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Q7913469 van Kriedt or Van Kriedt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:David Van Kriedt (1922–1994), American jazz saxophonistLarry Van Kriedt (born 1954), American rock bass guitarist
Q16208971 Adil Bellaz (Arabic: عادل بلاز‎; born June 4, 1981) is a Moroccan former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. Bellaz qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:54.08 from the Vittel Cup in Mulhouse, France. He challenge...
Q5835811 Sadat Mahalleh (Persian: سادات محله‎, also Romanized as Sādāt Maḩalleh; also known as Sa‘dat and Sadat Mahalleh Hoomeh) is a village in Chaf Rural District, in the Central District of Langarud County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 950, in 267 families.
Q19878117 Bryan Fustukian (born Saint Boniface, Winnipeg) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. He is also notable as a former radio broadcaster and concert promoter. Under the stage name of Vik Armen, Fustukian initially developed his music career in pop music. He continues to perform and record country...
Q19876577 The K Street Bridge is a complex of bridges over Rock Creek and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in Washington, D.C. The lower level of the bridge carries the surface street K Street, while the upper level carries the Whitehurst Freeway (U.S. Route 29) which terminates and merges into K Street immediately ...
Q11390174 The Zen Nippon Iaidō Renmei (ZNIR) or All Japan Iaidō Federation (全日本居合道連盟 abbreviated 全日居 "Zen Nichi I" or 全居連 "Zen I Ren") is a national non-governmental organization in Japan, founded in 1948 by Ikeda Hayato (later Prime Minister of Japan). The ZNIR was officially formed and registered with the government ...
Q47607 SQL ( (listen) S-Q-L, "sequel"; Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). It is particularly useful in handli...
Q1278399 Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 85-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia and broadcast in America on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.
Q1547647 The Jeu de l'année (French for Game of the Year) was a French games award, given by the Association de Promotion et d'Evaluation des Jeux in October to outstanding parlour gamespublished during the previous yearpublished in the French languageavailable in sufficiently many storesIn 2005 the Jeu de l'année merg...
Q4713453 Aldborough was a parliamentary borough located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, abolished in the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Q8018605 William Rodger Thomson Solomon (23 April 1872 in Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony – 12 July 1964 in Cradock, Eastern Cape) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1899.Solomon was selected in South Africa's side for the First Test after scoring two courageous fifties against the touring English team ...
Q6970141 The National 'Academy' of Songwriters, originally "Songwriters Resources and Services" was a music industry association which provided a support network for songwriters, and gave out awards in various categories. It was founded by Helen King, who was working as a secretarial/answering service for the American ...
Q3672978 Not to be confused with the church of Santa Chiara, Rome.The Church of Saint Clare in Vigna Clara (Italian: Santa Chiara a Vigna Clara, Latin: S. Clarae ad Vineam Claram) is a Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built as a parish church by decree of Cardinal Clemente Micara. In 1969 Pope Paul VI granted it...
Q16200054 Ivan Šipajlo was a Czechoslovak bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, he finished 14th in the four-man event.
Q6688260 Louis Theophiel Duerinck (August 1929 – November 9, 2008) was an executive with the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (C&NW). He is best known for leading the lawsuit that allowed the railroad to access the Powder River Basin.Duerinck was born to Belgian immigrants in Chicago, grew up in Riversi...
Q4563345 The 1933–34 New York Rangers season was the eighth season for the team in the National Hockey League. In the regular season, the Rangers finished third in the American Division with a 21–19–8 record. New York qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, where they lost to the Montreal Maroons 2–1 in a two-game, tot...
Q8012000 William Henry Gilder (September 17, 1812 – April 13 1864) was a Methodist clergyman.
Q4776945 Antonio S. Lucchetti (1888-1958) was a Puerto Rican engineer and public servant, through whom comprehensive electric service was established in Puerto Rico via the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority (PRWRA) and, later, via the public electric company, Fuentes Fluviales.Lucchetti was instrumental in establis...
Q4608974 The 2008 Nagoya Grampus season was Nagoya Grampus' 15th season in the J. League Division 1 and 26th overall in the Japanese top flight. They also participated in the 2007 J. League Cup, being knocked out at the Group Stage, and the 2008 Emperor's Cup, where they reached the Fifth Round before defeat to Honda F...
