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Q6548101 Lillian Covillo (1921 – November 22, 2010) was an American ballet dancer, and with Freidann Parker was co-founder of the professional dance company, Colorado Ballet. |
Q7439835 The SeaWorld SkyTower is an observation tower located in the SeaWorld Orlando theme park complex constructed in 1973 and opened in 1974. The tower is the tallest observation tower in Florida and contains a double decker rotating pod. SkyTower is lit with an array of Electronic Theater Control's LEDs as of Febr... |
Q496409 Péter Marót (born 27 May 1945) is a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the individual sabre and a bronze in the team event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1976 Olympics. |
Q5120724 Cinema Express Awards are presented annually by Indian Express Group on behalf of Cinema Express film magazine to honour artistic excellence of professionals in the south Indian film industry which comprises Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industries. The awards were introduced in 1981. From 1987 the... |
Q6985036 Nebria laticollis maritima is a subspecies of ground beetle in the Nebriinae subfamily that is endemic to France. |
Q16256012 C24 Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2011 by Emre & Maide Kurttepeli, Mel Dogan and located in Chelsea, New York City that focuses on presenting exhibitions from both local and international artists. In addition to an ambitious exhibition program, which includes collaborations with renowned cu... |
Q18330901 Sophie Charlotte Bray, (born 12 May 1990) is an English international field hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain. She currently plays club hockey in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for East Grinstead. |
Q23710588 Mammoth Springs is an unincorporated community in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States. |
Q28940820 Gibson is an unincorporated community located within Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. |
Q3356908 Metro Cuatro Caminos (translated from Spanish the name literally means "Four Roads") is a station of the Mexico City metro network. It is the current north terminus of Line 2 and serves as a hub for regional transport from and into the State of México.As of 14 September 1970 Line 2 originally terminated at Me... |
Q3568845 William Nicholson (27 February 1816 – 10 March 1865) was an Australian colonial politician who became the third Premier of Victoria. He is remembered for having been called the "father of the ballot" due to his responsibility in introducing the secret ballot in Victoria. |
Q670890 Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a 14,870-seat multi-purpose indoor arena in Phoenix, Arizona, located at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. It hosted the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1968 to 1992, as well as indoor soccer, roller derby and professional and minor league ice hockey t... |
Q512232 The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a chiliastic Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany.The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands. It came about from the schism in Hamburg in 1863, when it demerged from the Cath... |
Q4582012 The following are the baseball events of the year 1984 throughout the world. |
Q5121539 Circleville is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. Circleville was originally named Zyrkleville after John Zyrkle, who ran a dry goods store in the town. The old Circleville School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Circleville is located on... |
Q2247647 Route 102 is a state highway in southwestern Connecticut running from the center of Ridgefield to the Branchville section of the same town. |
Q7617084 Lieutenant General William Home, 8th Earl of Home (1681 – 28 April 1761) was a Scottish peer and the British Governor of Gibraltar between 1757 and 1761. Lord Home was a well-known spendthrift. |
Q6173239 Jeff Atmajian (born 1960 in Fresno, California) is an arranger and orchestrator for films. His steady clientele are composers such as James Newton Howard, Marc Shaiman, Rachel Portman, Mark Watters, John Debney and Gabriel Yared. In the past two years Jeff has been pursuing a more high-profile composing career... |
Q5136954 Clyde R. Kersey (born 4 November 1937) is a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 43rd District since 1996. He is also a former member of the Vigo County Council from 1999-2004. In 2017, Kersey announced that he would not run for reelection to the State House. |
Q3313425 The 1930 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 44th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 18 May 1930 and ended on 7 September 1930.Cork were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in... |
Q5365364 Ellie Raymond (born 29 January 1991) is an Australian football (soccer) player currently playing for Australian W-League team Canberra United. |
