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Q7888409 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37, entitled Question of Western Sahara, is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in Western Sahara, which was adopted on 21 November 1979 at the 34th session of the General Assembly. It became the eighteenth United Nations General... |
Q4518138 Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (Александр Иванович Чупров; 1841–1908) was a professor of political economy and statistics at Moscow University whose lectures provided the standard introduction to economics for late 19th-century Russian students.Chuprov's father was an Orthodox priest based in Mosalsk. Alexander a... |
Q7257845 This is a list of holidays in Uganda. |
Q5709748 Abgarm (Persian: ابگرمAzari:isti su, also Romanized as Ābgarm, Āb-e Garm, and Āb Garm; also known as Darmānābād and Īstī Sū) is a village in Kenarporuzh Rural District, in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 598, in 113 families. This v... |
Q31941758 Asa Aldis (April 14, 1770 – October 16, 1847) was a Vermont attorney, politician, and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1815. |
Q12804646 German submarine U-2366 was a Type XXIII U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 20 September 1944, and was laid down on 6 December 1944 at Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg, as yard number 520. She was launched on 17 February 1945 and commissioned under the command of Oberleutn... |
Q28446659 Salsipuedes: a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies is an opera in three acts by Daniel Catán with a Spanish libretto by Eliseo Alberto, Francisco Hinojosa and the composer. The opera was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and premiered on October 29, 2004.Written as a tragicomedy, the work takes place in 194... |
Q932978 Hills is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. Located approximately four miles (6 km) from the South Dakota border and two miles (3 km) from the Iowa border, it is the southwestern-most city in Minnesota. The population was 686 at the 2010 census. |
Q2831220 Albert Guinon (1863-1923) was a French playwright. |
Q3668469 Santi Venanzio e Ansovino was a Roman Catholic church situated near the Capitoline Hill in Rome, in the area now occupied by the Piazza d'Aracoeli. It was dedicated to two saints associated with the city of Camerino: Venantius of Camerino, a martyr; and Ansovinus, bishop of Camerino. The church was also called... |
Q4595590 The 1999–2000 Ottawa Senators season was the eighth season of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). This season saw the Senators drop in the standings, as they finished with 95 points, down from the 103 they registered the previous season. They finished second in the Northeast Division and s... |
Q4119485 Wasā'il al-Shīʿa (Arabic: وسائل الشيعة) is a reputable book of hadith in Shia Islam, compiled in the 17th century by Shaikh al-Hur al-Aamili. Shaikh Al-Hur wrote two editions of this book, ahl al-bayt which is a 30 volume long edition of it, and Al-Islamiyyah which is 20 volumes long. |
Q1241582 Pumiliotoxin 251D is a toxic organic compound. It is found in the skin of poison frogs from the genera Dendrobates, Epipedobates, Minyobates, and Phyllobates and toads from the genus Melanophryniscus. Its name comes from the pumiliotoxin family (PTXs) and its molecular mass of 251 Daltons. When the toxin enter... |
Q4550732 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). |
Q8072497 Zion Chapel, Chester is in Grosvenor Park Road, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.The chapel was built in 1879–80 to a design by John Douglas. It was originally a Baptist chapel. It is built in red brick with stone d... |
Q910711 Sociedad Deportiva Erandio Club is a football club from the Basque Country, from the city of Erandio in Biscay (Spain). Officially founded in 1915 and currently plays in the Honor Division.It is a club that has played twice in the Spanish second division. |
Q7368371 Rosemary P Goodchild (born 1936) is an English former cricketer, who played one Test cricket match for England women's cricket team in 1966. During that match, played against New Zealand, Goodchild opened the bowling alongside June Stephenson in both innings, and collected two wickets. She batted as part of th... |
Q3281609 The Spirit of Apollo is the debut album by N.A.S.A., a hip hop duo consisting of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon. It was released on ANTI- in 2009.The track, "N.A.S.A. Anthem", was featured on the official NASA Glenn Research Center website as "NASA Anthem". |
Q7373543 Roy Zu-Arets (Hebrew: רועי זו-ארץ, born January 22, 1969) is an American-Israeli composer, pianist, music producer, and arranger. |
Q5997797 Ilga Ziegler (* in Mallersdorf) is a German flower designer and florist. |
Q2737278 Dubnica is a village in the municipality of Svilajnac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 607 people. |