Q6787104 Mathias F. Correa (March 4, 1910 – December 5, 1963) was a pioneer in U.S. intelligence, lawyer and prosecutor. Served as Acting United States Attorney (March–July 1941) and was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (July 1941 – June 10, 1...
Q2493942 In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP):U+12000–U+123FF CuneiformU+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and PunctuationU+12480–U+1254F Early Dynastic CuneiformThe sample glyphs in the chart file published by the Unicode Consortium sho...
Q16014315 Baburao Paranjpe (बाबूराव परांजपे, 1922–1999) was an Indian politician. Shri Paranjape was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He was a member of Seventh Lok Sabha (1982–84) after winning bye-election in 1982, Ninth (1989–91), Eleventh (1996–98) and Tw...
Q20714740 Gavilan Plateau is a plateau in Riverside County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2083 feet on the north slope of the Temescal Mountains overlooking the Cajalco Valley south of Riverside, California.
Q20745477 Morrill Hall is a campus building of the University of Vermont (UVM), which is located on the southeast corner of the "University Green" in Burlington, Vermont (on the corner of Main Street and University Place). The building was named after U.S. Senator, Justin Smith Morrill who authored the Morrill Land-Gr...
Q22004233 Everett Smith Beneke (July 6, 1918 – May 21, 2010) was an American medical mycologist, and professor of microbiology at Michigan State University (1948–1987). Beneke chaired the American Board of Bioanalysis (1968–2004), he lived in Florida and died in 2010 at the age of 91. He made contributions to the field...
Q25340112 "How the 'A' Stole Christmas" is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season and 108th episode overall of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on December 9, 2014, on the cable network ABC Family. The episode was the series' first Christmas special and aired as part of the progr...
Q7198 Publius Ovidius Naso (Classical Latin: [ˈpu:.blɪ.ʊs ɔˈwɪ.dɪ.ʊs ˈnaː.soː]; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid () in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three cano...
Q8027106 The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is the independent nonprofit technology transfer organization serving the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research. It provides significant research support, granting tens of millions of dollars to the university each year and contributing to...
Q1364342 Ricardo Sperafico (born 23 July 1979) is a Brazilian professional racing driver.
Q7732130 The End of the Pier International Film Festival was a not-for profit independent film festival based in West Sussex, England. The festival began in 2002 and showed work by local film makers, but it has since grown to showcase shorts and features from all over the world. There are also extensive educational an...
Q7025750 Nicholas Lanier the Elder (d. 1612) was a French musician who played the flute and the cornett.
Q1131849 Picramnia, the bitterbushes, is a genus of plant considered to be in the family Picramniaceae, but sometimes placed in Simaroubaceae. The name is conserved against the genera Pseudo-brasilium Adans., and Tariri Aubl., both which have been rejected (nomen rejiciendum).
Q5502391 Three French ships of the French Navy have borne the name Capricieux ("Capricious"):A fireship (1671)Capricieux (1689), a 34-gun ship of the lineCapricieux (1754), a 64-gun ship of the line
Q5985202 The Ice Bowl was a college football game held in Fairbanks, Alaska between 1948 and 1952 and contested by the University of Alaska Fairbanks football team and a team from the Ladd Air Force Base.The game took place in the first week of January, around the same time as the major bowl games in the Continental Un...
Q7907724 V Corps was a corps-sized formation of the British Army that saw service in both World War I and World War II. It was first organised in February 1915 and fought through World War I on the Western front. It was recreated in June 1940 during World War II and substantially reorganised in 1942 for participation i...
Q7896688 The University of the Andes Library Services, officially known as SERBIULA (from the acronym in Spanish for Servicios Bibliotecarios de la Universidad de Los Andes), is the organization responsible for managing and directing all the different libraries of its parent institution, the University of the Andes, on...
Q573098 SMS Kaiserin Augusta was a unique protected cruiser, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1890s. Named for Empress Augusta, who died in January 1890, she was laid down in 1890, launched in January 1892, and completed in November of that year. Owing to budgetary restrictions, Kai...
