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Q14503135 Trechus stricticollis is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Trechinae. It was described by Jeannel in 1927. |
Q13099273 Hyperlapse (also walklapse, spacelapse, stop-motion time-lapse, moving timelapse) is a technique in time-lapse photography that allows the photographer to create motion shots. In its simplest form, a hyperlapse is achieved by manually moving the camera a short distance between each shot. The first film using ... |
Q16197287 Ben Sures (born December 29, 1967) is a Canadian roots musician and contributor to CBC Radio's The Irrelevant Show.He is the son of Order of Canada-winning ceramic artist Jack Sures and painter and illustrator Deborah Uman-Sures.A mostly-self-taught musician, Sures discovered the music of Robert Johnson at ag... |
Q3371755 Paul André Marie Maistre, (20 June 1858 – 25 July 1922) was a highly decorated French general who fought in World War I. |
Q23808701 Alison Chapman is an antique dealer and television antiques expert on ITV's the Secret Dealer and Dickinson's Real Deal.She was named the 2016 Kent Businesswoman of the Year. She is managing director of Owlets Hythe LTD. |
Q18092875 Semibulbus is a genus of spiders in the Oonopidae family. It was first described in 2007 by Saaristo. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Semibulbus zekharya. |
Q31317 Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestler, actor, and television presenter. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history, he is known by the nicknames "Heartbreak Kid" and "Mr. WrestleMania".Michaels wr... |
Q2942486 The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana. It is located at 1207 Columbia Street in Lafayette, Indiana. It is also a contributing property in the St. Mary Historic District. |
Q5334440 The Ecumenical Hellenism program (Greek: Πρόγραμμα Οικουμενικός Ελληνισμός), is a non-profit, non-governmental company. It is the result of the cooperation between the Athens-based publishing house Greek National Line (Ελληνική Εθνική Γραμμή) and the Institute for National and Religious Studies of Thessaloniki... |
Q893457 On-board toilets are enclosures equipped with a toilet for the use of human excretion, typically mounted within a vehicle. The small rooms also often are equipped with at least a sink, liquid soap, and paper towels for hand washing. Except in luxury versions, toilets of this kind are usually small and uncomfort... |
Q6176096 Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950) is an architect, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for his research and writing on American architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Lionel H. Pries, and on Seattle architecture; he has also published articles that li... |
Q4608580 The 2007 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 50th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 58th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 4th place in the East Division with a 3–15–0 record and missed the playoffs. |
Q4581220 The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost ... |
Q22929909 Al Madina Al Monawara Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي المدينة المنورة للألعاب الرياضية), is an Egyptian football club based in Luxor, Egypt. The club is currently playing in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest league in the Egyptian football league system. |
Q7081879 Oke-Onigbin is a community in the heart of the Isin Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria. It is mostly inhabited by Igbomina people. |
Q7010142 New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México is a song written and composed by Pablo Mares, which was adopted as the official bilingual song of New Mexico in 1995. |
Q5026113 Cameraria saccharella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Quebec, Canada, and Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Maine, New York, Connecticut and Vermont in the United States.The wingspan is 5–7 mm.The larvae feed on Acer species, including Acer nigrum, Acer rubrum, Acer saccharinum and Acer sacc... |
Q6981862 Naval Medical Research Unit Four (NAMRU-4) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was commissioned 31 May 1946 at the Naval Hospital in Dublin, Georgia as the McintireResearch Unit for Rheumatic Fever, which was named for the Surgeon General of the United States Navy Ross T. Mcintire. Initial staffing ... |
Q4744329 The American Legion Building in Spartanburg, South Carolina is a Colonial Revival building that was designed by architects Lockwood, Greene and Company and was built in 1937.It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2003. |
Q6255724 Sir John Frederick Rossiter KBE (17 December 1913 – 18 January 1988) was an Australian politician.Born in Melbourne to public servant James Alexander Rossiter and Sarah (née Nicholas) Rossiter, he attended Middle Park State School, Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, studying for his Bachelo... |
