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Q7379541 Run a Crooked Mile is a 1969 British made-for-television thriller film starring Louis Jourdan as Richard Stuart, an ordinary schoolteacher who, whilst on holiday, is a witness to a murder in a private secluded mansion.When he reports this however, no evidence of any murder can be found, only a key on the floor... |
Q5249101 Deception Plateau (73°15′S 164°50′E) is a high, ice-covered plateau, 11 miles (18 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, which is bounded by Aviator Glacier, Pilot Glacier and Mount Overlord, in Victoria Land. It was so named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1966–67,... |
Q7458372 "Sex Cymbal" is the lead single released from Sheila E.'s album of the same name. The song is a mid-tempo hip-hop/house number and features a rap verse from Sheila E. herself."Sex Cymbal" peaked at No. 32 on the U.S. R&B singles chart. It was the highest charting single from the album. The B-side is the instru... |
Q5596772 Granulina canariensis is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Marginellidae. |
Q3786782 Hormiguero was a Mayan city which was at its peak in the Late Classic Period (650–850). It is located 22 kilometers south of Xpuhil in the Mexican state of Campeche. Only a few of its 84 known structures have been excavated. Structure II is the most completely excavated building at the site and one of the mo... |
Q7711126 That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles (Živi bili pa vidjeli) is a Croatian film released in 1979, directed by Bruno Gamulin and Milivoj Puhlovski. Critical of the society of its time, it describes a young architecture student Janko Vizek (Mladen Vasary) who marries Martina, daughter of a company manager (Sanja V... |
Q4556817 The 1894 Kentucky Derby was the 20th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 15, 1894. |
Q6975434 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Stone County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided f... |
Q359967 Farnsburg Castle (German: Ruine Farnsburg) is a castle in the municipality of Ormalingen in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. |
Q16983409 Patterson & Francis Aviation Company was an American aircraft manufacturer and repair service in the earliest days of powered flight. The company started as the Patterson Aeroplane Company, based in San Francisco, California.In 1912, Chas H. Patterson built and tested his own aircraft based on a Nieuport desi... |
Q6389317 Kenji Arabori (荒堀 謙次, born July 31, 1988) is a Japanese football player. |
Q16949066 The King's Birthday Honours 1939 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King. They were announced on 6 June 1939... |
Q19865225 Andrew Farago (born May 12, 1976) is the curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, author, chairman of the Northern California chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, and husband of webcomics author and illustrator Shaenon K. Garrity.Farago began his writing career in the mid 2000s by writing f... |
Q21621252 Maxime Danique Romy Entrop (born 6 November 1992) is a former Dutch international cricketer who played for the Dutch national side between 2011 and 2012.Born in The Hague, Entrop is the daughter of Peter Entrop, who played for the Dutch men's team at the 1979, 1982, and 1986 ICC Trophies. Her own internationa... |
Q24190042 Waukaringa is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 303 kilometres (188 mi) north-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Yunta in the state's Far North region.The name was first used for a town surveyed in 1888 and which was formally declar... |
Q10345240 The Serra das Confusões National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões) is a national park in the state of Piauí, Brazil. |
Q30607047 TLC is the self-titled fifth studio album by American girl group TLC, released on June 30, 2017, by their newly formed label 852 Musiq. TLC partnered with various distribution companies: Sony Music RED (North America), Liberation Music (Australia), Warner Music Group (Japan), and Cooking Vinyl (the rest of th... |
Q5166834 Cooder Graw is the self-titled second album by self-described "loud country" band Cooder Graw. It was released in November 1999 on Three-to-One Records. It was the band's first nationally-released album.The album features the song "Llano Estacado," which is perhaps the band's most recognizable song. |
Q5179084 Iota Volantis (ι Vol, ι Volantis) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Volans. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.39, which indicates it is faintly visible to the naked eye. With a parallax of 0.00579″, it lies at an estimated distance of roughly 560 light years from the S... |