Q7894645 University College of Bahrain (UCB; Arabic: كلية البحرين الجامعية) is a private university located in Bahrain established in 2002. The University offers Programs in Business administration, Information Technology, and Graphic Design in addition to programs at Graduate level (MBA) |
Q6917951 MotoGP 4 (often stylized as MotoGP4) is the fourth MotoGP game released and the last game published and developed by Namco. |
Q4884503 Beloje (Serbian: Белоје, Greek: Βελάης; fl. 839) was the župan of Travunia some time in the first half of the 9th century. Travunia was a polity centered in Trebinje (now in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina), subject to the Principality of Serbia. Mentioned in De Administrando Imperio (DAI) of Byzantine Emperor... |
Q2914759 Moneensauran (from Irish: Moinín Samhradhain, meaning "Samhradhán's little bog") is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies within the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin and barony of Tullyhaw. |
Q5479781 Franci Grajš (born December 15, 1986) is a retired Slovenian kickboxer and best 85MAX kickboxer for December 2012. |
Q1677265 Jaclyn "Jackie" Barnes (born November 29, 1986) is an American goalball player. Although originally disinterested in the sport, fearing it was a "special" sport and new to losing her vision, she later embraced it. She was on the gold medal winning US team in Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. |
Q24590524 The 1982 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Bill Dooley. |
Q11146948 Hung Wen-tung (Chinese: 洪文棟; 22 December 1937 – 4 November 2018) was a Taiwanese politician who served on the Legislative Yuan between 1984 to 1990.He was the second son of business magnate Hung Wan-chuan. Hung Wen-tung graduated from Kaohsiung Medical College, and was trained as an orthopedist. He and his fi... |
Q444406 Sitting Ducks is a lithograph created by the poster artist Michael Bedard in 1977. It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom "sitting duck". Three ducks are relaxing in the sun on white chairs by the poolside, one looks up and notices two bullet holes in the wall.Bedard then went on to create an entire s... |
Q7895629 The University of Limerick Students' Union (Irish: Aontas na Mac Léinn, Ollscoil Luimnigh) is the representative body for students at the University of Limerick, situated in Limerick, Ireland. |
Q7859949 Tyler Davis Bingham (nicknamed T.D., born c. 1947) is a "lieutenant" in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, despite his partial Jewish background, even sporting a Star of David tattoo.He was convicted of murder and was returned to the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, where he is serv... |
Q115662 Kim Jaggy (born 14 November 1982) is Swiss-born Haitian footballer who plays as a left-sided defender for FC Aarau. |
Q6545517 "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous" is a song written by Byron Hill and Wayne Tester, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Byrd. It was released in April 1994 as the first single from the album No Ordinary Man. The song won an ASCAP Award for being among the most performed country songs... |
Q1100235 Saint-Benin is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. |
Q5521274 Gangvaa is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Rajasekhar. The movie starring Rajinikanth, Shabana Azmi and Suresh Oberoi in lead roles. It was a Hit in Hindi. It is a remake of the 1983 Tamil film Malaiyoor Mambattiyan that starred Thyagarajan and Saritha in the lead roles. |
Q10406033 Joey Somerville (born 15 August 1970 in Dublin) is an Irish football manager, who was last in charge of Kildare County in the League of Ireland. He spent his playing days with Bohemians in the 1990s. |
Q5029580 The Canada–Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) is a free trade agreement between Canada and Israel. |
Q7316925 The Retreat from Lạng Sơn (French: retraite de Lang-Son) was a controversial French strategic withdrawal in Tonkin at the end of March 1885 that brought down the government of the French premier Jules Ferry and brought the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885) to an end in circumstances of considerable e... |
Q2498186 Pseudochromis steenei, also known as lyretail lottyback, is a saltwater fish from Indonesia that is occasionally kept in aquariums. The specific name honours the Australian naturalist and underwater photographer Roger C. Steene who assisted in the collection of the type specimen. |
Q6981952 The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) is a command of the United States Navy.Headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, the NAVSUP and Navy Supply Corps team deliver logistics and support to the Navy. The current Commander is Rear Admiral Michelle C. Skubic who took the position in 2018. |
Q6051866 IMI Fútbol Club was a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Talara. |
