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Q2268572 "Possibly Maybe" is a song by Björk, released as the fifth single from her 1995 album Post. It is a song with deep electronic tones and soft beats that reflects on potential love.There were three different single releases. This was the first Björk single to be released in three parts; two of these three parts ... |
Q739113 Sara Sidle is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by actress Jorja Fox. Sidle is a forensic scientist and one of the core characters of the show, which revolves around a Crime Scene Investigation team in Clark County, Nevada, that investigates cases in and arou... |
Q5471218 Fort George Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park south of Prince George in British Columbia, Canada. The park's area is 440 acres (180 ha) and includes part of the Fraser River. No camping, campfires, swimming, kayaking, horses, pets, or rock climbing are allowed. Skiing, fishing, and hunting are allowe... |
Q3303771 The Peruvian district of Puente Piedra is one of the 43 districts in the Lima Province. |
Q53695 Sellia (Greek: Sèllia) is a village and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.There were 1,300 residents in the town in 1960. In 2015 the town had 537 residents; about 60% of the residents are over 65 years of age. That year Davide Zicchinella, the mayor, signed a decree s... |
Q671660 Belval is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. |
Q4908119 Çobanabdallı (also, Çoban Abdallı and Chobanabdally) is a village and municipality in the Samukh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,433. |
Q5683332 "Have You Heard" is a 1969 song by the progressive rock band the Moody Blues. Written by the band's keyboardist Mike Pinder, "Have You Heard" is actually a two-part song, and both parts were recorded and released in 1969 on the Moody Blues Album On the Threshold of a Dream.This song was used at the beginning ... |
Q6895895 "Mole Hunt" is the first episode of the animated comedy Archer. The episode premiered on September 17, 2009.In the episode, suave yet rude and belligerent spy Sterling Archer, prompted by questions regarding his expense account, breaks into the mainframe computer of his organization ISIS and inadvertently dis... |
Q4997437 The Bunch-Walton Post No. 22 American Legion Hut is a historic social club meeting hall at 201 Legion Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is architecturally unique in the community, built out of native stone in the manner of a Norman castle. It is two stories in height, with rounded projecting corners and a... |
Q5621929 Guttorm Fløistad (born 5 December 1930) is a Norwegian philosopher.He was born in Arendal as a son of sawmill owner Ivar Fløistad (1900–1974) and Thordis Renskaug (1905–1954). He is married to teacher Kirsten Kathrine Kaspersen. He is a grandson of politician Guttorm Fløistad and great-grandson of politician I... |
Q12980795 Singai Nesan (Tamil: சிங்கை நேசன், English: Singapore Friend, also transliterated as Cinkai Necan) was a Tamil language weekly newspaper published from Singapore from 1887 to 1890. The newspaper also carried material in English and Malay. It is the oldest Tamil newspaper in Singapore of which a substantial nu... |
Q16891379 Fowler Theatre is a historic theater located at Fowler, Benton County, Indiana. It was built in 1940, and is a one-story, Art Deco style movie theater. It is a red brick building on a concrete foundation and features the original marquee. The interior has Art Deco and Art Moderne decorative elements.It was l... |
Q28223363 Notre Dame High School is an all-female second cycle institution in Fiapre in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. |
Q23006751 Ribeira dos Calhaus is a settlement in the western part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is part of the municipality of Tarrafal de São Nicolau. It is situated in a valley northwest of Monte Gordo, 3 km southeast of Praia Branca and 7 km north of Tarrafal de São Nicolau. |
Q1901057 By the year 1900, there were 14 market halls (or market houses) in Berlin. |
Q3369364 Patrick Coutin (born March 21, 1952 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a French writer, journalist, rock singer, and record producer.He is most known for his 1981 hit "J'aime regarder les filles" ("I Like Looking at Girls"), which became emblematic of the 1980s in France. |
Q17142604 The United States Revenue and Expenditure Control Act of 1968 created a temporary 10 percent income tax surcharge on both individuals and corporations through June 30, 1969 to help pay for the Vietnam War. It also delayed the scheduled reduction in the telephone and automobile excise tax, causing them to end ... |
Q3391448 Economic planning is a mechanism for the allocation of resources between and within organizations which is held in contrast to the market mechanism. As an allocation mechanism for socialism, economic planning replaces factor markets with a direct allocation of resources within a single or interconnected group ... |
