text stringlengths 19 150k |
|---|
Q547496 Hermleigh is a census-designated place (CDP) in Scurry County, Texas, United States.Hermleigh lies on U.S. Route 84, ninety-six miles southeast of Lubbock, and has population of 345 people at the 2010 census. |
Q203078 VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American pay television network based in New York City owned by Viacom. It was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV, and launched on January 1, 1985, in the ... |
Q541080 A lithopedion – also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion – (Ancient Greek: λίθος = stone; Ancient Greek: παιδίον = small child, infant), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the... |
Q113006 Bodie James Olmos (born August 27, 1975) is an American actor. He is the son of Edward James Olmos and Kaija Keel, and grandson of Howard Keel.His older brother is actor Mico Olmos, and his younger sister is Daniela Olmos. His first on screen appearance was on The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez in 1982 when he was 7... |
Q6131271 James Chatham Duane (June 10, 1824 – December 8, 1897) was an engineering officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, being the Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac. |
Q6107801 J. B. Joyce & Co, clockmakers, were founded in Shropshire in England. The company claim to be the oldest clock manufacturer in the world, originally established in 1690, and has been part of the Smith of Derby Group since 1965. The claim is challenged by another English firm of clockmakers, Thwaites & Reed, w... |
Q5600819 The Greater Washington Sports Alliance (GWSA) is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2003 under the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Currently, an independent entity, its board is headed by Chairman Fernando Murias, Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers. It is the regional sports commission... |
Q506368 Ellhöft (Danish: Ellehoved) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. |
Q7825563 Torche is the self-titled debut album from the Miami-based metal band Torche. The album was released through Robotic Empire on March 8, 2005. It was also reissued on June 18, 2007 through Rock Action Records with a bonus track and alternate artwork.The opening track, "Charge of the Brown Recluse", is a new ver... |
Q7267825 Qinghai Normal University (simplified Chinese: 青海师范大学; traditional Chinese: 青海師範大學; pinyin: Qīnghǎi Shīfàn Dàxué) is a university in Xining, Qinghai, China. Founded in 1956, it lies on the Huangshui River and has 2 colleges, 14 departments, 3 branches and a research institute. |
Q3754468 The silver shiner (Notropis photogenis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is found in the United States and Canada where it inhabits much of the Ohio River basin south to northern Georgia in the Tennessee River drainage. It also found in western Lake Erie tributaries and the Grand River... |
Q5050893 The eighteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 13 September 2003 and finished on 28 August 2004.It saw another increase, this time to 46 episodes. |
Q6650741 The Little Lost River is a river in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. The river is about 49 miles (79 km) long and drains an arid farming valley, the Little Lost River Valley, bordered by the Lost River Range on the west and Lemhi Range on the east. Instead of emptying into a larger body of water, i... |
Q214088 Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (Arabic: محمد البوعزيزي; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, which became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes. His self-immolation was in response to the... |
Q5462361 Floy Joy was an English group formed in Sheffield, England, who recorded two albums and had minor success with a small few singles. |
Q7831626 Traction is an interactive advertising agency based in San Francisco. In 2014, they were named Independent Agency of the Year in the iMedia Agency Awards. Their clients include Alibaba.com, Adobe Systems, Bank of America, Cabot Creamery, California Bank & Trust, Camelbak, Intuit, Intel, Kelly-Moore Paints, Liv... |
Q3062615 The Extraordinarii were the elite troops of the Roman alae, recruited from the socii, Rome's Italian military allies. The name refers to their nature; i.e., extraordinary or chosen men. |
Q16842538 Heart On is the first single of Katastrophy Wife's third album Pregnant which is yet to be released. |
Q13227629 Herpetogramma magna is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879. It is found in Japan, Russia and Taiwan. |
Q27457221 Viviane Gouverneur (born 1940) is a French former swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. |
