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Q1100710 Jay Robert Inslee (; born February 9, 1951) is an American politician, author, and lawyer serving as the 23rd and current governor of Washington since 2013. A Democrat, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and then again from 1999 to 2012.Born and raised in Seattle, Inslee ...
Q8025985 Winson Green is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England. It is part of the ward of Soho.It is the location of HM Prison Birmingham (known locally as Winson Green Prison or "the Green") and of City Hospital (formerly Dudley Road Hospital) as well as of the former All Sai...
Q666628 Furka Pass (French: le col de la Furka), with an elevation of 2,429 metres (7,969 ft), is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Gletsch, Valais with Realp, Uri. The Furka Oberalp Bahn line through the Furka Tunnel bypasses the pass. The base tunnel opened in 1982 and replaced a tunnel at 2100 m.The ...
Q5979255 "I Turned You On" is a 1969 funk song by The Isley Brothers, released on their T-Neck imprint. The single was almost as big a hit as their predecessor, "It's Your Thing", reaching number six on the R&B chart and number twenty-three on the pop chart. The song's then-controversial usage of the popular sock it to...
Q4723434 Alfred Shea Addis (1832 – 10 September 1886), also known as A. S. Addis, was an American Western itinerant photographer, mostly known for photographs of Kansas, Mexico and the American Southwest.
Q7872258 USS Newport (Gunboat No.12/PG-12/IX-19) was a United States Navy gunboat. She was laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in March 1896, launched on 5 December 1896, sponsored by Miss Frances La Farge, and commissioned on 5 October 1897, Comdr. B. F. Tilley in command.
Q2031938 The United Red Army (連合赤軍, Rengō Sekigun) was a Japanese terrorist organization, established on 15 July 1971. It united the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Red Army Faction (赤軍派, Sekigunha), led in 1971 by Tsuneo Mori, and the Reformed Marxist Revolutionary Left Wing group, Japanese Communist Party Kanagawa Prefecture...
Q7843992 Trish Goff (born June 8, 1976) is an American model, actress, and real estate broker.
Q78348 Erich Bauer (26 March 1900 – 4 February 1980), sometimes referred to as "Gasmeister", was a low-level commander in the SS of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator. He participated in Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard, serving as a gas chamber operator at Sobibór extermination camp.
Q7235541 Poul Rasmussen (21 October 1896 – 21 June 1966) was a Danish fencer. He competed in four events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Q8009426 William Freke (1662–1744) was an English mystical writer, of Wadham College, Oxford and barrister of the Temple.Freke first comes to attention as a Socinian Unitarian who suffered at the hands of Parliament in 1694 for his anti-Trinitarian beliefs, and later recanted. William Freke sent his Brief but Clear Con...
Q6761122 Maria Ogedengbe, née Creyts, is an American artist whose works bring together disparate disciplines within and beyond visual arts. She earned her BFA at Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from Yale University School of Art.Ogedengbe’s works include large-scale panorama photo projects portraying textile subj...
Q4809977 The Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors (APHC) is a trade association for the plumbing and heating industry in England and Wales, representing around 1500 businesses employing some 60,000 specialist engineers ranging from those employed by large companies to sole traders working in domestic propert...
Q5349995 Eita Kasagawa (笠川 永太, Kasagawa Eita, born 25 November 1990) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Albirex Niigata Singapore.
Q13087 Caryopilite (synonymous with ectropite and ektropite) is a brown-colored mineral with formula (Mn2+,Mg)3Si2O5(OH)4. The mineral was discovered in 1889 from a mine in Sweden. It was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt in reference to its appearance.
Q7299821 Raúl Palma (born 16 April 1950) is a Mexican former basketball player.
Q7617650 Stitches is a 2012 comedy horror film directed by Conor McMahon and written by Conor McMahon and David O'Brien. It stars Ross Noble, Tommy Knight and Gemma-Leah Devereux, with Shane Murray Corcoran, Thomas Kane Byrne, Eoghan McQuinn, Roisin Barron, Hugh Mulhern, John McDonnell, Tommy Cullen, Lorna Dempsey, Jem...
Q22073291 Cutthroat Lake is a lake in the Uinta Mountains in south‑central Summit County, Utah, United States.The lake is located within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and was so named on account of the lake being stocked with cutthroat trout.
