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Q7536005 Skjern Bank Arena is an indoor sports arena in Skjern, Denmark primarily used for handball. The arena can seat 2,400 spectators and is home to Danish Handball League team Skjern Håndbold.
Q117849 PPC Ltd, a leading supplier of cement, lime (material) and related products in southern Africa, PPC has 11 cement factories and a lime manufacturing facility in six African countries including South Africa, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The recent commissioning of PPC’s ...
Q7146206 Patrick James S. "Paddy" Carew (10 September 1875 – 31 March 1942) was an Australian rugby union national and state representative and a first-class cricketer and public servant. He was born in Pine Mountain in southern Queensland.
Q3981331 Sorana Cîrstea was the defending champion, but she chose to participate at the Hansol Korea Open instead.Shahar Pe'er won in the final 6-3, 6-4 against Akgul Amanmuradova.
Q7363017 Summit Lake is a lake in the Unorganized North Part of Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is about 630 metres (2,067 ft) long and 400 metres (1,312 ft) wide, lies at an elevation of 377 metres (1,237 ft). The lake is in the Michipicoten River system in the Lake Superior drainage basin, and is the source of t...
Q13959176 Trichostema micranthum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, known by the common name smallflower bluecurls.
Q13593023 The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 16 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.There were 26 competitors from 15 countries who took part in this event. Four heats were held. The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimm...
Q1138211 Caldisericum exile is a species of bacteria sufficiently distinct from other bacteria to be placed in its own family, order, class and phylum. It is the first member of the thermophilic candidate phylum OP5 to be cultured and described.
Q2710197 Micrurus hippocrepis (Mayan coral snake) is a species of elapid snake, native to Guatemala and Belize. There are no recognized subspecies.
Q16868722 Bathing Beauty may refer to:Bathing Beauty, 1944 filmBathing Beauties, a doll line by Tonka
Q7432829 Schrankia scoparioides is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Namibia.
Q7618704 Stomatella asperulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Q20737656 Alfonso Castañeda (born 1920) is a Mexican former sports shooter. He competed in the 25 metre pistol event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Q24911529 XHVDR-FM is a noncommercial radio station on 100.3 FM in Cacahoatán, Chiapas. The station is owned by Juana Patricia Ruiz Sánchez and carries a Christian music format known as Visión del Rey.
Q28922263 The Adventures of PC 49 is a 1949 British crime film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Hugh Latimer, John Penrose and Annette D. Simmonds.It is also known by the subtitle Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel. The film was based on a popular radio series. It was followed by a sequel A Case for P...
Q33836178 Julian Knowle and Igor Zelenay were the defending champions but only Zelenay chose to defend his title, partnering Andrej Martin. Zelenay lost in the first round to Christian Garin and Mariano Kestelboim.Jan Šátral and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn won the title after defeating Gero Kretschmer and Andreas Mies 6–3...
Q827246 In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. Aligned sequences of nucleotide or amino acid residues are typically rep...
Q225973 Ore's theorem is a result in graph theory proved in 1960 by Norwegian mathematician Øystein Ore. It gives a sufficient condition for a graph to be Hamiltonian, essentially stating that a graph with sufficiently many edges must contain a Hamilton cycle. Specifically, the theorem considers the sum of the degrees ...
Q4984076 Nyŏngbyŏn County (also Ryŏngbyŏn; in standard Southern dialect: Yŏngbyŏn) is a county in North Pyŏngan province, North Korea. It borders the cities of Kaechŏn and Anju, and covers an area of 504 km².
Q1143825 Cummings C. Chesney (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1863 – November 27, 1947) was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems.
Q867070 Allos is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.Allos is a high mountain commune in the southern Alps. The commune experienced a significant rural exodus in the 19th century, following the population movement of the department. Then th...
Q3295346 Martin Bernhardt (April 10, 1844 – March 17, 1915) was a noted German neuropathologist.Bernhardt was a native of Potsdam. His family was Jewish. In 1867 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) and Ludwig Traube (1818-1878). Subsequentl...