Q5942197 Bavil-e Sofla (Persian: باويل سفلي, also Romanized as Bāvīl-e Soflá) is a village in Bavil Rural District, in the Central District of Osku County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,502, in 475 families. |
Q18385253 Jean Petit was a printer, publisher and bookseller in Paris.From 1493 to 1530 he printed about one tenth of all publications in Paris, more than ten thousand volumes.Petit was one of the four major booksellers at the University of Paris and greatly contributed to the spread of early Renaissance Humanism in Pa... |
Q16953223 Boxing competitions at the 2015 European Games were held from 16 to 27 June 2015 at the Crystal Hall 3 venue in the main Games cluster in Baku. The competition consisted of ten weight events for men, and five for women, and was contested, as at the Olympic Games, under rules and formats set out by the AIBA.Ba... |
Q21068061 A myeon, myŏn, myon, or township is an administrative unit in South Korea; along with town (urban), a township (rural) is a division of a county and some cities of fewer than 500,000 population. Township have smaller populations than towns and represent the rural areas of a county or city. Township are subdiv... |
Q20707592 The Goff Petroglyph Site is a rock art site in Independence County, Arkansas, in the general vicinity of Salado. The site has been known since the 19th century, and was first described by amateurs in 1937, but was not formally examined by archaeologists until 1979. The petroglyph panels depict a number of t... |
Q14745938 Oncideres jatai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bondar in 1953. It is known from Brazil. |
Q5440288 The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent agency of the United States government, founded in 1947, which provides mediation services to industry, community and government agencies worldwide. One of its most common tasks is to help to mediate labor disputes around the country. FMCS... |
Q5009200 CBRX-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts SRC's Ici Musique network at 101.5 FM in Rimouski, Quebec.The station launched as CJBR in 1947 and changed to its current callsign in the 1990s after receiving CRTC approval to broadcast at 101.5 MHz. |
Q222675 Erwin Vandenbergh (born 26 January 1959) is a retired Belgian footballer. Between 1981 and 1991, he finished six times topscorer of the Belgian First Division (a record as of 2015), with three clubs (the first three with Lierse, the following two with Anderlecht, and the last one with Gent). In 1981, he was Eur... |
Q3340704 Jacques Pradon, often called Nicolas Pradon (1632 – 14 January 1698), was a French playwright. Early in his career, he was helped by Pierre Corneille and was introduced to the salons at the Hôtel de Nevers and the Hôtel de Bouillon by Madame Deshoulières.Pradon was born in Rouen and is the author of eight tra... |
Q7012410 The New Westminster Bridge (also known as the New Westminster Rail Bridge (NSRW) or the Fraser River Swing Bridge) is a swing bridge that crosses the Fraser River and connects New Westminster with Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.The bridge is owned by the Government of Canada, operated and maintained by the C... |
Q6888299 The Model Treaty, or the Plan of 1776, was created during the American Revolution and was an idealistic guide for foreign relations and future treaties between the new American government and other nations. |
Q2280073 ShotCode is a circular barcode created by High Energy Magic of Cambridge University. It uses a dartboard-like circle, with a bullseye in the centre and datacircles surrounding it. The technology reads databits from these datacircles by measuring the angle and distance from the bullseye for each.ShotCodes are d... |
Q7619131 Stoneburg is an unincorporated community in Montague County, Texas, United States. It had a population of approximately 51 in 1990. |
Q1182440 Deepak (Kumar) Lal (born 1940) is an Indian British neo-liberal economist, originally of India. |
Q5336024 Edward Lynn "Eddie" Fiola (born September 28, 1964) is an American former professional freestyle BMX rider, and a film stuntman.In 1982 Bob Morales started up the ASPA (Amateur Skatepark Association which would later become the AFA or American Freestyle Association) and began the legendary king of the skatepar... |
Q3467981 Koolimäe is a village in Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. |
Q7018463 The Newman National Football League, name after the mining centre of Newman, Western Australia, is an Australian rules football competition based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.The league was founded in 1972 with three clubs, Centrals, Saints and Tigers. in 1975 a fourth club Pioneers joined the co... |
Q6171359 Jean Pierre Moquette (July 5, 1856 – February 26, 1927) moved from the Netherlands to Java in 1873. He worked as a bookkeeper at the sugar plantation and factory 'Kremboeng', in Sidoarjo near Surabaya. He was also stamp and coin dealer in Surabaya. He became known for the alterations of stamps and postal stati... |
