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Q7183710 Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent in 1995 and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997. He was employed by the University of Cambridge Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Hazel wrote an autobiographical memoir abou... |
Q4804197 Aseroe floriformis is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn family Phallaceae. Described as a new species in 2005, it is known only from northeast Brazil, where it grows on sandy soil. The fruit body has a raspberry-colored stipe, and, unlike other members of the genus Aseroe does not have radiating branches. |
Q3782354 Hacettepe Üniversitesi Basketbol Kulübü (English: Hacettepe University Basketball Club) is a professional basketball team of based in Ankara, Turkey. The team is the official athletics branch of Hacettepe University. Their home arena is the Ankara Arena with a capacity of 10,400 seats, which was opened in 2010... |
Q5397944 Esi Awuah is a Ghanaian academic and foundation vice chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana in Sunyani, Ghana. |
Q2395903 Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet (21 December 1829 – 3 August 1895) was a French architect who undertook various projects for the Emperor Napoleon III, and later taught for many years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. |
Q16969207 Virbia pomponia is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in Mexico. |
Q20715192 36 Battalion was a light infantry battalion in the South African Army and in later years became part of the SWATF. |
Q28055411 Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury (1894 – 25 March 1976) was a Bengali politician who was Minister of Education and a Member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. |
Q1886690 Pigeon is a town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 894 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Coral City is located in the town. |
Q4197743 A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games.Normally, there are at least two players in a game, but one-player games exist and are collectively known as solitary games (such as the Solitaire card game and m... |
Q3351708 Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, E... |
Q7812531 Todd Merlin McMillon (born September 26, 1974) is a former American football cornerback, formerly of the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He was signed originally as an undrafted free agent out of Northern Arizona University. He also spent three years with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL.McMillon models for... |
Q4842437 Baharagora is a small town in East Singhbhum district and situated on the south-east corner of Jharkhand, India. It is 60 km from Kharagpur, 90 km from Jamshedpur, 50 km from Baripada & 200 km from Kolkata. Baharagora is a very important hub for transport as National Highway 6/Asian Highway 46 passes through h... |
Q511930 Jozef Kroner (20 March 1924 in Staškov – 12 March 1998 in Bratislava) was a Slovak actor. His brother Ľudovít Kroner, daughter Zuzana Kronerová, and wife Terézia Hurbanová-Kronerová were also actors. He starred in the Oscar-winning film The Shop on Main Street, and in more than 50 other Slovak films, as well a... |
Q3270822 Ajdovi žganci is a sort of žganci. Translated to English, it would be termed "buckwheat spoonbread". It is a national Slovene dish. Balthasar Hacquet (1739–1815) mentions that žganci was served with sauerkraut in Upper Carniola. The oldest preparation method explains the word žganci. The word žganci is derive... |
Q199625 Zhuang studies (or Zhuangology; Standard Zhuang: Cuenghhag; simplified Chinese: 壮学; traditional Chinese: 壯學; pinyin: Zhuàngxué) is an interdisciplinary intellectual field concerned with the Zhuang people – their history, anthropology, religion, politics, languages, and literature. The majority of such research... |
Q1306497 The black-breasted boatbill (Machaerirhynchus nigripectus) is a species of bird in the family Machaerirhynchidae.It is found in New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. |
Q5752763 Hideyo Arisaka (有坂 秀世, Arisaka Hideyo, September 5, 1908 - March 13, 1952) was a Japanese linguist. |
Q988067 Cahuzac-sur-Adour is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. |
Q7594824 St Michael-le-Querne, also called St Michael ad Bladum, was a parish church in the Farringdon Within Ward in the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt. |
Q5170934 Cormac Joseph Carney (born May 6, 1959) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. |
Q528290 Opisthograptis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823. |
Q6681695 Lorraine Wearne, a lawyer, is an independent Australian politician from Parramatta, in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. |