Q33450692 Baixa da Banheira e Vale da Amoreira is a civil parish in the municipality of Moita, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Baixa da Banheira and Vale da Amoreira. The population in 2011 was 30,949, in an area of 6.42 km². |
Q7840493 The Tribune Review Publishing Company Building was designed by architect Louis Kahn as the office and printing plant for the Tribune-Review newspaper in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Although not in his usual line of work, Kahn accepted the commission at the request of Wil... |
Q105340 Baron Johann von Berenberg-Gossler (born 13 February 1839 in Hamburg, died 8 December 1913 in Hamburg; né Johann Gossler), known as "John," was a German banker from the city-state of Hamburg and owner and head of Berenberg Bank from 1879 until his death.He was a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler family ... |
Q15079623 Venus Williams was the defending champion, but decided not to participate.Caroline Wozniacki won the title, defeating Annika Beck in the final, 6–2, 6–2. |
Q28007775 William F. Smith House is a historic home located at Grandin, Carter County, Missouri. It was built between 1888 and 1909 by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company. It is a one-story, vernacular frame dwelling with a front porch and weatherboard siding.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Plac... |
Q23902218 Zonia Meigham (born 11 June 1954) is a Guatemalan sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics. |
Q951571 Kessel-Lo (population 26,000) is a town in Belgium. It is a borough of Leuven, situated to the east and north of Leuven proper. Kessel-Lo is bordered by Holsbeek, Lubbeek, and several other municipalities that are part of Leuven (including Leuven proper, Heverlee, and Wijgmaal).Its name is derived from "Kessel"... |
Q7436338 Scott Liam Flinders (born 12 June 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for League Two club Cheltenham Town.Flinders has played for Barnsley, Crystal Palace, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion, Yeovil Town, Blackpool, Falkirk, Hartlepool United, York City and Macclesfield Town. ... |
Q4763183 "Angie Baby" is a popular song that was written by American Alan O'Day, and became a hit for Australian singer Helen Reddy. The song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart at the end of December 1974 and became one of Reddy's biggest-selling singles. The song also topped the U.S. adult contemporary cha... |
Q103759 Cesária Évora, GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨˈzaɾiɐ ˈɛvuɾɐ]; 27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean vocalist and recording artist. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was also known as the "Queen of Morna". |
Q4685271 Adrian Petroșanu (born 8 September 1924) was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches. |
Q1288474 Flex is a nightclub in Vienna. It is located between underground station Schottenring and Augartenbrücke. Many international and Austrian music acts and DJs, such as Pete Doherty, Juliette and the Licks and Arcade Fire, have performed in Flex. There have been hundreds of visits from drum and bass DJs like: Pen... |
Q577742 Raimon Vidal de Bezaudu(n) (Catalan: Ramon Vidal de Besalú) (flourished early 13th century) was a Catalan troubadour from Besalù. He is notable for authoring the first tract in a Romance language (Occitan) on the subject of grammar and poetry, the Razós de trobar (c. 1210), a title which translates as "Reasons ... |
Q7960709 Wajihuddin Ahmed (Urdu: وجیہ الدین احمد; born 1 December 1938) is a retired senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, human rights activist, and former professor of law at the Sindh Muslim Law College.Prior to be elevated as Senior Justice of the Supreme Court, he briefly tenured as the Chief Justice o... |
Q5091750 Chepén District is one of three districts of the province Chepén in Peru. It is the second largest city of La Libertad, rice production center in the valleys of Chepen and Jequetepeque, and an active trading activities with neighboring Guadalupe and San Pedro de Lloc and other towns. It has factories in indust... |
Q162763 iMule (invisible Mule) is a free and open-source anonymous P2P file sharing utility which connects through the anonymous I2P network and the Kad network. |
Q338415 Jonas Prapiestis (born August 2, 1952) is a Lithuanian judge, Professor of criminal law and politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. |
Q5052166 The Cathcart Challenge Cup was a Grade 2 National Hunt chase in Great Britain which was open to horses aged five years or older. It was run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 5 furlongs (4,225 metres), and during its running there were seventeen fences to be jumped. The race w... |
Q7828275 Totaro is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
