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Q468346 Talais is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. |
Q3562609 In Greek mythology, Ennomus (Greek Ἔννομος Ennomos) was the name of two defenders of Troy during the Trojan War:Ennomus, son of Arsinous. He was a Mysian ally of the Trojans, and was killed by Achilles. He was also said to have been a seer.Ennomus or Eunomus, a Trojan warrior slain by Odysseus. |
Q6686947 Louis Crucy (born in 1756 in Nantes) was a French architect and brother of Mathurin Crucy, with whom he worked on the naval facilities at Indre, near Nantes, from 1800 onwards, as they expanded due to the war effort against England. |
Q5624759 Gymnopilus communis is a species of agaric fungus in the family Strophariaceae. Found in Veracruz, Mexico, it was described as new to science in 1994. |
Q6573929 Pratibha Satpathy is an eminent poet of Odia literature. She has been recognised as one of the leading poets of the country and has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award. She has been writing poetry in Odia for more than forty years. She is editor of poetry magazine Udbhasa which is published quarterly.... |
Q7383967 Ryan Colburn (born November 8, 1986) is a former American football quarterback. He was signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Fresno State. Ryan attended high school at Central Valley Christian where he led his team to Valley Championships under Mark ... |
Q5414963 Euzopherodes liturosella is a species of snout moth in the genus Euzopherodes. It was described by Nikolay Grigoryevich Erschoff in 1874. It is found in Turkmenistan. |
Q19561304 The Very Rev. John Stewart Macarthur, DD was Provost of Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, Millport, Cumbrae from 1940 until 1949.Macarthur was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and ordained in 1924. After a curacy in Glasgow he was on the staff of St. Michael's College, Lland... |
Q24196357 West Skeam Island is a 33-acre island in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland that forms part of Carbery's Hundred Isles. The island is privately owned and was for sale in 2013. There are three cottages on the island, as well as some farmland. |
Q27178562 Earring George Mayweather (September 27, 1927 – February 12, 1995) was an American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer. He recorded only one solo album, but he played the harmonica on recordings by J. B. Hutto and Eddie Taylor.AllMusic commented that his album Whup It! Whu... |
Q6373067 Karol Rzepecki (21 June 1865 in Poznań – 14 December 1931 in Poznań) was a Polish bookseller, social and political activist, editor of Sokół (Falcon) magazine. |
Q202681 Joint Security Area (Korean: 공동경비구역 JSA) is a 2000 South Korean mystery thriller film starring Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun and Song Kang-ho. It was directed by Park Chan-wook and is based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. The film, which was shot on location in South Korea, concerns an investigation into the ... |
Q5545294 George Ferrars Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend (13 December 1778 – 31 December 1855), known as Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1782 to 1807 and as Earl of Leicester from 1807 to 1855, was a British peer. |
Q5658267 Harlan is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, Harlan had a population of 1,634. Present-day Harlan originally consisted of two communities, Harlan and Maysville. The border between the two towns was Georgetown Roa... |
Q7051333 Norisha Campbell is a retired American indoor volleyball player. Until 2015, she played professionally for "Rote Raben Vilsbiburg" in Germany. She was part of the U.S. Olympic team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
Q167712 Zawady-Tworki [zaˈvadɨ ˈtfɔrki] (German: Sawadden, 1938-45: Grenzwacht) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Prostki, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Prostki, 19 km (12 mi) south-east of Ełk, and 139 km (86 m... |
Q92427 Wolfgang Götze (born 11 July 1937 in Fürstenwalde) is a theoretical physicist. He is an emeritus professor of the Technical University of Munich.After his physics education at Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Free University of Berlin as well as his doctorate in Munich in 1963, there followed guest acade... |
Q7134476 Paradoxurus aureus, the golden palm civet, also called golden paradoxurus and golden wet-zone palm civet is a viverrid species native to Sri Lanka. It was first described by Frédéric Cuvier in 1822. |
Q27012668 Virgin Trains USA, formerly Brightline, is an express inter-city rail system in the United States. It is currently owned and operated by Fortress Investment Group, with Virgin Group providing branding rights and acting as a minority investor. Virgin Trains USA currently operates service between Miami and West... |
