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Q4933315 Robert J. "Bluey" McClure (5 June 1925 – 17 July 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL.A ruckman, McClure served in the navy prior to joining Essendon. He became a key component in a successful Essendon side, winning premierships in 1946, 1949 and 1950. A knee injury forc... |
Q1441758 Saint-Germain-de-la-Coudre is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. |
Q3848872 The Talofofo River is one of the longest rivers on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam. Rising on the eastern slopes of Mount Lamlam in the island's south-west, it traverses the island in a north-eastward direction, flowing into the sea at Talofofo Bay.Major features of the river's course include Fena Lake, Guam'... |
Q4791027 Aristogenes (Greek: Ἀριστογένης; fl. 3rd century BC) the name of two Greek physicians mentioned by the Suda, of whom one was a native of Thasos, and wrote several medical works, of which some of the titles are preserved. The other, according to the Suda, was a native of Cnidos and was servant to Chrysippus; bu... |
Q6469578 Ladiesburg is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, in the U.S. state of Maryland. |
Q5645123 Hamilton Ross (26 August 1849 – 29 March 1938) was an English cricketer who made 20 first-class appearances between 1885 and 1895. He played twelve first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and also appeared for Middlesex and Somerset. A right-handed batsman, he occasionally played as wicket... |
Q4736808 Alto Pencoso is a village and municipality in San Luis Province in central Argentina. |
Q251223 Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (born July 16, 1947) is a bishop of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of San Marcos 1988-2012. On May 14, 2012 he became the bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango. |
Q1973626 Chornyi Ostriv (Ukrainian: Чорний Острів, Polish: Czarny Ostrów) is an urban-type settlement in the Khmelnytskyi Raion (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. The town's population was 924 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census and 949 in 2011.Chornyi Ostriv was first founded in 1366, and it ... |
Q595628 The Occitan Wikipedia (Occitan: wikipèdia en occitan) is the Occitan language version of Wikipedia. The Occitan version of Wikipedia had 85,475 articles on 18 October 2013 (ranked 52nd among the 287 languages versions of Wikipedia). |
Q16727585 Antonio Bordon is a Paraguayan handball coach of the Paraguayan national team. |
Q13575822 Glorious Days (Chinese: 精彩日子) is a Hong Kong based Thoroughbred racehorse. In the season of 2013-2014, he won the Hong Kong Mile. It is his first international group one win. |
Q21311835 Thereus lomalarga is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Costa Rica to the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador. It occurs in the great variety of forested habitats.The larvae feed on Oryctanthus alveolatus. |
Q2856352 The Satchinez swamps (or Banat delta; Romanian: Mlaștinile Satchinez) form a ornithological nature reservation that spreads over 242 hectares (600 acres) near Satchinez, in Timiș County, Romania. It was founded in 1942, at Dionisie Linția's proposal. The reservation was expanded to cover 1,194 hectares (2,950 ... |
Q27460790 Philip Dane Beall Jr. (June 15, 1915 – April 12, 1988) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He served in the Florida State Senate from 1947 to 1962 as a Democratic member for the 2nd district. He succeeded his father, Philip D. Beall Sr. in the State Senate after his death in 1947. |
Q15574180 Conospermum densiflorum, commonly known as crown smokebush, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.The erect many-branched shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1 metre (1.0 to 3.3 ft). It blooms between September and January producing cream-white-blue flowers.It is found in low-lying areas in the Whea... |
Q20147 A tractor beam is a device with the ability to attract one object to another from a distance. The concept originates in fiction: the term was coined by E. E. Smith (an update of his earlier "attractor beam") in his novel Spacehounds of IPC (1931). Since the 1990s, technology and research has laboured to make it... |
Q1413270 Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia, attracting about three million visitors annually. Among the noteworthy attractions is the wooden roller coaster Balder, twice (2003 and 2005) voted as the Best Wooden ... |
Q5469 The Karakoram is a large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It begins in the Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan) in the west and encompasses the majority of Gilgit–Baltistan (Pakistan) and extends into La... |
