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Q5723012 General Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard (5 July 1846 – 25 July 1916) was a British Army officer who saw active service in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 and the Second Boer War. He was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Africa, from 1905 to 1908. |
Q1992506 Nilüfer Örer (born July 13, 1976 in Schweinfurt, Germany) is a Turkish pop star.She started her first album, called Şımarık, which was recorded in 1994. This album was released in 1996, but only to the Turkish music market. It spent several weeks at number 1 in the Top Ten of the Turkish music television chann... |
Q97767 Carl Hecker (also spelled Karl Hecker) was born in Elberfeld, Germany on 22 September 1795. He became a merchant in that city. He was one of the leaders of the Elberfeld uprising in 1848. He died on 17 March 1873 in Bonn. |
Q2969497 Koromo Castle (挙母城, Koromo-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Koromo Castle was home to the Naitō clan, daimyō of Koromo Domain. The castle was also known as Shichishū-jō七州城. |
Q6482811 Lan Wei (Chinese: 蘭衛; born 7 May 1968) is a Chinese former diver who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. |
Q13506227 Cyanopepla pretiosa is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Hermann Burmeister in 1880. It is found in Argentina. |
Q15797801 "Dancing in the Rain" is a song by Spanish singer Ruth Lorenzo. It was chosen to represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark, where it placed 10th with 74 points. The song was released in Spain and the United Kingdom as a digital download on 18 February 2014, through Roster Music on iTunes.... |
Q28062362 Fritz Reiff (1888–1953) was a German stage and film actor. Primarily a theatre actor, he appeared in a number of films made by the Munich-based company Bavaria Film in small, supporting parts. |
Q30622891 Moosehead Pond Outlet flows into the South Branch Grass River near Newbridge, New York. |
Q2023908 Plain View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sampson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,820 at the 2000 census. |
Q6796135 Maxwell Mkwezalamba (born December 22, 1959) is a Malawian politician and economist. He is currently First Alternate Executive Director for Africa Group 1 Constituency, comprising 23 African countries, at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, USA. Before this appointment, he briefly served as Mini... |
Q159076 Persicaria lapathifolia (syn. Polygonum lapathifolium), known as pale persicaria, is a plant of the family Polygonaceae. It is closely related to Persicaria maculosa and as such is considered a weed in Britain and Europe. Other common names for the plant include pale smartweed, curlytop knotweed, and willow w... |
Q70131 Dänikon is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. |
Q6119749 A multigate device or multi-gate field-effect transistor (MuGFET) refers to a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) that incorporates more than one gate into a single device. The multiple gates may be controlled by a single gate electrode, wherein the multiple gate surfaces act electricall... |
Q5599423 The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin th... |
Q422619 Eva Luna is a novel written by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in 1987 and translated from Spanish to English by Margaret Sayers Peden.Eva Luna takes us into the life of the eponymous protagonist, an orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America. While the country's political history, traced t... |
Q291358 Évenos is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It contains Cimaï, a 1 km long limestone cliff that is a popular rock climbing area and was one of the most important sites in the 1980s and 1990s in the development of sport climbing. |
Q5175785 Cottonwood is a former settlement in Yolo County, California. It was located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Madison, at an elevation of 164 feet (50 m). It still appears on maps as of 1917. |
Q4682906 Adinayakanahalli is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Tiptur taluk of Tumkur district in Karnataka. |
Q4598350 The 2000–01 Tampa Bay Lightning season was the Lightning's ninth season of operation. The club again failed to make the playoffs. |
Q6918295 Motordrome is a former settlement in Los Angeles County, California. It lay at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m). It was a stop on the Pacific Electric Railway's Redondo Beach via Del Rey Line. Motordrome still appeared on USGS maps as of 1934. The location is near the present-day intersections of Jefferson Boulev... |
