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Q8080702 Łomnica [wɔmˈnit͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wodynie, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Wodynie, 29 km (18 mi) south-west of Siedlce, and 67 km (42 mi) east of Warsaw.The village has a popula...
Q3886782 Hattiesburg Bobby L. Chain Municipal Airport (IATA: HBG, ICAO: KHBG, FAA LID: HBG) in Forrest County, Mississippi is owned by the City of Hattiesburg and is five miles southeast of downtown.The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation facility. There is no schedule...
Q5268819 Dhamangaon Railway Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is part of the eight constituencies located in the Amravati district.Dhamangaon Railway is part of the Wardha Lok Sabha constituency along w...
Q5710842 Hemchandra Chowdhury (1833-1915) was a Bangladeshi king, educator, builder and social worker. He was born in the village of Ambaria in Madhupur Upazila, Tangail, Bangladesh. He was educated at the Presidency University in Calcutta. He built the Hemnagar Palace, which later sheltered freedom fighters during the...
Q7360497 Roland Arthur Wood was an Anglican bishop. Born on 1 January 1933 and educated at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec he was ordained in 1958. He began his career as Assistant Curate at St Matthew’s, Winnipeg after which he was Rector Christ Church, Selkirk. From 1964 to 1967 he was an Assistant Priest a...
Q7850717 A tubaphone (or tubuphone) is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration. The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a Glockenspiel.A Tu-ba-Phone', or Tubaphone, is also a model of banjo that was made by the Vega com...
Q4350699 Baby Alice is a Swedish Eurodance band, formed in 2005. The original band members are Tim Åström, Andreas Svensson, and Hanna Adolfsson. They are best known for their hit single, "Piña Colada Boy," and for their songs: "Mr. DJ", "Hurricane" and "Heaven Is A Dancefloor." The female vocals were provided by Hanna...
Q18701799 The 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 19 through May 24 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Atlantic Coast Conference for college baseball. Florida State won their sixth tournam...
Q19894237 David Beetge was Bishop of the Highveld, South Africa, and Dean of the Province of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa—the most senior bishop next to the Archbishop of Cape Town. Born at Witbank in October 1948, he died in Johannesburg on 27 September 2008.
Q20310718 Major esports events and tournaments in 2011
Q10680975 Stora Bornö is an island in Gullmarn fjord, belonging to the Lysekil Municipality.Stora Bornö is about 4 km (2.5 mi) long from north to south and is largely covered with pine forests. The island's highest point is 110 m (360 ft) above sea level and in many places the shoreline consists of vertical cliffs.Born...
Q2519976 Abraham "Bram" van de Beek (born 9 October 1946) is a Dutch Reformed theologian. He was a professor at Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Q23894623 Thibaut Cillard (born 23 December 1995) is a French footballer who most recently played as a defender for Tours FC.He was released from his contract by Tours in November 2018.
Q10454696 Clathroneuria is a genus of antlions in the family Myrmeleontidae. There are about five described species in Clathroneuria.
Q2908500 The Boeing C-32 is a military passenger transportation version of the Boeing 757-200 as designated by the United States Air Force. The C-32 provides transportation for United States leaders to locations around the world. The primary users are the Vice President of the United States (using the distinctive call ...
Q3062858 Ezra Isaac Levant (born 1972) is a Canadian media personality, libertarian political activist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, a former columnist for Sun Media, and former host of a daily program on the Sun News Network from the channel's inception in 20...
Q1261015 Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining. In English-speaking countries, children are often first taught to write in block letters, and...
Q53233 The Ulhas River is a west flowing river in Western India in the state of Maharashtra draining an area of 4,637 km2.
Q4841365 Bag Enderby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Greetham with Somersby , in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies just north of the A158 road, 6 miles (10 km) north-east from Horncastle and 4 miles (6 km) north-west from Partney.Bag Enderby is little more than the buildings of Hall Farm, F...
Q5395608 "Take My Scars" is a single by American heavy metal band Machine Head. There are two different versions of the single. The title track is taken from the 1997 album The More Things Change.... The song was featured on the soundtrack of the film Faust: Love Of The Damned in opening main titles credits. It is th...
