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Q17302717 Lorentziella is a genus of moss in the family Gigaspermaceae. The genus contains a single species Lorentziella imbricata known from central Texas, Mexico, and South America (Argentina, Paraguay, & Uruguay). Imbricate lorentziella moss is a common name. |
Q5347109 Eeram (English: Wetness/Moisture) is a 2009 Tamil gothic horror film written and directed by newcomer Arivazhagan. Starring Aadhi Pinisetty and Sindhu Menon in the lead roles, with Saranya Mohan and Nandha in supporting roles, the film was produced by S. Shankar. The filming of Eeram began in November 2007 and... |
Q2522228 Sigula is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. |
Q6773250 Marsdenia flavescens, the Yellow Milk Vine is a vine found in eastern Australia. Other common names include Hairy Milk Vine and Native Potato.The original specimen was collected by the explorer Allan Cunningham in the Illawarra district in the early 19th century. According to this text by the describing scient... |
Q4822696 Aus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Gunvald Aus (1851–1950), Norwegian writerLauri Aus (1970–2003), Estonian cyclist |
Q1966636 Nathan Smith (born 25 December 1985) is a Canadian biathlete. |
Q17560792 McCray School is a historic one-room school building for African-American students located near Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1915-1916, and is a one-story, two-bay, frame building. It has a tin gable-front roof and is sheathed in plain weatherboard. The school continued in ope... |
Q19864717 Marshall Kornegay House and Cemetery is a historic plantation house located near Suttontown, Sampson County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1835, and is a 2 1/2-story, four bay by three bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, rear ell, and one-story h... |
Q20624596 Liberty Wharf is a shopping centre in St Helier, Jersey, which opened in November 2010. Much of the site is a former abattoir which was restored and converted for use as a shopping centre. |
Q24841857 V830 Tauri b is an exoplanet orbiting around the young T Tauri star V830 Tauri, about 427 light-years (131 pc) away from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. The exoplanet has a young age of only about 2 million years. |
Q30635016 The 2008 Piala Belia (English: Youth Cup) is the first season of the Piala Belia. The league is currently the youth level (U19) football league in Malaysia. |
Q4155949 The Palace of Culture of the combine factory (Russian: Дворец культуры комбайнового завода) is the Taganrog Palace of Culture, which belonged to the Taganrog Combine factory. |
Q42913607 Austria is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-eighth appearance at the Summer Olympics. |
Q235202 Year 455 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vaticanus and Cicurinus (or, less frequently, year 299 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 455 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era beca... |
Q3942229 Rude Awakening is Prong's fifth album. Rude Awakening is an enhanced CD. It was also released as a special limited edition on 12" red vinyl. The album was reissued in 2008 as a digipak version, featuring four remixes of the "Rude Awakening" single and a new booklet.Rude Awakening is the last Prong album to fea... |
Q208383 A ceasefire (or truce), also called cease fire, is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces. A ceasefir... |
Q883615 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1586. |
Q17087896 The International Social Service (ISS) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1924. It provides assistance in resolving international child protection cases.The ISS is organised as a global network of over 120 countries which assist children and families confronted with complex soc... |
Q7530424 Sirius XM Indie, formerly known as Maxim Radio and Stars Too, is a talk channel heard on the Sirius and XM satellite radio platforms. The channel is a spin-off of its sister station Sirius XM Stars. |
Q644447 NGC 1309 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 120 million light-years away, appearing in the constellation Eridanus. It is about 75,000 light-years across, and is about 3/4s the width of the Milky Way. Its shape is classified as SA(s)bc, meaning that it has moderately wound spiral arms and no ring.Bright bl... |
Q7920210 Vent 414 were a short-lived British independent rock band, who were active for a few years in the 1990s. They were mostly notable for their line-up; Miles Hunt from The Wonder Stuff, Billy Duffy (The Cult), and Morgan Nicholls (Senseless Things, The Streets, Muse), along with Pete Howard, drummer from The Cla... |
Q7599204 Stanisław Jan Patek (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf ˈpatɛk]; 1 May 1866 – 25 August 1944), Polish lawyer, freemason and diplomat, served as Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1920. |
