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Q1940805 Mitumba is a Swahili term, literally meaning "bundles", used to refer to plastic-wrapped packages of used clothing donated by people in wealthy countries. The term is also applied to the clothing that arrives in these bundles.One major receiving port for Mitumba is in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. From ... |
Q3297077 Ivan Rocha Limas (born 14 January 1969), known as Rocha, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played mainly as a central defender but also as a left back. |
Q7998833 Widuch [ˈvidux] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żarnów, within Opoczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Żarnów, 20 km (12 mi) south-west of Opoczno, and 74 km (46 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.It is also a surname. |
Q11704023 The German banking system is structured in three different pillars, totally separated from each other. They typically differ in their legal form and the ownership.Private banks, represented by banks like Deutsche Bank or Commerzbank as listed companies, and Hauck & Aufhäuser or Bankhaus Lampe as less known pr... |
Q4810698 The eastern yellow wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. It was often classified as a subspecies of the Western yellow wagtail.This species breeds in temperate Asia and has a foothold in North America in Alaska.... |
Q5241009 David Wheeldon (born 12 April 1989) is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Worcestershire. He was born in Staffordshire.Wheeldon made his cricketing debut in the Under-15s County Cup in 2004, and played in the Under-17 County Championship for Staffordshire betw... |
Q8011958 William Henry Dennis (31 March 1887 – 18 January 1954) was a Conservative and Progressive Conservative party member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Colchester County, Nova Scotia and became a printer and publisher. |
Q1279807 The Fourth War is a 1990 film directed by John Frankenheimer, set in West Germany of late 1980s. Its title stems from a famous quote by Albert Einstein: "I cannot predict how the Third World War shall be fought, or with what; I can, however, predict that the Fourth World War shall be waged with sticks and ston... |
Q5475086 Four Corners is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
Q1938835 Copelatus geniculatus is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the genus Copelatus of the subfamily Copelatinae and the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Sharp in 1882. |
Q3376819 Peter Pouly (born 29 June 1977 in Saint-Étienne) is a French cyclist, who competes on the road and mountain bike. Pouly served a suspension of one year from 12 December 2002 to 12 December 2003 for doping. |
Q27003412 Juan Francisco Pacheco (1605 – 24 May 1663) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cuenca (1653–1663) and Bishop of Córdoba (1652–1653). |
Q26923874 Imène Cherif-Sahraoui (born September 14, 1995) is an Algerian sailor. She placed 37th in the Laser Radial event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
Q5182321 CrashBurn is an Australian 13-part drama series airing on Network Ten, about surviving long-term relationships in an age where multiple partners and multiple orgasms are considered a birthright.It starred Catherine McClements and Aaron Blabey as Rosie and Ben Harfield, a couple whose marriage troubles send the... |
Q7763755 The Shell Seekers is a 1987 novel by Rosamunde Pilcher. It became one of her most famous best-sellers. It was nominated by the British public in 2003 as one of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read. In Germany the novel is called Die Muschelsucher and was also in the top 100 novels The novel sold more than... |
Q7763226 "The Seeker" is a song by Dolly Parton, which served as one of the title songs to Parton's 1975 album Dolly: The Seeker/We Used To, and was also a top ten single on the U.S. country charts. A spiritual, which Parton described as her "talk with God", the song was released as a single in July 1975, just missing... |
Q502469 History of the countryUntil 1185, on the mountain where the village is now, stood a farmhouse, which belonged to the "gens Julia" (hence the name). Just that year the Emperor William the Good gave him, along with other houses, to the bishop of Monreale.Its urban identity, however, develops from the FOURTEENTH c... |
Q1098111 Ninjemys oweni ("Owen's Ninja Turtle") is an extinct large meiolaniid stem-turtle from Pleistocene Queensland (Australia). It resembled its larger relative, Meiolania, save that the largest pair of horns on its head stuck out to the sides, rather than point backwards. |
Q2244977 The Mozambique ridged frog (Ptychadena mossambica, also known as the broad-banded grass frog, Mozambique grass frog, Mozambique grassland frog, or single-striped grass frog) is a species of frog in the Ptychadenidae family. These frogs can swim fairly well, jump far and can crawl with ease through dense plants... |
