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Q585376 The Women's 5K race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Tuesday, 21 July at Ostia Beach in Rome, Italy. In total, 42 Women from 26 countries competed in the race.Note: The Women's and Men's 5K race at the 2009 Worlds were originally schedule to be held on Sunday, July 19; however, high wind and surf con... |
Q2136750 Tinthia xanthospila is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is only known from the type specimen, which was collected at Cedar Bay in Queensland, Australia.The length of the forewings is about 7 mm for males. |
Q5227860 Dr. Daud Shah Saba (born 1964) is a politician in Afghanistan, who is serving as Governor of Herat Province since August 2010 when his predecessor Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani had resigned from the post. |
Q16947894 Qeshlaq-e Seyyedlar Dadalu Yidallah (Persian: قشلاق سيدلردادلويداله, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Seyyedlar Dādalū Yīdāllah) is a village in Qeshlaq-e Jonubi Rural District, Qeshlaq Dasht District, Bileh Savar County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 18, in 5 families. |
Q16462087 Nargan (Persian: نرگان) may refer to:Nargan, IsfahanNargan, Sistan and BaluchestanNargan, Yazd |
Q20808228 Aryan Tari (born 4 June 1999) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. He was Norwegian Chess Champion in 2015 and won the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017. |
Q11160881 Zamaanat (English: Bail; Hindi: ज़मानत) is a 1977 Hindi language Bollywood Action film, produced by V. K. Sobti under the Gautam Pictures banner and directed by A. Salaam. It stars Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan in the lead roles and music composed by Sonik Omi. |
Q15128039 Schwarzbach is a river of Saxony, Germany.The Schwarzbach is a left tributary of the Große Mittweida. |
Q13426464 Coele or Koile (Ancient Greek: Κοίλη or Κοιλή) was a deme of ancient Athens, originally of the phyle of Hippothontis, and between 307/6 BCE and 201/200 BCE of Demetrias, sending three delegates to the Athenian Boule. It was located partially inside and partially outside the walls of Themistocles.The most impo... |
Q6320442 Józef Borzyszkowski (born February 6, 1946, Karsin) is a prolific Polish historian, professor of history at Gdańsk University, and Kashubian activist, who served as chairman of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association from 1986-92.He was a senator of the Senate of Poland from 1991 to 1993. |
Q1323381 Togo (October 17, 1913 – December 5, 1929) was the lead sled dog of Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska. |
Q944206 Evergreen is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. It is their first album since reforming after they disbanded in 1993. Vocalist Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant had previously worked together as Electrafixion before they were rejoined by bassist Les Pattinson under th... |
Q6679291 Lord Glenarvan is a fictional character which appears in Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways and then briefly appears in The Mysterious Island. He is a wealthy Scottish noble married to Lady Glenarvan.Lord Glenarvan owns a yacht called the Duncan, which he uses to help find Captain Grant of the Brit... |
Q7108055 Osvaldo Lopes (born 6 April 1980) is a French professional footballer.He played for his hometown club ES Fréjus, Montpellier HSC and LB Châteauroux in France before joining Plymouth Argyle in August 2002, although his debut was delayed due a delay with his international clearance. He finally made his first tea... |
Q1635307 The Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. In 2011, the IPA pared down its Satellite nominations in the motion picture categories from 22 to 19 classifications; the change reflects the merger of drama and com... |
Q7373239 Roy Padilla Sr. (born Casimero Ruiz Padilla) was a Governor of the Philippine province of Camarines Norte, a member of Corazon Aquino's People Power ticket. He was succeeded by his son, Roy Padilla Jr. He briefly went on to use the name 'Carlos Roy Padilla' on his earlier brief stint as an actor and director.H... |
Q7386188 The Arenas River (Spanish: Río Arenas) is a river of Las Marías, Puerto Rico. |
Q5691691 Hearns Crossroads is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Hearns Crossroads is southeast of Laurel. |
Q1197318 Linyi County (simplified Chinese: 临猗县; traditional Chinese: 臨猗縣; pinyin: Línyī Xiàn) is a county in the southwest of Shanxi province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. It is under the administration of Yuncheng city. |
Q5909495 Hosty v. Carter was a 2005 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that limited the free press rights of college newspapers. |
Q3467339 Leevijõe is a village in Põlva Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia. |
Q6608813 List of captains of the Ukrainian football club Dynamo Kyiv. |
