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Q5680764 hat. is the first studio album by Mike Keneally, originally released in 1992 on Exowax Recordings. It includes the 14 minutes-long complex composition "Lightin' Roy" (dedicated to Frank Zappa) performed entirely by Mike. |
Q6890353 Moffat railway station was a station and the terminus of a short branch line which served Moffat, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by trains from the junction at the now closed Beattock |
Q14796843 The knockout stage of the FIBA EuroBasket 2013 took place between September 18 and September 22, 2013. All games were played at Arena Stožice in Ljubljana, Slovenia.The group composed of the top four teams from the Groups E and F. |
Q19879079 Children Dancing at a Party, produced by Norman Rockwell, was used as the cover for the January 26, 1918 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This painting has also been called "Boy Stepping on Girl’s Toe" and "Pardon Me". The original painting, oil on canvas measuring 23x19 inches, is in the collection of th... |
Q26210987 Masaaki Daito (大塔 正明, Daitō Masaaki, born 5 April 1973) is a former baseball player from Japan. He played in the Central League for the Chunichi Dragons. |
Q14821568 Eunidia mussardi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Lepesme and Stephan von Breuning in 1957. |
Q6727688 Madian (simplified Chinese: 马甸; traditional Chinese: 馬甸; pinyin: Mǎdiàn; Wade–Giles: Ma-tian "Caravansary" or "Horse Pasture") is a community in Haidian District, northern Beijing. It is adjacent to the intersection of the 3rd Ring Road and the Badaling Expressway, at the Haidian District-Xicheng District bord... |
Q4571294 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1963 to Wales and its people. |
Q2717860 Chiojdu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkjoʒdu]) is a commune in the northwestern hill and mountainside region of Buzău County, Romania. Made up of six villages (Bâsca Chiojdului, Cătiașu, Chiojdu, Lera, Plescioara and Poenițele) on the bank of the Bâsca Chiojdului River, a small tributary to Buzău River, it is the... |
Q8066470 Zapoy (Russian: запой, IPA: [zɐˈpoj]) is a term used in Russia and other post-Soviet states to describe alcohol abuse behavior resulting in two or more days of continuous drunkenness. In 2007, about 20% of Russian men demonstrated behaviours associated with hazardous drinking, and about 30% of working-age male... |
Q4679703 Adam Rudden is a Dublin-based Irish poet, born in May 1983. His work has been published in poetry periodicals including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Electric Acorn, Jacobyte Poetry, Agenda and Horizons.He currently has three collections of poetry published by Lapwing Publications: "Fallen Eyelashes" (2004... |
Q3154312 Irena Pavelková (born 5 September 1974 in Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1990 to 2012.She won seven medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (2003, 2005, 2010) and four silvers (2002, 2006, 2007, 2011).She ... |
Q5321037 Dęborzeczka [dɛmbɔˈʐɛt͡ʂka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poświętne, within Opoczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Poświętne, 10 km (6 mi) north of Opoczno, and 65 km (40 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q7761511 The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment is a book written by Christopher Hibbert in 1963 which traces the development of the social justice system, mostly from an English perspective, though information about the continent and the United States is also included. |
Q4971782 The 'Bro Bowl' is one of the last remaining skateboard parks of the 1970s and the first public skatepark to be built in Florida.Located at Perry Harvey Sr. Park in Tampa, Florida, this facility opened in 1979. The Bro Bowl is a bank-style park more similar to the first generation skateparks of 1976-1977 rather... |
Q5000405 The Burrell Heights Apartments is a building complex in southeast Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Q137577 Varun Raymond Aaron (born 29 October 1989) is an Indian cricketer from Jamshedpur. A right-arm fast bowler, he first played for Jharkhand U-19 followed by Jharkhand Ranji team. He played his first One Day International (ODI) for India in October 2011 and made his Test debut the following month. Possessing a smo... |
Q2736027 John C. Wheatley (17 February 1927, Tucson – 10 May 1986, Los Angeles) was an American experimental physicist who worked on quantum fluids at low and very low temperatures. |
Q18053853 Transmembrane protein 151A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM151A gene. |
Q18393613 Ray Harvey (28 July 1929 – 17 September 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Harvey won the best and fairest award in the Melbourne thirds (junior) team in 1948. He only played two games in 1949, kicking two goals in his debut match, before ... |
