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Q4826654 Soğucak is a village in the District of Sandıklı, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. |
Q4589720 The 1994 Six Nations Tournament was the first playing of the Six Nations ice hockey Tournament. A total of 29 teams participated in the qualifying rounds, and the tournament was won by HC Bolzano. |
Q5656914 Haresabad (Persian: حارث اباد, also Romanized as Ḩāres̄ābād; also known as Moslemābād) is a village in Qasabeh-ye Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,339, in 368 families.Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, a Persian secre... |
Q14565975 Tanner Hawkinson (born May 14, 1990) is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL). Hawkinson played in college at the University of Kansas. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals. |
Q17012627 The Anolis carolinensis series is a clade or subgroup of closely related mid-sized trunk crown anoles (US: (listen)) within the genus Anolis. A total of thirteen species have been recorded, a few examples are listed below. This subgroup was recognized in 2012. |
Q20814044 She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me) is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis. It was released on Smash Records in 1969. |
Q3558050 The Denmark women's national basketball team represents Denmark in international women's basketball competition. The team is controlled by the Danish Basketball Association (DBBF). |
Q23683554 John S. Stephans (May 2, 1921 – February 10, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League in one game for the Pittsburgh Raiders during the 1944–45 season. He scored four points in his lone appearance. |
Q28966713 Gloria Amescua is a Latina and Tejana writer from Austin, Texas. Her enjoyment of writing stories and poems as a child prompted her to publish many poems, manuscripts, and chapbooks throughout her life. After receiving her B.A. and Masters of Education from University of Texas at Austin, she went on to win fi... |
Q1072222 Pély is a village in Heves County, Hungary. |
Q612739 Operation Eagle Claw, known as Operation Tabas (Persian: عملیات طبس) in Iran, was a United States Armed Forces operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980. Its f... |
Q2602706 Alain Romans (1905, Poland – 1988) was a French jazz composer. He studied in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. His teachers included Vincent d'Indy. He later worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt.Romans wrote music for 12 films. The most famous of them are the films of comedian Jacques Tati, including... |
Q6424486 Kobra is the name used by two fictional supervillains published by DC Comics. The Jeffrey Burr Kobra and his brother Jason first appeared in Kobra #1 (February 1976), and were created by Jack Kirby. Jason Burr debuted as Kobra in Faces of Evil: Kobra #1 (March 2009) by Ivan Brandon and Julian Lopez. |
Q472387 Paragon is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany. |
Q8046708 Yaghmaei, also spelled Yaghmaie, Yaghmae, and Yaghmai, (Persian: یغمائی/یغمایی) is a large and well known Iranian family descended from Yaghma Jandaghi (1781-1859), a well-known poet living during the time of Mohammad Shah Qajar of the Qajar dynasty in the early 19th century. The Yaghmai family originated fro... |
Q2574898 Chirang district is an administrative district in BTAD, Assam state in the North-East of India. |
Q5268988 Dhankar Gompa (also Dankhar, Drangkhar or Dhangkar Gompa; Brang-mkhar or Grang-mkhar) is a village and also a Gompa, a Buddhist temple in the district of Lahaul and Spiti in India. It is situated at an elevation of 3,894 metres (12,774 feet) in the Spiti Valley above Dhankar Village, between the towns of Kaza... |
Q7444388 The Texas Secretary of State is one of the six members of the executive department of the state of Texas, in the United States. Under the Texas Constitution, the appointment is made by the Governor, with confirmation by the Texas Senate. Rolando Pablos is the 111th person to hold the office. He was appointed b... |
Q7665038 Szymanowo [ʂɨmaˈnɔvɔ] (German: Seedorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Śrem, within Śrem County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Śrem and 34 km (21 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.The village has a popula... |
Q7857970 Twilight is the sixth young adult novel in the Mediator series by Meg Cabot, published by Avon Books in 2004. In the UK, it was published with the title Heaven Sent. It was the final novel in the series until the publication of Remembrance in 2016. |
Q5552999 Gerald Roland Reid (November 18, 1928 – March 26, 1971) was a professional ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings.He died in 1971, aged 42. He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Owen Sound. |