Q5142162 ColdBox is an open-source, conventions-based, modular web application framework intended for building enterprise applications with CFML using a Hierarchical MVC approach. ColdBox uses Convention over configuration and aims for simplicity, rapid development. It makes use of Model-view-controller, Dependency in... |
Q5630974 HMC Searcher is one of four cutter ships operated by UK Border Force in the role of patrolling the waters of the United Kingdom. She was launched by Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands in 2002. |
Q7830289 Townsville railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the city of Townsville. The station has one platform. Opposite the platform lies a passing loop. It is also the starting point for the Great Northern line. |
Q6401071 Muqsu (Persian: مُغسو) is a town and jamoat in Tajikistan. It is located in Jirgatol District in Districts of Republican Subordination province. The jamoat has a total population of 6818. |
Q2607465 Arismendi Blanco is a municipality of Sucre, Venezuela. The capital is Río Caribe. |
Q17626371 Caenocholax is a genus of twisted-winged insects in the family Myrmecolacidae. There are about seven described species in Caenocholax. |
Q14250409 Pterodontia johnsoni is a species of small-headed flies (insects in the family Acroceridae). |
Q108732 Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a cartoon dog created in 1930 at Walt Disney Productions. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression. He is Mickey Mouse's pet.... |
Q1635267 In topology, especially algebraic topology, the cone CX of a topological space X is the quotient space: C X = ( X × I ) / ( X × { 0 } ) {\displaystyle CX=(X... |
Q6837655 Michigan Rain is the debut album from Gregg Alexander, released in 1989 by A&M Records. The album was originally supposed to be titled Save Me from Myself, but the title was changed at the last minute, because, as Alexander explained, "[...] the cover was me standing on a bridge with a broken mirror on my wris... |
Q151353 Pentenes are alkenes with chemical formula C5H10. Each contains one double bond within its molecular structure. There are a total of six different compounds in this class, differing from each other by whether the carbon atoms are attached linearly or in a branched structure, and whether the double bond has a ci... |
Q7736556 The Girl from Chicago is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, with an all-African-American cast to include lead actor Carl Mahon. The story concerns a Federal agent who falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi. He helps his lover escape a local thug, and the film... |
Q3002336 Craugastor silvicola, also known as the forest robber frog, is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is endemic to Mexico and only known from its type locality near Zanatepec, Oaxaca, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. |
Q2211090 The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California in the United States, where it is known only from Monterey County.This salamander is distributed in the Santa Lucia Range in California's Central Coast region.... |
Q7143998 Patricio Athelstan Scantlebury (November 11, 1917, in Gatun Lake, Panama – May 24, 1991) was a professional baseball player who played 1 season for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball, but was mostly known for his time in the Negro leagues when he was considered Panama's first Professional baseball st... |
Q16821215 The MC-1 bomb was the first U.S. non-clustered air-dropped chemical munition. The 750-pound (340 kg) MC-1 was first produced in 1959 and carried the nerve agent sarin. |
Q7086941 Olinto Mark Barsanti (November 11, 1917 – May 2, 1973) was commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, commanding during the Tet Offensive and during subsequent operations around Bien Hoa and Huế. He previously served during World War II (in Normandy, Brittany, and Belgium) and the K... |
Q8023436 The Wiltshire County Football Association is the governing body of football in the English county of Wiltshire. Its headquarters are in Swindon. Affiliated members pay a fee commensurate with the level of competition they play in, and benefit from access to support and guidance on such areas as health and safe... |
Q3656586 Tsetska Tsacheva Dangovska (Bulgarian: Цецка Цачева Данговска; born 24 May 1958) is a Bulgarian jurist and GERB politician. She was the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria from 4 May 2017 to 5 April 2019. She had previously held the position of Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria on two... |
Q3858871 Mirko Pagliarini (born October 28, 1975 in Velletri) is an Italian professional football player currently playing for S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924.He played one game in the Serie A in the 1994/95 season for Genoa C.F.C. |
Q5495489 Fred Hoos (8 December 1953 in Maracaibo, Venezuela – 25 December 1983) was a Canadian field hockey player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