Q4617722 The 2010 Laugavegur Ultramarathon was an ultramarathon race held in Iceland on July 17, 2010. A total of 279 runners started the race; 267 runners finished, among them 189 men and 78 women. The oldest participant was Jørgen Nautrup of Denmark, who was born in 1942 and finished the race in 7:28:41; the youngest... |
Q16063170 Francis Ruddle (23 November 1798 – 9 February 1882) was a 19th-century master builder and carpenter, born and based in Peterborough. His carpentry work includes the choir stalls in place at Westminster Abbey in London.Ruddle carried out much of his work in association with a local Peterborough builder, John ... |
Q14696558 Tetraibidion ephimerum is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins in 1967. |
Q12985221 Nee! (lit. You!) is a 1965 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Kanagashanmugam (with T. R. Ramanna receiving "supervising director" credit) and produced by T. K. Ramaraj. The film stars Jaishankar and Jayalalithaa in the lead roles. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan. It was released on 21 Au... |
Q20708837 "Gold Dust" is a song by Swedish electronic music duo Galantis. It was released on 23 February 2015 as the third single from their debut studio album Pharmacy (2015). It became available on April 4, 2015 upon pre-order of the LP. The track features uncredited production by Svidden and uncredited and heavily m... |
Q28187313 2nd Independent Division of Hebei Provincial Military District (Chinese: 河北省军区独立第2师) was formed in July 1966 from the Public Security Contingent of Hebei province. The division was composed of five regiments (7th to 11th).In February 1969 it moved to Shanxi province and became the second formation of Independ... |
Q29031650 Ghuslain Kiabella (born 27 December 1977 in Kinshasa) is a heavyweight DRC boxer who turned pro in 1997. |
Q8054087 Yo! Check Out This Ride! EP is an EP by American band The Aquabats, independently recorded and released by The Aquabats themselves in 2004. |
Q3079022 The city of Turku, in Finland, is divided into nine wards (suuralueet in Finnish, storområden in Swedish), which are further divided into 78 districts (see Districts of Turku). The ward division does not always follow district boundaries.The wards are identified by numbers from one to nine, as well as by a sem... |
Q1012541 Cristalina is a municipality located in the southeast of the state of Goiás, Brazil. |
Q4116307 Amina Rizk (Arabic: أمينة رزق; April 15, 1910 in Tanta – August 24, 2003 in Cairo) was a classic Egyptian actress who appeared in around 208 art work including more than 70 movies between 1928 and 1996. She was calm in her later years, but described as a clown when she was young.She was popular for her roles ... |
Q10844267 In computational complexity theory, the complexity class 2-EXPTIME (sometimes called 2-EXP) is the set of all decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in O(22p(n)) time, where p(n) is a polynomial function of n.In terms of DTIME, 2-EXPTIME ... |
Q1303362 Tetragnatha is a genus of spiders containing hundreds of species. They are found all over the world, although most occur in the tropics and subtropics. They are commonly called stretch spiders, referring to their elongated body form. When disturbed they will stretch their front legs forward and the others in t... |
Q6210726 Joseph Robert Kmak (May 3, 1963 in Napa, California) is an American former professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major League Baseball from 1993–1995. He played for the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs. He stands 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) tall and weighs 200 pounds (91 kg). He bats and throws... |
Q16153643 The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nagorno-Karabakh:Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed region in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. It encompasses the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a de facto independent republic, and is de jure part of the Republic of Azerbaijan, about 270 ... |
Q5421749 Expro (officially Expro International Group) is an international oil and gas service company, specializing in well flow management, headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. |
Q5321221 Dłusk [dwusk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pyzdry, within Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Pyzdry, 19 km (12 mi) south-east of Września, and 59 km (37 mi) south-east of the regional capital Pozna... |
Q6829829 Michael Paul Devenney (born 8 February 1980) in Bolton, England, is an English retired professional footballer who played as a defender for Burnley in the Football League.He made his debut on 8 December 1998, in the 1–0 defeat against local rivals Preston North End in the Football League Trophy Northern Sectio... |