Q16146767 Albert Odulele (born 5 January 1964) is a pastor, author, televangelist and a revelator. Odulele was born in London to Nigerian parents Abel Oyebajo and Patience Aotola. Odulele spent his formative years in Nigeria and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1986. Odulele was convicted of two counts of sexual assa... |
Q13634388 "Diane Young" is a song by indie rock band Vampire Weekend, taken from their third studio album Modern Vampires of the City. It was released as the lead single from the album on March 19, 2013. A promotional video of the single, which features two Saab 900s burning throughout the duration of the song, was upl... |
Q15641880 Netechma brevidagus is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in Peru.The wingspan is 15 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is white, dotted with blackish brown and with black costal spots. |
Q30015018 Keury Mella (born August 2, 1993) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). |
Q25206504 The Camp House is a historic house at 4684 West Arkansas Highway 60 in Aplin, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame house, with a gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a stone foundation. Its roof has deep eaves with applied decorative elements, and exposed rafter ends in the eaves. The front is adorne... |
Q10716212 Visättra (formerly Östra Flemingsberg) is a residential area in Flemingsberg in Huddinge municipality and included in the urban area of Stockholm. |
Q40508263 Blaža Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Блажа Кнежевић; born 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. |
Q7241760 Prestbury is a medium-sized village near the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the outskirts of Cheltenham, and forms part of the borough of Cheltenham, despite retaining its own parish council as a civil parish. It is part of the Tewkesbury parliamentary constituency.The parish of P... |
Q1479154 Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. Living in poverty with her husband in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, most of her life, she achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965. Several books, plays and films have since been pro... |
Q5344805 Edward Peel (born 1943) is an English actor who has appeared frequently on British television.His roles include Lennie in The Sweeney episode "Bait" with George Sewell (1978), Shogun (1980), Ted Turton in Minder episode 10 of series 3; "Broken Arrow" (1982), Juliet Bravo (1983–1985), Cracker (1993–1995) and Em... |
Q6161797 Jasmine Thomas is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. She made her first screen appearance in the episode broadcast on 30 June 2005 and her last appearance on 26 March 2009. |
Q3049162 Kovilovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ковилово; IPA: [kɔ̌ʋilɔʋɔ]) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula. |
Q1699926 For the Australian WW2 Victoria Cross medal awardee see John Hurst EdmondsonJohn B. Edmondson (born February 3, 1933; died, December 30, 2016) [1] was an American professional trumpet player, pianist, music composer, former music teacher, and freelance writer (composer) and arranger. He is a member of ASCAP. ... |
Q3307777 Tomzanonia is a genus of orchids, (family Orchidaceae), consisting of a single species, Tomzanonia filicina endemic to the Massif de la Hotte in Haiti.The genus is named for Dr. Tom Zanoni of the New York Botanical Garden. |
Q7394353 SS Scharnhorst may refer to one of the following passenger steamers for North German Lloyd:SS Scharnhorst (1904), in service from 1904–1919; given to France as war reparations in 1919SS Scharnhorst (1934), in service from 1934–1939; trapped at Kobe, Japan, in 1939; sold to Japanese in 1942 and converted into J... |
Q1440931 Mazères-sur-Salat is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. |
Q10797381 Euspira pallida is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. |
Q5913065 Houlder Line was a number of related British shipping companies originally established by the Houlder brothers.Houlder Brothers & Co. was formed in London 1856 and operated in the market for chartered tonnage. In 1861 the company acquired the Golden Horn, which they used on the North Atlantic routes to the Uni... |
Q5172342 The Corowa Football Club, nicknamed the Spiders, was an Australian rules football club based in Corowa, New South Wales, that competed in the Ovens & Murray Football League.Famous footballers who played for the club include Fred Swift, Peter Chisnall and John Hoiles.The club merged with the Rutherglen FC in 19... |
Q6146242 The Jamestown Historic District in Jamestown, North Dakota is a 43.1-acre (17.4 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1989. It includes works designed by the Hancock Brothers and by Gilbert Horton. It includes Chicago style architecture, Italianate archit... |