Q7189969 Pi Mu, (ΠΜ), was founded on December 13, 1892 at the University of Virginia by John W. Mallet, Hugh I. Cummings, Powell C. Fauntleroy, Hugh T. McGuire, E. L. Hobson, Nicholas Wothington, Rawley Penick, Charles E. Marrow, James S. Irving, Rawley Martin and Hugh H. Duke. Dr. Mallet designed the name and motto.In... |
Q4576060 The 1974 Denver Broncos season was the team's 15th year in professional football and its fifth with the National Football League (NFL). The team finished the season with a winning record for the second straight season with seven wins, six losses, and one tie. |
Q6937690 Murder and Magic is a collection of short stories by American writer Randall Garrett, featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1979 by Ace Books, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was later gathered together with Too Many Magicians (1967) and... |
Q3426399 Syama is a village development committee in Dolakha District in the Janakpur Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4781 people living in 941 individual households. |
Q5530747 Gemophos viverratoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae. |
Q5373326 Emmanuel Paulker (born 15 October 1955) was elected Senator for the Bayelsa Central constituency of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2007. He is a member of the UKIP. |
Q4968063 M/V Brillante Virtuoso was a Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged suezmax tanker allegedly attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden on 6 July 2011. |
Q4657391 A Hope for Home (commonly abbreviated to AHFH) is a post-metal band based in Portland, Oregon that formed in 2006. They have four studio albums, two of which were released on Facedown Records and Strike First (the imprint label of Facedown Records). Throughout their career, A Hope for Home has controlled many ... |
Q7862308 Tô Ngọc Vân (15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his paintings are being displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. He taught a resistance art class in the northern zone during the war with the French, and died as the result of injurie... |
Q15864801 Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet (7 September 1629 – 1 November 1665) was a substantial land owner in Ireland. He was knighted by Henry Cromwell for his services to the Commonwealth government of Ireland during the Interregnum. Shortly before the Restoration he held the offices of Chief Prothonotary of the Comm... |
Q16826294 The Chapel Rural Historic District is an expansive rural historic district in Clarke County, Virginia. The district encompasses an area of nearly 11,500 acres (4,700 ha), a rural landscape that extends from Millwood in the south, nearly to Berryville in the north. The district takes its name from the Old Ch... |
Q1828568 Nannodiplax is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. There is only one known species of this genus which occurs in New Guinea and Australia. |
Q20721549 Necrophila is a genus of carrion beetles, with around 20 species: most found in Asia, and one species in North America, Necrophila americana. |
Q2964301 Lombart Chocolate (French: Chocolat Lombart, or Chocolaterie Lombart, was a French chocolate manufacturer.It claimed to be the oldest such company in France, and at its peak was the largest.The company was innovative in providing insurance and a profit-sharing plan to its workers.In the late 1930s it went into... |
Q6272955 Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, an author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of British TV presenter David Dimbleby. |
Q5508174 A full-course dinner is a dinner consisting of multiple dishes, or courses. In its simplest form, it can consist of three or four courses, first course, a main course and dessert. |
Q5653836 Harald Johan Løbak (2 June 1904 – 6 February 1985) was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party.He was born in Trysil.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1945, and was re-elected on six occasions.He was the Minister of Agriculture from May 1956 to April 1960 during the thir... |
Q6691663 Love and Music is the tenth collaborative studio album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. It was released on July 2, 1973, by RCA Victor. It contains their top ten country single "If Teardrops Were Pennies". The album reached #8 on the U.S. country albums chart. The liner notes are written by Carl Butler an... |
Q3656999 Charlton House is a Jacobean building in Charlton, today part of south-east London, but until 1889 in the county of Kent. Originally a residence for a nobleman associated with the Stuart royal family, it later served as a wartime hospital, then a museum and library, and is now a community centre. |
