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Q6761082 Maria Catherine Callahan (born June 22, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. In the 1990s Callahan was lead vocalist, guitarist and co-songwriter for the critically acclaimed power pop Portland, Oregon band, Doris Daze. Doris Daze released two albums, Uncle (1994) and Perpetual Happine... |
Q8020494 William Wistar Comfort (1874 – December 24, 1955) was president of Haverford College. |
Q5785438 Orduluk (Persian: اردولوك, also Romanized as Ordūlūk; also known as Ardalook, Ardalūk, Ardūlak, Ordolūk, and Urduluk) is a village in Meyami Rural District, Razaviyeh District, Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 183, in 37 families. |
Q5859701 Fernando Herrera Ávila (born 6 August 1968) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. He currently serves as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing AguascalientesHe also served as deputy of the Chamber of Deputies during the 2000-2003 legislature. |
Q10340829 Omega Geminorum, Latinized from ω Geminorum, is a star located in the middle of the northern zodiac constellation of Gemini. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.18, it is faintly visible to the naked eye. According to the Bortle scale, it can be viewed from dark suburban skies. With an annual parallax shif... |
Q27985566 Mount Olive is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. |
Q299225 Evan Frank Lysacek (; born June 4, 1985) is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, a two-time (2005, 2007) Four Continents champion, the 2009 Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time (2007, 2008) U.S. national champion. Lysacek was the 2010 United States Olympic Co... |
Q2757538 Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") is a palace in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India. The palace and the lake around it were renovated and enlarged in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber. |
Q4479766 Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil (July 1, 1875 – February 26, 1976) was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "uncanny knowledge of human nature". During the course of his career, Weil is reputed to have stolen more than $8 million."Each of my victims had ... |
Q9362600 Tudor and Cashel is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County.The township consists of two non-contiguous portions, separated by Limerick township and the northernmost portion of Tweed. |
Q5150339 Colwyn was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Radnorshire, Wales.The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894, when the existing Builth Rural Sanitary District was divided into two: the section in Breconshire was reconstituted as Builth Rural District and that in R... |
Q5734276 Herbert Hunt Acorn (August 1868 – December 6, 1939) was a merchant and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 1st Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1935 to 1939 as a Liberal.He was born in Lower Montague, Prince Edward Island, the son of Charles Acorn and Caroline... |
Q5412073 Europa of Macedon was the daughter of Philip II by his last wife, Cleopatra Eurydice. She is widely believed to have been murdered along with her mother, by Olympias, Philip's fourth wife and the mother of Alexander the Great. |
Q6268261 The Johnson County School District is a public school district in Johnson County, Georgia, United States, based in Wrightsville. It serves the communities of Adrian, Kite, and Wrightsville. |
Q4966992 May Menassa (Arabic: مي منسى; 1939-2019) was a Lebanese author, critic and translator. |
Q6102047 Izmail Airport (Ukrainian: Аеропорт «Ізмаїл») (ICAO: UKOI) is a closed airport in the Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. It is located 4.5 km North of the city of Izmail. The airport operated from 2007 to 2009, but was closed and has not renewed its certification with the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine since be... |
Q14690354 Echols is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States. It was also known as Pink Hall.Echols was established as a coal town in 1874 and named for the mine owner. |
Q17515504 The Battle of Picotin was fought on 22 February 1316 between the Catalan forces of the infante Ferdinand of Majorca, claimant to the Principality of Achaea, and the forces loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut, comprising native levies from the barons loyal to the Princess as well as Burgundian knights. The ba... |
Q20647614 Lightning Machine is the second EP released by the Japanese rock band, The Teenage Kissers. A song from the EP, "Night Night Night", had previously been released as a limited edition physical single on July 5, 2013. The EP was released on August 5, 2015, by Gaze Records. The music video for "Psychic Haze" was... |
