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Q3430954 Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American actor and television announcer. In movies he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen, and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds. He is perhaps best known to movie fans as "Inspector Farraday" in the Boston Black... |
Q7883583 The Underfall Yard is a historic boatyard on Spike Island serving Bristol Harbour, the harbour in the city of Bristol, England.Underfall Yard was commonly referred to as "The Underfalls" and takes its name from the underfall sluices. The original construction was completed in 1809 under the direction of Willia... |
Q3143120 RPA-interacting protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RPAIN gene. |
Q7700401 Tennis was part of the 2007 All-Africa Games competition schedule. |
Q3990580 Thomas Baskerville (1812–1840?) was an English botanical writer.Baskerville was born on 26 April 1812, and served a four-year apprenticeship to Mr. Soulby. From 1 December 1829 to 9 April 1834, he attended lectures on anatomy under Jones Quain, dissection under Richard Quain, and surgery under Samuel Cooper. I... |
Q6288037 Joseph Wladislas Edmond Potocki de Montalk (14 February 1836–6 September 1901) was a New Zealand language teacher and storekeeper . He was born in Paris, France on 14 February 1836. |
Q7660726 Sylvanus Mulford House, also known as John Lyons House, is a historic home located at Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1818, and is a two-story, frame Saltbox style dwelling on a stone foundation, measuring 40 feet by 47 feet. It features a full-width front porch supported by four l... |
Q207459 Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (September 23 [O.S. September 11] 1883 – August 25, 1936), born Hirsch Apfelbaum, known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.Zinoviev was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in ... |
Q17064765 White Boy is the sixth studio album from American musician/singer/songwriter Dan Hartman. It was recorded during 1985 and 1986 but remains unreleased. |
Q14808362 Plistonax albolinitus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1861. |
Q18344212 The 1972 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1972 college football season. Home games were played in Eugene at Autzen Stadium.Led by first-year head coach Dick Enright, the Ducks were 4–7 overall and 2–5 in the Pacific-8 Conference. Tied for sixth place in the Pac-8,... |
Q3980109 Hard Bounty is a 1995 American Western film. |
Q29160503 Bukhansan Ui Station is a station on the Ui LRT located in Ui-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. It opened on the 2 September 2017. The tracks continue through the station to the Train Depot. The station is located next to the Ui LRT Control centre. |
Q280832 Romania is a fast developing, upper middle income mixed economy with a very high Human Development Index and a skilled labour force, ranked 15th in the European Union by total nominal GDP and 10th largest when adjusted by purchasing power parity.The Romanian economy ranks 40th in the world, with a $516.5 billio... |
Q3006661 Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn, (3 April 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British lawyer, judge and radical Liberal politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1905 and 1912. |
Q673533 The Fiat Idea is a five-door, five passenger, front-engine, front-wheel drive, high-roof mini MPV (compact minivan) manufactured and marketed by Fiat (FCA) for model years 2003-2012 — over a single generation with one intermediate facelift. Internally designated the Type 350, the Idea was FCA's first entry in t... |
Q7314495 Republic of Loose were an Irish funk rock band from Dublin. Formed in 2001, the band formerly consisted of lead vocalist Mick Pyro, bass guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Loose, keyboardist Darragh, guitarists and vocalists Dave Pyro and Darach O' Laoire and drummer and percussionist Coz Noelen. Additional perc... |
Q2668932 Haryana, with 22 districts, is a state in the northern region of India and is the nation's eighteenth most populous. The state borders with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north and Rajasthan to the west and south. The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Haryana also ... |
Q3024981 Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou is the first full-length album by the band Les Georges Leningrad. It was originally released in 2002 on the band's own Les Records Coco Cognac label. In 2003, Blow The Fuse Records reissued the album. Upon signing with Alien8 Recordings in 2004, the band re-reissued the album on May... |
Q5280840 Dirk Käsebier (born September 16, 1966) is a German boxer. He competended for the SC Dynamo Berlin. |