Q797678 Sabotage is a 2014 American action thriller film co-written and directed by David Ayer and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Mireille Enos and Terrence Howard. The film was released in the United States on March 28, 2014. |
Q1108506 Colin J. McRae (born Colin John McRae; October 22, 1812 – February 1877) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. |
Q15992980 Mosese Fotuaika (25 March 1992 – 28 February 2013) was a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who was contracted to the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League. He primarily played prop. He was of Tongan and New Zealand Māori descent. |
Q2637823 Albert Edward Green (11 November 1912, London – 12 August 1999) was a British applied mathematician and research scientist in theoretical and applied mechanics. |
Q14725262 Sagridola luteicornis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Boppe in 1921. |
Q15863377 Pothyne formosana is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Schwarzer in 1925. |
Q19814876 Captain David George Armytage CBE (4 September 1929 – 2 February 2015) was a Royal Navy officer who was a specialist in the use of radar and commanded several frigates. He took part in the "Cod Wars". |
Q22017245 John Mather Austin (26 September 1805 - 20 December 1880) was a Universalist clergyman in New York State, and editor of the Universalist weekly newspaper the Christian Ambassador. |
Q27028145 Roads in Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان میں سڑکیں) can be classified as federal, provincial and municipal roads. |
Q18092893 Auhunga is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders containing the single species, Auhunga pectinata. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973, and has only been found in New Zealand. |
Q14657445 Austrosimulium ungulatum, known by the common name West Coast black fly or just sandfly, is a species of small fly of the family Simuliidae. It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the South Island and Stewart Island. |
Q558256 John Nepomucene Neumann (Czech: Jan Nepomucký Neumann, German: Johann Nepomuk Neumann; March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained and later joined the Redemptorist order and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia (18... |
Q594483 The Popigai crater (or astrobleme) in Siberia, Russia, is tied with the Manicouagan Crater as the fourth largest verified impact crater on Earth. A large bolide impact created the 100-kilometre (62 mi) diameter crater approximately 35 million years ago during the late Eocene epoch (Priabonian stage). It is conj... |
Q2545063 Lambda Arae (λ Ara, λ Arae) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Ara. It is at a distance of 70.0 light-years (21.5 parsecs) from Earth. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 4.77, making it bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.The spectrum of this star matches a ... |
Q438014 Regina Annette Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award. In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University's theatre pro... |
Q2357088 Nick Pope (born 19 September 1965) is a freelance British journalist and media commentator. He was an employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defence (MoD) from 1985 to 2006 and is best known for a role he undertook for the British Government from 1991 to 1994 which involved investigating reports of U... |
Q5866813 The history of Texas A&M University, the first public institution of higher education in Texas, began in 1871, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was established as a land-grant college by the Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876. Although Texas A&M was originally scheduled to... |
Q3442258 Rosamond Nina Lehmann (3 February 1901 – 12 March 1990), was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, Dusty Answer (1927), was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. Her novel The Ballad and the Source receiv... |
Q7094183 "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" is a song written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus for his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland, but not released as a single. The song was also recorded by Chris Ward for 1996 album One Step Beyond and by Lari White as a duet with Toby Keith for Wh... |
Q5217380 Daniel Lownsdale (1803–1862) was one of the founders of Portland, Oregon, United States.Coming from Kentucky sometime before 1845, Lownsdale established the first tannery near the current location of Providence Park just west of downtown. Tanner Creek, which flowed by the site in the mid-19th century, was name... |
Q7335551 Rip in Time is a five-part comic book limited series written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Richard Corben, first published by Fantagor Press in 1986. It tells the story of police officer Rip Scully and his adventures traveling back in time to the Cretaceous period, in pursuit of the man who kidnapped his ... |
