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Q744791 Uzhursky District (Russian: Ужу́рский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders with Nazarovsky District in the north, Balakhtinsky District in the east, Novosyolovsky District in the so... |
Q5042913 Carlson Peak (75°57′S 70°33′W) is one of the Bean Peaks in the Hauberg Mountains, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Paul R. Carlson, meteorologis... |
Q7752670 The Murder Men (later presented as an episode of the TV show Cain's Hundred which was called Blues for a Junkman, in 1962) is a 1961 film starring Peter Mark Richman, James Coburn, and Dorothy Dandridge. |
Q6886293 Mo Yongqing, ethnic Han, native of Hepu, Guangxi, born in October 1952. He began working in August 1971 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in June 1972. Graduated from Correspondence Institute of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee as a Research Associate. He served as vice Director of the... |
Q7994688 White Flag is an encaustic painting by the American artist Jasper Johns. Created in 1955, soon after his first flag painting, entitled simply Flag, it was the first painting by Johns to be acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, bought from the artist in 1998. The price was undisclosed but ex... |
Q5900995 Holiday Pocono is a residential community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 476.The community is located on the north side of Pennsylvania Route 534, directly north of Albrightsville. There are two small w... |
Q16987092 Council elections for the City of Preston, Lancashire were held on 22 May 2014 as part of the 2014 United Kingdom local elections. The elections have been moved from earlier on in May to coincide with the North West component of the 2014 European Parliament election. Nineteen electoral wards were fought with ... |
Q19880574 Icon is a series of compilation albums released by Universal Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group, the largest music publisher in the world. The series serves as a successor to Universal's 20th Century Masters, The Definitive Collection, and Gold series.The series began in 2010. Among the ar... |
Q22022014 The 1896 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their fifth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 15–2–1 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conferenc... |
Q28225861 Bierrum is a British (Danish heritage) civil engineering and construction company, that has built all of Britain's concrete cooling towers at the country's power stations since 1965. |
Q17544349 Nuri Turan (born 4 July 1924) was a Turkish athlete. He competed in the men's shot put and the men's discus throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics. |
Q6751702 Mansfield Township is a civil township of Iron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 243 at the 2000 census. |
Q1036094 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American animated television series created by Sam Register for Cartoon Network. Produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, the series stars fictionalized and animated versions of the Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi. The series premiered on November 19, 2004 and... |
Q6962363 Nanaimo-Parksville was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. |
Q12698725 Joseph Henry West (born October 31, 1952), nicknamed "Cowboy Joe" or "Country Joe", is an American professional baseball umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he grew up in Greenville and played football at East Carolina University (ECU) and Elon College. West entered the N... |
Q632411 Archambaud IX of Bourbon (died 15 January 1249), called "Le Jeune" ("The Young"), was a ruler (sire) of Bourbonnais in the modern region of Auvergne, France.He was the son of Archambaud VIII of Bourbon. He married Yolande I, Countess of Nevers. They had two daughters:Matilda II, Countess of Nevers (d. 1262)Agn... |
Q4251689 Bandar Seri Bandi is a small town in Kemaman constituency, Terengganu, Malaysia. |
Q16944823 Keystone Park is a former baseball ground located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ground was home to the Philadelphia Keystones of the Union Association in 1884.The location of the ballpark was on the east side of Broad Street and Moore Street.The field was the original grounds of the Forepaugh Circus.(Ric... |
Q5001814 Business Versus Love is a 1914 American silent short film directed by Tom Ricketts and written by Sydney Ayres. Starring Edward Coxen, Winifred Greenwood, Harry von Meter, and Jack Richardson. |
Q7966191 Walter Stevens (1877-1931) was a freelance enforcer and "hitman," popularly known as, "dean of the Chicago gunmen," during Prohibition. Although having the reputation of violent gangster, credited with the deaths of at least 60 men, Stevens was a devoted husband to an invalid wife and his three adopted childre... |