Q4959601 Breaking the Ethers is the debut album from collaborative group Tuatara. Released on Epic Records, it was an attempt by members of Luna, the Screaming Trees and R.E.M. to try their hand at experimental, multi-ethnic music. |
Q652132 Csanytelek is a village in Csongrád County, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. |
Q3403832 Tüvshinshiree (Mongolian: Түвшинширээ) is a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province in eastern Mongolia. |
Q1606724 Henry Frederick Niedringhaus (December 15, 1864 – August 3, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, nephew of Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus.Born in St. Louis, Missouri to German immigrants, Niedringhaus attended the public schools, Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Missouri, and Smith Academy, a br... |
Q3387421 Pierre d'Arc (1408 – 1467) was a French soldier whose place in history is due to his service in the army made famous by his younger sister Joan of Arc. |
Q4783754 The Gibe River (also Great Gibe River) is by far the largest tributary of the Omo River in Ethiopia and typically flowing south / southeast. The confluence of the large Gibe River at 8°19′N 37°28′E with the smaller Wabe River forms the even larger Omo River. Consequently, the whole drainage basin is sometimes ... |
Q8069863 Zevenhuizen is a hamlet in the north of the Netherlands. It is located in Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland. |
Q94387 Grala-Dąbrowizna [ˈɡrala dɔmbrɔˈvizna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skórzec, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of Siedlce and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warsaw. |
Q4842015 Bagnan I is a community development block (CD Block) that forms an administrative division in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. |
Q6976987 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nemaha County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and distric... |
Q860839 Estíbaliz Martínez Yerro (born 9 May 1980 in Vitoria) is a Spanish rhythmic gymnast and Olympic Champion. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and won a gold medal with the Spanish group. The team was formed by Estíbaliz, Estela Giménez, Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Lorena Guréndez and Tania L... |
Q707855 Gangchang Station is a station of the Daegu Metro Line 2 in Hosan-dong, Dalseo District, Daegu, South Korea. |
Q15272630 The Rio Theater is a single-screen movie theater in Monte Rio, California, United States. The largest extant piece of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence drapes the ceiling of the theater's auditorium. |
Q16988365 Juan Bobo is a folkloric character on the island of Puerto Rico. For nearly two centuries a collection of books, songs, riddles and folktales have developed around him. Hundreds of children's books have been written about Juan Bobo in English and Spanish. Juan Bobo stories are used as instructional models in ... |
Q1811845 Bekasi Station (BKS) is a train station located in the city of Bekasi, West Java. The station is at an altitude of 19 meters above sea level. This station serves the commuter in Jabotabek area and as also for the regional train to Cikampek and Purwakarta. |
Q3181442 John Ernest "Jack" Randall (born May 22, 1924) is an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall has described over 600 species and has authored 11 books and over 670 scientific papers and popular articles. He has spent most of his career working in Hawaii. |
Q3856647 Michele Ivaldi (born 11 March 1970) is an Italian yacht racer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics.He sailed with Luna Rossa Challenge in the 2007 America's Cup. He then joined Oracle Racing in 2008, before joining Artemis Racing for the 2010 Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai. |
Q7727669 Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu or Te Kura (formerly The Correspondence School) is New Zealand's largest school with around 25,000 students enrolled each year, from early childhood to secondary level. It is headquartered in Portland Crescent in Thorndon, Wellington. In addition to its ordinary full-time students, Te... |
Q512175 The flag of Manitoba is a variation of the Red Ensign which bears the shield of the provincial coat of arms. This flag was approved by the passage of a bill in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly on May 11, 1965 and was officially proclaimed on May 12, 1966. Queen Elizabeth II gave permission for the use of the U... |
Q135444 Millisle or Mill Isle (from Scots mill + isle, meaning "the meadow of the mill") is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Donaghadee. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise and Ballycopeland, the civil parish of Donaghadee and the hist... |
