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Q2701911 This article describes the qualification for the 2014 European Men's Handball Championship. |
Q16901204 Taqcheh Dash (Persian: طاقچه داش, also Romanized as Ţāqcheh Dāsh) is a village in Arshaq-e Markazi Rural District, Arshaq District, Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 30, in 5 families. |
Q16751634 Joshua David Wilcox (born June 5, 1974) is a former American football tight end who played two seasons with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Oregon and attended Junction High School in Junction City, Oregon. Wilcox was also a member of the... |
Q17097506 Harusindan was the third king of the Gilites, ruling briefly in 921. He was the son of Tirdadh, who was the first king of the Gilites during the 10th century, but later died and was succeeded by another Gilite named Lili ibn al-Nu'man, who was from another clan. Harusindan also had a sister who married a Dail... |
Q21527470 Arson Gang Busters is a 1938 American action film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Alex Gottlieb, Norman Burnstine and Joseph Hoffman. The film stars Robert Livingston, Rosalind Keith, Jackie Moran, Warren Hymer, Jack La Rue and Clay Clement. The film was released on March 28, 1938, by Republic Pictures... |
Q26162654 Fintan Monahan (born 23 January 1967) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, who previously served as a priest in the Tuam Diocese and worked as a teacher in St. Jarlath's College, Galway.Monahan was born in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, in 1967 to Tom and Peg Monahan and he has one brother and one sister.He bega... |
Q3775720 William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645) was an English pastoral poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple.His chief works were the long poem Britannia's Pastorals (1613), and a contribution to The Shepheard's Pipe (1614). Britannia's Pastorals w... |
Q2703350 Sigrid Gurie (born Sigrid Gurie Haukelid, May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s. |
Q7838734 Tres Picachos (English: The Three Peaks) is one of the highest peaks in Puerto Rico at 1,205 meters (3,953 ft). It is located on the border between the municipalities of Ciales and Jayuya in the central part of the island, and is part of the Cordillera Central.The mountain has three joint peaks from which the... |
Q5079447 Sir Charles James Martin (9 January 1866 – 15 February 1955) was a British scientist who did seminal work on a very wide range of topics including snake toxins, control of body temperature, plague and the way it was spread, dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid, nutrition and vitamin deficiencies, proteins, and ... |
Q6562200 This is a list of notable alumni of Arizona State University. |
Q1305483 Onychogomphus kitchingmani is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is endemic to Zambia. Its natural habitat is rivers. |
Q3318248 Moghrar (Arabic: مغرار) is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is the district seat the Moghrar District and has a population of 2,796, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its municipal code is 4506Two distinct oases are to be considered: Moghrar Foukani or higher Moghrar, on the Algerian National ... |
Q175397 Saint-Jory-las-Bloux is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. |
Q992747 Mampong is a small town in the Mampong Municipal of Ashanti and serves as the administrative capital of Mampong Municipal. Mampong has a population of 42,037 people. Mampong is also the centre of the new Anglican Diocese of Asante Mampong, inaugurated in 2014. |
Q4115082 Anemone chinensis is a basionym of the currently known Pulsatilla chinensis and is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. There it has the name bái tóu wēng (Chinese: 白头翁). |
Q8021894 Willie Williams (born John Michael Williams on 11 June 1941) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Buckinghamshire. He was born in Stourport-on-Severn.Williams, who represented Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1972, made a s... |
Q17011930 The Nanbai are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Many members of Nanbai community have migrated to Pakistan after independence and have settled in Karachi, Sindh. |
Q16116319 Mark Philip Painter (born April 6, 1947), served from 1995–2009 as a judge of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), after 13 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court. In March 2009, Painter became the first American to be elected by the United Nations General Assembly to ... |
Q6194583 James D. Dee was a Major League Baseball player who played shortstop for the 1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys. He continued to play in the minor leagues through 1888. |