Q1419165 Firmin Massot (5 May 1766, in Geneva, Republic of Geneva – 16 May 1849, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Swiss portrait painter. |
Q24807621 GTB Technologies, Inc. is an American cybersecurity AI based technology company headquartered in Newport Beach, California, United States. It focuses on providing enterprise class data protection and data loss prevention solutions within an organization, for data in the cloud, and for data protection outside ... |
Q11687824 Beyond the Blue Bird is an album by jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan, with guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist George Mraz, and drummer Lewis Nash. |
Q3848905 Mario Pannunzio (5 March 1910 - 10 February 1968) was an Italian journalist and politician. As a journalist he was the director in charge of the daily newspaper Risorgimento Liberale (Liberal reawakening) in the 1940s and of the weekly political magazine Il Mondo (The World) in the 1950s. As a politician he... |
Q33104071 Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer is an autobiographical book by the biographer Richard Holmes, his second of three. It was published by Pantheon Books in 2000. |
Q21340960 Bianca Luiza Reinert (c. 1966 – 10 September 2018) was a Brazilian biologist and ornithologist. She was one of a group of ornithologists who discovered a previously undocumented species of swamp bird, Formicivora acutirostris. She also worked to create a nature reserve to preserve its habitat. |
Q3295716 Colesville is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the United States. |
Q12034321 Luis V. Rey (born 1955) is a Spanish-Mexican artist and illustrator, a 1977 graduate of the San Carlos Academy, (UNAM). He is best known for his innovative work in the field of dinosaur paleoart, for example in conjunction with Robert T. Bakker, promoting awareness of the developing evidence for feathered din... |
Q4895232 Bert Monroy is an American artist best known as an early Photoshop expert. He wrote the first book on the use of Photoshop (The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, coauthored with David Biedny), and became an established Photoshop educator. He was a frequent guest on The Screen Savers, where he gave brief Photo... |
Q318041 Vittorio Pozzo (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈpottso]; 2 March 1886 – 21 December 1968) was an Italian football manager, player and journalist.The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the first person to guide his national team to... |
Q5176933 The counter promenade position (abbreviated as CPP in dance diagrams) is a dance position in ballroom and other dances. It is described differently in various dance categories, but essentially it is the opposite of the promenade position. |
Q11703253 Hannah Elizabeth was built in 1829 in Stonington, Connecticut. Records of the time describe her as being a two-masted schooner, 67 feet long and 20 feet wide. At the time of the sinking her weight was listed as 74 tons, also recorded was that she was armed with three cannons; two 6-pounders and one 4-pounder... |
Q127699 The Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt (German: Sachsen-Anhalt). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 19... |
Q5312225 The Duero River (Mexico) is a river of Mexico. |
Q6790861 Matthew Lessner is an award-winning artist and independent filmmaker. |
Q4728004 The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1957 season in camogie. The championship was won by Dublin who defeated Antrim by a two-point margin in the final thus gaining revenge for Antrim's semi-final victory of the previous year that interrupted would have been a sequence of 1... |
Q8898639 Michal Vilkovský (born 13 August 1993 in Levoča) is a Slovak football striker who currently plays for club ŠK Odeva Lipany. |
Q6832084 Michael Langley (born 12 August 1987) is a prominent child actor from New Zealand. He appeared in a number of culturally significant New Zealand films such as Heaven and Broken English. He also played roles in numerous New Zealand television series including Xena: Warrior Princess, The Tribe and Young Hercule... |
Q5263254 Derryquin Castle was an 18th-century stone-built country house, now demolished, in the Parknasilla estate in Sneem, County Kerry in the Republic of Ireland. It stood on the Ring of Kerry route some 40 km (25 miles) south-west of Killarney.Designed by local architect James Franklin Fuller, the house comprised a... |
Q6710946 Léandre Gaël Tawamba Kana (born 20 December 1989) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi club Al-Taawoun.Early into his career, Tawamba played as a centre-back and defensive midfielder, but was converted into a forward after arriving to Europe. |