Q5500153 Free Will is the second studio album by American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron, released in August 1972 on Flying Dutchman Records. Recordings sessions for the album took place on March 2 and 3, 1972 at RCA Studios in New York City, and production was handled by producer Bob Thiele. It is the follow-up to S...
Q869287 Cosmic Soldier (サイキックウォー) is a role-playing video game for MSX home computers and is the first game in the Cosmic Soldier series. It was released in 1985 by Kogado Studio. The game was ported to the NEC PC-8801 with an updated interface and graphics.The game introduced a dialog conversation system, where the pl...
Q5492857 Franz Kohaut (died 1822) was a Czech botanical collector and gardener from Neuhaus, Bohemia.In 1816–18 he accompanied botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789–1844) on an expedition to Crete, Egypt and Palestine, and afterwards worked for Sieber as a botanical collector in Martinique (1819–21). Specimens from Marti...
Q4119496 Phasioormia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Q4767699 Annabel Tollman (March 7, 1974 – June 5, 2013) was a fashion journalist and editor of Interview magazine.Tollman was born in Brussels and raised in both London and Western New York. She was a stylist, fashion director, and soon-to-be star of a Bravo reality series. Among her clients were Scarlett Johansson,...
Q12060301 Hitotsuse Dam (一ツ瀬ダム, Hitotsuse damu) is a dam in Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1963.
Q498315 Alive is the fifth Korean-language extended play by South Korean group Big Bang. It was released on February 29, 2012 by YG Entertainment. Big Bang members G-Dragon and T.O.P wrote the music and lyrics, respectively, for nearly all tracks on the album. The EP had three singles—"Blue", "Fantastic Baby", and "Bad...
Q4593212 The 1997–98 North West Counties Football League season was the 16th in the history of the North West Counties Football League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into two divisions: Division One and Division Two.
Q16212499 Adam Bergqvist (born April 25, 1993) is a Swedish ice hockey player. He made his Elitserien debut playing with Brynäs IF during the 2012–13 Elitserien season.
Q22017318 D. E. Bowe was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Q24176164 Fiona Graham-Mackay (nee Fiona Margaret Bain born 24 February apparently at an unknown location 1956) is a British painter. She is known for her portraits of the British royal family.
Q30323382 Timothy C. Johnson is an American economist currently the Karl and Louise Schewe Professor of Finance at University of Illinois.
Q17212145 Shippū Rondo (Japanese: 疾風ロンド) is a 2016 Japanese action/comedy film directed by Teruyuki Yoshida based on the novel by Keigo Higashino.
Q21548769 Richard Sanderson (baptised 4 January 1784, died 28 October 1857) was a British merchant, banker, and Conservative and Tory politician.
Q495345 The Republic of Korea Armed Forces (Korean: 대한민국 국군), also known as the ROK Armed Forces, are the armed forces of South Korea. The ROK Armed Forces is one of the largest standing armed forces in the world with a reported personnel strength of 3,699,000 in 2018 (599,000 active and 3,100,000 reserve). South Korea...
Q1194024 Oboi (Manchu: ᠣᠪᠣᡳ,Mölendroff: Oboi; simplified Chinese: 鳌拜; traditional Chinese: 鰲拜; pinyin: Áobài) (c. 1610–1669) was a prominent Manchu military commander and courtier who served in various military and administrative posts under three successive emperors of the early Qing dynasty. Born to the Guwalgiya cla...
Q643106 Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg; December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wro...
Q3961216 Simone Ann-Marie Edwards, OD (born 17 November 1973) is a basketball player who played for the New York Liberty and the Seattle Storm and was the first Caribbean and first Jamaican player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The 6'4" Edwards center is known to fans as the "Jamaican Hurricane...
