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Q14930743 Scymnus tenebrosus is a species of dusky lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae. |
Q731668 Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen (born April 2, 1941), better known as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. Hansen created the Demento persona in 19... |
Q17107745 NextBus is a public transit vehicle tracking system which uses global positioning satellite information to predict when the next vehicle will arrive at any given transit stop, thereby reducing wait times and the reliance on schedules.NextBus is developed by Nextbus Information Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of C... |
Q930500 MS Zuiderdam is a Vista class cruise ship owned and operated by Holland America Line (HAL). It is the lead ship of the Vista class vessels, so named for the extensive use of glass in their superstructure, and is sister to three other HAL ships, Oosterdam, Westerdam, and Noordam. The prefixes of the four ships'... |
Q5140190 The Codex Burgundus is a 15th-century Flemish illuminated manuscript book of hours, in the Batthyaneum Library in Alba Julia, Romania. It measures 180 x 120 mm (page), text 110 x 70 mm, binding 190 x 130 mm; and is written in one column with 16 lines per page. It has 55 miniatures on gold mosaic.This is an a... |
Q3418506 Heswall railway station is a railway station located on the eastern edge of the town of Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is situated on the Borderlands Line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Transport for Wales. In 2008, the station was refurbished. The station was previously... |
Q4322204 Novaya Moskva (Russian: Но́вая Москва́, lit. New Moscow) is a rural locality (a village) in Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located on the Shkotovka River. Population: 114 (2005 est.). |
Q6334760 KOAS (105.7 FM, Jammin' 105.7) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban AC format. Licensed to Dolan Springs, Arizona, United States, the station serves the Laughlin/Las Vegas/Dolan Springs area. The station is currently owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC. The st... |
Q7955524 WSBV is a Black Gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to South Boston, Virginia, serving South Boston and Halifax County, Virginia. WSBV is owned by Lamont Logan, through licensee Logan Broadcasting, Inc. |
Q149677 26074 Carlwirtz, provisional designation 1977 TD, is a dynamical Hungaria asteroid and binary Mars-crosser from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 8 October 1977, by German astronomer Hans-Emil Schuster at ESO's La Silla Observatory... |
Q650618 The 1997–98 New Jersey Nets season was the Nets' 31st season in the National Basketball Association, and 22nd season in East Rutherford, New Jersey. During the off-season, the Nets acquired rookie Keith Van Horn from the Philadelphia 76ers, who drafted him with the second pick in the 1997 NBA draft, then signed... |
Q5098384 Children in Need 2004 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for the charity Children in Need. It culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One on the evening of Friday 19 November and was hosted primarily by Terry Wogan, who was assisted by Gaby Roslin. The voice over was Alan Dedicoat. |
Q2294684 The 2006–07 Slovenian Hockey League was the 16th season in Slovenia.At the end of the regular season the playoffs, also known as the Slovenian Ice Hockey League, was held. Slavija had the best result in the regular season, but they could not convert this in the finals, where they lost to Olimpija. |
Q3690679 Thomaz Bellucci was the defending champion, however he lost in the final to his compatriot Marcos Daniel in three sets (1–6, 6–3, 3–6). |
Q102332 Katharina Müller-Elmau (* 13. September 1965 in Göttingen) is a German actress. |
Q89559 Kris Carr (born August 31, 1971) is a New York Times and #1 Amazon best-selling author, wellness activist and cancer survivor. She documented her battle against epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in her documentary film Crazy Sexy Cancer.She wrote the New York Times bestsellers Crazy Sexy Diet and Crazy Sexy Kitch... |
Q4974641 Brookholt was a Gilded Age mansion on Front Street in East Meadow, Long Island, New York. It was built for Oliver and Alva Belmont in 1897. Designed by Richard Howland Hunt, the house was built in the Colonial Revival-style, rendered in wood. John Russell Pope designed a Georgian-style farmhouse on the prope... |
Q6220416 John Balderton (fl. 1402) of Lincoln, was an English politician.He was elected Mayor of Lincoln for 1399–1400 and a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lincoln in 1402. |
Q16106201 Mauricio de Maria y Campos is the former Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and former Mexican Ambassador to South Africa. |
Q25095755 Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Australian recording artist, Marcia Hines. It was released in December 1981 and peaked at number 2 on the Australian Kent Music Report in January 1982. This remains Hines’ highest charting album. The chart position of Greatest Hits gave Hines the distinction o... |
