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Q5918914 Howard & Wyndham Ltd was a theatre owning, production and management company of John B. Howard and Frederick W. P. Wyndham, founded in Glasgow in 1895, and which became the largest of its type in Britain. The company continued well into the 20th century; its theatres being eventually sold in the 1960s, and the... |
Q6945113 My Brother Cicero is a 1998 comedy short film written by Louis Mandylor and Tony Nittoli starring Louis Mandylor, Costas Mandylor and Tony Nittoli. Filmed in Hollywood, it garnered two independent film awards and generated mostly positive reviews from critics. |
Q5634388 HMS Spartan was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched at Rochester in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars she was active in the Adriatic and in the Ionian Islands. She then moved to the American coast during the War of 1812, where she captured a number of small vessels, including a US Revenue Cutter an... |
Q8030771 Woman with Birthmark (Kvinna med födelsemärke) is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year. The English translation was published in 2009.It was also made into a Swedish mini-series for TV in 2001. |
Q7566723 South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc., 476 U.S. 498 (1986), is an important U.S. Supreme Court precedent for aboriginal title in the United States decided in the wake of County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State (Oneida II) (1985). Distinguishing Oneida II, the Court held that federal ... |
Q5249250 Decisions is an album by the George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet recorded in 1984 for the Dutch Timeless label. |
Q6219939 John B. Frank (born 1956) is the Vice Chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, having previously served as Managing Principal. |
Q1033871 The women's mass start in the 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over four races on four occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 16–18 November 2012, and the final occasion also taking place in Heer... |
Q4271972 Hahnia pusio, is a species of spider of the genus Hahnia. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. |
Q27916458 M. M. Mani (born 12 December 1944) is a CPI(M) leader and the current electricity minister of Kerala. He was born in Kidangoor, Travancore (present in Kottayam district) on December 12, 1944.[1] He is the Minister for Electricity in Pinarayi Vijayan Ministry in Kerala. He is elected as MLA from Udumbanchola,... |
Q5758560 The St. Bernard Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de San Bernardo) Also San Bernardo Cathedral Is the main Catholic temple and seat of the Bishopric of San Bernardo, located to one side of the Plaza de Armas de San Bernardo, in the metropolitan area of Santiago in Chile.The original cathedral was built in 1820 as t... |
Q10583481 Metylophorus novaescotiae is a species of common barklouse in the family Psocidae. It is found in Central America and North America. |
Q6798399 Maze Hill railway station, in the Maze Hill area of Greenwich, London, is the closest station to Greenwich Park, being about two minutes walk from the north-east corner of the park. It is 4 miles 38 chains (7.2 km) down the line from London Bridge. |
Q1591161 The olive-backed oriole (Oriolus sagittatus), or white-bellied oriole, is a very common medium-sized passerine bird native to northern and eastern Australia and south-central New Guinea. The most wide-ranging of the Australasian orioles, it is noisy and conspicuous. |
Q5157629 Computing is a fortnightly magazine published by Incisive Media for IT managers and professionals in the United Kingdom. As of December 2006, Computing's circulation was verified by BPA Worldwide as 115,431. |
Q5494846 Frederick Cline (born May 11, 1961, in Palo Alto, California) is a production designer, art director, writer and storyboard artist. Cline is a lecturer at Chapman University. He graduated from Monterey Bay Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school. Cline graduated from Pacific Union College with a degr... |
Q2075682 Ugrashravas (Sanskrit: उग्रश्रवस, also Ugrasravas, Sauti, Suta, Sri Suta, Suta Goswami) was the narrator of several Puranas, including Mahābhārata, Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa, and Padma Purana, with the narrations typically taking place before the sages gathered in Naimisha Forest. He was the son of Lomaharsh... |
Q151195 Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former Nazi estate placed at the former military training area in Eifel National Park in North Rhine-Westphalia. The landmarked and completely preserved estate was used by the National Socialists between 1936 and 1939 as an educational centre for future leaders. Since 1 January 2006 th... |