Q16971542 CrossFTP is a free FTP, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Google Storage, and Microsoft Azure storage client for Win, Mac, and Linux. CrossFTP adopts traditional FTP client GUI with local files displayed on the left, remote files on the right. CrossFTP Pro further includes SFTP, FTPS, and WebDav support, and feature... |
Q4356125 Brewsterite is the name of a series of tectosilicate minerals of the zeolite group. Prior to 1997, brewsterite was recognized as a mineral species, but a reclassification in 1997 by the International Mineralogical Association changed it to a series name, with the mineral species being named brewsterite-Sr and... |
Q967248 Ramón Rodríguez (born December 20, 1979) is a Puerto Rican actor known for his roles on the television series The Wire (2006–08) and Day Break (2006–07), and in the films Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009). He portrayed John Bosley on the short-lived ABC television re... |
Q389077 Saint-Just-en-Chaussée is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. |
Q10798101 Neorumia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. |
Q3058050 Esiküla is a village in Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia. |
Q3322726 Month of Photography Asia (also known as MOPA and MOPAsia) was an international festival of photography in Singapore from 2002 to 2011.The festival promoted photography both as an art form and as a creative industry. Each year, Month of Photography Asia was curated along a specific theme and presented works by... |
Q6940187 Musashizuka Station (武蔵塚駅, Musashizuka-eki) is a railway station on the Hohi Main Line operated by JR Kyushu in Kita-ku, Kumamoto, Japan. |
Q4868266 Basti buzdar is a town and union council of Dera Ghazi Khan District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town has population of about 5000-6000. It is named after the Buzdar tribe, who primarily inhabit the village. |
Q5317735 Dušan Ninić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Нинић) (born September 6, 1956, in Zaječar, Serbia) is a Serbian novelist. |
Q5370020 Embekka is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.in the electorate of udunuwara |
Q7937767 Vivian Rosenthal (born February 7, 1976) is an American designer and entrepreneur. |
Q5142302 Cold Meece railway station was a short-lived railway station built during the Second World War by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) to serve ROF Swynnerton. |
Q16050895 Halil Rural District (Persian: دهستان هليل) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,856, in 1,343 families. The rural district has 43 villages. |
Q6032160 Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938 in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian. He is professor emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, and a scholar on Persian historical linguistics and classical Persian literature. |
Q9035252 Mortoniella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1939. It contains only one known species, Mortoniella pittieri, native to Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua). |
Q30640393 The Swift Run Formation is a geologic formation in Virginia and West Virginia. It dates back to the Neoproterozoic. |
Q9165378 Barbara Gizanka (1550-1589) was the mistress of Sigismund II Augustus. Their relationship attracted considerable attention and was regarded as a scandal. |
Q877463 Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969.After working for newspapers in the 1930s, Greene spent most of his later career with the BBC, rising through the managerial ranks of overseas b... |
Q177600 A stick figure is a very simple drawing of a person or animal, composed of a few lines, curves, and dots. In a stick figure, the head is represented by a circle, sometimes embellished with details such as eyes, mouth or crudely scratched-out hair. The arms, legs and torso are usually represented by straight lin... |
Q282412 Ye Shengtao (28 October 1894 – 16 February 1988) was an influential Chinese author, educator and publisher. He was a founder of the Association for Literary Studies (文學研究會), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. He served as the Vice-Minister of Culture of the People's Republ... |
Q11666206 USS S-49 (SS-160) was a fourth-group (S-48) S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 22 October 1920 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 23 April 1921 sponsored by Mrs. Joseph E. Austin, and commissioned on 6 June 1922 with Lieutenant... |
Q6556988 Lipps Island is a small rocky island 0.37 kilometres (0.2 nmi) west of Litchfield Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Lipps Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Dr. Jere H. Lipps, leader (1971–1974) of the United St... |
