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Q153696 Abraham de Oliveira (4 May 1880 in Amsterdam – 26 March 1943 in Sobibor extermination camp, General Government (occupied Poland) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch gymnastics team, which finished seventh in the team event.He died in the Sobibor extermination c... |
Q11309325 The Jebel Hatta is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 2000 at the Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Raced on turf, it is open to horses four-years-old and up who were bred in the Northern Hemisphere and to horses three-years-old and up who were bred in the Southern Hemisphere.Inaugur... |
Q16499860 Michael W. "Mike" Vranos is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who in the 1990s was referred to by some as the "most powerful man on Wall Street." In 1993, he reportedly earned $15 million from trading mortgage bonds. Fortune Magazine once called him "one of the best bond traders on Wall Stre... |
Q4579852 The 1981 Individual Speedway World Championship was the last of a record 26 times that London's world famous Wembley Stadium hosted the World Final. It also marked the final time that the stadium would be used for any Motorcycle speedway. In future years when the final was held in England, it would be held at ... |
Q7048099 Nokomis Knoll Residential Historic District is a neighborhood of houses near Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and features a number of homes built in popular revival architecture styles of the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. Th... |
Q1582625 The 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 82nd in-season exhibition game between the All-Stars of the National League (NL) and the American League (AL); the leagues composing Major League Baseball. The event was held on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, home of the National ... |
Q6300406 Don Juan Manuel Sánchez y Gutiérrez de Castro, jure uxoris Duke of Almodóvar del Río, Grandee of Spain (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 15 December 1850 – Madrid, Spain, 23 June 1906) was a Spanish noble and politician who served three times as Minister of State. Along with Juan Pérez-Caballero y Ferrer, he was t... |
Q6171508 Jean Servent was a French fencer. He competed in the individual sabre event at the 1920 Summer Olympics. |
Q6265387 The John and Flora Gilbert House is a historic house located in Oregon, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 2007. |
Q7677999 Takeko (written: 武子 or 竹子) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Takeko Kujō (九条 武子, 1887–1928), Japanese poetNakano Takeko (中野 竹子, 1847–1868), Japanese soldier |
Q16186246 Miguel Ángel Gámez (born 5 December 1954) is a Honduran politician. He currently serves as deputy of the National Congress of Honduras representing the National Party of Honduras for Intibucá.In April 2012 he was appointed as minister of the Secretary of Public Works, Transport and Housing. He left office in ... |
Q16233654 Brady Watt (born c.1990) is an Australian professional golfer from Perth, Australia. He was the number one ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week in June 2013.Watt was the medalist in the 2013 Australian Amateur held at Woodlands, Victoria. He was also on the winning Ten Nations Cup team... |
Q17052387 The Provincial Council of Groningen (Dutch: Provinciale Staten van Groningen, pronounced [proːvɪnˈʃaːlə ˈstaːtən vɑn ˈɣroːnɪŋən]) are the States-Provincial for the Dutch province of Groningen. It forms the legislative body of the province. Its 43 seats are distributed every four years in provincial elections. |
Q23613929 Toner William Hosking (9 May 1891 – 12 May 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q2745185 Llanelwedd is a village and community near Builth Wells, in Powys, Wales. It lies within the historic boundaries of Radnorshire. |
Q330718 Abraham Yates (August 23, 1724 – June 30, 1796) was an American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer from Albany, New York. |
Q5184362 Crescent Foods, Inc., was a Seattle, Washington, spice and flavorings company founded in 1883 that was bought by McCormick & Company in 1989. |
Q599067 Oh Lord! When? How? is the first official release from The Hives. It was released in 1996 on the Sidekicks label. |
Q7261711 Pusch Ridge Christian Academy is a private Christian school located in northwest Tucson, Arizona, on a 40 acres (160,000 m2) campus. Pusch Ridge Christian Academy is a ministry of Catalina Foothills Church, PCA. The school is accredited by ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International). |
Q15489822 Nicola Scott is a comics artist from Sydney, Australia whose notable works include Birds of Prey and Secret Six. In 2016, she and writer Greg Rucka relaunched Wonder Woman for DC Comics Rebirth and created the comic series Black Magick, which was published by Image Comics. |
