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Q237721 Year 494 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tricostus and Geminus (or, less frequently, year 260 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 494 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became... |
Q5566435 Gladys Irene Vernon (1911 – 25 December 2005) was a pianist and accompanist. She was married to Walter Midgley, the international operatic tenor. Her daughter Maryetta Midgley and her son Vernon Midgley became widely acclaimed singers in their own right.As a small child she showed amazing talent for the piano,... |
Q6945458 My First Alphabet is an educational for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was programmed by Fernando Herrera and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1981.Herrera's son, Steve, was born with severe cataracts and was pronounced blind by medical specialists. Refusing to place his son in remedial... |
Q2883541 The Banu Bakr bin Wa'il or simply Banu Bakr (Arabic: بنو بكر بن وائل banū bakr bin wā'il) were an Arabian tribe belonging to the large Rabi'ah branch of Adnanite tribes, which also included Abdul Qays, Anazzah, Taghlib, Banu Shayban and Bani Hanifa. The tribe is reputed to have engaged in a 40-year war befo... |
Q7296041 Rattray Head (listen ), historically Rattray Point, is a headland in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, on the north-east coast Scotland. To north lies Strathbeg Bay and Rattray Bay is to its south. The dunes at Rattray Head beach can be up to 75 feet (23 m) high and stretch 17 miles (27 km) from St Combs to Peterhead. |
Q3809624 Dr. John Smith (12 August 1855 – 16 November 1934) was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s. He is also notable for playing rugby union and was a member of the first British Lions team that toured Australia and New Zealand in 1888. |
Q7979513 The Weekly Address of the President of the United States (also known as the Weekly (Radio) Address or Your Weekly Address) is the weekly speech by the President of the United States to the nation. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to deliver such radio addresses. Ronald Reagan revived the prac... |
Q2690710 Enstaberga is a locality situated in Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden, with 430 inhabitants in 2010. It is within the Tuna-in-Strängnäs Lutheran church parish. It is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of downtown Nyköping on the Tuna plain, in the Kila Valley.Enstaberga is located clos... |
Q59982 Sinbanghwa Station is a railway station on Line 9 of the Seoul Subway. |
Q2275180 "I See You (Theme from Avatar)" (also referred to as "I See You") is the official theme song recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for the 2009 film Avatar, directed by James Cameron, and its accompanying soundtrack (2009). It was written by James Horner and Kuk Harrell, with production done by Simon Franglen... |
Q1055030 The Nauruan Passport is an international travel document that is issued to citizens of Nauru.As of 1 January 2017, Nauruan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 80 countries and territories, ranking the Nauruan passport 60th in terms of travel freedom (tied with Kuwaiti and Maldivian passports) ... |
Q7561734 Sonia Mary Cole (née Myers) (1918 in Westminster, London – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author. |
Q6304150 The women's 70 kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held on 1 September at ExCeL London. |
Q16106792 Barry Schmidt (born 15 February 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q18209877 That's Christmas to Me is the third studio album by a cappella group Pentatonix. It is their sixth release overall and their second holiday release following their 2012 EP PTXmas. It only features previously unreleased material (except "Let It Go", a bonus track of the Japanese Edition of Vols. 1 & 2). It was... |
Q18197798 Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire (born 13 August 1866 at Angoulême; died 26 September 1954 in Périgord) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, author and historian. |
Q3619602 Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (1643 or 1646 – 20 August 1724) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
Q25184194 Jeffrey Phillip Carr (born 29 April 1944) is a former Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1991, representing the seat of Geraldton. He served as a minister in the governments of Brian Burke, Peter Dowding, and Carmen Lawrence.Carr wa... |
Q11745907 The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Catholic parish church in Tuczno, Poland. |
Q3028962 Diplodactylus ornatus, sometimes called the ornate stone gecko, is a gecko endemic to Australia. |
Q19463 Year 1088 (MLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. |
Q131482 The Hegira (medieval Latin transliteration, also Arabic: هِجْرَة, Hijra) is the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622. In June 622, after being warned of a plot to assassinate him, Muhammad secretly left his... |
Q141848 Andorra competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece from 13 to 29 August 2004. |
Q5727924 Henry William Saad (born June 1948, in Detroit, Michigan) is a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals and a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. |
Q699543 The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST; Chinese: 國立臺灣科技大學), commonly referred to as Taiwan Tech, is a public/national technological university located in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan Tech was established in 1974, as the first and the leading higher education institution of its kind within Tai... |