Q15434222 Nicholas Thatcher is Professor of Oncology at the University of Manchester, in the School of Cancer and Imaging Sciences at the Christie Hospital NHS Trust and Wythenshawe Hospital; he was appointed to the position of Professor in 1996. He received his PhD from Manchester University, after prior education a... |
Q6080929 Isidore Isaac Hirschman Jr. (1922–1990) was an American mathematician, and professor at Washington University in St. Louis working on analysis. |
Q18637268 Nermin Crnkić (born 31 August 1992) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian and American professional football player. Crnkić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but moved to the United States when he was seven years old, and played high school soccer in Kentwood, Michigan. He played for the Michigan Bucks in the 2012 U.S... |
Q3004494 Croton insularis, the silver croton, is a small tree in the spurge family. Growing in dry rainforest and rainforest margins in eastern Australia, north from the Blue Mountains. It is also found in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Other common names include White Croton, Cascarilla, Native Cascarilla and Queensland ... |
Q30612020 Charles Grant (22 October 1902 - 28 May 1980) was a Canadian salesman and human rights activist.He left home early to travel and eventually became a diamond broker in Vienna.In 1938 he was arrested by the Nazis for currency speculation and spent the entire war in internment camps.He is portrayed by R. H. Thom... |
Q37133750 Goodnight is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Charles Goodnight (1836–1929), 19th century American cattle baronClarence J. Goodnight (1914–1987), American zoologistG. Thomas Goodnight, American argumentation and rhetorical scholarIsaac Goodnight (1849–1901), American politician from Kentucky... |
Q67825 Peter Strasser (1 April 1876 – 5 August 1918) was chief commander of German Imperial Navy Zeppelins during World War I, the main force operating bombing campaigns from 1915 to 1917. He was killed when flying the war's last airship raid over Great Britain. |
Q3120943 Solid Base is a Swedish-Norwegian Eurodance group.The lead singer in the group was Isabelle Heitmann, who was born in Oslo, Norway in 1972. She had a passion for singing since her childhood, and at the age of 10 she moved to Gothenburg, Sweden. A few years after she had moved to Stockholm, she started to sing ... |
Q5417675 Everybody's Trucking is the first episode of the seventh series of the British television sitcom Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 15 November 1974. |
Q589383 Empress Xiaojingcheng (19 June 1812 – 21 August 1855), of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner Borjigit clan, was a consort of the Daoguang Emperor. She was 30 years his junior. |
Q3443355 The intercostal veins are a group of veins which drain the area between the ribs ("costae"), called the intercostal space.They can be divided as follows:Anterior intercostal veinsPosterior intercostal veinsPosterior intercost vein that drain into the Supreme intercostal vein - 1st intercostal spacePosterior in... |
Q6071110 Irish Presbyterian Mission was an Irish Presbyterian missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing Dynasty. |
Q5499181 The Frederick Baronetcy, of Burwood House in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 10 June 1723 for John Frederick of Burwood House in the southern half of Walton-on-Thames which later became Hersham.He was the grandson of the wealthy merchant Sir John Frederick... |
Q6979646 The national parliaments of the European Union are those legislatures responsible for each member state of the European Union (EU). They have a certain degree of institutionalised influence which was expanded under the Treaty of Lisbon to include greater ability to scrutinise proposed European Union law. |
Q5555855 Ghassan Farid Issa is the Dean of Information Technology Faculty at Petra University in Amman, Jordan. |
Q5008057 The molecular formula C26H43NO5 (molar mass: 449.62 g/mol, exact mass: 449.314123) may refer to:Glycochenodeoxycholic acidGlycodeoxycholic acid |
Q6988625 Neil Giuntoli (born 1959) is an American actor active since 1987, whose most famous role was in Child's Play (1988). Giuntoli is also the author and lead actor of the play Hizzoner, a fictional account of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley. The play received the longest run ever granted to a production at C... |
Q4547263 110 Tower, formerly known as AutoNation Tower, is a 410.1 feet (125.0 m) modernist office building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The building was one of the first modern high-rise office buildings constructed in the city, and became part of the city's sprawling skyline. The building has a baltic-brown ... |
Q4610143 The New Hampshire Wildcats women’s ice hockey team represents the University of New Hampshire. The Wildcats won the 2008 Hockey East championship and participated in the NCAA Frozen Four. |