Q833844 The 2007 Japan Super Series is the eighth tournament of the 2007 BWF Super Series in badminton. It was held in Tokyo, Japan, from September 11 to September 16, 2007.
Q3990125 The Yardbirds Greatest Hits is the first compilation album of songs recorded by the Yardbirds. It was released in the United States in March 1967 by Epic Records and included all six of the Yardbirds' American A-side singles up to that time, plus three B-sides and the live "Smokestack Lightning" from Having a ...
Q6874198 Mirosternus debilis is a species of beetle in the family Ptinidae.
Q6545761 The Liga Intercalar or Reserves Championship was a competition that served mainly to rotate less used players, juniors and players returning from injury. The first edition (2007–08) was organized by the Football Association of Porto, monitored by the LPFP and Portuguese Football Federation, and was played betw...
Q3968694 Rui Machado defeated Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava in the final 6–3, 7–6(4).
Q5273758 Dickinson v Dodds (1876) 2 Ch D 463 is an English contract law case, heard by the Court of Appeal, Chancery Division, that held that notification by a third party of an offer's withdrawal is effective just like a withdrawal by the person who made an offer. The significance of this case to many students of Cont...
Q4576465 Hemnes Church (Norwegian: Hemnes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hemnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hemnesberget. It is the church for the Hemnes parish which is part of the Indre Helgeland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. T...
Q12877393 The European Team Championships (ETC) are the international squash competition played between teams representing different nations organised by the European Squash Federation. Countries enter teams of four or five players to represent them in the championships. In each round of the competition, teams face ea...
Q16869583 Diston may refer to:Adam Marshall Diston - journalist, British Union of Fascists member, and ghostwriter for Winston ChurchillJosiah DistonJay Diston
Q14938547 Nejib Belhedi (Arabic: نجيب بالهادي‎; born July 25, 1952 in Sfax) is a Tunisian Marathon Icy and Iron open-water swimmer.
Q1717353 Jürgen Klimke (born 2 July 1948, in Hamburg) is a German politician and member of the conservative party CDU - Christian Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands). From 1982 to 2002 he was member of the Parliament of the Free and Federal State of Hamburg (German: Hamburg...
Q9666305 Brazilian Wrestling Federation (BWF) is a Brazilian professional wrestling association, the largest in the country. The federation holds one internet show, the BWF Telecatch. The company was founded with the mission to revive the popularity of Pro Wrestling and Telecatch in Brazil.
Q27777574 Amye Everard Ball was the first woman in England to be granted a patent. Her patent for tincture of saffron was registered in 1637, merely 76 years after Elizabeth I had awarded the first patent. The original patent registration is held at the British Library.
Q15407142 Steve Shehan (born 18 January 1957 in Fort Eustis, Virginia) is a French-American percussionist and music composer.
Q657967 The Second Barons' War (1264–1267) was a civil war in England between the forces of a number of barons led by Simon de Montfort against the royalist forces of King Henry III, led initially by the king himself and later by his son, the future King Edward I. The war featured a series of massacres of Jews by Montf...
Q7060126 The Northwest Montana Wetland Management District is located in the U.S. state of Montana and is an integral part of the National Bison Range Complex along with four other wildlife refuges and the National Bison Range. The district comprises numerous small wetland environments set aside primarily to protect ar...
Q2217100 Etmopterus bullisi, sometimes called lined lanternshark, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Atlantic from North Carolina to northern Florida, and Honduras, between latitudes 34°N and 15°N, at depths of up to 850 m. Its maximum length is more than 26 cm, but an adult has yet to be measu...
Q2717027 Corley (and the associated hamlets of Corley Ash and Corley Moor) is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 668. It is located about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northwest of Coventry and is adjacent to the village of Fillongley. ...
Q1943254 Hyperolius semidiscus is a species of frogs in the family Hyperoliidae. It is found in southern and eastern South Africa and in Eswatini, and it is likely to be present in Mozambique. Common names yellow-striped reed frog, yellow-flanked reed frog, and Hewitt's reed frog have been coined for it.
