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Q276795 Miss Universe 1981, the 30th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 20 July 1981 at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City, United States. Irene Sáez of Venezuela crowned by Shawn Weatherly of the United States. There were 77 contestants competing for the crown, but Miss Mauritius got homesick and withdrew. The page... |
Q6286801 Joseph Francis Saltis, (8 September 1894 – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Slovakian-American Prohibition gangster who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging racket in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois until his territory was seized by Al Capone and he fled to ... |
Q716477 Orlando Mohorović (born 1950 in Labin) is a Croatian artist. He is one of the original members of a group of artists called Labinski atelieri.Mohorović came to Düsseldorf in 1969 and met Joseph Beuys there. The Admission Board of the department Free art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf admitted him as a student... |
Q269344 Amalberga of Temse (born about 741, died 10 July 772) was a Lotharingian noblewoman from the Frankish royal house of the Pippinids who is celebrated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is especially venerated in Temse, Ghent, Munsterbilzen and other parts of Flanders. S... |
Q5365053 Ellen Weiss (born January 30, 1959) is an American journalist and four-time Peabody Award winner. She joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1982, eventually running the NPR News national desk and serving as executive producer of the NPR News magazine All Things Considered. She was named NPR vice president for ... |
Q5256580 Denan Kemp is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s and is best known for his stints in the National Rugby League (NRL). Kemp's position of choice was on the wing. He played in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos, the New Zealand Warriors and the St George Ill... |
Q425643 The spangled cotinga (Cotinga cayana) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. It is found in the canopy of the Amazon Rainforest in South America.Because of their bright, beautiful colours, cotingas have been hunted by native peoples for their feathers, as well as for food. The feathers of ... |
Q694945 Statistics of Austrian Football Bundesliga in the 2002–03 season. |
Q5156124 CompassionArt is a charity based in Littlehampton, England founded by songwriter Martin Smith and his wife Anna, with the aim of generating income from works of art to assist in the relief of suffering around the planet. |
Q5213766 Daniel Jones was an association football player who represented New Zealand, playing in New Zealand's first ever official international.Jones made his full All Whites debut in New Zealand's inaugural A-international fixture, beating Australia 3-1 on 17 June 1922 and ended his international playing career with ... |
Q6847985 Mike Mennard (born 1967 in Ft. Worth, Texas) is a children's recording artist based in Lincoln, Nebraska. |
Q7154966 Pauline is an unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Pauline is located along a Union Pacific, formerly Chicago and Eastern Illinois, railroad line northeast of St. Joseph. There is no population. There are two grain silos no longer used. |
Q1227686 Molos-Agios Konstantinos (Greek: Μώλος-Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος) is a municipality in the region of Central Greece, in Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kamena Vourla. The municipality belongs to the regional unit of Phthiotis. The municipality has an area of 337.298 km2. |
Q2649227 Daniil Vladimirovich Sizko (Russian: Даниил Владимирович Сизько; born 4 August 1993) is a Russian football goalkeeper who plays for FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast. |
Q16854014 Luigi Pulini was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes.He was born in Sicily, and became a resident of Rome where he completed his studies. At Rome, in 1883, he exhibited two canvases depicting : Lave sull'Etna and Il Tevere presso Porta del Popolo a Rome. In the 1884 Esposizione Nazionale of Turin, he exh... |
Q24884352 The Sri Damansara East MRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station under construction that will serve the suburb of Bandar Sri Damansara in Selangor and Bandar Menjalara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It serves as one of the stations on Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya ... |
Q242278 Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft. In 2016, along with other stars such as Alana Beard and Nneka Ogwumike, Par... |
Q7968062 The Wanquan River (Chinese: 万泉河; pinyin: Wànquán Hé; literally: 'ten-thousand-spring river') is the third longest river in Hainan Province, China, and is 162 km long. It rises in the Wuzhi Mountain, and flows generally northeast turbulently in a narrow route through mountainous regions. About half way downstre... |