Q6390127 Kenneth Louis Gaburo (July 5, 1926 – January 26, 1993) was an American composer. |
Q3884270 Options is a 1975 absurdist science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, published in paperback by Pyramid Books. The first British edition appeared in 1977, and a French translation was published in 1979.The story is ostensibly about a marooned space traveller's attempt to get a spare part for his starship, the ... |
Q7609172 Stephen Fain Williams (born September 23, 1936) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. |
Q5517157 Gail S. Altman is an educator, biographer, and Beethoven scholar notable for her published studies of two of the more disputed aspects of the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827).In the first of these, Fatal Links: the Curious Deaths of Beethoven and the Two Napoleons, Altman puts forward the hypo... |
Q4550320 The 152nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
Q7786617 Thodi Si Zameen Thoda Sa Aasmaan (English: A Little bit of Land A Little bit of Sky) is an Indian television show broadcast on STAR Plus. The series was produced by Smriti Irani along with Ekta Kapoor. |
Q7862011 Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb (born 1940) is an ordained rabbi, a qualified psychotherapist and the Executive Vice President Emeritus of the Orthodox Union, the largest Orthodox Jewish organisation in North America; a position he has held since 2002. Rabbi Dr. Weinreb serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Koren ... |
Q983580 Montferri is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It is home to the sanctuary of Mare de Déu de Montserrat (Our Lady of Monsterrat), a small Modernist church by Josep Maria Jujol. |
Q6934524 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in Tacoma, Washington. It is an 82-bed facility and a state-designated level II pediatric trauma center. Mary Bridge was established in 1955 by members of Tacoma Orthopedic Association, a women's volunteer group established in 1921. Members of t... |
Q9080408 Suero de Quiñones (c. 1409 – 11 July 1456), called El del Passo ("he of the pass"), was a Leonese knight and author. He gained fame by staging a pas d'armes, the Passo Honroso, at the river Órbigo and describing it in his Libro del Passo honroso.Suero was the son of Diego Fernández de Quiñones, called el Afort... |
Q16249782 Federal Route 155, or Jalan Wang Tok Rendong (formerly Kedah state route K186), is a major federal road in Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia. |
Q6608647 This is a list of butterflies of South Africa. Over 660 species are known from South Africa, a large proportion of which are endemic. |
Q4826314 Karabedir is a village in the District of Dinar, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. |
Q3693021 The 1951 Norwegian Football Cup was the 46th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for all members of NFF, except those from Northern Norway. The final was played at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo on 21 October 1951, and was contested by five-time former winners Sarpsbo... |
Q5709405 Helming Leget (died 1412), of Tottenham, Middlesex and Black Notley, Essex, was an English politician. |
Q20039572 Hideaki Kawamura (Japanese: 河村 英昭; born 15 September 1974 in Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese former 400 metres hurdler who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.His personal best in the event is 48.84 seconds, set in 2000. |
Q4454066 Mohamed Coulibaly (born September 19, 1989) is a Malian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He represented Mali at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the men's 50 m freestyle event. Coulibaly swam in the third heat of the competition, with a time of 29.09 seconds, finishing i... |
Q13539320 Eupithecia vinaceata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1956. It is found in Kenya. |
Q25239230 Amphu Labtsa pass, elevation 5,845 metres (19,177 ft), is a glaciated pass covered in serac cliffs at the head of the Honku valley. It provides a way out of the otherwise relatively isolated Honku valley. The base of the valley is at 5,000 m (16,400 ft) and has several glacial lakes including the Panch Pokhri... |
Q28800437 Jörg Naumann (born 2 January 1963) is a German former track and field hurdler who competed for East Germany. He was a bronze medallist at the 1985 IAAF World Cup, helping the East German men to third in the team competition. He won the 60 metres indoor national title at the East German Indoor Athletics Champi... |