Q7500532 Shootash is a small village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Romsey, which lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.1 km) south-east from the village. At the 2011 Census the population of Shootash was included in the civil parish of Wellow. |
Q4562566 The 1929–30 Scottish Second Division was won by Leith Athletic who, along with second placed East Fife, were promoted to the First Division. Brechin City finished bottom. |
Q5878714 Holbrook is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 30 about 15 miles northwest of Portland between the Tualatin Mountains and the Multnomah Channel south of Sauvie Island. Holbrook's elevation is 135 feet above sea level The community was named for p... |
Q7277793 The RS Venture launched by RS Sailing in 2011 is a large, modern GRP dinghy. The design concept was to deliver a large multi-role dinghy suitable for cruising, training or even club racing, in response to growing demand from training centres, private customers and international RS dealers. The RS Venture can t... |
Q17143426 The men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1991 Pan American Games took place on 17 August. The last Pan American Games champion was Tom Williams of US.This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle. |
Q25036867 The unemployment rate in Spain had skyrocketed to a high of 27% in 2013 since the Great Recession of 2008, but as of 2016 the unemployment rate is currently 21%. It is estimated that it will take until 2020 to return to the pre-recession unemployment rate. The largest community, Andalusia, has the highest une... |
Q27973832 David Hill is a British political adviser who served as Alastair Campbell's replacement as Director of Communications for Tony Blair, from 2003 to 2007. |
Q1474105 Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. In the fall 2016 semester, enrollment was approximately 20,000.The main campus, which has been undergoing ... |
Q852860 Lonchura is a genus of the estrildid finch family, and includes munias (or minias), mannikins, and silverbills. They are resident breeding birds in Africa and in South Asia from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. Two of the approximately thirty-seven species ... |
Q6982653 The Navy League of the United States, commonly referred to as the Navy League, is a national association with nearly 50,000 members who advocate for a strong, credible United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine.It was founded in 1902, at the suggestion of... |
Q16986571 The Virginia Smart Road, also known as simply the Smart Road or Smart Highway, is a short, limited access road in Montgomery County, Virginia, used for the testing of pavement technologies and as a proving ground for new transportation technologies. The Smart Road is currently a 2.2-mile (3.5 km) stretch of ... |
Q145539 Chile competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Nine competitors, eight men and one woman, took part in eight events in three sports. |
Q491352 Twin Sisters (Dutch: De Tweeling) is a 2002 Dutch film, directed by Ben Sombogaart, based on the novel The Twins by Tessa de Loo, with a screenplay by Dutch actress and writer Marieke van der Pol. |
Q5972467 INS Amba (A54) was the only submarine tender ship in service with the Indian Navy. It is a modified Soviet Ugra-class design built to Indian specifications in Nikolayev (the present-day Mykolaiv in Ukraine) in 1968. Deviations from the standard Ugra design include four 76 mm guns instead of the 57 mm ones moun... |
Q12069095 Siliguri Boys' High School is an old, Reputable school for boys in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. |
Q4774472 In the area of conflict of laws, anti-suit injunction is an order issued by a court or arbitral tribunal that prevents an opposing party from commencing or continuing a proceeding in another jurisdiction or forum. If the opposing party contravenes such an order issued by a court, a contempt of court order may ... |
Q7718764 The Blue Generation is a film directed by Garin Nugroho.The film is about the Indonesian rock band Slank. The group, known for its political lyrics, has been together for 25 years and has a following throughout the country. "Slank" means minority and the community of fans make up something like a movement: the... |
Q5926222 Huasa Rancho Canton is one of the cantons of the Tarata Municipality, the first municipal section of the Esteban Arce Province in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Its seat is Huasa Rancho. |
Q2728560 Slatina is a village in the municipality of Knjaževac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 124 people. |
Q4984166 Buddha Sounds are an Argentine electronic music group created by the Argentine producer Alex Seoan in 2002.The band consists of Alex Seoan (guitar, keyboards, samplers and voice); Maia Krasnaia (voice and violin); J. Fernández (drums); Anubis Rha (bass), Kantik (dancer and vocals), Shankari (dancer and vocals)... |
