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Q4978476 Bruce H. Williams (February 18, 1932—February 9, 2019) was an American radio host, entrepreneur, writer and former mayor. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Bruce Williams Show, aired throughout the United States for 29 years, until ending production in March 2010. Williams wrote six books, and he also ... |
Q4267084 Annie Lorrain Smith (23 October 1854 – 7 September 1937) was a British lichenologist whose Lichens (1921) was an essential textbook for several decades. She was also a mycologist and founder member of the British Mycological Society, where she served as president for two terms. The standard author abbreviation... |
Q5214730 The Dana Glacier is located inside a northwest facing cirque located east of the 13,061 feet (3,981 m) Mount Dana on the eastern border of Yosemite National Park, California. It is very close to Tioga Pass and Highway 120. The glacier occupies the very steep, shaded western slope of the cirque at around 11,500... |
Q5242593 Dawodu is a Nigerian surname meaning "first or eldest son, and is used in the sense of heir. The royal first-born son, born after his father's succession to the throne..."People named DawoduDr. Segun Toyin Dawodu, MD, JD, MBA, LL.M, MS is a Physician, Attorney, Academician, Medical Informatician and Serial Ent... |
Q3277951 The following events occurred in May 1945: |
Q6140362 Koken Kato (加藤 弘堅, Katō Kōken, born 3 April 1989 in Chiba) is a Japanese football player who plays for Giravanz Kitakyushu. |
Q5255444 The Demitrie River is a river in Dominica. |
Q7559703 "Someone Like You" is the first single by alternative rock band SafetySuit from their debut album, Life Left to Go. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and No. 27 on the Adult Top 40 chart. |
Q5563559 Giorgos Muzakis (Greek: Γιώργος Μουζάκης, Athens, 15 August 1922 – 27 August 2005) was a prominent Greek virtuoso trumpeter and music composer. |
Q2962855 Chester Arthur Arnold was an American paleobotanist, born June 25, 1901 in Leeton, Missouri and died on 19 November 1977.He was the son of farmers Elmer and Edith Arnold. Arnolds family moved to Ludlowville, New York and he attended Cornell University with the intent to study agriculture. Interaction with Lore... |
Q5037030 The Capture of Mannheim took place on 2 November 1622, by the Imperial-Spanish army commanded by Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly against the Protestant troops under the Englishman Sir Horace Vere during the Thirty Years' War. |
Q5453860 First Talk With Tamara Bull is a talk show first produced for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, an aboriginal television network in Canada.Created, executive produced and hosted by Tamara Bull and also executive produced by Tamara Bell, Story Producer Dan Jorgenson, Production Supervisor Purabi Matin. |
Q7242217 Pretty Diff is a language-aware data comparison utility implemented in JavaScript. The online utility is capable of source code prettification, minification, and comparison of two pieces of input text. It operates by removing code comments from supported languages and then performs a pretty-print operation p... |
Q1190746 Soltan Migitinov (17 September 1988, Lipetsk) is an Azerbaijani boxer who competes as a middleweight. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he defeated Mohamed Hikal in the first round of the Men's middleweight, before losing to Esquiva Falcão in the second round. |
Q361026 William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England. His parents we... |
Q4052196 USS Chester (CS-1/CL-1) of the United States Navy was the first scout cruiser built for the Navy. In 1920, she was reclassified as a light cruiser. She was launched on 26 June 1907, by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Miss D. W. Sproul, and commissioned on 25 April 1908, Commander H. B. Wilson in com... |
Q7972560 The term Washington city government can refer to:City government in the state of WashingtonThe Government of the District of Columbia |
Q4657602 A Knight of the Word is a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks, the second book in the Word & Void series, a prequel to his Shannara series. It was first published in 1998 by Ballantine's Del Rey division (ISBN 978-0-345-37963-4). The setting is primarily Seattle, Washington around Halloween in 2002, ... |
Q11680997 The sternwheeler Chilcotin was built for the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. She was built by shipbuilder Donald McPhee for the Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company, which was a partnership held by Nick Clarke and Russell Peden of the South Fort George town-site of Fort George... |
