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Q618113 Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, Kamui Fuchi) is the Ainu kamuy (goddess) of the hearth. Her full name is Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat (Rising Fire Sparks Woman/ Rising Cinder Sparks Woman), and she is also known as Iresu Kamuy (People Teacher). She is among the most important kamuy of Ainu mythology, serving as keepe... |
Q6639658 A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. In soap operas, the villain, sometimes called a "bad guy", is an antagonist, tending to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is sometimes called a villainess or "bad girl". Ran... |
Q521820 The canton of Coligny is a former administrative division in eastern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 9 communes, which joined the new canton of Saint-Étienne-du-Bois in 2015. It included the following communes: |
Q15453062 Michael Capuzzo (born on May 1, 1957) is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore. The Murder Room, the true story of a private dining club of famous detectives who solve cold murders, and Close to Shore, an historic ... |
Q7424385 Sarny [ˈsarnɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ułęż, within Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Ułęż, 8 km (5 mi) south-east of Ryki, and 54 km (34 mi) north-west of the regional capital Lublin. |
Q11571295 Inunaki Dam (犬鳴ダム, Inunaki damu) is a dam in Miyawaka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was completed in 1994. |
Q7111084 Our Man Higgins is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 3, 1962, to May 17, 1963. |
Q952652 Shova is a village development committee in Rukum District in the Rapti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 5498 people living in 1054 individual households. |
Q7337766 The River Road Stone Arch Railroad Bridge is a historic bridge carrying the former Air Line Railroad right-of-way over River Road in Salmon River State Forest in Colchester, Connecticut. Built in 1887, it is a well-preserved example of a period masonry railroad bridge, built as part of a state-mandated progra... |
Q5169535 Coraline is a musical written by Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan and is based on the novella Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It follows a young girl who is bored in her new house, and finds a new universe. |
Q281310 The 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Belarus Ground Forces. It is the heir to the traditions of the Red Army 120th Guards Rifle Division which became the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1957. |
Q8406909 Transfiguration Church in Szentendre is a Serbian Orthodox church in Hungary. Local church parish is under the jurisdiction of Eparchy of Buda. The church was constructed from 1741 till 1746. In 1980 the church appeared on a Hungarian postal stamp. The church is also the home for a museum of Eparchy of Buda. T... |
Q1521682 Wei Chen-yang (Chinese: 魏辰洋; pinyin: Wèi Chényáng; born 23 February 1992 in Nantou County) is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner. He competed in the 58 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; he defeated Le Huynh Chau in the preliminary round and was eliminated by Alexey Denisenko in the quarterfinal. |
Q16897330 Svenskebukta is a bay at the northern side of Kongsøya of Kong Karls Land, Svalbard. It is located between Kapp Oscar and eastwards towards a point west of Nordaustpynten. Former name variants of the bay are Holmbukta, Swedish: Svenska Segelsällskapets Bay and Swedish Yacht Club Bay. The glacier Rundisen debo... |
Q18209943 Saadia (Arabic: سعدية, Hebrew: סעדיה) is an Arabic, Hebrew and Berber masculine proper name. It is used as a forename and more rarely as a surname. According to some classical rabbinical sources, the name derives from the Hebrew verb Sa'ad (Hebrew: סעד, support), and means "God has supported". According ... |
Q19878940 María Teresa Campoy Ruy Sánchez (born 15 October 1959) is a Mexican politician from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. From 2000 to 2003 she served as Deputy of the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Nuevo León. |
Q20641963 Humayun Kabir Balu (4 October 1947 – 27 June 2004) was a Bangladeshi journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2009 by the Government of Bangladesh. |
Q23038644 Tarik Evre (born 29 May 1996) is a Dutch football player of Turkish descent. He also holds Turkish citizenship and represented Turkey on junior levels. |
Q4660545 A Walking Tour of the Shambles (Little Walks For Sightseers #16) (2002), written by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, is a novel in the form of a tour guide concerning a fictional part of Chicago called 'The Shambles'. It guides the reader through such non-existent landmarks as The House of Clocks (see the official ... |
Q7329440 Admiral Sir William Richard Scott Thomas (22 March 1932 – 13 December 1998) was the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (or simply Black Rod) in the British Parliament's House of Lords from January 1992 to 8 May 1995. |
Q16727467 Carl Edward Bereiter (b. 1930) is an American education researcher, professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto known for his research into knowledge building. |
Q21510836 MacIntyre or Macintyre (Gaelic Mac an t-Saoir) is a Scottish surname, of Gaelic origin, relating to Clan MacIntyre. Its meaning is "Son of the Carpenter". The corresponding English name is Wright. |
Q5065140 The Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) UK qualification is offered by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Upon completion of the exams and required practical work experience the CAT graduate will be able to apply to use the letters CAT after his or her name. In addition, they will h... |
