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Q2510550 Fedde Schurer (West Frisian pron. [ˈfɛdə ˈskyːrər]; Dutch pron. [ˈfɛdə ˈsxyːrər]) (Drachten, 25 July 1898 – Heerenveen, 19 March 1968) was a Dutch schoolteacher, journalist, language activist and politician, and one of the most influential poets in the West Frisian language of the 20th century. |
Q20475 Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō) is a 1961 samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.Based on the success of Yojimbo, Kurosawa's ... |
Q3504264 Super R.C. Pro-Am is a racing video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare for Nintendo's Game Boy handheld console. It was released in North America in June 1991 and in Europe on April 23, 1992; it was re-released in 1998 as part of Nintendo's Player's Choice series, which included all Game Boy ti... |
Q3051436 Ellen Wallace Sharples (4 March 1769 – 14 March 1849) was an English painter who specialized in portraits in pastel and in watercolor miniatures on ivory. She exhibited five miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1807, and founded the Bristol Fine Arts Academy in 1844 with a substantial gift. |
Q6592992 This is a list of episodes of the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave, written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series of six episodes each. There were also nine specials including two shorts for Comic Relief, first screened from 4 January 1990 to 20 November 2000 on BBC One and subsequently repeated bo... |
Q1800157 Lafayette Lane (November 12, 1842 – November 23, 1896) was a Representative from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was the son of Oregon Senator Joseph Lane and an uncle of future Oregon Senator Harry Lane. |
Q741200 Saint-Aubin-de-Terregatte is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. |
Q2707517 Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1989–1990 season. |
Q130169 Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (Arabic: أبو القاسم علي بن الحسين الشريف المرتضى ) (commonly known as: Sharīf Murtadhā, Sayyid Murtadhā, (Murtazā instead of Murtadhā in non-Arab languages)) (965 - 1044 AD ; 355 - 436 AH) also popular as Alam al Huda was one of the greatest Shia scholars of his... |
Q3527970 This is a list of works by Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). This list includes his novels, short stories and non-fiction as well as film and television adaptations of his works. |
Q2425939 Magdalena Joanna Śliwa (née Szryniawska)(born 17 November 1969) is a female Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1990–2007, double European Champion (2003, 2005), three-time Polish Champion (1994, 1995, 2003), Italian Champion (2002). |
Q5547105 Georgi Aleksandrovich Bedoyev (Russian: Георгий Александрович Бедоев; born 21 September 1987) is a Russian professional football player. He last played in the Russian Second Division for FC Alania-d Vladikavkaz. |
Q3124177 Gérard Mendel (1930 – 14 October 2004) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. |
Q4205363 Second Temple Judaism is Judaism between the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, c. 515 BCE, and its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE. The development of the Hebrew Bible canon, the synagogue, Jewish apocalyptic expectations for the future, and the rise of Christianity, can all be traced to the S... |
Q1440503 Kangru, Pärnu County is a village in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish, Pärnu County in southwestern Estonia. |
Q16754161 Leptomeria aphylla, commonly known as leafless currant-bush is a shrub that is native to south-eastern Australia.The species was formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, based on plant material collected at Memory Cove in South Australia.The small acidic fruits... |
Q13368967 Iridomyrmex roseatus is a species of ant in the genus Iridomyrmex. Described by Heterick and Shattuck in 2011, the species has a northern temperate and tropical distribution in Australia, and can be found in most states, and the habitats of the ant may be similar to the preferences of the Meat ant species. |
Q18241891 The Metropolitan City of Naples (Italian: Città metropolitana di Napoli) is an Italian Metropolitan City in Campania region, established on January 1, 2015. Its capital city is Naples; within the city there are 92 comune (municipalities).It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990)... |
Q20181180 The Bone & Joint Journal, formerly known as The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (British Volume), is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery. It is the flagship journal within the society's 'Bone & Joint Publishing' imprint, which also include... |