Q6974150 The Juan Ramón Molina National Library (in Spanish Biblioteca Nacional Juan Ramón Molina) is the national library of Honduras, containing more than 40,000 volumes. It was founded by Antonio R. Vallejo, with the support of Secretary Marco Aurelio Soto and Ramón Rosa. The library was established August 27, 1880,...
Q7739472 The Hermitage, located in Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, is a fourteen-room Gothic Revival house museum built in 1847–48 from designs by William H. Ranlett for Elijah Rosencrantz, Jr. Members of the Rosencrantz family owned The Hermitage estate from 1807 to 1970. The site was designated a...
Q6742427 Malcolm D. Knight is a Canadian economist, policymaker and banker. He is currently Visiting Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2008 to 2012, Knight was Vice Chairman of Deutsche Ban...
Q3560987 "Funny How Time Slips Away" is a song written by Willie Nelson and first recorded by country singer Billy Walker. Walker's version peaked at number 23 on the Hot C&W Sides chart. The tune is slightly similar to "When Two Worlds Collide" which was written by Roger Miller and Bill Anderson.
Q7165420 Penyrheol Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Gorseinon, Swansea, Wales.
Q6833316 For the Michael Patrick O'Connor who was a US Representative from South Carolina, see Michael P. O'ConnorMichael Patrick O'Connor, (1896–1967) was an Irish doctor, writer and broadcaster.O'Connor was born in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland. He joined the British Army in 1914 and served in the Royal Irish Regi...
Q7371030 Räätsma is a lake in the northeast of Estonia, close to its border with Russia and the coastline of the Gulf of Finland.
Q6510430 Leather & Lace Motorcycle Club is an all-female motorcycle club that was formed in Florida in 1983. It is one of the very first female motorcycle clubs with members throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. They bear "colors" of pink and black. The club’s insignia is two flesh-colored women an...
Q7991171 "What I Know" is the twenty-sixth episode of the American television drama series The Killing, and the thirteenth episode and season finale of its second season, which aired on the AMC channel in the United States on June 17, 2012. It is co-written by series developer Veena Sud and Dan Nowak, and is directed b...
Q2866082 Arvydas Eitutavičius (born 18 September 1982) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who last played for BC Gargždai-SC of the National Basketball League. He attended Norfolk Collegiate School and Laurinburg Institute before enrolling to American University to play college basketball for the Eagles. Su...
Q19667774 Thomas Mohr (April 21, 1831 - May 10, 1907) was an American farmer and politician from Kossuth, Wisconsin who served two one-year terms (1876-1877) as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Manitowoc County.
Q19281911 Wilfredo Coto (12 October 1917 – 1 December 1993) was a Cuban sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Q11690276 Chruszczewka may refer to the following places in Poland:Chruszczewka SzlacheckaChruszczewka Włościańska
Q30326601 Julia Csekö is an artist and art educator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.She works in diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture and performance. She cites the concept of the Greek agora as inspiration for her performances. She seeks to create experiences where "performer and viewer, creation and cons...
Q344691 Petr Dlask (born 20 October 1976) is a Czech cyclo-cross cyclist.
Q1058469 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known in Japan as just Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu), is a 2004 anime/computer-animated cyberpunk film that serves as a sequel to 1995's Ghost in the Shell. It was co-produced by Production I.G and Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Disney, Toho ...
Q92982 Gustave Solomon (October 27, 1930 – January 31, 1996) was a mathematician and electrical engineer who was one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction. He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956 under direction of Kenkichi Iwasawa.S...
Q144038 North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.At the opening ceremony, the athletes of both North and South Korea entered the stadium together behind the Korean Unification Flag.
Q3716862 Dylan Lee Howe (born 4 August 1969 in England) is an English drummer, bandleader, session musician and composer. The son of guitarist Steve Howe with whom he has sometimes collaborated, Dylan is also noted for his work with rock band the Blockheads (both before and after the death of singer Ian Dury), in addit...