Q1608147 Edward Miles, Jr. (born July 5, 1940) is a retired American basketball player.A 6'4" guard born in North Little Rock, Arkansas and a graduate of Scipio A. Jones High School, Miles was nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Arm" because of his shooting prowess. He averaged 18, 25, 30 and 32 points per game, respec... |
Q2645638 In enzymology, a dTDP-galactose 6-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.186) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactiondTDP-D-galactose + 2 NADP+ + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } dTDP-D-galacturonate + 2 NADPH + 2 H+The 3 substrates of this enzyme are dTDP-D-galactose, NA... |
Q7122018 Pacheri is a village in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is inhabited by over 6,000 residents. |
Q6393280 Tamara Hejtan (Bulgarian: Кера Тамара; circa 1340 - died after 1378) was the daughter of the Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Alexander and his second wife Sarah-Theodora. Kera Tamara was a sister of Ivan Shishman and Ivan Sratsimir. She was born probably around 1340 and originates from the Shishman dynasty. |
Q2420904 Main Source is the third studio album by hip hop artist Large Professor. It was released on September 15, 2008 through Gold Dust Media. |
Q7747508 The Lion of Punjab is an Indian Punjabi action film starring Diljit Dosanjh, making his debut as an actor. It is also the debut Punjabi movie of Bollywood director Guddu Dhanoa. A huge set of a temple, a church, some houses and a shopping area, was erected at the Indian Express Office premises.It is a remake o... |
Q5133645 Climax Uranium Mill is a decommissioned uranium mill near Grand Junction, CO.The mill, that processed vanadium as well as uranium, was incorporated May 11, 1950. It was constructed on city-owned property next to the Colorado River which was once the Grand Junction sugar beet mill. Climax Uranium Company gutted... |
Q477469 Amr Hamzawy (Egyptian Arabic: عمرو حمزاوى, IPA: [ˈʕɑmɾe ħæmˈzæːwi]; born 1967) is an Egyptian political scientist, human rights activist and public intellectual. |
Q4686207 Xinhua (simplified Chinese: 新华; traditional Chinese: 新華; pinyin: Xīnhuá; literally: 'new China') is a town of Tongyu County in northwestern Jilin province, China, located 29 kilometres (18 mi) southwest of the county seat and about half that northwest of the border with Inner Mongolia. As of 2011, it has one r... |
Q865402 The Birgittenkloster (Convent of Saint Birgitta) is a Bridgettine convent in Bremen, Germany, founded in October 2002. The first convent to be founded in Bremen since the Reformation, it has adopted an ecumenical role in line with the teachings of Saint Bridget. |
Q17021518 The New York Gorhams were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1886 to 1892. During their short existence the Gorhams grew to be one of the most successful black professional clubs in the country and challenged the supremacy of the Cuban Giants. |
Q20313005 Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), is a government contractor based in Newport News, Virginia, USA. It operates Mk-58 Hawker Hunter, Israeli F-21 Kfir, A-4 Skyhawk, and L-39 Albatross II military aircraft in tactical flight training roles for U.S. Navy, Air Force and Air National Guard. Its main air ... |
Q14008205 Paradoris dubia is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae. |
Q24892442 Slim Shoulders is a lost 1922 silent film society drama directed by Alan Crosland and starring Irene Castle. |
Q34984529 Jorge Fidel Ponce (born 30 November 1967) is a Honduran sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics. |
Q782352 The Pomatostomidae (Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers, also known as pseudo-babblers) are small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. For many years, the Australo-Papuan babblers were classified, rather uncertainly, with the Old World babblers (Timaliidae), on the grounds of similar appe... |
Q7721668 The Cat and the Cobra was the second album by Les Savy Fav. It was the first CD released by Frenchkiss Records, bassist Syd Butler's label. The vinyl LP was released by Self-Starter Foundation. The first track, "The Orchard," features guest backing vocals by Toko Yasuda, who later went on to play in Enon. |
Q4861028 Barking & East Ham United FC was a football club that formed in 2001 after the merger of Barking and East Ham United. The club initially played in Division One of the Isthmian League, and then Division One North after league reorganisation in 2002. In 2004 they transferred to Division One East of the Southern ... |
Q5256192 The Demon Bear is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been featured in the comic book series The New Mutants and X-Force. |
Q3046163 ESPN Sunday Night NFL is a sports video game that was released for the Super NES, Sega CD, and Sega Genesis in 1994. |