Q6724158 Macizos de Peñas Blancas Natural Reserve is a nature reserve in Nicaragua. It is one of the 78 reserves that are under official protection in the country. |
Q5114454 Chrysallida intumescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of multiple known species to exist within the Chrysallida genus of gastropods. |
Q8078019 École secondaire Saint-Edmond is a public French-language secondary school in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Its address is 346 Hubert Street in the borough of Greenfield Park. |
Q4920353 Black Beauty is a 1921 American silent film version of Anna Sewell's novel of the same name. Black Beauty is an autobiography of a horse, who tells the story of his life and of the people surrounding it. This film exists in an incomplete state with four of seven reels preserved at the Library of Congress.A com... |
Q16873285 Peter M. Garner (1809–1868) was an American abolitionist. |
Q5825336 Masineh (Persian: مسينه, also Romanized as Masīneh and Mesīneh; also known as Masin and Māsīnī) is a village in Manzariyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Shahreza County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 192, in 55 families. |
Q15917511 The Australian Street Stock Championship is a Dirt track racing championship held each year to determine the Australian national champion. The championship is held over a single meeting (usually on consecutive nights) and has run annually since the 1989/90 season and is awarded to a different state of Austral... |
Q11302751 Korea International School (コリア国際学園, Koria Kokusai Gakkō, Korean: 코리아 국제학원; KIS) is a Korean junior and senior high school in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 2008.The government of Osaka Prefecture classifies the school as a "miscellaneous school". |
Q25043673 Cannabis in Nigeria is illegal, yet the country is a major source of West African-grown cannabis, and ranked the world's eighth highest consumer of cannabis. Cannabis is widely grown across the States of Nigeria, including Ondo State, Edo State, Delta State, Osun State, Oyo State and Ogun State. |
Q21005334 Swetha Changappa is a Kannada television actress who has acted in various tele-serials and films. |
Q26270160 David Daniel Gitin (December 19, 1941 – June 27, 2015) was an American poet and author. |
Q4053333 XOTcl is an object-oriented extension for the Tool Command Language created by Gustaf Neumann and Uwe Zdun. It is a derivative of MIT OTcl. XOTcl is based on a dynamic object system with metaclasses which as influenced by CLOS. Class and method definitions are completely dynamic. XOTcl provides language suppor... |
Q137086 Mindware Studios was a video game development company, founded in Prague in 2002. The company's first game, Cold War, was a minor success in the EU and was published in North America by Canadian games publisher DreamCatcher Interactive. Mindware Studios was closed in 2011. |
Q3710072 Edna Grossman (born Edna Kalka) is an American mathematician. She was born in Germany, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College. She earned her M.S. in mathematics from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she also received... |
Q4887907 Beni Prasad Verma (born 11 February 1941) is an Indian politician and presently a member of the Samajwadi Party. Earlier he was with Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav, then he joined Indian National Congress and was elected on its ticket to Lok Sabha in 2009. In 2016 he rejoined Samajwadi Party. |
Q3155647 Israel Galván Reyes (born 1973 in Seville) is a Spanish flamenco dancer (bailaor) and choreographer. He grew up learning and dancing with his father, the dancer José Galván, and his mother, Eugenia Reyes.He became a celebrity in flamenco thanks to his dancing steps with complicated feet movements, showing rapi... |
Q571285 Som is a village in Siófok District, Somogy County, Hungary. |
Q6245047 John Lloyd (born 15 February 1948, at Rhosddu near Wrexham) is a former referee in The Football League and Premier League and member of the Welsh FIFA List. He is one of only three referees (alongside Steve Baines and Bob Matthewson) who have made League appearances as a player. |
Q862256 William A. Le Sage (20 January 1927, 31 October 2001) was a British pianist, vibraphonist, arranger, composer and bandleader. |
Q2975042 Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubreyvich, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. |
Q1225129 Ingruentium malorum (English: In the face of approaching evils) is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII on reciting the rosary, issued on September 15, 1951, the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. "It is an appeal for an intensification of the traditional October Rosary devotions, making a particular rec... |