Q4608368 The 2007 Epsom Derby was a horse race which took place at Epsom Downs on Saturday 2 June 2007. It was the 228th running of the Derby, and it was won by the pre-race favourite Authorized. The winner was ridden by Frankie Dettori and trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam. The race was notable for the fact that eight of ... |
Q1082200 Knipolegus is a genus of birds, the black tyrants, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.The genus was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the blue-billed black tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" an... |
Q968889 The black fantail (Rhipidura atra) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. |
Q5113623 Christopher Burke is an independent Dublin City Councillor and former Lord Mayor of Dublin.Burke sided with the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the 1970 split in Sinn Féin and the IRA. He served two terms in Portlaoise Prison on IRA membership charges in the 1970s.In the early 1980s he became involved in ... |
Q3467972 The 2010 San Diego Padres season was the 42nd season in franchise history. On August 25, the Padres had a 6.5-game lead over the second-place San Francisco Giants, but ended up missing the playoffs as the Giants passed them in September. As of the close of the 2018 season, this was the last winning season for ... |
Q4738189 Alvin "Al" Ott (born June 19, 1949) is a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Forest Junction. He represented the 3rd Assembly District from 1986 to 2017. He serves as a member of Committee on Public Safety, Committee on Agriculture, and Committee on Transportation. |
Q4682192 Adenanthos cacomorphus is a small shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is found in South West Western Australia. |
Q10950522 Salvia liguliloba is an annual herb that is native to Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. It grows on hillside forests at 800 m (2,600 ft) elevation. S. liguliloba grows on purple-green erect stems to a height of 30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 in), occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2-12 flowered widely spaced... |
Q7043340 The Second Spring or Second-best Spring under Heaven (Chinese: 天下第二泉, Tiānxià Dìèr Quán) is the name of a spring in Xihui Park at the foot of Mount Hui. The park is located in western Wuxi in eastern China's Jiangsu province. |
Q4047455 Propodilobus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It contains the single species Propodilobus pingorum, known only from two localities on Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia. |
Q18121941 Nigar Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: نکار خاتون; died February 1503) was the consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire. |
Q1906274 Mary Hardwick (8 September 1913 – 18 December 2001) was an English female tennis player who was active during the 1930s and the 1940s.She was born in London and attended Putney High School and also received education in Paris. She decided to become a tennis player after seeing Henri Cochet play at Wimbledon.Be... |
Q1488010 The 1985–86 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 46th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition. |
Q42820085 Anna Ebaju Adeke (born 27 November 1991) is a Ugandan lawyer and politician. She is a Member of Parliament representing the National Female Youth Constituency in the 10th parliament. |
Q191186 Carabobo State (Spanish: Estado Carabobo, IPA: [esˈtaðo kaɾaˈβoβo]) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, located in the north of the country, about two hours by car from Caracas. The capital city of this state is Valencia, which is also the country's main industrial center. The state's area is 4,369 km2 and as... |
Q364303 Peter Eric James Prentice (July 20, 1956 – October 13, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th Premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2006 fed... |
Q1582736 Souvlaki is the second studio album by the English rock band Slowdive. Recorded in 1992, it was released in the United Kingdom on 17 May 1993 by record label Creation, then on 8 February 1994 in the United States.The album peaked at number 51 on the UK Albums Chart, and, despite an initial mixed reception from... |
Q214188 The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. According to tradition, the first King of Scots (Middle Scots: King of Scottis, Modern Scots: King o Scots, Scottish Gaelic: Rìgh na h-Alba) was Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín), who founded the state in 843. The distinction between... |
Q3087840 Frigidaire is the US consumer and commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of European parent company Electrolux. Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first self-contained refrigerator (invented by Nathaniel B. Wales and Alfred Mellowes) in 191... |
Q2990879 Compton is a municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. |