Q15438837 James Maxwell McCormick is an American speaker, author, and professional skydiver who is known for his expertise in intelligent risk-taking and innovation. He is founder of The Research Institute for Risk Intelligence, holds ten skydiving world records, and was a member of an international expedition that sky... |
Q7332519 Ride for Reading (established in 2008) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Nashville, Tennessee that donates books to children from low-income areas and hosts fund-raising events to promote literacy, as well as educating children about bicycling. Since 2008, Ride for Reading has distributed over ... |
Q6578304 Sredorek Peak (Bulgarian: връх Средорек, ‘Vrah Sredorek’ \'vr&h sre-do-'rek\) is the peak rising to 1224 m in Korten Ridge east of Kasabova Glacier and west of Sabine Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.The peak is named after the settlements of Sredorek in eastern and western Bulgaria. |
Q7053012 Normand Cherry (born June 2, 1938) is a Canadian former politician and union leader in the province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 1998 and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson. |
Q1747736 The 1972–73 Copa del Generalísimo was the 71st staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 20 September 1972 and concluded on 29 June 1973 with the final. |
Q18009032 The 1. FC Schwandorf is a German association football club from the town of Schwandorf, Bavaria.The club's most successful era was in the late 1950s and 1960s when it spent thirteen season in the tier three Bayernliga. The club has a strong association with the German railways, as evident by the term railway ... |
Q19598114 Roger Naviaux (active from 1973) is a French entomologist known for his work on beetles.He has described numerous species of beetle. Neocollyris naviauxi, and Paraphysodeutera naviauxi, both in the family Carabidae, are named after him. |
Q20981324 The Global Change Institute (abbreviated GCI) (formerly known as the Global Change and Sustainability Institute - GSCRI) is one of several institutes at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It "was established as an enabling research platform of global significance and local impact, fostering i... |
Q25221068 The women's pentathlon event at the 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on 11 March. |
Q28855228 Eugene Warburg (1825—1859) was an African-American sculptor. Born a slave in New Orleans in the mid-1820's, he was legally emancipated by his father a few years later. Warburg initially apprenticed as a marble cutter and later worked as a sculptor in New Orleans in the 1840's and early 1850's. He moved to Eur... |
Q357393 An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and sometimes stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document-oriented databases which are in turn a category of NoSQL database. |
Q5163503 Constance Bay is a population centre in West Carleton-March Ward in the rural northwest of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Prior to amalgamation in 2001, the community was part of West Carleton Township. It is situated 25 km northwest of the suburb of Kanata. The community surrounds the Torbolton Forest ... |
Q5284523 The Division of Evans was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and abolished in 1977. It was named for George Evans, an early explorer. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, including Ashfield, Croydon and Drummoyne. It was a marginal seat, held... |
Q838635 Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system. |
Q1750571 Joe Ira Clark (born June 15, 1975) is an American professional basketball player. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he is 2.03 meters tall and weighs 103 kilograms.He played for Efes Pilsen and Ülkerspor and won Turkish Basketball League titles with both Istanbul arch rivals. After the end of 2005-06 season, Ülker wa... |
Q4739951 Amantis saussurei is a species of praying mantis native to India. |
Q2046724 The Sovereign's Servant (Russian: Слуга государев, Sluga Gosudarev) is a 2007 Russian war film written and directed by Oleg Ryaskov. It depicts the events of the Great Northern War, with a particular focus on the Battle of Poltava. |
Q11793479 Nowa Wieś [ˈnɔva ˈvjɛɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Zielona, within Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Dąbrowa Zielona, 30 km (19 mi) east of Częstochowa, and 78 km (48 mi) north-east of the reg... |
Q7577577 Spinkhill is a small village in North East Derbyshire, England. It is approximately one mile south of the nearest town, Killamarsh, and half a mile north-east of Renishaw.It is home to the Church of the Immaculate Conception and its associated Catholic Primary School. Spinkhill is also home to Mount St Mary's ... |