Q5557140 Ghost Riders is the sixth album by American southern rock band Outlaws, released in 1980. This album is regarded by many fans as the last Outlaws album that followed their old fashioned southern rock style, and also sparked a comeback after the mediocre sales of prior albums. Their cover of "(Ghost) Riders In ... |
Q7885450 The Union Calendar is a separate calendar in the United States House of Representatives that schedules bills involving money issues. It arose from the requirement in Article One of the United States Constitution that all revenue bills originate in the House of Representatives. To meet that requirement, Rule XI... |
Q270779 Larisa Alexandrovna Peleshenko (Russian: Лариса Александровна Пелешенко), née Agapova (born February 29, 1964 in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast) is a retired Russian shot putter best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000. In her early career she won European Indoor silver medals, but in February 1995 sh... |
Q7166147 The Peoria Municipal Band, in Peoria, Illinois was founded officially in 1937, but prior to that the band was a professional municipal band, and is one of the oldest municipal bands in the country. The Peoria Municipal Band is funded by the city of Peoria through taxes, which allows hundreds of thousands to e... |
Q6961371 Nambarrie is the brand name of a tea company based in Andover, Hampshire, now owned by Twinings. Nambarrie Tea Co. Ltd. now operates delivery depots in Mallusk, County Antrim and Glasgow, being the third biggest brand in Scotland. |
Q4772231 Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006 in Warrenton, Virginia) was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. |
Q3056676 Erkand Qerimaj (born August 10, 1988) is an Albanian weightlifter. |
Q15059037 Nethergate is a hamlet within the civil parish of Hindolveston in the English county of Norfolk. The hamlet is 15.9 miles (25.6 km) west-south-west of Cromer, 19.3 miles (31.1 km) north-north-west of Norwich and 124 miles (200 km) north-east of London. The Hamlet lies 6.8 miles (10.9 km) south of the town o... |
Q7737056 The Golden Horde is a 1951 American historical adventure film directed by George Sherman and starring Ann Blyth, David Farrar, with George Macready, Richard Egan and Peggie Castle. Many of the exterior scenes were shot in the Death Valley National Park in California. It was made using Technicolor, and was one ... |
Q4640708 The 568th Air Defense Group is a disbanded United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command (ADC)'s 4709th Air Defense Wing at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where it was inactivated in 1954. The group was originally activated as a support unit for a combat group at t... |
Q7134922 Paraliptus is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Paraliptus mirabilis, and is found in Australia. |
Q2803156 Kasey Carlson (born November 26, 1991) is an American competition swimmer from Walnut Creek, California. |
Q4951278 Bowman's Lodge is a house in Dartford, Kent and the location of Bowmans, an area in the north west of Dartford Heath.The historian John Dunkin wrote that Bowman's Lodge was so named "from having been taken by the Royal Society of Kentish Bowmen...where their first meetings were held. At the formation eleven ge... |
Q1950216 North Willingham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Sixhills) was 181 at the 2011 census. It is situated 3.5 miles (6 km) east from the town of Market Rasen on the A631 road between Market Rasen and Louth.The vill... |
Q7075977 Ocean Downs is a casino and harness racing track in Berlin, Maryland, near Ocean City. It is owned and operated by Churchill Downs Inc.Construction started in 1947 as a harness racetrack, and it opened in 1949 with Ocean Downs Racing Association (ODRA) as owner. After two failing years, ODRA began to speculate... |
Q3847196 Maria Clara Giai Pron (born 31 July 1992 in Turin) is an Italian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2007.She competed in the K1 event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she qualified for the semifinal after an impressive 3rd place in the heats. However, she failed to qualify for t... |
Q7678540 Taku Satoh (佐藤卓, Satō Taku, born 1955) is a Japanese graphic designer born in Tokyo. He graduated in 1979 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) in the Department of Design. He completed his master's degree in 1981. In 1984 founded Taku Satoh Design Offic... |
Q10483812 The Endochytriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cladochytridiales. The family contains 10 genera and 56 species according to a 2008 estimate. It was circumscribed by mycologist Donald J.S. Barr in 1980. |