Q23541188 Peter Sinkamba (born August 7, 1964) is a Zambian entrepreneur and politician. He was the candidate for the Green Party of Zambia in the 2015 and 2016 presidential election. |
Q1035040 Capsicum eximium is a member of the genus Capsicum with 2n=2x=24, and native to the New World, specifically the Andean region of South America. It is one of the "purple-flowered" Capsicums along with Capsicum cardenasii and Capsicum pubescens. Like most other chili peppers, it is both pungent and self-compatib... |
Q24950125 Wakavali is a small village in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state in Western India. The 2011 Census of India recorded a total of 2,001 residents in the village. Wakavali is 431.61 hectares in size. |
Q23928128 Alan Frei (born 27 March 1982) is a Swiss entrepreneur and economist known for his minimalist lifestyle. After receiving a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Zurich (UZH), he founded several companies, including Nachhilfeportal.de and the e-commerce shops Amorana and LOOKSofLOVE, and founded ... |
Q27995280 Hallett is an extinct town in Mississippi County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.The community was named after Frank and Miles Howlett, the original owners of the town site. |
Q14170821 Bombylius canescens is a species of bee flies belonging to the family Bombyliidae.It is a Palearctic species with a limited distribution in Europe |
Q30095053 Endless Space 2 is a turn-based strategy, science fiction 4X game developed by Amplitude Studios. It is the sequel to Endless Space, which was released in 2012. The game had been made available through Steam's early access program since October 2016. It was released on May 18, 2017. |
Q381347 Irving Ezra Segal (September 13, 1918 – August 30, 1998) was an American mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation.Early in his career Segal became known for his developments in quantum field theory and in... |
Q3914968 Princeton Aerodrome, (ICAO: CYDC), is located adjacent to Princeton, British Columbia, Canada. |
Q664195 John Reading (c. 1685/86 – 2 September 1764) was an English composer, organist and copyist (his name, like the town, is pronounced "Redding"—a spelling variant of his name which occurs in several documents). His greatest importance lies in his work as a transcriber, arranger, and copyist of a wide variety of m... |
Q7873577 USS Roxane (AKA-37) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship named after the minor planet 317 Roxane, which in turn was named after Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great. USS Roxane served as a commissioned ship for 14 months.Roxane (AKA-37) was laid down 1 December 1944 by Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc., Providence, ... |
Q7579989 Sportsnet Central is the flagship sports news program on Sportsnet in Canada. Originally known as Sportscentral and later Sportsnetnews, it was re-branded as Sportsnet Connected on January 1, 2007 with an emphasis on more local coverage of sports teams. Additionally, Rogers-owned Setanta Sports (now Sportsnet ... |
Q4758211 Andrew Parkinson is a retired American soccer forward born in South Africa who spent time playing in both South Africa and England before immigrating to the U.S. where he played five seasons in the North American Soccer League, two in Major Indoor Soccer League and one in the American Soccer League. Parkinson... |
Q5207750 Dacrydium ericoides is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae and is found only in Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q14707961 Hawthorne High School is a non-traditional high school located in Charlotte, North Carolina's Belmont community named for its location on Hawthorne Lane. The school has existed in many forms before its current guise, most notably serving as a Junior High school (Hawthorne itself was never a Middle School) for... |
Q4437574 A list of films produced in Argentina in 2004: |
Q5180194 CppCMS is an open-source web application framework for the C++ programming language developed by Artyom Beilis. It is one of the very few web frameworks for C++. The primary goal of CppCMS is building performance-demanding web applications. It may also be used for embedded web applications for consumer devices... |
Q6617562 The list of debutante balls in the United States aims to include notable debutante balls held in the United States. |
Q4995047 Bulbophyllum macilentum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q3469624 The Salang is a 438 kilometre long river of Afghanistan, flowing through Parwan Province. It is a tributary of the Indus River and the Ghorband River and the Panjshir River and the Kabul River. |
Q12065387 Past is a 1935 outdoor sculpture by Robert Ingersoll Aitken, located in front of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., in the United States. John Russell Pope served as the sculpture's architect and Edward H. Ratti served as its carver. The sculpture is made of Indiana limestone and measures app... |