Q5587416 The Gospel of Josephus was a modern pseudepigraph created by Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for a novel Moccia had written. The manuscript was written by Moccia in Greek, but was proven to be a hoax based on the modernity of the language and the form of the manuscript (loose sheets written on one side only). ... |
Q5798529 Sarab-e Noql (Persian: سرابنقل, also Romanized as Sarāb-e Noql) is a village in Sarab Bagh Rural District, Sarab Bagh District, Abdanan County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 159, in 30 families. |
Q16960245 Action-Refraction is the 10th album by bassist Ben Allison. It was released on the Palmetto Records label in 2011. It's his first album to focus on the compositions of others. |
Q2132406 Ophiozonella depressa is a species of brittle stars from the family Ophiolepididae. The brittle star creeps along the seabed with its flexible, snake-like arms. These arms easily break off but naturally grow back. The brittle star is posted in the genus Ophiozonella and lives in the sea. Ophiozonella depressa... |
Q1595617 Mittelhees is a constituent community of Kreuztal, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.It has a population of 53 inhabitants.Mittelhees is probably the original headquarters of the noble family of the Junker of the Hees. In the 15th century, it was referred to as the Hees in connection with th... |
Q105557 Embraer S.A. (Portuguese pronunciation: [ẽmbɾaˈɛɾ]) is a Brazilian aerospace conglomerate that produces commercial, military, executive and agricultural aircraft and provides aeronautical services. It is headquartered in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.The company is the third largest producer of civil aircraft,... |
Q1862440 Iceland has a rich literary history, which has carried on into the modern period.Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders. These are prose narratives based on historical events that took place in Iceland and the surrounding areas during the Saga Age. Most of these sag... |
Q1630062 Project Longshot was a conceptual interstellar spacecraft design. It would have been an unmanned probe, intended to fly to and enter orbit around Alpha Centauri B powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. |
Q17404013 Ville (French pronunciation: [vil]) is the modern French word of Latin origin now meaning "city" or "town", but the first meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin villa rustica) and then "village". The derivative suffix -ville is commonly used in English in names of cities, tow... |
Q6488663 Laramie High School (LHS) is a high school (grades 9-12) in Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming, United States. In the Albany County School District, high school begins in the 9th grade (freshman year); 9th grade students are now able to attend high school in Laramie due to the building of a new high school. Many... |
Q6975043 National Presto Industries is a company founded in 1905 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the small kitchen appliances industry. Originally called the "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works" and then becoming the "National Pressure Cooker Company" in 1917, the company produced pressure canners. Beginning in 1939, Nation... |
Q2636807 Andreas Lars Johansson (born May 19, 1973) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player, currently a head coach for Modo Hockey. Johansson played professionally in the Swedish Elite League, Swiss National League A, the National Hockey League, and in the Russian Superleague. He returned to Sweden in 2009 ... |
Q4659113 A Quiet Storm is the 1975 third solo album by American soul singer, songwriter, and producer Smokey Robinson. |
Q4356973 Benea Reach was a metal band from Oslo, Norway. The band was nominated for a Spellemannsprisen Award in the metal category, and at one time included noted guitarist Christer Espevoll of progressive metal band Extol. |
Q8064587 Zagórzyce [zaɡuˈʐɨt͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pińczów, within Pińczów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Pińczów and 53 km (33 mi) south of the regional capital Kielce.The village has a population of 25... |
Q5316026 Georgios Poulopoulos (Greek: Γεώργιος Πουλόπουλος; born 28 June 1975) is a Greek footballer who plays for Diagoras F.C. in the Beta Ethniki.Poulopoulos began his playing career by signing with Kallithea F.C. in August 1994, and played two seasons for the club in the Gamma Ethniki before moving to Athinaikos F.... |
Q7603292 State Highway 36 (SH 36) is a State Highway in Kerala, India that starts in Taliparamba and ends in Iritty. The highway is 46.0 km long. |
Q6270956 Xonia (born Loredana Sachelaru; 25 June 1989) is an Australian-born Romanian singer, songwriter, actress and dancer. |
Q5501600 The Fremont Mill Bridge near Anamosa, Iowa was built in 1873. Its superstructure was designed and built by Massillon Iron Bridge Company and its foundations were built by James Milne. It is a wrought iron bowstring through arch bridge.It originally spanned the Maquoketa River in Monticello City and was built... |
