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Q376649 The Saxon Mining Office (German: Sächsisches Oberbergamt) is the executive authority for mining rights in the German state of Saxony. It is also responsible for all non-metallic mineral resources on the terrain of the former East Germany. |
Q15052249 Frank C. Newman (July 17, 1917–February 18, 1996) was a law school dean, state supreme court justice, and scholar and advocate of reform in the field of international human rights law. He was the Dean of Berkeley Law School from 1961 to 1966, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1977 t... |
Q16892618 Iha Castle (伊波城, Iha jō) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Uruma, Okinawa. It sits on a cliff that separates Iha from Ishikawa, with a grand view of the Ishikawa Isthmus. The castle is in ruins, with nothing left of the original structures save the walls. There are also multiple Ryukyuan shrines in the bailey. Based on... |
Q3015253 Haplochorema is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It has 6 known species, all native to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Southeast Asia.Haplochorema decus-sylvae (Hallier f.) Valeton - BorneoHaplochorema extensum K.Schum. - SarawakHaplochorema latilabrum (Valeton) S.Sakai & Nagam. - BorneoHaplochorem... |
Q2343072 Steph Geremia is an Irish-American flute player and singer who lives in Galway, Ireland. |
Q22000987 Terror Trail is a 1933 American Western film directed by Armand Schaefer, written by Jack Cunningham, and starring Tom Mix, Naomi Judge, Arthur Rankin, John St. Polis, Frank Brownlee and Raymond Hatton. It was released on February 2, 1933, by Universal Pictures. |
Q24948946 The Mosque al-Nour (also known as Mosque an-Nour; French: Mosquée An-Nour or Centre An-Nour) is a mosque in Mulhouse, France. It was launched in 2009 for the construction of a religious and cultural center for the Muslim community in Mulhouse, the second largest city in the Alsace region.Kuwait and Qatar are ... |
Q4028069 The 1st Grenadier Division was a grenadier unit in the Imperial Russian Army. It was headquartered at Moscow and participated in the Baranovichi Offensive. |
Q11364792 Taishi Nakagawa (中川 大志, Nakagawa Taishi, born June 8, 1990 in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Between 2009 and 2017 he played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. |
Q864822 Electron diffraction refers to the wave nature of electrons. However, from a technical or practical point of view, it may be regarded as a technique used to study matter by firing electrons at a sample and observing the resulting interference pattern. This phenomenon is commonly known as wave–particle duality, ... |
Q3743487 The Meigs Elevated Railway was an experimental steam-powered monorail invented by Josiah V. Meigs (also known as Joe Vincent Meigs) of Lowell, Massachusetts. He wrote an extensive explanation of how the railway worked, complete with diagrams and statistics, which was published in 1887. The weight of the train ... |
Q192983 TVXQ (stylized as TVXQ!), an initialism for Tong Vfang Xien Qi (Chinese: 東方神起), is a South Korean pop duo consisting of U-Know Yunho and Max Changmin. They are known as Tohoshinki (東方神起, Tōhōshinki) in Japanese releases, and are sometimes referred to as DBSK, an abbreviation of their Korean name Dong Bang Shin ... |
Q2968726 The Château de Bénouville is a building in Bénouville, Normandy, near Caen (northern France). It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin, marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouvi... |
Q5620127 The Gurkha Welfare Trust is a British charity (Reg. Charity No. 1103669) established in 1969. It is the principal UK charity dedicated to the provision of aid to Gurkha ex-servicemen and their dependants in their homeland of Nepal, and increasingly in the UK and elsewhere.Nepal has limited industry, agricultu... |
Q7438410 Scouting and Guiding in Ireland, owing much to the legacy of Baden Powell, has a long and deep history back to 1908. The Scout and Guide movement in Ireland is served bythe Council of Irish Guiding Associations, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, a federation consisting of:the Cath... |
Q6936829 There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Munro, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.The Munro Baronetcy, of Foulis-Obsdale in the County of Ross, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 7 June 1634 for Colonel Hector Monro, ... |
Q3665016 Ceratozamia whitelockiana is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from Metates and Chiapan in Oaxaca state. Only two subpopulations have been found, with a total population of about 2200 individuals. The habitat is threatened by conversion to plantations u... |
Q6258183 John Slingsby (born 21 June 1788 at New Windsor, Berkshire; died 2 September 1826 at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) was an English amateur cricketer. |