Q5438929 Eunice Fay McKenzie (February 19, 1918 – April 16, 2019), better known professionally as Fay McKenzie and briefly billed as Fay Shannon, was an American actress and singer. She starred in silent films as a child, and then sound films as an adult, but perhaps she is best known for her leading roles opposite G... |
Q1028283 Mandritsara [maɳɖʐiˈtsarə̥] is a city and commune (commune urbain, Malagasy: kaominina) in northern Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Mandritsara, which is a part of Sofia Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 17,000 in 2001 commune census.Mandritsara is served by a lo... |
Q7415625 Sanchita Bhattyacharya (born 1991) is an Indian singer. At 15, this makes her the oldest winner in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs history as well as the first female winner with public voting. |
Q3177497 The grey-hooded white-eye (Lophozosterops pinaiae), also known as the grey-hooded ibon, is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to Seram Island. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. |
Q143193 Aloe peglerae (the "fez aloe") is a small, stemless South African aloe. This unique succulent plant is classed as an endangered species. |
Q4948424 The Botanic Gardens of Toyama (富山県中央植物園, Toyama-ken Chūō Shokubutsuen, 24.7 hectares) are botanical gardens located at 42 Kamikutsuwada, Fuchu-machi, Nei-gun, Toyama, Toyama, Japan. They are open daily except Thursdays; an admission fee is charged.Garden construction began in 1989. The gardens first opened to ... |
Q7967773 Wang Zhiping (born 11 December 1983) is a Chinese race walker. |
Q7675600 Tahnee Atkinson (born 31 January 1992) is an Australian model, best known for winning the cycle 5 of Australia's Next Top Model. |
Q541662 Savitri Devi Jindal (born (1950-03-20)20 March 1950) is an Indian businesswoman. |
Q4983470 This is a discography of UK pop group Bucks Fizz.The group, formed in 1981, reached number one three times in the UK and scored 20 chart hits there. Their biggest selling single in the UK is "The Land of Make Believe", while worldwide it is "Making Your Mind Up" at 4 million copies sold. The group's first week... |
Q2602282 Clathrina chrysea is a species of calcareous sponge from New Caledonia. The species epithet refers to the light yellow colour of the sponge. |
Q5816655 Nezamabad (Persian: نظام اباد, also Romanized as Nez̧āmābād) is a village in Khesht Rural District, Khesht District, Kazerun County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 291, in 63 families. |
Q16882435 Mực rang muối (English: salt toasted squid) is a dish in Vietnamese cuisine. |
Q23540962 Daniel During (6 October 1931 – 29 April 2015) was a South African cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Border between 1952 and 1960. |
Q25205951 Kalka (Urdu: کالکا) is a 1989 Pakistani action film, directed by Shahid Rana and produced by Ahad Malik. Editor: Mohammed Ashiq Ali The film stars actors Anjuman, Sultan Rahi and Afzaal Ahmad.Kalka completed 127 weeks at Capitol cinema lahore, 79 weeks at Gulistan cinema lahore and 56 weeks at Mubarak cinema... |
Q2174423 Rudolph Grey is a musician and writer.As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars, under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans. His music draws on no wave and free jazz.Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstas... |
Q6576734 Birds-foot trefoils (Lotus species) are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including:Monophagous species which feed exclusively on LotusColeophora case-bearers:C. discordellaC. oriolella (feeds exclusively on L. rectus)C. squamella (feeds exclusively on L. cytisoides)Lycaeides idas l... |
Q3954918 "Selling Jesus" is a song by Skunk Anansie, released as their debut single. Although Skunk Anansie previously released "Little Baby Swastikkka" as a limited release, it was not regarded as an actual single. "Selling Jesus" is a song in protest of religion and politics, and in particular Christianity. The singl... |
Q7378644 Ar-Rūh al-Ma'ānī fī Tafsīri-l-Qur'āni-l-'Aẓīm wa Sab'u-l-Mathānī (Arabic: روح المعاني في تفسير القرآن العظيم والسبع المثاني) is a 30-volume tafsir of the Qur'an, authored by the 19th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar Mahmud al-Alusi. |
Q2091060 Kywong is a rural locality in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The locality is situated on the Sturt Highway, 520 kilometres south west of the state capital, Sydney and 64 kilometres west of Wagga Wagga.Kywong was the terminus of a branch line of the Main Southern railway line, opened in 192... |
Q6147272 Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Backstreet Boys, Chris Cornell, My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Bowling For Soup, Eric Prydz and Pet Shop Boys. He has often worked with producer Trevor Horn including for ... |