Q3716231 Dumpy's Rusty Nuts are a British rock band founded in 1981 by the lead singer Graham "Dumpy" Dunnell. Though unsuccessful as recording artists the band have been a successful and popular live act for decades. The band attracted a cult following for their live performances in small rock venues. Their initial au... |
Q7675236 Taghafari or Tagafari is the base camp of Rakaposhi peak from Nagar side. Rakaposhi is a mountain in the Karakoram range of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. |
Q42284 Esfarayen (Persian: اسفراین, also Romanized as Esfarāyen; formerly, Meyanābād, Mīānābād, and Mīyānābād) is a city and capital of Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province in Iran. At the 2011 census its population was 60,372 persons in 17,334 families.The largest ethnic groups of the Esfarayen city are Kurmanj... |
Q7890889 The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the U.S. Ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The f... |
Q28451210 "If You Must" is a song by American hip hop musician Del the Funky Homosapien. It was released as a single from his 2000 album, Both Sides of the Brain. The single peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. |
Q1447347 Franz Hummel (born 2 January 1939) is a German composer and pianist.From his youth, Hummel was interested in music and, in particular, the works of Richard Strauss, Eugen Papst and Hans Knappertsbusch. In Munich and Salzburg he studied both composition and piano. He became a virtuoso pianist and travelled acro... |
Q4718487 Alexander Chadbourne Eschweiler (August 10, 1865 – June 12, 1940) was an American architect with a practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He designed both residences and commercial structures. His eye-catching Japonist pagoda design for filling stations for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee were repeated... |
Q5259213 Dennis William John Mundee (born 10 October 1968 in Swindon) is an English former professional football utility player who made 100 appearances for both Bournemouth and Brentford in the Football League. He is a cult hero amongst the Brentford supporters and is remembered chiefly for 'The Twiddle', a step over ... |
Q4492640 Irwin Freundlich (1908–1977) was a prominent teacher at Juilliard starting in 1935. He studied with James Friskin and Edward Steuermann at the Institute of Musical Art, which merged with the Juilliard Graduate School in 1926 to become the current Juilliard School of Music.His wife, Lillian Freundlich (13 March... |
Q6760243 Margarito González Manzanares (born 3 March 1979 in Cruz Grande, Guerrero, México) is a former Mexican football defender. |
Q5022506 Calliostoma soyoae, common name Soyo's top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Tristichotrochus) . |
Q4641816 Metahehoa granulata is a species of harvestmen in a monotypic genus in the family Sclerosomatidae. |
Q4884418 Belmont Charter School is a historic school building located in the Belmont neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1927. It is a three-story, brick building on a raised basement in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a two-story, projecti... |
Q2021873 Maarten Baas (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmaːrtən baːs]; born 19 February 1978) is a Dutch furniture designer. |
Q11720652 Japhet Kipyegon Korir (born 30 June 1993) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in cross country running competitions and the 5000 metres. He was the gold medallist at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, becoming the youngest ever world cross country champion. He has a personal best of 13... |
Q13034917 Hermon is a village 22 km north of Wellington and 8 km from Porseleinberg. Of Hebrew origin, the name means 'elevated, 'exalted', the reference being to the biblical Mount Hermon (Deut. 3:8, 9).. |
Q19421317 Piyacuyani (possibly from Aymara p'iya hole, qhuya the hole for the seed; mine or hole from which metal is taken, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership) is a mountain in the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,100 metres (16,732 ft) high. The mountain is located in the Puno Region, Melgar Prov... |
Q4158848 Anatoly Derevyanko (Russian: Анатолий Пантелеевич Деревянко; 9 January 1943, Kozmodemyanovka village, Amur Oblast) — is a Soviet/Russian historian, archaeologist, scientist in the field of Siberian and Far East`s Paleolith; public man; Ph. D (1971).Anatoly was born in the workman`s family. In 1963 he graduated... |
Q3448167 Sherman is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 848 at the 2010 census. |