Q141486 The Mutteristock is a mountain in the Schwyzer Alps, which rises 2294 meters above sea level. It is located between the cantons of Glarus and Schwyz, Switzerland, overlooking the Wägitalersee and the Klöntalersee on its northern and southern side respectively. Its summit is the highest point of the subrange lyi... |
Q5135399 Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009. |
Q7825465 Torben Hundahl (16 June 1945 — 2 October 1989), sometimes credited as Torben Hundal, was a Danish film and television actor. |
Q249331 Pope Benedict XII (r. 1334–1342) created six new cardinals in one consistory celebrated on 18 December 1338:Gozzio Battaglia, patriarch of Constantinople – cardinal-priest of S. Prisca (received the title on 12 May 1339), † 10 June 1348Bertrand de Déaulx, archbishop of Embrun – cardinal-priest of S. Marco (rece... |
Q5255406 Demirhan is a village in the District of Sultanhisar, Aydın Province, Turkey. As of 2010, it had a population of 750 people. |
Q7998860 Wiebe is a Friesien surname with its origin in Friesland. It is from a short form of any various Friesian personal names beginning with wig, "battle", "war". There are no non-Dutch Wiebe surnames in Karl Stumpp's work which seems unlikely if the top explanation were viable. |
Q4850981 Baliochila minima, the minimal buff, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya. The habitat consists of coastal forests. |
Q15993555 Ally Kleist Sykes (10 October 1926 – 19 May 2013) was a veteran Tanzanian politician and one of the 17 founders of the Tanganyika African National Union. |
Q16896015 The O'Shea Building is a historic commercial building located at 7-15 Main Street in Peabody, Massachusetts. Built in 1904 by Thomas O'Shea, one of the city's leading businessmen at the time, it is a well-preserved example of commercial Renaissance revival architecture. The building was listed on the National... |
Q15767450 The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms publishes original research articles and critical reviews on a broad range of subjects pertaining to medicinal mushrooms, including systematics, nomenclature, taxonomy, morphology, medicinal value, biotechnology, and more. The journal started publishing in 1999... |
Q13517530 Zale unilineata, the one-lined zale, is a species of owlet moths, etc. in the family Erebidae. It is found in North America.The MONA or Hodges number for Zale unilineata is 8716. |
Q2076340 Crystal Springs is a city in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,044 as of the 2010 census, down from 5,873 in 2000. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q16969697 The Danish Gymnasium offers a 3-year general academically-oriented upper secondary programme which builds on the 9th-10th form of the Folkeskole and leads to the upper secondary school exit examination (the studentereksamen). This qualifies a student for admission to higher education Preparatory, subject to t... |
Q7842524 Trinity's Child is a 1983 novel by William Prochnau. The book depicts a nuclear war waged between the United States of America and the Soviet Union.During the waning years of the Cold War, the United States has engaged in a massive military buildup, hoping to press the economy of the Soviet Union to breaking p... |
Q367214 Varvarin (Serbian Cyrillic: Варварин, pronounced [ʋarʋǎriːn]) is a town and municipality located in the Rasina District of central Serbia. Population of the town is 2,133, and population of the municipality is 17,772. |
Q5605404 Greg "The Cat" Cattrano (born August 6, 1975) is a retired lacrosse goaltender, who is recognized as one of the most successful and accomplished goaltenders in the history of the sport. |
Q4973435 Broken News is a comedy programme shown on BBC Two in late 2005. The show poked fun at the world of 24-hour rolling news channels. The title of the show is a play on the phrase "breaking news". It had six thirty-minute episodes. Having previously worked on programmes such as People Like Us and The Sunday Forma... |
Q5577701 Goin' Through Changes is the second and thus far final album by Zumpano, which has broken up. It was released on 1996 on Sub Pop. The album is out of print. A video was made for the single Behind the Beehive |
Q15461420 Brendan Nyhan ( (listen); born 1978) is an American political scientist and professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. He is also a liberal to moderate political blogger, author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, ... |
Q626986 Fireworks (Korean: 불꽃놀이; RR: Bulkkotnori; lit. Fireworks Display or Exhibition of Fireworks) is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young, Kang Ji-hwan, Park Eun-hye and Yoon Sang-hyun. It aired on MBC from May 13 to July 9, 2006 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 17 episodes. |
Q816293 Belverne is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. |
