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Q16386478 Joking Apart is a 1978 play by English playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It was written in response to comments that Ayckbourn only ever wrote about unhappy couples. In this play, Richard and Anthea are a perfectly happy married couple, who inadvertently worsen the lives of those around them.
Q6337236 KRUA 88.1 FM is the non-commercial educational college radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, broadcasting on the FM band 88.1 and online at kruaradio.org. The station is operated by students at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). It is the only student-run station in Anchorage.UAA students can tune in to K...
Q7351054 Røvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Ballangen in Nordland county, Norway. Røvatnet lake is located at an elevation of 472 metres (1,549 ft) above sea level and it is part of the river system that drains the lakes: Røvatnet, Sennvatnet, Skårvatnet, Hjertvatnet, Melkevatnet, Djupvatnet, Grunnvatnet, Børsv...
Q1517628 Misanthropy Records was a British heavy metal record label.It was founded in 1993 by Tiziana Stupia, originally solely to release an album by Burzum. The background to the founding of the company was that after Varg Vikernes was arrested in August 1993 for the murder of Mayhem guitarist Øystein Aarseth, no rec...
Q7166033 Detroit & Howell R Co v Salem Township Board, 20 Mich 452 (1870), is a legal case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that the Michigan State Constitution of 1850 prohibited the use of public money to finance a privately owned railroad.
Q5595205 The Grand Union Canal Carrying Company was a freight carrying transport service in England from 1934 to 1948.
Q5305006 Dragojević (Cyrillic: Драгојевић) is a Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian surname derived from a masculine given name Dragoje, and may refer to:Boris Dragojević (born 1956), Montenegrin painterOliver Dragojević (born 1947), Croatian pop singerSrđan Dragojević (born 1963), Serbian film director and screenwriter
Q6982893 Nawayalatenna Bazaar is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.
Q6257301 Major (Ret) John Wilson Senior, MBE, TD, Hat, mobilised on 27 December 2001, Senior was the first member of the British Territorial Army to be deployed on operational service to Afghanistan (post 11 September 2001). He is also the founder of Heroes Welcome UK, a national scheme to encourage local communiti...
Q2484967 Loranca is a station on Line 12 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone B2.
Q20877143 William Lauchlan (born May 1916) was a Scottish communist activist.Educated to secondary school level, A Plasterer to trade, Lauchlan joined the Independent Labour Party in Irvine, Ayrshire 1933, then in 1935 switched to the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He quickly rose to prominence, serving as L...
Q22907864 Diva Gray is an American disco singer and backing vocalist behind the disco band Chic. She was also in disco groups, such as Change, and Lemon with her friends, Lani Groves, Gordon Grody, Luther Vandross, David Lasley and Kenny Lehman. Furthermore, she was in Bette Midler's female backing group, The Harlettes...
Q21999936 Ann and Amelia was a three-decker merchant ship launched in 1781. The British East India Company (EIC) twice employed her as an "extra ship", first when she went out to India to sail in trade in that market, and again in 1803 when she sailed back from India to Britain. On her return to Britain the Admiralty p...
Q24053869 Luis Felipe Fernandes Rodrigues (born January 29, 1996), or simply Luis Felipe, is a Brazilian-American soccer player for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.
Q28447619 The 1907 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their second season under head coach Fred Norcross, the Aggies compiled a perfect 6–0 record, did not allow any of thei...
Q30623408 Kuwaritol High School situated in Kuwaritol, a small town of Kaliabor Sub-Division of Nagaon District in Assam. This organization has the potential to build a small kid of 7–8 years to a good student for Future. This Organization won many awards of best high school in Kaliabor area. Kuwaritol High School cove...
Q7719348 The Bookman was a literary journal established in 1895 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It drew its name from the phrase, "I am a Bookman," by James Russell Lowell. The phrase regularly appeared on the cover and title page of the bound edition.Frank H. Dodd, head of Dodd, Mead and Company, established The Bookman in...
