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Q1269550 Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (11 January 1839 – 23 July 1914) was a Russian journalist and novelist.He was the grandson of historian Nikolay Karamzin.Meshchersky was editor of Grazhdanin (The Citizen), a traditional conservative newspaper which received subsidies from the imperial authorities. Accordi...
Q6209398 Joe Davis (22 May 1941 – 5 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Third Lanark, Hibernian, and Carlisle United.
Q5402903 Ethan Brosh is a rock guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for his solo work and for his work as the lead guitarist in the band Burning Heat.Growing up in Israel, at a very young age Brosh took piano lessons briefly after being inspired by classical music and classical composer Bach. He late...
Q14565814 Abdelmajid Najib Ammari (born 10 April 1992) is an Algerian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga I club Viitorul Constanța.
Q4147285 Hrabove (Ukrainian: Грабове; Russian: Грабово, Grabovo, also spelled Grabove) is a village in Shakhtarsk Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. Its population was 1,000 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census. It is notorious for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down by rebels supported by R...
Q1347345 The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is a province of the Anglican Communion stretching from Iran in the east to Algeria in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south. It is the largest and the most diverse Anglican province. The church is headed by a President Bishop, currently...
Q1245628 Georges Pichard (17 January 1920 – 7 June 2003) was a French comics artist, known for numerous magazine covers, serial publications and albums, stereotypically featuring partially exposed voluptuous women.
Q32391 The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders is a museum to memorialize those that were killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell on December 13, 1937. It is located in the southwestern corner of Nanji...
Q1818055 Leonard Walter Bush (6 June 1927 – 15 June 2004) was an English jazz double bassist.Bush was born in London. He contracted polio as a child and had a limp for the rest of his life. He played violin before switching to bass at 16 and was playing professionally by 17 in a variety show called The Rolling Stones a...
Q14704301 The Harry S. Truman Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing sites closely associated with US President Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri. It includes the Truman Home at 219 North Delaware, Truman's home for much of his adult life and now a centerpiece of the Harry S. T...
Q4904667 Biesiadki [bjɛˈɕatki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cyców, within Łęczna County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Cyców, 19 km (12 mi) east of Łęczna, and 41 km (25 mi) east of the regional capital Lublin.
Q4925391 Blast of Storm (foaled 1996 in Ireland) was a Barbadian Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first horse to win three consecutive runnings of the Barbados Gold Cup. [1]Trained by William C. Marshall for owner Lady Sally Arbib, Blast of storm was ridden by Jono Jones in all three of his Gold Cup wins.Retired from...
Q6359727 Kamshad Kooshan (Persian: كامشاد كوشان; born December 19, 1962) is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director. كامشاد كوشانIranian-born & Bay Area film director, screenwriter and film producer, Kamshad Kooshan, immigrated to the United States at the age of Sixteen. He has been involved with photography si...
Q6490233 Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Dwyer (2 February 1884 – August 1964) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative fullback who captained the Wallabies in 1913.Dwyer, a fullback, was born in Orange, New South Wales. He was schooled at the Patrician Brothers School in Orange but left scho...
Q2010235 Þórarinn Ingi Valdimarsson (anglicized Thorarinn Ingi Valdimarsson) (born 23 April 1990) is an Icelandic footballer who plays for Stjarnan.
Q16729332 Frank Goedeke is a retired South African-born German rugby player. He gained selection as a utility player in the German Sevens team and as a centre for the German national team in the late 1990s.
Q4676760 SmartFusion is a family of microcontrollers with an integrated FPGA of Actel. The device includes an ARM Cortex-M3 hard processor core (with up to 512kB of flash and 64kB of RAM) and analog peripherals such as a multi-channel ADC and DACs in addition to their flash-based FPGA fabric.
Q1396476 Çukurca is a village in the District of Gerede, Bolu Province, Turkey. As of 2010, it had a population of 82 people.
Q14715824 Red Wilson Field is a baseball venue in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, home to the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School is located to the southwest of the field. The 1996, 2006, and 2013 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Games were held here and in 2006 the Y...
Q14089799 In a Tidal Wave of Mystery is the debut studio album of American indie pop duo Capital Cities, released on June 4, 2013, under Capitol Records.