Q3323509 "Fear the Voices" is the last single that Alice in Chains released with vocalist Layne Staley and the only single that was co-written by bassist Mike Starr. The song was included on the box set Music Bank (1999). |
Q16947115 Mutilating Process is a single by Asphyx. It was released in 1989. |
Q7310040 Reiden Patera is a volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io. It was first detected by the Galileo SSI Team during the spacecraft Galileo's first orbit around Jupiter, initially detected as a hotspot. It was once thought that the activity there had stopped or waned below the limits of the spacecraft's Solid State ... |
Q1418095 Autrey is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. |
Q7445521 See See Rider were an indie rock group formed in East Kilbride, Scotland, and active between 1989 and 1992, and featuring former members of The Primitives and Felt. The band took their name from the Lead Belly song "C.C. Rider". |
Q2296239 So ein Flegel (translates as "Such a Rascal") is a 1934 German comedy film based on the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle. It modifies the story by introducing the concept of two brothers Pfeiffer switching places: While the younger brother takes over his elder brother's job, the older brother attends the younger one... |
Q6063120 Ion Lewis (1853 – August 29, 1933) was a founding member of Whidden & Lewis, a prominent architectural firm in Portland, Oregon, United States around the beginning of the 20th century. The firm was formed with partner William M. Whidden. Their residential buildings were mostly in the Colonial Revival style, wh... |
Q2031187 Bayano Lake is a reservoir in the eastern part of Panamá Province, Panama created when the Bayano River was dammed in 1976. In terms of surface area, Lake Bayano is the second largest lake in Panama, exceeded only by Lake Gatun.The lake and river are named after Bayano, the leader of the largest slave revolt o... |
Q3827928 Gogoși, known as pancove in Transylvania and pampuște in Bukovina, are Romanian sweet pastries similar to filled doughnuts. Gogoși is the plural form of the Romanian word gogoașă.Gogoși are pieces of dough shaped into a flattened sphere that are deep-fried in oil and optionally dusted with icing sugar. They ha... |
Q2572483 Wilhelm Ehmann (5 December 1904 – 16 April 1989) is a German musicologist, editor, church musician and conductor. He founded the choir Westfälische Kantorei that toured internationally and made many recordings. He was a cofounder and director of the later Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Herford. |
Q15978434 Zeuxinella is a genus of terrestrial orchids spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Only one species is known, Zeuxinella vietnamica, endemic to Vietnam. |
Q7054426 The Attorney General of North Carolina is the elected head of the state's Department of Justice. The North Carolina Constitution provides for the election of the Attorney General to serve a four-year term. There is no limit on the number of terms a person may serve in the office.The current Attorney General, D... |
Q7882207 Unabomber is an EP by the American heavy metal band Macabre released in 1999. |
Q2462375 Two Bloor West, is an office building at the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is sometimes referred to as Toronto's CIBC building, but that name can also refer to Commerce Court.Located at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor along the Mink Mile, 2 Bloor Street West ... |
Q3612231 All in a Night's Work is the ninth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch and was released in August 1982 on the Epic label. |
Q6652307 Little Toot is a children's story written and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky, featuring a young tugboat in New York Harbor who does not want to tug. Instead, he'd rather play, making figure eights in the harbor and thus being a nuisance to all the other tugboats. But when he ends up all alone on the open water... |
Q3123382 The Transalpina or DN67C located in the Parâng Mountains group, in the Southern Carpathians of Romania, is one of the highest roads of the Carpathian Mountains. It connects Novaci, south of Parâng Mountains, to Sebeş in the north.It is said that the road was built under King Carol II and rebuilt during World ... |
Q7893782 For other Unity Colleges, please see Unity College (disambiguation).Unity College is a private liberal arts college in Unity, Maine. The college is located 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Bangor, Maine and 25 miles (40 km) from the Maine coast. The college offers an undergraduate (residential and online) and gra... |