Q7703541 Terrestrial Tones are Dave Portner of Animal Collective and Eric Copeland of Black Dice. The two were roommates who got together to record when both of their respective main bands went on temporary hiatus in November 2004. |
Q5462761 Pouteria macrocarpa is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica. |
Q1004896 The men's 105 kg weightlifting event was the seventh men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 18, but was divided in two parts due to the number of competitors. Group B weightlifters competed at 15:... |
Q857428 Yamanakadani Station (山中渓駅, Yamanakadani-eki) is a railway station on the West Japan Railway Company Hanwa Line in Hannan, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and is administrated by Izumi-Sunagawa Station.This station is a famous rail-photographing place in the Kansai Region, especially the one with the cherry blossoms i... |
Q5560875 Gilbert Curgenven (1 December 1882 – 26 May 1934) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1901 and 1922.Curgenven was born at Friar Gate, Derby, the son of William Curgenven a doctor who was one of the founders of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. He was educated at Repton School ... |
Q5165231 Continental Air Services, Inc, better known as CASI, was a subsidiary airline of Continental Airlines set up to provide operations and airlift support in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. CASI was formed as the South-East Asia Division of Continental in April 1965 with operations starting in September 1... |
Q7454742 Sericomyia chrysotoxoides is a North American species of flower fly. It is the most common species of Sericomyia in eastern USA. |
Q5970587 "Swear" is a song recorded by Chinese singer Alan. "Swear" was written by Aico and Yuka Miyagawa and was produced by Kazuhito Kikuchi. The song was used as the theme song of Bourbon's Blanchul Mini Series commercial, in which Alan appears. The PV for the single was shot at Keisei Rose Garden. The B-side, "Beau... |
Q6876574 Miss Terra Brasil (in native language, or Miss Earth Brazil) is an annual national beauty pageant realized in Brazil to select its entrant in the Miss Earth pageant. |
Q4733618 Alma Ziegler (January 9, 1918 – May 30, 2005) was an infielder and pitcher who played from 1944 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 125 lb., Ziegler batted and threw right-handed.Alma Ziegler was one of the best all-around players in the early year... |
Q6404997 "Kids in the Street" is a song by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released as the second single from their fourth studio album of the same name on March 13, 2012. |
Q2500755 Uriel Frisch (born in Agen, in France, on December 10, 1940) is a French mathematical physicist known for his work on fluid dynamics and turbulence. |
Q18390228 RhodeCode is an open source self-hosted platform for behind-the-firewall source code management. It provides centralized control over Git, Mercurial, and Subversion repositories within an organization, with common authentication and permission management. RhodeCode allows forking, pull requests, and code rev... |
Q18720201 Pa.Ranjith is an Indian director and filmmaker who makes Tamil language films. He made his directorial debut with the 2012 romantic comedy Attakathi, before earning unanimously positive reviews for his second film, the political drama Madras (2014). In 2016, he written and directed the gangster-drama Kabali a... |
Q30110233 Jessica Lovering is an American astrophysicist, researcher and Director of Energy at the Breakthrough Institute. She supports the innovative development of new nuclear power plants in response to climate change. She also sits on the Advisory Committee of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, and was a speaker at N... |
Q600593 Bingham Farms is a village in Southfield Township, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,111 at the 2010 census. |
Q7343724 Robert Dymkowski (born May 15, 1970) is a former Polish football player. He played for Pogoń Szczecin, PAOK Salonika, and Widzew Łódź. He ended his career in 2005. |
Q4631975 The 24th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army from the First World War, serving through the Second World War, until 1999 when it was merged with the 5th Airborne Brigade to form 16 Air Assault Brigade. |
Q144877 Luxembourg competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 48 competitors, 46 men and 2 women, took part in 31 events in 10 sports. |
Q7554971 Soila is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. |
Q5052087 Catharina Haynes (born November 9, 1963) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. |
Q7658455 The Swindon Wildcats NIHL is an amateur English ice hockey team based in Swindon, Wiltshire. The team is a development team for the Swindon Wildcats. The team currently plays in the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) Southern Conference Division 2. |
Q3242252 Lipowo [liˈpɔvɔ] (German: Lindenheim) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kruklanki, within Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Kruklanki, 24 km (15 mi) east of Giżycko, and 112 km (70 mi) east of the regional cap... |
Q6520091 Leiorhynx is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. |
Q5614187 The Guasamayo River is a river of Argentina. |
Q1081878 Shopite is a village in the municipality of Sevlievo, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria. |
Q6219202 John Anthony Galignani (1796–1873), together with his brother, William (1798–1882), was a publisher and bookshop owner in Paris. |
Q16235373 Alex Forster (born 24 July 1993) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). |
