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Q765852 Nicole Péry (born 15 May 1943), is a French socialist politician. Her background is as a professor of literature. |
Q4934281 Bob W. White is an associate professor of social anthropology at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. White earned his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1998, his M.A. from McGill University in 1993 and his B.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988. His research interests are popular m... |
Q4675966 Acrolophus furcatus is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1887. It is found in North America, including Arizona, California andTexas. |
Q18809267 Manasu Rendum Pudhusu is a 1994 Tamil comedy film, directed by P. Amirtham. The film features Jayaram and Kushboo in lead roles. The film, produced by A. Gunanithi, had musical score by Deva and was released on 23 June 1994. The film was a remake of the Malayalam film Sasneham. |
Q28223480 Lahore Knowledge Park (LKP) is an under-construction science park located on a 852 acres located on Bedian Road in Lahore District, Pakistan.Owned and managed by the Lahore Knowledge Park Company with an initial investment of $1 billion, of which $200 million is invested by Government of Punjab. The project i... |
Q27927830 Milan Škobalj (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Шкобаљ, born July 9, 1963) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He is a current head coach of Rostock Seawolves in the German ProA. |
Q30090404 Malecela is a Tanzanian surname that may refer toAnne Malecela (born 1956), Tanzanian politician, wife of JohnJohn Malecela (born 1934), Prime Minister of TanzaniaMwele Ntuli Malecela (born 1963), Tanzanian politician and administrator |
Q210320 Morelia is a genus of large snakes in the family Pythonidae found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and throughout Australia. Currently, up to eight species are recognized.In general, these snakes are arboreal to semiarboreal, spending much of their lives in the forest canopy. Although exceptions occur, most attain ad... |
Q16208926 Joshua Booth (ca 1758 – October 27, 1813) was a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Orange County, New York in 1758 or 1759. He served with the forces loyal to the British during the American Revolution. He settled in Ernestown Township in Upper Canada after the war. He built grist mil... |
Q3088880 The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop is the fourth studio album recorded by The Supremes, issued by Motown in February 1965 (see 1965 in music). The album was presented as a covers/tribute album of country songs, as Ray Charles had done with his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. However, o... |
Q5214227 Dan Prothero is a New Orleans-based independent record producer, recording engineer, and record collector. He has been called "the true king of raw" by allmusic.com, for his emphasis on live performance, vintage analog recording techniques, and gritty drum tones.He founded Fog City Records in 1996, and began r... |
Q11351924 Valerie Saurette (born July 23, 1975) is a Canadian former pair skater. She is best known for her partnership with Jean-Sébastien Fecteau from 1995 to 2002. The pair competed on the Grand Prix series for three seasons, twice at the Four Continents (best result was fourth), and once at the World Championships,... |
Q5679888 Hassan Zai is a town and union council in Charsadda District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It is located at 34°16'24N 71°36'24E and has an altitude of 327 metres (1076 feet). |
Q2926086 Bronowo Kmiece [brɔˈnɔvɔ ˈkmjɛt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stara Biała, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.Bronowo Kmiece is located at 52°37'29?N 19°42'00?E, and has a post code of 09-411. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 135 |
Q3752490 Menéame is a Spanish social news website based on community participation, made for users to discover and share content on the Internet, by submitting links, which are voted and commented upon. Its model is based on Digg and it combines social bookmarking, blogging and Web syndication with a publication system... |
Q7326348 Richard Edward Hayward (born 1954) is a former English first-class cricketer. Hayward was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. |
Q5293276 Don Pao (Thai: ดอนเปา) is a tambon (subdistrict) of Mae Wang District, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. In 2005 it had a total population of 7,196 people. The tambon contains 10 villages. |
Q167689 Hungarian road categories are as follows:Gyorsforgalmi út (controlled-access highway):Autópálya (motorway): 2+2 travel lanes and 1+1 emergency lane, central reservation, no at-grade intersections, speed limit: 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph)Autóút (expressway): 2+2, 2+1 or 1+1 travel lanes, central reservation... |