Q18001505 Manuel Eisner is a Professor of Comparative and Developmental Criminology, researching the history of interpersonal violence. The current Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, he founded the Violence Research Centre in 2014. Prof Eisner conducted an inventive study on leve...
Q14810385 Piezochaerus melzeri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Mermudes in 2008.
Q16626543 Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit (born August 15, 1919) is an Argentine human rights activist who is the current vice president and founding member of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association. Tarlovsky was born in a rural area of the province of Santa Fe as the daughter of a farmer and rancher who suffe...
Q10688469 South of the Highway (Swedish:Söder om landsvägen) is a 1936 Swedish comedy film directed by Gideon Wahlberg and starring Edvard Persson, Fritiof Billquist and Inga-Bodil Vetterlund.The film's art direction was by Max Linder.
Q28136716 Boldi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:Benito Boldi (born 1934), Italian footballerMassimo Boldi (born 1945), Italian stand-up comedian and actor
Q3431027 Esther Hicks (née Weaver, born March 5, 1948) is an American inspirational speaker and author. She has co-written nine books with her late husband Jerry Hicks, presented numerous workshops on the law of attraction with Abraham Hicks Publications and appeared in the original version of the 2006 film The Secret....
Q5238833 David R. Mayer (born February 28, 1967) is an American Democratic Party politician and the current mayor of Gloucester Township, New Jersey.Mayer served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2008, where he represented the 4th Legislative District. He was a member of the General Assembly's Education C...
Q908162 Pan-Asianism (also known as Asianism or Greater Asianism) is an ideology that promotes the unity of Asian peoples. Several theories and movements of Pan-Asianism have been proposed, specifically from East, South and Southeast Asia. Motivating the movement has been resistance to Western imperialism and coloniali...
Q2033456 Yö (English: night) was a Finnish rock band, formed in 1981 at Pori, Finland. The band has had many line-up changes during their history, and almost 20 different musicians play or have played with the band. Yö's first line-up included singer Olli Lindholm and composer, singer and keyboardist Jussi Hakulinen, g...
Q6602375 This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 339 of the United States Reports:District of Columbia v. Little, 339 U.S. 1 (1950)Solesbee v. Balkcom, 339 U.S. 9 (1950)Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 339 U.S. 33 (1950)United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56 (1950)United States v. Burnison, ...
Q1054042 The Central University was founded by the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) in Accra, Ghana. It started off as a pastoral training institute in 1988. It was then known as the Central Bible College by June 1991. It later became the Central Christian College in 1993 and eventually became the Central Uni...
Q5132769 Clifton M. Speegle (November 4, 1917 – September 5, 1994) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from 1955 to 1962, compiling a record of 36–42–3. During his tenure, Oklahoma State was 0–8 in the...
Q4868030 Bassarona recta, the redtail marquis, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South and South-East Asia.
Q2273495 The 1975–76 Serie A season was the 42nd season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Nine teams participated in the league, and HC Gherdeina won the championship.
Q11779592 The Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) was a collaboration between 15 universities with the goal of designing and building a particle accelerator for the Midwestern United States. It existed between 1953–1967, but could not achieve its goal in this time and lost funding. It was thought that P...
Q5563206 Gino is a 1993 Australian film, directed by Jackie McKimmie.
Q5442666 The Felton Historic District is a historic district located at Felton, Delaware, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Q13604915 Elaphropus gerardianus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Trechinae. It was described by Burgeon in 1935.
Q16897205 Slaklidalen is a valley in Sørkapp Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about four kilometers, and is located between Gavrilovfjellet and Brevassfjellet at the western side, and Wiederfjellet and Gråkallen at the east side. Slaklielva flows through the valley on its way from Gråkallbreen to Brein...
Q16897365 Taragay-Byas (Russian: Тарагай-Бясь) is a rural locality (a selo) in Khomustakhsky 2-y Rural Okrug of Namsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 21 kilometers (13 mi) from Namtsy, the administrative center of the district, and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Khatas, the administrative center of the rur...
Q2752688 Roeland Jaap (Roel) in 't Veld (born 20 July 1942) is a Dutch Public administration scholar, Labour Party politician, and shortly State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 1993.
Q19570574 This is a list of Belgian television related events from 2010.