Q7020952 Next Retail India Ltd is a subsidiary of the Videocon Industries Ltd and engages in retailing consumer electronics in India. It was founded in 2003 and currently has 600 showrooms across 25 states of India. It plans to open 400 new showrooms to increase its size to 1,000 odd retail stores by the end of the fis... |
Q6818956 Meredith Marakovits (born July 22, 1983) is the New York Yankees' clubhouse reporter for the YES Network. Marakovits reports on the team within the network’s Yankees game telecasts, pre- and post-game shows, and the Yankees Batting Practice Today show. Marakovits also appears on the network's special Yankees p... |
Q13366929 Infurcitinea amseli is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found in Jordan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. |
Q19877262 Robert Louis (Robert) Paquette (born 1951) is an American historian and Professor of American History at Hamilton College, and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. He is particularly known for his work on the history of slavery in Cuba. |
Q23637404 The H Street/Benning Road Line is a currently operating line of DC Streetcar. It has eight stations and began operation on February 27, 2016. The 2.4-mile (3.9 km) line runs along H Street NE and Benning Road NE in Washington, D.C.. In September 2016 service was increased from six days a week to seven, and wi... |
Q28888344 Tamworth Co-operative Society Limited is a small independent consumer co-operative, founded in Staffordshire in 1886, with an annual turnover in excess of £23m.Arising from a sense of fair play, a meeting was held at the Victoria Road schoolroom in Tamworth on 13 November 1886, where it was proposed that "a c... |
Q2164303 Velika Gradusa is a village in central Croatia, in the municipality of Sunja, Sisak-Moslavina County. It is located in the Banija region. |
Q1430971 Boise Airport (IATA: BOI, ICAO: KBOI, FAA LID: BOI) (Boise Air Terminal or Gowen Field) is a joint civil-military airport three miles south of Boise in Ada County, Idaho, United States. The airport is operated by the city of Boise Department of Aviation and is overseen by an Airport Commission. It is by far th... |
Q597101 Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick (; June 10, 1911 – April 13, 1984) was an American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist. He is best known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas. |
Q5444879 Fernando Poe (born Allan Fernando Poe y Reyes on November 27, 1916 – October 23, 1951), also known as Fernando Poe Sr., was a Filipino actor during the early cinema era in the Philippines. He was of Spanish descent.Poe was the father of Fernando Poe Jr., who later became a prominent actor and icon. Prior to hi... |
Q3992911 Tommy Petersen is an actor who is best known for his role as the young Zack Mayo in the 1982 hit romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. He starred in the 1983 hit NBC miniseries V as Josh Brooks. |
Q286258 Yannick Jauzion (born 28 July 1978 in Castres) is a French former rugby union footballer.Raised in Vénès, Tarn he played at centre for Stade Toulousain and the French national team.Jauzion was a member of the Toulouse team that reached the Heineken Cup final in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He was named as the man of th... |
Q4905657 Big Event Golf is a golf arcade game released by Taito in 1986.The player is a participant on an 18-hole championship golf course. His objective is to acquire the lowest score possible. The rules used in this game are the same as in actual golf. |
Q740904 Blessed Dominic Barberi (22 June 1792 – 27 August 1849) was an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation prominent in spreading Catholicism in England. He contributed to the conversion of John Henry Newman. In 1963, he was beatified by Pope Paul VI. |
Q1107772 Aore Island is an island in Sanma Province, Vanuatu. It is located opposite Luganville on Espiritu Santo and has an area of 58 km2. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is some 89 meters.Aore's climate is humid tropical. The average annual rainfall is about 3000 mm. The island is subject to frequent... |
Q1620908 Historical regions (or historical countries) are geographic areas which at some point in time had a cultural, ethnic, linguistic or political basis, regardless of present-day borders. They are used as delimitations for studying and analysing social development of period-specific cultures without any reference ... |
Q2117490 Teresa Crippen (born April 12, 1990) is an American competition swimmer who was a Pan American Games gold medalist.Crippen was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania in 2008.She accepted an athletic sch... |
Q7887756 The United Farmers of Quebec (Fermiers unis du Québec) were founded in 1920 as part of the broader United Farmers movement in of Canada.The genesis of the organization was in protests resulting from the Conscription Crisis of 1917 against the attempt of Robert Borden's federal government to conscript farm yout... |