Q4824484 The Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) is a collection of almost 200,000 zoological specimens, including skeletons, skins, spirit specimens, birds’ eggs, frozen tissue samples and a wildlife sound library, mainly of vertebrate animals from Australia and Papua New Guinea, which are stored in a secur...
Q274416 Édouard Niermans (born 10 November 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film The Return of Casanova was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Q2508905 Wyoming Highway 157 is a Wyoming State Road located in central Goshen County west of Lingle.
Q3438099 Ostrožno pri Ponikvi (pronounced [ɔˈstɾoːʒnɔ pɾi ˈpoːnikʋi]) is a settlement northeast of Ponikva in the Municipality of Šentjur in eastern Slovenia. The municipality is included in the Savinja Statistical Region of Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of Styria.
Q4984572 Buddleja davidii 'Royal Red Variegata' is a cultivar of undocumented origin, last known to have been sold in the UK by Mill Race Nursery in Essex during the 1990s. Another variegated form of 'Royal Red', it is considered inferior to the lower-growing 'Harlequin'.
Q3279778 Crash & Bernstein is an American live action television comedy series with puppetry which premiered on October 8, 2012 and ended on August 11, 2014 on Disney XD. Created by Eric Friedman, the series centered on a boy with three sisters who wishes to have a brother. His wishes come true when he builds his own p...
Q17025672 "Rock Ur Body" is a Korean-language song recorded by South Korean idol group VIXX. It was released physically and as a digital single on August 14, 2012 through Jellyfish Entertainment. The song served as VIXX's second single. "Rock Ur Body" was composed by Shinsadong Tiger and co-produced by Choi Kyu-sung. I...
Q18918686 Abdulla Al-Karbi (born 10 June 1990) is an Emirati-born Qatari handball player for Al Sadd and the Qatari national team.
Q3840734 Lungotevere Tor di Nona is the stretch of Lungotevere that connects Piazza di Ponte Sant'Angelo to Piazza di Ponte Umberto I in Rome, in the rione Ponte. It was named so following the resolution of the city council of 20 July 1887.
Q886895 William Cannon (March 15, 1809 – March 1, 1865) was an American merchant and politician from Bridgeville, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and later the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware during much of the Civil War.
Q5131737 Cleopatra D.C. (クレオパトラD.C., Kureopatora D.C.) is a manga series by Kaoru Shintani about a fictional United States corporation, led by the beautiful and spirited Cleopatra Corns.
Q146051 Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for Born into Brothels, the 2004 winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children i...
Q11878910 The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club. This book is more of a detective story as...
Q7986543 West Somerset or Somerset Western (formally The Western division of Somerset) was the name of a parliamentary constituency in the county of Somerset between 1832 and 1885. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
Q794934 The A•DEvantgarde festival was founded in 1991 by Sandeep Bhagwati and Moritz Eggert. A•DEvantgarde is a music festival held every 2 years in Munich, Germany.In 2007 the theme of the festival was on totalitarianism where the festival debuted the 60x60 project's Munich Mix featuring works with the theme of oppre...
Q843756 Chavanatte is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.
Q7272650 Quite Interesting Limited is a British research company, most notable for providing the research for the British television panel game QI (itself an abbreviation of Quite Interesting) and the Swedish version Intresseklubben, as well as other QI–related programmes and products. The company founder and chairman ...
Q3737113 The 1979 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the first edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Merced, United States, from June 29 to July 1, 1979. The five participating teams played a round robin to dec...
Q259325 Swen Swenson (January 23, 1930 - June 23, 1993) was a Broadway dancer and singer. Born in Inwood, Iowa, Swenson was trained by dancer Mira Rostova and at the School of American Ballet.Openly gay, he had featured and co-starring roles on Broadway in such musicals such as Wildcat with Lucille Ball, Little Me (for...
Q7619304 Stones is a young-adult novel by the Canadian author William E. Bell centred on the stoning of a Haitian woman in Orillia, Ontario in the 19th century. The novel, narrated by the teenage character Garnet Havelock, explores the themes of racism, religious intolerance and the debate between scientific reason an...