Q1252715 Doune Castle is a medieval stronghold near the village of Doune, in the Stirling district of central Scotland. The castle is sited on a wooded bend where the Ardoch Burn flows into the River Teith. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Stirling, where the Teith flows into the River Forth. Upstream, 8 miles (13...
Q1100772 Tamenaga Shunsui (為永 春水, 1790 – 11 February 1844) was the pen name of Sasaki Sadataka (佐々木貞高), a Japanese novelist of the Edo period. In Japan, he is best known for the romantic novel Shunshoku Umegoyomi (春色梅児誉美, Colors of Spring: The Plum Calendar) (1832–1833), the representative text in the ninjōbon genre. H...
Q198697 Europe is the first studio album by the Swedish Heavy metal band Europe. It was released on 14 March 1983, by Hot Records.
Q1953899 Communist Committee of Cabinda (Portuguese: Comité Comunista de Cabinda) was a militant separatist group fighting for the independence of Cabinda from Angola. The CCC was led by Kaya Mohamed Yay and Geraldo Pedro. It split off from the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda in 1988.
Q275438 Argenton-sur-Creuse is a commune in the Indre department in central France. It lies on the Creuse River, 19 miles south-southwest of Châteauroux, close to the A20 motorway.
Q6947457 Myfanwy Talog Williams (Welsh pronunciation: [məˈvanuɨ ˈtalɔɡ] 31 March 1944 – 11 March 1995), known professionally as Myfanwy Talog, was a Welsh actress and the long-term partner of English actor David Jason.
Q1082410 The Battle of Matthew's Day (Estonian: Madisepäeva lahing) was fought near Viljandi (probably in Vanamõisa) on September 21, 1217 during the Livonian Crusade. The adversaries were the German crusading order the Sword Brethren with their recently converted Livonian and Latgalian allies and an army of 6000 Eston...
Q7097017 Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers nabbed 46 men suspected of involvement with the al Qaeda network 12 July 2007 under the cover of darkness, east of Lutifiyah, Iraq.Troops of the 4th Brigade, Iraqi 6th Division and Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Divis...
Q7602830 Stary Sokołów [ˈstarɨ sɔˈkɔwuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Końskie, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Końskie and 36 km (22 mi) north-west of the regional capital Kielce.The village has ...
Q3740610 Febbre da cavallo is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Steno and starring Gigi Proietti. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Q4567117 The 1951 Calgary Stampeders finished in 4th place in the W.I.F.U. with a 4–10–0 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.
Q6864276 Mineral County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built in 1868 and expanded or remodeled in 1894 and 1938-1941. The original section of the courthouse is a 2 1/2 story, brick building. The 1894 modifications are in the Romanesque Revival style. It i...
Q4685097 Adrian Hennigan is a British film critic. He is best known for his work with the BBC and Popcorn.net as a film reviewer. He currently lives in Israel and writes for Haaretz, serving as the television critic for the paper's English-language edition.
Q10759951 Fairview Township is a township in Jones County, Iowa.
Q18089240 Elophila nigralbalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1925. It is found in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, the Ryukyus), Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan.The length of the forewings is 4.8-5.7 mm for males and 6.3-7.3 mm for females. The ground colour of the wings is fus...
Q21756488 Deborah Herold (born 18 February 1995 in Aberdeen, Andaman and Nicobar Islands) is an Indian cyclist.
Q19288475 Sri Kalyana Venkateswara swamy Temple is an ancient Hindu Vaishnavite temple located at Srinivasamangapuram which is 12 km from Tirupati in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, India. The temple is dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu and is referred to as Kalyana Venkateswara. The temple is categ...
Q10678951 Stenoperla is a genus of insect in the family Eustheniidae containing a number of species of stonefly all endemic to New Zealand.It contains the following species:Stenoperla helsoni McLellan, 1996Stenoperla hendersoni McLellan, 1996Stenoperla maclellani Zwick, 1979Stenoperla prasina (Newman, 1845)
Q42425243 Rüştü Hanlı (born 3 January 1997) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a defender for Turkish club Elazığspor on loan from Bursaspor in the Süper Lig.