Q607915 Karnal district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Karnal town is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is one of the 22 Districts which constitutes the National Capital Region (NCR) of India. |
Q17030886 The Vietnamese calendar is a lunisolar calendar that is mostly based on the Chinese calendar. As Vietnam's official calendar has been the Gregorian calendar since 1954, the Vietnamese calendar is used mainly to observe lunisolar holidays and commemorations, such as Tết and Mid-Autumn Festival. |
Q6792944 Sir Maurice Charles Philip O'Connell KCH (1768 – 25 May 1848) was a commander of forces and lieutenant-governor of colonial New South Wales. |
Q6670347 The London Electricity Board was the public sector utility company responsible for the supply and distribution of electricity to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers in London prior to 1990. It also sold and made available for hire and hire-purchase domestic electrical appliances through local showroo... |
Q7384030 Ryan Dungey (Born December 4, 1989) is a former professional motorcycle racer who raced in the AMA Supercross and Outdoor Motocross championships. A four-time supercross and three-time motocross champion, he retired after the 2017 supercross season.He trained with trainer Aldon Baker and was mentored by Red Bu... |
Q6864471 Minerva (Korean: 미네르바) is the Internet username of a "netizen" who wrote about the Korean economy and the economic policies of the Korean government. Minerva's writing evoked the ire of the Korean government, when an entry precipitated a run on the South Korean won. Prosecutors arrested a man they claim to ... |
Q1389575 FontShop International is an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It is one of the largest digital type foundries.The FontFont library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renowned designers such as Peter Biľak, Evert Bloemsma, Erik van Blokland, Nevi... |
Q68293 Georg von Vincke (5 May 1811 – 3 June 1875) was a Prussian politician, officer, landowner and aristocrat of the Vincke family. |
Q5616701 Guissezholmen Bird Sanctuary (Norwegian: Guissezholmen fuglereservat) is a bird reserve at Svalbard, Norway, established in 1973. It includes islets at Kapp Guissez in Haakon VII Land. The protected area covers a total area of around 400,000 square metres. |
Q14847805 Chreomisis is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. The genus and its two species Chreomisis flava and Chreomisis rufula were described by Stephan von Breuning in 1956. |
Q428354 Joaquín Agrasot y Juan (24 December 1836 – 8 January 1919) was a Spanish painter of the Realistic style who produced many works in the Costumbrismo genre. |
Q11749439 Krzysztof Kąkolewski (16 March 1930 – 24 May 2015) was a Polish book author, life-long scholar, investigative journalist considered the pillar of the Polish school of reportage, as well as dramatist and screenwriter. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism in the Warsaw University in 1954 and continued hi... |
Q21005512 Alex Daley is a defender who plays for P.C. United FC and the Montserrat National team heade his debut for Montserrat against Suriname in a 7-1 defeat in a WCQ. |
Q24700979 Captain James Makee (November 24, 1813 - September 16, 1879) was one of the pioneer planters of Hawaii and the owner of the most productive sugar plantation on Maui. |
Q27685339 The New Haitian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (French: Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste-Léniniste), NPCH(ML) ) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Haiti. It was founded in 2000. In a statement regarding the party's ideological foundation, the NPCH(ML) refers to the theory and practice of K... |
Q29467302 Brantano (UK) Ltd was a British shoe retailer, owned by Alteri Investors. The company was started in 1998 by the purchase of 47 Shoe City stores from the British Shoe Corporation by the Belgian retailer Brantano Footwear. It was owned by Macintosh Retail Group until it was bought by Alteri in October 2015. Th... |
Q40123016 Germaine Kamayirese, is an engineer and politician in Rwanda, who has served as the Minister of Emergency Management and Refugee Affairs in the Rwandan cabinet, effective 18 October 2018.Before that, from 24 July 2014 until 18 October 2018, she served as the Minister of State for Infrastructure responsible fo... |
Q1973774 Newcastle is a small seaside resort town in County Down, Northern Ireland, which had a population of 7,672 at the 2011 Census. It lies by the Irish Sea at the foot of Slieve Donard, the highest of the Mourne Mountains. Newcastle is known for its sandy beach, forests (Donard Forest and Tollymore Forest Park), m... |
Q2038865 The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame honors those who have contributed to the sport of women's basketball. The Hall of Fame opened in 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. It is the only facility of its kind dedicated to all levels of women's basketball. Knoxville is known for having a large women's basketball ... |