Q6369782 Karen Kondazian (born January 27, 1950) is an American actress and author. She is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award's Best Actress award and is a four-time Drama-Logue Awards winner. She had a regular starring role in Shannon, as well guest-starring roles on Wiseguy, Frasier, NYPD Blue,... |
Q5829292 Chahar Sotun (Persian: چهارستون, also Romanized as Chahār Sotūn) is a village in Koreh Soni Rural District, in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 446, in 87 families. |
Q5448963 Film Sack is a weekly podcast focused on film and television created by Scott Johnson on the FrogPants Studios Network. The show was announced on October 27, 2009, with the first episode to be released October 30. Hosted by Scott Johnson, Brian Ibbott, Brian Dunaway, and Randy Jordan, it features roundtable di... |
Q13448137 Calamotropha unicolorellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Zeller in 1863. It is found in the Himalayas. |
Q18153106 Hood's Mill is an unincorporated community located in Howard County and Carroll County in the state of Maryland in the United States of America.Hood's mill is community formed at the Benjamin Hood's Hood Haven on the Patapsco River. Later Hood's Mill was known as a stop along the B&O railroad with a shipping ... |
Q18612347 Agyneta semipallida is a species of sheet weaver found in the United States. It was described by Chamberlin & Ivie in 1944. |
Q1729416 Karin Danner (born 22 January 1959) is a German football manager and former footballer. She has been the manager of FC Bayern München since 1995 and previously played for the Germany women's national football team in 1984 as well as FC Bayern München. On club level she played for FC Bayern München. |
Q5321972 E. J. Su is an American comic book artist and penciller. He was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States at the age of 14. He is best known for his work on IDW Publishing's Transformers (2005) comic book.He has also worked for Image Comics on Tech Jacket (2002), a six-issue limited series, with writer Rob... |
Q3514544 This article is about the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma. There is also a Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas, a Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois, and a Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Manitoba.The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, located in Osage County, Oklahoma near Forake... |
Q964094 Peter III (Portuguese: Pedro III) (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpedɾu tɨɾ.ˈsej.ɾu]) (5 July 1717 – 25 May 1786), nicknamed the Builder, became King of Portugal jure uxoris by the accession of his wife and niece Queen Maria I in 1777, and co-reigned alongside her until his death. |
Q16876699 McKean or MacKean is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin, and may refer to: |
Q4761764 Theophilus Aneurin Rees (9 April 1858 - 11 September 1932) was a Welsh rugby union forward who represented Llandovery College at club level. He was capped once for Wales, in the country's very first international rugby match. |
Q635162 The Hominidae (), whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which in... |
Q6639794 This is a list of solo piano pieces by the American composer Leo Ornstein. |
Q9169200 Estrela Futebol Clube de Vendas Novas commonly known as simply as Estrela de Vendas Novas is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Vendas Novas, Évora. The club was founded in 1920. It currently plays at the Estádio Municipal Vendas Novas which holds a capacity of 650. The stadium also plays host to the cl... |
Q3851399 Massimo Pellegrini (born 2 January 1966 in Frascati) is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. |
Q7570058 Southern Jewish History is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal of Jewish and Southern history. It is published by the Southern Jewish Historical Society and was established in 1998. Its editor in chief is Mark K. Bauman. |
Q1364319 Nicolas Edet (born 2 December 1987) is a professional French road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis. |
Q14714401 Zinnia is an unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States, along Buckeye Creek. Its post office is closed. |
Q15642088 Meridulia chaenostium is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae that is endemic to Venezuela.The wingspan is 26 millimetres (1.0 in). The ground colour of the forewings is cream brown, suffused with brown and sprinkled and dotted with dark brown. The markings are pale grey brown, dotted with blackish bro... |
Q17385724 Gregorio Pio Punzalan Catapang, Jr., CCLH (born 11 July 1959) is a retired Filipino general who served as the 45th Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He was the Vice Chief of Staff prior to his appointment as head of the armed forces. He was also the former head of the AFP Northern Luzon C... |