Q10328594 Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar is a 1924 novel by Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade. It is one of the founding texts of Brazilian modernism because it has the preface which is an important unfavorable self-reflection about Oswald's works. |
Q4692773 Aglaia elliptica is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. |
Q3269394 Ophiocanops fugiens is the only one living species in the brittle star family Ophiocanopidae. It has been regarded as the most primitive brittle star, close to Paleozoic forms, though other authors have disagreed with the view. Ophiocanops is usually placed in the order Oegophiurida (suborder Zeugophiurina) or... |
Q1440921 Maureville is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. |
Q2064681 The 2008 Men's European Volleyball League was the 5th edition of the European Volleyball League, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. The Final Four was held in Bursa, Turkey from 19 to 20 July 2008.For the first time Great Britain joined the competition and it will also enter it as a unif... |
Q7492364 Sheen Anglorum Charterhouse, also known as the Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem and as Nieuwpoort Charterhouse (Dutch: Kartuize Nieuwpoort), was a community of English Carthusians in exile in what is now Belgium after 1539 and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The name is derived from the former Sheen Prio... |
Q5238414 David Joseph Parsons (born 28 October 1954) is a former English cricketer. Parsons was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-fast. He was born in Accrington, Lancashire.Parsons made his debut for Cumberland in the 1981 Minor Counties Championship against Lincolnshire, having previously played for t... |
Q4815688 Hir District (Persian: بخش هیَر) is a district (bakhsh) in Ardabil County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 23,547, in 4,963 families. The District has one city: Hir. The District has three rural districts: Fuladlui Jonubi Rural District, Fuladlui Shomali Rural District, and Hir... |
Q8075759 Zygaena corsica is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family. It is found on Corsica and Sardinia.The larvae feed on Santolina insularis and Plagius flosculosum. |
Q4855828 The Banjarsari massacre occurred on 15 April 1987, when a 42-year-old farmer named Wirjo killed 20 people and wounded 12 others in the village of Banjarsari in Banyuwangi Regency, Indonesia. |
Q17015925 The 1844 United States presidential election in Vermont took place between November 1 and December 4, 1844, as part of the 1844 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.Vermont voted for the Whig can... |
Q18121437 Charles Bell Taylor (2 September 1829 – 14 April 1909) was an English ophthalmic surgeon, known also as a campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Act and vivisection. |
Q19457731 Chinthalatana or Chinthaltana is a village in Sircilla mandal, Karimnagar district, Telangana state, India. It sits on the banks of the Manair River.Official languages = TeluguOfficial website = chinthalatana.com |
Q11965730 Dirdal Church (Norwegian: Dirdal kirke) is a parish church in Gjesdal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Dirdal. The church is part of the Gjesdal parish in the Jæren deanery in the Diocese of Stavanger. The white, wooden church was built in 1903. The church seats abo... |
Q16636801 Madly in Love (French: Fou d'amour) is a 1943 French comedy film directed by Paul Mesnier and starring Elvire Popesco, Henri Garat and Micheline Francey.The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. |
Q4916736 Birmingham King's Norton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. |
Q7760412 The Return of Lanny Budd is the 11th and final novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1953, the story covers the period from 1946 to 1949. |
Q2572224 Bamyan (Persian: بامیان) is a district of Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. In 2003, the population was put at 70,028, of which the majority group is Hazara while the Tajik is a minority group. New Zealand peace keepers operate in the district as well as most of Bamyan Province.Villages in Bamyan District inclu... |
Q7020977 Next Door's Baby is a musical with music and lyrics by Matthew Strachan and book by Bernie Gaughan (whose novels are published under the name Bernadette Strachan), based on Gaughan's radio play of the same name. Set in 1950's Dublin, it tells the story of two neighbouring families who attempt to reconcile thei... |
Q7672410 RecordTV Rio is a Brazilian television station in Rio de Janeiro. It was created in April 1992, Múcio Athayde and Nilson Fanini sell TV Rio to Grupo Record. After the sale, Edir Macedo renames the station to "TV Record Rio de Janeiro". In addition to retransmitting RecordTV's national programming, the station ... |
Q7495019 Sheringham High School is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. The school has around 810 students, usually including between 160 and 180 in the sixth form centre. It shares a campus with Sheringham Primary School and Sheringham Woodfields School.... |
Q7958657 The Wabash Trail is a 3.0-mile (4.8 km) rail trail in Sangamon County, Illinois. It was built by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and occupies an abandoned Wabash Railroad right-of-way on the southwest side of Springfield, Illinois, stretching eastward from Robbins Road (39°45′18.3″N 89°42′45.... |
Q559476 The Torneo Internacional Challenger León (formerly known as Challenger Ficrea, presentado por ultra, Torneo Internacional AGT and Abierto Internacional Leon) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour a... |
Q6791394 Matthew C. Waxman (born about 1972) is an American law professor at Columbia University and author who held several positions during the George W. Bush administration.He is also currently a Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. |
