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Q21592126 Antônio Rocha is a mime and storyteller. Originally from Brazil, in 1988 he moved to Maine after receiving a Partners of the Americas grant to study in the United States. He has studied under the mime master Tony Montanaro, and has a theater degree from the University of Maine. He regularly performs at festi... |
Q269179 The Hungarian National Championship I 2008–09, also known as NB I, was the 107th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league was officially named Soproni Liga for sponsoring reasons. The season started on 25 July 2008 with Kaposvári Rákóczi FC beating the defending champions MTK Budapest by 3–1. The last... |
Q16018497 Jack E. Lee (May 29, 1936 - July 30, 2009) was a track, baseball, and wrestling public address announcer, from the 1960s through the 1990s.Lee is primarily known for calling several major harness races at the now-defunct Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island (Westbury, NY) in the 1970s and 1980s, and is considered... |
Q6915340 The mosaic pleurobranch, scientific name Pleurobranchus albiguttatus, is a species of sea slug, a sidegill slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchidae. |
Q127402 Diaporthaceae is a plant pathogen family. |
Q2868926 Atelopus epikeisthos is a species of toads in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to Peru. |
Q7754930 The BYU–Utah State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Brigham Young Cougars and Utah State Aggies.They have met for the Old Wagon Wheel 64 times, dating back to 1948. However, the rivalry predates the Old Wagon Wheel trophy era. The rivalry series between the two schools was l... |
Q17021470 The Merchant Hotel, also known as the Merchants' Hotel, is a historic former hotel building in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is located at 121 N.W. Second Avenue in Old Town Chinatown. It is a contributing property in the Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District, which was listed on the U.S. Nation... |
Q11712878 Hector was a Dutch 44-gun frigate launched in 1784 that the British captured in 1799. They fitted her out and transferred her to the Transport Board in 1800 under the name Pandour. She then transported troops to and from Egypt. The Royal Navy commissioned her in 1803 as HMS Pandour; she then sailed to the Le... |
Q16200827 Andrea Polli (born 1968) is an environmental artist and writer. Polli blends art and science to create widely varied media and technology artworks related to environmental issues. Her works are presented in various forms, she uses interactive websites, digital broadcasting, mobile applications, and performanc... |
Q16363590 Youssouf Koné (born 5 July 1995) is a Malian professional footballer who plays for French side Olympique Lyonnais and the Mali national team as a left-back. |
Q16849327 Robert Hindley Wilkinson (1811 – 5 February 1888) was an English academic, and a cricketer with amateur status who was active from 1828 to 1831. |
Q28037380 Ahsan Hafeez (born 30 March 1998) is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his List A debut for National Bank of Pakistan in the 2016–17 Departmental One Day Cup on 17 December 2016. He made his first-class debut for Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the 2017–18 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 15 October 2017. |
Q29033618 "Duet" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of The CW television series The Flash, which aired on March 21, 2017. The episode was written by Aaron Helbing and Todd Helbing from a story by Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, and was directed by Dermott Daniel Downs. The episode features a musical cro... |
Q15697048 Lestica is a genus of square-headed wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are at least 40 described species in Lestica. |
Q1636745 Karlebo Kommune was until January 1, 2007 a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Frederiksborg County on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 40 km², and had a total population of 19,163 (2005). Its last mayor was Olav Aaen, a member of the Ve... |
Q25036227 Earth chestnut is a common name for several plants and may refer to:Bunium bulbocastanumConopodium majus |
Q8042670 XY TV was a lifestyle channel targeted towards generation 'x' and generation 'y', basically the 12-34 yr old demographic. Programming deals with a whole range of issues such as sex, dating, relationships, jobs, nightlife and more. The network claimed to have 100% original content all produced by the new gener... |
Q3469181 The 2006–07 QMJHL season was the 38th season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The regular season ran from September 14, 2006 to March 18, 2007. Eighteen teams played 70 games each in the schedule. The Lewiston Maineiacs finished first overall in the regular season winning their first Je... |