Q4022372 The Zahir Mosque (Malay: Masjid Zahir) is a mosque in Alor Setar, Kota Setar, Kedah, Malaysia, and the state mosque of the state of Kedah. The Zahir Mosque is one of the grandest and oldest mosques in Malaysia, having been built in 1912. The Zahir Mosque has been voted as one of the top 10 most beautiful mosqu...
Q111173 Collagna is a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Ventasso in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Bologna and about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Reggio Emilia. It was a separate comune until 1 January 2016.Collagna borders ...
Q3882739 Onofrio Catacchio (born October 28, 1964) is an Italian comics artist.Onofrio Catacchio was born in Bari in 1964; he currently lives and works in Bologna.In 1988 he created the character Stella Rossa, who first appeared in the magazines Fuego and Nova Express , being later collected in volumes published by Gra...
Q17026126 A Thousand Winding Roads is the debut studio album of American country music artist Joe Diffie. The album's title is derived from a line in its lead-off single "Home", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in late 1990. Other singles from this album incl...
Q7305593 Redd Pepper (born Richardson Green, Barbados, 23 June 1961) is a British voice actor.Pepper is notable for his work providing theatrical trailers for movies such as Amistad, The Blair Witch Project, Men in Black, and Boogie Nights. His vocal style is similar to that of Don LaFontaine.
Q3157642 Jacopo Marieschi (1711–1794) was an Italian painter of Vedute and also figure painting, active in his native Venice.He initially trained with his father, the prominent vedute painter, Michele Marieschi, and later with Gaspare Diziani. Also called Giacomo Marieschi. He painted allegorical figures of Faith, Hop...
Q6158589 Etorofu was the lead ship of her class of fourteen ships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Q7926207 Victor Abimbola Olaiya (born 31 December 1930), also known as Dr Victor Olaiya, is a Nigerian trumpeter who plays in the highlife style. Though extremely famous in Nigeria during the 1950s and early 1960s, Olaiya received little recognition outside his native country. Alhaji Alade Odunewu of the Daily Times d...
Q4747222 Ammel "Carlos" Sierra Del Santo Rosario (born 17 September 1983 Cagayan de Oro Province) is a Victorian Melbournian Horseman, Polo Player & Sports Entrepreneur. From birth taken and raised by his grandparents, the Honourable Don Oscar Sierra (grandfather) & Alipio Margarita Adoracion Sierra (grandmother) on th...
Q5664207 Harriet Lee (born 6 May 1991) is a British Paralympic swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Q13524124 Spilosoma maniemae is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Kiriakoff in 1965. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Q14324353 Scoparia glauculalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1897. It is found on the Falkland Islands.The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are olive grey, the forewings with a glossy silky texture. There are traces of yellowish marks at the middle and end of the cell. The oute...
Q5721591 Julio Ripamonti Base is a Chilean Antarctic research base. It is located on Ardley Island in the South Shetland Islands. The base is located 50 meters above sea level, on a solid rock surface, 100 meters from the sea. Opened in 1982, it can accommodate a crew of four people. The installation consists of four m...
Q20936219 The 2015–16 Serbian Cup season is the tenth season of the Serbian national football tournament.The competition started on 2 September 2015.The winner of the competition qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.
Q25240943 Betong is a federal constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1971.The federal constituency was created in the 1968 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Q27643173 Joerg Michael Rieger (born 1963) is a German professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church.
Q642430 Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for Sudeten-German industrialist Oskar Schindler and assisted him in his rescue activities during the Holocaust.
Q7787847 Thomas Bray (1656 or 1658 – 15 February 1730) was an English clergyman and abolitionist who helped formally establish the Church of England in Maryland, as well as the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Q2122678 Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England with an area of 2,048 acres. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 was 587. It is a linear settlement on the B1383 (formerly the A11 trunk road) between Saffron Walden and Bishops Stortford. Quendon & Rickling stand 3...
Q5314484 Sergeant Duncan Mansfield (February 1778 – ??) was in the United States Marine Corps.
Q7914841 The Vanguard School is an independent, co-educational, boarding and day school for students, 6-12 grade, who learn differently and is located in Lake Wales, FL. It is accredited through FCIS and SACS - AdvancED.