Q16150504 Ehud (Udi) Spielman (Hebrew: אהוד (אודי) שפילמן) (born on December 4, 1951) is an Israeli singer and Hazzan. He came to Chazzanut (Cantorial music) after a long career as a singer and performer in Israel. He has published several CDs and DVDs and his music is featured in the Florida Atlantic University Judaic... |
Q7266967 Qasemabad (Persian: قاسم اباد, also Romanized as Qāsemābād) is a village in Qolqol Rud Rural District, Qolqol Rud District, Tuyserkan County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 578, in 125 families. |
Q16063028 William Jardine Smith (1834 – 13 January 1884), also known as Jardine Smith, was an Australian writer and editor.Smith was born at Stockwell, near London. In 1852 he emigrated from Liverpool to Melbourne on the iconic steamer SS Great Britain, where he initially pursued commercial activities. Subsequently, he... |
Q3933567 Resurrection (Italian: Resurrezione) is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Doris Duranti, Claudio Gora and Germana Paolieri. It is an adaptation of the 1899 work Resurrection, the final novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It was one of a significant number of Italian films... |
Q17513666 Demonic is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Will Canon, written by Max La Bella, Doug Simon and Will Canon with Executive Producer Harvey Weinstein. The film stars Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Cody Horn, Dustin Milligan, Megan Park, Scott Mechlowicz, Aaron Yoo, and Alex Goode. |
Q20675481 Alain Viel is the director of Northwest Undergraduate Laboratories and senior lecturer in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. |
Q20745211 Yuliya Rakhmanova (born 25 October 1991) is a Kazakhstani sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She has won several medals at continental level.Her personal bests in the event are 52.61 seconds outdoors (Almaty 2015) and 53.75 seconds indoors (Chimkent 2013). |
Q22115465 Al-Karimah (Arabic: الكريمة; also spelled Karto al-Karimeh) is a small town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate. It is located in the Akkar Plain just north of the border with Lebanon and southeast of al-Hamidiyah. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ... |
Q30605383 Klettermaxe is a 1927 German silent crime film directed by Willy Reiber and starring Dorothea Wieck, Corry Bell and Paul Heidemann. The story was remade as a sound film in 1952.It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner. |
Q7057370 North Westmeath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1918.Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 the area was part of the Westmeath constituency. |
Q2093035 Roberto Tozzi (born 17 December 1958 in Rome) was an Italian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. |
Q5249096 Deception is a 1990 novel by Philip Roth. |
Q7965612 Walter Meego was an American band from Chicago, Illinois. The bandmembers now live in Los Angeles, California. |
Q2381368 A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated and with the trains suspended from it. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track. Many monorail systems run on elevated tracks through crowded areas ... |
Q6643337 A list of thriller films released in the 1940s. |
Q1681660 Jan Bruins (27 May 1940, Deventer – 16 April 1997) was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from the Netherlands. He had his best year in 1972 when he won the 50cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix, and finished the season in fourth place. |
Q896694 Michael Jary (born 'Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk'; 24 September 1906 in Laurahütte, Siemianowitz (today Siemianowice Śląskie) – 12 July 1988 in Munich) was a German composer. Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk |
Q6928123 Mościska [mɔɕˈt͡ɕiska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kąkolewnica Wschodnia, within Radzyń Podlaski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Radzyń Podlaski and 78 km (48 mi) north of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a ... |
Q6320766 Józefin [juˈzɛfin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poświętne, within Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Q5272335 Dice.com is a career website based in New York City with primary sales and development operations in Urbandale, Iowa and Denver. It serves information technology and engineering professionals, as well as contract and permanent engineering staffing firms. Dice.com is owned by DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX).Dice.co... |
Q7632097 The Dyckman-Hillside Substation, also known as Substation 17, is a historic electrical substation located at 127-129 Hillside Avenue between Sickles Street and Nagle Avenue, near the Dyckman Street station of the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York Ci... |