Q4636829 3rd Madras Native Infantry could refer to:1st Battalion which became the 63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry2nd Battalion which became the 73rd Carnatic Infantry |
Q2552631 "Suzanne" (titled as "Susanna" for the English version) is a single by Dutch band VOF de Kunst also known as The Art Company, released in 1984.The song reached number one on the Single Top 100 in the Netherlands. |
Q1462175 The Városi Sportcsarnok (English: Municipal Sports Hall) is a multi-use indoor stadium in Békéscsaba, Hungary. The arena, which has an oval shape, very similar to the Colosseum, was opened in 1988, and has been modernized and renovated for the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship, to fulfil the strict c... |
Q7789419 Thomas Eyre (1670–1715) was an English Jesuit.Eyre was born on 23 December 1670 to a family settled at Eastwell, Leicestershire. He studied at the College of St. Omer, was admitted into the Society of Jesus in 1687, and was professed of the four vows on 8 March 1705–06.He was chaplain to the court of the exile... |
Q3302282 Heywood and Middleton is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2014 by Liz McInnes of the Labour Party. |
Q2936436 Cannon Spike, originally released in Japan as Gunspike (ガンスパイク), is a multi-directional shooter arcade game released in 2000 by Psikyo and later in the same year for the Dreamcast by Capcom. It uses Capcom-designed characters and runs on Sega's Naomi Hardware. Cannon Spike is similar to games like Smash TV and... |
Q7902543 Utah v. Evans, 536 U.S. 452 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the use of certain statistical techniques in the census. In instances where the Census Bureau remained unsure of the number of residents at an address after a field visit, the Bureau inferred its population characteristics fro... |
Q680055 Außervillgraten is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol. |
Q5900884 Hoplocorypha bottegi is a species of praying mantis found in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Tanzania. |
Q509327 Ilva Ligabue (May 23, 1932, Reggio Emilia – August 17, 1998, Palermo) was an Italian operatic soprano, best known for the role of Alice Ford in Falstaff, which she recorded twice, under Georg Solti (RCA, 1963) and Leonard Bernstein (Sony, 1966).Ilva Ligabue studied at the Milan Conservatory in the class of Camp... |
Q6807871 The Meeteetse Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation occurring in Wyoming.The formation is described by W.G. Pierce as gray to white clayey sand, drab sandstone, gray and brown shale, and bentonitic clay. It can form badlands.Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the ... |
Q4586945 The 1991 Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 was the first Masters of Formula 3 race held at Circuit Park Zandvoort on 18 August 1991. It was won by David Coulthard, for Paul Stewart Racing. |
Q7535719 Arthur "Skip" Roderick is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and the American Soccer League. He is currently the head coach of the NCAA Division III Elizabethtown College men's soccer team. |
Q287455 A clamshell is a one-piece container consisting of two halves joined by a hinge area which allows the structure to come together to close. Clamshells are often made of a shaped plastic material, in a way that is similar to a blister pack. The name of the clamshell is taken from the shell of a clam, which it re... |
Q7278472 For the 2nd generation Babylonian Amora, see: Jeremiah b. Abba (his father)Abba or Raba (Rabbah) Bar Jeremiah (cited in the Jerusalem Talmud as R. Abba bar Jeremiah; Hebrew: רבה בר ירמיה or רבי אבא בר ירמיה) was Babylonian amora of the third century, the son of Jeremiah b. Abba and a pupil of Rav. He lived at... |
Q5198560 The Men's Individual Pursuit C1 track cycling event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on 31 August at London Velopark. The race distance was 3 km. |
Q20651353 Daniel P. Aldrich (born 1974) is an academic in the fields of political science, public policy and Asian studies. He is currently professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University and was a Fulbright Specialist in Trinidad-Tobago in 2018, a Fulbright research fellow at the University... |
Q16202289 Antonio Carozza, (born July 5, 1985), better known as Antonello Carozza, is an Italian singer, songwriter, composer, art director in the Eurovision Song Contest, record producer, pianist and vocal coach .Carozza was born in Campobasso, Italy. While studying in Campobasso Conservatory, where in 2006 he gradua... |
Q15991577 Right from the Heart is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on March 18, 1985, by Columbia Records and was his first album without songs that were previously recorded by other artists. The title track is one of the album's four ballads that, along with four of the remaining six up-... |