Q6524689 Leon Hess (March 14, 1914 – May 7, 1999) was the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets. |
Q11421449 National Route 369 (国道308号, Kokudō Sanbyaku-rokujūkyū-gō) is a national highway of Japan connecting Nara, Nara and Matsusaka, Mie in Japan, with a total length of 122.3 km (75.99 mi). |
Q3423458 Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) (Hindi: हज़ार चौरासी की माँ; English: The Mother of 1084) is an Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology.The film is directed by Govind Nihalani and is based on Magsaysay and Jna... |
Q5361552 Elisabeth Subrin is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and visual artist. She is known for her interdisciplinary practice in the contemporary art and independent film worlds. She is a professor in Temple University's Department of Film and Media Arts. Her feature length narrative film A Woman, a Part; s... |
Q4833623 B'nai Jacob Synagogue is a historic Conservative synagogue located at the intersection of Nissley and Water Streets, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1906, and is a one-story brick building with a front gabled roof. The front facade features brick recessed panels with pointed arched w... |
Q20858661 Frasin is a commune in Dondușeni District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Caraiman, Codrenii Noi and Frasin (formerly Frasân). |
Q7123831 Padma Khanna is an Indian actress, dancer and director. She appeared mainly in Hindi and Bhojpuri films in the 1970s and 1980s. She is most remembered for her role in the film Saudagar with Amitabh Bachchan and also as Queen Kaikeyi in Ramanand Sagar's epic series Ramayan (1987–1988). She has acted in two Telu... |
Q4469537 The Moldovan identity card is a compulsory identity document issued in the Republic of Moldova. Every Moldovan citizen who resides in the Republic of Moldova must have an ID card. Moldovan ID cards are issued by the State Enterprise and Information Resources Center "Registru". The following age groups are: Fro... |
Q6176154 Jeffrey Marks (born October 8, 1960) is an American author. |
Q19868577 "Box Chevy V" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Yelawolf, featured on his 2015 album Love Story. Written by Yelawolf, producer WLPWR, guitarist Mike Hartnett and mixing engineer Matthew Hayes, it is the fifth entry in Yelawolf's "Box Chevy" song series. The song was released as the first single f... |
Q17385908 Jacqueline Mary Fahey (born 1929) is a New Zealand painter and writer. |
Q13358908 Idioglossa argodora is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is known from India.The wingspan is about 10 mm. |
Q15758545 Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering peace studies published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Peace History Society and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. It was established in 1972 and the editor-in-chief is Heather Fryer (Creighton University).... |
Q28970419 Carlton on Trent railway station was a railway station that served the village of Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England from 1850 to 1953 on the East Coast Main Line. |
Q11776793 Media Business Centre (MBC) is a building located at 166 Wiertnicza Street in Warsaw, Poland. It is located in the part of Warsaw commonly known as Sadyba, on the administrative border of the Mokotów and Wilanów districts). It is the headquarters of the TVN Group and a large part of its companies. It was buil... |
Q3756855 In finance, accretion is the change in the price of a bond bought at a discount to the par value of the bond. Accretion can be thought of as the antonym of amortization.Accretion, in a corporate finance environment, is essentially the actual value created after a particular transaction. A deal will always be e... |
Q3101042 Geoff Appleford (born 26 September 1977 in Dundee, South Africa) is a retired rugby union footballer who played for London Irish at centre, then ended his career with Northampton Saints, although because of injury he never played a competitive game for the club. Geoff also played for England. He was educated a... |
Q3776984 Grotesque is ostensibly a crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out. It was published in English in 2007, translated by Rebecca Copeland. Publisher Knopf censored the American translation, removing a section involving underage male prostitution, as it was considered too taboo ... |
Q5279011 The Anglican Diocese of South-West Tanganyika is one of 28 dioceses within the Anglican Church of Tanzania. |
Q3424971 Sipal Kabhre is a village in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2586 and had 522 houses in the village. |
Q377582 ZALA 421-08 is a Micro air vehicle developed and produced by the Izhevsk-based ZALA Aero company. It is a small, portable and reliable UAV platform. Weighing only 9 kg it includes 2 aerial vehicles, compact ground control station, 2 spare power supply kits and backpack container used for transportation. ZALA 42... |