Q580984 Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16, 1999, is the first operating system released into the retail market by Apple Computer based on NeXT technology. It was the final release of the product code-named Rhapsody, which was an interim combination of the OpenStep system (Mach OS and OpenStep API) and Mac OS 8.... |
Q6487356 Lansdowne is a neighbourhood in south west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada overlooking the Whitemud Creek Ravine. The Snow Valley Ski Hill is located near the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood is situated directly across from Michener Park, a residential complex for students staying at the University of Alberta.Hou... |
Q4787117 The Architecture of Cesar Department refers to the architecture in the Cesar Department of Colombia, which still preserves much of the colonial architecture inherited by the Spanish colonization and the architecture developed by the numerous tribes of indigenous peoples of the Cesar Department that included th... |
Q4772148 Anthony David Brand, 6th Viscount Hampden DL (7 May 1937 – 4 January 2008) was a British stock broker, Sussex land owner, South Downsman, hereditary peer and land agent. |
Q4245054 The Hager House is a two-story stone house in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States that dates to c. 1740. The house was built by Jonathan Hager, a German immigrant from Westphalia, who founded Hagerstown. The basement contains two spring-fed pools of water, providing a secure water source. Hager sold the prop... |
Q3419508 Bahuntilpung is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,007. |
Q7546520 Smołdzino [smɔu̯ˈd͡ʑinɔ] (Kashubian: Smôłdzëno) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Przodkowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Przodkowo, 8 km (5 mi) east of Kartuzy, and 22 km (14 mi) west of the regional ca... |
Q4454652 Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 15 April 1984, with a second round on 17 May. The majority of seats were won by independents, whilst the Islamic Republican Party was the only party to win seats. Voter turnout was 65.1% in the first round.Freedom Movement of Iran declared that it would boycott the ... |
Q4264466 Keumalahayati, or Malahayati (fl. 16th century), was an admiral in the navy of the Aceh Sultanate, which ruled the area of modern Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. She was the first woman admiral in the modern world (if Artemisia I is not included). Her troops were drawn from Aceh's widows and the army named ... |
Q6403736 Kiambuthia is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province. |
Q7455371 Serrata veneria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. |
Q7329007 Richard Shephard MBE, DL, FRSCM (b. 1949) is a composer, former educator, and Director of Development and Chamberlain of York Minster. He is acclaimed as one of the most significant composers of church music today. |
Q5128610 Clatterford End is a hamlet partly in the High Easter civil parish of the Uttlesford district, and partly in the Good Easter parish of the Chelmsford district, of Essex, England. The hamlet is 1 mile (1.6 km) south from High Easter village, and 6 miles (10 km) northwest from the city and county town of Chelmsf... |
Q6163286 Jason Pramas is an American photojournalist. He is executive editor and associate publisher of the alternative newsweekly DigBoston, and executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism that he co-founded with Chris Faraone in 2015. In 2018, his column Apparent Horizon won first place in the... |
Q5925144 Huainan United University (淮南联合大学) is a university in the Chinese city of Huainan. |
Q56852 Bisu (Chinese: 毕苏语) is a Loloish language of Thailand, with a couple thousand speakers in China. Varieties are Bisu proper (Mbisu) and Laomian (Guba), considered by Pelkey to be distinct languages.The Laomian are classified within the Lahu ethnic group; the Lahu proper call them the "Lawmeh" (Bradley 2007). |
Q16208430 Enis Đurković (born 24 May 1989) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Austrian side GSC Liebenfels. |
Q16731586 Tani Loffa is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He belongs to the Bhartiya Janata Party.In 2004, he was elected from East Kameng district's Seppa West assembly constituency of Arunachal Pradesh. |
Q21622177 Pulkit Narang (born 18 June 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Delhi. He made his first-class debut on 30 October in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy. |
Q3476773 Sean Reycraft is a Canadian screenwriter, television producer and playwright. He is most noted for his theatrical play Pop Song, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in the Youth Theatre division in 2001, and as the screenwriter of Laurie Lynd's 2007 film Breakfast with Scot.The son of former On... |