Q6252866 John Pickering (died November, 1645), parliamentarian: brother of Sir Gilbert Pickering; of Gray's Inn, 1634; commanded a regiment in the Eastern Association (the Parliamentary army under the command of Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester's) and in the New Model Army.
Q6165415 Javier Arevalo (born 29 April 1937) is a contemporary Mexican artist,who has done many exhibitions,around the world,including Europe, Latin America,The United States, Mexico and Japan.His influence has been greater around Mexico city,and Guadalajara, Jalisco.He has also taught Art at the Palacio de Bellas Arte...
Q4961077 Brendan Price is a British theatre, movie, and television actor. He graduated, winning the prize for outstanding Dialect work and began his career, like so many other successful actors, learning his trade in the regional theatres of England. He worked in a number of the major theatres, playing a diverse range ...
Q154026 FC KooTeePee was a Finnish football club.
Q18162719 "Tenerife Sea" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was written by Sheeran, Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol, and Foy Vance, and produced by Rick Rubin. The song was released on 20 June 2014 as part of his second studio album, x. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 93.
Q18346365 Modern Girls or Today's Girls (Hungarian: Mai lányok) is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Lia Szepes, Jëno Pataky and Steven Geray. The film may be best remembered for Magda Gabor's appearance in a supporting role.
Q2491787 Diana Rast (born 28 August 1970) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. She was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Q27985403 Hicks City is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Q20727320 For the Australian DJ and producer, see Will Sparks.Will Sparks (February 7, 1862 – March 31, 1937) was an American painter. He painted the adobe buildings of Spanish missions in California, Arizona and New Mexico, with a focus on colors and nocturnes.
Q9952 Opmeer (pronunciation )(West Frisian: Opmar or Obmar) is a municipality and town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
Q2222027 Harmony Township is a township in Forest County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 666 at the 2010 census, up from 511 at the 2000 census.
Q1921383 "Music" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna as the title track for her eighth studio album (2000). It was released as the lead single from the album on August 1, 2000 by Maverick and Warner Bros. Records. "Music" was inspired by a Sting concert Madonna attended and was written and produced by her wit...
Q10293061 GURPS Magic is a source book for the GURPS Role-playing game from Steve Jackson Games that provides in depth coverage of magic in the context of GURPS. The book expands on the material outlined in the Basic Set, provides alternative forms of magic for GMs to use, and contains much more material. The first edi...
Q3603090 Aaron Stecker (born November 13, 1975) is a former American football running back. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He played college football at Western Illinois and Wisconsin.Stecker also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New Orleans Saints, and Atlanta Falcons. He ea...
Q2604329 Fascination Records is a United Kingdom-based record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as an imprint of Polydor Records. The label was launched in spring of 2006, and is managed by former TOTP Magazine editor Peter Loraine. In 2010, Loraine announced he is setting up a management company, Fas...
Q1791932 Economics of the arts and literature or cultural economics (used below for convenience) is a branch of economics that studies the economics of creation, distribution, and the consumption of works of art, literature and similar creative and/or cultural products. For a long time, the concept of the "arts" wer...
Q5356029 Thornlie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It is located in Perth's southeastern suburbs, and is named after the suburb of Thornlie.Thornlie was first created for the 1989 state election. It was abolished in a redistribution prior to the 2005 election, but was recreated...
Q7755999 The Panman: Rhythm of the Palms is a 2007 film that tells the story of the rise and fall of the steel drum pan player Harry Daniel. Daniel is an icon of the Caribbean whose personal life suffers when he places his music above his family. For he is desperate to pass the pan culture to a younger generation. Duri...
Q2975752 The Arquebuse class was a group of 20 destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Two ships were sunk during the First World War and the others were scrapped after the war.
Q4189620 Hypericum mutilum is a species of St. John's wort known by the common name dwarf St. John's wort. It is native to parts of North America and is present in other parts as an introduced species. It is an annual or perennial herb taking a multibranched erect form up to about 60 centimeters tall. The oval green le...