Q285983 Al-Shaab Stadium (Arabic: ملعب الشعب; translates to The People's Stadium) is an All-seater multi-purpose stadium in Baghdad. The 34,200 seater was the home stadium of the Iraq national football team from its opening on 6 November 1966 until the Basra International Stadium was opened in 2013. The stadium is own... |
Q4986440 Building is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as The Builder in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab. The journal was renamed Building in 1966 as it is still known today. Building is the only UK title to cove... |
Q5104027 URGE is a reproductive rights and justice non-profit organization in the United States based in Washington, D.C. It is youth-led, with a focus on pro-choice movements. URGE changed its name in July 2014 and was formerly called Choice USA. In a statement on its website, the group said the name change reflecte... |
Q12719874 The Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy (Romanian: Academia Navală "Mircea cel Bătrân") is a higher education institution based in the Black Sea port of Constanța that educates future officers for the Romanian Naval Forces, as well as maritime officers and engineers for the merchant marine. At the request of the ... |
Q2568777 Wien-Film GmbH ("Vienna Film Limited") was a large Austrian film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG (Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985. Until 1945 the business was owned by the Cautio Trust Company (Cautio Treuhandgesellschaft), a subsidiary of the German Reichsfilmkamm... |
Q970028 Liotella rotula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae. |
Q18053267 Tubulin beta chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUBB gene. |
Q4901674 The Bhendibazaar gharana is one of the vocal gharanas of Indian classical music, which originated in Bhendi Bazaar area of Mumbai in 1890. |
Q2436436 Luger is a 1982 Dutch film directed by Theo van Gogh. The film was written and directed (his debut) by van Gogh and was filmed in black and white. |
Q2118703 Lake Syväri (Finnish: Syväri) is a medium-sized lake in Finland. It is located in the Northern Savonia region in Finland, in the municipalities of Kuopio and Lapinlahti. The lake belongs to the Vuoksi main catchment area. |
Q4546987 10th Anniversary Album is an original jazz compilation by Nat King Cole. It was released in 1955. |
Q1295846 The Wesermünde Geest (German: Wesermünder Geest) is the collective name for several geest ridges in the west of Cuxhaven district and Bremen's North Borough in northern Germany. The ridges are separated from one another by wetlands. These terminal moraines were formed during the Saale glaciation, are up to bet... |
Q5505355 From Babylon To Timbuk2 is the debut album by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and Brooklyn rapper Timbo King. it was released on August 30, 2012, by Nature Sounds. The Album was inspired by the 1969 Black Hebrew's history book From Babylon To Timbuktu written by Rudolph R. Windsor. Bronze Nazareth produced most of the ... |
Q615053 Diego Valeri (January 25, 1887, Piove di Sacco - November 28, 1976) was an Italian poet and literary critic. |
Q19281788 Miguel Elías Camargo Cañizales (born 5 September 1993) is a Panamanian footballer who currently plays for USMP in the Peruvian Primera División. |
Q23103416 Roșia railway station was a station on the Vurpăr branch line of the Agnita railway line in Vurpăr, Sibiu County Romania. The station still exists along with the track which has been protected. |
Q21215249 Horistus is a genus of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae. |
Q31841363 Rita Bake (born 16 January 1952) is a German economic and social historian. She has a degree in librarianship and is a prolific author. She was a founder in 2000/2001 of the "Garden of Women" ("Garten der Frauen") at the vast Ohlsdorf Cemetery on the edge of Hamburg. |
Q1975477 The coat of arms of Kiev features the Archangel Michael, wielding a flaming sword and a shield on an azure field. |
Q1374572 Joseph Herbert "Joe" Weatherly (May 29, 1922 – January 19, 1964) was an American stock car racing driver. Weatherly was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009 after winning NASCAR's Grand National (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) championships in 1962 and 1963, three AMA Grand Nat... |
Q2471585 Antwerp is a small town in Victoria, Australia on the Dimboola – Rainbow Road, in the Shire of Hindmarsh, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north of Dimboola and 356 kilometres (221 mi) north-west of Melbourne. The Wimmera River is located 500 metres (550 yd) west of the town. The population at the 2016 census was 63. |
Q5874658 The Hobart Arena is a 3,782-seat multi-purpose arena in Troy, Ohio. It officially opened with 10 sold out performances of Holiday on Ice in September 1950. The Hobart Arena, contrary to popular belief, was not the first Ohio venue for Elvis Presley on November 24, 1956, as he had played in Cleveland a year e... |