Q14409548 Neuroterus is a genus of gall wasps. Some species produce galls that fall off the host plant and jump along the ground due to the movement of the larvae within.Neuroterus saltatorius—formerly named Cynips saltatorius—produces such Mexican jumping bean-like jumping galls about 1 to 1.5 mm in diameter.Species i... |
Q38645 Citrullus lanatus is a plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originating in West Africa. It is cultivated for its fruit. The subdivision of this species into two varieties, watermelons (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) var. lanatus) and citron melons (Citrullus ... |
Q8068037 Zdrowa [ˈzdrɔva] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kłomnice, within Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Kłomnice, 21 km (13 mi) north-east of Częstochowa, and 80 km (50 mi) north of the regional capital Katowic... |
Q17021724 The City of Buffalo Police and Fire Headquarters at the Michael J. Dillon U.S. Courthouse Building is the headquarters for the Buffalo Fire Department and Buffalo Police department and serves as a public safety building. The building had previously served as a courthouse of the United States District Court fo... |
Q4117464 Suwayr District (Arabic: مديرية صوير) is a district of the 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 20,854 inhabitants. |
Q5714144 Henegama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. |
Q7993792 Whirl Wind Propellers Corporation, is an American manufacturer of wooden and composite propellers for homebuilt and light-sport aircraft. The company headquarters is located in El Cajon, California.The company makes composite ground adjustable aircraft propellers as well as replacement blades for the Nanchang ... |
Q1111894 Colours of Gospel is a German mixed choir centered in Mainz, Germany. It was founded in 1998 as a students choir and was a mixed choir from the very beginning. Since this time until end of 2017, it has been conducted by Hans-Jörg Fiehl, who founded two gospel choirs. In 2018 Collins Nyandeje took over responsi... |
Q17279114 Abakar Adoum (born 18 August 1984) is a retired Chadian football player. He has made three appearances for the Chad national football team. |
Q2588192 Tixpéhual Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of the dwarf's greeting”) is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (68.98 km2) of land and located roughly 25 km east of the city of Mérida. |
Q218992 Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), known professionally as Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri. Nelly embarked on his music career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993 and signed to Universal Records in... |
Q7749892 "The Man that Got Away" is a torch song, published in 1953 and written for the 1954 version of the film A Star Is Born. The music was written by Harold Arlen, and the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. In 1955, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2004, Judy Garland's performance of the song ... |
Q613980 Anyone's Daughter is a German progressive rock band founded in 1972 in Stuttgart by Uwe Karpa und Matthias Ulmer. They are considered Progressive rock, similar to German bands like Eloy and Novalis. |
Q270771 Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods (May 5, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was an American actress and singer. Woods was the original voice of the title character of the Walt Disney animated feature Cinderella, for which she was named a Disney Legend in 2003. |
Q5497617 Frederick W. D'Evelyn (about 1855 - 1932) appears to have been the first person of Irish birth to accept the Bahá'í Faith. He was born in Belfast in or about 1855. |
Q5065536 Cesca Chenevix Trench (3 February 1891 – 30 October 1918) was an Anglo-Irish woman who became an Irish nationalist illustrator. She adopted the Irish identity and took the Irish name Sadhbh Trinseach. |
Q4730704 Allan Hopkins (24 May 1904 – 2 July 2001) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. He started off his career with Footscray Football Club before they joined the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1925. He had played in the club's 1923 and 1924 premiership sides in the Victor... |
Q3017776 Mazanówka [mazaˈnufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tuczna, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Tuczna, 31 km (19 mi) south-east of Biała Podlaska, and 85 km (53 mi) north-east of the regional capit... |
Q3299544 Jonathan Matthew Palmer (born March 21, 1979) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He bats and throws right-handed. He attended Southwest Missouri State University. |
Q7230456 A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Port Adelaide on 26 March 1988. This was triggered by the resignation of Labor Party MP Mick Young over alleged mishandling of campaign donations.The election was won by Labor candidate Rod Sawford, despite an 11.1% swing to the Liberal... |