Q16018194 Luo Yanlin was a Chinese school teacher who was executed for sexually assaulting and raping 39 girls between 1988 and 2006.Luo worked at three primary schools in Jingning County in northwest China's Gansu province. He would lure the girls into his office under the pretext of tutoring. The victims were between... |
Q7870811 The third USS Kiowa (AT-72), later ATF-72, was a fleet tug, later fleet ocean tug, that served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1972. |
Q16731356 Sheldon Lee was an English association football forward who played professionally in the USISL A-League.Born in India, Lee grew up in England. In 1992, the twenty-four-year-old Lee was the MVP of the United States Interregional Soccer League outdoor season. In 1993, he was the league's leading scorer and Al... |
Q14186086 Huaichuan Subdistrict (Chinese: 淮川街道; pinyin: Huaíchuān Jiēdào) is an urban subdistrict in Liuyang City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 53,000 and an area of 12.31-square-kilometre (4.75 sq mi). |
Q17989514 On 3 July 2014, an overpass collapsed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil onto a busy carriageway below. The overpass was under construction and not open to traffic at the time. The accident left two people dead and 22 others injured. |
Q19663968 Jack Charles Salzwedel is the chairman and CEO of American Family Insurance, roles he has held since November 2011. |
Q25304688 NMR-STAR is an extension of the STAR file format to store the results of biological NMR experiments. |
Q24885002 Donatus Ó Gallchobhair (died 1581) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Down and Connor (1580–1581) and Bishop of Killala (1570–1580). |
Q10598242 Neophyllaphis is a genus of aphids in the family Aphididae. There are about 18 described species in Neophyllaphis. |
Q2093395 Westwood is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 634 at the 2010 census. |
Q57392 Armando Emílio Guebuza (born 20 January 1943) is a Mozambican politician who was President of Mozambique from 2005 to 2015. |
Q6091694 It Did Make a Difference is the discography album of one of Sweden's first hardcore punk band, Step Forward. It is the complete discography of the band, released on CD. Being one of the few hardcore punk bands of Sweden back in 1989, their fast and energetic tunes were the starting point of Sweden's hardcore s... |
Q78691 Dagobert Sigismund, Count von Wurmser (7 May 1724 – 22 August 1797) was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Succession, and mounted several successful campaigns in the Rhineland in the initial years of the French Revo... |
Q3435028 Smederevo Stadium (Serbian: Стадион ФК Смедерево / Stadion FK Smederevo), known as Fortress (Serbian: Тврђава / Tvrđava), is a football stadium in Smederevo, Serbia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Smederevo 1924. The stadium has a seating capacity for 17,200 spect... |
Q1914825 Kerrobert is a town in west central Saskatchewan. It had 1,061 residents in 2011.Kerrobert is served by Highway 21, Highway 31 and Highway 51 as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is approximately 65 kilometres east of the Saskatchewan/Alberta border and 180 kilometres west of Saskatoon.The town is known... |
Q5337486 Edgar A. Tafel (March 12, 1912 – January 18, 2011) was an American architect, best known as a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
Q5558363 Giant Creepy Crawlies is a 2001 one-hour nature documentary presented by Nigel Marven. It looks at the world's largest invertebrates, which include giant squid and sparrow-sized crickets called weta. A highlight was Nigel with a dog-sized crab. |
Q63804 Røros Station (Norwegian: Røros stasjon) is a railway station located in the town of Røros in the municipality of Røros in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Rørosbanen railway line. It is located about 399 kilometres (248 mi) from Oslo Central Station and it sits about 628 metres (2,060 ft) abo... |
Q18035005 E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase HUWE1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HUWE1 gene.It performs the third step (ligation) in binding ubiquitin to proteins in a process called ubiquitination which tags the proteins for disposal. |
Q5306488 Dream a Little Dream is the debut solo album by American singer Cass Elliot immediately after the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, though she was still billed as "Mama Cass" for this release. Capitalizing on the success of her first solo song as the album's title, it was released on October 19, 1968 by Dunhil... |
Q8082233 Świniary [ɕfiˈɲarɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ośno Lubuskie, within Słubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Ośno Lubuskie, 20 km (12 mi) north-east of Słubice, 44 km (27 mi) south-west of Gorzów Wielkopolski, and 7... |
Q6531763 The Lestaillats Marls Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in France. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus. |