Q6592003 This is a list of New York State Historic Markers in Onondaga County, New York. |
Q119771 Notion or Notium (Ancient Greek Νότιον, 'southern') was a Greek city-state on the west coast of Anatolia; it is about 50 kilometers (31 mi) south of Izmir in modern Turkey, on the Gulf of Kuşadası. Notion was located on a hill from which the sea was visible; it served as a port for nearby Colophon and Claros, a... |
Q3633520 Shanghai Pride (Chinese: 上海骄傲节; pinyin: Shànghǎi jiāo'ào jié) is an annual LGBT pride event that takes place in Shanghai, China. It was first held in 2009 and was significant in that it was first time a mass LGBT event took place in mainland China.ShanghaiPride is now in its eleventh consecutive year. |
Q7888415 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 96 of 11 December 1946, titled "The Crime of Genocide", was a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly during its first session that affirmed that genocide was a crime under international law. Prior to this resolution, acts of genocide were legally considered... |
Q4583671 The 1987 Ecuador earthquakes occurred over a six-hour period on March 6. The sequence of shocks measured 6.7, 7.1, and 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale. The main shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The earthquakes were centered in Napo Province in northeast Ecuador; the epicenters were on ... |
Q7902746 Dr. Amal Uthum Herat (15 September 1957 - 23 October 2009) born in Colombo, Sri Lanka was Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. |
Q16236217 Chris Ingram (born 7 July 1994 in Manchester) is a British rally driver.He won the 2012 Motor Sports Association Young Driver of the Year Award. He is a three time winner of the European Rally Championship Colin McRae Flat Out Award on the Circuit of Ireland Rally 2014, Rallye Açores 2015, and Rally Liepaja i... |
Q1913442 Max Seefelder (1897–1970) was a German art director. He designed the sets for around 80 films during his career. |
Q21869826 Sitting Bull's Voice is a 2013 documentary film by Bill Matson, narrated by John Thorpe, and story by Ernie Lapointe. The film documents the life of Ernie LaPointe, the great-grandson of Hunkpapa Lakota chief, Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake).The film examines LaPointe’s life from childhood through his struggle... |
Q24005295 Ángel Daniel Rodríguez Tricoche (born December 5, 1992) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Kansas State University and the University of Miami. |
Q28842988 Lorna Jane Clarkson (née Smith, born 24 November 1964) is an Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author. She is the creator of the Lorna Jane brand of activewear for women, and owner of a chain of retail outlets that market the clothes. The major stores ("Active Living Rooms") incorporate fitness st... |
Q1914566 Maza is a former city in Towner County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 5 at the 2000 census. Maza was founded in 1893. Maza was incorporated as a city until 2002, when the city was dissolved and governance reverted to the surrounding Maza Township. Maza shares a zip code of 58324 with th... |
Q5584611 Gordon Irvin Miller (born February 26, 1924) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1975 to 1990. |
Q750434 Football Club Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб Кривбас Кривий Ріг) is an amateur Ukrainian football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions.In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League. There was a failed att... |
Q5400977 Ester Hernández (born 1944) is a San Francisco-based Chicana visual artist best known for her pastels, paintings, and prints of Chicana/Latina women. Her work contains political, social, ecological, and spiritual themes that reflect her interest in community and political action. Her pieces also celebrate the ... |
Q16146143 Jochen Asche was an East German luger who competed during the 1960s. He won the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1962 FIL World Luge Championships in Krynica, Poland. He was an athlete of the Wintersportverein und Bobclub Friedrichroda |
Q1870255 Jacky Mathijssen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɟɛki mɑˈtɛisə(n)]) (born 20 July 1963 in Dilsen-Stokkem) is a Belgian former football player and manager who is currently managing the Belgium U19 squad. |
Q5921670 Howell Appling Jr. (September 5, 1919 – October 16, 2002) was an American Republican politician and businessman in Oregon, U.S. |
Q2747371 P'arsman V (Georgian: ფარსმან V, sometimes Latinized as Pharasmanes), of the Chosroid Dynasty, was the king of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 547 to 561.Parsman was the son and successor of Bakur II, and was succeeded by his nephew P'arsman VI.According to the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgia... |