Q3655755 Cantiere navale di Riva Trigoso (Riva Trigoso Shipyard) is an Italian shipyard. Founded on 1 August 1897 by Erasmo Piaggio's Società Esercizio Bacini (a drydock-operating company) in Riva Trigoso, it mostly built commercial ships. In 1925 the Piaggio heirs decided to spin off the drydock business and the compa... |
Q19877404 The men's synchronized 3 metre springboard competition of the diving events at the 2015 Pan American Games will be held on July 13 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada. The winner of the competition will qualify his country a quota place for the 2016 Summer Olympics... |
Q20950191 Annie Macaulay–Idibia (born 13 November 1984) is a Nigerian, model, presenter and actress. She was nominated in the "Best Supporting Actress" category at the 2009 Best of Nollywood Awards. |
Q27889395 Atrocity Exhibition is the fourth studio album by American rapper Danny Brown. It was released on September 27, 2016, by Fool's Gold Records and Warp Records. It is primarily produced by English producer Paul White, and features guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt, B-Real, Kelela, ... |
Q28147585 Renato Campagnoli (born 19 November 1943) is an Italian professional golfer. He represented Italy three times in the World Cup.Campagnoli had a successful career on the European Seniors Tour, winning twice; in the 1995 International German PGA Seniors Championship and the 1996 De Vere Hotels Seniors Classic. ... |
Q587214 Worden is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. The population was 506 at the 2000 census. Worden, along with Ballantine, Huntley, and Pompey's Pillar, is part of the Huntley Project, an irrigation district established by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1907.W... |
Q182370 Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying oil paints on sheets of glass. Gouache mixed with glycerine is sometimes used instead. The best-known practitioner of the technique is Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov; he has used it in seven films, all of which have... |
Q7739111 The Headless Lady (1940) is a whodunnit mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. A character in the novel, a detective story writer named Stuart Towne, has the same name as a pen name of Rawson. This is the third of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonis... |
Q6691593 Love and Bullets is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. |
Q4551738 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). |
Q17709283 Actin, gamma-enteric smooth muscle is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACTG2 gene.Actins are highly conserved proteins that are involved in various types of cell motility, and maintenance of the cytoskeleton. In vertebrates, three main groups of actin isoforms, alpha, beta and gamma have been ident... |
Q7279603 Racially Yours is an album recorded by the band The Frogs. The album was originally presented to Homestead Records in 1991, but they refused to release it because of its controversial subject matter. At this point the album only consisted of the first 12 songs. After much delay, it was released in 2000 on Four... |
Q6904356 During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Montana for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the curren... |
Q10749912 Hifana (ハイファナ, Haifana, "South Winds" in the Okinawan dialect) is a Japanese breakbeat musical duo, consisting of KEIZOmachine! (Keizo Fukuda) and Juicy (Jun Miyata). The group formed in 1998, in the Tokyo neighbourhood of Kichijōji. |
Q7647361 Surya Prakash Chaturvedi (born 7 November 1937 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is a Cricket critic, writer and historian. He is a former professor of English at the Government Arts and Commerce College, Indore, where he taught for 35 years. He played cricket at the collegiate level, representing Indore University a... |
Q1889068 Bağlıca is a village in the District of Adıyaman, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. |
Q3126598 Hamza Ali Khaled Al-Dardour (Arabic: حمزة علي خالد الدردور; born 12 May 1991) is a Jordanian footballer who plays for Al-Wehdat and the Jordan national football team. Many sources misspell his last name "Al-Daradreh". |
Q4864709 Barry John Salvage (21 December 1948 – 14 October 1986) was an English professional football left winger who played in the Football League for Brentford, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers and Fulham. He later became a manager in Norway. |
Q16257317 Sir Gilbert Debenham (junior) (1432–1500) was an English knight, politician and soldier who also served briefly as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Although, like his father before him, he had a notorious reputation for lawlessness, he flourished in the reign of King Edward IV, due in part to his loyalty ... |