Q13539405 Eupithecia suspiciosata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Karl Dietze from the US state of California. |
Q15425306 Norwogonin, also known as 5,7,8-trihydroxyflavone (5,7,8-THF), is a flavone, a naturally occurring flavonoid-like chemical compound which is found in Scutellaria baicalensis (Baikal skullcap). It has been found to act as an agonist of the TrkB, the main signaling receptor of brain-derived neurotrophic factor ... |
Q302679 Thermozephyrus ataxus, the wonderful hairstreak, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. |
Q1775093 Buch Abbey, in German Kloster Buch, is a former Cistercian monastery near Leisnig in Saxony. |
Q596262 The Diocese of Fissiana (in Latin Rite Fissianensis) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. |
Q39055626 The 1924 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1924 NCAA football season. The head coach was Chick Meehan, coaching his fifth season with the Orangemen. The team played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. |
Q759783 A scout cruiser was a type of warship of the early 20th Century, which were smaller, faster, more lightly armed and armoured than protected cruisers or light cruisers, but larger than contemporary destroyers. Intended for fleet scouting duties and acting as a flotilla leader, a scout cruiser was typically armed... |
Q1363825 Saint Vincent Archabbey, is a Roman Catholic Benedictine Monastery in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the city of Latrobe. A member of the American-Cassinese Congregation, it is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The Benedictine monks of St. Vi... |
Q14709622 Riggs Field is a 6,500-capacity soccer-specific stadium located in Clemson, South Carolina. The stadium is home to the Clemson Tigers men's and women's soccer teams. It has also hosted the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship in 1987. The stadium opened for soccer in 1980, and was renovated in 1987, and again in ... |
Q1959634 Nathaniel David Mermin (; born 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Mermin–Wagner theorem, his application of the term "boojum" to superfluidity, his textbook with Neil Ashcroft on solid-state physics, and for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics ... |
Q7235643 The Pound Baronetcy, of Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 August 1905 for John Pound, then head of luggage manufacturers John Pound and Co. and also chairman of the London General Omnibus Company, who served as Lord Mayor of London fro... |
Q7082344 The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. (All women's teams at the school are known as Cowgirls.) The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference.Since 1938, the team has played... |
Q639781 Ouarkoye is a department or commune of Mouhoun Province in western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Ouarkoye. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 37,178. |
Q4866469 Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1956 followed a system that had been the object of criticism and reform in recent years, which would continue that summer.The Veterans Committee was meeting only in odd-number years to consider older major league players as well as managers, umpires, and executives. T... |
Q6832490 Michael Ashley Mann KCVO (25 May 1924 – 31 December 2011) was an Anglican bishop during the last quarter of the 20th century.He was born on 25 May 1924 and educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1946 to 1955 he served in the Colonial Service in Nigeria. Ordained in 1957 he was late... |
Q7325604 Richard Christopher Fallon (18 December 1926–3 April 1970) was an Irish police officer who received the Scott Medal. He was the first member of the Garda Síochána to be killed in the line of duty as a consequence of The Troubles |
Q2168683 Brendan Dean Steele (born April 5, 1983) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. |
Q4761148 Andy Paton (2 January 1923 – 8 February 2014) was a Scottish football player and manager. Paton played for Motherwell, Hamilton Academical and Scotland, and he later managed Hamilton.Paton appeared three times for Scotland. His debut came in January 1946 against Belgium and his second and third appearances wer... |
Q6753763 Map symbolization is the characters, letters, or similar graphic representations used on a map to indicate an object or characteristic in the real world. |
Q1395859 Fantasy No. 2 in C minor, K. 396/385f (German: Fragment einer Fantasie in c) is a fragment of a violin sonata composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna in August or September 1782.Its tempo marking is adagio. The fragment consists of 27 bars, the violin part entering at bar 23.Maximilian Stadler later comp... |