Q27886514 Andrew McGrath (born 2 June 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Essendon Football Club with the first overall selection in the 2016 national draft.
Q42433280 El César is a Mexican biographical television series that premiered on Space on 18 September 2017, and concluded on 11 December 2017. Based on the life of legendary Mexican's boxer Julio César Chávez. The series is produced by Disney Media Distribution Latin America, Televisión Azteca and BTF Media. It stars...
Q37861067 Justyne Caruana, is a Maltese lawyer and politician, current Minister for Gozo since 9 June 2017 in the second cabinet of Joseph Muscat. She had been successively Labour member of the Parliament since she was elected in 2003 general elections for island of Gozo constituency. Caruana is also member of the Parl...
Q2317328 The geology of India is diverse. Different regions of India contain rocks belonging to different geologic periods, dating as far back as the Eoarchean Era. Some of the rocks are very deformed and altered. Other deposits include recently deposited alluvium that has yet to undergo diagenesis. Mineral deposits of...
Q5208215 Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge (; 1861 – August 7, 1914) donated land to help in the development of Hollywood, west of Los Angeles, California, in 1887.
Q4923294 GMM Grammy Public Company Limited (Thai: จีเอ็มเอ็ม แกรมมี่ or G"MM' Grammy) is the largest media conglomerate entertainment company in Thailand. It claims a 70 percent share of the Thai entertainment industry. Grammy artists include Thongchai McIntyre, Silly Fools and Loso. In addition to its music business, ...
Q7203447 Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney's Playland beginning in 1928) was a 10-acre (40,000 m2) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California along Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now. It began...
Q6440137 Krzysztof Maria Globisz (born 16 January 1957 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a Polish theatre and film actor. His best-known role is as Piotr Balicki, the newly qualified barrister whose opinion of capital punishment undergoes a radical change in A Short Film About Killing (1988) directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Q7358194 Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Fleetwood Hesketh (28 July 1902 – 14 November 1987), born Roger Bibby-Hesketh, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Southport from 1952 to 1959.
Q7209788 A public health effort to permanently eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio) infection around the world began in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Rotary Foundation. These organizations, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...
Q7910460 The Valea Vacii River is a tributary of the Suhurlui River in Romania.
Q7192232 Pierre Garneau (8 May 1823 – 23 June 1905) was a Canadian businessman and politician.
Q1276315 Horsfiline is an oxindole alkaloid found in the plant Horsfieldia superba, which is used in traditional herbal medicine. It has analgesic effects and has been the subject of research both to produce it synthetically by convenient routes, and to develop analogues and derivatives which may have improved analgesi...
Q1717843 Jürgen Wittmann (born 14 August 1966 in Neustadt an der Donau) is a German former footballer who became a coach. He worked for many years as a goalkeeping coach with TSV 1860 Munich. He played five seasons in the Bundesliga for Fortuna Düsseldorf and SpVgg Unterhaching.
Q7972924 Wat Carolina Buddhajakra Vanaram is a Thai Buddhist Monastery. It is located near Bolivia, North Carolina (or about 20 miles (32 km) west of Wilmington, North Carolina). The Wat Carolina Monastery is under the leadership of Abbot Phrakru Buddamonpricha.
Q5258986 Dennis William Streifel (born 8 December 1945) was a business agent and politician in British Columbia. He represented Mission-Kent in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.He worked for Canada Safeway and Weldwood of Canada before working with th...
Q35112 Cajamarca Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the districts of Chetilla, Baños del Inca and Cajamarca (Porcón) in the Peruvian province of Cajamarca, along the northwest coast of Peru.It was never spoken throughout the region, where other indigenous languages like Mochica were spoken .Cajamarca Quechua is ...
Q6348838 Kajabbi is a town in the locality of Three Rivers, Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.
Q18619316 Jack Revill, better known as Jackmaster, (born 11 January 1986) is a Scottish DJ from Glasgow. He is a co-founder of the record label and club night Numbers as well as Wireblock, Dress 2 Sweat and Point.One Recordings.He is renowned for his in-depth and diverse music taste and ability to mix a multitude of di...
Q19877583 Lionel Edward William Renfrey (1916–2008) was an Australian Anglican bishop. He was the Dean of Adelaide from 1966 until 1997.Renfrey was educated at the University of Adelaide and ordained in 1940. After a curacy in Prospect, South Australia he was with the Bush Brotherhood of St John Baptist until 1947. Fol...