Q4771421 Ántero Flores Aráoz Esparza (b. February 28, 1942) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He is a leader of the Christian People's Party and a member of National Unity.He studied in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He first ran for the Congress of Peru in 1985 as a member of the Popular Christia... |
Q2862207 Ermengol (or Armengol) VI (1096 – 1154), called el de Castilla ("the one from Castile"), was the Count of Urgell from 1102 to his death. He was the son and successor of Ermengol V and María Pérez, daughter of Count Pedro Ansúrez, Lord of Valladolid, who became his tutor when he was orphaned in 1102. |
Q5102663 Chizu Ono (小野 千寿, Ono Chizu, b. January 1, 1970) is a Japanese photographer.Ono was born in Akita Prefecture. She studied interior design at Tama Geijutsu Gakuen (多摩芸術学園) (an affiliate of Tama Art University that closed in 1992), graduating in 1991 to work as a designer. She stayed in France from 1995 to '96, ... |
Q1680170 James Earl Clay (b. Sept. 8, 1935, Dallas, Texas - d. there, Jan. 1, 1994) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. While in school Clay played alto saxophone, became a professional musician, and played with local bands in Dallas, including with Booker Ervin. Later, he went to California, ... |
Q5115033 Chrzanów [ˈxʂanuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pacanów, within Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Pacanów, 21 km (13 mi) east of Busko-Zdrój, and 60 km (37 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kielce.Th... |
Q7108195 Oswaldo Antonio Mairena (born July 30, 1975 in Chinandega, Nicaragua) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and Florida Marlins.Mairena was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1996. He pitched in the Yankees organization until July 21, 2000, when he was tr... |
Q5384072 Epyaxa rosearia, the New Zealand looper or plantain moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. |
Q270910 Åke Senning (14 September 1915 — 21 July 2000) was a pioneering Swedish cardiac surgeon, who implanted the first human implantable cardiac pacemaker in 1958, invented the Senning operation, and contributed to many other advances. |
Q4704866 Al Tarmia District is a district of the Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. |
Q6835576 Michael von Grünau (October 3, 1944 – December 22, 2011) was a Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist at Concordia University. |
Q6519303 Leichhardt Rowing Club formed in 1886 is one of the oldest rowing clubs in Sydney, Australia. It has occupied its current site on Port Jackson's, Iron Cove at Leichhardt since 1886. Leichhardt is an all-level competitive and recreational rowing club, with a long history of supporting women's rowing. The club h... |
Q998914 Alva is a city in and the county seat of Woods County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. The population was 4,945 at the 2010 census. Northwestern Oklahoma State University is located in Alva. |
Q13475144 Compsolechia zebrina is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1910. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are fuscous nearly to the middle, whitish ochreous blending into fawn-brown beyond. The basal portion is largely reticulated with whitish... |
Q23091821 Grace Jung (정현주, born 1987) is a Korean American stand-up comedian, writer, translator and film producer. She is the author of the novel Deli Ideology, about a college graduate working in a delicatessen during the recession after 2008.In 2016, her translation of 벌레 이야기 by Yi Chong-jun was published in Two St... |
Q13870270 Myrmica pinetorum is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. |
Q28113351 In mathematics, an inequality is a relation that holds between two values when they are different (see also: equality).The notation a ≠ b means that a is not equal to b.It does not say that one is greater than the other, or even that they can be compared in size.If the values in question are elements of an or... |
Q7440948 Sean Areon Dockery (born January 5, 1983) is a retired American professional basketball player. He has played professionally in Canada, France, Romania and Germany, as well as in the U.S. Dockery was regarded as one of the nation's top high school point guards when he came to Duke University. He split time at... |
Q5366959 Elmwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Gooding, Idaho. |
Q1395843 Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie were the defending champions but lost in the third round to Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry.Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić in the final, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2, to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships By winning the 2006 D... |
Q273583 Teresa Zuzanna Ceglecka-Zielonka (born March 8, 1957 in Namysłów) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5280 votes in 21 Opole district, candidating from the Law and Justice list. |