Q504044 Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky (pronounced skĕr-ĕs-kūs'kĭ Chinese: 施約瑟; 6 May 1831 – 15 October 1906), also known as Joseph Schereschewsky, was the Anglican Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1877 to 1884. He founded St. John's University, Shanghai, in 1879.
Q1037259 TV2 is a Hungarian free-to-air television channel operating since 4 October 1997, providing a large variety of programming. It was owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE until early 2014 when it was sold to two investors and then to Andrew G. Vajna in 2015. Vajna died on 20 January 2019, and then the whole group was...
Q38304 Ēriks Pētersons (1909 in Riga – 1987 in United States) was Latvian footballer and hockey player. In time between 1929–1939 he played 63 international matches and scored 21 goal for Latvia national team. He also played in Latvian national ice hockey team, where he appeared in 8 matches. After World War II Pēterso...
Q937309 Józef Lewandowski (1923 in Konin – 17 November 2007 in Stockholm) was a Polish-born Swedish historian.In his youth he fought in World War II. After the war he studied at Warsaw University, with his doctoral thesis completed in 1961. He specialised in East-European history and national issues.In 1969 he arrived ...
Q7956306 WTNN (97.5 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to serve the community of Bristol, Vermont, US, the station broadcasts to the Burlington-Plattsburgh area. The station is currently owned by Impact Radio. Brian Ram serves as WTNN's program director.
Q1769218 Finnish Championship League (Rugbyn SM-sarja) is the premier rugby union competition in Finland, formed in 2002. The league is governed by the Finnish Rugby Federation, the governing body for Rugby union in Finland. The league is played in summer months. Ten teams took part in the competition since 2014 seaso...
Q7446843 The Seine class was a class of four 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. A fifth vessel, Furieuse, was originally ordered at Cherbourg in February 1794 to Forfait's Romaine class design, but was actually completed to the design of the Seine class. The ship builder C...
Q3010825 Cœur de pirate is the self-titled debut album by Canadian singer Cœur de pirate, released September 16, 2008 on Grosse Boîte.
Q1299523 "Mirrors" is a song by the English recording artist Natalia Kills from her debut studio album, Perfectionist (2011). It was released by Cherrytree Records on 10 August 2010 as the lead single from the album. The track was written and produced by Akon, Giorgio Tuinfort and Martin "Cherry Cherry Boom Boom" Kiers...
Q7822154 Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet.Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition. In 2018 he won the 2018 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award presented by the University of St. Tho...
Q6704644 The Luoyang Sports Centre Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Luoyang, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 39,888 spectators. It opened in 2008.
Q4628697 The Simurq PFC 2012-13 season was Simurq PFC's seventh Azerbaijan Premier League season, and it is their first full season under manager Giorgi Chikhradze. They finished the season in 4th place and were knocked out of the Azerbaijan Cup at the Quarterfinals stage by Neftchi Baku.
Q4810867 Astictopterus anomoeus, the yellow hopper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo. The habitat consists of wetter forests, with a broken canopy, allowing the development of grassy areas.Adults of both sexes are attracted to flowers.
Q13529671 Euchaetes zella is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1903. It is found in the US states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.The wingspan is about 26 mm.Larvae have been recorded feeding on Philibertia heterophylla and Asclepias species. Ful...
Q18352672 Maria Varela (born January 1, 1940) was raised in several places across the United States.
Q25338397 Clare Jaynes was a combined pseudonym of Jane Mayer and Clara Spiegel. They are most well known for Instruct My Sorrows, a novel used as the basis of the film My Reputation.In 1953 the Wilson Library Bulletin described her as:brown-haired, brown-eyed; she is five feet three inches tall, and is of German-Amer...
Q134430 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature...
Q7765884 For the dance, see Spiral Dance. For the band, see Spiral Dance (band).The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess is a best-selling book about Neopagan belief and practice written by Starhawk. It was first published in 1979, with a second edition in 1989 and a third edition in 19...