Q8081962 Śmieszkowo [ɕmjɛʂˈkɔvɔ] (German: Lache) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sława, within Wschowa County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Sława, 19 km (12 mi) north-west of Wschowa, and 41 km (25 mi) east of Zielona Góra. |
Q6494185 "Last Chance" is the first single by American singer Ginuwine from his sixth studio album A Man's Thoughts. The song was written by Adonis Shropshire and produced by Bryan-Michael Cox. Ginuwine commented that this song "reflects the maturity of my personal growth over the past few years."The song was digitally... |
Q844635 Aihara Station (相原駅, Aihara-eki) is a railway station on the Yokohama Line in Machida, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). |
Q6976860 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mineral County, West Virginia.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties... |
Q6729642 Magallania is an academic journal published by the University of Magallanes. It publishes articles on social sciences and humanities regarding Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and Antarctica. The journal was published annually from its establishment in 1970 until 2005 when it began to be issued twice a year. |
Q5199017 Cyclosorus interruptus, the swamp shield-fern, is a fern in the family Thelypteridaceae, that is native to the tropics and subtropics of all the continents. In the New World, it is found from Mexico to Argentina, and in the Antilles. In the Old World, it is found in India, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and South ... |
Q4779132 Apareiodon is a genus of scrapetooths from South America where they are found as far south as Río de la Plata. There are currently fifteen described species in this genus. |
Q2550554 Emmanuel Stars is a Ghanaian professional football club, based in Tarkwa, Western Region. They are competing in the 2012–13 Poly Tank Division One League after being relegated at the end of the 2011–12 Glo Premier League season.Although the club was only founded in 2008, it has undergone two name changes. The ... |
Q6155602 Janthinobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria. The name is from Latin janthinus, which means "violet" or "violet-blue". It produces a purple-violet pigment, manifests diverse energy metabolism abilities, and tolerates cold, ultraviolet radiation, and other environmental stressors. |
Q4504055 Center of Theatrical Arts «House of Meyerhold» - State museum-theater in Penza in the house, where in 1881—1895 Carl Meyerhold was lived . The museum presents the life and work of Meyerhold. The Center priority is to create experimental performances, which are based on research and development of the creative... |
Q13639764 Praemendesia is an extinct genus of moths in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Kozlov in 1987. It contains the species P. minima, which was described from Baltic amber in the Russian Federation. It is dated to the Eocene. |
Q22667597 Botany Bay (63°41′S 57°53′W) is a small bay between Church Point and Camp Hill on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1946, and named for the fossil plants collected there. |
Q24191629 Coder is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It sits at an elevation of 1,276 feet (389 m). |
Q1326033 Hans Thoenen (born 5 May 1928 in Zweisimmen, Switzerland; died 23 June 2012 in Munich, Germany) was a Swiss neurobiologist best known for his work on neurotrophins. |
Q992791 Syrtis Major Planum is a "dark spot" (an albedo feature) located in the boundary between the northern lowlands and southern highlands of Mars just west of the impact basin Isidis in the Syrtis Major quadrangle. It was discovered, on the basis of data from Mars Global Surveyor, to be a low-relief shield volcano,... |
Q15524920 Horace Howard Furness (November 2, 1833 – August 13, 1912) was an American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century. |
Q2291663 For the 2014 documentary, see Seymour: An Introduction (film)Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction... |
Q7074150 Oakley Hall is an American folk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York.The group was founded in 2002 and is named for Oakley Hall, an American novelist. The group's songs combine elements of rock, bluegrass, and old-time music, prominently featuring the male-female vocal harmonies of lead vocalists Patrick Sull... |
Q7810051 Title 1 of the United States Code outlines the general provisions of the United States Code. |
Q194945 Vallis Baade is a 203 km long sinuous valley on the Moon running south-southeast from the crater Baade and centered at 45.9°S 76.2°W / -45.9; -76.2 (south of the Montes Cordillera). It has the same namesake as the crater, the German astronomer Walter Baade.This is one of several valleys that radiate away from ... |
Q1429244 Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in Silent and Golden Age's Hollywood films. It's the first movie of an extended collaboration... |