Q19992260 Pierre François Olivier Aubert (1763 – c.1830) was a French cellist and composer, born in Amiens. For twenty-five years he was a member of the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique in Paris.His chief merit is having published two good instruction books for the cello at a time when works of that kind were rare and mu...
Q18671826 General John Studholme Hodgson (1757 – 10 January 1846) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot.
Q23808672 Paramount Miami Worldcenter is a 60-story condominium tower in the Miami Worldcenter complex. It sits above the Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores in the complex. Construction began in March 2016.
Q124046 Wapping () is a district in East London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and uniquely has it own postcode area E1W, which covers the entire area. It is part of the traditional county of Middlesex, but for administrative purposes was part of the County of London following the passing of the Local Governmen...
Q7580498 Spring Gap Mountain runs southwest northeast through Morgan and Hampshire counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, rising to its greatest elevation of 2,237 ft (682 m) north of "Spring Gap", from which the mountain takes its name. The gap is the source for Dug Hill Run, a tributary stream of the Little C...
Q7883793 Understanding New Jersey & Living in Sin is the first solo, acoustic album from The Slackers' keyboardist/lead singer Vic Ruggiero. It was released in the US in 2001. In 2006 it was released in Germany/Europe by Moanin'. The reissued version reverses the order of the albums and, as a result, was retitled Livin...
Q3049082 Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948 in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.
Q1065402 The Philadelphia Quakers were an American professional ice hockey team that played only one full season in the National Hockey League (NHL), 1930–31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Q326497 Domenico Morfeo (born 16 January 1976) is a retired Italian football player, who played as midfielder, usually as an attacking midfielder. Throughout his career, he played for several clubs in Italy, and also spent short spells at many top Italian clubs. At international level, he represented the Italy national...
Q2862195 Sepia reesi is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean. Cuttlebone of this species known only from the type locality.S. reesi grows to a mantle length of 45 mm.Sepia reesi was only known from the type specimen was collected in Salmon Bay, Rottnest Island, Western Australia but a complet...
Q7590320 St. Mary's School, located in O'Neill, Nebraska is a Catholic parochial school within the Archdiocese of Omaha school system in Nebraska, United States.
Q1748634 V433 Aurigae is a variable star in the constellation Auriga. It is a Slowly pulsating B star (SPB) that ranges from apparent magnitude 6.02 to 6.06 over 4.6 days. Located around 324 parsecs distant, it shines with a luminosity approximately 322 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of 7400 K.
Q2685303 Geldrop is a railway station located in Geldrop, a town in the Dutch municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, in the province of North Brabant. The station was opened on 1 November 1913 and is located on the Eindhoven–Weert railway. The station is operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
Q16245011 The United States Air Force's 8th Space Warning Squadron is an Air Force Reserve missile warning unit located at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado. The 8th works alongside its active duty counterpart, the 2d Space Warning Squadron, on the Defense Support Program and Space-Based Infrared System programs.
Q4795004 Arnold Crowther (born 7 October 1909 in Chatham, Kent, England, UK – died 1 May 1974) was a skilled stage magician, ventriloquist, and puppeteer, and was married to Patricia Crowther. He was born as one of a pair of fraternal twins. During his career he worked in cabaret, and in 1938-1939, he entertained Princ...
Q3009802 Grevillea eriostachya, also known as the yellow flame grevillea and the desert grevillea, is a shrub found in Western Australia, the south-west areas of the Northern Territory, and the north-west areas of South Australia. Because of the sweet taste of the shrub's flowers, Australian Aborigines used it as a swe...
Q14874711 Myra Falls is a region of central Vancouver Island named for the waterfall located at the south end of Buttle Lake. The region is part of the Strathcona-Westmin Provincial Park and is unusual in that it contains an active mine which pre-dates the park. The Myra Falls area is accessible to the public via a p...
Q6922692 Mount Peddie is an isolated mountain 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Webster Bluff at the north end of the Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped from surveys by United States Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Navy air photos (1959–65). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Norman W. Pe...