Q23046023 The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) is an organization founded in 1977, made up of scholars and practitioners in the field of women's studies.Their mission is to further the development of women's studies throughout the world through open dialogue and communication. Since its inception, NWSA has b... |
Q2187156 Anja Hazekamp (born 21 January 1968) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands. She is a member of the Party for the Animals, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. Previously she was member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands in 2012 and ... |
Q24190702 Jack and Newell Building is a heritage-listed office building at 29 Wharf Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1911 by Hanson & Sons. It is also known as Bartlam's Ltd, Fearnley & Co. Ltd, and Nosworthy's Stores. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 November ... |
Q28758355 Emma King (born 28 June 1994) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. |
Q39168281 Kate L. Dixon Fick Jeancon (born June 5, 1884) was an official court reporter. |
Q10429400 Bicolorana is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Platycleidini. Species can be found in many parts of mainland Europe (but not the British Isles, Iberia or most of Scandinavia), through central Asia to the Korean peninsula. |
Q131592 Achelousaurus ( or: ) is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, about 74.2 million years ago. The first fossils of Achelousaurus were collected in Montana in 1987, by a team led by Jack Horner, with more finds made in 1989. In 199... |
Q3973852 Stop Me is a compilation album by English band The Smiths. It compiles the band's then-latest (but not last) three singles and their B-sides in reverse-chronological order. Stop Me was released in January 1988 by their Japanese record company, RCA Victor. |
Q1718366 The M110 Semi Automatic Sniper System (M110 SASS) is an American semi-automatic sniper rifle/designated marksman rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO round, developed by U.S. firearm manufacturer Knight's Armament Company. The SDMR is based on the Heckler and Koch G28E-110 Compact Semi-Automatic Snip... |
Q7408582 Samandaridine is an extremely toxic alkaloid produced by the skin glands of various salamanders. |
Q7889511 United States Army Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course (RSLC) (formerly known as the Long Range Surveillance Leaders Course, or LRSLC) is a 29-day (four weeks and one day) school designed on mastering reconnaissance fundamentals of officers and non-commissioned officers eligible for assignments to t... |
Q916108 Chip Foose (born October 13, 1963) is an American automobile designer, artist, and star of Velocity's reality television series Overhaulin'. |
Q940528 Jean-Baptiste Dotto (27 March 1928, in St-Nazaire – 20 February 2000, in Ollioules, France) was the first French racing cyclist to win the Vuelta a España. He rode the Tour de France 13 times, coming fourth in 1954.Jean Dotto was born with Italian nationality. He became French in 1937. Dotto was a good climber.... |
Q7323251 Rich Ferguson (born Richard Jeffrey Evans; December 1, 1970), aka "The Ice Breaker", is an American magician. He is the producer and host of the Official Poker Chip Tricks and Card Handling DVD Series. Ferguson went to college for engineering and worked for United Parcel Service prior to becoming a full-time ... |
Q1923466 Bossaball is a team sport that originated in Spain and was conceptualised by Belgian Filip Eyckmans in 2005. Bossaball is a ball game between two teams, combining elements of volleyball, football and gymnastics with music into a sport. It is played on an inflatable court featuring a trampoline on each side of... |
Q465939 The Wicked Lady is a 1983 British drama film directed by Michael Winner and starring Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, and Hugh Millais. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name, which was one of the popular ser... |
Q8341805 The Governor's House, also known as Building 2, is a historic house on Governors Island in New York City. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.The Governor's House was built c. 1805–1813, during the War of 1812 and was originally known as the Guard House. It is the oldest structure ... |
Q4949586 Boulder Peak (8,533 feet (2,601 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The remnant Boulder Glacier is situated on the northern slopes of the mountain. |
Q4835424 Basic Education High School No. 3 Myitkyina is a public high school located in Myitkyina, Myanmar. |
Q4120115 The invasion of Banu Nadir took place in August 625 AD (Rabi' al-awwal, 4 AH) The account is related in Surah Al-Hashr (Chapter 59 - The Gathering) which describes the banishment of the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir who were expelled from Medina after being accused of plotting to assassinate the Islamic prophet Muha... |