Q381237 The Aero A.35 was a Czechoslovakian airliner of the 1920s and 1930s. Designed by Aero for long-range flight, with a transatlantic crossing in mind, it saw service with CSA although no such crossing was ever attempted. A conventional high-wing monoplane, it was a very modern design for its day in all but one res... |
Q4636610 3kStatic is an electronica music group founded in 1998 and consists of Dean Capone, Jeremy Dickens, Justin Katz. |
Q7668662 Thomas Selby Ellis III (born 1940) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by Ronald Reagan. |
Q7879641 Ulmus uyematsui Hayata, commonly known as the Alishan elm, is endemic to forests at elevations of 800–2,500 metres (2,600–8,200 ft) in Alishan, Chiayi County [1], central Taiwan, where it is considered one of the minor tree species. The tree was first named and described by the Japanese botanist Bunzō Hayata i... |
Q368476 Johannes Martin Bijvoet (23 January 1892, Amsterdam – 4 March 1980, Winterswijk) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at Utrecht University. He is famous for devising a method of establishing the absolute configuration of molecules. In 1946 he became member of the Royal Nether... |
Q2362397 Sergiy Stakhovsky was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Viktor Troicki. |
Q4866031 Barymochtha is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. It contains only one species, Barymochtha entherastis, which is found in Guyana. |
Q6954497 NK Crikvenica is a Croatian football club based in the northern Adriatic town of Crikvenica. They currently compete in the Četvrta HNL, Croatian third division. |
Q3461731 Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Matawinie Regional County Municipality. |
Q1801085 Rio da Conceição is a municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil.The municipality contains part of the 707,079 hectares (1,747,230 acres) Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to preserve an area of cerrado. |
Q7440817 Sean Declan Conrad Barrett (born 1944) is an Irish economist and former Senator. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics of Trinity College, Dublin, and a Fellow of the College. In April 2011, he was elected to the Dublin University constituency of Seanad Éireann but narrowly lost his seat in 2... |
Q7705488 Teshkan Rural District (Persian: دهستان تشكن) is a rural district (dehestan) in Chegeni District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 10,303, in 2,154 families. The rural district has 48 villages. |
Q6629249 There are about 2,100 known moth species of Kenya. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Kenya. |
Q8012986 Written on Skin is an opera by the British composer George Benjamin. Benjamin's first full-length opera, it was premiered at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival as a commission from five opera centres, and received its British premiere at the Royal Opera House in London in March 2013 and its Paris premiere at th... |
Q16959646 The 83rd Pennsylvania was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War, which participated in almost every major battle in the East, including Seven Days Battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg and Appomattox Court House.As one of four regiments in the 3rd Br... |
Q17560903 Stuck is a musical drama film directed by Michael Berry, who also wrote the screenplay with Riley Thomas, whose stage musical the film is based on. It stars Giancarlo Esposito, Arden Cho, Amy Madigan, Ashanti, Omar Chaparro and Gerard Canonico.The film had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival... |
Q24190685 Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd Building is a heritage-listed office building at 37 Lake Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1910 by Wilson & Baillie. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 July 1993. |
Q28004213 Tanyard Hollow is a valley in Jasper and Newton Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.Tanyard Hollow was so named on account of the tannery it once contained. |
Q30342278 Helen Beling (1914 – March 12, 2001) was an American sculptor.Beling was a native of New York City who studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League of New York; her instructors included Lee Lawrie, Paul Manship, and William Zorach. She was a nonobjective sculptor, and worked in a v... |
Q3221761 "The Toynbee Convector" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. First published in Playboy magazine in 1984, the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled The Toynbee Convector. |
Q6764757 Mario Lanza Live at Hollywood Bowl: Historical Recordings (1947 & 1951) is a 2000 CD, released by the Gala label (GL 311), includes the six selections that tenor Mario Lanza sang at his first Hollywood Bowl concert on August 27, 1947. This is the performance that first brought Lanza to the attention of Hollywo... |