Q7762548 The School of the Lion was an independent school based in Churcham, Gloucestershire. The school was founded in by 1987 by a group of Gloucestershire-based parents and taught male and female students aged 4 to 19. The school closed in December 2013. At the time of its last Ofsed inspection in 2010, it had 14 ... |
Q1772372 Alstahaug Church (Norwegian: Alstahaug kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the municipality of Alstahaug in Nordland county, Norway. It is one of seven surviving medieval churches in northern Norway. The church is associated with Petter Dass, who was appointed vicar in 1689.The church is locat... |
Q102494 Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg (29 March 1642, in Dagsburg – 27 April 1702) was, by descent, Count of Leiningen and Dagsburg and, by inheritance, Lord of Broich, Oberstein and Bürgel. |
Q6867021 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Arabic: وزارة الخارجية) is the ministry responsible for handling Qatar's external relations and diplomatic efforts, including the maintenance of its diplomatic missions across the globe. The current minister is Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. |
Q541000 Mukai Kyorai (向井 去来, 1651 – 8 October 1704) was a Japanese haikai poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō. A physician's son, he was born in Nagasaki, and connected with Bashō in the 1680s. In 1691 he was one of the compilers, together with Nozawa Bonchō, of the Sarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat) Bashō-schoo... |
Q16975497 The 2013–14 Prairie View A&M Panthers basketball team represented Prairie View A&M University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by eighth year head coach Byron Rimm II, played their home games at the William Nicks Building and were members of the Southwestern Athlet... |
Q24248330 Frank Napier Jr., Ed.D. (August 8, 1935 – October 28, 2002) was an American former superintendent of the Paterson School District in Paterson, New Jersey. In the 1980s, he received national recognition as superintendent through Joe Louis Clark, the notable and controversial former principal of Eastside High S... |
Q29387181 Leo Joskowicz from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for contributions to computer assisted surgery and medical image processing. |
Q30688198 Little Red Kill is a stream that flows into Bush Kill at Fleischmanns, New York. |
Q233461 Theuderic I (c. 487 – 533/4) was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia—as it is variously called—from 511 to 533 or 534.He was the son of Clovis I and one of his earlier wives or concubines (possibly a Franco-Rhenish Princess, Evochildis of Cologne). He inherited Metz in 511 at his father's death.... |
Q2068211 Deerfield is a city in Kearny County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 700. |
Q221842 Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel Under Capricorn (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay b... |
Q6780965 Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740 – March 1814) was the second wife of Colonel William Byrd III, a Colonial American military officer at the time of the American Revolution and son of the founder of Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia from 1748 to 1754, and her gr... |
Q4900274 Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes From Back In The Day! is mainly a Madchester compilation album, compiled by Bez (known from the bands Happy Mondays and Black Grape) and released in 2006. |
Q2667124 The Maly Volkhovets (Russian: Малый Волховец) is a right (eastern) armlet of the Volkhov River in Novgorodsky District of Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It splits from the Volkhov 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) below its outflow from the Lake Ilmen, bypasses the city of Veliky Novgorod (so that the eastern part of the city... |
Q476160 Na Yia (Thai: นาเยีย, pronounced [nāː jīa̯]) is a district (amphoe) in the central part of Ubon Ratchathani Province, northeastern Thailand. |
Q1284192 Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973), also known as La Barbie ("The Barbie"), is a Mexican-American drug lord and a lieutenant of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa.Valdez worked for several years as a cartel lieutenant before rising to a leadership position in an enforcement... |
Q7729601 The Definitive Collection is a compilation album by Bonnie Tyler. |
Q5583554 Goodnite is a 1998 live album by the American alternative rock band Walt Mink. It is a recording of their farewell show, at the Mercury Lounge in New York City, on November 1, 1997. It is their only release to feature their third drummer, Zach Danziger. His predecessor, Orestes Morfin, guests on one track, "Sh... |