Q6140465 James Richard O'Connor (April 20, 1930 – November 12, 2017) was an American political economist and professor of sociology.He was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief (1988–2003) of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, and Director of the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, Californ... |
Q5363714 Elizabeth Wells Gallup (1848 in Paris, New York – 1934) was an American educator and exponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship. |
Q6420468 Klemens Kurowski from Drożojewice and Kurów - polish nobleman and senator.Born around 1340 r. died before 1405 r. Came from Kurów near Szczyrzyc and Wiśnicz. Became castellan of Żarnów. Between (1400 - 1405) - became senator.As first in his family he was using the Szreniawa coat of arms. As was mandatory in hi... |
Q2503349 State Route 100 (SR 100) is a west–east state highway in both West Tennessee and Middle Tennessee that connects Whiteville with Belle Meade. It is 158.31 mi (254.8 km) long. |
Q3496564 Royal Falcon Airlines (Arabic: الصقر الملكي للطيران) was a charter airline based in Amman, Jordan. |
Q4933334 Former Attorney General of Virginia Bob McDonnell was the Republican nominee for the 2009 gubernatorial race in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. At the Virginia State Convention on May 30, 2009, he officially received the party's nomination, as Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling decided against oppo... |
Q6620986 This is a list of foreign players that have played in the Portuguese Primeira Liga.Players in bold are the ones that have international caps for their senior national team.Clubs in bold are the current clubs of those players. |
Q6436942 Krešimir "Krešo" Račić (15 August 1932 – 19 June 1994) was a Croatian hammer thrower. He competed for Yugoslavia in the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and placed sixth in 1956. He won a gold medal in the 1959 Mediterranean Games and a bronze in the 1959 Summer Universiade. During his career Račić had a strong d... |
Q17051191 Comedy Bang! Bang! is a weekly comedy audio podcast which began airing as a radio show on May 1, 2009. It is hosted by writer and comedian Scott Aukerman, best known for his work on the 1990s HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show with Bob and David, as well as for co-founding the weekly Comedy Death-Ray stage sh... |
Q19662283 Tatiana Shishkova is a road cyclist from Moldova and Russia. She represented Moldova at the 2004 UCI Road World Championships and Russia at the 2006 UCI Road World Championships. |
Q20981303 Lubimbi people are scattered all over Africa, mostly found in Southern Africa. Notable countries being South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. |
Q109633 Armin Andres (born 5 April 1959) is a German basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics. |
Q16334540 Léo-Paul Samuel Robert (19 March 1851 - 10 September 1923), also known as Paul Robert, was a Swiss painter, known for his depictions of birds and other wildlife. |
Q208525 In Norse mythology, Bifröst ( (listen) or sometimes Bilröst or Bivrost) is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the P... |
Q550394 Promethium (61Pm) is an artificial element, except in trace quantities as a product of spontaneous fission of 238U and 235U and alpha decay of 151Eu, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no stable isotopes. It was first synthesized in 1945.Thirty-eight radioiso... |
Q7825663 In mathematics, the Torelli theorem, named after Ruggiero Torelli, is a classical result of algebraic geometry over the complex number field, stating that a non-singular projective algebraic curve (compact Riemann surface) C is determined by its Jacobian variety J(C), when the latter is given in the form of a ... |
Q6976479 There are over 1,400 buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas. NRHP listings appear in 101 of the state's 105 counties.This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 18, 2019. |
Q688991 MS Color Magic is a cruiseferry owned and operated by the Norway-based shipping company Color Line on its route connecting Oslo, Norway, with Kiel, Germany. She was built at Aker Finnyards Rauma Shipyard, Finland in 2007 and has been the largest ferry in the world ever since.Color Magic is a sister vessel of MS... |
Q1311167 The clouded salamander (Aneides ferreus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests and it is probable that many nest in trees. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q7154794 Paula Michelle White-Cain (née Furr; April 20, 1966), better known as Paula White, is an American non-denominational pastor. Prior to May 2019, she was senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center, in Apopka, Florida, a non-denominational, multicultural megachurch. She hosts a television show, Paula White Tod... |