Q5334645 Edwin Douglas Charles (April 29, 1933 – March 15, 2018) was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball. A right-handed hitter, Charles played for the Kansas City Athletics (1962–67) and New York Mets (1967–69). He was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 170 pounds (77 kg)... |
Q861297 Company style or Company painting (kampani kalam in Hindi) is a term for a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the British East India Company or other foreign Companies in the 18th and 19th centuries. The style blended traditional... |
Q5309813 Dryve was an alternative/roots/pop/rock band from San Diego, California. The band's unusual instrumentation - including a Hammond organ, accordions, and a harmonica - gave them a unique sound. The San Diego music scene is well known for producing Christian rock bands such as Switchfoot and P.O.D., and despite ... |
Q6969493 The Nathaniel Baker House is a historic house at 1606 Hyannis Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The house was probably built about 1721, and is a well-preserved example of an early Georgian hip-roofed house. It is also noted for its association with the locally prominent Baker family. It was listed on the N... |
Q6387360 Kenneth Patrick Bordelon (born August 26, 1954) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for six seasons for the New Orleans Saints. |
Q4092091 Bolshiye Goly (Russian: Больши́е Го́лы) is a rural locality (a village) in Kachugsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Lena River. |
Q5615272 Gugsa Wale's rebellion of 1930 was a rebellion raised by Ras Gugsa Wale and by supporters of Empress Zewditu to rid her of the Crown Prince and heir apparent, Negus Tafari Makonnen. With Tafari gone, Zewditu would be the sole claiment to succession as the ruler of the Ethiopian Empire (Mangista Ityop'p'ya).... |
Q7205449 Plummers Island is a 12-acre Potomac River island in Montgomery County, Maryland, about nine miles upriver from Washington, D.C., which holds the distinction of being the most scientifically studied island in North America. It is visible from the American Legion Memorial Bridge of the Capital Beltway, just do... |
Q7877131 Udea nebulalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia and Fennoscandia.The wingspan is 18–25 mm.The larvae feed ... |
Q2494183 Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs. |
Q17080723 The Old Randfontein mine is a large mine located in the northern part of South Africa in Gauteng. Old Randfontein represents one of the largest uranium reserves in South Africa having estimated reserves of 247.2 million tonnes of ore grading 0.025% uranium. |
Q5706722 Bilverdi (Persian: بيلوردي, also Romanized as Bīlverdī; also known as Beloo Yerdi, Belvīrdī, Bilberdi, Bīlehverdī, Bil’verdy, and Bīlvīrdī) is a village in Bedevostan-e Gharbi Rural District, Khvajeh District, Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. |
Q2841034 Amanda Michelle Jackson (born June 1, 1985) is an Armenian-American female basketball player. Jackson played college basketball for the Miami Redhawks at Miami University. She led the Redhawks to their first NCAA tournament and as of 2016, ranks second as their all-time leading scorer. She was inducted into th... |
Q3186548 Jose-Roberto Sierra Aguerro (born 21 March 1967 in Camargo) is a former Spanish cyclist. He participated in 5 Tours de France, 1 Giro d'Italia, and 4 Vuelta a España. |
Q5966175 Odd Number (Spanish:La cifra impar) is a 1962 Argentine mystery film directed by Manuel Antin and starring Lautaro Murúa, María Rosa Gallo and Sergio Renán. |
Q27817771 The Rock & Roll Story, is an album by Conway Twitty, released in 1960. It contains covers of major rock and roll hits from the late 1950s. |
Q1788731 Arnold Machin O.B.E., R.A. (; 30 September 1911 – 9 March 1999) was a British artist, sculptor, and coin and stamp designer. |
Q5108714 Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. On Commercial Street in the East End and in today's Central London it is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on its western border facing the City of London, it was one of the first (and arguably... |
Q2656577 Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 189 competitors, 163 men and 26 women, took part in 108 events in 17 sports.The Melbourne Games saw an improvement on... |
Q5421650 The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain. Founded in 1889, it is based in Wolverhampton, England, and covers the West Midlands county and Staffordshire.Currently edited by Martin Wright, the Express & Star publishes six editions a week between Monday and Saturday. In 2007 the newspaper had... |
Q2852678 Antennaria howellii (everlasting or Howell's pussytoes) is a North American species in the genus Antennaria within the sunflower family. It is native to northern Alaska, much of Canada including the Arctic territories, and the northern United States as far south as northern California, Colorado and North Caro... |