Q21450672 Villaume or Villaumé is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Astrid Villaume (1923–1995), Danish actressEmmanuel Villaume (born 1964), French conductorFarid Villaume (born 1975), French Muay Thai kickboxerHenri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein (1772–1839), American writer, journalist and F... |
Q7367256 Rosalind Cecilia Hildegard Tanner (née Young) (5 February 1900 – 24 November 1992) was a mathematician and historian of mathematics. She was the eldest daughter of the mathematicians Grace and William Young. She was born and lived in Göttingen in Germany (where her parents worked at the university) until 1908.... |
Q4330790 Aghvan Hovsepyan (Armenian: Աղվան Հովսեփյան; born January 7, 1953) was the two-term Prosecutor General of Armenia from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2013. He had also served secretary of the Prosecutor-General from 1999 to 2004.Included in the editorial board of the “Preliminary Investigation" scientific... |
Q13722719 Hednota panselenella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1882. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. |
Q16214312 Robert Jefferson Bingham (bapt. 7 March 1824 – 21 February 1870) was an English pioneer photographer, mainly active in France, making portraits and reproductions of paintings. He is one of the first photographers to use and write about the collodion process, which he claimed to have invented. |
Q19893105 Heirs is the fourth studio album by And So I Watch You From Afar. Released on May 4, 2015, the album was made available to stream through the online music publication The Fader a week before its release, which revealed the track listing of the album. |
Q4849349 Bakewell pudding is an English dessert consisting of a flaky pastry base with a layer of sieved jam and topped with a filling made of egg and almond paste. |
Q4879397 Bedrock was a joint effort by Apple Computer and Symantec to produce a cross platform programming framework for writing applications on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. The project was a failure for a variety of reasons, and after delivering a developer preview version the project was aband... |
Q130146 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products. Prior to 2004, it was known as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products or European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA).The EMA was set up in 1995 wit... |
Q7954019 WOVI (89.5 MHz) is a full-service high school radio station in Novi, Michigan. One of its slogans is "Real Radio."The station broadcasts from Novi High School with 100 watts. It offers a variety of music hosted by students who are considering life in the radio market after high school.The station was run by Da... |
Q6384758 Keith Michael (born Keith Michael Rizza on January 14, 1972) is an American fashion designer based in New York City. Michael participated in the third season of American reality show Project Runway. |
Q5050651 Castletown GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association hurling club in County Laois, Ireland.The club colours are blue and white.The current Castletown club was founded in 1974 and has won a total of 8 Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles since 1995. They have also played in 3 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Champio... |
Q494298 The Possiet Gulf or Posyet Bay (Russian: Залив Посьета) is a bay in the south-western part of the Peter the Great Gulf, between the promontories of Suslov and Gamov. It stretches for 31 kilometres from northeast to southwest and for 33 kilometers from northwest to southeast. The coastline, which forms part of t... |
Q5486194 Ilex subtriflora is a species of plant in the Aquifoliaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. |
Q964045 Le Hanouard is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. |
Q5136190 Also known as a Gala Day or Field Day. An annual community celebration, common in rural communities in North West England, during which clubs, churches and other organizations process and gather for various activities such as competitions for fancy dress, arts and crafts, cooking and produce.Many of these even... |
Q6571108 This table summarizes the history of foundations and relocations of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos. |
Q6779577 Mary Frances McDonald, (aka Mamo McDonald), Irish feminist, born 1929.Born Mary Frances Bowen in Tuam, County Galway, she joined the Irish Countrywomen's Association while living in Croom, County Limerick c.1947. For over sixty-four years she has been a member of the ICA Clones Guild, which she helped to foun... |