Q6938070 The murder of Stuart Anthony Tay occurred in Buena Park, California in Greater Los Angeles on December 31 (New Year's Eve), 1992. The Orange County Register referred to the crime as the "Honor Roll Murder." The victim and most of the perpetrators were Asian American.The victim, Stuart Tay, was a 17-year-old Ch... |
Q4267718 Ingegerd Knudsdatter of Denmark also called Ingerta and Ingerd (born between 1080 and 1085 – year of death unknown), was a Danish princess, daughter of King Canute IV of Denmark and Queen Adela. She is regarded as the founding mother of the House of Bjelbo of subsequent Swedish and Norwegian kings (beginning w... |
Q3371545 Paul Joseph Boudier (December 1854 in Corgoloin, Côte-d’Or – 8 November 1908 in Corgoloin) is a French civil servant. |
Q1772066 The Vrouwenheide (Women's heath) is a hill in the Netherlands and former heath land, just south of Ubachsberg in the municipality of Voerendaal. With a height of 218 metres above NAP it is one of the highest points in the European part of the Netherlands. |
Q12246736 Celtis philippensis, is a species of flowering plant in the Cannabaceae family. It is found in Asian region. |
Q18927102 Nathan Kuhns Parker (March 9, 1904 – May 6, 1991) was an American football player. Parker attended Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, before enrolling at Dartmouth College. He played college football at the tackle position for the Dartmouth Big Green football team from 1923 to 1925 and was sele... |
Q11905573 Andronicus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) was a poet of ancient Greece.Andronicus was a contemporary of the emperor Constantius II, around 360. The sophist rhetorician Libanius wrote that the sweetness of his poetry gained him the favor of all the towns (probably of Egypt) as far as the Ethiopians, but that the ... |
Q4968925 The Bristol Hippodrome (grid reference ST590729) is a theatre located in The Centre, Bristol, England, United Kingdom with seating on three levels giving a capacity of 1,951. It frequently features shows from London's West End when they tour the UK, as well as regular visits by Welsh National Opera and an ann... |
Q4704148 Al Jewer is a Native American flutist from Wisconsin. He has worked as a record producer and engineer, and as a studio musician, but he has become well known internationally for his work on the Native American flute. His original training was with the concert flute, and he has been performing classical music... |
Q5093236 Cheshunt School was a secondary school for boys and girls, located in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. |
Q5568614 Glenmont is a hamlet in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York. Glenmont is in the northeastern corner of the town and is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. It was once accessible from the Hudson River by way of several docks but the river's channels have since been filled in. |
Q110761 Alexander Lauterwasser (born 1951 in Überlingen) is a German researcher and photographer who based his work on work done by Ernst Chladni and Hans Jenny in the field of Cymatics.In 2002, Lauterwasser published his book Wasser Klang Bilder (Water Sound Images) with imagery of water surfaces set into motion by s... |
Q7490937 Shaun Melvyn Pejic (born 16 November 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played club football in England, Wales, Canada and the United States and represented Wales at under-20 and under-21 levels. |
Q7054266 The North Branch of the Westfield River starts at the town of Savoy, Massachusetts in the Berkshires. It flows southeasterly to the town of Cummington where it follows Route 9 to the junction with the Swift River.Here it turns sharply south and flows through the picturesque Pork Barrel region to West Chesterf... |
Q1949860 Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller is a compilation album created by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and released on Trojan Records. Released to commemorate Trojan Records' 40th anniversary, it collects Greenwood's favorite reggae and dub tracks released on the label. The album features artwork by Stanley Donwood,... |
Q2537310 Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Perger 51, Sherman 4, MH 62, was written in Salzburg, completed on December 7, 1763. Charles H. Sherman's modern edition of this work has been published by Musikverlag Doblinger and also appears in an anthology from Garland Publishing that includes symphonies by ... |
Q7526800 Sir Fulque Melville Gerald Noel Agnew, 10th Baronet (born 6 October 1900, Bangalore, India – died 28 August 1975, Mzuzu, Malawi) was the son of Major Charles Hamlyn Agnew (3rd son of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet, and Lady Louisa Noel or Agnew of Lochnaw, daughter of the 1st Earl of Gainsborough) an... |