Q25990693 KI polyomavirus (also known as KI virus, KIPyV, or Human polyomavirus 3) is a virus of the family Polyomaviridae. It was discovered in 2007 in stored samples of human respiratory secretions collected by the Karolinska Institute, after which the virus is named. |
Q30115833 Techiman City FC is a football club in Techiman, Ghana. |
Q2219039 Mandhoo (Dhivehi: މަންދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Alif Dhaal Atoll. |
Q5497172 Frederic Wood Jones FRS (23 January 1879 – 29 September 1954), usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia. |
Q17360 Frassineto Po is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of Turin and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Alessandria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,462 and an area of 29.2 square kilometres (11.3 sq mi).F... |
Q17035359 Solo Tape is the first solo album by Lord Infamous, although it was originally released as an untitled cassette, it later becoming known as “Lord of Terror” erroneously via bootlegs & collectors tape trading mixtape. It was recorded 1993. Many of the songs on Lord of Terror were reprised or samples were used ... |
Q14706319 The Harriet May Mills House or Harriet May Mills Residence is a historic home on the west side of Syracuse, New York. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Extensive information on the restoration of the home and its former owners is archived on the now-defunct HarrietMayMills.org... |
Q5618366 Gun laws in California regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition in the state of California in the United States.The gun laws of California are some of the most restrictive in the United States. A 5-year Firearm Safety Certificate, obtained by paying a $25 fee, submission of applicant d... |
Q5649475 This is a list of Hanoverian princes from the accession of George III to the throne of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814. Individuals holding the title of prince will usually also be styled "His Royal Highness" (HRH). The wife of a Hanoverian prince will usually take the title and style of her husband. Despite H... |
Q6210091 Joe Grand is an American electrical engineer, inventor, and hardware hacker, known in the hacker community as Kingpin. He achieved mainstream popularity after his appearance on Prototype This!, a Discovery Channel television show. He specializes in, "finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating eng... |
Q5584938 Gordon Roy "Gord" Buttrey (March 17, 1926 – January 3, 2012) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right wing who played ten games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks. He was traded with Hec Highton and cash to bring goalie Mike Karakas back to Chicago. Buttrey spent most of his career ... |
Q1804230 Iretama is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. |
Q8055005 Yonghesuchus is an extinct genus of Late Triassic archosaur reptile. Remains have been found from the early Late Triassic Tongchuan Formation in Shanxi, China. It is named after Yonghe County, the county where fossils were found. Currently only one species, Y. sangbiensis, is known. The specific name refers to... |
Q6424683 Osmancıklı (or Amasyalı) Koca Mehmed Nizamüddin Pasha (Turkish: Osmancıklı Danişmendoğlu Koca Mehmet Nizamüddin Paşa; died 1439) was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1429 to 1438.He settled in Osmancık after his service as grand vizier and died there in 1439. He was th... |
Q757702 The drug combination atovaquone/proguanil (INNs, trade names Malarone, Malanil) is an antimalarial medication used in both the treatment and prevention of malaria. Atovaquone alone is not indicated for treatment or prevention of malaria as monotherapy (i.e., without proguanil). Atovaquone/proguanil has been com... |
Q7427065 Saudades is an album by Brazilian jazz percussionist Naná Vasconcelos recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label. |
Q4569960 The 1960 Grand National was the 114th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 26 March 1960. The steeplechase was won by nine-year-old Merryman II, who, at odds of 13/2, became the first clear favourite to win for 33 years. His jockey, 22-year-... |
Q6876611 The Miss Ecuador 1998 was held on March 21, 1998. There were 15 candidates for the national title, the crown passed from Monica Chala from Pichincha to Soraya Hogonaga from same province, but the new Miss Ecuador 1998 was crowned by Jamil Mahuad who was the mayor of the Quito, the future presidential candidate... |
Q5844893 Arast (Persian: ارست, also Romanized as Ārast) is a village in Hombarat Rural District, in the Central District of Ardestan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q13532836 Neasura buruana is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by van Eecke in 1929. It is found on Buru. |