Q7425662 Saskatoon Light & Power is a utility that provides electrical services within the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The utility is owned by the City of Saskatoon. The company was founded in 1906. Electrical service in the rest of Saskatoon, and the rest of Saskatchewan, is provided by the provincial ut... |
Q7438743 Scranton City Hall is located at Washington and Mulberry (US 11/PA 307) streets in the downtown section of that city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is a three-story limestone ashlar Victorian Gothic Revival building with sandstone trim, designed by architects Edwin L. Walter and Frederick Lord Brown and... |
Q7996658 Whitney is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Whitney is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northwest of Roseville. It lies at an elevation of 131 feet (40 m) and is home to the Thunder Valley Casino Resort.The name honors a local rancher, Joel Parker Whitn... |
Q5190651 'Fred Ross' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Cryptanthus in the Bromeliad family. |
Q7250633 Prosipho enricoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. |
Q7996399 Charles Franklin "Whitey" Glazner (September 17, 1893 – June 6, 1989) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of five seasons (1920–24) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Philadelphia Phillies. For his career, he compiled a 41-48 record, with a 4.21 earned run average, and ... |
Q16823869 "32" is a 2013 English language single by Danish electro-rock group Carpark North featuring Stine Bramsen from Alphabeat. This is Carpark North's second pre-release from their upcoming 2014 album Phoenix after having released an initial single "Army of Open Arms" from the same album. |
Q15908814 Yövesi is a sub-lake of the lake Saimaa in Eastern Finland. It is located in Mikkeli municipality in the Southern Savonia region. Part of the Saimaa lake system, it borders on the system of Pihlajavesi to the east. The deepest point of the whole Saimaa is in Yövesi, in Käenniemenselkä open area. The Astuvansa... |
Q16207324 Thomas Frederick Davies or Bishop Davies may refer to:Thomas Frederick Davies (father) (1831–1905), third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1889–1905Thomas Frederick Davies Jr. (1872–1936), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, 1911–1936 |
Q13523354 Symphlebia muscosa is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schaus in 1910. It is found in French Guiana, Venezuela, Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. |
Q15760132 The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics. It is the official journal of the Section on Mental Health Economics of the World Psychiatric Association.It covers topics related to men... |
Q20710204 Shell Lake is a lake in Becker County, Minnesota, in the United States.Shell Lake was likely named from the shells on the lakeshore. |
Q13854747 Microrape signata is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Hopp in 1930. It is found in Brazil. |
Q429318 The Roman Ruins of Milreu (Portuguese: Ruinas Romanas de Milreu) are the remains of an important Roman villa rustica located in the civil parish of Estói in the municipality of Faro, Portugal, classified as a Monumento Nacional (National Monument). The Milreu ruins constitute the most prominent and well preserv... |
Q6452435 Kyrgyzstan held a presidential election on 10 July 2005. It saw a landslide victory for acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev, marking the end of his interim government formed after the previous president, Askar Akayev, was overthrown in the revolution in March 2005. |
Q6680119 Lord of the Nutcracker Men is a novel by Canadian author Iain Lawrence that takes place in England during the first year of World War I. The book was first published in October 2001 by the Delacorte Press, and it was later reprinted in May 2003 by Dell-Laurel Leaf, an imprint of a division of Random House, Inc... |
Q6573191 This is a list of fictional characters from the anime and manga series Hikari no Densetsu created by Izumi Aso. |
Q53093 Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. Produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios, the series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (John DiMaggio)—... |
Q3466085 The 2006–07 season was Real Madrid Club de Fútbol's 76th season in the La Liga. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the 2006–07 season. |
Q6309727 Rev. Julius "June" Cheeks (August 7, 1929 – January 27, 1981) was an American gospel singer, who enjoyed the majority of his success with The Sensational Nightingales. |
Q7436404 Scott Ginsburg (born October 6, 1952) is the owner of Boardwalk Auto Group. Ginsburg also serves on the Board of Directors of Sizmek Inc., a worldwide digital media company (SZMK) listed on the NASDAQ. |