Q2628001 The Fantastic Four is an unreleased 1994 independent superhero film based on Marvel Comics' long-running comic book and features the origin of the Fantastic Four and the team's first battle with the evil Doctor Doom, combining the superteam's origin from The Fantastic Four #1 and Doom's origin from Fantastic F... |
Q4979648 Brush Creek or Rincon Creek is a tributary of Santa Rosa Creek in Sonoma County, California. Brush Creek rises in the southern slopes of the Mayacamas Mountains within Sonoma County. The lower reach of the creek is a suburban medium density residential area in the city of Santa Rosa, and that reach of Brush ... |
Q6533849 Letton Hall is an English stately home at Letton near Shipdham, Norfolk. It is a Grade II listed building.Letton Hall was designed by Sir John Soane and constructed for the Gurdon family between 1783 and 1789. It underwent major Victorian alterations.The hall is now mainly used for Christian conferences, youth... |
Q7497943 Ship Yard is a rail yard on the Richmond District in Richmond, Virginia. It is just east of Triple Crossing. Ship Yard is not often used for putting together trains, but is more for storing empty cars, especially boxcars. |
Q627983 12 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Moscow winning the championship. |
Q826060 Bernhard Trares (born 18 August 1965) is a German retired professional footballer who played mainly as a central defender, and a current manager. |
Q8037959 The men's Greco-Roman 69 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 25 to 27. The competition held with an elimination system of three or four wrestlers in each pool, with the winners qualify for the quarterfinals, semi... |
Q4938946 Bolarum Railway Station (station code:BMO) is an Indian railway station in Hyderabad, situated in the Indian state of Telangana. |
Q6886008 Mnin-Przymusów [ˈmnin pʂɨˈmusuf], also known as Przymusów, is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Słupia Konecka, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. |
Q3694991 Gulistan is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Qilla Abdullah District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. The tehsil is administratively subdivided into five Union Councils and is headquartered at the town of Gulistan. |
Q5216548 Daniel Jack Berg (born 21 November 1984) was born in Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia. He moved to the United States to further his baseball career after debuting with the Victoria Aces in the 2003 Claxton Shield. |
Q972486 Guerrino Rossi (February 2, 1934 – August 19, 1996) was an Italian professional football player and coach. He was born in Monticelli d'Ongina, Province of Piacenza. |
Q7149424 Vice Admiral Robin Paul Boissier, (born 14 October 1953) is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of Fleet Support from 2004 to 2006. |
Q12061054 Aaron Kuder is an American comic book artist and writer, who has worked on books such as The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3, Legion Lost, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Avenging Spider-Man, Death of X, All-New Guardians of the Galaxy and Infinity Countdown. |
Q15636582 Atlantarctia oberthueri is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Oberthür in 1890. It is found in Algeria and Tunisia. |
Q17090599 WRSN/88.1 is an FM radio station licensed to Lebanon, Tennessee. It airs a Catholic religious format. It was assigned the WRSN callsign on November 20, 2008. |
Q19865335 Mythical Records is a record label in the electro-acoustic and experimental music genres. The label was founded in 2007 by Samantha Bouquin, Brett Branning, and Elizabeth Fawn while they were in attendance at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. The label specializes in music that combines aestheti... |
Q19595688 John de Derby was the inaugural Dean of Lichfield, serving from 1222 until 1254. |
Q21934158 Ramesh Balakrishnan is an Indian film director and television producer who has worked on Tamil films and serials. |
Q28037272 The 2017 Vuelta a San Juan was a road cycling stage race that took place between 23 and 29 January. It was the 35th edition of the Vuelta a San Juan and the first time it was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI America Tour calendar.The race was won by Bauke Mollema for the Trek–Segafredo team; after finishing se... |
Q15921518 The President of the Republic of the Gambia is the head of state and head of government of the Gambia. The president leads the executive branch of the government of the Gambia and is the commander-in-chief of the Military of the Gambia. The post was created in 1970, when the Gambia became a republic and has b... |
Q701350 Wang Lang (pronunciation ) (died December 228), courtesy name Jingxing, was a Chinese politician and minor warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He later served in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. Through his granddaughter's Wang Yuanji married with Sima Zhao, he ... |
Q5221975 Dara Coleman (born 4 December 1972) is an Irish actor. He was made famous as the redcoat sergeant defying Mel Gibson in the 2000 movie The Patriot by shouting "Ready arms! By twos! This is the King's highway, and I'd advise you to make way!". |
