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Q5052535 Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 – November 21, 1964) was a prominent American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who advocated affordable housing for low-income families, she dramatically changed social ... |
Q7637796 The Summit County Rumble were a Continental Indoor Football League team located in Tallmadge, Ohio (near Akron) and that began play in 2007. The team played their home games at the Summit County Fairgrounds Arena Complex. The team was originally scheduled to play as the Toledo Rumble in the Toledo Sports Arena... |
Q7167952 "Perfect Bliss" is Irish girl group Bellefire's debut single, taken from their album After the Rain. Released in July 2001, it peaked at number two in Ireland, number 18 in the United Kingdom, and also charted well in Flemish Belgium and Switzerland. It was the twenty-third most successful song of Ireland in 2... |
Q484942 Chun Jung-myung (Korean: 천정명, born November 29, 1980) is a South Korean actor. Chun made his break into the entertainment industry in the KBS teen drama School 2 (1999). He is best known for his leading roles in TV dramas such as Fashion 70's (2005), Goodbye Solo (2006), What's Up Fox? (2006), Cinderella's Sist... |
Q6928177 The Aliʻi nui of Maui was the supreme ruler of the island of Maui, one of the four main Hawaiian Islands. The title is the same as that of the Aliʻi nui of the other islands. The title or phrase Mōʻī is sometimes used for the title of the monarchs of Maui; however, it is not an ancient word in the Hawaiian lan... |
Q5887886 Home, Home on the Road is an album by the American country rock group the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Released by Columbia Records in 1974, it was their first live album, and their fifth album overall. The eleven songs on the album are a combination of originals and covers. Six of them had appeared on pr... |
Q786369 The Honda Dio is a motor scooter made by Honda from 1988–1996 and Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) since 1996. It was introduced in Japan in January 1988. The name is derived from the son of Venus "dyonisiac". It is now manufactured and assembled in India by Honda's HMSI subsidiary, from where it is ex... |
Q672476 The 1982 World Championship Tennis Spring Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 12th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit since World Championship Tennis had split from the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was played at the Reunion... |
Q5737967 Hereford College is a self-governed residential college at the University of Virginia. Hereford focuses on promoting students' well-being so that they may thrive during their college experience and beyond. Through a rich array of academic, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programming, interactions with facu... |
Q7617094 Still Life with Straw Hat (Stillleben mit gelbem Strohhut) also known as Still Life with Yellow Straw Hat and Still Life with Hat and Pipe was painted by Vincent van Gogh in late November - mid-December 1881 or possibly in 1885 in the town of Nuenen. |
Q6760879 Mari-chan (まりちゃんシリーズ) is a Japanese manga series by Kimiko Uehara. It won the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for Children's manga. |
Q7240559 The Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center was a hospital on the Downtown Chicago campus of Northwestern University's Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the Streeterville district of Chicago's Near North Side. |
Q13396575 Aroa danva is a moth in the subfamily Lymantriinae described by William Schaus and W. G. Clements in 1893. |
Q17027297 Good Morning Vietnam 2: The Golden Triangle is a 2013 collaborative album by MF Grimm & Drasar Monumental, their second official project together and the sequel to 2012's Good Morning Vietnam EP. Picking up where the previous title left off, this iteration introduces the theme of heroin and the drug trade. Re... |
Q18115381 Micraegialia is a genus of beetle in family Scarabaeidae. It belongs to subfamily Aegialiinae. The genus contains only one known species, Micraegialia pusilla. |
Q3637474 Béhierite is a very rare mineral, a natural tantalum borate of the formula (Ta,Nb)BO4. Béhierite is also one of the most simple tantalum minerals. It contains simple tetrahedral borate anions, instead of more common among minerals, planar BO3 groups. It forms a solid solution with its niobium-analogue, schiavi... |
Q232364 Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation: [rɛm koːlɦaːs]; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School o... |
Q925906 The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area of 336,700 km2 (130,000 mi2) within western Colorado, northwestern New... |
Q3335899 Napolact is the main Romanian brand which belongs to the Dutch company FrieslandCampina and it’s one of the biggest producers of dairy products in Romania. They own three productions facilities in Cluj (Baciu), Targu Mures and Țaga. |