Q2504934 Uwem Akpan (born May 19, 1971) is a Nigerian writer. He is the author of Say You’re One of Them (2008), a collection of five stories (each set in a different African country) published by Little, Brown & Company. It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and was picked by the Oprah Winfr... |
Q5891376 Homoiothemara is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. |
Q4852427 Balobal is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India. |
Q2203301 The lined wrasse, Anampses lineatus, is a species of wrasse native to the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea to South Africa east to Bali. This species can be found at depths from 10 to 45 m (33 to 148 ft) (though usually below 20 m (66 ft)) in lagoons and on reefs. It can reach a length of 13 cm (5.1 in). It ca... |
Q16899375 The Riverview Historic District is a national historic district located at Norfolk, Virginia. It encompasses 200 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Norfolk. It developed primarily during the first quarter of the 20th century, as a suburban community north of the growing downtown are... |
Q4013506 Vincenzo Salemme (born 24 July 1957) is an Italian actor, playwright, director and screenwriter. |
Q18810958 Antony Alfred Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos (23 October 1920 – 28 November 1980) was a British soldier and peer from the Lyttelton family. |
Q19873723 John Oliver Griffiths (14 July 1923 – 13 April 2001) was a British philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1987.Griffiths won the Grand Prix d'Honneur plus Large Gold medal at STOCKHOLMIA 74 for his British stamps. He won Large Gold plus Grand Prix d'Honneur at BANGKOK 83 for So... |
Q4371318 Boris Polak (בוריס פולק; born July 15, 1954) is an Israeli former world champion and Olympic sport shooter. |
Q42500402 KC Akshay (born 15 May 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Kerala in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2017, taking 5 wickets for 21 runs in the second innings. He made his List A debut for Kerala in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 7 February 2018.In August 2018, he was one... |
Q1346314 Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, in Minho. Founded on 1 November 1938, it plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas, with a capacity for 9,000 spectators. |
Q2236536 Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) – also biblical: Abel-Shittim or Ha-Shittim (or simply Shittim) – was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km. northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea; the site is now that of Abil-ez-Zeit, Jordan.Abel-Shittim, (Hebrew meaning "Me... |
Q7521255 Simsbury High School is a public high school in Simsbury, Connecticut. Simbury has been honored multiple times with the Achievement Cup for outstanding achievement in athletics in the state of Connecticut. The musicals have been recognized multiple times by the Halo Awards. |
Q2508776 Wyoming Highway 22 (WYO 22) is a 17.53-mile (28.21 km) is a Wyoming state highway known as the Teton Pass Highway in Teton County. WYO 22 spans 17.53 miles (28.21 km) from Idaho State Highway 33 at the Idaho-Wyoming state line to the concurrency of U.S. Routes 26, 89, 189, and 191 in Jackson, Wyoming. |
Q7336933 The Ritzy is a cinema in Brixton, London, England. It is a Grade II listed building. It is managed by Picturehouse Cinemas, who were bought by Cineworld in 2012.The cinema opened on 11 March 1911 as "the Electric Pavilion". It was built by E.C. Homer and Lucas for Israel Davis, one of a noted family of cinema ... |
Q136212 1126 Otero, provisional designation 1929 AC, is a rare-type Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 11 January 1929, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. It was named after Spanish c... |
Q7302431 Rechulówka [rɛxuˈlufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ulhówek, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. |
Q1032072 The 2009 Canadian Championship (officially the Nutrilite Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association that took place in the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in 2009. It is the second Canadian Championship held, after th... |
Q7797082 Thousandsticks is an unincorporated community in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States. Thousandsticks is located at the junction of the Hal Rogers Parkway and Kentucky Route 118 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Hyden. Thousandsticks had a post office with ZIP code 41766 which closed in 2005. |
Q1726790 Siobhan Marie McMahon (born 4 July 1984) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was a list Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region 2011-2016.McMahon was involved in the campaign to get Johann Lamont MSP to become Scottish Labour's leader. |