Q28404448 The discography of American hip hop recording artist Kodak Black consists of two studio album, seven mixtapes and twenty singles (including six singles as a featured artist), and eighteen music videos. His highest charting song is "Zeze", which debuted and peaked at number 2, becoming Black's second top 10 hi... |
Q28226223 All in Good Time is a comic play by Bill Naughton based on his 1961 TV play Honeymoon Postponed. Originally produced at the Mermaid Theatre in 1963 in London, it subsequently transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, and then to Broadway, where it ran for 44 performances in February and March 1965. The Broadway cas... |
Q1305 Wageningen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːɣənɪŋə(n)] (listen)) is a municipality and a historic town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specialises in life sciences. The municipality had a population of 38,405 in 2017, of which many thousands are s... |
Q5485802 Frank Chickens are a Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English from 1982.They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comedy Award for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the same year, their single "Blue Canary" was number 42 in BBC DJ John Peel's Fest... |
Q915795 Fužine is a village and a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. |
Q1255077 Dragonette is a Canadian electronic music band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2005. The band consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, her common law husband bassist and producer Dan Kurtz (also in The New Deal), and drummer Joel Stouffer.Dragonette released a self-titled EP in 2005 before being signed ... |
Q303437 Fundación is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Magdalena. Its people are known as Fundanenses. The primary economic activity is livestock-raising, for production of both meat and milk. Other crops are: corn, yuca, oranges, bananas, beans, sesame, sorghum, rice, tomatoes, and tobacco. ... |
Q9377958 Volodymyr Yaniv (born 21 November 1908 in Lviv, Galicia – 19 November 1991) was a community and scouting leader in the 1930s, an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian... |
Q2215165 Ouled Ammar is a town in north-eastern Algeria. |
Q5044830 Carolina Girls is a song written by J.D. Shropshire Junior was born November 14, 1942 and died February 24, 2001. During the time the song was written in 1973, he was going to college at a Barber School in Raleigh N.C. (Although he nor any of his family members ever received any money from his song Carolina Gi... |
Q6009894 In Love and War (烽火飛花) is a TVB television series, premiered in 1981. Theme song "In Love and War" (烽火飛花) composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Adam Cheng. |
Q8062439 Yvonne DeLaRosa is an American actress, best known for her role on the Imagen award-winning series Los Americans, Yvonne has appeared in films such as Helter Skelter, Mystery Woman: Snapshot, and The Sorrow, in addition to landing roles on TV shows, including How I Met Your Mother, NCIS (TV series), Weeds, and... |
Q4823917 The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) is an Australian not-for-profit organisation which funds research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all types of cancer. It provides multimillion-dollar grants for high-end research equipment, technologies, and infrastructure development to support... |
Q1135356 You Kikkawa (吉川 友, Kikkawa Yū, born May 1, 1992 in Ibaraki Prefecture) is a Japanese singer and actress. Kikkawa achieved early fame portraying Kobeni Hanasaki from Kirarin Revolution Stage 3 and later debuted as a solo singer with the song, "Kikkake wa You!" |
Q895655 The Dobrach is a river in Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the White Main near Kulmbach. |
Q17019787 This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of South Knapdale in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. |
Q15262358 Nimruz (Persian: نيم روز, also Romanized as Nīmrūz) is a village in Mahyar Rural District, in the Central District of Qaen County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 44, in 12 families. |
Q5436887 Fast + Epp is a 50-person strong structural engineering firm that was established in Vancouver, BC in 1985. The head office in Vancouver is supported by branch offices in Edmonton, New York and Seattle as well as Frankfurt, Germany. The firm is particularly known for structural engineering with timber. |
Q16996216 HZO manufactures a thin-film nanotechnology that is applied by manufacturers and device makers during their assembly processes to protect electronics from damage caused by exposure to corrosive liquids. The company was founded in 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. HZO headquarters remain in Salt Lake City, UT... |
Q17510854 The Manitoba Limestone is a geologic formation in Manitoba. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. |