Q290113 Leptomyrmex, or spider ants, is a genus of ants and a distinctive member of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae. Commonly known as "spider ants" for their long legs and spider-like movements, these orange and black ants are prominent residents of intact wet forest and sclerophyll habitats throughout their range. O... |
Q1159602 Senuc is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. |
Q4947018 Borów [ˈbɔruf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łęczyca, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Łęczyca and 41 km (25 mi) north-west of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q3808583 Joaquim Santana Silva Guimarães (22 March 1936 – 24 April 1989), known as Santana, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a right half.A Portugal international, he played his entire career with Benfica. |
Q8065466 Zaleszczyce [zalɛʂˈt͡ʂɨt͡sɛ] (German: Stuthof) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gryfice, within Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Gryfice and 66 km (41 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.Befo... |
Q1252698 Mabula Game Reserve is a private game reserve situated in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is about 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) in area and is about 47 km from Bela Bela (Warmbaths). |
Q4618587 2010 Tochigi S.C. season |
Q3706188 The 1982-83 NBA season was the Pistons' 35th season in the NBA and 26th season in the city of Detroit. |
Q18411875 Gaadangiin Altankhuyag (Mongolian: Гаадангийн Алтанхуяг; born March 15. 1948) is a Mongolian composer and Morin Khuur player.Altankhuyag was born in Ulaanbaatar and grew up in the Erdenedalai sum in Dundgovi aimag. He studied at the National Academy of Music of Bulgaria and received a teacher's education at t... |
Q18699036 The 2015 Malaysia FAM League (referred to as the FAM League) is the 63rd season of the FAM League since its establishment in 1952. The league is currently the third level football league in Malaysia. Kuantan are the defending champions and currently play in the second level of Malaysian football, Malaysia Pre... |
Q18719227 Paul Leo-Mary Serruys C.I.C.M. (19 November 1912 – 16 August 1999) was a Belgian missionary, sinologist, scholar, and educator, best known for his studies on the grammar of Classical Chinese, oracle bone script, and on the varieties of Chinese. |
Q19661125 Gottfried Inden (June 1, 1827 – August 1, 1896) was an American politician.Born in Prussia, Inden settled in Granville, Wisconsin and managed a hotel. He served as Granville town clerk and supervisor. In 1885, Inden served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Democrat. |
Q26466102 Zareef Ahmad Zareef (born 17 April 1943) is a Kashmiri poet, writer, social activist and environmentalist. He is best known for his satirical poetry and efforts to highlight various social and political problems. He has been working for the preservation of the environment, culture and heritage of Kashmir. |
Q3587760 Elie Munk (1900–1981), was a German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar, "a scion of a long and distinguished line of German rabbis and scholars".A number of other Jewish scholars have similar names. Eliyahu Munk translated numerous Jewish Bible commentaries to English. Eli Munk wrote the book Seven Days of... |
Q230686 Shiri Freda Appleby (born December 7, 1978) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her leading roles as Liz Parker in the WB/UPN science fiction drama series Roswell (1999–2002) and Rachel Goldberg in the Lifetime/Hulu drama series Unreal (2015–2018).Her major film credits include A Time for... |
Q43214 The rusty-spotted genet (Genetta maculata), also called panther genet and large-spotted genet, is a genet that is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is considered common and therefore listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. |
Q7380725 Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran, 536 U.S. 355 (2002), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) did not preempt an Illinois medical-review statute.ERISA envisions a national standard for welfare and pension plans s... |
Q185225 Santiago "Santi" Cazorla González (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ˈsanti kaˈθoɾla ɣonˈθaleθ]; born 13 December 1984) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Villarreal and the Spanish national team. Cazorla operates primarily as an attacking midfielder, but can also play as a winger, ... |
Q6539218 Li Yannian (Chinese: 李延年; pinyin: Lǐ Yánnián; Wade–Giles: Li Yen-nien, 11 March 1904 – 17 November 1974) was a Kuomintang lieutenant-general from Shandong. |
Q6164917 java-gnome is a set of language bindings for the Java programming language for use in the GNOME desktop environment. It is part of the official GNOME language bindings suite and provides a set of libraries allowing developers to write computer programs for GNOME using the Java programming language and the GTK+... |
Q616250 Lycoris squamigera, the resurrection lily or surprise lily, is a plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It is also sometimes referred to as naked ladies (a name used for several other plants). It is believed to have originated in Japan or China, perhaps a hybrid between Lycor... |