Q8023741 Wincham Park is a football stadium in Wincham, a parish on the edge of Northwich, England. The home ground of Witton Albion, it first opened in 1989, after the club left their former Central Ground. Capacity is 2,300, with 600 covered seats on the north side of the stadium. The other three sides of the ground ... |
Q7630940 Subclub (formerly also known as U.Club and Účko) is an underground music club in Bratislava, Slovakia. It's located in one of the many emergency military storage bunkers and tunnels stretching under the Bratislava castle. The club is known for hosting alternative and electronic music nights, such as the well-k... |
Q7235841 Poverty Valley Aerodrome, (TC LID: CPV9), is a small aerodrome located near Poverty Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. This location is near Saskatchewan Highway 612 south of Neidpath, Saskatchewan. McMahon is to the west, and Hodgeville to the east. Swift Current is the nearest large center to the north west on th... |
Q4907270 Bijoy Nath was an Indian cricketer who played for Tripura. |
Q6877113 The Miss Mundo Dominicana 2006 pageant was held on July 10, 2006. Only 16 candidates competed for the national crown. The chosen winner represented the Dominican Republic at the Miss World 2006. The runners-up could enter different small international pageants. |
Q3011065 William Douglas "D. J." Mitchell Jr. (born May 13, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees in 2012. Before embarking on his professional career, he played college baseball at Clemson University. |
Q8006441 William Cage (28 March 1666 – 21 January 1738) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1702 to 1705 and in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1710 to 1715.Cage was the son of William Cage, lawyer of Hollingbourne, Kent and his wife Cicely Culpeper, daughter of Sir... |
Q4728081 The 1982 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Buffers Alley from Wexford, who defeated Athenry from Galway in the final, played at Birr. It was the second in a record sequence of four in a row won by the club. |
Q4857923 Bar Derazy (Persian: باردرازئ, also Romanized as Bār Derāzy) is a village in Dar Agah Rural District, in the Central District of Hajjiabad County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 19, in 6 families. |
Q13538807 The fourth season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC, premiered on October 13, 2013, and concluded on March 30, 2014, consisting of 16 episodes. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkm... |
Q18127612 Machilipatnam mandal is one of the 50 mandals in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is under the administration of Machilipatnam revenue division and the headquarters are located at Machilipatnam town. The mandal is bounded by Bantumilli, Pedana, Gudur, Ghantasala, Challapalli and Kodu... |
Q19560054 Joseph M. Beck was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from January 1, 1868 to December 31, 1891, appointed from Lee County, Iowa. |
Q20806598 The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 17 and 19 July. |
Q28172370 The Consulate General of the United States is a diplomatic mission of the United States in Peshawar, Pakistan. It operates under the U.S. embassy in Islamabad and serves U.S. consular interests in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region. The current consul-general is William Martin, appointed in 2012. |
Q2667861 Lalleshwari (1320–1392), locally known mostly as Lal Ded, was a Kashmiri mystic of the Kashmir Shaivism school of philosophy in the Indian subcontinent. She was the creator of the style of mystic poetry called vatsun or Vakhs, literally "speech" (Voice). Known as Lal Vakhs, her verses are the earliest composi... |
Q705373 The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by China in the waters surrounding Taiwan including the Taiwan Strait from 21 July 1995 to 23 March 1996. The first set of missiles fired in mid-... |
Q4807053 AskMoses.com is a website for people with questions about or related to Judaism or who have a moral dilemma they wish to solve through Judaism. It offers live chatting and a database of questions that have been asked. The advice is given from a strictly religious point of view, as the website's goal is to educ... |
Q7956780 WVCR-FM (88.3 The Saint) is a variety hits radio station owned by, and primarily staffed by students from, Siena College, located in Loudonville, New York. The station broadcasts on 88.3fm at a 35,000 Watts from the Heldeberg Mountains in the Town of New Scotland. In addition to simulcast programming at www.w... |