Q4932583 Robert Stephen "Bob" Gould (1937 – 22 May 2011) was an Australian activist and bookseller. He was a leader of the anti-conscription movement, and of protests against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, in the 1960s. He went on to become a successful second-hand bookseller. |
Q5821005 Karposhtli-ye Olya (Persian: كرپشتلي عليا, also Romanized as Karposhtlī-ye ‘Olyā) is a village in Jargalan Rural District, Raz and Jargalan District, Bojnord County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 985, in 253 families. |
Q16964888 Down by the Racetrack is a 2013 EP by American rock group Guided by Voices. It is the group's first EP since 2002's The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet and the first to feature the band's "classic" lineup since 1996's Plantations of Pale Pink. |
Q15997943 Earl W. Hanson (October 17, 1888 - December 22, 1950) was an American banker and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
Q18153391 The Imuruk Volcanics is a geologic formation in Alaska. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. |
Q39078855 Dr. Scott Nicholson (born March 27, 1971) is an American Professor of Game Design & Development at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. He is an author, game designer, speaker and the Director of the Brantford Games Network Lab. |
Q13621756 Schizomyia impatientis is a species of gall midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. |
Q4228685 Kolpino railway station (Russian: станция Колпино) is a railway station located in self-named city, Kolpinsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is 24 km down-line from Moskovsky railway station and is situated between Sankt-Peterburg-Moskovsky-Sortirovochny (Obukhovo team tracks) and Sablino on the Sain... |
Q6931662 Muddy Creek Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,254 at the 2010 census. |
Q6968219 Natalie Natalia is a novel by Nicholas Mosley first published in 1971 about a middle-aged British MP who, while seemingly on the brink of insanity, conducts an adulterous affair with the wife of a colleague. |
Q90999 Zombi is an icon-driven action adventure video game. It was Ubi Soft's first publication, released in 1986. It was programmed by Yannick Cadin and S.L. Coemelck, with graphics by Patrick Daher and music by Philippe Marchiset. |
Q6898389 Monastery of Tsar was an Armenian Apostolic monastery located in the village Zar (Tsar) of Kelbajar region, Azerbaijan. It was built in 1301 in the Principality of Khachen. It was deliberately destroyed by Azeri authorities during the Soviet era. The monastery was blown up, two 13th century chapels were razed ... |
Q2611265 Cunninghamhead is a hamlet on the Annick Water in the Parish of Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The area was part of the old Cunninghamhead estate, and once contained several watermills. |
Q7341930 Robert Hicks Bates (January 14, 1911 – September 13, 2007) was an American mountaineer, author and teacher, who is best remembered for his parts in the first ascent of Mount Lucania and the American 1938 expedition and 1953 expedition to K2. |
Q4265668 Paruchy [paˈruxɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Końskie, within Końskie County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Końskie and 39 km (24 mi) north of the regional capital Kielce.The village has a population of 200. |
Q1942692 Ustad Mohammad Omar (1905–1980) was a musician from Afghanistan who played the rubab. |
Q4907025 Bigstock is an online royalty free, international microstock photography website that sells images via a credit-based system. Bigstock's photos, vectors and illustrations cost from between 1 and 6 credits each, depending on size, with credits ranging from $.90 to $3.00 USD. BigStockPhoto was founded in Davis, ... |
Q7179876 Phacelia ciliata is a species of phacelia known by the common name Great Valley phacelia. It is native to California, where it can be found in many of the coastal mountain ranges, the Central Valley, and the Sierra Nevada foothills; its distribution extends into Baja California. It grows in grasslands and low ... |
Q4910596 Wilfred Joseph "Bill" Ratcliffe (30 May 1880 – 25 March 1935) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1922 until 1932, representing the districts of Botany (1922–1927), Alexandria (1927–1930) and Barwon (1930–1932). He was Secretary of Public W... |
Q6415907 Kirley is a townland lying within the civil parish of Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies on the western boundary of the parish beside that of Ballynascreen, with the Moyola River flowing through its southern boundary. It is bounded by the townlands of; Bracaghreilly, Coolnasillagh, Drumconr... |
Q7247102 Procapperia amira is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Afghanistan.The wingspan is 20–21 mm. The forewings are brown. Adults have been recorded in July. |