Q7242914 Priestley Peak is a peak between Mount Pardoe and Mount Tod on the south side of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land. It was sighted on January 14, 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, who named it for Sir Raymond Priestley, a member of the British Antarctic... |
Q771106 São Domingos is a Sector in the Cacheu Region of Guinea-Bissau. The sector contains the only border checkpoint between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. Mpack, Senegal is on the Senegal side of the border. |
Q7561533 Songs of Faith is a 1950 album by Jo Stafford. The album is a collection of hymns and inspirational songs. |
Q5560587 Gilbert Thomas Patterson (born September 5, 1955) is a Minor League pitching coordinator and former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees in its 1977 season. Listed at 6' 1", 185 lb., Patterson batted and threw right handed.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Patterson grew up in... |
Q5112230 Christopher Dodge House is a house in Providence, Rhode Island that was built in 1858. It is operated as a bed and breakfast hotel. |
Q1630139 The Governor José Richa Hydroelectric Plant, formerly known as Salto Caxias, is a dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Iguazu River near Caxias in Paraná, Brazil. It is the first dam upstream of the Iguazu Falls and was constructed between 1995 and 1999. The power station has a 1,240-megawatt (1,660,000 hp... |
Q7794898 Thomas Warren (by 1513 – 1591), of Dover and Ripple, Kent was an English politician.He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover in 1547, 1555, 1559, 1563 and 1572. |
Q2303473 Copelatus lanzai 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 Bilardo & Rocchi in 1995. |
Q1152113 Markéta Bednářová (née Mokrošová, born 17 April 1981 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech basketball player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
Q17085465 Tolombeh-ye Mohammad Rafsanjani (Persian: تلمبه محمدرفسنجاني, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Moḩammad Rafsanjānī) is a village in Golestan Rural District, in the Central District of Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q16208433 Glynn Washington (born 1970) is a media personality and producer. He is the host, creator and executive producer of Snap Judgment, a radio/podcast/stage/television show distributed by WNYC. |
Q14233317 Phytomyza erigerophila is a species of leaf miner fly in the family Agromyzidae. |
Q958738 The French 75 mm field gun was a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: Matériel de 75mm Mle 1897. It was commonly known as the French 75, simply the 75 and Soixante-Quinze (French for "seventy-five"). The French 75 was designed as an anti-personnel weapon... |
Q6313912 Junkhouse are a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1989 in Hamilton, Ontario. |
Q1479719 Keila Parish (Estonian: Keila vald) was a rural municipality in north-western Estonia. It was a part of Harju County. The municipality had a population of 3,995 (as of 1 January 2004) and covered an area of 178.97 km². The population density was 22.3 inhabitants per km².Local administration of the municipality... |
Q2149749 Richard Hawley Tucker (October 29, 1859 – March 31, 1952) was an American astronomer.He was born in Wiscasset, Maine to a ship-owning and seafaring family. After a brief stint at sea starting at age 14, he attended Lehigh University where he studied civil engineering but became interested in the study of astro... |
Q2546784 "Can't Get Over" is a pop song performed by Swedish singer September. The song was written by Anoo Bhagavan, Jonas von der Burg and Niklas von der Burg for September's third album Dancing Shoes (2007). It was released as the album's first single on 20 June 2007 in Sweden and as the second single in The Netherl... |
Q18029011 Myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MEF2D gene. |
Q1935366 Lutjanus sebae, the emperor red snapper, is a species of snapper native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. This species is an inhabitant of both rocky and coral reefs, preferring flat areas with either a sandy or gravel substrate.This species can reach a length of 116 centimetres (46 in), thou... |
Q5368612 Elytron is a Spain-based journal for specialists in coleopterology (the study of beetles).It was first published in 1987. |
Q14692749 The Knife River is a 23.9-mile-long (38.5 km) river of northern Minnesota which drains a portion of Lake and Saint Louis counties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. |
Q3817455 Kurmanayevsky District (Russian: Курманаевский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,900 square kilometers (1,100 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural local... |
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