Q21285339 Maïssa Lengliz (born (1989-08-21)21 August 1989) is a Tunisian female volleyball player. She is a member of the Tunisia women's national volleyball team and played for CF Carthage in 2014. She was part of the Tunisian national team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy.
Q1661398 John Brown I (January 27, 1736 – September 20, 1803) was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from Providence, Rhode Island. Together with his brothers Nicholas, Joseph and Moses, John was instrumental in founding Brown University (then known as the College of Rhode Island) and moving it to their...
Q3445535 Virahanka (Devanagari: विरहाङ्क) was an Indian prosodist who is also known for his work on mathematics. He may have lived in the 6th century, but it is also possible that he worked as late as 8th century.His work on prosody builds on the Chhanda-sutras of Pingala (4th century BCE), and was the basis for a 12t...
Q462237 Francisco Javier "Javi" de Pedro Falque (born 4 August 1973 in Logroño, La Rioja) is a Spanish retired footballer.He played as a left midfielder, mainly with Real Sociedad, and possessed a thunderous left-foot shot. He also played professionally in four other countries.De Pedro represented Spain at the 2002 Wor...
Q3627875 The Atari Pascal Language System (usually shortened to Atari Pascal) is a version of the Pascal programming language released by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers in March 1982. Atari Pascal was published through the Atari Program Exchange as unsupported software instead of in Atari's of...
Q5293744 Don Winslow of the Coast Guard is a 1943 Universal Pictures Serial film based on the comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy by Frank V. Martinbek.
Q7873764 USS Salute (MSO-470) was an Aggressive-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.Salute was laid down on 17 March 1953 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, Connecticut; launched on 14 August 1954...
Q6451913 Kyohei Fujita (藤田 喬平, Fujita Kyōhei, 1921 – September 18, 2004) was a Japanese glass artist. He is best known for his glass boxes with complicated surface decorations, and his work was included in the exhibit One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, December...
Q6640133 This list contains songs written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, including those where he is credited as co-author. The list omits traditional songs where Dylan has claimed arranger's copyright.
Q7255941 Psilocybe subcaerulipes (commonly known as Hikageshibiretake in Japanese) is a species of fungus in the family Strophariaceae. It is in the section Zapotecorum of the genus Psilocybe, other members of this section include Psilocybe muliercula, Psilocybe angustipleurocystidiata, Psilocybe aucklandii, Psilocybe ...
Q7172431 Peter A. Freeman is the founding dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, a position he held from 1990 to 2002. Freeman was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2002 to 2007.Freeman has been emeritus dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing since 2007. He is currently the directo...
Q6281773 Joseph Buckland (born 27 October 1992) is an English ice dancer. With former partner Olivia Smart, he is a three-time British national junior champion (2012–14) and competed at three World Junior Championships, reaching the top ten in 2014.
Q6037679 Inside My Heart is the first solo debut album of singer/actress/model and Are You the Next Big Star? female winner Frencheska Farr. This 10-track album was produced and released by GMA Records on December 8, 2010.
Q1109395 Colli di Luni is an Italian Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) located in both Liguria and Tuscany in northwest Italy. The DOC produces both reds and white wines made primarily from Sangiovese and Vermentino with a varietal Vermentino also being produced in the DOC.Wine experts Joe Bastianich and David...
Q7429634 Scaevola platyphylla, commonly known as broad-leaved fanflower, is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae. It is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Plants grow to between 0.3 and 1.3 metres high and have blue to purple flowers that appear between August and January in their native range.The species wa...
Q4356198 Ái Châu (Chinese: Hán tự: 愛州; pinyin: Aìzhoū) was a historical province of Vietnam under the third Chinese domination (Bắc thuộc) roughly equivalent to Thanh Hóa Province today.In 989 after an upland chieftain, named Dương Tiến Lục, had reported to Lê Hoàn that local militia from the aboriginal prefectures of ...
Q14675233 Pyrausta euryphaea is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1932. It is found on Java.
Q21028393 The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) is the public health agency of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. BCHD convenes and collaborates with other city agencies, health care providers, community organizations and funders to "empower Baltimoreans with the knowledge, access, and environment that will enable ...
Q16679997 Chidiebere Chijioke Nwakali (born 26 December 1996) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kalmar FF in the Swedish Allsvenskan.
Q24900654 Robinvale Storm Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Robinvale, Victoria. They conduct both junior and senior rugby league teams and compete in the Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League.The club won their inaugural premiership in 2014 defeating Mildurra Warriors 20-6. Th...