Q6977984 Boston, Massachusetts is home to a large number of listings on the National Register of Historic Places. This list encompasses those locations that are located south of the Massachusetts Turnpike. See National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston for listings north of the Turnpike. Propertie... |
Q3369262 Patrick Bornhauser (born 29 June 1957 in Orléans) is a French racing driver and businessman. In 2011 and 2012 he won the GTE-Am class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. |
Q17514369 Azad Nagar (Marathi: आझाद नगर) is a metro station on Line 1 of the Mumbai Metro serving the Azad Nagar neighbourhood of Andheri in Mumbai, India. It was opened to the public on 8 June 2014. |
Q18715774 Joseph A. Mallery was one of the few ideological conservatives to be elected and re-elected to the Washington Supreme Court- or to any other elected office in Washington. |
Q24063847 The Kincaid-Howard House is a historic mansion in Fincastle, Tennessee, USA. It was designed in the Federal architectural style and completed in 1845. It was built for John Kincaid II, a planter and slaveholder in the Antebellum South. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March... |
Q1028462 Frannie is a town in Big Horn and Park counties in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The population was 157 at the 2010 census.In 1894, Frannie's post office opened. Postmaster Morris, the town's first postmaster, had a daughter named Frannie, and the town was named after her. Until 1954, the legal status of Frannie ... |
Q2635136 Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut earlier that same year. It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic communit... |
Q5609314 The Grimsby Chums was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire in 1914. When the battalion was taken over by the British Army it was officially named the 10th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. It was the only 'pals ba... |
Q5682013 Jeffrey Michael Gerstmann (born August 1, 1975) is an American video game journalist. Former editorial director of the gaming website GameSpot and the co-founder/editor of the gaming website Giant Bomb, Gerstmann began working at GameSpot in the fall of 1996, around the launch of VideoGameSpot when GameSpot sp... |
Q456876 A khwaeng (Thai: แขวง, pronounced [kʰwɛ̌ːŋ]) is an administrative subdivision used in the fifty districts of Bangkok and a few other city municipalities in Thailand. Currently, there are 180 khwaeng in Bangkok. A khwaeng is roughly equivalent to a tambon in other provinces of Thailand, smaller than an amphoe (d... |
Q183148 Mehmels is a municipality in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district of Thuringia, Germany. |
Q1782037 MS Nordkapp is a Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Express) ship built in 1996 by Kleven Verft AS, Norway, for Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab for use in Hurtigruten ferry service along the coast of Norway. She is a sister ship of MS Polarlys and MS Nordnorge. Nordkapp is one of 11 ships that travel the ... |
Q7541845 Slovenian Women's Union of America (SWUA) is an ethnic fraternal benefit and social organization for Slovene immigrant women and their descendants in the United States. Founded in 1926 as Slovenska ženska zveza Amerike, its original purpose was to advocate for the rights of Slovenian women in the United States... |
Q6419228 Kizilov is a village in the Shusha Rayon of Azerbaijan.This village is in an area occupied by the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. It is suspected that this village has undergone a name change or no longer exists, as no Azerbaijani website mentions it under this name. |
Q3346784 Suabil Union (Bengali: সুয়াবিল) is a union of Bhujpur Thana of Chittagong District. |
Q14687263 Oneida County Courthouse in Malad, Idaho is an Art Deco building built as a Works Project Administration (WPA) project in 1939. It serves Oneida County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.It was designed by architects Sundberg & Sundberg, who also designed the Jefferson... |
Q7162579 Penelope L. Peterson is an American educational psychologist and academic administrator. Peterson was named Dean of Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in September 1997 and previously served as University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University and Sears-Bas... |
Q5607045 Gregory Lorjuste (born 1982) is an Associate Director of Scheduling to US President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Lorjuste had already worked for Obama at Obama for America. Lorjuste is one of three associate directors working under Alyssa Mastromonaco. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Rider Universit... |
Q6577554 This is a listing of branches of the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery, which is an organization of Buddhist monasteries of Sri Lankan origin. |