Q193622 An order is a visible honour awarded by a sovereign state, monarch, dynastic royal house or organisation to a person, typically in recognition of individual merit, that often comes with distinctive insignia such as collars, medals, badges, and sashes worn by recipients.Modern honour systems of state orders and ... |
Q5409799 The Miss Black America beauty contest is a competition for young African-American women – essentially the black version of the popular Miss America pageant. The pageant has garnered the support of artists, activists and performers including Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and Oprah Winfrey. After 40 years, in ... |
Q5348631 The Ehrlichiaceae are a family of bacteria, included in the order Rickettsiales. The taxonomic position of this family is under discussion. The genera of the family are mostly classified in the family Anaplasmataceae. |
Q3126937 Hans Bøchmann Melchior (14 May 1773 – 11 September 1831) was a Danish Naturalist.He was the author of Den danske Stats og Norges Pattedyr (The mammals of the Danish state and Norway), published posthumously in 1834. |
Q1862207 France has had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire since 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey. |
Q349172 Gonzalo Alejandro Jara Reyes (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡonˈsalo ˈxaɾa]; born 29 August 1985) is a Chilean professional footballer who currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata. He is a versatile defender and can play in either a full-back role or as a centre-back.Formed at Huachipato, he later won three league... |
Q3233016 The white-bellied whistler (Pachycephala leucogastra) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae.The species has an oddly discontinuous distribution, occurring in two small patches of northern New Guinea, one small patch in south eastern New Guinea and on Rossel Island in the Louisiade Archipelago (off... |
Q5087845 Chattahoochee State Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located in the extreme southeast corner of Alabama operated by the government of Houston County, Alabama. The park occupies 596 acres (241 ha) along Irwin's Mill Creek on the Florida-Alabama border. |
Q7365818 Ronald Stewart Burke (13 August 1921 – December 2003) was a footballer who played for Manchester United, Huddersfield Town, Rotherham United & Exeter City. |
Q1326756 Beaufai is a commune in the Orne department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. |
Q6449424 Kuźnia Nieborowska [ˈkuʑɲa ɲebɔˈrɔfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pilchowice, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Gliwice and 30 km (19 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice.The village has a po... |
Q6131104 James Cartwright-Garland (born 16 June 1976 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of ninth in the C1 event in Athens in 2004. |
Q1072907 Catapilla was an English progressive rock band active in the early 1970s. They released two albums on the major record label Vertigo Records. |
Q1770143 Stina is a feminine given name, common in the Nordic countries, and may refer to:Stina Aronson (1892–1956), Swedish writerStina Berg (1869–1930), Swedish actressStina Bergman (1888–1976), Swedish writer, translator, and screenwriterStina Blackstenius (born 1996), Swedish association football playerStina Lundbe... |
Q18205488 Charles Martin (April 26, 1817 – March 10, 1888) was twice an acting President of Hampden–Sydney College from 1848 to 1849 and again from 1856 to 1857. |
Q24939544 No. 48 Squadron is a unit of the Indian Air Force assigned to Maintenance Command. The Squadron participates in operations involving air, land and airdrop of troops, equipment, supplies, and support or augment special operations forces, when appropriate. |
Q2965753 Christiane Collange (born 1930) is a French journalist and author. |
Q2847 September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 108 days remain until the end of the year. |
Q985479 Manternach is a commune and small town in eastern Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Grevenmacher.As of 2001, the town of Manternach, which lies in the south of the commune, has a population of 417. Other towns within the commune include Berbourg, Lellig, and Munschecker.Manternach railway station has reg... |
Q6924451 Mount View High School is a public high school located in Thorndike, Maine, United States. The school is a part of Maine School Administrative District 3, and serves students from the towns of Brooks, Freedom, Jackson, Knox, Liberty, Monroe, Montville, Thorndike, Troy, Unity and Waldo. |
Q6801926 McKinley Mall, which opened in 1985, is a shopping mall in Buffalo, New York, United States. The mall is located in Hamburg, New York at the intersection of McKinley Parkway and Milestrip Road (New York State Route 179) immediately east of I-90 and the New York State Thruway. McKinley Mall services the Southto... |