Q3459464 The Sarab Khanate with the capital at Sarab existed from 1747 to 1797. It was bordering the Ardabil Khanate to the east and the Tabriz Khanate to its west, and divided into three mahals: Sarab, Hashtrud and Germi. The khanate was founded by the leader of the Shaqaqi tribe, Ali Khan. During the Russo-Persian Wa... |
Q17085170 Tolombeh-ye Mansuri (Persian: تلمبه منصوري, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Manṣūrī) is a village in Moezziyeh Rural District, Chatrud District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 70, in 11 families. |
Q16201924 Annabelle Jane Carey (born 11 March 1989) was a New Zealand swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. As of 2006, she currently holds a New Zealand record of 1:09.26 in the 100 m breaststroke from the World Championship Trials in Auckland. In the same year she helped out the New Zealand team to pull of... |
Q18161427 Rhydyfelin (High Level) Halt railway station once served the village of Rhydyfelin in South Wales. |
Q18379163 Nandini Shankar is an Indian violinist who performs Hindustani Classical Music and Fusion. She is the daughter of Dr. Sangeeta Shankar and granddaughter of the renowned Padmabhushan Dr. N. Rajam. |
Q3062003 Gehyra vorax, also known as the voracious four-clawed gecko or voracious dtella, is a gecko native to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Tonga. |
Q7033216 Night Beat is an NBC radio drama series that aired February 6, 1950–September 25, 1952, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Wheaties. |
Q7639958 Sunetra Sarker (born 25 June 1973) is an English actress, known for her roles as Nisha Batra in Brookside, Anji Mittel in No Angels, Zoe Hanna in Casualty and Kaneez Paracha in Ackley Bridge. In 2014, she took part in the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Brendan Cole. |
Q384154 <LOL> is the debut studio album by Polish pop group Blog 27, released in Poland in 2005 and internationally in 2006. |
Q2066584 The Womersley number (α or Wo {\displaystyle {\text{Wo}}} ) is a dimensionless number in biofluid mechanics and biofluid dynamics. It is a dimensionless expression of the pulsatile flow frequency in relation to viscous effects. It is named after John R. Womer... |
Q4018096 Wandering is a town located in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the state capital, Perth, just off the Albany Highway. It is the main town in the Shire of Wandering. At the 2016 census, Wandering had a population of 294. |
Q2240078 Route 570 is a one-mile (1.6 km) road that stretches from Route 56 in Lihue to Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai. Before the construction of Route 51 in the 1980s, the road provided primary access to Lihue Airport with the north and eastern shores of the Kauai. |
Q5955303 Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University (or simply Thunderbird) is a global management school located in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded 1946 as an independent, private institution, it was acquired by Arizona State University in 2014. The school derives its name from Thunderbird Field No.... |
Q4734823 Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics. |
Q2881061 Ballaciner is an essay by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio with help from Gilles Jacob. It was originally published in French in 2003.Ballaciner was described by the Nobel committee as:A deeply personal essay about the history of the art of film and the importance of film in the author’s life, from t... |
Q6565179 Muro Kyūsō (室鳩巣) or Muro Naokiyo (直清) (March 30, 1658 – September 9, 1734), was a Neo-Confucian scholar and an official of the Tokugawa shogunate during the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune. Muro was responsible for the reintroduction of orthodox neo-Confucianist thought into government and societal life, attempting... |
Q2037873 Linstead Parva is a small village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 90, increasing to 132 at the 2011 Census. making it larger than neighbouring Linstead Magna.It shares a parish council with Linstead Magna and nearby Chediston. |
Q7668279 T. H. B. Dawson House is a historic home located at Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia. It was built in 1880 and is an "L"-shaped, two-story, brick house with highly ornate porches at the front and side elevations. It features Gothic Revival and Italianate decorative elements. The house was built ... |
Q1057421 The Drag Net, also known as The Dragnet, is a 1928 American silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Based on the story "Nightstick" by Oliver H.P. Garrett. Directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Eve... |
Q2895945 Benito Cereno is a 1969 French film directed by Serge Roullet. It is based on the novella Benito Cereno, by American writer Herman Melville. |