Q3186898 The Journal of Avian Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of ornithology published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Alerstam and Jan-Åke Nilsson. The journal was established in 1970 as Ornis Scandinavica and appeared quarterly. It obtain... |
Q7147866 Patrick Wyatt is a game programmer and one of the three co-founders of ArenaNet. He was the leader of the Network and Technology teams and a programmer for Guild Wars. Before the founding of ArenaNet, he was working in Blizzard Entertainment where he was the Vice President of Research and Development and a sen... |
Q6977391 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Miguel County, New Mexico.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provid... |
Q4010626 Via Gemina was the Roman road linking Aquileia and Emona (the modern Ljubljana). It was built in 14 AD by the legio XIII Gemina,. In spite of the name given by its constructors it was said it took its name, the "twin road", from the circumstance that it departed from Aquileia along with the Via Postumia. The r... |
Q2681152 A Cambridge Mass is a choral work in G major by Ralph Vaughan Williams written between 1898-99 as part of his studies in Cambridge for his Doctorate of Music. It is one of two large scale choral works with orchestral accompaniment by Vaughan Williams surviving from this period, the other being a cantata settin... |
Q3900624 Pervomaysky District (Russian: Первома́йский райо́н) was an administrative and municipal district (raion) in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district was 1,227.3 square kilometers (473.9 sq mi). Its administrative center was the town of Pervomaysk. Pop... |
Q163757 Roscoea purpurea is a perennial herbaceous plant occurring in the Himalayas, particularly Nepal. Most members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), to which it belongs, are tropical, but species of Roscoea grow in much colder mountainous regions. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens. |
Q3142529 Fargoa bartschi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
Q7065212 Now's the Time is an album by organist Shirley Scott compiling several tracks recorded between 1958 and 1964 and released on the Prestige label in 1967. |
Q17083731 Tolombeh-ye Doktor Palashi Fariyab (Persian: تلمبه دكترپلاشي فارياب, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Doktor Palāshī Fārīyāb) is a village in Golashkerd Rural District, in the Central District of Faryab County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 4 families. |
Q18129428 Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk (Ukrainian: Жан Венсанович Беленюк; born 24 January 1991) is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler and politician. |
Q21070379 Zvonimir Kvaternik (October 18, 1918 – October 19, 1994) was an American football guard who played one season for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League in 1934. He played college football at the University of Kansas. |
Q27995435 Tungsten is a ghost town in Boulder County, in the U.S. state of Colorado.A post office called Tungsten was established in 1916, and remained in operation until 1950. The community took its name from a nearby tungsten mine. |
Q27818407 Bad Boy Greatest Hits: Volume One is the first compilation album released from the Bad Boy Entertainment label featuring various hits from artists such as Puff Daddy, Mase, Faith Evans, Craig Mack, Total, 112, The LOX, and The Notorious B.I.G. The album also included "Too Young For Me" performed by Bad Boy R... |
Q6843150 Universalism is the philosophical and theological concept that some ideas have universal application or applicability. A community that calls itself universalist may emphasize the universal principles of most religions, and accept others in an inclusive manner. It is centered on the belief in a universal recon... |
Q6750194 Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1932 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.This was the second election in Manitoba where two types of preferential voting was used in all electoral divisions. Winnipeg elected ten members through single transferable b... |
Q8016433 William P. Alford (Chinese name: 安守廉; An Shoulian) (born 1948) is a United States legal scholar. He is currently Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School (Massachusetts, USA). He is Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Har... |
Q2635650 Javier Edgardo Cámpora (born 7 January 1980 in Rosario) is an Argentine Footballer. |
Q4662041 Aaron Glantz (born August 10, 1977) is a Peabody Award-winning radio, print and television journalist who produces public interest stories with impact. His reporting has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, a raft of federal legislation and led to criminal probes by the Drug Enforcement Administra... |