Q18229866 Aviya may refer to:Aviya, a form of the first name AbijahAviya Kopelman (b. 1978), Israeli classical composer |
Q28813640 Melaleuca incana subsp. tenella is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae which is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It was formerly known as Melaleuca tenella Benth. but was reduced to a subspecies in 1998. It is similar to M. incana subsp. incana except in the form of the plant, the size and ... |
Q377977 Thorvald Stoltenberg (8 July 1931 – 13 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician. His ancestors stemmed from Tønsberg. He served as Minister of Defence (1979–81) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987–1989 and 1990–1993) in two Labour governments.From 1989 to 1990 served as Norwegian Ambassador to the UN. In 1990 he... |
Q11348129 Richard Alan Rhoden (born May 16, 1953) is a professional golfer and was a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. During his 16-year baseball career, he played for National League teams the Los Angeles Dodgers (1974–1978), the Pittsburgh Pirates (1979–1986), and the Houston Astros (1989), and he ended his caree... |
Q270414 Anne Smith (born July 1, 1959) is an educational psychologist known for her past as a professional tennis player from the United States.Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 11 in 1980. |
Q587436 Nieuwerbrug is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the former municipality of Bodegraven, and lies about five kilometres west of Woerden. Bodegraven has made part of the new municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk since 2011.In 2001, the village of Nieuwerbrug had 978 inhabitants. The ... |
Q1479265 The Susu people, also called Soso or Soussou, are a West African ethnic group, one of the Mandé peoples living primarily in Guinea and Northwestern Sierra Leone, particularly in Kambia District. Influential in Guinea, smaller communities of Susu people are also found in the neighboring Guinea-Bissau, Senegal a... |
Q1698611 Johann Vesling (Latin: Veslingius) (1598 – 30 August 1649) was a German anatomist and botanist from Minden, Westphalia.In his youth he came to Vienna together with his father, where he later studied medicine. In 1628 he was applied as an "Incisor" at the medical college in Venice. In the same year he traveled ... |
Q5869618 Jewish settlement in Brazos County, Texas, began in 1865. This history includes the present Jewish communities and individuals of Brazos County and Texas A&M University. |
Q4566147 The Greek Cup 1947–48 was the sixth edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup for short.The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens on 20 June 1948. The match was contested by Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, with Panathinaikos winning 2–1. |
Q623014 Aquafon is a state run telecommunications company in Abkhazia. In 2014 it had 80,000 subscriptions. |
Q7744008 The Katies were a three-piece power pop band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from approximately 1996 to 2007. |
Q2863843 Lambaye Arrondissement is an arrondissement of the Bambey Department in the Diourbel Region of Senegal. |
Q7415232 San Ramon Village is an unincorporated community in Alameda County, California. It is located north-northeast of Dublin, at an elevation of 354 feet (108 m). |
Q16800 The Re 450 is a push-pull electric locomotive passenger coach type which is used by Swiss Federal Railways on S-Bahn services in Zürich. Under the old Swiss class system, they would have been known as Re 4/4V. They are only found working with formations of three double-deck passenger carriages, the rear-most of ... |
Q7081160 Ohtana/Aapua FF is a Swedish football club located in Ohtanajärvi in Pajala Municipality and Aapua in Övertorneå Municipality, Norrbotten County. |
Q690560 Arne Sandstø (born 21 October 1966 in Bergen) is a former professional Norwegian footballer.Sandstø made seven appearances in Germany's 2. Bundesliga for Tennis Borussia Berlin during his playing career. |
Q4876957 Beat Records was an independent record label started by California night club promoter Stephen Zepeda (a.k.a. Steve Zepeda). Beat Records had record releases by Gary Valentine (of Blondie), The Furys, and The Plimsouls (featuring Peter Case). It spanned the 1978 to 1980 time period of Los Angeles rock.Zepeda i... |
Q16247368 Eccleston is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Eaton and Eccleston and Dodleston, in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains 46 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. One of these is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, four... |
Q497727 Andreas Güntner (born 21 July 1988) is a German footballer who plays for BFC Dynamo. |