Q1360765 Karel Petrů (24 January 1891 in Březové Hory – 1949) was the coach of the Czechoslovakia national football team when they finished second in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. |
Q16013097 Jim Slater (4 October 1923 – 30 May 1993) was British trade union leader.Born in South Shields, Slater went to sea in 1941, and joined the National Union of Seamen (NUS). During World War II, he served in the Merchant Navy. On one occasion his ship was torpedoed and sank, and in line with practice at the ti... |
Q2459247 Drenik (pronounced [ˈdɾeːnik]) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Škofljica in central Slovenia. It lies in the hills east of Pijava Gorica. The entire municipality is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. |
Q703566 João Braz de Aviz (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ˈbɾas dʒi aˈvis]; born 24 April 1947) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 January 2011. |
Q6691516 "Love Will Show Us How" is a 1984 song from Fleetwood Mac's keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie. The song reached 30 Billboard Hot 100 and 32 Billboard Adult Contemporary. |
Q6739945 Makoto Minamiyama (南山 真, Minamiyama Makoto, born 11 March 1973) is a former Japanese basketball player. |
Q14957125 Jennifer Glasse is an American broadcast journalist, currently working for NPR and the CBC. |
Q16006660 Syed Abdur Rabb (1903 – 21 December 1969) was a Bengali social reformer and journalist. |
Q15629881 Way Back Home (Korean: 집으로 가는 길; RR: Jibeuro Ganeun Gil) is a 2013 South Korean drama film starring Jeon Do-yeon and Go Soo, and directed by Bang Eun-jin. It is based on the true story of an ordinary Korean housewife who was imprisoned in Martinique for two years after being wrongfully accused of drug smuggli... |
Q15963986 Tuomas Grönman (born 19 September 1991 in Kouvola, Finland) is a Finnish biathlete. |
Q36455 Eastern Min, or Min Dong (simplified Chinese: 闽东语; traditional Chinese: 閩東語; pinyin: Mǐndōngyǔ; Foochow Romanized: Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄), is a branch of the Min group of varieties of Chinese.The prestige form and most-cited representative form is the Fuzhou dialect, the speech of the capital and largest city of Fujia... |
Q5415322 Evan Beloff is a Canadian film writer, producer, director and production company executive. |
Q220946 Gaboltov (Rusyn: Ґабултів, Hungarian: Galbatő) is a village and municipality in Bardejov District in the Prešov Region of north-east Slovakia. |
Q5314233 Duncan is an unincorporated community located in the Buckhorn Township of Harnett County, North Carolina (Powell 1968, p. 151). It is a part of the Dunn Micropolitan Area, which is also a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as defined by the United States Census Bureau.Dunca... |
Q6817688 Stéphano Honoré, (born 21 October 1955 in Cassis, Mauritius) better known as Menwar, is a Mauritian percussionist and singer. He was one of the pioneers of seggae music, forming the group Sagaï in the 1980s. Honoré is a player of the ravanne, for which he has begun to develop a written technique, something tha... |
Q15982880 Patra Sherani is town and union council of Dera Bugti District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. |
Q6872207 Mira Gut is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island where the Mira River enters into Mira Bay. It features both fresh and saltwater beaches and is a popular swimming area during the summer months. |
Q4614870 The 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 65th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Line honours in the 99-boat event were won by the New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo II raced by Neville Crichton, recording her 146th consecutive ocean classic victory. Defending line hono... |
Q6783742 Temple B'Nai Israel is a former Jewish synagogue at 265 West Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. It is a Beaux Arts building originally constructed as a Masonic Hall in 1929, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 under the name "Masonic Temple".The building is considered ar... |
Q6817900 Merab Ratishvili (born May 16, 1959) is a Georgian businessman, political scientist and author who has been imprisoned in Georgia since 15 July 2008 for his political activities and opposition to the Mikheil Saakashvili government.Merab Ratishvili was born in Gori, and educated in Moscow. He is a former Chair ... |
Q16968382 Yu is a 2003 Austrian drama film directed by Franz Novotny. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. |