Q4492075 The Russia Forum was an annual event held in Moscow, hosted by Troika Dialog from 2008 to 2013. From 2012, The Russia Forum was jointly presented by Sberbank of Russia and Troika Dialog.Sometimes referred to as the "Russian Davos" (World Economic Forum in Davos), not only because the event in Switzerland is he... |
Q5366795 Elmira is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Elmira is 12 miles (19 km) west of Gassaway. |
Q5660709 General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn (28 November 1885 − 31 March 1963) was a British Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. He is most notable during World War II for his command of the 5th Infantry Division during the Battle of France in May/June 1940. |
Q5230373 Davi Ribeiro de Carvalho (born 31 August 1979), known simply as Davi, is a Brazilian futsal player who last played for the French club Sporting de Paris as a defender. |
Q16892977 The Joseph Gowing Farm is a historic farmhouse on Page Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. The two story hip-roofed wood frame house was built in 1908, reconstructing c. 1793 farmhouse that was destroyed by fire. It was built by Louis Cabot, an industrialist who owned a large gentleman's farm, of which this hous... |
Q4534736 Gnat Petrovich Yura (Ukrainian: Гнат Петрович Юра; January 8, 1888 – January 18, 1966) was a Ukrainian stage actor and director. He also directed two films, and appeared on screen six times during the Soviet era. |
Q3601832 Planipapillus annae is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family. It is found in Victoria, Australia. |
Q28128484 The Angelo Cabrini class is a new high-speed multipurpose patrol boat class of the Marina Militare, also known as Unità Navale Polifunzionale ad Alta Velocità (UNPAV) or K-180.Italian shipbuilding company Intermarine has begun building two high-speed multipurpose vessels for the Marina Militare, as part of a ... |
Q13439502 Birthana saturata is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found on Java.It is allied to, but quite distinct from Imma caelestis. Adults are larger, and the cilia of both wings are black. The hindwings are without the pale streaks, and have a bluish-white discoidal st... |
Q1273487 E. Gutzwiller & Cie. Banquiers is one of the oldest Swiss banks located in Basel. It is a private bank specializing in asset management. It was founded in 1886 by Carl Gutzwiller and is a founding member of the Basel Stock Exchange. Today the bank is largely in the hands of the Gutzwiller family. The bank is m... |
Q30612974 Joseph William Jones (10 March 1900 – 18 March 1988), known as Bill Jones, was a British trade unionist.Born in Bethnal Green, Jones joined the British Army early in World War I, while still underage. His mother obtained his release, but he rejoined in 1917, and continued to serve in the army until 1920. Af... |
Q3275902 Adélaïde-Louise-Pauline Hus (1734–1805) was a French stage actress and courtesan. She was engaged at the Comédie-Française in Paris in 1751–1773. |
Q17364131 Edward Bradford Pickett was an attorney, a Confederate Soldier, a Texas Senator, and the President of Texas Constitutional Convention. |
Q714504 Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born 19 March 1969), known as Gary Jules, is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003. Si... |
Q381843 Aníbal Carmelo Troilo (July 11, 1914 – May 18, 1975 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine tango musician.Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with social dancers during the golden age of tango (1940-1955), but he changed to a c... |
Q2995846 Estreito da Calheta (Portuguese for strait of Calheta) is a civil parish in the municipality of Calheta in the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 1,607, in an area of 14.32 km². |
Q324288 J(oh)an and Jacob van Huchtenburg (Hughtenburg or Hugtenburg(h)) were two Dutch Golden Age painters in the second half of the seventeenth century. Both brothers were natives of Haarlem, moved to Paris, but died in Amsterdam. The main source about their lives is from Arnold Houbraken. Some of the information fro... |
Q7743975 The Karaoke King is a 2007 comedy film directed by Dan Mackler and JJ Ruscella. The film is loosely based on William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. |
Q1367217 Lorenzo Olarte Cullen (born 8 December 1932) is a local Canarian politician and lawyer. He is a former president of the Canary island Automous region but served only 3 years of his 4 years term. Olarte is awarded the Gran Cruz de San Raimundo de Peñafort, the highest honor for a Spanish jurist, the Gran Cruz d... |
Q551842 Bernd Gröne (born 19 February 1963) is a retired road racing cyclist from Germany, who won the silver medal for West Germany in the men's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was a professional rider from 1989 to 1995. He won the German National Road Race in 1993. |