Q11826311 Drahomíra Vihanová (31 July 1930 – 10 December 2017) was a Czech film director, documentarian, and screenwriter, best known for The Pilgrimage of Students Peter and Jacob (2000), Pevnost (1994) and Questions for Two Women (1985).
Q325993 Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (12 December 1890 – 12 April 1963) was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic. He originated many novel ideas in semantics. Among these was categorial grammar, a highly flexible framework for the analysis of natural language syntax and (ind...
Q3843132 Maggie's centres are a network of drop-in centres across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, whichaim to help anyone who has been affected by cancer. They are not intended as a replacement for conventional cancer therapy, but as a caring environment that can provide support, information and practical advice. T...
Q6251848 John Anthony Panozzo (September 20, 1948 – July 16, 1996) was an American drummer best known for his work with rock band Styx.
Q11541449 Pro Wrestling, known as Gokuaku Doumei Dump Matsumoto (極悪同盟 ダンプ松) in Japan, is a professional wrestling video game released for the Sega Master System in 1986 by Sega. It centers around tag team wrestling, with four duos that players can select and guide to various championship titles around the world. Pro Wr...
Q17102369 This article is a list of diseases of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum).
Q7800287 Tiarkiro is a village in the Iolonioro Department of Bougouriba Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 216.
Q4641444 The 5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, was an infantry battalion of the British Army. The battalion was part of the Royal Sussex Regiment and existed from 1908 until 1966 when it was disbanded.
Q3395220 Michael "Mick" Quinn (born 17 December 1969 in Cambridge) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as founding member of English rock band Supergrass. He formed the DB Band with bassist Paul Wilson, formerly of Shake Appeal in 2010 and released début EP "Stranger in the Alps" on 17 September 20...
Q7256898 Pteropurpura plorator is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Q7077757 The Odette School of Business (OSB) is the business school of the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. The school offers various programs with focus in Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Business Analytics, Marketing, and Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Odette School of Business is acc...
Q5199618 Cymindis heydeni is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Harpalinae. It was described by Paulino De Oliveira in 1882.
Q7412004 Samuel Lewis (March 17, 1799 - July 28, 1854) of Ohio, was one of the candidates for Free Soil Party's vice-presidential nomination in 1852 US presidential election. From 1837 to 1840 he served as Ohio's first state superintendent of common schools.Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, his father, Samuel Lewis Sr.,...
Q16199418 Martyn Ian Gidley (born 30 September 1968) is a former English first-class cricketer who played in England and South Africa. Born in Leicester, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where he now is a master.
Q15637223 Tylopilus neofelleus is a bolete fungus found in Taiwan, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China, Japan, and New Guinea. It is similar in appearance to Tylopilus felleus, but is distinguishable from that species by its smaller spores.
Q2649451 The 1999-2000 Allsvenskan season was the first season of the Allsvenskan, the second level of ice hockey in Sweden. 24 teams participated in the league, and Timrå IK, Södertälje SK, IF Björklöven, and Nyköpings Hockey 90 qualified for the Kvalserien.
Q12734549 Ludovic Mrazec (July 17, 1867 in Craiova – June 9, 1944 in Bucharest) was a Romanian geologist and member of the Romanian Academy. He introduced the term diapir that denotes a type of intrusion in which a more mobile and ductily deformable material is forced into brittle overlying rocks. The phenomenon of "di...
Q6115232 Río Hondo is a corregimiento in Las Tablas District, Los Santos Province, Panama with a population of 206 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 299; its population as of 2000 was 254.
Q26924446 Matt Sarsfield is an English rugby league footballer who last played for the Swinton Lions in the Betfred Championship. He played as a second row.
Q39893376 Darshan Singh Bhuller (born 4 March 1961) is a British dancer, teacher, artistic director, filmmaker, and choreographer. Considered "one of the brightest stars of his generation" and a "darkly powerful performer," Bhuller danced for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, and was assi...
Q17529608 Bourne Park House is a Queen Anne style country house on Bourne Park Road, between Bishopsbourne and Bridge near Canterbury in Kent. Built in 1701, it has been listed Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since 1954. An 18th century red brick Ice house and a bridge that spans the Nailbourne...