Q5668168 Kur-e Kelkian (Persian: كوركلكيان, also Romanized as Kūr-e Kelkīān; also known as Karīmābād and Kūr-e Kelkelīān) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 765, in 164 families. |
Q26236253 Phillips Wesley Robbins is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine. He moved to BU in 1998 following a career of almost 40 years on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Q195402 What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 French-American comedy film directed by Clive Donner, written by Woody Allen in his first produced screenplay, and starring Allen, Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, and Ursula Andress.The Oscar-nominated title song by Burt Bacharach (music) an... |
Q8044699 Xinzhuang (simplified Chinese: 莘庄; traditional Chinese: 莘莊; pinyin: Xīnzhuāng) is a town located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China. The town was, by the early 21st century, essentially walking toward the greater Shanghai urban area. |
Q444206 Arwa Al-Sulayhi, full name Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā Aṣ-Ṣulayḥī Al-Ismāʿīliyyah (Arabic: أَرْوَى بِنْت أَحْمَد ابْن مُحَمَّد ابْن جَعْفَر ابْن مُوْسَى ٱلصُّلَيْحِي ٱلْإِسْمَاعِيْلِيَّة, c. 1048–1138, died 22nd Shaban, 532 AH or May 5, 1138) was a long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly as ... |
Q2356491 Frans Peter von Knorring, (6 October 1792, Kokemäki - 29 March 1875) was a social reformer on the Åland Islands. |
Q1921682 Ballast is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Coevorden municipality in Drenthe. Its elevation is 9 meters (32 feet). |
Q2606283 Armand Forcherio (born 1 March 1941) is a former Monégasque footballer, who played as a defender for AS Monaco from 1961 to 1972. He then managed the same team from 1976 to 1977, the only Monégasque to manage the club. He also played for French club AC Arles-Avignon. |
Q3519666 Thaís Helena da Silva or simply Thaís (born 19 June 1987), is a football goalkeeper who currently plays for Brazilian club Corinthians and the Brazilian National Team.Thaís played for Brazil at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in Thailand. |
Q5393678 Ernst Peter Burger (September 1, 1906 – October 9, 1975) was a German-American who was a spy and saboteur for Germany during World War II. He was captured but escaped execution. He was deported to Germany in 1948. |
Q6759258 Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh (1672/1673 – 21 February 1728) was an English courtier. The Countess was one of the "Hampton Court Beauties" painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for Queen Mary II. |
Q6484155 Land of Make Believe is the third album by alternative hip hop group Kidz in the Hall, released on March 9, 2010. It is their second release on Duck Down Records. The first single released is "Take Over the World", which features producer Just Blaze and singer Colin Munroe. |
Q6680329 "Lorelei at Storyville West" is a science fiction short story by American writer Sherwood Springer. It was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. |
Q2175325 Neu-Homburg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Läufelfingen of the Canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. |
Q6390218 Kenneth Houston (born 20 July 1941) was an Irish schoolteacher at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. He retired in 2001. He won 6 caps playing on the wing for the Irish rugby union side between 1960 and 1965. |
Q17068667 Muntazah Oryx Investments is a Qatari private company headquartered in Doha, Qatar, that invests in foreign start-ups and a wide range of businesses within Qatar. The company is fully owned by its founder Mark Dossa, a Sydney-based Saudi Arabian financier who started the firm in July 2010. The stated goal of ... |
Q16461025 Gechi Qeshlaq (Persian: گچي قشلاق) may refer to:Gechi Qeshlaq Amirlu, Ardabil ProvinceGechi Qeshlaq Hajj Mohammadlu, Ardabil ProvinceGechi Qeshlaq-e Olya, East Azerbaijan ProvinceGechi Qeshlaq-e Sofla, East Azerbaijan ProvinceGechi Qeshlaq-e Vosta, East Azerbaijan Province |
Q13403118 Gagarin: First in Space a.k.a.. First man In Space (Russian: Гагарин. Первый в космосе or поехали!) is a 2013 Russian docudrama biopic about the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, and the mission of Vostok 1. It was released by Central Partnership theatrically in Russia on June 6, 2013, and in the United King... |
Q2877002 Brad Howe (born 1959) is an American sculptor from California. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally. |
Q21062789 Vice Admiral P Murugesan is vice-chief of the Naval Staff of India since 31 Mar 2015. |