Q4185360 I Love Hong Kong 2012 is a Hong Kong comedy film produced by Eric Tsang and directed by Chung Shu Kai and Chin Kwok Wai. Film stars an ensemble cast of Tsang, Teresa Mo, Bosco Wong, Denise Ho, Stanley Fung, Siu Yam-yam, William So, Mak Cheung-ching, 6 Wing, Vivian Zhang and guest stars a star-studded cast of H...
Q4577840 The 1977 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1977 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the Yankee Conference in Division II (NCAA). The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1...
Q6431168 Koppel Shub Pinson (1904–1961) was a historian who specialized in the origins of German nationalism.
Q30614547 Philip Porter may refer to:Philip S. Porter (1925–2011), American martial artistPhilip Thomas Porter (1930–2011), electrical engineer
Q30014797 Open in 1949 the Provvidenti Station was the railway station that served the municipality of Provvidenti (about 4 km away).Now is only a Level crossing on the Termoli-Campobasso and Termoli–Venafro, the Level crossing is active but the station (fermata ferroviaria in Italian ) is dismantled.
Q1323403 The Kai Islands (also Kei Islands) of Indonesia are a group of islands in the southeastern part of the Maluku Islands, located in the province of Maluku. The Moluccas have been known as the Spice Islands due to regionally specific plants such as nutmeg, mace, and cloves that originally intrigued the European n...
Q2306099 Ellen Lewis "Nell" Arthur (née Herndon; August 30, 1837 – January 12, 1880) was the wife of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur. She died of pneumonia in January 1880; her husband was elected vice-president that November. He succeeded to the presidency in September 1881 when President J...
Q7723504 The Clouds were a Glasgow-based indie pop band from the 1980s, fronted by brothers John and Bill Charnley."Tranquil", The Clouds' only single (on the Subway Organisation label), had a hit on the UK Indie Chart in 1988, reaching number 13. The two songs on the records B side were "Get Out of my Dream" and "Vil...
Q5283729 Ditton is a residential area of Widnes, in the borough of Halton, England. It borders Halebank to the south and west, Hough Green to the north and north west and an area just outside Widnes town centre (the Ball o'Ditton) to the east. Ditton is a local government ward, with a population of 6,249 at the time of...
Q1702507 The Johor River (Malay: Sungai Johor) is the main river in the Malaysian state of Johor. The river is 122.7 km long with a catchment of 2,636 km² and flows in a roughly north-south direction, originating from Mount Gemuruh and then empties into the Strait of Johor. Its major tributaries are Sayong, Linggiu, Ti...
Q8042325 XML UK: the United Kingdom Forum for Structured Information StandardsThe organization provides a forum for XML and SGML users and developers to share their experiences and ideas concerning the use of XML, SGML and other related standards.XML UK is the United Kingdom chapter of the International SGML/XML Users'...
Q7768035 The Talk of the Town is the first novel written by Ardal O'Hanlon, published by Sceptre in 1999. It was renamed Knick Knack Paddy Whack for publication in United States.The novel is set in 1980's Ireland and is about life in a small Irish town, where everyone knows your business. Its tone is humorous but dark....
Q617507 Courchamp is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Q4808188 Asplundia lutea is a critically endangered species of plant in the Cyclanthaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Q6057332 "Intervention" is the fourth episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 68th overall. It originally aired on October 13, 2008.
Q3227617 The Time That Remains is a 2009 semi-biographical drama film written and directed by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The film stars Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri and Samar Qudha Tanus. It gives an account of the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present. Suleiman participated in the...
Q6564371 Bonanza is an American western television series developed and produced by David Dortort and broadcast in the United States for 14 seasons on the NBC network. The entire run of the series' 431 hour-long episodes was produced in color. The premiere was on September 12, 1959, and the final episode broadcast on J...
Q7308370 Regillio Tuur (born 8 August 1986) is a Belgian footballer of Surinamese descent who plays for SV Robinhood of the Surinamese Hoofdklasse.
Q7231788 Porthmeor consists of two farms, Higher and Lower Porthmeor, in the parish of Zennor in Cornwall, England. It should not be confused with Porthmeor beach at St Ives. Higher Porthmeor lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road and Lower Porthmeor is nearer the coast.Porthmeor lies within t...
Q1758782 Semomesia is a genus of metalmark butterflies.