Q2011272 "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest or Derelict) is a fictional sea song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled "Derelict" by Young E. Allison, published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1891. It has since... |
Q5264535 This article is about the American dance-music group. Not to be confused with Desiya.com, which is a B2B travel company based in India.Desiya was a dance- and house-music project that was fronted by the DJ-remixer-producer Matthew Parkhouse from New York and featured Melissa Yiannakou (now De Sa) on vocals. It... |
Q2731977 Linga is a very small uninhabited island in the Bluemull Sound, Shetland, Scotland. It is one of many islands in Shetland called Linga. It has an area of 45 ha and is 26m at its highest point. |
Q4892656 The Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps was created as a registered charity under the Bermuda Sea Cadet Association Act, 1968. The first unit had actually been created two years earlier. |
Q5611709 Grown Man Talk is a 2003 album from Hip Hop artist Diamond D, released through Diamond's own Diamond Mine imprint. The album was not distributed nationwide, and only a limited number of copies were printed. Grown Man Talk featured production from Diamond and 88 Keys, as well as appearances from Brand Nubian's ... |
Q146289 Panama competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. |
Q7998627 Wide Wide World was a 90-minute documentary series telecast live on NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4pm Eastern. Conceived by network head Pat Weaver and hosted by Dave Garroway, Wide Wide World was introduced on the Producers' Showcase series on June 27, 1955. The premiere episode, featuring entertainment from th... |
Q140640 Luxembourg sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China. |
Q7751328 The Midnight Story is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, and Gilbert Roland. The film was originally slated to be titled The Eyes of Father Tomasino, after the 1955 Lux Video Theatre TV episode it was based off of. |
Q4779041 Apamea cinefacta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, including in Washington and Alberta. |
Q7918136 Veera Telanagana is a 2010 Telugu film directed by R. Narayana Murthy, based on the Telangana Movement. The film's cast include R. Narayana Murthy, Vijayaranga Raju. |
Q7711818 The 20/20 Project is a Canadian hip hop trio from Toronto, Ontario. The group consists of three members: D-Squared, Idrees (sometimes credited as Drees or Bigg Drees) and DJ Unknown. The group is best known for their style of old school hip hop.Their debut EP, Employees of the Year received generally positive... |
Q2461437 Stevrek (in Bulgarian: Стеврек) is a village in northern Bulgaria, Antonovo municipality, Targovishte Province. Until recently it was part of Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province. |
Q14629127 The Seneca Rail Bridge is a rail bridge in Seneca, Illinois over the Illinois River.It was built by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. The first bridge in this location was built around 1853; the present bridge around 1930. |
Q18390242 Yelasi is a small village in Sorab Taluk in Shimoga district of Karnataka state, India. It belongs to the Bangalore division. It is located 83 km towards the west from district headquarters, Shimoga. |
Q20684165 Esdras Hartley (1892–1946) was the art director for the 1935 film Don't Bet on Blondes.He worked on over a hundred films during his career, many of them at the Hollywood studio Warner Brothers. |
Q28000395 This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016. The election was held as a consequence of a double dissolution in which both houses of parliament were dissolved. Ordinarily, only half of the senators terms end at each election. In this cas... |
Q1956741 Porfirio Alejandro Muñoz Ledo y Lazo de la Vega (born July 23, 1933 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician. He is one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). |
Q5209672 Daisy-Head Mayzie is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated in his style. It was published in 1995, as Seuss's first posthumous book. It was republished on July 5, 2016 with Seuss's original drawings. |
Q6166496 Washington Mills is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of New Hartford, a suburb of Utica, New York.Washington Mills is located off New York State Route 8. |
Q2513962 Industrial control system (ICS) is a general term that encompasses several types of control systems and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control.Such systems can range from a few modular panel-mounted controllers to large interconnected and interactive distributed control systems with man... |