Q21898072 Stefan Hirsch (January 2, 1899 – September 28, 1964) was an American artist. Many of his paintings have the hard edges, smooth surfaces, and simplified forms of the precisionists and their typical subjects—cityscapes and industrial scenes—are sometimes also his, but in general his works have an emotional elem... |
Q13378902 Anthia namaqua is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Anthiinae. It was described by Peringuey in 1896. |
Q18521437 Ismael Torres (27 March 1952 – 21 October 2003) was an Argentine cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Q28839878 Kazik Radwanski is a Canadian director and screenwriter. He is known for his low budget independent films, including How Heavy This Hammer (2015), which has screened at festivals around the world. His early short films have been cited as part of the New Canadian Cinema movement. |
Q3956074 Sergio Cotta (6 October 1920 – 3 May 2007) was an Italian philosopher and university professor. He was considered a specialist on the political thought of the Enlightenment. Sergio Cotta, along with André Masson and Robert Shackleton, was considered the most important interpreter of Montesquieu during the 20th... |
Q3185493 Émile-Joseph Porphyre Pinchon (Amiens, 17 April 1871 - Paris, 20 June 1953) was a French painter, illustrator, designer and comic book creator, best known for his series Bécassine. |
Q6529666 Les Landau is a television director, film director and film producer. He is best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise from 1987 to 2002, having worked on all four modern Star Trek shows: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. His work on Enterprise was Landau's final professiona... |
Q971768 The 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the first edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. |
Q27813893 "Stealing Kisses" is a song by recorded by American country music singer Faith Hill. It was released in October 2006 as the fifth single from the album Fireflies. The song reached #36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song was written by Lori McKenna. |
Q5616371 Guilty is a remix single by Gravity Kills, released by TVT Records.It also includes the album version of the song, and tracks 6 and 7 include both the remix by tomandandy, and the demo version of "Goodbye".The Juno Reactor remix of the song was featured in the Stanley Cup FMV sequence in NHL '99 and featured i... |
Q16256781 Berk is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: |
Q5608900 Griffith Lloyd (died 1586) was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1572 to 1586. He was also Regius Professor of Civil Law from 1577 to his death.He was originally from Lampeter, Wales where the Lloyds of Maesyfelin were a well-respected family. He was one of the first benefactors to leave land to the col... |
Q521772 Racheal Nachula (born 14 January 1990) is a Zambian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.She won the bronze medal at the 2008 African Championships, in a personal best time of 51.39 seconds. She competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2006 World Junior Championships, the 2008 World Indoor Championshi... |
Q5319740 Działy [ˈd͡ʑawɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Glinojeck, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Q7254201 Pseudalus is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. |
Q6142129 James Anthony Rispoli is a former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management who served for three and a half years under the administration of President George W. Bush; he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in July 2005. and resigned in late November 2008. His position was occasionally cal... |
Q5898609 Hoosier Prairie began in the 1970s as wasteland that conservation organization found of a unique interest. From a core of 304 acres (123 ha), it has grown to 1,547 acres (626 ha) of important prairie habitat. The area was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974 and a State Nature Preserve in 1977 Th... |
Q6258529 John William Southern (born 2 September 1952) is a former English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox who played county cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club.Southern, who was born in Kings Cross, London, made his Hampshire debut in 1975 and went on to play for... |
Q6607412 This is a list of beaches in Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان کے ساحل) which are notable. Pakistan's southern coastline meets the Arabian Sea, running along the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. |
Q3211655 Alessandro Ghigi (9 February 1875 – 20 November 1970) was an Italian zoologist, naturalist and environmentalist. |
Q16963265 E.T. Gleitsmann was a German producer of printing ink, founded in Dresden in 1847 by Emil Theodor Gleitsmann. It would later expand into an international network with branches in Austria (Vienna/Rabenstein), Hungary (Budapest), Italy (Turin) and Sweden (Trelleborg).The headquarters moved to Berlin in 1953. It... |