Q1951550 Mount Zion Methodist Church is located on Primrose Avenue (NY 139) in Somers, New York, United States. It is a white clapboard-sided church built near the end of the 18th century, and heavily renovated around 1860. A century later, in 1970, it was severely vandalized.It is the oldest church in Somers, and impo... |
Q1349543 Joan Carles Toscano Beltrán (born 14 August 1984) is an Andorran international footballer who plays for UE Sant Julià, as a striker. |
Q3171565 Rissoina is a large genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoinidae. |
Q837819 Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, after undergoing a wrist operation in May and only starting to practice again in August. Del Potro was the third man in the Open Era not to defend his US Open title, after Ken Rosewall in 1971 (due to conflicts between the... |
Q5508245 Fuller Dome (86°38′S 156°18′W) is a dome-shaped, ice-covered mountain, 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) high, at the northwest end of the Rawson Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the ... |
Q3530324 Tofacitinib, sold under the brand Xeljanz among others, is a medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ulcerative colitis.Common side effects include diarrhea, headache, and high blood pressure. Serious side effects may include infections, cancer, and pulmonary embolism. In May 201... |
Q7608071 Stepan Zhdanov (born August 25, 1989) is a professional ice hockey player. He played 13 games of the 2009–10 season with Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. |
Q16226436 Jana Škoļina (born 2 November 1990) is a Latvian singer-songwriter who has appeared on the TV programs Latvijas Talants and season 9 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. |
Q22277062 Stephen Bienskie is an American actor and singer, known for his role on the web series Submissions Only. |
Q24897861 Vandalism is Deluhi's first best of album. The album peaked #87 in the Oricon charts and charted for two weeks. |
Q31209809 Florian Faist (born 10 April 1989) is an Austrian football player. He plays for TSV Hartberg. |
Q1132520 Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999 and was released to the public on November 15, 1999. It mainly competed against Windows 98 and Windows 2000 by Microsoft, plus Mac OS 9 by Apple. Corel later discontinued the ... |
Q20827 The Tolowa language (also called Chetco-Tolowa, or Siletz Dee-ni) is a member of the Pacific Coast subgroup of the Athabaskan language family. Together with three other closely related languages (Lower Rogue River Athabaskan, Upper Rogue River Athabaskan or Galice-Applegate and Upper Umpqua or Etnemitane) it for... |
Q2106560 France competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, and failed to win a single gold medal for the second time only (and, to date, the last) in the history of the modern Olympic Games. 238 competitors, 210 men and 28 women, took part in 120 events in 19 sports. |
Q8033880 Woolmanhill Hospital was a health facility in the city centre of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the original Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a complex which opened in 1749 and was replaced by new facility at Foresterhill in 1936. After services transferred to Aberdeen Community Health and Care Village, the Foresterhill... |
Q554134 Vorra is a municipality in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria in Germany. |
Q5590314 Gołaszyce [ɡɔwaˈʂɨt͡sɛ] (German: Gohlitsch) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żarów, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of Żarów, 13 kilometres (8 mi) north-east of Świdnica, and 41 kilometres (25 mi) sou... |
Q543229 The meridian 122° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.122°W is the Seventh Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey in Canada.The 122nd meridian west forms a great ci... |
Q178375 José de Jesús Horacio Pimiento Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ðe xeˈsus piˈmjento roˈðɾiɣes]; born February 18, 1919) is a Colombian Prelate of the Catholic Church. At the age of 100, he is the oldest living cardinal. |
Q2401323 Laar is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel, 2 km east of the town of Berlicum. |
Q5420309 Exilia graphiduloides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ptychatractidae. |
Q5724944 Henry Lindlahr (March 1, 1862 – March 26, 1924) was the author of one of the cornerstone texts of American naturopathic medicine, Nature Cure, which includes topics about disease suppression versus elimination, hydrotherapy, and the importance of fresh air and sun bathing. |
Q5463015 Flux is a software company that develops and licenses software products targeted for workflow, job scheduling, and managed file transfer. Headquartered in Boulder, Flux also has offices in Houston and Memphis. |
Q5427702 Fabiana "Dara" Carvalho Diniz (born 13 May 1981), is a retired Brazilian handball player. She played on the Brazilian national team and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil and the 2012 Summer Olympics. |
Q7935347 Visitors to Argentina must obtain a visa from one of the Argentinian diplomatic missions unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries. |
Q5829212 Rud Sameh (Persian: رودسمه, also Romanized as Rūd Sameh, Rūd-e Semeh, and Rūd Semeh) is a village in Bahmayi-ye Sarhadi-ye Gharbi Rural District, Dishmok District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 191, in 30 families. |
Q15636650 Caeneressa lutosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1976. It is found on Borneo. |
Q15067808 Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 3D science fiction thriller film Gravity, written by British film composer Steven Price. The album was released in 2013 via WaterTower Music label.Price's score was universally applauded by film critics and audiences alike, leading Pri... |