Q873301 The Italian Catholic diocese of Nuoro (Latin: Dioecesis Nuorensis) is in Sardinia. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cagliari. Historically it was the diocese of Galtellì until 1779, and then the diocese of Galtellì-Nuoro until 1928. |
Q4875273 Bač (pronounced [ˈbatʃ]; German: Batsch, Italian: Baccia) is a village northeast of Knežak in the Municipality of Ilirska Bistrica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. |
Q3864982 Parasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing the three genera Faughnia, Parasquilla and Pseudosquillopsis. It was previously included in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, but that group was found to be paraphyletic, and a new superfamily, Parasquilloidea was erected. |
Q1565732 HNV may refer toCroat National Council (Croatian: Hrvatsko nacionalno vijeće), a Croat representative body in Serbia, established 2003Croatian National Council (Croatian: Hrvatsko narodno vijeće), active 1974–1991 in YugoslaviaHebrew Names Version, a translation of the BibleHeilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahver... |
Q7704767 Terry M. McCarthy (born January 7, 1964) is an American stock car, sports car and touring car racing driver. He is a former competitor in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and Featherlite Southwest Tour. He won the first national sports car championship to be captured by the driver of a Mazda Miata in 1994. |
Q1710801 A Juchart (also Jucharte or Juchard, in French Pose, in Italian Pertica) was a unit of area measurement used in rural Switzerland until the early 20th century. In other German speaking regions it was known as a Joch, Jochart, Jauchart, Jauch, Juck or Juckert. The Juchart was a measurement of the amount of far... |
Q7376128 Rubin Jackson is an American former basketball player, best known for his college career at Oklahoma City University, where in the 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season he was named the Midwestern City Conference (now the Horizon League) Co-Player of the Year.Jackson, a 6'6" forward from Melrose High... |
Q7599955 Major Stanley Smyth Flower FLS FZS (1 August 1871 – 3 February 1946) was an English army officer, science advisor, administrator, zoologist and conservationist. |
Q16198195 Jason Barrett is a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 61st district. Barrett is also a small business owner.After serving two terms in the state House of Delegates, Barrett was defeated by Republican challenger Walter Duke in 2014.In the 2016 election, in which Duke di... |
Q19899294 Wazir Khan was the chief musician or nayak at the court of Nawab Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur. Without the blessings and patronage of Wazir Khan, it was nearly impossible for a musician to find employment in the durbar. |
Q24005610 Jolan Gidney-Craigen (born 12 November 1993), mononymously known as Jolan, is an English singer. He is best known for placing second in the fifth series of The Voice UK. |
Q26236739 Hannah Christina Payton (born 23 March 1994) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Drops in road racing, and Team Kinesis UK in cyclo-cross. |
Q29831237 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by the South African comedian Trevor Noah. |
Q6814837 This is a list of members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, elected at the 1996 state election:1 ALP member Michael Field resigned in early 1997. Mike Gard was elected as his replacement on 15 July.2 Liberal member Roger Groom resigned in early 1997. Carole Cains was elected as his replacement on 15 July. |
Q556323 The Mercedes-Benz W188 was a two-door luxury sports tourer produced by Mercedes-Benz between 1951 and 1958. The company's most expensive and exclusive automobiles, the elegant, hand-built 300 S (1951-1954) and its successor 300 Sc (1955-1958) were the pinnacle of the Mercedes line of their era.The pair's conser... |
Q2735703 The Paracas Peninsula is a desert peninsula within the boundaries of the Paracas National Reserve, a marine reserve which extends south along the coast. The only marine reserve in Peru, it is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.The peninsula is located within the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in ... |
Q4959560 "Breaking Me Down" is a song by British singer Maria Lawson. It was released as a digital download on 6 September 2008 and released as a CD single on 8 September 2008. |
Q4590308 Gjesåssjøen is a lake in the municipality of Åsnes in Hedmark county, Norway. |
Q2884413 Alternate spelling: should not be confused with Bear Mountain.Bare Mountain, 1,014 feet (309 m) above sea level, is a prominent peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge that stretches from Long Island Sound... |
Q833431 Rosnay is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. The composer Théodore Dubois was a native of Rosnay. |