Q25406 The coulomb (symbol: C) is the International System of Units (SI) unit of electric charge. It is the charge (symbol: Q or q) transported by a constant current of one ampere in one second: 1 C = 1 A × ...
Q242326 The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is located between Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines. It lies south of Bohol and Leyte and north of Mindanao. Siquijor and Camiguin are its two major islands.The major cities along the coastline of the sea are Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Butuan, Dumaguete, Ozamiz a...
Q8014339 William Laurel Harris (February 18, 1870 – September 24, 1924) was an American muralist, educator, editor and arts organizer.Harris was a member of the Municipal Art Society (of which he was president in 1912), the Architectural League of New York (of which he was vice president), The National Mural Painters S...
Q2116320 The Final War of the Roman Republic, also known as Antony's Civil War or The War between Antony and Octavian, was the last of the Roman civil wars of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra) and Octavian. After the Roman Senate declared war on the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Antony,...
Q4754005 The Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum is a museum dedicated to the worldwide history, science, and art of all types of ballooning and lighter-than-air flight. It is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, and is situated just outside the grounds used for the Albuquerque International B...
Q3284438 Jingle All the Way is the sixth studio album by Crash Test Dummies.
Q2903136 Jews of the Bilad al-Sudan (Judeo-Arabic: אַהַל יַהוּדּ בִּלַדּ אַל סוּדָּן) describes West African Jewish communities who were connected to known Jewish communities from the Middle East, North Africa, or Spain and Portugal. Various historical records attest to their presence at one time in the Ghana, Mali, an...
Q1885163 Bruce Mines is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on the north shore of Lake Huron in the Algoma District along Highway 17. The town of Bruce Mines had a population of 582 residents in 2016. The current mayor of Bruce Mines is Lory Patteri.
Q4927672 Blood Rapture is the fourth album by Swedish death metal band Vomitory. It was released in 2002 on Metal Blade.
Q3655907 Kashiba Station (香芝駅, Kashiba-eki) is a train station in Kashiba, Nara, Japan. This station has a transfer to Kintetsu Shimoda Station on Kintetsu Osaka Line.
Q5169054 Coptobasis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Q856602 Morning Glory is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Roger Michell and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. It stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, with Patrick Wilson, John Pankow and Jeff Goldblum. The plot revolves around young and devoted morning television producer Becky Fuller (McAdams), w...
Q6124142 The Jaipur Invitational Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four years old and older held over a distance of six furlongs on the turf scheduled annually in early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The event currently carries a purse of $400,000. A Grade III event for most of i...
Q3021834 Delphine Gleize (born 5 May 1973) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1998. Her film Carnages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Q4556211 The 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a 5–0 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10. The 1887 season capped three consecutive undefeated seasons in which Michigan won its games by a co...
Q6758892 Marek Semjan (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmaɾɛk ˈsɛmjan]; born 7 November 1987) is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 30 August 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 218.He won over Fernando Verdasco in Prostějov in three sets 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4.
Q5389355 Eriogonum codium is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common names basalt desert buckwheat and Umtanum Desert wild buckwheat. It is endemic to Washington in the United States, where it is known only from Hanford Reach National Monument in Benton County. It was discovered in 1995 during an inventory of t...
Q5371797 Emilio Achacoso (born 17 May 1932) is a Filipino former basketball player who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Q12454107 Shaheen is an Indian actress who worked in Bollywood Hindi films.
Q21664963 Irving Wilmot Smith (5 February 1884 – 21 October 1971) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in a single match for Warwickshire in 1905. He was born in Harborne, Birmingham, and died in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.Smith was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he played in...
Q465179 Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While she is noted for her feminist perspective in...
Q13606858 Laura Keene (20 July 1826 – 4 November 1873) was a British stage actress and theatre manager. In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York. She is most famous for being the lead actress in the play Our American Cousin, which was attended by President Abraham Li...