Q15629266 Millpu (Quechua for "throat, gullet", also spelled Millpo) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 5,238 metres (17,185 ft) high. It is locatedin the Lima Region, Huarochiri Province, in the districts of Carampoma and Chicla. Millpu lies northeast of Wachwa (Quechua for "Andean goose", also spelled Huachhua... |
Q16467728 Moment Factory is a multimedia studio. It specializes in video, lighting, architecture, sound and special effects for immersive environments. With its headquarters based in Montreal, the studio also has offices in Paris, Tokyo, New York City, Los Angeles and London. Since its inception in 2001, Moment Factory... |
Q18152777 The Mortal Sin is a lost 1917 silent film drama directed by John H. Collins and distributed by Metro Pictures. Viola Dana, at the time Collins's wife, stars in the picture. |
Q3985940 The Best of the Post is a syndicated anthology drama series adapted from stories published in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. It was produced by John J. Enders and hosted by John Conte. A total of 26 half-hour episodes, all in color, aired from 1960 to 1961 with stars that included Marie Windsor, Pat O'Br... |
Q15333678 Berberis argentinensis is a shrub in the Berberidaceae described as a species in 1921. It is native to Bolivia (Tarija and La Paz regions) and Argentina (Tucumán and La Rioja Provinces). |
Q37218641 Dula is a name. Notable people with the name include:Arthur M. Dula (born 1947) American lawyer and patent attorneyLishan Dula (born 1987), long-distance runner for BahrainLouis Dula (born 1912), American Negro Leagues baseball pitcherTom Dula (1845–1868), Confederate soldierVivalda Dula, Angolan singer-songw... |
Q19892376 Darling Arithmetic is the third studio album from the twice Mercury Prize-nominated Irish indie folk band Villagers, released on April 10, 2015 via Domino Records. The album reached number one in the Irish album charts in its first week of release. It won the Best Album Award in the 2016 Ivor Novello Awards. |
Q4489547 Kilve is a village in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England, within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the first AONB to be established, in 1957.It lies on the A39 almost exactly equidistant from Bridgwater to the east and Minehead to the west. The village includes a 1... |
Q2974951 Clair-obscur (English: twilight) is a 2000 album by Françoise Hardy, released in France in May 2000 on LP and CD, Virgin France S.A. (7243 8 492031 9) and (7243 8 492032 6). |
Q7572977 Spalding Grammar School (SGS), fully known as The Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Spalding, is a boys' grammar school in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. |
Q7775883 The World's Greatest Superfriends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 22, 1979, to September 27, 1980, on ABC. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. |
Q7997030 "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" is the third and final single taken from soul duo Gnarls Barkley's second studio album, The Odd Couple, released in late 2008. The song's official music video was directed by Chris Milk and was released on July 25, 2008. The video featured work by character animator Keith Sintay and... |
Q936523 Pambos Pittas (born July 26, 1966) is a former international Cypriot football defender and former captain of Cyprus national football team and Apollon Limassol.He and Ioannis Okkas have the most appearances with Cyprus national football team (82 appearances). Pittas played for Apollon Limassol and AEL FC. |
Q4597211 The 2000 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference and was played from March 9 to March 12, 2000 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The championship was won by Michigan State who defeated Illinois for the second consecutive ... |
Q6782614 Masao Mukai (向井 正雄, Mukai Masao) is a Japanese choir conductor.He was born and raised in the city of Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from the School of Education at Mie University.In 1992, he founded the Tsu Ensemble Chorus, officially known as "Vocal Ensemble 《EST》", which he still conducts. ... |
Q1811431 Cicibór Duży [t͡ɕiˈt͡ɕibur ˈduʐɨ] (Ukrainian: Цицібір Великий, Tsytsibir Velykyy) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biała Podlaska, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Biała Podlaska and 101 km (63 mi) north ... |
Q6950903 Męcka Wola [ˈmɛnt͡ska ˈvɔla] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sieradz, within Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Sieradz and 49 km (30 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q7973621 Water polo events were contested at the 1977 Summer Universiade in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
Q7556585 An annular solar eclipse occurred on November 23, 1965. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking mo... |
Q745696 Radyně Castle is a castle situated on a hill of the same name, near the town of Starý Plzenec, in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. Radyne, like the similarly conceived Kasperk, represents the height of the 14th-century trend towards the merging of castle buildings. |
Q4051855 Tucetona isabellae is a species of clam that was described in 2011 by Paul Valentich-Scott, Curator of Malacology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), and Elizabeth A. R. Garfinkle, 11th grade student at San Roque High School (also known as Garden Street Academy). |
Q6391977 Kent v Kavanagh [2006] EWCA Civ 162 is an English land law case, concerning easements. It concerns physically shared amenities with physically divided ownership as to the land or surface on which they rest. |
Q1769146 La Pobla Tornesa is a municipality located in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. |