Q7355889 The Rocky Mountain District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). It encompasses the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, as well as El Paso County, Texas; the rest of Texas constitutes the Texas District, and one Colorado congregation is in the Wyoming District. The dist... |
Q15238462 Killannin is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA. The club is one of 20 teams competing in the Senior Championship in Galway. Their best result in the competition came in 2000, where they reached the final, losing out narrowly to Corofin. |
Q6947211 Mycosphaerella polymorpha is a fungal plant pathogen. |
Q4020924 The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States. Since 1970, participants have had to travel to Las Vegas if they wanted to compete in the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Although the WSOP held circuit events in ... |
Q5517617 Gajjar is a surname/title representing a sub-caste of Gujarati's from Hindu Suthar community. In the state of Gujarat and Maharashtra from the middle of the 1500s through the 1900s, the Gajjar of a village would be a member of the village business committee and they are mostly associated with business of carpe... |
Q16018990 John David Booth, (4 November 1950 – 17 November 2011) was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Wakehurst from 24 March 1984 to 3 May 1991.Born in 1950, Webster was educated at Gordon West Public School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School.... |
Q4878224 Beaverbank Lake is a lake of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
Q1123773 José Zamora Girona (born 20 August 1988) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a winger. |
Q5414813 Euxoa dargo is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from south-eastern Manitoba west to the southern interior of British Columbia, south to Oregon, southern Idaho and northern New Mexico, and east to eastern South Dakota.The wingspan is 27–29 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September. There is one... |
Q5368817 Email hacking is the unauthorized access to, or manipulation of, an email account or email correspondence. |
Q7781025 Thelgetra is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:Thelgetra adusta (Burmeister, 1865)Thelgetra latipennis Thomson, 1864 |
Q1475893 The knockout stage of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup started on 21 July and ended on 29 July 2007. The top two placed teams from each preliminary group advanced to this stage. |
Q5300552 Douglas Henderson (6 March 1913 – 2002) was an English professional footballer who played as a half-back or right-back for Southampton in the 1930s. |
Q7971964 Washington Initiative 1029 (2008) was an initiative concerning long-term home health-care workers, approved in the Washington state general election of November 4, 2008. It required "long-term care workers to be certified as home care aides based on an examination, with exceptions; increase training and crimin... |
Q6625426 This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Massachusetts as identified by the United States Coast Guard. Enumeration of the lighthouses in this state is complicated by the number of multiple tower stations and replacement of older towers, with the Brant Point Light station having had nine towers, t... |
Q24037981 Onehunga railway station is the final station on the Onehunga Line of the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of Onehunga Town Centre and consists of a single side platform which is accessed from Onehunga Mall and Princes Street. |
Q13636161 Filodes tenuimarginalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1918. It is found on Sulawesi. |
Q18809336 Samara (Kannada: ಸಮರ "war") is a 1995 Indian Kannada action film directed by Chi Guru Dutt with the association of P. Sheshadri. The film features Shivarajkumar, Sudharani and Devaraj in the lead roles. |
Q6555592 Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranfield. |
Q1448270 Franz Metzner (18 November 1870, Wscherau, near Pilsen – 24 March 1919, Berlin) was an influential German sculptor, particularly his sculptural figures integrated into the architecture of Central European public buildings in the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Vienna Secession period. His style is difficult to clas... |
Q5036761 Captain Stephen Peacock is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show Are You Being Served?. He was played by Frank Thornton, who went on to take the popular role of Truly in Last of the Summer Wine. |
Q4845729 Bobby E. Abrams Jr. (born April 12, 1967) is a former American football player. He played college football as defensive back and linebacker for the University of Michigan from 1986 to 1989. He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons as a linebacker and special teams... |