Q895276 Boussouma is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Boussouma. |
Q6193940 James Burns (born 10 August 1943) is a former Scottish footballer.Burns, a defender, began his career with Cowdenbeath. He made over 200 appearances for them before joining Clyde in 1967. Burns spent 9 years with the Glasgow club, and made over 300 appearances, making him one of the club's finest servants. Bur... |
Q6224587 John C. Peck (October 6, 1828 – unknown) was a businessman and building contractor from Atlanta, Georgia. Peck is known for constructing some of Atlanta's most notable early buildings including the Kimball House hotels. He was also the Chief of the Department of Construction for the 1881 International Cotton ... |
Q7181488 Phetus is a New York artist with roots in the graffiti and street art movement. Originally from Long Island, now based in Manhattan, "Phetus" has been creating artwork under his "Phat Phace" icon since 1988.He was the founding member of the creative multimedia studio Elite Gudz. As the inventor and creator, Ph... |
Q881529 Homeward Point (64°51′S 63°37′W) is a point forming the west side of the entrance to Security Bay, on Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and so named by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in ... |
Q5123373 City Point is an unincorporated community located in the town of City Point, Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. City Point is located on Wisconsin Highway 54 25 miles (40 km) west of Wisconsin Rapids. |
Q6644040 This is a detailed list of tumuli (barrows) in Serbia, ranging from the prehistoric times to the Middle Ages.Mrčajevci, several prehistoric tumuliBukovac, Illyrian tumuli and necropolisFive prehistoric tumuli in the Morava valley.Serbian tumuli in Ravna Gora. |
Q406231 Hans Heibach (1 December 1918 – 6 March 1970) was a German international footballer. |
Q5663584 Qorban Kandi (Persian: قربان كندي, also Romanized as Qorbān Kandī) is a village in Gavdul-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Malekan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 398, in 116 families. |
Q20685896 Anarsia ovula is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Park and Ponomarenko in 1996. It is found in Thailand.The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light brown, speckled with creamy white scales, a small elongate costal mark with two inconspicuous spots before it and another one beyond... |
Q600191 Matteo Maria Zuppi (born 11 October 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Bologna since 12 December 2015. |
Q27037443 Robert Milner Coerver (born June 6, 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church serving as the Bishop for the Diocese of Lubbock since 2016. |
Q3483735 Sigurd Harald Lund (1823-1906), was a ballet dancer, choreographer and director. He was Ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1856-1862 and 1890-1894. Sigurd Harald Lund was the son of the Danish actor Kristian Lund and Katharine Kristine Heckel. He married first to Hansine Leonardine Hansen, and later... |
Q623726 State Route 163 (SR 163), also known as the Cabrillo Freeway, is a state highway in San Diego, California. The 11.088-mile (17.844 km) stretch of the former US 395 freeway runs from Downtown San Diego just south of an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), extending north through historic Balboa Park and various ... |
Q8064075 Zack Exley (born December 5, 1969) is a political and technology consultant, previously employed as the Chief Revenue Officer (formerly Chief Community Officer) at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2010 to 2013; he continued to provide contracted fundraising consultation until 2017. Before that he worked at Though... |
Q7509791 The Siege of Akasaka was one of the earlier battles of the Genkō War between the figurehead Emperor Godaigo and the largely Hōjō controlled Kamakura shogunate during the final years of the Kamakura period in Japan. The battle in question was fought at Shimo Akasaka-jō (下赤坂城), or (English: Lower Akasaka fortres... |
Q5634895 HMS Walney (M104) was a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She was the fourth of the Sandown-class minehunters, and the second ship to carry the name, which comes from the island off Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria on the north-west coast of England. |
Q4569649 The 1959 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1959 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its thirt... |
Q6644022 This is a list of trolleybus systems in Switzerland. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. |
Q2056671 Samuel Scheimann (Hebrew: שמואל שיימן; born 3 November 1987) is an Israeli international footballer who plays professionally for VVV-Venlo in the Eredivisie, as a left back. He formerly played for Feyenoord, NAC Breda, Kozakken Boys, FC Den Bosch, SBV Excelsior, Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Tel Aviv an... |