Q7317157 The Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant is an historic wastewater pumping station in the Field's Point Sewage Treatment Facility on Ernest Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a rectangular hip-roofed brick and concrete structure, located adjacent to the facility's aeration... |
Q7208688 Pokojewo [pɔkɔˈjɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opinogóra Górna, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Opinogóra Górna, 14 km (9 mi) north-east of Ciechanów, and 81 km (50 mi) north of Warsaw. |
Q7119728 Vidyaniketan or Vidya Niketan Schools are a group of schools in Pune run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). As of 2011, there are 15 primary PMC Vidya Niketan schools. |
Q322289 Da kommt Kalle (Here comes Kalle) was a German family entertainment television program depicting a Parson Russell Terrier who helps solve criminal cases and family dramas.70 episodes were made in 5 series and broadcast on ZDF from 2006 to 2011 in a Saturday early evening slot. Each episode was 45 minutes long. |
Q7604503 The statue of Thomas Munro is an equestrian statue of Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet, Scottish army commander and Governor of Madras from 1820 to 1827, located in the city of Chennai, India. The bronze statue sculpted by Francis Chantrey in the United Kingdom in 1834 and shipped to Madras in 1839, is one of the pop... |
Q1433455 Jüterbog Airfield (also known as Altes Lager airfield) is an abandoned military air base located west of the town of Jüterbog, in Brandenburg, Germany. Nowadays paragliders and hang gliders start from Altes Lager. |
Q4611049 Group B of the 2008 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III was one of two pools in Group III of the Europe/Africa zone of the 2008 Fed Cup. Six teams competed in a round-robin competition, with the top team advancing to Group II for 2009. |
Q17013942 Grice Peters (born Martin Charles Grice Peters) aka GRICE, is a London-born English art rock musician, vocalist, lyricist and songwriter. Grice formed and fronted underground brit-pop flavoured bands 'Laugh like A Madman', 'The burning martyrs', 'The Martyrs', 'SWANSTON' and the avant-garde art rock outfit 'h... |
Q20657806 Galbraith is an unincorporated community in Kossuth County, in the U.S. state of Iowa. |
Q18534151 Emily Crawford (31 May 1841 – 30 December 1915) was an Irish journalist. |
Q3046416 GNU Mach is an implementation of the Mach microkernel. It is the default microkernel in the GNU Hurd. GNU Mach runs on IA-32 machines. GNU Mach is maintained by developers on the GNU project. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
Q1278282 Jonathan Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906) was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people... |
Q6754285 Maqsood is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivions, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. |
Q698520 Liezen is a municipality in the Austrian federal state of Styria, district capital of the district of the same name and economic center on the River Enns. |
Q1680319 James Edmund Jeffries (June 1, 1925 – August 22, 1997) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas from 1979 to 1983.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffries attended the public schools. He graduated from Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1943.He attended Michigan State University, Lansing, 1947. He served in... |
Q5219755 The Danish Landsting election of 1936 was held on 22 September 1936, with the exceptions that the electors were elected on 15 September and that the candidates elected by the resigning parliament were elected on 14 August.The election was a victory for the government parties, the Social Democratic Party and De... |
Q5468767 Forest, also known as Forest City, is a small unincorporated community town site in Sierra County and the Sierra Nevada (mountains), in eastern California, the Western United States.The town site of Forest is located at 4,489 feet (1,368 m) in elevation. |
Q5276621 Dil Ka Raja is a 1972 Bollywood action film produced by A.A. Nadiadwala and directed by P. Madhavan. The film stars Ajit, Indrani Mukherjee, Waheeda Rehman and Raaj Kumar. |
Q2738782 Vratarnica is a village in the municipality of Zaječar, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 570 people. |
Q2030835 A turuma (from the Finnish word "Turunmaa") was a type of warship built for the Swedish archipelago fleet in the late 18th century. It was specifically developed for warfare in the Archipelago Sea and along the coasts of Svealand and Finland. The turuma was designed by the prolific naval architect Fredrik Henr... |
Q4647523 A. Arthur Giddon (April 26, 1909 – November 24, 2010) was an American lawyer, World War II veteran and Major League Baseball batboy.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Giddon was raised in Brookline. His father, Abram, was in the horse business — commercial hauling ones, the type soon to be replaced by trucks — but... |
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