Q2132796 Rationaltheater is a theatre in Bavaria, Germany. It is not associated with the Rational Theatre Company, Ltd. (UK) 1978 - 1986
Q7454066 Sergey Ostapchuk (Russian: Серге́й Остапчук; born 10 February 1976) is a retired Russian swimmer who won two bronze medals at the World and European championships in 1999. He also competed in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke events at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics but did not reach the finals.He has retired ...
Q16904272 Yuvabharathi Public School is a K–XII, co-educational private school in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 2005 and is part of the Bharat Educational Society. It is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Q2053296 Spirembolus fasciatus is a species of sheet weavers found in the United States. It was described by Banks in 1904.
Q11960565 Benjamin Helstad is a Norwegian actor and musician mostly known for King of Devil's Island, Body Troopers and Permafrost. He has also done the Norwegian dubbing for a lot of American films, including Disney's Fillmore, Jungle Cubs and A Bug's Life.
Q17991408 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Japanese: 小林さんちのメイドラゴン, Hepburn: Kobayashi-san Chi no Meidoragon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Coolkyoushinja. The series began serialization in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in May 2013, and is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment....
Q27990741 Mucking Flats and Marshes is a 311.6 biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Tilbury in Essex. It is part of the Thames Estuary and Marshes Ramsar site. and Special Protection AreaThe site is an extensive stretch of mudflats, saltmarsh and the sea wall, on the eastern side of the River Thames. ...
Q28229632 The Saratoga Revolution are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Saratoga Springs, New York that plays in the New York Collegiate Baseball League.
Q27839473 David Corrêa da Fonseca (born 17 October 1995), simply known as David, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a forward for Cruzeiro.
Q4355033 Dora, Countess Russell (née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Q722347 Walter Jackson Ong (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 ...
Q3430281 Sundbyvester is one of the 15 administrative, statistical, and tax city districts (bydele) comprising the municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark. It lies on the south border of the municipality on the island of Amager. It covers an area of 5.21 km², has a population of 38,017 and a population density of 7,302 p...
Q6001012 Ilona Carson (born April 30, 1974 in Houston, Texas) is a reporter and late afternoon anchor for ABC owned-and-operated station KTRK (channel 13) in Houston. Prior to KTRK, Carson was an anchor for Fox-owned KSAZ in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She was born in ...
Q942167 Radosław Popławski (born January 16, 1983 in Nowa Sól) is a Polish steeplechase runner.He finished 6th in the 3000m steeplechase final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He was also a finalist in the same event 2004 Olympics, where he set his personal best to finish 12th.
Q591331 Novospassky Bridge (Russian: Новоспасский Мост) is a steel plate girder bridge that spans Moskva River, connecting Novospassky Monastery and Paveletsky rail terminal areas in Moscow, Russia (about 3 kilometers south-east from the Kremlin). It was built in 1911, as a triple-span steel arch bridge. Reconstruction...
Q4933710 Robert Berrima Quinn MM (9 April 1915 – 12 September 2008) was a champion Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a decorated soldier of the Second World War.
Q7426953 Satyavedu is a town in Chittoor district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a border of andhra Pradesh and Tamil nadu. It is the mandal headquarters of Satyavedu mandal. It is located 60 km north of Chennai Metropolitan City
Q1588345 The Karoo long-billed lark (Certhilauda subcoronata) or Karoo longbill is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. It is found in southern Africa in its natural habitat of subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Q7683182 Tangxia (simplified Chinese: 塘厦镇; traditional Chinese: 塘廈鎮; pinyin: Tángxià zhèn) is a town under the direct jurisdiction of Dongguan prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, China. It is located in the southeast of Dongguan's prefectural area and borders the Shenzhen districts of Longhua to the south and ...
Q5261427 Derby Choral Union is one of the UK’s longest standing choral societies having been formed in 1866. The choir was established to perform choral music of the highest quality, a tradition it strives to maintain to this day. The repertoire includes traditional choral works as well as music by 20th-century and mor...
Q10772645 Icteralaria is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae.
Q4795362 The Arnold–Park Log Home is a historic house, located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is preserved by the State of Oregon within the Tryon Creek State Natural Area.
Q8029858 Wolf Lake is a lake located near Wurtsboro, New York. The spring-fed 340 acres (140 ha) lake is a 90-minute drive from New York City.