Q7612973 Steven Russell Jordan (born January 10, 1961) is a former American football tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings from 1982 to 1994. He played college football at Brown and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering.Cameron Jordan, his son, currently plays defe... |
Q11828986 Macculloch Glacier is a glacier located in the northeastern coast of the Baffin Mountains on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. |
Q5385013 Erastus Kihara Mureithi is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Party of National Unity and was elected to represent the Ol Kalou Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. |
Q6938129 Murder on the Fourth of July is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery crossover novel, published in 1996. |
Q16238724 Romina D'Ugo is a Toronto-born actress and dancer who was a part of the So You Think You Can Dance Canada Top 20. She has guest-starred in Degrassi: Next Generation, Life with Derek, Hairspray and Nikita.D'Ugo is a graduate from the Sheridan Institute's Musical Theatre - Performance program. At age nine, she ... |
Q6251359 The John Osborne House is a historic house at 909 King's Highway West in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was built in 1734, according to the tax records. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The house is architecturally significant as an early colonial era house whose intact framing ... |
Q22094812 The Colorado College Tigers football team represented Colorado College. The team was discontinued in 2008. It last competed at the NCAA Division III level. |
Q6166149 Walnuttown is a census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is mainly in Richmond Township but also in Maidencreek Township. It is a short distance west of Fleetwood and south of U.S. Route 222. Willow Creek flows west through it into Maiden Creek just east of the latter's mouth in... |
Q16971720 The Division III Women's College World Series (WCWS) is the final portion of the NCAA Division III Softball Championship for college softball teams in Division III.Softball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with t... |
Q16461157 Jalikan (Persian: جليكان) may refer to:Jalikan-e OlyaJalikan-e Sofla |
Q18927958 Hubert Hurkacz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈxubɛrt ˈxurkatʂ]; born 11 February 1997 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish tennis player.Hurkacz reached a career high singles ranking of 41 on 13 May 2019. As a junior Hurkacz reached the final at the boys' doubles Australian Open in 2015. In 2018, he qualified for the Ne... |
Q19663960 Boris Vasilevich Kondrashin (Russian: Борис Васильевич Кондрашин; 16 August 1923 – 7 May 1994) was a Russian and Soviet painter of socialist realism, member of the Union of artists since 1960, member of Union, republican and regional exhibitions. |
Q22095871 Sandra Louise Schmid (born March 7, 1958 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian cell biologist and the Endowed Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology in the Cell Biology department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Chairman of the Department of Cel... |
Q26897029 Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram (born 16 February 1977 in Chennai) is a former professional female tennis player.Jayalakshmy Jayaram has won 4 singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 25 December 2000, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 331. On 18 June 2001, she peaked at w... |
Q10583930 Micrasema rusticum is a species of humpless casemaker caddisfly in the family Brachycentridae. It is found in North America. |
Q16152623 Eurasians in Singapore are persons of mixed European and Asian descent. They form one of the identifiable communities in Singapore. Eurasians have been viewed with mixed fascination and disdain by the European and Asian communities. Their European ancestry traces to emigrants of countries that span the length... |
Q4492818 Richard Barry Freeman (born June 29, 1943) is an economist. The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, part of the L... |
Q7795027 Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. (November 21, 1874 – January 2, 1956) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. |
Q7398330 Saevius Nicanor () is mentioned by Suetonius as the first grammarian who acquired fame and honour as a teacher among the Romans. He probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE.He was the author of commentaries, the greater portion of which was said to have been suppressed (intercepta dicitur), and of a satire... |
Q8074384 Zoran Pešić (born 14 July 1983) is a Serbian rugby league footballer, who currently plays for French club RC Carpentras XIII in the Elite Two Championship. He plays mainly at Hooker. He has represented Serbia many times, he has played at club level for London Skolars, Eastmoor Dragons, Warrington Wizards, Red ... |