Q7188880 The aspen leaf blotch miner moth (Phyllonorycter apparella) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in most of Europe (except the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, the Balkan Peninsula, and the Mediterranean islands). It is also present in Turkey and North America.The wingspan is 8.5–10 mm. The... |
Q1065772 Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry (April 1793 – 8 July 1864) was a nineteenth-century adventurer who attempted to establish his own sovereign state in New Zealand in the years before the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs in 1840. |
Q5706209 Shibaneh (Persian: شيبانه, also Romanized as Shībāneh) is a village in Baryaji Rural District, in the Central District of Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 11 families. |
Q13603944 Elachista vastata is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1932. It is found in India. |
Q26237956 Cao Yue (Chinese: 曹 玥, born 29 October 1995) is a Chinese swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
Q42887648 Reggie Bell (4 September 1904 – 13 October 1988) was a British middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics. |
Q464301 Chuan Leekpai (Thai: ชวน หลีกภัย, RTGS: Chuan Likphai, pronounced [t͡ɕʰūa̯n lìːk.pʰāj]; Chinese: 呂基文; born 28 July 1938 in Trang) is a Thai politician who was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 20 September 1992 to 19 May 1995 and again from 9 November 1997 to 9 February 2001.As the leader of the Democrat Part... |
Q4892745 Bern's Steak House is a steak restaurant in the SoHo district of Tampa, Florida, founded in 1956. It is currently owned and operated by David Laxer, son of original owner Bern Laxer.It has a sister restaurant, Haven (previously SideBern's), which is famous for its large cheese collection from around the world.... |
Q1688771 The Municipality of Jezersko (pronounced [jɛˈzɛːɾskɔ]; Slovene: Občina Jezersko pronunciation ) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. In 1995, Jezersko became part of Preddvor and became an independent municipality in 1998. Originally located in the historic region of Carinthia, it became part of the Upper C... |
Q7313537 Rentech, Inc. (stands for Renewable Energy Technology) was a Los Angeles, California, based United States company that owned and operated wood fiber processing and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing businesses. It provided wood chipping and wood pellet services through a subsidiary Fulghum Fibres, Inc. and sold... |
Q7059055 A general election was held in the Northern Territory, Australia on Saturday 3 December 1983. The result was a landslide victory for the incumbent Country Liberal Party (CLP) under Chief Minister Paul Everingham over the Australian Labor Party (ALP) opposition under Opposition leader Bob Collins.For this elect... |
Q16239087 Noah Biggs was an English medical reformer and alchemical writer of the middle of the seventeenth century. In his Chymiatrophilos, mataeotechnia medicinae praxes: The Vanity of the Craft of Physick, from 1651, he attacked pretentious and quack medical theories of his time. He also implied that Galenists in th... |
Q1147586 Clodius Celsinus Adelphius or Adelfius (fl. 333–351) was a politician of the Roman Empire. |
Q6956963 Nabis reuteri is a species of damsel bug in the family Nabidae. |
Q6246065 John Hoani "Jack" Macdonald (26 October 1907 – 1 January 1982) was a New Zealand sportsman. He competed in rowing at the 1930 Empire Games, winning gold in the coxed fours, and at the 1932 Summer Olympics, becoming one of the first two Māori Olympians. He played rugby union for New Zealand Māori from 1926 to 1... |
Q6847461 Mike Karr is a fictional character on the long-running daytime soap opera, The Edge of Night.A tireless crime-fighter, Karr was introduced as a cop finishing law school. This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason character on radio. He then progressed to the District Attorney's office as an ADA, hung... |
Q7915851 Varicoturris is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae. |
Q3936282 The St. Nicholas of Myra Church is an American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD) church dedicated to Saint Nicholas, located at 288 East 10th Street, on the corner of Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, across from Tompkins Square Park.The church was built in 1883 as ... |
Q5038267 Cardell Goodman (also Cardonell) (1649?–1699) was an English actor and adventurer, now known as a Jacobite conspirator. |
Q6297363 Joyas Prestadas: Pop and Joyas Prestadas: Banda (Borrowed Jewels) are the twelfth and final studio albums released by American recording artist Jenni Rivera on November 21, 2011 by Fonovisa Records. Joyas Prestadas consists of eleven cover versions, with the first album being recorded in Latin pop, while the... |
Q20710940 Sodom is an unincorporated community in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. |
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