Q4719885 Alexander Pringle (30 January 1791 – 2 September 1857) was a Scottish Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1835 to 1846. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in Peel's second ministry, but resigned in 1845 in protest at the decision to enhance the... |
Q6513870 Lee Hepner (November 24, 1920 – July 24, 1986) was a Canadian teacher and orchestral conductor.Hepner was born in Edmonton, Alberta. After organizing the Edmonton Pops Orchestra in 1947, he was principal conductor of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1949-1950). He was the first Music Director of... |
Q6442375 Kujō Suketsugu (九条 輔嗣, October 28, 1784 – March 6, 1807), son of Nijō Harutaka with Tokugawa Yoshihime (daughter of Tokugawa Munemoto) and adopted son of Kujō Sukeie, was a kuge or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He, as his father did, adopted son of Nijō Harutaka, Hisatada. |
Q7129924 Panama Cricket Association is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Panama. Panama Cricket Association is Panama's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an affiliate member and has been a member of that body since 2002. It is included in the ICC Americas region. |
Q7461129 Shaftesbury PLC is a British real estate investment trust which invests exclusively in the heart of London's West End. Its portfolio, which extends to over 14.5 acres, includes 584 restaurants, cafes, pubs and shops across 1.1 million sq. ft. which together provide 70% of rental income. It is headquartered in... |
Q7656467 The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between 21 and 22 October. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. |
Q2171061 Royal Lochnagar distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery based on the Abergeldie Estate on Royal Deeside, in the Highland whisky-producing area of Scotland. It close to the mountain Lochnagar. |
Q13362187 Loricata is a group of reptiles that includes crocodylians and their ancestors. It was named by German naturalist Blasius Merrem in his 1820 Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Merrem considered it to be one of three groups of Pholidota (reptiles), the other two being Testudinata (turtles) and Squamata (liza... |
Q7438243 Detective Scotty Valens is a fictional character in the CBS crime drama Cold Case, portrayed by Danny Pino. He was a Philadelphia homicide detective and Lilly Rush's partner. He transferred to Homicide from West Detectives in the fall of 2003, replacing Lilly's first partner Chris Lassing. Young, cocky, and fu... |
Q7237584 Prag (English title, Prague), is an award-winning Danish film written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade and Jana Plodková. |
Q5018611 Calavera is the fifth album by the Chilean band Fiskales Ad-Hok. It was released in 2001, under by the label created by them, CFA. The album has three bonus tracks. |
Q16479854 Baca is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Baca family of New MexicoGeovany Baca (born 1971), Honduran boxerJoe Baca (born 1947), American member of CongressJoe Baca, Jr. (born 1969), former member of California AssemblyPolly Baca (born February 13, 1941), American politician, member of the Co... |
Q16244456 MŠK Žilina are a Slovak football club which are based in Žilina. During the 2013/14 campaign they will be competing in the Slovak Super League, Slovak Cup, UEFA Europa League. |
Q3903637 Pietro Anderlini, also Andorlini, (1687–1755) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. |
Q41532621 Hans Adolph Aune (December 19, 1878 – February 26, 1931) was an American educator, businessman, and politician.Aune was born in Baldwin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin. He graduated from Menominie High School and the River Falls Normal School. He was a teacher and school principal. Aune also served as the St. Cr... |
Q3428044 The Monteripido Altarpiece is a double-sided altarpiece by Perugino, completed in 1502 for San Francesco al Monte church in Monteripido near Perugia. It is now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia. |
Q2279070 Wakefield Kirkgate railway station is a railway station in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Unlike the nearby Wakefield Westgate railway station, Kirkgate is unstaffed. The station is managed by Northern but also served by Grand Central. It is on the Hallam, Pontefract and Huddersfield lines. It has a limit... |
Q5460764 Florence Regional Airport (IATA: FLO, ICAO: KFLO, FAA LID: FLO) is a public airport three miles east of Florence, in Florence County, South Carolina.The only scheduled flights are American Eagle to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, which takes about 30 minutes. |
Q1425639 Last Man Standing is a 1996 American gangster-action film written and directed by Walter Hill and starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Dern. It is a credited remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. |