Q16186890 Brian Keith Shantry (born 26 May 1955) is a former English cricketer. Shantry was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium.Shantry made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Somerset in the 1978 County Championship. Shantry played 2 further first-class matches against Worcestershire i... |
Q7757164 The Pine Tree in the Mountain (U gori raste zelen bor) is a Croatian film directed by Antun Vrdoljak. Set during World War II the film follows the exploits of a brigade of partisans, concentrating on the differences between a communist party commissioner and the brigade commander. It was released in 1971.In 19... |
Q2539542 The following elections occurred in 1967.1967 Dutch general election1967 Icelandic parliamentary election1967 Liberian general election1967 Mauritian general election1967 Nicaraguan general election1967 Norwegian local elections1967 Philippine Senate election1967 Salvadoran presidential election1967 Sierra Leo... |
Q2058474 Hamferð is a Faroese doom metal band from Tórshavn which formed in 2008. |
Q7265948 Qalandar Mahalleh (Persian: قلندرمحله, also Romanized as Qalandar Maḩalleh) is a village in Roshanabad Rural District, in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 622, in 164 families. |
Q4881927 Belarus competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. |
Q11902331 Wenceslas Kalibushi (29 June 1919 – 20 December 1997) was a Rwandan Catholic bishop.Wenceslas Kalibushi was born on 29 June 1919 at Byimana, Rwanda.He was ordained a priest on 25 July 1947.On 9 December 1976 he was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nyundo, and he was consecrated by Archbishop ... |
Q14702805 Euderces aspericollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chemsak in 1969. |
Q21005558 Grace Martine Tandon (born October 24, 1998), professionally known as Daya (stylized DΛYΛ; pronounced ), is an American singer and songwriter from Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She is signed to Artbeatz, Z Entertainment, and RED Distribution, and released her self-titled debut extended play (EP), Daya, on Septem... |
Q3541028 Troy Kepper (born February 22, 1982) is an American rower who has competed successfully at elite level winning the men's coxed pairs at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznań. This followed his second place at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu. |
Q5297228 The Doordarshi Party (Hindi: दूरदर्शी) also written as Door Darshi Party) was a political party in India. It was founded in Ahmedabad on 24 March 1980 by religious leader Baba Jai Gurudev on a platform of social reform and spiritual growth. The party did not receive significant support and withdrew from elect... |
Q7508568 The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England. |
Q3241445 The Government of India Act 1935 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It originally received Royal assent in August 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5 c. 42). Until 1999, it was the longest Act (British) of Parliament ever enacted at that time. The Greater London Authority Act 1999 surpassed it in length. Bec... |
Q7377867 The Ruf BTR (Gruppe B Turbo RUF) is a sports car built by German automobile manufacturer Ruf Automobile. The BTR began production in 1983 and was based on the Porsche 911 (produced from 1978–1989) available in a narrow 911 or optional wide body configuration akin to the 930 Turbo (the drag difference causing m... |
Q4739932 Amantis aeta is a species of praying mantis native to the Philippines. |
Q6134629 James Raymond Gilhula (June 14, 1912 – March 11, 1962) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Gilhula competed in the semifinals of the 400-meter freestyle, recording a time of 4:55.4. |
Q6268710 Johnstone Street in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England was designed in 1788 by Thomas Baldwin, with some of the buildings being completed around 1805-1810 by John Pinch the elder.Number 1 was built in 1794 with numbers 2 to 8 being completed around 1805, with numbers 9 to 15 being completed between 1... |
Q6712594 Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan, commonly known as M. G. S. Narayanan (born on 20 August 1932) is an Indian historian, academic and political commentator. He headed the Department of History at Calicut University (Kerala) from 1976 to 1990. He writes and appears in magazines and popular media regularly... |
Q11318978 The Tilak Nagar Metro Station is located on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro. |
Q4635162 The 334th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 95th Bombardment Wing at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, where it was inactivated on 25 June 1966.The squadron was first activated in June 1942. It saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, where it... |