Q866047 Abelmoschus is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, native to tropical Africa, Asia and northern Australia. It was formerly included within Hibiscus, but is now classified as a distinct genus.The genus comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants, growing to ...
Q3510740 The Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières is a private scholar institution in the Quebec region of Mauricie. Located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, it is, within the unique Quebec education system, a secondary school. Historically religious, it is now relatively secular but still holds many links with t...
Q1131507 Haderslev Football Stadium (Danish: Haderslev Fodboldstadion) is an association football stadium located in Haderslev, Denmark. It is the home ground of SønderjyskE. It has been known as Sydbank Park due to a sponsorship arrangement with the Danish bank Sydbank since December 2013. It was built in 2001 and has...
Q6945230 My Daughter the Broad, released in 1996, is the third album released by The Frogs. It is a compilation of improvised homemade recordings that were mostly recorded in the late 1980s. Many of these songs continue themes from It's Only Right And Natural such as homosexual supremacy and social conservative fears. ...
Q4550565 The year 1560 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Q1069567 The black honey-buzzard (Henicopernis infuscatus), also commonly known as the New Britain Honey-Buzzard, is a large raptor of the family Accipitridae. Standing around 50 cm (20 in) tall, the adult black honey-buzzard has a dark head and body, with striking white bands on its tail and flight feathers. When in f...
Q7614204 Steve "Lion Heart" Vigneault is a Canadian mixed martial artist. He competes in the Welterweight division. He won his last fight at Ringside MMA - Rivalry against Dan Chambers on November 14, 2009.
Q1269801 Statistics of Danish 1st Division in the 1950/1951 season.
Q7415327 The San Simón River is a river of Bolivia.
Q4934049 Robert B. Spear (July 8, 1918 – October 26, 1995) was an American basketball coach. He served as the head basketball coach at United States Air Force Academy from the inception of the Air Force Falcons men's basketball program in 1956 until 1971. He was a graduate of DePauw University.
Q7910918 The Valentine-Eleebana Red Devils are a junior rugby league club based in Lake Macquarie, NSW. They were formed in 1970, and have become a feeder club for Lakes United in the Newcastle Rugby League and the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League.
Q6371024 Karine Charlebois (born August 18, 1974 in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec) is a Canadian comic book and animation artist who worked on the Gargoyles comic and its spin-off, Badguys.
Q5397349 Escola Valls Futbol is a Spanish football club from Valls, Tarragona best known for its women's team, formerly known as CFF Tortosa-Ebre and Gimnàstic Tarragona, which currently plays in Segunda División. Other than it, the club is centered in formative football.
Q14680295 The Building at 826 North Main Street, at 826 N. Main St. in Cottonwood, Arizona, USA, was built in 1925. It is a 25-by-75-foot (7.6 m × 22.9 m) building built of cast block and is significant of an example of better fire protection in construction following a 1925 fire in Cottonwood's business district. Th...
Q3228819 Ledrinae is a relatively small subfamily within the very large and diverse leafhopper family Cicadellidae. They are mostly green or brown with a flattened body and tibiae. The ocelli are located near the crown and the forewings have a dense network of veins.The subfamily contains around 500 species which are d...
Q19667488 Cody Scott Kukuk (born April 10, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher who played from 2012 through 2014 in the Boston Red Sox Minor League system. In 2015, he was sentenced to prison for an armed robbery.
Q14871239 Leucocelis albosticta is a species of chafer beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
Q38250969 Pieta Military Cemetery Malta is a burial ground for military personnel and their dependants. It is located in the south west suburbs of Valletta, on a minor road (Triq id-Duluri). The following are cared for by the CWGC:1303 First World War commonwealth casualties buried or commemorated at the Cemetery (incl...
Q4666655 Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (July 24, 1916 – July 22, 1999) was a Puerto Rican author who achieved great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. His book Campo Alegre is a text that has been studied at schools in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand as well as all over the Americas.