Q5563473 Giorgio Duranti (1683 – 5 November 1768) was an Italian painter and cleric of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia, where he was born.Duranti was also an abbot, count and knight. He studied sciences and music; he was known as an excellent player of the violoncello. He specialized in still life paintin... |
Q4632604 The 27th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1878 and 1882.E.T. Moseley was chosen as speaker for the house.The assembly was dissolved on May 23, 1882. |
Q7756651 The People of Kau is the title of the 1976 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Die Nuba von Kau , an illustrations book published in the same year in Germany. The book is a follow-up to her earlier successful 1973 book Die Nuba. |
Q6792718 Maureen McKinnon (formerly Maureen McKinnon-Tucker; born February 25, 1965) is an American paralympian yachtswoman. In 2008 in Beijing she became the first woman to represent the United States in sailing at a Paralympic Games and also the first woman to medal gold in Paralympic Sailing. At the games, McKinnon-... |
Q4593574 The 1998 European Tour was the 27th official season of golf tournaments known as the PGA European Tour.The Order of Merit was won by Scotland's Colin Montgomerie. |
Q5414282 Euspilapteryx auroguttella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from all of Europe.The wingspan is 9–10 mm. Adults are on wing in May and August in two generations.The larvae feed on Hypericum adenotrichum, Hypericum elegans, Hypericum hircinum, Hypericum hirsutum, Hypericum humifusum, Hypericum... |
Q6567882 1969 saw nine new characters making their debuts on Coronation Street: Betty Williams, Cyril Turpin, Janet Reid, the Butler siblings Sandra and Bernard, Alan Howard, Janice Langton, Edith Tatlock and Ada Broadbent. |
Q2896297 The Zoological Garden of Beersheba or The Israeli Desert zoo (AKA NegevZoo) is a desert Zoo located in Kiryat Meir Batz near the west entrance of Beersheba, Israel.The zoo's area is 50 dunams (1 hectare or 2.5 acres). It has a collection of mammalians, birds and reptiles from which the ungulates, turtles, snak... |
Q4620687 The 2011 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Chippewas were led by second year head coach Dan Enos and played their home games at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. They are a member of the West Division of the Mid-American Co... |
Q3854274 Melnick 42 is a massive blue supergiant star in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud located in the constellation Dorado. Although it is only 21 times the size of the sun, its high temperature of 47,300 K makes it one of the most luminous stars of the Tarantula Nebula at 3,600,000 L☉. It is le... |
Q4603035 The 2004 Memphis Tigers football team represented the University of Memphis in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Memphis competed as a member of the Conference USA. The team was led by head coach Tommy West. The Tigers played their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. |
Q5858257 Dakhel (Persian: داخل, also Romanized as Dākhel) is a village in Dehshal Rural District, in the Central District of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,118, in 331 families. |
Q2490016 Lampanyctus nobilis, the noble lampfish, is a species of lanternfish. |
Q2038255 Celina González Zamora (16 March 1929 in Jovellanos, Matanzas – 4 February 2015) was a Cuban singer-songwriter, who specialized in "música campesina", traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for co-authoring A Santa Bárbara with her partner Reutilio Domínguez. Her recording of it was a hi... |
Q1426191 In homological algebra and algebraic geometry, a flat module over a ring R is an R-module M such that taking the tensor product over R with M preserves exact sequences. A module is faithfully flat if taking the tensor product with a sequence produces an exact sequence if and only if the original sequence is ex... |
Q6274216 Jonathan Charles Rauch (; born April 26, 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author, journalist, and activist. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, for National Journal, and later for The Economist and as a freelance writer. He is currently a ... |
Q377569 Levin Winder (September 4, 1757 – July 1, 1819) in Baltimore, Maryland. During the Revolutionary War, he was appointed major of the 4th Maryland Regiment, finally attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel at war's end. After the war, he served with the Maryland Militia at the rank of brigadier general.Winder ser... |
Q2356247 Doctor Juan Jiménez de Montalvo (born 1551, Olmedo, Castile) was an oidor (judge) of the Royal Audiencia of Lima, and briefly in 1621 and 1622, interim viceroy of Peru. |
Q7377850 Ruellia trachyphylla is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. |
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