Q6635023 The following is a list of current and former professional sports teams in Illinois. |
Q8026214 Winter Enclosure, the debut album by Norwegian gothic metal band Octavia Sperati was released on 14 June 2005 on the Candlelight Records label.The album was promoted with two music videos: "Lifelines of Depths" (in a second version of the already known in 2004) and "Hunting Eye", both made by the director Asle... |
Q42386 Casaletto Lodigiano (Lodigiano: Casalètt) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Milan and about 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Lodi. Casaletto Lodigiano borders the following municipalities: Cerro al Lambro, San Zenone a... |
Q45937 Sisnando (or Sesnando) Davides (also Davídez, Davídiz, or Davidiz, and sometimes just David; died 25 August 1091) was a Mozarab nobleman and military leader of the Reconquista, born in Tentúgal, near Coimbra. He was a contemporary and acquaintance of El Cid, but his sphere of activity was in Iberia's southwest.M... |
Q5128695 Claude Baillif (c 1635 – 1698) was a well known builder in New France during the 17th-century.There is little personal information on this early Canadian and we need to examine his historical contributions through his building contracts. We do know that he was active in domestic architecture though no known wo... |
Q5214067 Daniel Mozes (born September 15, 1983) is an American former football center who last was a member of the Minnesota Vikings the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for West Virginia University, earned consensus All-American honors, and was recognized as the best college center. He sign... |
Q5230778 David John Andrew (10 November 1867 – 18 November 1928) was an Australian politician. Born in Castlemaine, Victoria, he was educated at state schools before becoming an apprentice civil engineer. Later he was an auctioneer in Bendigo. He was elected to Bendigo City Council, and served as mayor in 1909, 1913 an... |
Q7104287 Ortalis vacillans is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Ortalis of the family Ulidiidae. |
Q562741 Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station is the world's largest tidal power installation, with a total power output capacity of 254 MW. When completed in 2011, it surpassed the 240 MW Rance Tidal Power Station which was the world's largest for 45 years. It is operated by the Korea Water Resources Corporation. |
Q7496929 Shimo-Ogawa Station (下小川駅, Shimo-Ogawa-eki) is a railway station on the Suigun Line in Hitachiōmiya, Ibaraki, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). |
Q7086099 Oleg Ivanovich Mekhov (Russian: Олег Иванович Мехов; born June 2, 1966) is a retired Russian professional footballer. |
Q16120503 Larry Clark (born January 19, 1948) is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers). He directed the feature films Passing Through (1977) and Cutting Horse (2002). He is also a film professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State Unive... |
Q289759 Étienne Jeaurat (9 February 1699, Vermenton – 14 December 1789, Versailles) was a French painter, above all remembered for his lively street scenes. |
Q3767194 Giovanni Faloci (Umbertide, 13 October 1985) is an Italian discus thrower. |
Q625693 Aram Shelton is an American composer, improviser and musician (primarily an alto saxophonist, but also playing other single-reed woodwinds), based in Oakland, California. His music has been compared to that of Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler.Originally from southeast Florida, Shelton first s... |
Q30056684 Michael Carr (24 June 1933 – 29 September 1995) was an English cricketer. He played one first-class match for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1953. |
Q67589 Hans-Thilo Schmidt (13 May 1888 – 19 September 1943) codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who, during the 1930s, sold secrets about the Germans' Enigma machine to the French. The materials he provided facilitated Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski's reconstruction of the wiring in the Enigma's rotors and ref... |
Q3480300 Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín (8 October 1752 – 4 March 1829) was an Icelandic–Danish scholar, who became the National Archivist of Denmark and Professor of Antiquities at Copenhagen University.In 1786 he travelled to England in order to search for documents relating to mediaeval Danish-English contacts. In 1787 he... |
Q3744828 The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival ("The Bloom") is a six-day festival held annually in spring in Winchester, Virginia. First held in 1924, it is one of the oldest civic celebrations in the Commonwealth of Virginia. |
Q6148166 Thomas Forrest (1747–1825) was an American politician. He was member of the 16th Session of the United States Congress, and first chairman of the United States House Committee on Agriculture. He fought in the Continental Army as an artillery officer during the American Revolutionary War. |