Q1746010 Morrin is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located 26 km north of the town of Drumheller, along Highway 27 and the Railink Central Western railway.The Morrin Bridge Provincial recreation area is located 10 km west of the village, in the Red Deer River valley, and Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial P...
Q7231479 Portal Runner is a platform video game developed and published by The 3DO Company for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Color.
Q5622190 Sir Edward Guy Dawber, RA (King's Lynn, 3 August 1861 – London, 24 April 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style, whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds.
Q369322 Argay is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon. Argay is bounded by the Columbia River on the north, NE 122nd Ave on the west, Interstate 84 on the south, and NE 148th Ave. on the east.
Q5312257 Duet for Guitars #2 was the first album recorded by M. Ward, originally released in 1999. The album has been re-issued in 2000 and on July 10, 2007. Ward states in the liner notes that "Most of these songs were written in Chicago but the others were figured out en route to or in Seattle, but they were all reco...
Q4986875 Batu Buli Hill is a mountain located in the Malaysian part of Borneo. At 2,082 metres, it is one of the highest mountains in the state of Sarawak.
Q3178919 James Popp (born December 21, 1964) is the general manager of the Toronto Argonauts football club of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He had previously coached and served as GM of the Montreal Alouettes.Popp has won five Grey Cups (1995 with the Baltimore Stallions; 2002, 2009, 2010 with the Montreal Alouet...
Q6371569 Karl Anton Rickenbacher (20 May 1940 – 28 February 2014) was a Swiss conductor.Born in Basel, Rickenbacher studied at the Berlin Conservatory with Herbert von Karajan. He took part in master classes with Pierre Boulez. He was an assistant conductor at the Zürich Opera from 1966 to 1969. He served as first ...
Q8032675 Woodforde's Brewery is a brewery located on Slad Lane in the village of Woodbastwick, in the county of Norfolk, England. The brewery produced its first commercial brew in 1981 from original brewery in the village of Drayton north east of Norwich. In 1996 the brewery's popular Wherry bitter became CAMRA Supre...
Q4634402 The 304th Bombardment Group is an inactive United States Army Air Forces (AAF) unit. Its last assignment was with the Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command, based at Langley Field, Virginia. It was inactivated on 30 December 1942
Q3425596 Charles Andre Dorismond (born November 4, 1964), better known by his stage name Bigga Haitian, is a Haitian musician and singer who rose to fame in the 1990s. He is known as "the first Haitian singer to break into the Jamaican reggae scene", tearing down national and cultural walls and paving the way for the n...
Q5432785 Falsimargarita nauduri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.
Q1352052 Sweden was represented by 41 athletes at the 2010 European Athletics Championships held in Barcelona, Spain, from 27 July to 1 August 2010.
Q7752687 The Murmur of the Shell (Školjka šumi) is a Croatian film directed by Miroslav Međimorec. It was released in 1990.
Q7325067 Mount Barkow (73°22′S 62°48′W) is a mountain, 1,390 m, which stands 20 nautical miles (37 km) west of Court Nunatak and New Bedford Inlet and marks the east end of the ridge separating Haines Glacier and Meinardus Glacier, on the east side of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 19...
Q3492774 Petr Pokorný (born 28 December 1975) is a Czech footballer. Between 1995 and 2001 he played in the Czech First League, making 130 appearances.
Q5710534 Hashemabad (Persian: هاشم اباد‎, also Romanized as Hāshemābād) is a village in Takab Rural District, Shahdad District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 49, in 13 families.
Q22162743 Robert Dumitru Răducanu (born 5 September 1996 in Bucharest) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a striker for FC U Craiova.
Q424314 Triethanolamine aka Trolamine (abbr. as TEOA or TELA to distinguish it from TEA which is for triethylamine) is a viscous organic compound that is both a tertiary amine and a triol. A triol is a molecule with three alcohol groups. Approximately 150,000 tonnes were produced in 1999. It is a colourless compound a...