Q17039495 "Stupid In Love" (Hangul: 착해 빠졌어) is a song by South Korean singer Sistar's Soyou and rapper Mad Clown. It was released online as a digital single on September 10, 2013 through Starship Entertainment. |
Q10635991 Poland women's national floorball team is the national team of Poland in women's floorball. At the 2001 Floorball Women's World Championship in Riga, Latvia, the team finished fourth in the B-Division. At the 2003 Floorball Women's World Championship in Germany, the team finished second in the B-Division. At... |
Q11746557 The Church of St Augustine is a Roman Catholic church at ul. Nowolipki 18, in Wola, Warsaw, which was built in neo-Romanesque style. |
Q19609745 Alisha Ilhaan Bø (born March 6, 1997), known professionally as Alisha Boe, is a Somali-Norwegian actress. She is known for playing Jessica Davis in the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why. |
Q1542855 The Grand River (la rivière Grand in French and O:se Kenhionhata:tie in Mohawk) is a large river in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It also lies along the western fringe of the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario which overlaps the eastern portion of southwestern Ontario along the length of this river. From its ... |
Q273793 Édith Butler (born Marie Nicole Butler, 27 July 1942) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of Acadian descent. Her career began in the early 1960s with performances in Moncton, followed by national appearances on CBC Television's Singalong Jubilee.2003's Madame Butlerfly is her most recent studio rec... |
Q7998298 The Wicked Tinkers are an American Celtic music group who perform at many Scottish/Irish festivals. |
Q5464524 Seddera spinosa is a species of plant in the Convolvulaceae family. It is endemic to Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Q5552347 Germán Villar (born 1975) is a Spanish tenor. |
Q7273961 R. Rathnavelu is an Indian cinematographer who has worked predominantly in Tamil and Telugu films. His work in films such as Rangasthalam , Khaidi No. 150 , Nandha, Vaaranam Aayiram, Enthiran, and 1: Nenokkadine fetched him wide recognition. He has garnered two Filmfare Awards South, the Vijay Awards, the Tam... |
Q7015064 The 1923 New York state election was held on November 6, 1923, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly. |
Q6905077 The Montego River is a river of Jamaica. |
Q4860900 Barkas is a neighborhood in Hyderabad, India, located in the old city area. The name "Barkas" is believed to be derived from the English word "barracks".Before Indian independence, Barkas served as the military Barracks of the Nizam of Hyderabad.Barkas is now inhabited mainly by the Chaush community, who are d... |
Q4576401 The 1974–75 season was Colchester United's 33rd season in their history and their first season back in the third tier of English football for six years, the Third Division. Alongside competing in the Third Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup.Jim Smith consolidated Colchester's... |
Q947393 The Düben collection is a collection of musical manuscripts named after the original collector, Gustaf Düben held in the Uppsala University Library which preserves includes many unicae of German baroque music, in particular the only surviving copies of many works by Dieterich Buxtehude. |
Q7143433 Patrick "Pat" Ferris (born October 28, 1975 in North York, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Grimsby, Ontario. |
Q14705887 Tomasello Winery is a winery located in Hammonton in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Tomasello is the second-oldest active winery in the state, after Renault Winery. The vineyard was first planted in 1888, and opened to the public in 1933 after the end of Prohibition. Tomasello is one of the largest winegrowers ... |
Q16895193 Minsal Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Minsal, (ICAO: SCSM)) is a high elevation airport serving the mineral salt mining operations on the Salar de Atacama salt flat, in the Antofagasta Region of Chile. |
Q16909734 The Panic Hand is a collection of horror stories by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, first published in 1996. Carroll has written 8 novels prior to this collection, including The Land of Laughs and A Child Across the Sky. The US edition includes the novella Black Cocktail, originally published as a stand... |
Q18712708 The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Turkey. |
Q19609614 Jason Archer (born July 31, 1973) is an American artist living in Austin, Texas. He is the creator of a variety artworks as a director, animator, painter, and muralist both collaborative and solo. His work includes political satire and Texas inspired characters including Jesus Cornbread & the Alcoholics and ... |
Q19646564 Fritz Wegner (15 September 1924 – 15 March 2015) was an Austrian-born illustrator, resident in the United Kingdom from 1938. |
Q22277760 Emily Fortune Feimster (born July 1, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, and actress. Feimster made her television debut on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2010. Between 2015 and 2017 she starred as Colette on The Mindy Project. In July 2019, Feimster and Tom Papa started hosting What A Joke with Papa and For... |
Q29589079 Samy Yousef (Arabic: ﺳﺎﻣﯽ ﯾﻮﺳﻒ) is an Egyptian fireworks and special effects director and programmer. |
Q14715158 Wooster Square is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut to the east of downtown. The name refers to a park square (named for the American Revolutionary War hero, David Wooster) located between Greene Street, Wooster Place, Chapel Street and Academy Street in the center of the neighborhood. Woo... |
Q5939939 Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. |
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