Q7021599 Nezeheh (Persian: نزهه; also known as Qeyzānīyeh-ye Kūchak) is a village in Gheyzaniyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,446, in 473 families. |
Q6893098 Mohammed Ghermati (born 23 January 1897, date of death unknown) was a French long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1924 Summer Olympics. |
Q14685955 Indian River Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Vero Beach, Florida. Opened in 1996, it is anchored by JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Dillard's. |
Q17460883 The Men's 200 metres at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place at Hampden Park on 30 and 31 July 2014. |
Q20639501 Charles Leonard Hartwell (1 August 1873 – 12 January 1951) was an English sculptor in bronze and marble. |
Q30596149 Templemichael, is a civil parish near Killoe in County Longford, Ireland: it has a Church of Ireland church. |
Q146290 Howea forsteriana (Kentia palm or thatch palm) is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaeae, endemic to Lord Howe Island in Australia. It is also widely grown on Norfolk Island. It is a relatively slow-growing palm, eventually growing up to 10 m (33 ft) tall by 6 m (20 ft) wide. Its fronds can r... |
Q235068 Claudio Ranieri Grande Ufficiale OMRI (Italian: [ˈklaudjo raˈnjeːri, -ˈnjɛː-]; born 20 October 1951) is an Italian football coach and former player who was most recently head coach of Serie A club Roma.Ranieri began his managerial career in the lower leagues in Italy during the late 1980s, and made his name at ... |
Q5599181 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the western United States that burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km2) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British C... |
Q686663 Not to be confused with Chuchelna, Liberec Region.Chuchelná (German: Kuchelna) is a village in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is part of micro-region Hlučínsko. It has around 1,300 inhabitants. |
Q1520375 Pulloxhill is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England 342 ft above sea level with a population of 850 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 985 at the 2011 Census.Pulloxhill has a church, a school and one public house. The village shop and post office have closed, as has The Chequers public hous... |
Q7503547 Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels Lament of Mohini (Penguin, 2000), Maria's Room (Harper Collins, 2010), Kipling's Daughter (AngloInk, 2018), Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom (Puffin, 2006), The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu (Puffin, 2009) and the... |
Q7558692 Solomon King (born Allen Verner Levy, August 13, 1931 – January 21, 2005) was an American 1960s and 1970s popular music singer. He is best remembered for his 1968 British hit single, "She Wears My Ring", which charted in 40 countries. |
Q18026585 Glutathione S-transferase M3 (brain), also known as GSTM3, is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the GSTM3 gene. |
Q636140 Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a French filmmaker and magician generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. He made about 520 films between 1896 and 1912, covering a range of genres including trick films, fantasies, comedies, advertisements, satires, costume dramas, liter... |
Q7144264 Patar is a town and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is located in Konibodom District in Sughd province. The jamoat has a total population of 13,956. |
Q7386377 The Pellejas River (Spanish: Río Pellejas) is a river of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Pellejas is a tributary to the Río Grande de Arecibo river. |
Q5149100 Colorz of Rage is a 1999 debut feature film for Dale Resteghini. The independent urban drama features Debbie (Nicki Richards) and Tony Mespelli (Dale Resteghini) trying to make it in New York City despite great adversity. It also features hip-hop star Redman and R&B singer Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley. |
Q7295143 Rasmussen Island (65°15′S 64°5′W) is a small island in the north part of Waddington Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. The north entrance to Waddington Bay was named "Cap Rasmussen" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, but air photos show no significant point there which can be rei... |
Q90031 Dieter Thomas Heck (born Carl-Dieter Heckscher; 29 December 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a German television presenter, singer and actor. He is known as the presenter of the popular TV program ZDF-Hitparade, featuring German Schlager music, from 1969 to 1984, reaching millions of people. As an actor, he starred in... |
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