Q10581063 Berry Head Lighthouse is an active lighthouse, located at the end of Berry Head near Brixham in Devon. It was originally built in 1906, and was then automated and converted to run on acetylene in 1921, and was modernised in 1994. Since then it has run on mains electricity.The light has a range of 19 nautical ... |
Q5288185 Dog Falls, Glen Roy is a waterfall of Scotland. |
Q6898936 Monellan Castle was a large castellated mansion, in Killygordon, County Donegal, Ireland. It was constructed in the 18th century for the Delap family, an Irish family of Scots origin who acquired the estate in the late 1700s. The family also owned estates in Buckinghamshire, England.During the 1930s, the cast... |
Q6862453 Mimura is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. |
Q4579200 The 1980 Can Am Series season was the thirteenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's prototype based series and the fourth running of the revived series. Patrick Tambay was declared champion, winning six of the ten rounds and finishing third at Riverside. Chevrolet again swept the season. Lola, Holbert... |
Q5314807 Elections to Dundee City Council were held on 3 May 2012 on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election used the eight wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote syst... |
Q17489751 Juraj Miklušica (born 14 April 1938) is a former Czechoslovakian cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. |
Q19462373 Holman is an unincorporated community located in Mora County, New Mexico, United States. The community is located on New Mexico State Road 518 5.3 miles (8.5 km) northwest of Mora. Holman has a post office with ZIP code 87723, which opened on September 17, 1894. |
Q3665208 The Certosa di Pontignano (Pontignano Charterhouse), also known as the Certosa di San Pietro, is a Carthusian monastery and church in the neighborhood of Pontignano, within the town limits of Castelnuovo Berardenga, a few kilometers north of the city of Siena, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. The monastic comp... |
Q6784318 Massachusetts Maritime Academy (also called Maritime, Mass Maritime, MMA or Mass (when differentiating between the other Maritime Academies)) is a public college in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts offering undergraduate degrees in maritime-related fields, as well as graduate degrees and professional studies. Esta... |
Q7106582 Oshare Majo: Love and Berry is an arcade game and collectible card game from Sega, targeted toward young girls of all ages. The game was first shown in amusement arcades on October 30, 2004, and became very popular among the target market in late 2005 through 2006. Game machines were installed in many departme... |
Q7592138 The St. Vrain massacre was an incident in the Black Hawk War. It occurred near present-day Pearl City, Illinois, in Kellogg's Grove, on May 24, 1832. The massacre was most likely committed by Ho-Chunk warriors who were unaffiliated with Black Hawk's band of warriors. It is also unlikely that the group of Ho-Ch... |
Q2630947 Every Beat of My Heart is an album by Rod Stewart. It is his fourteenth studio album, released in June 1986 (see 1986 in music). It was released on Warner Bros. Records (WX 53 / 925 446-1). The tracks were recorded at One on One Studios, Can Am Recorders, The Village Recorder, The Record Plant, and Artisan Sou... |
Q286308 Scott Sidney (1872 – 20 July 1928), born Harry Wilbur Siggins, was an American film director. He directed 117 films between 1913 and 1927.He died in London, England, United Kingdom. |
Q7254747 Pseudodidymella is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis). A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Pseudodidymella fagi. |
Q7768767 The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton is an oil painting of 1900 by Thomas Eakins. The oil painting is a depiction of the artist's brother-in-law, Louis N. Kenton (1865–1947), and it has been called "one of Eakins's most memorable portraits". The painting is one of a series of life size standing male portra... |
Q6559637 This list of 1991 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with a Championship decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races. |
Q18522175 Cubitomoris aechmobola is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae and the only species in the genus Cubitomoris. It is found in southern China. |
Q5499397 Fredric Jonson (born 15 July 1987) is a former Swedish footballer who played as a defender. |
Q7790221 Thomas Grimshaw may refer to:Thomas Shuttleworth GrimshaweThomas Wrigley Grimshaw |
Q7278653 Rabboni was a steam tug that operated on the west coast of the United States starting in 1865. |