Q7601432 Stara Wieś [ˈstara ˈvjɛɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Celestynów, within Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.The village has a population of 540. |
Q3296628 The Ms. Kelly Tour was the second concert tour by American R&B recording artist Kelly Rowland. It was launched in support of her second studio album Ms. Kelly (2007). The tour began on October 30, 2007 in Sacramento, California and ended on December 1, 2007 in Las Vegas. American R&B singer Mario opened for Ro... |
Q5095383 ChicaGo Dash is an express bus service between Chicago, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana. The distance between the City of Valparaiso and Downtown Chicago is about 54 miles. It is jointly run by the city of Valparaiso and the Valparaiso Redevelopment Commission, with substantial financial support from the Nor... |
Q6175327 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth (16 July 1909 – 2 August 1940) was a racing motorist, aviator and prolific collector of veteran cars and aircraft. His collection forms the nucleus of the Shuttleworth Collection. He was killed in an air crash on an RAF training exercise in 1940. |
Q5063896 Cerbat is a ghost town just west of the Cerbat Mountains in Mohave County, Arizona. Mining in the area began in the late 1860s and a camp was established soon after. Cerbat was built in a canyon 38 miles (61 km) from Hardyville, Arizona. The town was prosperous and contained several mining and public buildings... |
Q4772216 Anthony Richard Carbines (born 15 June 1973) is an Australian politician, who represents the electoral district of Ivanhoe in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party.He studied journalism at RMIT University, then spent five years as a journalist at the Geelong Advertiser newspaper.Prior to his e... |
Q5285754 Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment is a museum apartment of the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev, who is famous for establishing the Periodic law of arranging chemical elements by their atomic masses, which allowed the prediction of properties of elements (i.e. simple substances) yet to be discovered... |
Q4562959 The 1931–32 Northern Football League season was the 39th in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England. |
Q2624074 General of the Cavalry (German: General der Kavallerie) was a General officer rank in the cavalry in various states of which the modern states of German and Austria are successors or in other armies which used the German model. Artillery officers of equivalent rank were called "General of the Artillery" (Gener... |
Q837930 Barca is a municipality located in the province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. |
Q18388275 Kim Basinger is an American actress who made her television debut as Sheila in "Night Train to Dallas", an episode of the action/adventure drama series Gemini Man that aired on NBC in 1976. She starred in two canceled series as well as several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (19... |
Q25097176 Ta Reggaetika is the sixth studio single cd/album by the Greek singer-songwriter Dispero. It was a whole single/album with six musical creations and was released by "Ghetolabel" in collaboration with the record company "Music kitchen" in February 21, 2011. |
Q27962107 In the 2016–17 season, CS Constantine is competing in the Ligue 1 for the 19th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. |
Q8048049 The Yamhill River is an 11-mile (18 km) tributary of the Willamette River, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Formed by the confluence of the South Yamhill River and the North Yamhill River about 3 miles (5 km) east of McMinnville, it drains part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range. The river meanders east past Dayto... |
Q1038201 Carl G. Bachmann (May 14, 1890 – January 22, 1980) was a United States Congressman from Wheeling, West Virginia.Bachmann was born in Wheeling as the son of Charles F. and Sophia Bachmann; three of his grandparents were German immigrants. In 1908 he graduated from Linsly Institute. He went to college first at W... |
Q2291684 A Bundt cake () is a cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive ring shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European cake known as Kugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe. The style of mold in North America was popularized in the 1950s and 196... |
Q4213050 Joel David Kaplan (born 1969) is Facebook's vice president of global public policy. Formerly, he served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for U.S. President George W. Bush. |
Q118258 Carl John Walter Kaskel (February 2, 1882, Berlin - October 9, 1928, Berlin) was a German jurist. He studied legal science in Berlin, Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau. |
Q5156414 Complement receptor of the immunoglobulin family is a protein expressed in Kupffer cells.It is a critical receptor for the phagocytosis of opsonised particles in the blood. It recognizes iC3b (inactivated C3b) deposited on microbial surfaces. |
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