the Weird Sisters by Charl...
Q16002044 Agar is both a surname and a given name.
Q17083652 Newsbytes News Network, called "an Associated Press for tech-information junkies" was founded in May, 1983 in San Francisco, California by broadcast journalist Wendy Woods Gorski, who remained editor in chief for the 19 years of its existence. It was the oldest continually publishing technology-specific news...
Q11412904 Aimi Yoshikawa (Japanese: 吉川あいみ, Hepburn: Yoshikawa Aimi) (born 20 March 1994) is a Japanese gravure idol, actress, and former AV idol. Active between 2012 and 2018, she starred over 200 adult films during her career and was known for her short height and large bust.
Q19664058 Sophia Grace Webster (born 18 March 1985) is a British shoe and accessories designer who launched her eponymous footwear line in September 2012. She is renowned for a feminine, bold yet playful design approach which has led to distribution at over 200 retailers worldwide.As a teenager, Webster was a competiti...
Q28162654 Ron Kowalke (born 1936) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art educator born in Chicago. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, but earned his BA from Rockford University in 1959. He received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1960. He taught at Northern...
Q2240755 Le Chat (French for "the cat") was a Belgian daily comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck and published in the newspaper Le Soir from March 22, 1983 until March 23, 2013.During its run it quickly became one of the bestselling Franco-Belgian comics series and the mascot of Le Soir. While virtually an icon in W...
Q5325888 Earl Grinols currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Economics at Baylor University.
Q7179270 Pett Bottom is a small settlement about five miles (8 km) south of Canterbury, Kent, England. The nearest village is Lower Hardres. The population of the settlement is included in the civil parish of Bishopsbourne.James Bond lived here with his aunt after his parents died, in the fictional books by Ian Fleming...
Q7054912 North Corktown (also known as Briggs) is a neighborhood in the city of Detroit. It is bounded roughly by I-75 on the south, Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard on the north, I-96 on the west, and the John C. Lodge Freeway on the east.North Corktown was originally part of the Corktown neighborhood. This changed wit...
Q5658652 Harlequin Games is a business which designs and moderates PBM games by email of which their Legends (PBM) engine is the most recognized. From their "About Us" page - "We fuse wild imagination with good game-play in everything we produce and do so with professionalism and love for the hobby. Established in 19...
Q5950850 Hutków [ˈxutkuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krasnobród, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Krasnobród, 18 km (11 mi) south of Zamość, and 91 km (57 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
Q7199544 The Great Basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola), also known as the bull snake, is a subspecies of nonvenomous colubrid endemic to the western part of the United States and adjacent southwestern Canada.
Q4669538 Abril Alejandra Rodríguez Fernández (born November 21, 1986, in Saltillo, Coahuila) is a Mexican beauty contestant.Abril Fernández competed against thirty-four other young women in the 2009 national Nuestra Belleza México pageant. She placed among the Top 10 and received the Personalidad Fraiche award.
Q6861466 Milton Sutliff (October 6 or 16, 1806 – April 24, 1878) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was a member of the Ohio Senate for one year and an Ohio Supreme Court Judge from 1858 to 1863.
Q914945 Nathan Johnstone (born 9 February 1990) is a snowboarder from Australia. Johnstone won the gold medal at the 2011 FIS Snowboarding World Championships in the halfpipe. He finished ninth in the halfipe at the 2009 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.Nathan started his career at a young age riding in the Perishe...
Q1385361 The 2004–05 Belarusian Extraliga season was the 13th season of the Belarusian Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Belarus. 12 teams participated in the league, and HK Yunost Minsk won the championship.
Q6762924 Isabella Mercia McDonagh (1899–1982), also known as Marie Lorraine, was an Australian actress who often worked in collaboration with her sisters Paulette and Phyllis. Isabella, alongside her two sisters made history by owning and running a film production company, therefore becoming the first Australian women ...
Q1963963 This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Grâce-Hollogne. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.
Q16954498 My Favorite Song Writers is a compilation album released by the record label Five One, Inc. The release celebrated the label's 10th anniversary. All the songs on the release were exclusively written and performed by the artists for the project. It was released on November 2, 2004.
Q5349612 Einar Berntzen (born 9 June 1955 in Misvær) is a Norwegian political scientist. He works as an associate professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. His research has been particularly focused on Latin America and Southern Europe.
Q7189905 Phước Long is a rural commune (xã) in Phước Long District, Bạc Liêu Province, in south-western Vietnam.
Q16930544 This is a list of international co-production films with Angola.