Q27063724 Mario Rigby is a Canadian-Turks and Caicos Islander adventure explorer, author, speaker, and former professional track and field athlete currently based in Toronto, ON. From 2015 and 2017, he completed an epic two year long walk across Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo entitled Crossing Africa. |
Q719739 Haplochromis paradoxus is a species of haplochromine cichlid endemic to Lake Edward where it is known to be benthopelagic. This species can reach a length of 7.4 centimetres (2.9 in) SL. |
Q12775 2034 (MMXXXIV)will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2034th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 34th year of the 3rd millennium, the 34th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2030s decade. |
Q184260 A mortgage is a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt, usually a loan of money. A mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is the lender's security for a debt. It is a transfer of an interest in land (or the equivalent) from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition t... |
Q328318 The Vanuatu national football team is the national team of Vanuatu and is controlled by the Vanuatu Football Federation. |
Q3339046 The New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC) is the branch of the municipal government of New York City responsible for the custody, control, and care of New York City's imprisoned population, housing the majority of them on Rikers Island. It employs 11,163 uniformed officers and 1,400 civilian staff, h... |
Q2970070 Pigeiros is a former civil parish in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Caldas de São Jorge e Pigeiros. It has a population of 1,369 inhabitants and a total area of 5.13 km². |
Q18047207 Transmembrane protein 47 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM47 gene. |
Q7234733 Potasznia [pɔˈtaʂɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudnik, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. |
Q4565676 The 1945–46 New York Rangers season was the 20th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the regular season, the Rangers compiled a 13–28–9 record and finished with 35 points. With a last-place finish, the Rangers did not qualify for the NHL playoffs. |
Q6236433 John Thomas Grimes (April 17, 1869 – January 17, 1964) was an American professional baseball player who played in three games for the St. Louis Browns during the 1897 season. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in San Francisco at the age of 94. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former... |
Q7378395 Rugby union in Guadeloupe is a minor, but growing sport. |
Q6875985 Miss Alleged (1987–2008) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion in the United States and one of only two fillies to ever win the Breeders' Cup Turf. |
Q2087667 Aenigmina is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae. |
Q5815831 Zavarak (Persian: زوارك, also Romanized as Zavārak) is a village in Alamut-e Pain Rural District, Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 176, in 57 families.In The Valley of the Assassins, Zavarak is mentioned by British traveller and explorer Fr... |
Q12719033 Tom Hugo Hermansen (born 27 October 1979), better known as simply Tom Hugo, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and musician. He is currently living in Oslo. He is openly gay. |
Q16357999 Ilze Jaunalksne (born November 19, 1976 in Jūrmala) is a Latvian journalist and was an anchor for the current affairs program De Facto. In March 2006 on De Facto, she broke the story of Latvian national political leaders from various different parties buying votes. Her reporting on this caused a minister to b... |
Q21818075 Else Poulsson (24 March 1909 – 10 February 2002) was a Norwegian painter and textile artist. |
Q9339182 Sokhna Galle (born 22 April 1994) is a French female triple jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships. |
Q37518215 Alire is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:Camila Alire, American librarianAlire Raffeneau Delile (1778–1850), French botanistBenjamin Alire Sáenz (born August 16, 1954) is an American poet, novelist and writer of children's books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ali... |
Q41771694 On 24 January 1994 a Cessna 425 crashed into Lake Constance with 5 people on board. 3 of them are confirmed killed, two are missing. The crash caused significant media attention due to a suspicion the aircraft might be transporting nuclear material which was later found untrue. |
Q16854697 Milan Grman is a male former international table tennis player from Slovakia.He won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Tomáš Janči, Petr Javurek, Petr Korbel and Roland Vimi for Czechoslovakia. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.