Q60565 Tetraceratops insignis ("four-horned face emblem") is an extinct synapsid from the Early Permian that may be the first known representative of Therapsida, a group that includes mammals and their close extinct relatives. It is known from a single 90-millimetre-long (3.5 in) skull, discovered in Texas in 1908. |
Q1589202 The lowland tiny greenbul (Phyllastrephus debilis), is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.It is found in eastern Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. |
Q5078068 Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray CBE FRS (born 27 October 1958) is a British zoologist. He is Hope Professor of Zoology at Jesus College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food. |
Q5459976 Fiodor Gurei is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 500 m event at the 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Tampere, Finland. |
Q4821813 Aulopopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the lower Eocene. |
Q2004239 The Indian Telly Awards is an annual award for excellence both on-screen and behind-the-scenes of television in India. Conceptualised and created by Anil Wanvari, the founder, CEO of media and services group, indiantelevision.com, they are in their 12th edition currently. Wanvari is also on the board of the I... |
Q5192874 Culburra is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Dukes Highway and Melbourne–Adelaide railway.about 158 kilometres (98 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 77 kilometres (48 mi) south-east of the municipal seat of Tailem Bend."Culburra" is an indige... |
Q5297538 Dorathy Allen (née McDonald) (March 10, 1910 – May 12, 1990) was an American newspaper editor and publisher, and Democratic Party politician. Allen is most remembered as the first woman to be elected to the Arkansas State Senate. Allen represented District 26 which included Monroe, Lee, Arkansas, and Phillips ... |
Q4681136 Addicts: Black Meddle, Pt. II is the fifth full-length album by Chicago band Nachtmystium. It was released via Century Media Records in the United States on June 8, 2010, and by Candlelight Records in Europe a few days later. The recording took place in January 2010 at Volume Studios in Chicago, IL.Mainman Bla... |
Q117124 Jean André Tschumi (born February 14, 1904 Plainpalais, now a neighborhood of Geneva, Switzerland, died January 25, 1962 · ) was a Swiss architect and professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.A member of the Modern Movement, Jean Tschumi is known for his buildings for Sandoz (laboratory, facto... |
Q6139469 James McLean (born 1880) was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender. He played for Edinburgh Thistle and was the amateur captain of Vale of Leven before joining Liverpool in May 1903. He played four Football League matches early in the 1903-04 season. |
Q14691994 Hopkins and Brother Store is a historic commercial building located at Onancock, Accomack County, Virginia. It is a simple frame structure consisting of a two-storey block with a slightly lower two-storey ell and lean-to. The building features corner pilasters, a bracketed cornice, and one "Gothic" window in... |
Q19873189 Because You Loved Me: The Songs of Diane Warren is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on October 20, 1998, by Columbia Records on which he covers 10 of the songwriter's hits. |
Q22286659 Psathyrella moseri is a species of agaric fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. Found in Argentina, it was described as new to science by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1969. |
Q25205305 Victoria Airport is an airport serving the town of Victoria in Yoro Department, Honduras. The airport is adjacent to the southwest side of the town.There is mountainous terrain north through southeast of the airport, and rising terrain in other quadrants.The Soto Cano VORTAC (Ident: ESC) is located 35.2 nauti... |
Q24845689 Albert Johnson (7 September 1923 – December 1989) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back. |
Q14829942 Coptops cameroni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1978. |
Q4757717 Andrew James Lawrence (born 17 December 1979) is a comedian from England known for his work in stand-up, radio and television. |
Q5767242 Henry Luther "Hinkey" Haines (December 23, 1898 – January 9, 1979) was a professional athlete who played American football in the National Football League and baseball in the Major League Baseball association. Haines was a star of the New York Giants football team in his time and has the distinction of being ... |
Q1522159 Yielden or Yelden is a village in Bedfordshire, near the borders with Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire. It lies on the River Til which feeds into the Great Ouse valley and is about 70m above sea level. It is approximately 14 miles north of Bedford, 3.75miles south-east of Higham Ferrers and 6.75 miles west ... |