Q6490724 Larry Miner Gibson (born February 26, 1947) is an American businessman and was a member of the general presidency of the Young Men organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2009 until 2015. |
Q6301224 Juan de Courten (elder) or Juan Antonio Curten Massenet or Juan Courten or Juan Curten (10 October 1730 – 21 December 1796) began his Spanish military career in the War of the Austrian Succession at the age of 14. His father was a brigadier general of engineers who died in 1745. Courten fought in the Spanish–P... |
Q15263764 The Old Custom House is a historic government building in downtown Cairo, Illinois. Built from 1869 to 1872, the building served as a customs house, post office, and courthouse. Alfred B. Mullett, the U.S. Supervising Architect at the time, designed the building in the Italianate style, a rarity among federal... |
Q16241786 The 2013–14 Tulsa Revolution season was the first season of the revived Tulsa Revolution professional indoor soccer club. The Tulsa Revolution, a Central Division team in the Professional Arena Soccer League, played their home games in the Cox Business Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The team was led by team owners... |
Q16057186 The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10 August. |
Q19958286 Meiling Jin (born 1956) is a Guyanese author, radio broadcaster, playwright, and filmmaker who currently lives in London, England. |
Q19975159 Charles John Lockhart Rudd (12 March 1873 – 1 April 1950) was a South African-born English cricketer who played first-class cricket in one match in 1894 for Cambridge University. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and died at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Rudd was the son of Charles Dunell Rudd, ... |
Q1066602 Charles de Schomberg (16 February 1601 – 6 June 1656), Duke d'Halluin, was a French soldier from the 17th century and Marshal of France. |
Q12170 Aldebaran , designated α Tauri (Latinized to Alpha Tauri, abbreviated Alpha Tau, α Tau), is a red giant star about 65 light-years from the Sun in the zodiac constellation Taurus. It is the brightest star in Taurus and generally the fourteenth-brightest star in the night sky, though it varies slowly in brightness... |
Q560343 Claude Favre de Vaugelas (6 January 1585 – 26 February 1650) was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.Born at Meximieux, in the Duchy of Savoy, he becam... |
Q155506 Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings, May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Stowe helped found the women's suffrage movement in Canada and campaigned for the country's first ... |
Q1203545 Nagara (長柄町, Nagara-machi) is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of April 2012, the town had an estimated population of 7,870, and a population density of 167 persons per km². The total area is 47.20 km². |
Q7447146 Sekeletu (c. 1835–1863) was the Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863. |
Q2025760 Bhaktivedanta Manor is a Gaudiya Vaishnava temple set in the Hertfordshire countryside of England, in the village of Aldenham near Watford. The Manor is owned and run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known as the Hare Krishna movement. It is ISKCON's largest property in t... |
Q5375724 The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is a reference book by Brenda Love, first published in 1992, and having since had various republications. |
Q4689891 The African Publishers Network (APNET) is a pan-African, non-profit, collaborative network that exists to connect African publishing associations in order to exchange information and promote and strengthen indigenous publishing. |
Q3494073 General Inspector of the Armed Forces (Polish: Generalny Inspektor Sił Zbrojnych; GISZ) was an office created in the Second Polish Republic in 1926, after the May Coup. The General Inspector reported directly to the President, and was not responsible to the Sejm (parliament) or the government. In the event of ... |
Q5722695 Henry Harvey Vivian (20 April 1868 – 30 May 1930) was an English trade unionist, and Liberal Party politician and campaigner for industrial democracy and co-partnership, especially noted for his work in co-partnership housing. |
Q7190249 Piasecznik [pjaˈsɛt͡ʂnik] (German: Försterei Klein Peetzig) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Cedynia, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see Histo... |
Q5562761 Gimnasio Nacional José Adolfo Pineda (known as the National Gymnasium in some English sources) is an indoor sporting arena located in San Salvador, El Salvador. The capacity of the arena is 12,500 spectators. It is mainly used to host basketball and other indoor sporting events. It also hosted the Miss Unive... |