Q4774018 Anthurium nitens is a species of plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q6350172 Kalai (Khmer: កាឡៃ) is a commune in Ou Chum District in north-east Cambodia. It contains three villages and had a population of 820 in 1998. In the 2007 commune council elections, all five seats went to members of the Cambodian People's Party. The NGO Forum on Cambodia reported in 2006 that the land alienation... |
Q4851476 Ballarat City FC is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Ballarat, Victoria. For most of its history, the club's home ground was Trekardo Park, before making the move to the Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility in 2014. After the 2016 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 season, the c... |
Q3565424 Mohawk Valley Airport (FAA LID: 31NK) was a privately owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Scotia, a village in the Town of Glenville in Schenectady County, New York, United States. |
Q5148848 The Colorado Music Festival is a classical music festival in Boulder, Colorado. It was founded in 1976 by the Vienna-born conductor and violinist, Giora Bernstein and presents an annual summer season of concerts in Boulder's Chautauqua Auditorium performed by the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra as well as v... |
Q5325089 Eagle Flute is a 2009 Chinese film directed by Tao Jiang. The film concerns a young Chinese girl's adoption by a nomadic Tibetan family and her quest to find her birth parents. The film was screened at the 2009 Monaco Charity Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. |
Q7939920 Vokesimurex purdyae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q7111479 Out There with Melissa DiMarco is an award-winning, internationally distributed comedy and celebrity interview show that stars actor and television personality Melissa DiMarco. The show mixes one-on-one celebrity interviews with scripted comedy that focuses on DiMarco’s misadventures as an entertainment journa... |
Q10313624 Kajewskiella is a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae.At present (May 2014), there are only two known species, both endemic to the Solomon Islands:Kajewskiella polyantha M.E.JansenKajewskiella trichantha Merr. & L.M.Perry |
Q11863649 Hot Chocolates is a musical revue with music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks and book by Andy Razaf. Performed at the Hudson Theater in New York City, the show was directed by Leonard Harper and ran for 219 performances from opening on June 20, 1929, to closing on December 14, 1929.Louis Armstrong made his Br... |
Q7500565 Shooting Script is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1966. The book was selected as number 99 in the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, a list published by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990. |
Q13635279 Malmella nigricollis is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Hopp in 1927. It is found in Peru. |
Q334516 A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state goes to war against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in order to create a state of war between two or more states.The legality of who is competent to decla... |
Q546062 Taxidermy is the debut album of English alternative rock band Queenadreena, released in 2000. The enhanced-CD release includes a short film by Martina Hoogland-Ivanow involving time-lapse photography and dream-like visuals. |
Q6878455 Mission-based organization is often used as an alternative to terms such as non-profit and non-governmental organization. Mission-based organizations range from formally incorporated foundations and philanthropic agencies to informal neighborhood groups that undertake an ad hoc project. They may be faith-based... |
Q1360721 Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. He owned a property on Lake Erie.He remained littl... |
Q7421012 The saposin domains refers to two evolutionally-conserved protein domains found in saposin and related proteins (SAPLIP). Saposins are small lysosomal proteins that serve as activators of various lysosomal lipid-degrading enzymes. They probably act by isolating the lipid substrate from the membrane surrounding... |
Q4683168 The Fedeleșul River is a tributary of the Șorogari River in Romania. |
Q4768619 Anne Marshall (fl. 1661 – 1682), also Mrs. Anne Quin, was a leading English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of women performers to appear on the public stage in England.John Downes, in his Roscius Anglicanus (1708), reported that Anne Marshall was among the initial group of actresse... |
Q6410646 Kindred Spirit was a female duo consisting of Debbi Peterson (drummer/vocalist of The Bangles) and Siobhan Maher (vocalist of the River City People). This group dissolved in 1996 (see the history below).At around this time another Kindred Spirit Duo was formed by singer / songwriter / guitar player Elaine Samu... |