Q244704 Le Grand-Abergement is a former commune in the Ain department in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Haut-Valromey. |
Q7928291 Viengthong is a district (muang) of Houaphanh Province in northeastern Laos. It is the gateway to the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area (NPA), which is home to a number of endangered species including tigers. The park headquarters are in the town. |
Q16991826 Ernie Sings & Glen Picks is an album by singer Tennessee Ernie Ford and singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music). |
Q7963897 Walter Daniel Buland (February 7, 1892 – May 26, 1937) was a professional football player in the early National Football League. He played in the NFL for the Rock Island Independents, Green Bay Packers and Duluth Eskimos. He also played for the Minneapolis Marines prior to their entry into the NFL. Buland also... |
Q643715 The Islas Marías ("Mary Islands") are an archipelago of four islands that belong to Mexico. They are located in the Pacific Ocean, some 100 km (62 mi) off the coast of the state of Nayarit and about 370 km (230 mi) southeast of the tip of Baja California. They are part of the municipality (municipio) of San Bla... |
Q5517814 Galactik Fiestamatik is the second studio album of Filipino singer, Rico Blanco. It was released on July 10, 2012, and was also his last release with Warner Music Philippines. |
Q18062013 Proactivator polypeptide-like 1 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the PSAPL1 gene. It is a member of the saposin family of proteins. |
Q10389068 Vanessa Gerbelli Ceroni (born August 6, 1973 in São Bernardo do Campo) is a Brazilian actress. |
Q25095777 Kill The Lights is the second studio album by Lowercase, which was released on July 8, 1997 through Amphetamine Reptile Records. |
Q25025385 Luco is an unincorporated community in the town of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. |
Q30594309 The 2017 Roscommon Senior Football Championship is the 117th edition of Roscommon GAA's premier Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Roscommon, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner representing Roscommon in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship.The cha... |
Q14276006 Stratiomys melastoma is a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae. |
Q391316 Porto Torres (Sassarese: Posthudorra, Sardinian: Pòrtu Turre) is a comune and city in the Province of Sassari, northern Sardinia, Italy.It is situated on the north-west coast about 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of the Gorditanian promontory (Capo del Falcone), and on the spacious bay of the Gulf of Asinara. |
Q2019987 Minnewaukan is a city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. It serves as the county seat and is fourth largest city in the county, after Fort Totten, Leeds, and Maddock. The population was 224 at the 2010 census. Minnewaukan was founded in 1884. |
Q1195380 Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) was an American professor of sociology at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, a former student of Schwartz. He was portrayed by Jack Lemmon in the 1999 tel... |
Q4914642 BioPHP is a collection of open-source PHP code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, and other bioinformatics tools. BioRuby is released under the GNU GPL version 2 licence and is one of a number of Bio* projects, designed to reduce code duplication. As an open sourc... |
Q6266487 John Louis "Johnny" Clement (October 31, 1919 - December 11, 1969) was an American football player. As of 2008, he is the only Pittsburgh Steelers player to wear 0. He was also an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. |
Q5544379 George Scott Wallace (9 August 1929 – 15 October 2011) was a British Columbia physician and politician.Wallace was born in Leven, Fife, Scotland, and attended the Edinburgh University Medical School from 1947 to 1952. Wallace came to Canada in 1957 and opened a general practice in Victoria in 1961. He served a... |
Q3128212 Hacène Lalmas (12 March 1943 – 7 July 2018) was an Algerian footballer. He played as a midfielder and was nicknamed El Kebch (The Ram). |
Q4171993 Alex Davies (born 27 July 1987) is a former professional snooker player from Holland-on-Sea in Essex. He is the youngest person ever to win the English Amateur Championship, in 2003. Davies began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2003, at the time the second-level professional tour. Davies w... |
Q1008366 Garth Joy (born August 3, 1968, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario) is a retired minor hockey player and a current scout. He is currently a scout for the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team. He has scouted for the team since 1998. |