Q3322125 "Us Against the World" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife from their eighth studio album Back Home (2007). The song was released as the album's second single on 3 March 2008.The song was written by Arnthor Birgisson, Rami Yacoub and Savan Kotecha. A music video for the song was filmed in December 2007 and pr... |
Q2110445 Rubén Luis di Palma (Arrecifes, October 27, 1944 – Carlos Tejedor, September 30, 2000) was an Argentine racing driver. He won the TC2000 championship once (1983) and finished runner-up on three other occasions and the Turismo Carretera championship back-to-back in 1970 and 1971. He died in September 2000, when... |
Q2900474 Beyond Hypothermia (Chinese: 攝氏32度) is a 1996 Hong Kong action film directed by Patrick Leung, co-produced by Johnnie To, and starring Jacklyn Wu and Sean Lau. |
Q4938007 Bohara is a village in the district of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in Punjab, India. It is a small village which lies between Aur and Nawashahr. |
Q7300188 The reach cast is a casting technique used in fly fishing. The reach cast involves casting the fly lure over flowing water, such as a stream, and then just before the fly lands, moving the arm and fly rod in the upstream direction to arrange the fishing line so that it produces less apparent drag in the water... |
Q2741270 Agaporomorphus is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae. |
Q4755195 Andrea Molnár-Bodó (born 4 August 1934) is a Hungarian former gymnast who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. |
Q7758488 "The Professor of Practical Jokes" is a literary fairy tale published in 1898 by British suffragist and author Evelyn Sharp (1829–1955). The story tells of a good yet boring king who is tricked into marrying one of his courtiers daughters, who brings excitement into his dull kingdom. The story is one of many p... |
Q166075 Filip "Fića" Vujić (Serbian: Филип Вујић born October 17, 1989 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian volleyball player (libero). He was a member of the national team at the 2011 European Championship when Serbia won the gold medal. |
Q18392785 The Journal of Financial Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1993 as the official publication of the Taiwan Finance Association. it covers all aspects of financial research. The journal is included in the Taiwan Social Science Citation Index of the National Science Co... |
Q14920415 2012 World Ice Hockey Championships may refer to:2012 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships2012 IIHF World U18 Championships |
Q13433430 Baeonoma helotypa is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.The wingspan is 14–18 mm. The forewings are white with some undefined fuscous suffusion towards the dorsum beyond the middle, sometimes forming an irregular suffused dark fuscous blotch in males. There are some s... |
Q28452704 "Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)" is a 1985 song by British group Red Box from their album The Circle & the Square. It was the band's highest charting single, reaching no. 3 in the UK in October 1985. |
Q683097 The Museum of Sketches for Public Art (Swedish Skissernas museum - Arkiv för dekorativ konst, also known in English as the Archive of Decorative Art) is an art museum at Lund University in Sweden, dedicated to the collection and display of sketches and drawings for contemporary monumental and public art, such a... |
Q7871830 The first USS Mingo, a stern-wheel steamer built at California, Pennsylvania, in 1859 and used to tow coal barges, was purchased at Pittsburgh by Lt. Col. Charles Ellet for the War Department early in April 1862. |
Q4657986 A Love to Kill (Korean: 이 죽일 놈의 사랑; RR: I juk-il nom-ui sarang) is a 2005 South Korean television drama series, starring Rain, Shin Min-ah, Kim Sa-rang, and Lee Ki-woo. It aired on KBS2 from October 31 to December 20, 2005, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. |
Q2904742 Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre (Hebrew: גשר – מרכז ציוני דתי, Gesher – Merkaz Tzioni Dati) was a short-lived political faction in Israel in 1984. |
Q3284825 Charley and the Angel is a 1973 Disney family/comedy film set in an unidentified small city in the 1930s Depression-era Midwestern United States and starring Fred MacMurray in one of his final film appearances and his last movie for Disney. The film, directed by Vincent McEveety, is based on The Golden Evenin... |
Q6378767 Kolma Barahachaur is a village development committee in Syangja District in the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 1723 people living in 443 individual households. |
Q4492817 Raymond Freeman FRS (born 6 January 1932) is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he continues to work on NMR spectroscopy. |
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