Q6135918 James Henry Monahan (1803 – 8 December 1878) was one of the outstanding Irish judges of his time, and one of the first Irish Roman Catholics to achieve judicial eminence. He held office as Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. |
Q2737592 Lalinac (Svrljig) is a village in the municipality of Svrljig, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 445 people.Lalinac, in Serb Cyrillics Лалинац, is a village in Serbia located in the municipality of Svrljig, and the district of Nišava. In 2002, it had 445 inhabitants, all S... |
Q2005969 Armando Filiput (19 December 1923 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian hurdler, European Champion in 1950. He was born and died in Ronchi dei Legionari. |
Q7123272 Padatik (The Foot Soldier) first published in 1940 is a Bengali book of poems written by Subhash Mukhopadhyay. This was Mukhopadhyay's first published book. This book created a storm in Bengali literature. Mukhopadhyay wrote this book as a representative of a political party. Mukhopadhyay in his personal life ... |
Q7646819 The Surrey Historic Buildings Trust (sometimes abbreviated as SHBT) is a charitable organisation founded in 1980 that works to preserve the architectural heritage of Surrey, in the south east of England. |
Q11477914 Yujiro Kawamata (born 1952) is a Japanese mathematician workingin algebraic geometry. |
Q24883456 Jiyangsan (Korean for Mount Jiyang) is a mountain in Sinwol-dong, in the Yangcheon district of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. The wooded trail on the mountain is listed as one of Seoul's "110 favorable walking locations" by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.Roughly 300 different species of trees and ... |
Q3617890 Annales (Latin: [anˈnaː.leːs]; Annals) is the name of a fragmentary Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Ennius in the 2nd century BC. While only snippets of the work survive today, the poem's influence on Latin literature was significant. Although written in Latin, stylistically it borrows from the Greek... |
Q30419664 Jean-François Cesarini (born 30 September 1970) is a French politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Vaucluse. |
Q1767252 The Wiesental, named after the river Wiese, is a valley in the Southern Black Forest. The Wiese is a right-hand tributary of the Rhine which has its source in Feldberg and flows into the Rhine in Basel, Switzerland. The Wiesental was one of the first industrialized regions of the former grand dutchy of Baden a... |
Q8013939 William W. Kennison (1825–1893) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. |
Q2016319 Pablo Guillermo Arraya (born 21 October 1961), is a former tennis player from Peru.Arraya was born in Córdoba, Argentina, and moved to Peru at a young age with his family. He began playing tennis at 9 years old and turned professional in 1980. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Ba... |
Q1160643 Lövőpetri is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. |
Q2715269 Hilary Duff: Learning to Fly is the third long-form video by American singer Hilary Duff. It was released on November 16, 2004, by Hollywood Records. |
Q2612711 Avče (pronounced [ˈaːu̯tʃɛ], Italian: Auzza) is a settlement on the left bank of the Soča River in the Municipality of Kanal in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It includes the hamlets of Dolnji Avšček, Gor(e)nji Avšček, and Langa along Avšček Creek southeast of the main settlement, Nadavče to the west, and Sp... |
Q3553709 Valerie Edmond (born 1969) is a Scottish actress.Her first notable role was in The Sunshine Boys at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, directed by Maureen Lipman, soon after she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Lipman was sufficiently impressed to cast her again, as her secretary in an epis... |
Q1989538 Tomáš Michálek (born 27 November 1977) is a Czech footballer (midfielder) currently playing for Bohemians 1905. |
Q1148518 Aulnay is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central-western France. |
Q7052159 Norman Doidge, FRCP(C), is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) and The Brain's Way of Healing (2015). The former describes some of the latest developments in neuroscience, and became a New York Times and international bestseller. |
Q2291249 United Nations Security Council resolution 1596, adopted unanimously on 18 April 2005, after recalling all previous resolutions on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including resolutions 1493 (2003), 1533 (2004), 1552 (2004), 1565 (2004) and 1592 (2005), the Council expanded the arms emba... |
Q6881291 Mitchell Lazar (born 1956) is an endocrinologist and physician-scientist known for his discovery of the hormone resistin and his contributions to the transcriptional regulation of metabolism.Lazar is the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, the Chief of the Division of Endocrino... |
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