Q4617788 The 2010 Macau transfer of sovereignty anniversary protest (2010年澳門回歸示威遊行) occurred on December 20, 2010 on the 11th anniversary of the Transfer of sovereignty of Macau. The protest took place on the same date as the handover anniversary in 1999. The protesters mainly complained about universal suffrage, hou... |
Q5020379 The California Criminal Syndicalism Act (Stats. 1919, c. 188, p. 281; it was codified at California Penal Code §§ 11400 et seq.) was a law of California in 1919 under Governor William Stephens criminalizing syndicalism. It was enacted on April 30, 1919, and repealed in 1991.One of the Act's best-known convicti... |
Q4605689 The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Germain Comarmond on August 9–10. |
Q15214621 Donbeh-ye Olya (Persian: دنبه عليا, also Romanized as Donbeh-ye ‘Olyā; also known as Donbeh-ye Bālā) is a village in Meymand Rural District, in the Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 73, in 14 families. |
Q15075557 Denis Sergeyevich Strelkov (Russian: Денис Сергеевич Стрелков; born 26 October 1990) is a race walker. He won the bronze medal in the 20-kilometre walk at the 2014 European Championships in Athletics. He continues to be coached by Viktor Chegin, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of performance... |
Q22284996 Inonotus acutus is a species of fungus in the Hymenochaetaceae family. It is characterized by having small and thin basidiocarps, a sharp pileus margin, ventricose hymenial setae, and ellipsoid, yellowish and thick-walled basidiospores. |
Q24944780 "Call It Rhythm and Blues"/"Baby, Let Me In" is a single release by Australian rock and roll band The Basics. The single, featuring two non-album tracks, was the band's follow-up to their debut album Get Back; the band had toured heavily around Australia in the interim. The single was released on 20 August 20... |
Q6595702 This is a list of characters in the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein: |
Q147885 Legionella pneumophila is a thin, aerobic, pleomorphic, flagellated, non-spore-forming, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Legionella. L. pneumophila is the primary human pathogenic bacterium in this group and is the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, also known as legionellosis.In nature, L. pneumophi... |
Q7378034 Rufus Henry Fitzgerald (November 20, 1890 – April 11, 1966) was the eleventh Chancellor (1945–1955) of the University of Pittsburgh.He graduated from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1919. He became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity as an undergraduate.His administration is best remembered for its s... |
Q7862141 Täby Racecourse, (Swedish: Täby Galopp), was a Thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Täby, approximately 15 kilometers north of Stockholm. Täby Racecourse was before its closure in 2016, the premier track in Scandinavia. |
Q7434343 Scone Thoroughbreds is a country rugby league team, based in Scone, New South Wales, competing in the Group 21 competition under the auspices of the Country Rugby League.The club is the most successful team in Rugby League history, winning 27 titles in its existence. The Thoroughbreds surpassed the South Sydne... |
Q2460918 Ronald Lázaro García Justiniano, nicknamed "Nacho" (born December 17, 1980 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian retired footballer. He currently holds the position of Sports Director at Bolivian club Oriente Petrolero.He "graduated" from Bolivia's famous football academy Tahuichi Aguilera located in Sant... |
Q16957059 The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, formed in 1985, is a wildlife trust covering the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the coast of Cornwall. It became the 46th member of The Wildlife Trusts in 2001 and is dedicated to ensuring that the archaeological and historical remains on the islands, as well as th... |
Q1264166 The Andaman nightjar (Caprimulgus andamanicus) is a species of nightjar found in the Andaman Islands. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the large-tailed nightjar, however the song and morphology are distinct.The species is found in most of the islands in the Andamans and calls suggest it may be possib... |
Q7892703 The 1960 United States presidential election in California refers to California's participation in the 1960 United States presidential election. California voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. Although California was... |
Q6321445 Jørgen Berner Thrap (1898 – 1990) was a Norwegian judge.He was born in Kristiania as the son of a civil servant. He finished his secondary education in 1916, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1921. After two years as a deputy judge he was hired as a secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and t... |
Q5241054 David Wiese (born 18 May 1985) is a South African cricketer who plays in franchise leagues. Previously, he represented his national side before ending his career in 2017. He has also made 67 first-class appearances since his debut in October 2005. His form since his breakthrough into first-class cricket saw h... |