Q18098113 Richard B. Easterly (born April 13, 1939) was an American gridiron football player. He played wide receiver the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He won the Grey Cup with the Tiger-Cats in 1963.Easterly played college football at Syracuse University, participating in the Syracuse Uni... |
Q25204725 Unbelievable is a song by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., recorded for his debut studio album Ready to Die. It samples R. Kelly’s “Your Body’s Calling” and Honey Drippers' “Impeach the President”. |
Q27304714 Adepeju Opeyemi Jaiyeoba (born November 1983) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and activist who created the Brown Button Foundation as well as Mother's Delivery Kit which creates low cost health care options and delivery kits containing basic sterile supplies for expectant mothers in Nigeria. |
Q5040700 Carl Nettles Reynolds (February 1, 1903 – May 29, 1978) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1927–31), Washington Senators (1932, 1936), St. Louis Browns (1933), Boston Red Sox (1934–35) and Chicago Cubs (1937–39). He was born in LaRue, Texas, and attended S... |
Q1998593 Huaning Road (simplified Chinese: 华宁路; traditional Chinese: 華寧路; pinyin: Huáníng Lù) is a station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro. It is situated on the branch service of the line, between Dongchuan Road and Minhang Development Zone. Passengers can transfer to the main line at Dongchuan Road. |
Q5096094 Chick Carter, Detective is a 1946 Columbia film serial. Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a Nick Carter serial so they made Chick Carter, Detective about his son instead. This was based on the radio series Chick Carter, Boy Detective. A Nick Carter series was being made by MGM.In a "rather strang... |
Q5631560 HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1679.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1700, again as a 70-gun third rate, and was hulked in 1715.Berwick was broken up in 1723. |
Q11929078 José Feans (born April 24, 1912) is an Uruguayan boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the heavyweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist Guillermo Lovell. |
Q1071273 The Royal Mail models H-2 (1914–15) and H-2½ (1916), the Amesbury Special model H-3 (1915) and the Baby Grand model H-4 (1914–16) were American cars made by Chevrolet. They would be replaced by the Chevrolet Series F in 1917. |
Q7855691 The Turn Me On EP is an extended play, released by trance DJ BT, during his Movement in Still Life era, released in 1999. The EP contains three remixes total, of two different songs from BT's album Movement in Still Life, "Mercury and Solace" and "Godspeed" both of which would later be released individually as... |
Q3578612 The Ecomusee du fier monde is a museum about the industrial and working-class people of South Central Montreal, Canada, one of the city's oldest neighbourhoods. The museum is in the Bain Genereux, an art deco former indoor public bath, modeled on one in Paris and built in the 1920s. It is located at 2050 Amhe... |
Q4995572 Bulbophyllum rarum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q5530319 Gikondi is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province. |
Q4945294 Ulrika Eleonora von Düben (18 March 1722 – 23 August 1758), was a Swedish Courtier, favourite of the queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. |
Q6260508 John Thomas (1879 – 1 June 1949) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1901 to 1905. His precise date and place of birth are not known; he died at Taunton, Somerset. Thomas was a tail-end batsman and an opening bowler; his batting and bowling styles are not known. He played in one first-class match in e... |
Q3384536 Mazocraeidae is a flatworms family in the order Mazocraeidea. |
Q15639653 Hellinsia serenus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It's found in Arizona, Utah and California.The wingspan is 23–35 mm. The head is cream-white between the antennae, elsewhere more or less brownish. The antennae are white and the palpi are whitish. The thorax and abdomen are pale yellowish, the latter w... |
Q7476510 The Great Mosque of Central Java (Indonesian: Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah) is a mosque in the city of Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. |
Q16089662 Hester Henriette Grové(née Venter) (September 26, 1922 - December 15, 2009) is a South African writer of African origin. She was married to the literary critic A.P. Grové.She is best known for her short stories and her plays. She is one of the few writers to have won the Hertzog Prize in multiple categories.... |
Q16956469 The 2014 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup is the 42nd edition of the premier European competition for women's field hockey clubs. It will be played in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands between 18 April and 21 April 2014.There will not be a round-robin. The eight teams will be placed in the bracket starting from the ... |
Q5656216 Acción Galega (Galician Action in English language) is a Galician political organization led by former the former member of the PP Rafael Cuíña, former Galician autonomic Minister Teresa Táboas and the former senator of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) Xosé Manuel Perez Bouza. The party was founded in 2012 ... |
Q3026080 Diamniadio is a city in Senegal. |
Q9041313 Liberty Township is an inactive township in Clay County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.Liberty Township was erected in the 1820s, taking its name from Liberty, Missouri. |
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