Q1667427 Internationale Politik (IP) is the magazine of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (DGAP, German Society on Foreign Relations). It covers contemporary topics in international affairs under editor-in-chief Martin Bialecki. |
Q7046512 Nocturnal Revels is a 1779 two-volume book about prostitution in 18th-century London during the reign of George II.The title page introduces the book as "the history of King's-Place and other modern nunneries", with authorship by a "monk of the Order of St Francis", and "containing their [the nunneries'] myste... |
Q3013281 The lined pocketbook (Lampsilis binominata) was a species of freshwater river mussel, an aquatic bivalve in the family Unionidae the river mussels. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct. |
Q715912 Arsac is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France. |
Q4119669 Suensonomyia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. |
Q7929997 Vila Medeiros is a district located in the northern city of São Paulo. |
Q5914265 House at 362 Sea Cliff Avenue is a historic home located at Sea Cliff in Nassau County, New York. It was built about 1875 and expanded in 1890. It consists of a three-bay, 2-story main section with a mansard roof and 1 1⁄2-story gable-roofed wing in the Second Empire style. It features a shed-roofed porch ... |
Q1963176 Biryulyovo Vostochnoye District (Russian: райо́н Бирюлёво Восто́чное) is a territorial division (a district, or raion) in Southern Administrative Okrug, one of the 125 in the federal city of Moscow, Russia. It is located in the south of the federal city. The area of the district is 14.772 square kilometers (5... |
Q7418307 Sanisvara Siva Temple is a Mandir situated at Gosagaresvara Precinct southern of Paradaresvara Siva Temple, Orissa, India. The temple is facing towards the east, enshrined deity is a circular Yoni Pitha at the center of a 1.00 square meter sanctum. |
Q5719345 Ole Mogens Espersen (20 December 1934 in Nylars, Denmark) is a former Danish politician and minister representing the Socialdemocratic party in Denmark. Espersen was Minister of Justice during two cabinets of Anker Jørgensen in the 1980s. He is Professor, dr.jur. In 1994-2000 he was the Commissioner on democra... |
Q7843835 Triptychus olssoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
Q3827175 Larry Wilson (born January 23, 1948) is an American film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his screenwriting work on the films Beetlejuice (1988) and The Addams Family (1991). He also co-wrote the films The Little Vampire (2000) and, for television, The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006). He wrote... |
Q18208337 The women's team épée competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou was held on 23 November at the Guangda Gymnasium. |
Q28169733 The 1981 World Games were the first World Games and were held in Santa Clara, California in the United States. The games featured sports that were not included in the Olympics.India competed at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara and won one Bronze medal in Badminton Men's Singles. |
Q3702554 Dario Antoniozzi (born 11 December 1923) was an Italian Christian Democrat politician. He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in Legislature II of Italy (1953–1958), Legislature III of Italy (1958–1963), Legislature IV of Italy (1963–1968), Legislature V of Italy (1968–1972), Legislature VI of Italy (19... |
Q13541947 Dendrocoris contaminatus is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America. |
Q7955143 WRLP Tower is a 663-foot-high (202 m) guyed television mast at Winchester, New Hampshire, United States.The WRLP Tower was built in 1966 and is the tallest man-made construction in the state of New Hampshire. WRLP signed off the air in March 1978, but the tower remains standing to this day.The tower bears FCC ... |
Q7707586 The Texas Collegiate League (TCL) is a collegiate summer baseball league comprising teams from the states of Texas and Louisiana.TCL is headquartered in Coppell, Texas.The president of the TCL is Uri Geva, owner of the Brazos Valley Bombers. |
Q2368025 Lakshmi Planum is a plateau feature on the surface of Venus on the Western Ishtar Terra. It is named after Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. It is roughly 3.5 kilometers (2.2 mi) above the mean planetary radius. Lakshmi Planum is ringed by intensely deformed terrain, some of which is shown in the southern... |
Q7335678 Ripon and Pateley Bridge was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from the late 1930s to 1974.It was created in the late 1930s by a County Review Order, by a merger of the Ripon Rural District and the Pateley Bridge Rural District. The rural district included most of Nidderdale, and villa... |