Q47379 Senna Comasco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Milan and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,995 and an area of 2.7 square kilometres (1.0 sq mi).The municipality o...
Q4908769 William Howard Dillman (born May 25, 1945) is a retired American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 50 Major League games over two seasons for the 1967 Baltimore Orioles and the 1970 Montreal Expos. He attended Wake Forest University, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and we...
Q459701 Albert Crusat Domènech (born 13 May 1982) is a Spanish retired footballer who played mostly as a left winger, from where he often relied on his dribbling ability and incredible pace.After starting out at Espanyol, he spent most of his professional career with Almería, appearing in 212 competitive matches and sc...
Q6546033 "Light It Up" is a 2008 promotional single and the first single by the hard rock band Rev Theory from their second album of the same name. It was officially released for digital download on March 25 and for radio airplay in the fall of 2008. Since August 2008, the song has peaked at #25 on Billboard's Hot Mai...
Q7994496 White Briar is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. White Briar is located southwest of Old Wilmington Road between Yorklyn Road and Sharpless Road in Hockessin.
Q4691053 Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing is a 1988 book by author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which the author argues against the practice of psychotherapy. The work was criticized by reviewers.
Q1771490 Adumo is a town in Chimbu Province, in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.
Q2927169 Avery Bryan Morris (born March 28, 1987) is an American retired professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Miami Marlins and San Francisco Giants. Morris bats left-handed and throws right-handed.
Q4784983 The Arc-en-Ciel is a private weekly newspaper published in Burundi. The chief editor of the newspaper, Thierry Ndayishimiye, was arrested on defamation charges related to a story about alleged government corruption.
Q6390619 Kenneth Ray Mladenka (born September 4, 1943) is an American political scientist who spent most of his academic career at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He is known for his research on the urban political process, bureaucracy, local government, and the distribution of public services.
Q6490167 Larry Wyche, (born 1957) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General. He last served as the deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. Prior to his last assignment, Wyche served as the Special Assistant to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. He has also ser...
Q605627 The 2013 Apia International Sydney was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, that was played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 121st edition of the Apia International Sydney, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2013 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2013 WTA Tour. Both...
Q6759108 Margarella obsoleta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.
Q5363759 Ali Naqiabad (Persian: علي نقي اباد‎, also Romanized as ‘Alī Naqīābād) is a village in Shurab-e Tangazi Rural District, in the Central District of Kuhrang County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q16957624 The rights of children living in New Zealand are secured through various pieces of legislation. These include the Children's Commissioner Act 2003 (CCA), and the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 (CYPFA), the Care of Children Act 2004, the Education Act 1989, the New Zealand Bill of Rights ...
Q17088073 The SADF Champion Shot Medal is a military medal which was instituted by the Republic of South Africa in 1975. It was awarded to the champion shots of the annual South African Defence Force Shooting Championships in the categories of full-bore, small-bore, service shooting and pistol. The medal could be won m...
Q19667250 Mark McAllister (born 13 February 1971 in Inverness) is a former professional footballer who played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish League.
Q21527240 Ukraine participated in and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "1944" written and performed by Jamala. Ukraine returned to the Eurovision Song Contest after the nation withdrew from the 2015 due to financial and political reasons related to the Ukrainian crisis.The Ukrainian broadcaster Nation...
Q13194227 Zujūnai is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 1,660.
Q726912 The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level (eliminating the importance of backward compatibility with Sou...
Q207424 Ucayali (Spanish pronunciation: [ukaˈʝali]) is an inland region in Peru. Located in the Amazon rainforest, its name is derived from the Ucayali River. The regional capital is the city of Pucallpa.
Q6884490 Miyoshi (三芳村, Miyoshi-mura) was a village located in Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of March 20, 2006, the village had an estimated population of 4,560 and a density of 135 persons per km². The total area was 33.92 km².
Q6635905 This is a list of radio stations in the Americas.