Q1505556 Millwood is a city in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,786 at the 2010 census. Millwood is a suburb of Spokane, and is surrounded on three sides by the city of Spokane Valley.
Q7569365 Southeast Minnesota is the corner of Minnesota south of the Twin Cities metropolitan area extending east, and part of the multi-state area known as the Driftless Area. Rochester is the largest city in the area; other major cities include Winona, Owatonna, Faribault, Northfield, Austin, and Red Wing.Southeast M...
Q1113935 In electronics and signal processing, a Gaussian filter is a filter whose impulse response is a Gaussian function (or an approximation to it, since a true Gaussian response is physically unrealizable). Gaussian filters have the properties of having no overshoot to a step function input while minimizing the ris...
Q1252523 Douglas Alexander Smith (born June 22, 1985) is a Canadian actor most notable for his work on the HBO series Big Love as Ben Henrickson, the eldest son of polygamist Bill Henrickson, as well as his role as Elliot in The Bye Bye Man.
Q3013214 Dan Spring (born October 31, 1951) is a former professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted in the first round, 12th overall, by the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft. He never played in the National Hockey League; however, he played 201 games in the World Hockey Association over three seas...
Q4664987 Abdinasir Said Ibrahim (Somali: Cabdinaasir Saiid Ibraahiim, Arabic: عبد الناصر وقال ابراهيم‎) (born July 1, 1989) is a track and field athlete from Somalia.
Q14406070 Hexachaeta venezuelana is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Hexachaeta of the family Tephritidae.
Q14875696 Labelle (pronounced: la-bell or often: LAY-bell) is a rural lakeside community in Queens County, Nova Scotia. It is between Molega Lake and Ponhook Lake. The nearest towns are Bridgewater, Liverpool and Caledonia as well as the neighbouring village of Greenfield.
Q6389268 Kenichi Yamanaka (山中 圏一, Yamanaka Ken'ichi, born 29 November 1943) is a retired Japanese judoka.He was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki and brought up in Bungotakada, Ōita. He began judo at the age of a junior high school first grader.In 1965, when he was student of Tenri University, got silver medal of World Champion...
Q4682181 Adena Halpern (born December 8, 1968) is an American author best known for her "chick lit" novels, "The Ten Best Days of My Life," "29" and "Pinch Me."
Q17008691 Jurlique International Pty Ltd, is an Australian cosmetics manufacturer specialising in natural botanical-based skincare and cosmetics under the brand name Jurlique. Jurlique is considered ethical and environmentally friendly, although internationally it does submit some samples for animal testing as mandated...
Q3847971 Marilyn Knowlden (born May 12, 1926) is an American former child actress.
Q17063852 The 12081/12082 Kannur Jan Shatabdi Express is a Jan Shatabdi Express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Thiruvananthapuram and Kannur in Kerala state of India. It is the fastest express train between these two cities running via Kottayam and aleppy
Q16106122 Josephina Johanna "Jopie" Troost (born 19 September 1942) is a retired Dutch swimmer who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. A medal favorite, the Dutch team was disqualified in the heats for a premature start by Sieta Posthumus. Troost was part of 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ...
Q20806138 The Men's 200 metres event at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Tampere, Finland, at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 13 July.
Q23618220 Neelkanth Ganjoo (died November 4, 1989) was a high court judge in Kashmir. In the late 1960s, as a sessions court judge, he had presided over the trial of JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat in the murder of police inspector Amar Chand in 1966. In August 1968, he sentenced Bhat and one other to death. This sentence ...
Q24289080 Rachel and Jun are an American/Japanese married couple of YouTube personalities who make online videos about Japanese culture and society (sometimes called J-vlog(ger)s), and reciprocal perceptions between Japanese and Westerners.
Q22958582 Les Bollman (15 July 1904 – 28 June 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Q15288741 Acacia sclerophylla, commonly known as the hard-leaf wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves and is endemic to southern parts of Australia.
Q10821604 Stenopogon obispae is a species of robber flies, insects in the family Asilidae.
Q5383380 The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i is the ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Episcopal Church of the Anglican Communion in the United States encompassing the state of Hawaii. It is led by the Episcopal Bishop of Hawaii pastoring the Hawaiian Islands from the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in Honolulu....
Q288657 Les Epesses is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.It is best known for the Puy du Fou historical theme park.
Q776559 La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been described as a...