Q7959349 The Wadsworth Memorial Handicap is a Thoroughbred race for horses three years old and older of either gender set at a distance of one and one eighth miles on the dirt. Run at Finger Lakes Race Track on the 4th of July each year (the track is 46 years old in 2007), the Wadsworth is an ungraded stakes race off... |
Q1954529 Enrique Iglesias is the eponymous debut studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias, it was released by Fonovisa in November 1995. The album was a success and topped the Latin charts. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards on 26 February 1... |
Q5078579 Charles Horace Holmes (October 24, 1827 – October 2, 1874) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. |
Q4657237 A Handful of Darkness is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Rich Cowan in 1955 and was Dick's first hardcover book.The stories originally appeared in the magazines Galaxy Science Fiction, Astounding Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy ... |
Q5536389 George Arceneaux Jr. (May 17, 1928 – April 6, 1993) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. |
Q4673897 Achrestogrammus is an extinct genus of prehistoric Scorpaeniformes fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch. |
Q5132963 Clifford Heap (14 February 1906 – 1984) was an English professional association footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Burnley, Thames and Accrington Stanley. |
Q5568342 Glendale was a Long Island Rail Road station along the Lower Montauk Branch, located at Edsall Avenue and 73rd Street, near Cooper Avenue, at the All Faiths Monuments factory for the Queens Lutheran Cemetery in Glendale, Queens. This station had two "platforms" which were just strips of pavement besides the tr... |
Q7083666 The Old Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne is an historic Roman Catholic church building located in the Pleasant Plains area of Staten Island in New York City. It is located north of Hylan Boulevard between Page Avenue and Richard Avenue, in the southern part of the island, near the Atlantic Ocean and Tottenvi... |
Q1308932 Chrysolina cinctipennis is a species of leaf beetles in Chrysomelidae family. |
Q15724908 Bhawanipatna (Sl. No.: 80) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kalahandi district, Odisha.This constituency includes Bhawanipatna, Kesinga, 25 Gram panchayats (Madiguda, Chahagaon, Karlapada, Chheliamal, Kalam, Karlaguda, Thuapadar, Dadpur, Deypur, Gudialipadar, Kamthana, Kuliamal, Gand-Barajhola, Medinipur, Se... |
Q14822605 Hyllisia ruficolor is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pic in 1934. |
Q14836741 Colobothea mimetica is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1902 and is known from Colombia. |
Q834403 Schinkelplatz is a square in Berlin, Germany, named after Karl Friedrich Schinkel. |
Q1320081 The Würzburg Cultural Prize (Kulturpreis der Stadt Würzburg) is an award by the city of Würzburg. It is awarded to people who are connected to Würzburg by birth, life or work and who worked towards its cultural life ("... eine durch Geburt, Leben oder Werk mit der Stadt Würzburg verbundene Persönlichkeit (bzw.... |
Q7989559 Westphalia Township is a civil township of Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,365.The village of Westphalia is within the township. |
Q3764846 The Nizam College is a constituent college of Osmania University established in 1887 during the reign of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, in Basheerbagh, Hyderabad, Telangana. |
Q1527057 The round ligament of the uterus originates at the uterine horns, in the parametrium. The round ligament exits the pelvis via the deep inguinal ring, passes through the inguinal canal and continues on to the labia majora where its fibers spread and mix with the tissue of the mons pubis. |
Q4824977 The Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1902–03 played 6 matches including 3 Tests, winning 3 times with 3 draws and no defeats. The opening Test was the first one between the two sides.Australia was captained by Joe Darling. The team was the same one that had toured England in 1902; they made a one-mo... |
Q11972432 Grain Power Station is a CCGT power station and former oil-fired power station in Kent, England, with operational capacity of 1,275 megawatts (1,710,000 hp) owned by Uniper (formerly E.ON UK). |
Q1376092 The European Parliament election of 1984 in West Germany was the election of the delegation from West Germany to the European Parliament in 1984. |
Q7395911 Sabarkantha Lok Sabha constituency (Gujarati: સાબરકાંઠા લોકસભા મતવિસ્તાર)is one of 26 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Gujarat state in western India. |
Q5738545 Osowe [ɔˈsɔvɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Narewka, 24 km (15 mi) north-east of Hajnówka, and 50 km (31 mi) south-e... |
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