Q3374233 Ole Clausen Mørch (2 August 1774 – 4 July 1829) was a Norwegian merchant and banker. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.He was born in Christianssand in Vest-Agder, Norway. He was the son of a merchant, Claus Mørch. After his father's death in 1797, he inhe... |
Q3257861 Logan Stephenson (born February 19, 1986) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays in Japan for the Tohoku Free Blades of the Asian League. He was originally drafted 35th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes. He is the son of Bob Stephenson and the younger brot... |
Q15222050 Grasbury's Island is an island of Bermuda. |
Q4671692 Acalypha psilostachya is a species in the botanical family Euphorbiaceae. In East Africa it is used as a medicinal plant. |
Q11009418 Carsten Tank-Nielsen (16 September 1877 – 2 August 1957) was a Norwegian naval officer, submarine pioneer and rear admiral. He was born in Horten, and was the grandson of Carsten Tank Nielsen. He was chief of the Norwegian Navy's first submarine Kobben from 1909 to 1913. He was decorated Knight, First Class o... |
Q15649841 Dhumal (29 March 1914 – 13 February 1987) was an actor in Bollywood films known for playing character roles. He acted in many movies and was active from the mid 1940s till the late 1980s. He started his acting career from Marathi theatre, which paved way for Marathi cinema and later he moved to Hindi cinema, ... |
Q2750492 The 1907 Paris–Roubaix was the 12th edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 31 March 1907 and stretched 270 km (168 mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Georges Passerieu from France. |
Q21277783 Listronotus bonariensis is a species of weevil that is native to South America and is commonly known as the Argentine stem weevil. It is a pest of grasses and cereals, with the larvae being more destructive than the adult insects. It has spread to Australia and New Zealand, where it is regarded as a pest spec... |
Q24075534 Immortal Bird is an American blackened death metal band from Chicago, Illinois. Their music is influenced by grindcore, progressive metal, and post-metal. The band was formed in 2013 with the intention of being a recording project, but has evolved into an actively touring and collaborative group. |
Q28136272 The Gökyay Association Chess Museum is located in Altındağ, Ankara, Turkey and displayed in a historical home. The museum has the largest chess set collection in the world with 570 chess sets collected from 103 countries exhibited under four main themes in a 1,008 square metre area. There are a variety ches... |
Q18397160 Nicholas 'Nicky' Jarvis is a male former international table tennis player from England. |
Q189004 A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education or a secondary school.In the United States, "college" may refer... |
Q1382696 John of Seville (Latin: Johannes Hispalensis or Johannes Hispaniensis) was the main translator from Arabic into Castilian together with Dominicus Gundissalinus during the early days of the Toledo School of Translators. His work is said to have flourished between 1135 and 1153.He was a baptized Jew, whose Jewi... |
Q2523966 Deen J. Castronovo (born August 17, 1964) is an American drummer and singer, best known for being a member of hard rock and metal acts Journey, Bad English, Revolution Saints, and The Dead Daisies. He also has been a touring and studio member for Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Vai, Paul Rodgers, Black Sabbath bassist Ge... |
Q931917 James Henry Van Alen II (September 19, 1902 – July 3, 1991) was an American tennis official. He is best known for being the founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the largest tennis museum in the world. A poet, musician, publisher, civic leader and raconteur, Jimmy Van Alen achieved his greatest ren... |
Q5271380 Diandra Newlin (born March 4, 1991) is an American actress, singer, and fashion model. |
Q6410728 KinetX, Inc. is a privately held Tempe, Arizona based engineering, technology, software development and business consulting firm specializing in aerospace systems. KinetX's main area of expertise is in the areas of satellite systems engineering, ground system software development and space systems operations.T... |
Q5307273 Drew Rokos is an Australian comedian who won both the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival's So You Think You're Funny competition. |
Q3567488 The Western Climate Initiative, or WCI, was started in February 2007 by the governors of five western U.S. states (Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington) with the goal of developing a multi-sector, market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
Q2638730 John C. Hein (January 27, 1886 – August 29, 1963) was an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.In 1904 he won a silver medal in light flyweight category. |