Q13665 Western Visayas (Hiligaynon: Kabisay-an Nakatundan; Tagalog: Kanlurang Kabisayaan) is an administrative region in the Philippines, numerically designated as Region VI. It consists of six provinces (Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo and Negros Occidental) and two highly urbanized cities (Bacolod City and Il...
Q41609 The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the Domain Name System (DNS) as used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It is a set of extensions to DNS which provide to DNS clients (re...
Q2299642 The five main latitude regions of the Earth's surface comprise geographical zones, divided by the major circles of latitude. The differences between them relate to climate. They are as follows: The North frigid zone, between the Arctic Circle 66.5° N and the North Pole 90° N. Covers 4.12% of Earth's surface.Th...
Q505785 Pförring is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.
Q6923589 Mount Shearer (71°19′S 163°0′E) is a peak rising to 2,100 m, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Mount Jamroga in the central portion of the Bowers Mountains. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1983 after Ian J. Shearer, elected to the Parliament of New Zealand, 1975; Minister of Sc...
Q8078651 Ïnanch Sonqur (died 1169) was the amir of Ray from 1160 at the latest until his death. During his eight years in power he played a major role in the events that occurred in northern Iran.
Q5392048 The University of Caxias do Sul (Portuguese: Universidade de Caxias do Sul, UCS) is among the largest universities in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, with an enrollment of 37,021 students, offering more than 150 entrance options in nine different areas of knowledge. In the years 2017 and 2018 was lis...
Q2001333 Harnackia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It contains only one species, Harnackia bisecta, which is endemic to Cuba.
Q5350441 EkipaSN is a daily sports newspaper published in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Q3209226 Alberto Lionello (12 July 1930 – 14 July 1994) was an Italian film actor, voice actor, singer and presenter.
Q1998984 Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău successfully defended their title after defeating Colin Fleming and Igor Zelenay 6–2, 6–1 in the final.
Q736250 Jason Thompson (born 13 November 1989) is a British former competitive figure skater in men's singles. He is the 2012 British national champion and finished 25th at the 2012 European Championships.
Q13396889 Lesticus waterhousei is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1862.
Q15002185 Christoforos Papakaliatis (Greek: Χριστόφορος Παπακαλιάτης, Greek pronunciation: [xriˈstoforos papakaˈʎatis]; born 23 December 1975) is a Greek actor, film director and screenwriter.He was born and raised in Heraklion, Greece, by mother Villy Malamis (South African) and father Emmanuel Papakaliatis (Greek).'
Q23017182 Roberts Hotel is a historic hotel located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1921, and is a six-story, Colonial Revival style steel frame building sheathed in red brick with limestone detailing. The basement, first, and mezzanine floors measure 120 feet by 125 feet, where the second through ...
Q6588694 Kırcalar is a village in the District of Kastamonu, Kastamonu Province, Turkey.
Q28931174 "This Is Love" is a song performed by Greek singer Demy. The song represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, and was written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Romy Papadea and John Ballard. The song was released as a digital download on 6 March 2017 through PANIK Records. On 26 April 2017, a Greek version...
Q28952344 The 2017–18 Elitserien is the eleventh season of the present highest Swedish men's bandy top division, Elitserien. The regular season begins in late-October 2017.
Q2727350 Optioservus heteroclitus is a species of riffle beetle in the family Elmidae. It is found in North America.
Q34023 A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus.Tumuli are oft...
Q3885476 This is a table of specific heat capacities by magnitude. Unless otherwise noted, these values assume standard ambient temperature and pressure.
Q3364465 Middle Button Island National Park is an Indian national park located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The park was created in 1979 and is situated about 200 km (124 mi) northeast of Port Blair, capital of the island group. The total area that the national park covers is about 64 km2 (25 sq mi). Along with ...
Q1287691 Tulio Larrínaga (January 15, 1847 – April 28, 1917) was a Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.