Q16385365 "Critical Mass" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949. This comic story describes the relationship between a village and a nuclear research facility located near it. On the day that the story takes place, a truck carrying a mysterious cargo has an acciden... |
Q17984767 The Navan Group is a geologic group in Ireland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. |
Q3611615 Ali Hussein Shihab (5 May 1961 – 26 October 2016) was an Iraqi football midfielder who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Talaba SC.Ali Hussein was an industrial player who was a regular in the midfield in the Iraqi national team during the 1980s, alongside one-time Talaba teammate ... |
Q19520728 This is a list of Danish television related events from 2009. |
Q24182406 The 1919 Glamorgan County Council election to Glamorgan County Council, south Wales, took place in March 1919. It was preceded by the 1913 election and followed by the 1922 election. |
Q27063701 Born in 1960's Los Angeles and raised in a nomadic California family, Cheri Ben-Iesau is a painter, muralist, author and retired member of the US Coast Guard based in the New Orleans area. She is related, through her father, to the Atlanta artist Frederick Flemister.Ben-Iesau's work has been exhibited in the ... |
Q764882 Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus was a Roman senator during the reign of Antoninus Pius. He was consul posterior in 148 as the colleague of Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus. Calpurnius Torquatus was the son of Gaius Bellicius Flaccus Torquatus Tebanianus, consul of 124, and the ... |
Q42955564 The 2017–18 San Diego Toreros men's basketball team represented the University of San Diego during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Lamont Smith's third season at San Diego. The Toreros competed in the West Coast Conference and played their home games at the Jenny Craig... |
Q27438638 Thermomarinilinea is a bacteria genus from the family of Anaerolineaceae with one known species (Thermomarinilinea lacunofontalis). |
Q3328757 Réunion is located east of Madagascar and is a province (département) of France. Réunion is home to maloya and sega music, the latter along with neighbor Mauritius. |
Q3767497 Ampelocalamus is a genus of Asian bamboo in the grass family). It is found mostly in Southern China, with some species in the eastern Himalayas and northern Indochina.Species |
Q489361 Kang Woo-suk (born November 10, 1960 in Gyeongsan) is a South Korean film producer and director. He has often been called the most powerful man in Korean cinema, topping Cine21 magazine's list of '50 Most Powerful Men in Korean Cinema' for seven consecutive years from 1998 to 2004.Kang started as a director of ... |
Q1473919 Operation Grapes of Wrath (Hebrew: מבצע ענבי זעם) is the Israeli Defense Forces code-name (referred to as April War by Hezbollah) for a sixteen-day campaign against Lebanon in 1996 which attempted to end rocket attacks on Northern Israel by Hezbollah. Israel conducted more than 1,100 air raids and extensive s... |
Q7978420 The Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance is the year-end golf tournament of the Korn Ferry Tour. It has been played at a variety of courses; starting in 2019 it will be played at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Indiana as part of a 10 year deal. Since the 2008 edition, th... |
Q6022623 The Indian locomotive class WP was a class of 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotives used in India. It was introduced after World War II for passenger duties, marking the change from 'X' to 'W' as the classification code for broad gauge locomotives.The class was designed specifically for low-calorie, high-ash India... |
Q2215896 The 2005 Menards IRL Infiniti Pro Series Season was the series' fourth. It consisted of 14 races and the champion was Wade Cunningham. It was the first IPS season to include road course races. All teams used Dallara chassis and Infiniti engines. |
Q98731 Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (19 August 1721 – 9 May 1768) was a professor of botany and chemistry. He studied the chemistry of antimony and wrote texts on the pancreatic ducts, on mineral waters, and on botany.He was a brother of the famous traveler Johann Georg Gmelin. He obtained his MD in 1742 at the University ... |
Q6595768 The Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica consists only of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal conference of Costa Rica, comprising only one ecclesiastical province headed by a Metropolitan archbishop, with seven suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop.There are no eastern Catholic, pre-diocesa... |
Q2652153 The Fiji Museum is a museum in Suva, Fiji located in the capital city's botanical gardens, Thurston Gardens.The museum is a statutory body and is under the administration of the Fiji Museum Act and the Preservation of Objects of Archaeological & Palaeontological Interest Act.The Fiji Museum was the host instit... |