Q152600 4057 Demophon, provisional designation 1985 TQ, is a larger Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 46 kilometers (29 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 15 October 1985 by American astronomer Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. The dark J... |
Q6956952 Nabis pallidus is a species of damsel bug in the family Nabidae. |
Q4694662 Agustín Víctor Casasola (1874–1928), others cite: (July 28, 1874 – March 30, 1938) was a Mexican photographer and partial founder of the Mexican Association of Press Photographers.Casasola began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial, eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in... |
Q3996171 In 1955 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. The Lions drew the test series against South Africa, each team winning two of the four matches. They won the first test by a single point and the third by three points and lost the second and fourth matches by wider margins. As well... |
Q6603118 This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to the University of Ljubljana. |
Q7286266 Rajko Dodic (born May 13, 1952) is a Canadian politician, who was elected the 25th mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta in the 2010 municipal election. Prior to his election to the mayoralty, Dodic served two terms on Lethbridge City Council.Dodic was born in Slovenia and immigrated to Lethbridge with his parents in c... |
Q16973447 The Demi-Virgin is a three-act play written by Avery Hopwood. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it was a hit during the 1921–22 season. The play is a bedroom farce about former couple Gloria Graham and Wally Deane, both movie actors, whose marriage was so brief that the press speculated ab... |
Q17080721 The Padmavat Express is a mail express train on the Indian Railway in northern railways. The main towns along the route are Delhi, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Shahjehanpur, Hardoi, Lucknow, Bachhrawan, Rae Bareli, Jais, Gauriganj, Amethi, Partapgarh. It operates Daily and covers a distance ... |
Q19258785 Docofossor is an extinct mammaliaform (a docodont) from the Jurassic period. Its remains have been recovered in China from 160 million years old rocks. It appears to have been the earliest-known subterranean mammaliaform, with adaptations remarkably similar to the modern Chrysochloridae, the golden moles. |
Q20709404 During the 1996–97 English football season, Bury F.C. competed in the Football League Second Division. |
Q20745460 Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back (Danish: Interiør med ung kvinde set fra ryggen) is an oil-on-canvas painting from c. 1903–04 by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi. It is now held in the Randers Museum of Art. It uses the muted grey-blue palette, uncluttered composition and detailed attention t... |
Q631187 Draper is a town in Jones County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 82 at the 2010 census.Draper was laid out in 1906, and named in honor of C. A. Draper, a railroad official. |
Q265143 Tok Tok Tok was a German acoustic soul band, active between 1998 and 2013. |
Q5157443 Computer Hope is a free online computer help site. Its free services include a database of extensive computer-related information. The organisation offers free technical support for any computer-related question and includes computer product information, online help forums, computer product buying tips, third-... |
Q5420475 exo-Norborneol is an alcohol containing the norbornane skeleton. Commercially available, this compound may be prepared by the reaction of norbornene with formic acid, followed by hydrolysis of the resultant exo-norbornyl formate. |
Q68357 Rustamhodza "Rustam" Rahimov (born February 16, 1975 in Dushanbe) is a German boxer of Tajikistanii origin. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics |
Q6418709 Kiuchi Jūshirō (木内 重四郎, 26 January 1866 – 9 January 1925) was a Japanese politician. He was educated at Chiba Middle School and Chiba First High School, and later graduated from Imperial Tokyo University's Department of Political Science. In 1906, while serving as a Japanese representative in Korea, Kiuchi mad... |
Q7264945 The Păuleasca River is a tributary of the Miceşti River in Romania. |
Q117259 Arent Passer (c. 1560 – 1637) was a stonemason and architect of Dutch origin. He was born in The Hague and worked in Tallinn from 1589 until his death. Arent Passer is buried in St. Olaf's church in Tallinn.Best known artwork by Arent Passer is the tomb chest of the Swedish Commander-in Chief Pontus De La Gardi... |
Q4251702 Sarawak Malay (Standard Malay: Bahasa Melayu Sarawak or Bahasa Sarawak, Jawi: بهاس ملايو سراوق, Sarawak Malay: Kelakar Sarawak) is a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak. It is a common language used by natives of Sarawak. This variant is related to Bruneian Malay, spoken in the districts of Limbang... |