Q2236154 The Alfa Romeo Caimano is a concept car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign and presented at the Turin Motor Show in 1971. The car is exhibited at the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo. |
Q2073294 Boechout is a railway station in Boechout, Antwerp, Belgium. The station opened in 1864 on the Line 15. |
Q13391323 Archinemapogon yildizae is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Ahmet Ömer Koçak in 1981. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, the Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula and most of the Balkan Peninsula. The habitat consists of birch woodlands.The wingspan is 14–21 mm. Adults are on wing from ... |
Q16947762 Irina Ramialison (born 9 June 1991 in Rennes) is a French professional tennis player.On 10 November 2014, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 243. On 13 July 2015, she peaked at No. 196 in the doubles rankings. |
Q19824675 Get Lost, Find Yourself is the third studio album by French rock band Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, released on 18 May 2015. It is their first album without founding drummer Jonathan Donnaes, who left the band to spend time with his fiancée in August 2014. |
Q19865638 The 2015–16 Bradley Braves men's basketball team represented Bradley University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Braves were led by first year head coach Brian Wardle, who was hired in the offseason to replace Geno Ford. The Braves were members of the Missouri Valley Conference ... |
Q20810533 Samuel Bowman () is a neoliberal political theorist and economist. |
Q28153658 The Old Scots Burying Ground is located in the Wickatunk section of Marlboro Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The cemetery rise is on Gordon's Corner Road, just west of Wyncrest Road. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Old Scots Burying Ground is ab... |
Q873776 A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixed-wheel bicycle, commonly known in some places as a fixie) is a bicycle that has a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism. The freewheel was developed early in the history of bicycle design but the fixed-gear bicycle remained the standard track racing design. More recently the "fixi... |
Q569798 Anshuman Jain (born 7 January 1963 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) is a British Indian business executive who currently serves as president of Cantor Fitzgerald. Jain formerly served as the Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 until July 2015.Jain was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board. He was previously he... |
Q7751272 "The Middle-Class Rip-Off" is the twenty-first episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister and was first broadcast 23 December 1982. |
Q264341 For the Brazilian chess player, artist and woodcutter, see Ruth Volgl Cardoso.Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso (September 19, 1930 – June 24, 2008) was a Brazilian anthropologist and a former member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She was the... |
Q2209124 The Tucuman robber frog, Oreobates discoidalis, is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family.It is found on the eastern flanks of the Andes in northern Argentina and Bolivia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q11698434 USS Melvin R. Nawman (DE-416) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was recommissioned from 1951 to 1960 and finally sold for scrap in 1973. |
Q1144388 Romegoux is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. |
Q751305 Energy in Saudi Arabia involves petroleum and natural gas production, consumption, and exports, and electricity production. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil producer and exporter.Saudi Arabia's economy is petroleum-based; oil accounts for 90% of the country's exports and nearly 75% of government revenue.... |
Q5259513 Dentimargo montrouzieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. |
Q4942135 Bonkuh (Persian: بنكوه, also Romanized as Bonkūh) is a village in Emamzadeh Seyyed Mahmud Rural District, Sardasht District, Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q4596552 "The 1st Recruit Training Battalion is a battalion of the United States Marine Corps which is used to train new enlisted personnel.It is composed of four Training Companies; Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta. The recruit training battalion is responsible ensuring that each company is following the procedures se... |
Q51020 Taytsy (Russian: Тайцы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located north of the town of Gatchina. Population: 2,853 (2010 Census); 2,644 (2002 Census); 2,929 (1989 Census). Taitsy is home to the Demidov Estate, a World Heritage Site. |
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