Q7711847 The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras is an oil painting on canvas from 1875, painted by Elizabeth Thompson (she became better known as Lady Butler after her marriage to William Butler in 1877). The painting is 97.2 centimeters (38.3 in) high and 216.2 centimeters (85.1 in) wide. It is in the National Gallery of Vi...
Q4176380 Nika Ožegović (Croatian pronunciation: [nǐːka ǒʒeɡoʋitɕ, nî-, - oʒěː-]; born 21 May 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. In her career she won eight ITF tournaments, five in singles and three in doubles. Her career high on WTA rankings is No. 131, on 9 July 2007 in singles; and No. 193, o...
Q2394754 The N-124 is a short highway in northern Spain which connects Ollauri to Miranda de Ebro. The road starts outside Ollauri with a junction with the N-232. It heads north along the right bank of the River Ebro. There is a junction with the N-126. The road by-passes the town of Haro. The road ends to the west of ...
Q2682237 The 1956 World Judo Championships were the 1st edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held at the Kuramae Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on May 3, 1956.
Q2698145 The 1995–96 Umaglesi Liga was the seventh season of top-tier football in Georgia. It began on 2 August 1995 and ended on 27 May 1996. Dinamo Tbilisi were the defending champions.
Q7291576 Randall M. Fort (b. July 4, 1956, Richmond, Indiana) is currently Director of Programs Security, Cyberdomain Team, Raytheon Corporation. He was formerly the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in the United States Department of State from November 2006 through January 2009, as part of t...
Q5059732 The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is a US non-profit international human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1998, CJA represents survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses in cases against individual rights violators before U.S. and Spanish courts. ...
Q28444581 The Widener Pride football team represents Widener University in college football. The football team has had recent success winning the MAC championship in 2012 and an "Elite 8" appearance in the Division III Playoffs, the ECAC Southwest Bowl in 2011, and the ECAC South Atlantic Bowl in 2005. Its greatest su...
Q7323004 The Rice Fork is a 22.7-mile-long (36.5 km) tributary of the Eel River in Lake County, California. The Rice Fork begins on the upper northwest side of Goat Mountain, on the Colusa-Lake County line, at an elevation of over 6,000 feet (1,800 m). It quickly descends the steep western slope of the mountain, then b...
Q6379058 Kavali is a village under Santhakavati mandal in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Kavali Pratibha Bharati, better known as K. Pratibha Bharati - the former Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was born here in this village and also takes it as her family name.
Q4725021 Alimirza Ostovari is an Iranian football Midfielder who played for Iran in the 1996 Asian Cup. He also played for Bargh Shiraz.
Q2369562 Susanne Wasum-Rainer (born 31 July 1956) is a German diplomat who has been serving as Germany’s Ambassador to Italy since 2015.
Q16282840 Zafar is an Arabic/Muslim name meaning "victory" or "victor". Notable people with the name include:Given name:Bahadur Shah II, last Mughal Emperor, also known by his nom de plume, ZafarZafar Ali Khan, Pakistani writerZafar Ali Naqvi, Indian politicianZafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politicianZafar Bangash, ...
Q5846672 Ab Qanat-e Eshkaft Dudar (Persian: اب قنات اشكفت دودر‎, also Romanized as Āb Qanāt-e Eshkaft Dūdar) is a village in Poshteh-ye Zilayi Rural District, Sarfaryab District, Charam County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. Its population in 2006 was 33, in 6 families.
Q22342415 Celerina is an Ancient city, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in North Africa.It's presumably located near Guebeur-Bou-Aoun, in modern Algeria.
Q8917912 An Zhisheng (Chinese: 安芷生; pinyin: Ān Zhǐshēng; born 25 February 1941) is a Chinese geographer who specializes in quaternary geology, air particle pollution control, and global change. He is internationally known for his studies on Chinese loess and its implication for paleo-climate and paleo-environment chang...
Q27942266 Aaron Wilson (born 24 November 1991) is an Australian international lawn bowler.Wilson won the 2016 World Junior Championships and won the gold medal with bowls partner Brett Wilkie in the pairs at the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and won a silver medal in the fours.Wilson was selected as part of the...
Q2080762 Creech St Michael is a village and civil parish in Somerset, three miles east of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district. The parish straddles the M5 motorway and includes several scattered settlements. The village of Creech St Michael and the hamlets of Charlton, Creech Heathfield, and Ham lie eas...