Q7514205 Silas P. Smith Opera House, now known as Doddridge County Public Library, is a historic theatre located at West Union, Doddridge County, West Virginia. It was built in 1900, and is a two-story brick commercial building measuring 40 feet wide and 70 feet deep. It has simple Romanesque Revival style architectura... |
Q5152507 Commercial Light Company is an Illinois electrical contractor and engineering company, which has performed the electrical work for many Chicago buildings. It is located at 245 Fenel Lane, Hillside, Illinois, and is one of the village's largest employers. |
Q7717180 The Best of Pure Voice is an international album by Christchurch, New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra. It was released in both standard and limited editions in Japan, and in other Asian areas as a regular CD, on 29 June 2010.The Best of Pure Voice includes classical songs such as Amazing Grace, Danny Boy, and ... |
Q4562648 The 1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts which took place at the Margitsziget courts. It was part of the Hungarian International Tennis Championships series. The event was preceded by two years of promotion, which led to a greater number of for... |
Q4631889 24 Lyncis is a single star in the northern constellation of Lynx. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.96. The distance to this star, as determined from its parallax measurements, is around 274 light years. It is moving further away from the Earth with... |
Q20709510 Dale Allen Samuels (born August 2, 1931) is a former American football quarterback who played one season with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Cardinals in the third round of the 1953 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue University and attended Robe... |
Q30707095 Clifford Hall may refer to:Clifford Hall (cricketer) (1902–1982), English cricketerClifford Hall (painter) (1904–1973), British painter |
Q22442627 The 2016 Argentina Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the ATP Buenos Aires event, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from February 8 through 14, 2016. |
Q11973459 Gyland Church (Norwegian: Gyland kirke) is a parish church in Flekkefjord municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located at Nuland, a few kilometers southwest of the village of Gyland. The church is part of the Gyland parish in the Lister deanery in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wo... |
Q29359820 Hong Zhang (Chinese: 张宏; pinyin: Zhāng Hóng) is an electrical engineer from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his contributions to collective robotics and intelligent sensing in oil sand mining. |
Q2578008 The Acteal massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican ... |
Q6570156 The English rugby union league pyramid is topped by the Premiership. Below this are the Championship and National Leagues 1 to 3. Below this, the structure is split geographically into four regions: Midlands, North, London and South East, and South West. With the exception of the Midlands leagues, which only h... |
Q1025692 Iniö is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Korpo, Nagu and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland, which name from the beginning of 2012 was changed to Parainen.It is located in the province of Western Finland (Länsi-Suomen lääni) and is part of the Sout... |
Q1130953 Hakui (羽咋郡, Hakui-gun) is a district located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 39,888 and a density of 111.35 persons per km². The total area is 358.23 km². |
Q7600262 Stanton Peele (born January 8, 1946) is a psychologist, attorney, psychotherapist and the author of books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and addiction treatment. |
Q3545176 Cláudio Heinrich (born November 20, 1972) is a Brazilian film and television actor. |
Q1635561 Not On Top is a 2005 album by Herman Düne. On this record Herman Düne are augmented by Canadian singer-songwriter Julie Doiron, who plays bass and provides some of the vocals. This is Herman Düne's first record to make significant use of bass guitar. It was recorded at Hall Place Studios in Leeds, England. Unu... |
Q6206154 Joanne Larson holds the Michael W. Scandling Professorship at the University of Rochester Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development [1]. She is also chair of the Teaching, Curriculum, and Change department. In the past ten years, Larson has emerged as a leading scholar in the New Liter... |
Q3093144 1947–48 British Home Championship was the second edition of this annual football tournament to be played in the post-war period. It was conducted during the 1947–48 football season between the four Home Nations of the British Isles and resulted in a victory for England for the second year in a row.England bega... |