Q6626560 This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Uplawmoor in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. |
Q7106144 Oscar Mulero, born Oscar Mulero Crecente, is a techno producer and DJ from Madrid, and the owner of contemporary record labels Warm Up Recordings and Pole Recordings. He was also the founder of The Omen Club in Madrid, often considered the start of his professional career. His album from 2012, Black Propaganda... |
Q5719302 Robat-e Posht-e Badam (Persian: رباطپشت بادام, also Romanized as Robāţ-e Posht-e Bādām and Robāt-e-Posht Bādām; also known as Posht-e Bādām, Posht-e Bādom, Pusht-i-Bādām, Ribāt-i-Pusht-i-Bādām, and Robāţ-e Khalaf - e Bādām) is a village in Rabatat Rural District, Kharanaq District, Ardakan County, Yazd Provin... |
Q15993632 Charles "Charlie" Ware (1933 - 24 November 2013) was an Irish hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the Waterford senior team.Born in Waterford, Ware first played competitive hurling during his schooldays at De La Salle College. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he mad... |
Q17512838 The Spanish Civil War and the British Left: Political Activism and the Popular Front is a 2007 book by Lewis H. Mates. |
Q20790079 The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and the semifinals and 9 August with the final. |
Q13612534 Eridachtha phaeochlora is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1920. It is found in Kenya. |
Q7966315 Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 – 25 March 1918) was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. He played as an inside forward and half back for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town and was the third person of mixed heritage to play in the top divis... |
Q1549498 The Toyota T100 is a full-size pickup truck produced by Toyota between 1992 and 1998. |
Q788010 Miai (見合い, "matchmaking", literally "looking at one another") or omiai (お見合い) is a Japanese traditional custom in which a woman and a man are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage. "Omiai" is sometimes mistranslated as an "arranged marriage" but it can be described as a meeting opport... |
Q3643403 Jacobus Nicolaas Boshof (31 January 1808 – 21 April 1881) was a South African (Boer) statesman, a late-arriving member of the Voortrekker movement, and the second state president of the Orange Free State, in office from 1855 to 1859. |
Q8063244 ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. (ZOE TV) is a Philippine broadcast media arm of the Jesus is Lord Church. Based in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, it operates a set of television and radio stations each in Mega Manila and Puerto Princesa City. The company also owns its first television station in Metro Manila, whic... |
Q1640657 Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the Inno delle nazioni, a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s. For this musical wor... |
Q5979210 I Told You I Was Freaky is the second studio album by New Zealand folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords. It features 13 songs. Out of those 13, ten were released as singles on the American iTunes Store following their television debut. It was released on 20 October 2009 in the US and 2 November in the UK. On... |
Q16841701 This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2009 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2009. The women had their final fiv... |
Q1882198 The MaK G 1203 BB is a type of four axle B'B' off-centre cab locomotive built by Maschinenbau Kiel. |
Q14649317 Claude is a surname. It may refer to :Albert Claude (1899–1983), a Belgian Nobel Prize in Medicine recipientBonivert Claude (born 1945), a Former Bank of Haïti governorGeorges Claude (1870–1960), a French engineer, chemist and inventorJean Claude (1619–1687), a French Protestant theologianMarcel Claude (born ... |
Q15428134 Julia Eccleshare MBE (born 1951) is a British journalist and writer on the subject of children's books. She has been Children's Books editor for The Guardian newspaper for more than ten years, at least from 2000. She is also an editorial contributor and advisor for the website Lovereading4kids. She is a recip... |
Q5748323 Captain Hew Dalrymple, sometimes spelt Hugh (ca. 1740 – 1774) was a Scottish advocate and poet who served as Attorney General of Grenada.His youngest daughter was the courtesan Grace Elliott.Dalrymple graduated LLD in 1771. He was involved in the great Douglas case. |
Q2073968 Olivier Pantaloni (born 13 December 1966) is French football manager and former player. He is the current manager of AC Ajaccio. |
Q327891 Johan Simons (born 1 September 1946) is a Dutch theatre director.Simons received his education at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also taught directing in Maastricht for a number of years.Since 2000, Simons has received international recognition for his directing. He ... |