Q16231386 Arun Krishnamurthy (born 1986) is an Indian environmental activist who has initiated the campaign of cleaning various lakes across India. He is known for founding the NGO, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) in 2011 based in Chennai which has its branches in other cities such as Hyderabad, Delhi and Co... |
Q16736884 Sadabhau Khot (b 1 june 1964) is a politician from Maharashtra state of India. He was member of Swabhimani PakshaSWP. He contested 2014 Lok sabha elections from Madha (Lok Sabha constituency) as SWP /NDA candidate. He elected unopposed as Member of legislative Council from Maharashtra legislative assembly mem... |
Q6691910 Love Is the Place is an album by Curtis Mayfield. |
Q3473503 The Austro-Hungarian Tenth Army was an Austro-Hungarian field army that fought during World War I. |
Q14719215 Sophronica subimproba is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1981. |
Q2400893 Psilochorus californiae is a species of cellar spider in the family Pholcidae. It is found in the United States and Mexico. |
Q586878 Omphalitis of newborn is the medical term for inflammation of the umbilical cord stump in the neonatal newborn period, most commonly attributed to a bacterial infection. Typically immediately after an infant is born, the umbilical cord is cut with a small remnant (often referred to as the stump) left behind. No... |
Q2978518 Claudine at School (French: Claudine à l'école) is a 1900 novel by the French writer Colette. The narrative recounts the final year of secondary school of 15-year-old Claudine, her brazen confrontations with her headmistress, Mlle Sergent, and her fellow students. It was Colette's first published novel, origin... |
Q529563 Johannes Nicolaas "John" van 't Schip (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɟɔn vɑn ət ˈsxɪp]; born 30 December 1963) is a Dutch Canadian and former Dutch international footballer, who played as a winger. Since 29 July 2019 he is the manager of the Greek national football team. His previous position as manager was of Eredivi... |
Q14888283 Thrombomodulin (TM), CD141 or BDCA-3 is an integral membrane protein expressed on the surface of endothelial cells and serves as a cofactor for thrombin. It reduces blood coagulation by converting thrombin to an anticoagulant enzyme from a procoagulant enzyme. Thrombomodulin is also expressed on human mesothe... |
Q1748046 You’re Never Too Young is a 1955 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring the team of Martin and Lewis and co-starring Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, and Raymond Burr. It was released on August 25, 1955 by Paramount Pictures. |
Q4829710 Awake and Dreaming is a children's novel by Canadian author Kit Pearson and illustrator Margot Zemach. It was first published in 1996. The book follows an impoverished, introverted nine-year-old girl named Theo Caffrey, who dreams of living with a "real" family. |
Q2424025 Scott Speer (born June 5, 1982) is an American filmmaker, music video director, television director and novelist. |
Q843234 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍) is a Chinese novel that is the fourth work of a pentalogy that are collectively called the Crane Iron Pentalogy, written by Wang Dulu from 1938 to 1942. |
Q3615894 Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez is a Cuban nuclear engineer and a journalist.The Fidel Castro regime arrested him during the 2003 "Black Spring" and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. He was released in February, 2011. Amnesty International named him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate relea... |
Q5367040 Elocutionist (1973–1995) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. |
Q945502 Newbury is a hamlet near the village of Erriottwood, in the Swale District, in the English county of Kent. It is near the town of Sittingbourne. |
Q6474328 Lajja Goswami (born 28 September 1988 in a middle-class family) is an Indian markswoman and policewoman. Tilak Giri told media that while other children were playing with dolls and toys, Lajja played with guns.She hails from the small village of Jitodia, 6 km away from Anand, popularly known as the Milk Capita... |
Q2473229 Kentrochrysalis consimilis is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the southern part of the Russian Far East, eastern China, North Korea, South Korea and central and southern Japan.The wingspan is 62–72 mm. It is similar to Kentrochrysalis streckeri, but can be distinguished by the less... |
Q7723406 The Climbers is a 1919 American silent comedy drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on Clyde Fitch's Broadway play. This film was directed by Tom Terriss and stars Corinne Griffith.A previous version of Fitch's play had been made in 1915 as The Climbers with Glady... |
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