Q9138344 Aboubacar Camara (born 1 June 1993), most known as Bouba or Buba, is a Guinean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. |
Q16962142 Arvind Limited (formerly Arvind Mills) is a textile manufacturer and the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group and Reliance industries Ltd. Its headquarters are in Naroda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and it has units at Santej (near Kalol). The company manufactures cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweig... |
Q24902074 Kot Garewal is a village in the Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of the Indian state of Punjab. It is located 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) away from the postal head office Dosanjh Kalan, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Phagwara, 34 kilometres (21 mi) from Jalandhar, and 124 kilometres (77 mi) from the state capit... |
Q1766441 Ludwig von Bogdandy (born 10 February 1930 in Berlin, died 5 May 1996 in Linz) (Hungarian: Bogdándy Lajos) was a German metallurgist and industrial executive. He was a leading researcher on iron and steel production, and served as CEO of Voestalpine, an international steel based technology and capital goods gr... |
Q2032675 Oscar Roël Brandon (born 8 August 1971) is a Surinamese badminton player, coach and Olympic team manager. He competed for Suriname at the 1996 Summer Olympics as a badminton player in the Men's singles event. And he was "chef de mission" (team manager) for Suriname at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the... |
Q30110401 Sukhdev Rajbhar is an Indian politician and a member of 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, and 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Didarganj constituency in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.He is former Speaker of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh also Minister in Mayawati, Kalyan ... |
Q40569039 The southern Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus endemicus) is a species of the largest genus of ground squirrels. This species and the Northern Idaho ground squirrel were previously considered conspecific, together called the Idaho ground squirrel. |
Q1657688 Browning is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 850 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Gad is located in the town. |
Q829726 "Outrageous" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her fourth studio album, In the Zone (2003). It was written and produced by R. Kelly, with vocal production provided by Trixster and Penelope Magnet. The song was released on July 20, 2004, by Jive Records, as the fourth and final single from... |
Q6430693 Koonung Secondary Collegeis a secondary state school in Mont Albert North, Victoria, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The school takes its name from the nearby Koonung Creek.Its school catchment includes the suburbs of Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Balwyn, Balwyn North, Doncaster, Box Hill, Bo... |
Q4107978 Fred Everette Teague III or Trey Teague (born December 27, 1974 in Jackson, Tennessee) is a former American football center. Teague was a seventh round pick out of the University of Tennessee in the 1998 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. |
Q7996344 Whitewater Memorial is the sixteenth state park in Indiana. It is located 47 miles (76 km) west-southwest of Dayton, Ohio. At 23,000 acres (93 km2), it is the third-largest state park in Indiana; its seventeen miles (27 km) stretches between Brookville, Indiana, and Liberty, Indiana, paralleled by Indiana Stat... |
Q3167532 Jean-M.-Vincent Audin was a French Roman Catholic author, journalist and historian. |
Q7688684 Taught to Be Proud is the fourth studio album by Tea Leaf Green. It was originally released on November 15, 2005 through Reincarnate Music. |
Q4932972 Robert Kagle is a Director at eBay and a partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. In addition to eBay, Kagle sits on the Board of Directors for several companies including: E-Loan, Jamba Juice, Logoworks, Mint.com, Prosper, uShip, and ZipRealty.Kagle's investment in eBay is seen as his firs... |
Q596226 The long-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys longicaudatus) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. It was found only in Australia. It is known from a handful of specimens, the last of which was collected in 1901 or possibly 1902. It is presumed to have become extinct within a few decades from then – p... |
Q7874615 USS Tapacola (AMc-54) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.Tapacola was laid down on 10 January 1941 by Snow Shipyards, Rockland, Maine; launched on 3 July 1941; sponsored by ... |
Q5374760 Empyreuma is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The name is derived from the Greek word ἐμπύρευμα, meaning "a live coal covered with ashes". |