Q16199072 R. G. Allen served as a member of the 1863 California State Assembly, representing California's 1st State Senate district. |
Q16091846 Robin Greene (1 November 1931 – 15 August 2014) was a South African cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire in 1951. |
Q17985794 The Beaufort Street Festival is an annual community street festival in Perth, Western Australia that takes place each November along Beaufort Street and nearby streets. The festival is owned by the Beaufort Street Network and, since 2012, presented and delivered by festival directors JumpClimb Events. It runs... |
Q23304484 Colin Arnold (born 19 August 1957) is an Australian former cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1976/77. |
Q4114777 «Airship. From Zedlitz» («On the blue waves of the ocean ... ») (Russian: «Возду́шный кора́бль. Из Це́длица» («По синим волнам океана…»)) is a ballad from the Napoleonic cycle Lermontov's poems, written and published in 1840. It is a free translation from the German language Austrian romantic writings of Josep... |
Q697521 The ZU-23-2, also known as ZU-23, is a Soviet towed 23 mm anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannon. ZU stands for Zenitnaya Ustanovka (Russian: Зенитная Установка) – anti-aircraft mount. The GRAU index is 2A13. |
Q5439712 Prague International Film Festival - Febiofest is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and the second most prestigious festival in the country (after Karlovy Vary). The festival presents a wide spectrum of contemporary and retrospective examples of high-quality film including alternative, film-schoo... |
Q16013687 Nadine Lockwood (September 1991 – August 31, 1996) was an American 4-year-old girl from New York City who was murdered in August 1996. Nadine was starved to death by her parents, Carla Lockwood and Leroy Dickerson, at Lockwood's apartment in Washington Heights, and were both convicted of second degree murder.... |
Q132822 Mesosaurus (meaning "middle lizard") is an extinct genus of reptile from the Early Permian of southern Africa and South America. Along with it, the genera Brazilosaurus and Stereosternum, it is a member of the family Mesosauridae and the order Mesosauria. Mesosaurus was long thought to have been one of the firs... |
Q14709690 Whitehall is a historic home located at Aiken, South Carolina. It was constructed about 1928 for Robert R. McCormick, one of the owners of the Chicago Tribune. The house was designed by Willis Irvin of Augusta, who won a Gold Medal for Domestic Work at the 1929 Southern Architectural Exhibition with its desig... |
Q5039718 The Caritas Hospital is an Indian hospital in Thellakom (near Adichira) under the Ettumanoor municipality in Kottayam district, Kerala, India. The hospital is run by the Syro-Malabar knanaya Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam and is registered as a charitable organisation. Caritas Hospital has grown from a 50-b... |
Q5481044 Francis Gastrell (10 May 1662 – 24 November 1725) was Bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift, mentioned several times in A Journal to Stella, and chaplain to Robert Harley, when Harley was speaker of the House of Commons. |
Q5675497 Hartwrightia is a genus of North American flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae of the sunflower family. The genus contains a single species, Hartwrightia floridana, native to the US states of Georgia and Florida. The species is sometimes referred to by the common name Florida hartwrightia.Although supe... |
Q7281438 Radlice [raˈdlit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Choszczno, within Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Choszczno and 65 km (40 mi) south-east of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the are... |
Q6665180 Not to be confused with the River Lochy in Scotland.The Lochy River is a river of New Zealand, flowing into lower Lake Wakatipu. |
Q7450207 Sender is a rock band from Bendigo. Originally called Zenyth, they were in 1999 the Victorian state winneron the Commonwealth Youth Affairs National Battle of the Bands. In 2001 they self released an ep Threedoublefivesix. They changed their name to Sender and signed with Sony Music Australia. They were the Mu... |
Q3076004 The Fontaine de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a fountain constructed in 1715-1717, at the end of the reign of King Louis XIV and the beginning of the reign of Louis XV, to provide drinking water in the neighborhood near the church of Saint Germain-des-Prés, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was o... |
Q5095140 Chiabol (Persian: چیابل) may refer to:CheyabelSharaf Bag |
Q7535580 "Skinny Legs and All" is a song composed and recorded by soul singer Joe Tex and released in 1967 on the Dial label in 1967. The single was later featured on Tex's "live" album, Live and Lively a year later in 1968. |
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