Q27986865 Mother-in-Law Island is an island in the Thimble Islands group, part of the Stony Creek-Thimble Islands Historic District on Long Island Sound in Branford, Connecticut. It is also known as Johnson Island, Prudden Island, and Little Stooping Bush. One house, a frame-structured house built around 1965, stands o... |
Q7890507 The 2008 congressional elections in New York were held on November 4, 2008 to determine representation in the state of New York in the United States House of Representatives. New York has 29 seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year t... |
Q644580 The 2007 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 21st edition of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, and was part of the International Series of the 2007 ATP Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France, from 22 October throu... |
Q7911672 Validated is a Keith Martin's album released on 23 March 2004 by Orchard. The song "Whateva U Need" was released as a single. |
Q5865247 The Persian Empire, including modern Lebanon, eventually fell to Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia. He attacked Asia Minor, defeated the Persian troops in 333 BC, and advanced toward the Lebanese coast. Initially the Phoenician cities made no attempt to resist, and they recognized his suzerainty. However,... |
Q2266324 Isabelle of Luxembourg (1247–1298) was a countess consort of Flanders and a marquis consort of Namur by marriage to Guy of Dampierre. |
Q467775 The Black Forest Clinic (German: Die Schwarzwaldklinik, German pronunciation: [diː ˈʃvaʁtsvaltˌkliːnɪk]) is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to Marc... |
Q5263791 Description of the Western Isles of Scotland is the oldest known account of the Hebrides and the Islands of the Clyde, two chains of islands off the west coast of Scotland. The author was Donald Monro, a clergyman who used the title of "Dean of the Isles" and who lived through the Scottish Reformation. Monro w... |
Q5082528 Charles Sinclair (born 4 April 1948) is a British businessman. He serves as Chairman of Associated British Foods. |
Q18508996 Jeļena Ostapenko and Eva Paalma were the defending champions, but neither player chose to participate this year.Emma Laine and Eugeniya Pashkova won the title, defeating Mia Nicole Eklund and Olivia Pimiä in the final, 6–4, 6–0. |
Q19891098 The Battle of Burdwan (বর্ধমানের যুদ্ধ) occurred at Burdwan between Mughal Bengal and the Maratha Empire in March 1747. When the Maratha forces advanced towards Bengal from Orissa, Mir Jafar and Ataullah Khan, commanders of Nawab Alivardi Khan's army, retreated towards Burdwan without resisting the invaders. ... |
Q21174077 Christopher Lloyd (born 1 April 1968) is a historian, educationalist and author, best known for his sweeping narratives on big history (the history of the world). He is the author of the best selling book What on Earth Happened: The Complete Story of the Planet (Bloomsbury, 2008), which has sold 500,000 copie... |
Q22022058 The 2010 Chicago Slaughter season was the team's fifth season as a professional indoor football franchise and first in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of twenty-five teams competing in the IFL for the 2010 season, the Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based Chicago Slaughter were members of the Central North Di... |
Q15398038 Eucalyptus costuligera is a species of small tree that is endemic in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It has short-fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and branches, bluish, lance-shaped adult leaves, club-shaped flower buds in branched or unbranched inflorescences with the buds in groups of up to sev... |
Q37207950 Casados is a Spanish surname either meaning married (plural) or from a homonymous farmstead.Notable people with this surname include:Eloy Casados (born 1949), American actorRené Casados (born 1961), Mexican actor |
Q1952482 South Rosemary is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,836 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q6871164 The Minuteman Library Network, founded in 1984, is an consortium of 41 public and academic libraries in the MetroWest and southern Middlesex County areas of eastern Massachusetts that share resources, patrons and services. The Network has over 6 million items and over 680,000 members. Because of the shared re... |
Q3355990 MS Stena Saga is a cruiseferry owned by the Swedish shipping company Stena Line and operated mainly on their route connecting Oslo, Norway to Frederikshavn, Denmark. She was built as MS Silvia Regina in 1981 by Wärtsilä Turku, Finland for Rederi AB Svea for use in Silja Line traffic. The ship joined Stena Lin... |
Q4041931 Junk Science is the first studio album by electronic music duo Deep Dish. The album reached #37 in United Kingdom. |