Q3608660 Blessed Albert Berdini, O.F.M., (also known as Albert of Sarteano) was a Franciscan friar and preacher, born in 1385 in the town of Sarteano, which lies in the Province of Siena in the Tuscan region of Italy. He entered the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals in 1405. Later, however, he was drawn by the reform o... |
Q1588944 Hatrix is a Cleveland-based thrash metal band formed in 1989 and fronted by future-Mushroomhead lead singer Jeff Hatrix after his departure from Purgatory. First started with (also ex-Purgatory guitarist) Dave Felton's former bandmate from his time in Centurion, Sam Romano on drums. He was replaced by Gary Est... |
Q7702805 Terminator is an open-source terminal emulator programmed in Java. It is available on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that use the X Window System. Terminator will run on any modern POSIX system running Java 6 or later. Terminator is licensed under the GNU General Public License version... |
Q7373650 Richard Royal Alexander, known as Royal Alexander (born February 18, 1966), is an attorney and politician in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, who in 2007 was the Republican-endorsed candidate for state attorney general. |
Q6463804 La Mejor Música de los Andes Venezolanos is the name of a 33 rpm LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1961 (see 1961 in music) with the record label Cymbal.Aldemaro Romero presents at this album popular pieces from the Venezuelan Andes, upgrading this waltzes and bamb... |
Q18042012 ER degradation-enhancing alpha-mannosidase-like 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the EDEM2 gene. |
Q3157480 Jacques "Jacky" Lemée (born 26 June 1946) is a retired French footballer and the current manager of FC Saint-Jean-le-Blanc. He played for Orléans, Stade Français, Metz, Strasbourg, Angers, Marseille, Laval.Lemée also enjoyed a career as a manager with Orléans, Châteauroux, Reims, Créteil, Red Star, Limoges, Mu... |
Q4603369 The 2004 Triglav Trophy was the Triglav Trophy figure skating competition of the 2003–04 figure skating season. The competition is always held annually in the spring in Jesenice, Slovenia. Due to its timing, the Triglav Trophy is usually the last or one of the last International Skating Union-sanctioned intern... |
Q7876717 "Uchiki na Aitsu" (内気なあいつ, "Shy Guy") is the sixth single release by Japanese girl group Candies, released on June 1, 1975. It sold over 98,000 copies. |
Q3758430 Garrufo is a frazione in the Province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Located in Val Vibrata, where urban development is very recent. Garrufo is located west of the capital city, |
Q1984402 Bibigon (Russian: Бибигон) is a defunct Russian television channel dedicated to children and adolescents. The channel, a subsidiary of Russia-1 and owned by VGTRK, first launched on September 1, 2007. Was originally launched as a block in daytime on Russia, Sport and Kultura. Bibigon was only available in Russ... |
Q10965540 Nexus Music is a Danish record label and production company that was founded in 2002 by producers Jon & Jules (Jon Andersson Ørom and Johannes Jules Wolfson).With more than 20 number 1s and more than 100 gold and platinum certifications, Nexus Music has become one of Denmark's most famous and best-selling pro... |
Q65301 José Datrino, known as prophet Gentileza (11 April 1917 – 28 May 1996) was a Brazilian urban personality, kind of a preacher, who became known from 1980 by making quirky inscriptions under an overpass in Rio de Janeiro, where he walked in a white robe and long beard. "Gentileza gera gentileza" ("Kindness begets ... |
Q15916252 Arirang is a North Korean Android smartphone announced on 10 August 2013. The phone was distributed to local sales points operated by mobile operators such as Koryolink to be sold together with 3G SIMs or as a stand-alone device. It is named after the "Arirang" Korean folk song.The Korean Central News Agency ... |
Q16009236 Katherine Whitney Curtis (January 4, 1897 - July 6, 1980), also spelled "Katharine" or "Kay" Curtis, is widely credited as the originator of synchronized swimming. While historical figures such as Esther Williams and Annette Kellerman are recognized for similar contributions, important historical details reg... |
Q6124133 Sint Eustatius Football Association – the sport of association football in the island of Sint Eustatius also known as Statia Football Association. The association administers the Sint Eustatius national football team, as well as the Sint Eustatius Football League. However, the league was only active from 1980... |
Q41505712 Hermann Dietrich Upmann (1 May 1816 in Bielefeld-Altstadt, Germany – 29 January 1894 Bremen, Germany) was a banker, merchant and cigar manufacturer in Cuba, creator of the H. Upmann 1844 brand.With 23 years he embarked for the New World in 1839 to work for an import / export Company: The Gravenhorst & Co. Dur... |
Q1472978 The Sunbeam Rapier is an automobile produced by Rootes Group from 1955 to 1976, in two different body-styles, the "Series" cars (which underwent several revisions) and the later (1967–76) fastback shape, part of the "Arrow" range.The first generation Rapier was the first of the "Audax" range of light cars prod... |