Q16849215 The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin unites the Department of Geological Sciences with two research units, the Institute for Geophysics and the Bureau of Economic Geology.The Jackson School is both old and new. It traces its origins to a Department of Geology founded in 1888 ... |
Q4985402 Buena Park is a train station at 8400 Lakeknoll Drive in northeastern Buena Park, California, United States, served by Metrolink commuter rail. It is at the center of a transit-oriented development including townhomes and a housing complex owned by the California State University, Fullerton, near the corner of... |
Q5103999 Choi Yun-Kyum is a South Korean football manager most recently at K League 2 side Busan IPark. He played in the K-League for Yukong Elephants from 1985 to 1992. After he retired, he moved into coaching, firstly as an assistant coach before moving in a head coach position. His second son, Choi Min-ho, is curren... |
Q3397612 Joel Cohen is an American film writer who has worked on such projects as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story, Money Talks and Garfield: The Movie. He frequently works with Alec Sokolow.Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Sokolow, Cohen was nominated in 1995... |
Q1863006 Squash has been part of the World Games since 1997 and has been held at every edition since except in 2001. |
Q5592157 Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that: "the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a subsequent prosecution if, to establish an essential element of an offense charged in that prosecution, the government will prove conduct that constitutes an offense for which the d... |
Q4947126 Boscacci is an Italian surname.Graziano Boscacci (b. 1969), Italian ski mountaineerMichele Boscacci (b. 1990), Italian ski mountaineer, son of Graziano Boscacci |
Q4663357 Abandon All Ships is the first release by Canadian metalcore band, Abandon All Ships. Recorded and produced in Toronto, Canada, that release on July 15, 2009, officially in Canada, on July 20 in US. |
Q7116995 People's Education Society University, Electronic City Campus or PES University, EC Campus (formerly P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore South Campus / PESIT, South and PES School of Engineering / PESSE) is a private co-educational engineering college on Hosur Road, Near Electronic City, Bangalore, Indi... |
Q2862218 Armentia is one of the villages associated with Vitoria-Gasteiz. Its name comes from the Latin word armentum, which translated into English means "intensive farming". The village is well known for its 161ha park created in the 1998. |
Q14525331 The 2013 Oregon Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Portland, Oregon, United States, on July 15–21, 2013. |
Q16249387 Closer than a Brother is a silent short animated film created by Fables Studios. It is among the early cartoons of the Aesop's Fables series created when its originator Paul Terry was still involved. |
Q19839660 1845 Naval Air Squadron (1845 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. |
Q27662281 "Atlas, Rise!" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica and the third single from their tenth studio album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. The song was released on October 31, 2016. The song was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. |
Q9057470 Wang Ou (Chinese: 王鸥; pinyin: Wáng Ōu, born 28 October 1982), also known as Angel Wang, is a Chinese actress and model. |
Q42907405 Martin Shanahan (born 1973) is an Irish businessman and public servant. As of 2019, he is CEO of IDA Ireland, the Irish State agency responsible for attracting inward foreign direct investment to Ireland, a role he has held since 2014. |
Q693035 Pontoon Beach is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,836 at the 2010 census. |
Q9505308 A bonfire is a large but controlled outdoor fire, used either for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration. |
Q324981 Francis Cabrel (born 23 November 1953 in Agen) is a French singer-songwriter-composer and guitarist. He has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'Encre de Tes Yeux," "Petite Marie," "Je l'Aime à Mourir"... |
Q5454461 The fish drum (simplified Chinese: 鱼鼓; traditional Chinese: 魚鼓; pinyin: yugu) is a Chinese percussion instrument. The name actually designates two rather different instruments, a membranophone and an idiophone. |
Q272722 Çayırlı is a town and district of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It covers an area of 1,480 km² and the elevation is 1,520 m. The district has a total population of 10,261 of which 5,447 live in the town of Çayırlı. The mayor is Atınç Bahadır (AKP). |
Q7806840 Timothy Arthur Newsome (born May 17, 1958) is a former American football fullback in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Winston-Salem State University. |
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