Q4928754 BlueFish TV is a non-profit Christian video publishing company based in Richardson, Texas. Bluefish TV works with well-known Christian speakers and authors like Erwin McManus, Don Miller, Margaret Feinberg, Doug Fields, Jars of Clay, MercyMe, Les Parrott, Louie Giglio, Third Day, and Chris Tomlin to produce sm... |
Q7955260 WRQT (95.7 FM, 95.7 The Rock) is a radio station broadcasting an Active Rock format. Licensed to La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, the station serves the La Crosse area. The station is currently owned by Midwest Family Broadcasting (Family Radio, Inc.). The station no longer broadcasts in HD Radio. |
Q4918460 Bissiga is a town in the Zorgho Department of Ganzourgou Province in central Burkina Faso. The town has a population of 1,371. |
Q6762432 Marianowo [marjaˈnɔvɔ] (German: Marienhof) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Międzyrzecz, within Międzyrzecz County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Międzyrzecz, 41 km (25 mi) south-east of Gorzów Wielkopolski, and 61 km (38 m... |
Q5395943 Erugocentrus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the Turonian. |
Q5189629 Croxton is a civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just south from the A180, 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west from Kirmington and 7 miles (11 km) west from Immingham.In the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 36. At the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and is included in... |
Q6155161 Janne Kristiansen (born 21 November 1952) is a Norwegian jurist. She was the first head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission from 2004 to 2009. and head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2009 to 2012, a position from which she resigned following a heavily politicized scandal. |
Q20661258 Charles Rousseau may refer to:Charles Rousseau (born 193), winemaker at Domaine Armand RousseauCharles F. Rousseau (1908–1976), Luxembourg philatelist |
Q14949862 Crucified Girl (German:Mädchen am Kreuz) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Valerie Boothby, Gertrud de Lalsky and Evelyn Holt. The film's art direction was by Artur Gunther and August Rinaldi. |
Q16837830 Eynez Coal Mine, also known as Soma Coal Mine, is a disused coal mine near the town of Soma in Manisa Province in Turkey. The mine, a public property owned by TKI, was operated by the private sector company Soma Kömür İşletmeleri A.Ş. In May 2014 the Soma mine disaster took place in the mine, killing 301 peop... |
Q14932818 The 2013–14 Inter-National League season was the second season of the Inter-National League, a multi-national ice hockey league consisting of teams from Austria and Slovenia. The league contained 16 teams. The leagues top scorer was Dylan Stanley. |
Q19658488 A Day in Ostrobothnia (Finnish: Pohjanmaa) is a 1985 novel by Finnish author Antti Tuuri. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1985. |
Q25205853 Pichaqani (Aymara pichaqa, phichaqa, piqacha a big needle, -ni a suffix, "the one with a big needle", also spelled Pichacani) is a 4,570-metre-high (14,990 ft) mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the La Paz Department, Inquisivi Province, Colquiri Municipality. Pichaqani lies northeast of Kuntur ... |
Q24896726 Lech Poznań is a Polish football club based in Poznań. This was their 94th season overall. They competed in Ekstraklasa, the highest ranking league in Poland. |
Q26813694 Francesco Servino (Castellammare di Stabia, born May 8, 1984) is an Italian journalist and activist well known for his defense of Vesuvius National Park and archaeological sites in Vesuvian area. |
Q870700 Vera Csapody (1890-1985) was a Hungarian botanist, author, and botanical illustrator known for studying and painting the flora of Hungary with Sándor Jávorka. Over 11,000 of her illustrations are held by the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The standard author abbreviation Csapody is used to indicate this pe... |
Q146317 Veszprém (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈvɛspreːm]; German: Weißbrunn, Slovene: Belomost) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately 15 km (9 mi) north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county (comitatus or 'megye') of the same name. |
Q8176250 Cintia knizei is a small alpine cactus native to the high Andes of Bolivia. The plant was discovered by Karel Kníže in 1969 at an elevation of 4,000 m (13,000 ft) near Otavi, in Potosí Department, Bolivia. However, it was not formally described until 1996 by Jan Říha. The genus is named after the town of Cinti... |
Q2575191 Alalis was a titular see of Phoenicia (Palmyra), whose episcopal list is known from 325 to 451. It was located near the Euphrates, and was a suffragan of Damascus. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1907). "Alalis" . Catholic Encyclopedia. 1. N... |
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