Q2243005 Hildebrandtia macrotympanum is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family.It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and intermittent freshwater marshes.It is threatened by habitat lo... |
Q6706770 Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva (born 27 March 1987), commonly known as Cláudio, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Angthong in Thailand. |
Q4817096 Atmospheres was a weekly television series on The Weather Channel. The series, hosted by meteorologist Jim Cantore and Mish Michaels, featured current weather news and information. Some of the original segments included "Feature of the Week", dramatic rescue stories from inclement weather (which would set the ... |
Q4799381 Arthur Kneller (28 April 1894 – 19 July 1969) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club between 1924 and 1926. He was educated at Ardingly College. He was also the Deputy Commissioner of Labour in Kenya. He died in Chichester, Sussex, England in 1969. |
Q6731515 Magnetic braking is a theory explaining the loss of stellar angular momentum due to material getting captured by the stellar magnetic field and thrown out at great distance from the surface of the star. It plays an important role in the evolution of binary star systems. |
Q6998895 Neterra is a Bulgarian operator for complex telecommunications services and projects in Southeast Europe. The company is established as the first alternative operator of land and satellite stations in Bulgaria. Neterra's data network covers all major cities in Bulgaria and reaches points in Georgia, Greece, Hu... |
Q7227742 Yayasan Pondok Pesantren Minhaajurrosyidiin Jakarta was established in 1995 by retired military and police are concerned about the increase in morals and manners of the people of Indonesia who fit the Qur'an and the Shari'a Alhadits The Prophet.Chairman of the Foundation Ponpes Minhaajurrosyidiin at that time ... |
Q5963155 Quch Qar (Persian: قوچقر, also Romanized as Qūch Qar) is a village in Bam Rural District, Bam and Safiabad District, Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 84, in 24 families. |
Q17523929 Akbar Poudeh (Persian: اکبر پوده, born 13 March 1932) is an Iranian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. |
Q19902463 Hultgreen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Dagny Hultgreen (born 1962), American television personality and actressFinn Sture Hultgreen (born 1949), Norwegian politicianKara Hultgreen (1965–1994), United States naval aviator |
Q42851569 The Thornham Parva Retable is a medieval altarpiece, now in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. The retable is thought to have been created in the 1330s for a Dominican Priory. At 15 feet (4.6 m) long, it is the largest surviving altarpiece from the English Middle Ages.The retable survived the iconoclastic refo... |
Q371310 Bone Machine is the tenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1992 on Island Records. It won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, and features guest appearances by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, Primus' Les Claypool, Praxis' Bryan Mantia, and The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards.Bone Machine marked a re... |
Q4809193 Associated Grocers was a retailers' cooperative that distributed full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1934, it also provided retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. Based in Seattle, it had over 300 members before it was acquired by anoth... |
Q43341 Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed, biological, scientific journal published by the Royal Society. It focuses on the rapid publication of short high quality research articles, reviews and opinion pieces across the biological sciences. Biology Letters has an average turnaround time of twenty four days from submis... |
Q278810 Pennon Group plc is a British water utility and waste management company based in Exeter, Devon in the United Kingdom. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. 83% of the company's profits come from its subsidiary, South West Water. |
Q7607142 Stella Tillyard (born 16 January 1957) is an English author and historian best known for her popular work Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740–1832, which was made into a BBC mini-series in 1999. |
Q429093 Limping for a Generation was the 1984 debut album by the British band The Blow Monkeys.In the booklet to 1999 Atomic Lullabies – Very Best of the Blow Monkeys, lead singer Dr. Robert (born Robert Howard) stated that, even if it was "Digging Your Scene", from the band's second album, Animal Magic, "that opened t... |
Q1426421 Pietro Alessandro Yon (August 8, 1886 – November 22, 1943) was an Italian-born organist and composer who made his career in the United States. |
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