Q16956060 The Department of External Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between December 1921 and November 1970. |
Q354399 Adele Bloesch-Stöcker (12 June 1875 – 10 September 1978) was a Swiss-German violinist and composer. She was born in Gummersbach, Germany, and was associated with Fritz Brun and Othmar Schoeck.She performed in Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig and Bern and was a founding member of the Bern Chamber Orchestra. In 1909 she ... |
Q19664218 Martti Saario (1906 - 1988) was a Finnish organizational theorist and Professor of Accounting at the Helsinki School of Economics, known for his development of the Finnish expenditure-revenue theory.Saario obtained his PhD at the Helsinki School of Economics in 1945 with a thesis on the "Realisointiperiaate j... |
Q20641309 Edson Luiz Martins dos Santos (born 19 August 1988), known as Edson Pereira or simply Pereira, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Portuguesa.He has represented a number of other clubs at Campeonato Brasileiro Série B level, including Vila Nova, Vitória, Joinville and Santa Cruz. |
Q28439930 The 3rd Canadian Women's Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 12, 2017, at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The event featured three 20-minute periods, and 34 players were named as participants Jess Jones and Jillian Saulnier both scored a hat trick, becoming the first competitors ... |
Q41202516 Broadway District is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. The city's Department of Neighborhoods places Broadway on the southwest side of Capitol Hill. |
Q383963 Weevils are a type of beetle belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea. They are usually small, less than 6 mm (0.24 in), and herbivorous. About 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several families, with most of them in the family Curculionidae (the true weevils). Some other beetles, although ... |
Q7072127 Otis Jason Santiago (born April 4, 1974) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Browns. He also was a member of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Kent Stat... |
Q465807 Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 1940) is a British intellectual historian. Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge; he is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of t... |
Q1337058 Vachellia tortilis, widely known as Acacia tortilis but attributed by APG III to the genus Vachellia, is the umbrella thorn acacia, also known as umbrella thorn and Israeli babool, a medium to large canopied tree native primarily to the savanna and Sahel of Africa (especially Somali peninsula, and Sudan), but... |
Q513114 Patrícia Filler Amorim (born February 13, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil and former president of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. She is the first female president ever of the club, elected on December 7, 2009.She was born to a bossa nova bassist and a primary school teac... |
Q4957483 Branko "Isusek" Pleše (Croatian pronunciation: [brâːŋko plêʃe]; 12 January 1915 in Delnice – 28 March 1980 in Zagreb) was a Croatian footballer who played international football for the Croatian and both the royal and communist Yugoslavian national teams.He began his career with HŠK Concordia before moving to ... |
Q18054029 Olfactory receptor 10AG1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OR10AG1 gene.Olfactory receptors interact with odorant molecules in the nose, to initiate a neuronal response that triggers the perception of a smell. The olfactory receptor proteins are members of a large family of G-protein-coupled recep... |
Q901666 Cerre-lès-Noroy is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. |
Q1304525 Merlin Metalworks, Inc. was a pioneer in titanium bicycle design and construction. Merlin introduced the first titanium alloy mountain bike, oversized tubesets, s-bend chain and seat stays for mountain bikes. For road bikes, Merlin commercialized the first titanium butted tubing and many other innovations. |
Q8055498 York Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 134 West Philadelphia Street in York, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1766 and expanded in 1783. The original building was a two-bay brick structure with a gable roof. The addition nearly doubled the building. It is a two-bay brick structure... |
Q1167350 The Bread (Das Brot) is a short story by Wolfgang Borchert. The story takes places in 1945 post-war Germany where food was in short supply. |
Q3457065 This is a list of university networks, showing formalized cooperations among institutions of tertiary education. |
Q6447800 Kusat is a village in Dhofar Governorate, in southwestern Oman. |
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