Q4274955 Jonathan Kiplimo Maiyo (born 5 May 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in half marathon and marathon events. His personal bests of 59:02 minutes and 2:04:56 hours, respectively, ranks him in the top twenty all-time in both events. He was also the silver medallist over 5000 metres at the 2012 Af... |
Q18125132 The men's 800 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7–9. |
Q2137632 Osterley () is an affluent district of the historic parish of Isleworth in west London approximately 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west south-west of Charing Cross and is part of the London Borough of Hounslow. Most of its land use is mixed agricultural and aesthetic parkland at Osterley House (National Trust), charity... |
Q9767 Gulpen-Wittem (pronunciation ) (Limburgish: Gullepe-Wittem) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands (in the province of Limburg) with 14,249 inhabitants as of 2017.Gulpen-Wittem came into being after the merger of the municipalities Gulpen and Wittem. This took place after a request of both municipaliti... |
Q1152088 USS Tarawa (LHA-1) is a United States Navy amphibious assault ship, the lead ship of her class, and the second ship to be named for the Battle of Tarawa during World War II. Tarawa was decommissioned on 31 March 2009, at San Diego Naval Base. |
Q2521134 Larrea is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of evergreen shrubs that are native to the Americas. The generic name honours Bishop J.A. Hernández Pérez de Larrea, a patron of science. South American members of this genus are known as jarillas and can prod... |
Q6968711 Nathanael Saint (August 30, 1923 – January 8, 1956) was an evangelical Christian missionary pilot to Ecuador who, accompanied by four others, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people through efforts known as Operation Auca.Nate Saint was born in 1923. When he was seven he took his first pl... |
Q4999593 Burnaby North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. |
Q5726317 Henry Newton Brown, Jr. (born December 30, 1941), is a former Louisiana appellate judge, legal lecturer, and former district attorney. He is serving his third 10-year elected term on the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport, having been elected in 1990, 2000, and 2010. |
Q6428422 Kommunenes Filmcentral was a film distributor in Norway.It was established in 1919 when Kommunale Kinematografers Landsforbund, an association of municipal-owned cinemas, bought the private-owned Nerliens Filmbureau. It distributed films by Universum Film AG and United Artists, later the Walt Disney Company an... |
Q7294767 Rashaad Khimbrel Lawrence Duncan (born December 10, 1986) is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Pittsburgh.He has also been a member of the Carolina Panthers, Buffalo Bi... |
Q16057848 The NPB–KBO Club Championship is contested between the champions of Nippon Professional Baseball's Japan Series, and the Korea Baseball Organization's Korean Series. The Korean teams lost to Japan in both matches of 2009 and 2010. |
Q7549791 The Soap Creek School, located near Corvallis, Oregon, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Q6965305 A naraloop is a video clip, usually less than 10 seconds, that tells a story or a living moment by repeating it endlessly in a loop.Naraloops are commonly produced by shooting a series of pictures or video making, and, using video editing software, to compose the pictures or the video frames into an loop of se... |
Q4733184 Allotinus maximus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1888. It is found on Sulawesi. |
Q3579478 The Éditions Philippe Picquier are a publishing house created in 1986 and specialized in the publication of books coming from Far East, that is translated books which coming from China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, India and Pakistan. |
Q6560750 After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest hos... |
Q20711880 The 2011 Braintree District Council Elections took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. All 60 councillors in 30 wards were up for election. |
Q27661994 Yotam Siachobe Muleya (1940 – 23 November 1959) was a long-distance runner who represented Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Muleya broke racial barriers and opened a new era in Rhodesian sport when he beat the famous British four minute miler, Gordon Pirie, by 100 y... |
Q767061 Fadi Ghandour (born 1959) is a Jordanian Lebanese entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the Executive Chairman of Wamda Group, a platform that builds and invests in entrepreneurship ecosystems across the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey and East Africa through Ecosystem Development programs and a... |
Q13505842 Cusuma flavifusa is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in India and Sri Lanka. |
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