Q6873303 Miriam Chytilová (born 21 June 1965) is a Czech actress and singer. She has dubbed the Czech voice for characters played by Jodie Foster, Romy Schneider, and Jennifer Aniston. |
Q6265698 Seán mac an Iarla a Búrc (died 1583) known as John "na Seamar" Burke, Baron Leitrim or John of the Shamrocks, was one of the notorious half-brothers called the meic an Iarla ('sons of the earl'), whose conflicts with each other and their father, Richard "Sassanach" Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde (died 1582), ... |
Q7327555 Richard M. Myers (born March 24, 1954) is an American geneticist and biochemist known for his work on the Human Genome Project (HGP). The National Human Genome Research Institute says the HGP “[gave] the world a resource of detailed information about the structure, organization and function of the complete set... |
Q6433589 Prostylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the isopteran family Stylotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India. The genus contains a single described species, Prostylotermes kamboja. |
Q4990525 The fangtooth snake-eel (Aplatophis chauliodus), also known as the tusky eel in Cuba and the United States, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1956. It is a marine, tropical eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and French Guiana. I... |
Q15998813 Leonard C. Fons was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. |
Q5893532 Heinrich Poselger (25 December 1818 – 4 October 1883) was a German botanist who specialized in studies of succulent plants.From 1849 to 1851 he collected plants, especially cacti, along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the process took part in the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. His collections of cac... |
Q24845221 Harriet Ann Heron (née Buttress, ca. 1836 – 28 October 1933) was an early settler and business owner in Central Otago, New Zealand, and one of the few women who lived in gold mining camps during the Otago gold rush. |
Q17485846 Valentin Belaud (born 16 September 1992) is a French modern pentathlete. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's event. |
Q218636 The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers in the U.S. Air Force fleet as of 2018, the other two being the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress.The B-1 was ... |
Q5912954 The Houghton Highway is a 2.74 km (1.70 mi) reinforced concrete viaduct, the second bridge to be built across Bramble Bay connecting the cities of Redcliffe and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia (the first bridge was the Hornibrook Bridge). The bridge, along with the third bridge, the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge... |
Q272369 Locronan (Lokorn in Breton) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France, with a population of 800.Locronan is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France") association. |
Q356108 Rhodri Meilir (born 18 November 1978) is a Welsh actor. |
Q5411873 Eurojet Romania SRL was an independent business charter company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. |
Q506456 Andrew Murray (born November 6, 1981 in Selkirk, Manitoba) is a Canadian-Croatian professional ice hockey player who is an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for KHL Medveščak Zagreb, member of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). |
Q5264930 Ujan Mas is a district (kecamatan) of Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu, Indonesia. |
Q6828119 Michael Adams (March 22, 1950 – April 18, 2010) was an American actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator. |
Q3169678 Texadina sphinctostoma is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochliopidae. |
Q4617451 These are the results of the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, which took place in Split, Croatia on 4 and 5 September 2010. |
Q1053620 Giorgio Ambrosoli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒo ambroˈzɔːli]; October 17, 1933 – July 11, 1979) was an Italian lawyer who was gunned down while investigating the malpractice of banker Michele Sindona. |
Q3455079 Kõivuküla is a village in Kastre Parish, Tartu County in eastern Estonia. |
Q3359774 The PO Corrèze (POC) is a former metre-gauge railway in the Corrèze department in central France. The concession was granted to the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) and constructed by the Société de Construction des Batignolles. Together with the Chemin de Fer du Blanc-Argent and the Blois à Saint Aignan,... |
Q16059202 William Mowbray (25 December 1835 – 21 June 1916) was a New Zealand teacher and musician. He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England on 25 December 1835. He was headmaster of St Paul's School in Wellington, which changed its name to Thorndon School during his tenure, for 43 years. |
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