Q736201 Gmina Brochów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Brochów, which lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Sochaczew and 52 km (32 mi) west of Warsaw.The gmina covers an area of 116.76 square kilometres (...
Q6791019 Matthew Nimetz (; born June 17, 1939) is an American diplomat. He was the United Nations Special Representative for the naming dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia).
Q4854267 The Band of the Coldstream Guards is one of the oldest and best known bands in the British Army, having been officially formed on 16 May 1785 under the command of Major C F Eley, reflecting the fact that the Coldstream Guards regiment is the second oldest of the guards regiments. Although the band is not tech...
Q2909965 Eliad (Hebrew: אֵלִי עַד) is an Israeli settlement and moshav in the southern Golan Heights. It falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council and in 2017 had a population of 375. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Isr...
Q661830 The Pretty marbled (Deltote deceptoria) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Southern Europe and Central Europe.The wingspan is 23–25 mm. The length of the forewings is 12–13 mm. The moth flies from April to July depending on the location.The larvae feed on various grasses.
Q924022 Springfield is an unincorporated community located in Tuolumne County, California. It is a former California Gold Rush boomtown in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and is now designated as a California Historical Landmark. Springfield is located 1.1 mi SW of Columbia another gold rush boomtown.
Q5221880 Bocoa is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae). It belongs to the sub family Faboideae (Papilionoideae). Several species in the genus were recently reclassified as Trischidium.The genus is largely limited to the Guiana Shield and Brazil. Bocoa proucensis is the type species f...
Q6915108 Morum macdonaldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Harpidae, the harp snails.
Q5337153 Edgar Feliciano Báez Fernández (born 21 March 1972 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a former footballer who played for clubs in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
Q6612227 This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies in the Westport, Connecticut area. As of December 2011, Westport was home to one Fortune 500 company: construction equipment manufacturer Terex (#402).
Q5580901 Golog (or Guoluo) Maqin Airport (IATA: GMQ, ICAO: ZLGL) is an airport serving Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Qinghai Province, China. It is located in Caozichang (草子厂) on the Dawutan Grassland (大武滩草原). Construction began on 14 September 2012 with an estimated total investment of 1.24 bill...
Q15270157 Qeshlaq-e Jeda (Persian: قشلاق جدا‎, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Jedā; also known as Jedā Qeshlāqī (Persian: جداقشلاقي) and Jedā Qeshlāq) is a village in Angut-e Sharqi Rural District, Anguti District, Germi County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 142, in 25 families.
Q18124946 The 2015 MSA Formula Championship was a multi-event, Formula 4 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula 4 cars that conform to the technical regulat...
Q19573202 Namma Makkalu (Kannada: ನಮ್ಮ ಮಕ್ಕಳು) is a 1969 Indian Kannada film, directed by R. Nagendra Rao and produced by Harini. The film stars K. S. Ashwath, Pandari Bai, Chandrashekar and Amarnath in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Vijaya Bhaskar.
Q28181215 The 1956 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1956, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post elector...
Q4119391 How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya describing methods of problem solving.
Q849292 Pedro Juan Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈxwaŋ kaβaˈʎeɾo]) is a Paraguayan city located in the Amambay Department of which it is the capital. The city lies on the border with the Brazilian city of Ponta Porã in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and is known as a centre for cheap electronic and consume...
Q171631 The 1973 South African Grand Prix, formally titled the Seventh AA Grand Prix of South Africa, was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 3 March 1973. It was race 3 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by Jackie ...
Q7208491 The Poisons Act 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (citation 1972 c. 66) making provisions for the sale of non-medicinal poisons, and the involvement of Local Authorities and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in their regulation. The act refers to the Pharmacy and Poisons Ac...
Q3504849 "Get Ur Freak On" is a song by American recording artist Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott. It was written and produced by Elliott and Timbaland for her third studio album Miss E... So Addictive (2001). Based on heavy bhangra elements, a popular music and dance form from the Punjab state of India, the song features ...
Q7614482 Steven Bell (born 24 February 1985) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Ayr United. Bell started his career with Dundee United, before moving on to play for Queen of the South, Stirling Albion, Dunfermline Athletic and Stranraer.