Q172564 Luigi Piotti (October 27, 1913 in Milan – April 19, 1971 in Godiasco) was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points. |
Q2874269 Aviadenoviruses are adenoviruses that affect birds - particularly chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and pheasants. There are currently eight species in this genus including the type species Fowl aviadenovirus A. Viruses in this genus cause specific disease syndromes such as Quail Bronchitis (QB), Egg Drop Syndro... |
Q5019225 Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (estimated 1644 – 1666) was the first American Indian to graduate from Harvard University. |
Q8002938 William F. "Will" Leitch (born October 10, 1975 in Mattoon, Illinois) is a writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a national correspondent for MLB.com, a contributing editor at New York, critic at Grierson & Leitch, contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Fast Compan... |
Q7064225 Route 360 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.It is located in Kings County and connects Berwick at Trunk 1 with Harbourville.It climbs the steep southern slope of the North Mountain in a sharp hairpin turn known locally as "The Oxbow". |
Q991905 Esztár is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. |
Q5127296 Clark Stuart Keltie (born 31 August 1983) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Western Australia side Perth SC.He has notably played in the Football League for Darlington, Rochdale and Lincoln City, and in the Icelandic Premier League for Þór Akureyri and... |
Q3116747 Grind Stormer, released as V・V (Japanese: ヴィ・ファイヴ, Hepburn: Vi Faivu, "Vee Five") in Japan, is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up developed for the arcade by Toaplan, and ported to the Sega Genesis in 1994 by Tengen. |
Q6388889 New Kendall Bridge is a concrete bridge that links Kendall village in the Sittee River, Belize. The project was funded by the Government of Belize and the Caribbean Bank. The construction started in 2010 and was successfully completed in a period of 24 months by CISCO Constructions in August 2012, at a cost of... |
Q7343923 Robert Earl was a United States Marine lieutenant colonel and a deputy to Oliver North at the National Security Agency during the early 1980s. |
Q22025813 The 1982 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh year under head coach Terry Donahue, the Bruins compiled a 10–1–1 record (5–1–1 Pac-10), finished in first place in t... |
Q7718605 "The Blinded Bird" is a 1916 poem written by English author and poet Thomas Hardy.The poem was reportedly written as a protest against Vinkensport, a sort of singing competition between male finches. The poem decries the prior historical practice of blinding birds to improve their performance at the sport. For... |
Q17495725 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Malhar, popularly known as Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bilaspur, is a part of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. It is one of the approximately 593 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in India, located in Malhar Village, near Masturi, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. It is about 32 kilometers from t... |
Q4784630 Arbedian (Persian: اربديان, also Romanized as ‘Arbedīān and Arbīdīān) is a village in Dastjerd Rural District, Alamut-e Gharbi District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 60, in 15 families. |
Q6235206 John Gerzema is an American CEO and columnist who focuses on social sciences and the impact of leadership ethics and corporate culture on consumer behavior and financial performance. He has a particular focus on female leadership traits and competencies in modern-day leadership. He is CEO of Harris Insights & ... |
Q7967200 Broken (Korean: 방황하는 칼날; RR: Banghwanghaneun Kalnal; lit. "Hovering Blade" or "Roving Edge") is a 2014 South Korean action thriller film about a father (played by Jung Jae-young) who becomes a fugitive as he hunts down the two men responsible for his daughter's rape and murder.It is adapted from Keigo Higashin... |
Q5483747 Francisco Nemenzo Jr. is a Filipino political scientist, educator and activist, and was the 18th president of the University of the Philippines. Born to the 'Father of Philippine coral taxonomy' Francisco Nemenzo Sr., he has become a prominent Marxist figure in the Philippine academe.He is Professor Emeritus o... |
Q17010761 The Star Awards for Best Newcomer is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.The category was introduced in 1994, at the 1st Star Awards ceremony as two separate awards; Yao Wenlong received the award as the Most Popular Male Newcomer award while Ivy Lee receive... |
Q28134867 Felisatti is a family name of Italian origin. It may refer to: Gian Pietro Felisatti, Italian music producer and songwriterMassimo Felisatti, Italian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and director |
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