Q6780502 Phenacovolva poppei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. |
Q660705 Tim Treude (born 28 January 1990) is a German footballer. He currently plays for TuS Erndtebrück. |
Q3751571 The Battle of Guadalacete was fought in 852 between a coalition of troops from the Kingdom of Asturias and the Kingdom of Navarre, and a force of troops from the Muslim Emirate of Córdoba under the command of Muhammad I of Córdoba. The outcome was a Muslim victory. |
Q18536670 Usman Khattar railway station (Urdu: عثمان کھٹر ریلوے اسٹیشن ) is located in Tehsil Taxila of District Rawalpindi Pakistan. There are high schools and higher secondary schools for both boys and girls in Usman Khattar Taxila. Usman Khattar (Taxila) is surrounded by Wah Cantt on one side and Hassan Abdal on t... |
Q25339852 The Pau Cin Hau scripts are two scripts, a logographic script and an alphabetic script created by Pau Cin Hau, a Tedim religious leader from Chin State, Burma. The logographic script consists of 1050 characters, which is a traditionally significant number based on the number of characters appearing in a relig... |
Q23303185 Joey Levin is an American businessman and the CEO of IAC. Levin was appointed to the position in June 2015, after previously leading the company's Search & Applications segment. |
Q27922609 William Robert Berkley is the founder and current chairman of W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. He graduated from New York University with an undergraduate degree in 1966. Berkley has served as chairman of board at NYU, his alma mater, since 2014. As of 2016, his net worth is $1.25 billion. |
Q25405086 The 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 13th edition of the women's field hockey championship organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 18–26 August 2017 in the Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen, Netherlands. The tournament also served as a qualifier for the 2018 Women's Hockey ... |
Q27942637 Linux.Darlloz is worm which infects Linux embedded systems.Linux.Darlloz was first discovered by Symantec in 2013.Linux.Darlloz targets the Internet of things and infects routers, security cameras, set-top boxes by exploiting a PHP vulnerability.The worm was based on a Proof of concept code that was released... |
Q323047 An abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage" from Latin: abortus "miscarriage" and faciens "making") is a substance that induces abortion. Abortifacients for animals that have mated undesirably are known as mismating shots.Common abortifacients used in performing medical abortions include mifepriston... |
Q16239756 Iwan Gronow is British musician, writer and producer. A bass guitarist, he has previously been a member of Haven and Mutineers. Since 2013, he has been a member of Johnny Marr's band, which he joined with Haven drummer Jack Mitchell. |
Q2105276 Portrush Road is a major part of National Route A17, a bypass route in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. |
Q1416809 The River Findhorn (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Fionn Èireann) is one of the longest rivers in Scotland. Located in the north east, it flows into the Moray Firth on the north coast. It has one of the largest non-firth estuaries in Scotland.The river is c.100 kilometres (62 mi) long and the catchment area is 1,300 s... |
Q4789137 In the mathematical field of knot theory, the Arf invariant of a knot, named after Cahit Arf, is a knot invariant obtained from a quadratic form associated to a Seifert surface. If F is a Seifert surface of a knot, then the homology group H1(F, Z/2Z) has a quadratic form whose value is the number of full twi... |
Q7655719 Sweethearts is a comic play billed as a "dramatic contrast" in two acts by W. S. Gilbert. The play tells a sentimental and ironic story of the differing recollections of a man and a woman about their last meeting together before being separated and reunited after 30 years.It was first produced on 7 November 1... |
Q6296863 Joseph Churches Lindsay Walton (born 15 April 1982) is a poet, fiction writer, and editor. |
Q6971803 The National Congressional Club (NCC) was a political action committee formed by Tom Ellis in 1973 and controlled by Jesse Helms, who served as a Republican Senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003. The NCC was originally established as the Congressional Club of North Carolina to cover Helms's campaign de... |
Q6793961 Maury Dean is an American musician, professor and author, whose book "The Rock Revolution" is in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian. |
Q6358394 Kamionka [kaˈmjɔnka] (German Steinburg) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grzmiąca, within Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of Szczecinek and 130 km (81 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szcze... |
Q4752607 Anchatgeri is a village in Dharwad district of Karnataka, India. |
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