Q5293223 Donald Farris Norton (March 3, 1938 – June 23, 1997) was an American Football League end. He played college football at the University of Iowa and was drafted by the newly formed AFL in 1960, playing seven seasons for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers (1960–1966), making the AFL All-Star team in 1961 and 1962... |
Q3721997 The Class 424 is a class of electric multiple units in use on the Hanover S-Bahn network. |
Q7291814 Randolph County State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,101 acres (446 ha) in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. |
Q569467 You Stupid Man is a 2002 romantic comedy film written and directed by Brian Burns and starring Milla Jovovich, David Krumholtz, William Baldwin, Denise Richards, Dan Montgomery Jr., and Jessica Cauffiel. |
Q7235764 Poutamele is a village in the Bassar Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-western Togo. |
Q5273374 Richard Francis Sipek (January 16, 1923 – July 17, 2005) was a Major League Baseball outfielder, and the only deaf person to play in the majors between Dummy Murphy in 1914 and Curtis Pride in 1993. He played in 82 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1945. |
Q5274224 Edson Silva, also known by the nickname Dido (born June 27, 1962), is a former Brazilian association football player who played for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A clubs Flamengo and Santos. He holds a Dutch passport. |
Q2914974 Mantgum is a railway station in Mantgum, Netherlands. The station opened on 16 June 1883 and is located on the Leeuwarden–Stavoren railway. The services are operated by Arriva. The station was closed between 15 May 1938 and 1 May 1940 and between 24 November 1940 and 3 June 1973. The station is 10 km from Leeu... |
Q1809498 Missionary Man is a 2007 American action film co-written, directed by and starring Dolph Lundgren. |
Q3656097 Iliya Tzarski (Bulgarian: Илия Царски) (born 29 July 1968 in Panagurishte, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian rallye driver and businessman.He is owner to Racing Club "AUTOTZAR" |
Q7304363 Red Hot Tires is a 1935 American crime drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by D. Ross Lederman, and starring Lyle Talbot and Mary Astor. |
Q20713574 Blessed John Talbot (died 1600) was an English Catholic recusant and martyr. |
Q1048892 Castellum Tingitii, also called Castellum Tingitanum, was a Roman colonia in Mauretania Caesariensis, and corresponds to present-day Chlef in Algeria. |
Q22059445 Hopkins United Methodist Church, is a historic African American Church located at 13250 Highland Rd in Highland, Maryland.The building was constructed in 1882. Operated as the Hopkins Chapel Colored School by order of the Howard County Public School board on December 5, 1883. |
Q24037348 10%: What Makes a Hero? (Hebrew: 10% – מה הופך אדם לגיבור?, 10% – Mah Hofech Adam Lagibor?) is a 2013 Israeli documentary film directed by Yoav Shamir. The film focuses on the concept of heroism, which the director sets out to define and locate. The title refers to the Milgram experiment where 10% of the sub... |
Q28062398 Shyam Sundar Rai (born 1954) is an Indian seismologist and a chair professor at the department of Earth and Climate Science of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. He is known for his researches on the seismic structure of Indian continental lithosphere and is an elected fellow of al... |
Q5742747 Hero Worship was Hal Crook's fifth album as a leader, and the second album he released for RAM Records.This album was Crook's first recording using the 5-voice digital harmonizer, which connected to a microphone attached to his trombone's bell. The harmonizer generate up to 5 additional "voices" at preset inte... |
Q4983059 Buckeye Bridge also known as White's Ferry Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois once listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Buckeye is one of the five bridges that have been demolished out of nine similar bridges in the county. This particular one was over the Sp... |
Q307593 Beddomeia gibba is a species of very small freshwater snail that has a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia. |
Q16883697 Spry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Sir Charles Spry (1910–1994), director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence OrganisationConstance Spry (1886–1960, née Fletcher), British educator, florist and authorMajor-General Daniel Spry (1913–1989), Canadian commander of the 3rd Canad... |
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