Q1385215 Patricio Gabriel Araujo Vázquez (born 30 January 1988 in Colima, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer. He currently plays for Celaya F.C. as a defender in the Ascenso MX. |
Q6820442 Merry F#%$in' Christmas is a 2004 comedy album released by actor and comedian Denis Leary. It runs for twenty minutes and includes unreleased sessions recorded for his 1997 album Lock 'n Load and two tracks previously released on that album ("Deaf Mute Cocktail Party" and "Insane Cowboy (In Africa)").Since th... |
Q5080379 Charles Lucien de Beurmann (6 December 1851 – 1923) was a French dermatologist and mycologist. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1884 he became médecin des hôpitaux (hospital physician). In 1889 he was appointed chef de service (department head) at the Hôpital Lourcine, afterward working at the Hôpital Sa... |
Q3051297 Octavia Sperati, formerly known as Octavia, is a gothic metal band from Bergen, Norway.The group released their debut album Winter Enclosure in 2005. Their second album, Grace Submerged, was released in May 2007. Both albums were released by Candlelight Records, and both releases were followed by a tour in the... |
Q773526 The Rural Architecture Museum of Sanok (Polish: Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku) is one of the biggest open-air museums in Poland. It was established in 1958 by Aleksander Rybicki and contains 200 buildings which have been relocated from different areas of Sanok Land (Low Beskids, Pogórze Bukowskie, Doły J... |
Q7810793 Tntnet is Web server software, coded in C++, which enables other C++ programs to bundle requests modules. This enables developing Web applications in C++. The GET and POST requests are interpreted by the tntnet server and sent to the web application program, which will send a reply back over the network. Tntne... |
Q1271494 The Tupolev ANT-16 (also known as the TB-4; Russian: Тяжелый Бомбардировщик – Heavy Bomber) was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
Q5587403 Gospel Principles is a book that sets out some of the basic doctrines and teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The book is published by the LDS Church and is provided to its members as a personal study guide and as a church lesson manual. |
Q3014729 Malayotyphlops hypogius, also known as the Cebu blind snake or Cebu Island worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. |
Q5229587 David Lloyd Pollock (born 17 November 1942) is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for MacDonnell in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1977. |
Q1312810 Neomicropteryx is a genus of small primitive metallic moths in the family Micropterigidae. |
Q7988188 The Western Promenade Historic District encompasses a large late 19th to early 20th century neighborhood in the West End of Portland, Maine. This area of architecturally distinctive homes was home to three of the city's most prominent architects: Francis H. Fassett, John Calvin Stevens, and Frederick A. Tomps... |
Q7118824 Air Vice Marshal P. D. J. Kumarasiri (also known as Jayanath Kumarasiri) USP, psc, MAIAA, AMRAeCS, EDBA, PGDiplE, DipQM was the former Director of Aeronautical Engineering for the Sri Lanka Air Force. |
Q5832288 Tang-e Madul (Persian: تنگ مدول, also Romanized as Tang-e Madūl) is a village in Bahmai-ye Garmsiri-ye Shomali Rural District, Bahmai-ye Garmsiri District, Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q882461 Hermann Kauffmann (the elder) also Herrmann Kauffmann (7 November 1808 – 24 May 1889) was a German painter and lithographer, and one of the main representatives of the Hamburger Schule. |
Q25241278 Bareilly Vidhan Sabha Constituency (Hindi: बरेली विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Bareilly district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Bareilly (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this ... |
Q115025 Ontario County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 107,931. The county seat is Canandaigua.Ontario County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.In 2006, Progressive Farmer rated Ontario County as the "Best Place to Live" in the U.S., for its ... |
Q1857773 The University of Central Lancashire (abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge founded in 1828. Subsequently, known as Harris Art College, then Preston Polytechnic, then Lancashire Poly... |
Q629014 Wakefield Regional Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat is at Balaklava. |
Q2777086 Jacob Aharon Frenkel (Hebrew: יעקב אהרן פרנקל; born 8 February 1943) is an Israeli economist and the Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International. He served as Governor of the Bank of Israel between 1991 and 2000. |
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