Q5316871 Dushanbe Zoo or Dushanbe Zoological Park was founded in 1960 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The zoo is located in the center of the city on the Luchob river bank (on Ismoili Somoni Avenue), next to the Pamir Stadium, and measures roughly twice the size of the stadium. |
Q5767793 Hip-Hop Docktrine 3: The Final Chapter is the third and final album of hip-hop songs of The Boondocks and part of the Series songs. |
Q6137533 James L. Crane was an American football coach. He served as the sixth head football coach at Vanderbilt University. Crane coached the Vanderbilt Commodores for two seasons from 1899 to 1900, compiling a record of 11–6–1. |
Q2712863 The long-tailed threadsnake (Myriopholis longicauda) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. It is endemic to Africa. |
Q10512010 Terence William Brisley (born 4 July 1950) is a former English footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League. |
Q3611218 Alfonso Morales (born May 19, 1937) is an American fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Q7564628 SoundSpel is an English-language spelling reform proposal. Its origins date back to 1910.SoundSpel has been endorsed by the American Literacy Council because English speakers can easily read it. |
Q7774610 The Whitfield Prize (or Whitfield Book Prize) is a prize of £1000 awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society to the best work on a subject of British or Irish history published within the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland during the calendar year. To be eligible for the award, the book must be the fi... |
Q174157 Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (Orthez, 7 March 1847 – Paris, 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor Jacques Reclus and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and Armand Reclus.He is known for his research of local anesthetics, parti... |
Q19560130 Avery Bourne is a Republican member Illinois House of Representatives representing the 95th district. She was sworn into office on February 20, 2015. She was the youngest legislator to be sworn into the Illinois General Assembly, breaking the record set by John McCandish King in 1950. Bourne was appointed by ... |
Q18104312 Cylapus is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are about 12 described species in Cylapus. |
Q2070782 The Perhentian Islands (Malay: Kepulauan Perhentian) are islands in Besut District, Terengganu, Malaysia.The two main islands are Perhentian Besar ("Greater Perhentian") and Perhentian Kecil ("Lesser Perhentian"). The small, uninhabited islands of Susu Dara (Virgin Milk), Serengeh and Rawa lie off Kecil.Like ... |
Q7716889 The Best of Benny Hill is a 1974 film version of material from the television comedy series The Benny Hill Show. This movie features sketches from the early Thames Television years from 1969-1973. All of the sketches in the film are from the episodes produced and directed by John Robins.Some Sketches include:Y... |
Q5395582 Errol Girdlestone (born 1945) is a British music conductor.He lives in the south of France, and works from there as a freelance conductor. His local base is as Music Director of Syrinx Concerts in Vence, an organisation with a professional orchestra and two choirs - one amateur, one professional.He read Music ... |
Q7741454 The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (French: L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'imagination), also published under the title The Psychology of the Imagination, is a 1940 book by Jean-Paul Sartre, in which he propounds his concept of the imagination and discusses what th... |
Q2642520 Pieter "Peter" Windt (born May 3, 1973 in Veendam) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 69 international matches for the Netherlands, in which he didn't score a single goal. The defender and midfielder made his debut for the Dutch on January 21, 1997 in a match against Argentina. He was a member o... |
Q5296562 Donne Trotter (born January 30, 1950) was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing 16th district from 1993 to 2003 and the 17th district from 2003 to 2018. Previously, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1988 through 1993.On January 19, 2018, Trotter announced his reti... |
Q2118134 Gmina Wisznice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Wisznice, which lies approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) south of Biała Podlaska and 75 km (47 mi) north-east of the regional capital Lublin.The gmina covers an ... |
Q3701027 Dale Anthony Rudge (born 9 September 1963) is an English former professional footballer. Playing as a midfielder, he represented his hometown club Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1980s before moving on to Preston North End, Norwegian club Djerv 1919, and Hednesford Town.Rudge, a Wolves apprentice, made his leag... |
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