Q630355 Vlajka means flag in Czech. You may be after the flag article, or the flag of the Czech Republic.Český národně socialistický tábor — Vlajka (Czech National Socialist Camp — Vlajka) or simply Vlajka (in Czech The Flag) was the name of a small Czech fascist, antisemitic and nationalist movement, and its correspon... |
Q7387693 Mohinder Singh Sarna (a.k.a. S. Mohinder) was born in a small town called Sillanwali in 1925. At the time the city was located in the Montgomery District of Punjab (British India). Mohinder’s father Sujan Singh Bakhshi was a sub-inspector in the police forces.His father was transferred and the family moved to ... |
Q2699742 The blackish skate (Rajella nigerrima) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It is found in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is open seas. |
Q86767 Erwin Alois Robert Leder (born 30 July 1951 in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria) is an Austrian actor. He is best known for his role as Chief Mechanic Johann in Das Boot, a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen about a mission of one World War II U-boat and its crew. He is also known for the leading... |
Q18030478 Prefoldin subunit 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PFDN5 gene.This gene encodes a member of the prefoldin alpha subunit family. The encoded protein is one of six subunits of prefoldin, a molecular chaperone complex that binds and stabilizes newly synthesized polypeptides, thereby allowing them ... |
Q508463 Elabered Subregion is a subregion in the northwestern Anseba region (Zoba Anseba) of Eritrea. Its capital lies at Elabered. |
Q6129442 James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from constipation.The story originated of an anonymous firm, began to appear in America... |
Q5422362 Extreme Pilgrim is a British television series, first broadcast by the BBC in January 2008. The series is presented by the Anglican vicar, Pete Owen-Jones, who researches and attempts to practice a variety of the world's methods of enlightenment and spirituality, which he sees as having been lost by those in t... |
Q6407825 Killingsworth is the eighth studio album by The Minus 5, released on Yep Roc Records in 2009. The album was a collaboration with Portland, Oregon-based indie rock band The Decemberists. |
Q7988816 The Westgate is one of two surviving fortified gateways in Winchester, England (the other is Kingsgate). The earliest surviving fabric is of Anglo-Saxon character. The gate was rebuilt in the 12th century and modified in the 13th and late 14th centuries, the latter including a portcullis in the western façade ... |
Q6665040 Peziza ampelina is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. This European fungus appears as violet-coloured cups up to 5 cm across on soil or burnt wood. The spores are quite large, with a smooth surface, unusual for the genus. |
Q7090525 Omoglymmius lewisi is a species of beetle in the subfamily Rhysodidae. It was described by Nakane in 1978. |
Q19518210 Rui Pedro da Silva e Sousa (born 20 March 1998), known as Rui Pedro, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a striker for Varzim S.C. on loan from FC Porto. |
Q19874894 The Kineo Cottage Row Historic District encompasses a collection of seven summer resort cottages on the Mount Kineo peninsula, which juts into Moosehead Lake in the central Maine. The cottages were built between 1900 and 1912 as part of the Mount Kineo resort complex, one of interior Maine's most successful ... |
Q20716626 This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Israel at the Paralympics |
Q28005983 Chariton is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. |
Q28779341 Afrah Nasser is an independent Yemeni journalist, since 2011 living in exile in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her reporting on Yemen's political affairs has been published in a dozen of international publications, such as Huffington Post., CNN, Al Jazeera English and The National. Nasser was also mentioned as the 15th ... |
Q3195016 Ken Boshcoff (born June 20, 1949) was mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario from 1997 to 2003 and a Canadian Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Rainy River from 2004 to 2008. |
Q7440681 Seama may refer to:Seama, CaliforniaSeama, New Mexico |
Q334291 St. Erentraud Abbey, Kellenried, otherwise Kellenried Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery of women in Kellenried, which is part of City of Berg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The monastery was founded by the Beuronese Congregation in 1924. The first nuns came from St. Gabriel's Abbey, Bertholdstein. The abbey wa... |
Q7668599 Thomas Ray "Tip Over" Bryden (born January 17, 1959) is a retired professional baseball player who played one season for the California Angels of Major League Baseball in 1986.Bryden attended Gonzaga University, where he played college baseball for the Bulldogs from 1980-1981. |
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