Q4983028 Bucket of B-Sides Vol. 1 is a 2005 compilation album released by American hip hop record label Definitive Jux. It featured tracks which had appeared as B-sides on some of the label's previously issued singles and EPs. |
Q4805204 Ashlan Davis (born February 15, 1983) is a former American and Arena football wide receiver. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Tulsa.Davis was also a member of the Montreal Alouettes and New York Jets. |
Q7330229 Richard of Barking (died 1246) was an English Benedictine, the Abbot of Westminster, and a leading judge. |
Q4591825 The 1996 du Maurier Classic was contested from August 1–4 at Edmonton Country Club. It was the 24th edition of the du Maurier Classic, and the 18th edition as a major championship on the LPGA Tour.This event was won by Laura Davies. |
Q8047512 Yalova is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 2 members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system. |
Q6141012 James Patrick (born July 1, 1945 in Twin Falls, Idaho) was a Republican Idaho State Representative since 2006 representing District 23 in the A seat. Since 2012, he has represented District 25 in the Idaho State Senate. He serves as chairman of the Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee. |
Q17055979 The Teenage Kissers is a Japanese grunge band from Tokyo, Japan, formed in 2012 by well known vocalist Nana Kitade, bassist Hideo Nekota and drummer Mai Koike, and later joined by lead guitarist Tsubasa Nakada on April 6, 2013. The band's debut single "Ghost Bitch" was originally released physically February ... |
Q17022100 Herbert v. Moore, Dallam 592 (1844), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas which held that property taken by Indians in a raid were not subject to the rule of postliminy and were still the property of the original owner. |
Q13849747 Glyptotendipes pallens is a species of fly in the family Chironomidae. It is found in the Palearctic . |
Q5110411 Christiana is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,313 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Utica is located within the town. It is named after Oslo, Norway (formerly Christiania) and has one of the highest percentages of Norwegian ancestry in the United States. |
Q1351759 Chatan (北谷町, Chatan-chō, Okinawan: Chatan) is a town located in Nakagami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2016 the town had an estimated population of 28,578 and the density of 2,100 per km². The total area of Chatan is 13.62 square kilometres (5.26 sq mi). 53.5% of the land area of the town ... |
Q1444793 There are 164 vascular plant species on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This figure does not include algae, mosses, and lichens, which are non-vascular plants. For an island so far north, 164 species constitutes an astonishing variety of plant life. Because of the harsh climate and the short grow... |
Q922388 The Islamic New Year, also known as Arabic New Year or Hijri New Year (Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية Raʼs al-Sanah al-Hijrīyah), is the day that marks the beginning of a new Hijri year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented. The first day of the year is observed on the first day of Muharram, the fi... |
Q6607406 This is a list of notable Hawaiʻi beaches sorted by island alphabetically, clockwise around each island, listed by beach name followed by location. |
Q6174882 Jeffrey Ronald Rutledge (born January 22, 1957) is an American football coach and former professional quarterback. |
Q1551017 The Estrada Doctrine is the name of Mexico's core foreign policy ideal from 1930 to the early 2000s. Its name derives from Genaro Estrada, Secretary of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930–1932).The doctrine was the most influential and representative instrument in the country's f... |
Q717701 Panagiotis Doxaras (Greek: Παναγιώτης Δοξαράς) (1662–1729) was a Greek painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art. |
Q11323287 "Dream Cruise" is the thirteenth and final episode of the second season (and of the whole TV series) of Masters of Horror, directed by Norio Tsuruta. |
Q7588089 St. George's Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. |
Q4693303 Agnus McVee was said to be a Canadian serial killer. McVee ran a hotel and store at 108 Mile House on the Cariboo Wagon Road from 1875 to 1885 during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Along with her husband Jim McVee and her son-in-law Al Riley, she is said to have killed many miners for their gold and kidnapped women fo... |
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