Q21066799 Tom Ingleby is a UK music composer, producer and painter born in Leamington Spa, 1967. He subsequently lived in America, (1971)Surrey and Mid Wales.His interest in music started at an early age in the US. Eventually moving to rural Mid-Wales aged 12 he lived next door to Cat Stevens' guitarist Alun Davis and ...
Q22022813 The 1972 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Bob Blackman, the Illini compiled a 3–8 record and finished in a tie for sixth place in the Big T...
Q13578642 Eretmocera shoabensis is a moth of the Scythrididae family. It was described by Hans Rebel in 1907. It is found in Yemen (Socotra).The larvae have been recorded feeding on Statice species.
Q1980288 Bow () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about 8 miles west of Crediton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,093 practically unchanged at the 2011 Census. There is an adjoining hamlet of Nymet Tracey which shares a church with Bow and much common histo...
Q485572 Talhae of Silla (?–80, r. 57–80) was the fourth king of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He is commonly called Talhae Isageum, isageum being the royal title in early Silla. Also known by his personal name as Seok Tal-hae (昔脫解). He was portrayed by Lee Pil-mo in the 2010 MBC TV series Kim Su-ro, The Ir...
Q915717 Derbin Island is located in the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States. Derbin is a small island (at 0.5 mi across) and is situated near the southwestern shore of Tigalda Island. It is measuring 840 metres (0.52 mi) long and 204 metres (0.127 mi) ...
Q6239714 John Holyman (c.1495 – 20 December 1558) was a Roman Catholic English prelate, Bishop of Bristol (1554–1558).Was a distinguished canonist who was born about 1495 in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Winchester and afterwards at New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1512. He obtained hi...
Q7127039 Palcza [ˈpalt͡ʂa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Budzów, within Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north-east of Sucha Beskidzka and 31 km (19 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kraków.The village has a population of...
Q2569152 Vrcovice is a village and municipality (obec) in Písek District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of 5.52 square kilometres (2.13 sq mi), and has a population of 114 (as at 2005).Vrcovice lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Písek, 47 km (29 mi) ...
Q7767875 The Tables Turned is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. The poem is mainly about the importance of nature. It says that books are just barren leaves that provide empty knowledge, and that nature is the best teacher which can teach more about human, evil and good....
Q7078666 Oenothera primiveris is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names yellow desert evening primrose, bottle evening-primrose, and desert evening-primrose.It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.It grows below 4,500 feet (1,400 m) in many types...
Q5094975 Chhoti Ballabh is a village situated in the Gonda block of Iglas tehsil in Aligarh district, located in Uttar Pradesh state in India .It is one of the two sister villages i.e. Ballabhgarh and Chhoti Ballabh. Geographically they are 1 Kilometers apart from each other. Both villages have same constituency. Total...
Q7021987 Ngandure is a settlement in Kenya's Eastern Province.
Q5274716 Diego Jourdan Pereira (usually credited as Diego Jourdan, sometimes as Diego J. Pereira) is a Uruguayan comic book artist and illustrator, residing in Santiago de Chile, Chile, and specializing in licensed properties.
Q1307478 Eric D. Clark (born 1966) is an American musician. After growing up in California, he moved to Europe. While living in Cologne, he made a major contribution to the city's music scene in the 1990s though his clubs and DJing work, blending disco and house music. He formed Whirlpool Productions with Justus Köhnck...
Q7289443 Ramesh Srinivasan (born 1976) studies the relationship between technology, politics and society. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design Media Arts departments. He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital...
Q862423 Bill S. Hansson (born 1959) is a Swedish neuroethologist. Since June 5, 2014, he is vice president of the Max Planck Society.
Q4804305 Ali Asghar Borujerdi (Persian: علی‌اصغر بروجردی‎), also known as اصغر قاتل (Asghar-e Ghatel; Asghar the Murderer), (1893 – 26 June 1934) was the first Iranian serial killer and rapist reported in the 20th century.Moving to Iraq as a child with his family, he started assaulting, raping, and later murdering, ado...
Q16798265 Dasmunsi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Deepa Dasmunsi (born 1960), Indian politicianPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi (born 1945), Indian politician
Q10332964 Theta Muscae (θ Muscae) is a multiple star system in the southern constellation Musca ("the Fly") with an apparent magnitude of 5.5. It is the second-brightest Wolf–Rayet star in the sky, although much of the visual brightness comes from the massive companions and it is not one of the closest of its type.
Q18378054 Mukhangal is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Chandrakumar. The film has musical score by A. T. Ummer.