Q767301 George Lewis Young (27 October 1922 – 10 January 1997) was a Scottish footballer, best remembered for his association with Rangers and for being the first player to receive more than 50 caps for the Scotland national team. |
Q5470956 Fort Collins High School is located at 3400 Lambkin Way, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is one of four public senior high schools in the Poudre School District. The school colors are purple and gold, and its mascot is a lambkin, a baby lamb. The school serves approximately 1,800 students and has a s... |
Q7768819 The Third Mind is a book by Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs and artist/poet/novelist Brion Gysin. First published in a French-language edition in 1977, it was published in English in 1978. It contains numerous short fiction pieces as well as poetry by Gysin, and an interview with Burroughs. Some ... |
Q5307454 Drift hypothesis, concerning the relationship between mental illness and social class, is the argument that illness causes one to have a downward shift in social class. The circumstances of one's social class do not cause the onset of a mental disorder, but rather, an individual's deteriorating mental health o... |
Q4809445 Kürd (also, Kyurd and Kyurt) is a village and municipality in the Qabala Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,335. |
Q7350560 Robert Vaidlo (14 February 1921 in Tartu – 1 October 2004) was an Estonian journalist and children's writer. |
Q1657650 Livingstone is a national park and state conservation area located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Wagga Wagga and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Mangoplah, in the South West Slopes region of south western New South Wales. |
Q5646054 The Hampshire Cricket Board (HCB) was formed in 1996 and is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Hampshire. Following a restructuring in January 2010, the HCB now operates as a limited company. |
Q765968 This is a list of the Swiss Hitparade number ones of 2010. |
Q7562966 Sophie Brundish is an English artistic gymnast who has competed in British Championship competitions as well as succeeding at junior and senior levels. She is also 3 Times Bexley Youth Games Champion. She has also won 30 medals and trophies from various competitions, including competitions abroad (Russia, Unit... |
Q7611503 Sterman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:George Sterman (born 1946), American physicistJohn Sterman, American academic |
Q18748019 Woah Dave! is a platform video game developed and published by MiniVisions for iOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. The game was released on iOS, Windows, and Nintendo 3DS on October 30, 2014. It was released for the PlayStation Vita on January 6, 2015. A PlayStation 4 ve... |
Q19880163 Peter Hansen is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Amherst. He was first elected in 2010. He was defeated in his fourth re-election bid in 2018.In 2013, Hansen referred to women as "vaginas" in an e-mail to his House colleagues, as part of a discussion concerning t... |
Q20714250 daliel's Gallery (stylized with a lowercase 'd', and sometimes just 'daliel' ) was a display and performance space in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California in the 1940s and 1950s; the building also contained daliel's Bookstore. George Leite opened daliel's at 2466 Telegraph Avenue between... |
Q24898549 Meet Simon Cherry is a 1949 British mystery film directed by Godfrey Grayson, and an adaptation of the popular BBC radio series Meet the Rev., featuring the crime solving cleric. |
Q28172872 Paldai is a village in the Manipur state of India. One of the oldest villages along the western region of Kana river, it is located in the Chakpikarong Sub-Division of the Chandel District. Originally, the geographical boundaries were once at the mouth of Kana river in the north and "Suonnoupa Muol" in the so... |
Q3337102 Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, ... |
Q4799939 Arthur Pease, DL (12 September 1837 – 27 August 1898) was a British politician, son of Joseph Pease (1799–1872).He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby from 1880 to 1885, and Liberal Unionist MP for Darlington from 1895 until his death in 1898, aged 60.He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in... |
Q6494318 "Last Ditch Cabaret" is a 1997 song by Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour (ex-Hunters & Collectors) released ahead of his debut solo album, King Without a Clue. Seymour was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 1997 for 'Best Male Artist' and 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' for the song. T... |
Q5010001 CDRWIN was a CD/DVD burning software for Microsoft Windows developed by Golden Hawk Technology company. "It progressed from lone wolf Jeff Arnold's hobby to a full-blown recording software that equals the power, performance, and features of many of the programs from the big boys."Once popular, CDRWIN's usage h... |
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