Q7983606 Werth is an unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. Werth is located on West Virginia Route 55 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northeast of Summersville. |
Q6557882 Lisa Cole is an American professional soccer coach. She is the former head coach for the Boston Breakers in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and served as an Assistant Coach for the Houston Dash during the 2018 NWSL season. She currently serves as a Scout for the Washington Spirit professional team an... |
Q16120049 Gonzalo Amancha (born 1948 in Ambato) is an Ecuadorian master watercolor painter. |
Q17107622 Topera, Inc. is a cardiac arrhythmia mapping company for targeting catheter ablation company launched in San Diego, California and specializes in mapping electrical signals of the heart. Topera's headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California. The company uses 3D analysis and mapping to detect the sources ... |
Q27178053 Arthur Harrison Allard Vann (1884 – 25 September 1915) was a British Army officer killed in the First World War. He had been a professional football outside left who appeared in the Football League for Burton United. |
Q30709220 XHOZ-FM may refer to:XHOZ-FM (Querétaro), Imagen 94.7 FMXHOZ-FM (Veracruz), Amor 91.7 FM |
Q9265695 Galileo Chanes (28 March 1917 – 3 April 1961) was a Uruguayan footballer who played for Peñarol and Club Atlético Huracán, as well as the Uruguay national football team. He represented Uruguay at the 1937 South American Championship. |
Q13557247 Melanolophia centralis is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.The MONA or Hodges number for Melanolophia centralis is 6619. |
Q159731 In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle which contains an odd number of valence quarks (at least 3). Baryons belong to the hadron family of particles, which are the quark-based particles. They are also classified as fermions, i.e., they have half-integer spin. The name "baryon", ... |
Q177411 Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. |
Q712158 Ō Rissei (Chinese: 王立誠; pinyin: Wáng Lìchéng; born 7 November 1958) is a professional Go player in Japan.Rissei was born in Taiwan and moved to Japan when he was 13 years old; he would become professional the following year. His instructor is Kano Yoshinori, while he is the instructor of his daughter O Keii, pr... |
Q3567494 Western Front is a downloadable album by a British duo Carbon/Silicon, consisting of Mick Jones (The Clash) and Tony James (Generation X). It was officially released on October 14, 2006. |
Q5083018 Charles Train may refer to:Charles J. Train (1845–1906), American admiralCharles R. Train (1817–1885), American politicianCharles William Train (1890–1965), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross |
Q696370 Dohren is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. |
Q8015718 William Arthur Moloney (July 10, 1876 – August 12, 1915) was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Moloney competed in the 400 metres. He finished tied for fourth overall in the event. He had won his first-round semifinal heat with a time of 51.0 second... |
Q7137129 Parinari is a genus of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae.Species of genus Parinari are found in Subsaharan Africa from Senegal to Sudan and Kenya and south to Namibia and Natal; in Eastern Madagascar; from Indochina through Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Queensland, and the southwest Pacific; and in Centra... |
Q6485148 Landseer (February 28, 1999 – October 26, 2002) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. A son of Champion sire Danehill, he was out of the mare, Sabria, whose sire Miswaki was the sire of the great filly Urban Sea. Owned and raced by Michael Tabor & Sue Magnier, the colt was conditioned by the Irish trainer, Aidan O'Bri... |
Q18036067 Cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor subunit 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CPSF6 gene. |
Q5632785 HMS Hilary, was a former passenger liner launched in 1931, as SS Hilary, which was requisitioned by the Royal Navy during the Second World War and used as an ocean boarding vessel in the North Atlantic. It was later converted back to a merchantman but subsequently recommissioned back into the Royal Navy as an ... |
Q5364911 Ellen Lendra Hight (born February 13, 1981) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation Zambia in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2008).Hight made her first Zambian team, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming... |
Q5821899 Nachu (Persian: ناچو, also Romanized as Nāchū) is a village in Jorjafak Rural District, in the Central District of Zarand County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
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