Q3631016 Avena is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located about halfway between Bishop and Round Valley.A post office operated at Avena from 1880 to 1885. |
Q8081827 Ōzutsu Takeshi (born 18 April 1956 as Takakoshi Matsumoto) is a former sumo wrestler from Mie, Japan. Beginning his professional career in May 1971, he was ranked in the top makuuchi division continuously from March 1979 to January 1992, and his record of 1170 consecutive bouts there is the second best in hist... |
Q7262590 Puya grafii is a species in the genus Puya. This species is endemic to Venezuela. |
Q3841480 Chuang Chia-jung and Sania Mirza were the defenders of championship title, but Mirza chose not to compete.Chuang partnered up with Peng Shuai, but Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Yan Zi but defeated them 4–6, 6–4, [10–8]. |
Q13644581 The following is a list of Miraflores District's mayors in Lima Province, Peru, through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.1866: Francisco de la Cruz Marmolefo.1881: Guillermo Scheel.1881: Tomás Carbajal.1882-1883: chilean invasion of Lima.1884-1886: Pedro F. Denegri.1886-1889: Enrique F. Revett.1889: Carlos S... |
Q3182159 John Nathaniel Couch (12 October 1896 in Prince Edward County, Virginia – 16 December 1986) was an American mycologist. He was a professor at the Department of Botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for over six decades. |
Q3896832 Kuleshovka (Russian: Кулешовка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Azovsky District in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population: 13,692 (2010 Census); 14,690 (2002 Census). |
Q17067812 I Officially Exist (هستم رسما) is the second hip-hop album by Salome MC (سالومه ), and the first full-length studio album by an Iranian female Hip Hop artist. It is a concept album, with each song in the album relating to one of the three aspect of human life: Physical, Social and Psychological. |
Q2277246 Sharon Bolton is an English author of mystery fiction who has also been published under the name S.J. Bolton. |
Q28224056 The boys’ hammer throw competition at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held on 21–24 August 2014 in Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. |
Q18819479 General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, (8 August 1861 – 17 January 1943) was a general in the British Army, a banker and a businessman. |
Q3060439 Euphémie Muraton (1840–1914) was a French painter. |
Q7071272 Nyssa is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is played by Sarah Sutton. Although Nyssa was created by writer Johnny Byrne for a single Fourth Doctor serial The Keeper of Traken, the production team subsequently decided she should be retained as a ... |
Q660715 Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics consisted of six events, held 9–17 February at Chamrousse, southeast of Grenoble, France.Jean-Claude Killy of France won all three men's events, repeating Toni Sailer's triple-gold of 1956. Since Killy's feat, no male alpine ski racer has won three gold medals in a sing... |
Q8027399 Wisdom's Light is a public sculpture located in front of the Lake Branch Library in Uniontown, Ohio. The sculpture was commissioned by the Rotary club of Lake Township to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Rotary International.The sculpture stands 9.5 feet tall. It consists of a stack of 18 ove... |
Q1989071 Dirithromycin is a macrolide glycopeptide antibiotic.Dirithromycin (Dynabac) is a more lipid-soluble prodrug derivative of 9S-erythromycyclamine prepared by condensation of the latter with 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)acetaldehyde. The 9N, 11O-oxazine ring thus formed is a hemi-aminal that is unstable under both acidic ... |
Q2218018 Domenico Savino (1882–1973) was an Italian conductor. |
Q273400 Barbara Wood (born January 30, 1947, in Warrington (Lancashire, England) is an American writer of historical romance novels. Her family moved to California, where she grew up. |
Q1301920 Victor Augustin Isidore Dechamps (6 December 1810, in Melle – 29 September 1883, in Mechelen) was a Belgian Archbishop of Mechlin, Cardinal and Primate of Belgium. |
Q7690987 Te Tai Tonga is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Te Tai Tonga is Rino Tirikatene of the Labour Party, who in 2011 defeated Rahui Katene of the Māori Party, who in turn had won the seat in 2008. |
Q308557 Betta chini is a species of gourami endemic to the island Borneo where it is only known from the Malaysian state of Sabah. It inhabits very shallow waters (less than 0.5 metres (1.6 ft)) of peat swamps. Males of this species can reach a length of 5.1 centimetres (2.0 in) SL while females can reach a length of... |
Q3291520 Tero Penttilä (born 9 March 1975 in Suomussalmi, Finland) is a former professional football player who played for Rangers in defence. |
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