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Q16864636 Keiter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Hans Keiter (1910–2005), German handball playerLes Keiter (1919–2009), American sports announcerRobert Keiter (born 1946), American lawyer
Q800379 Alzey station is, along with the stations Alzey Süd and Alzey West, one of three stations in the urban area of the Rhenish Hesse (German: Rheinhessen) town of Alzey in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.
Q16959558 Deh-e Ali Ahmad-e Lek Zayi (Persian: ده علي احمد لکزايي‎, also Romanized as Deh-e ʿAlī Aḩmad-e Lek Zāyī) is a village in Qorqori Rural District, Qorqori District, Hirmand County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 33, in 6 families.
Q24911091 Kodi is a village in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in the Huzur tehsil and the Phanda block.
Q27116133 Allenolic acid, or allenoic acid, is a synthetic, nonsteroidal estrogen discovered in 1947 or 1948 that, although studied clinically, was never marketed. It is an open-ring or seco-analogue of steroidal estrogens like estrone and equilenin. The compound was named after Dr. Edgar Allen, one of the pioneers in ...
Q39072 Microeconomics (from Greek prefix mikro- meaning "small" + economics) is a branch of economics that studies the behaviour of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms.One goal of microeconomics is to analyze the m...
Q277682 Ultrasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur discovered by Haang Mook Kim in South Korea. However, the name was first used unofficially (as a nomen nudum) in 1979 by Jim Jensen to describe a set of giant dinosaur bones he discovered in the United States. Because Kim published the name for his specimen before Jen...
Q7277149 RNAS Charlton Horethorne (HMS Heron II) is a former Royal Naval Air Station in the hamlet of Sigwells in Somerset, England. It opened in 1942, as a flying training base under the administrative care of HMS Heron. It closed in 1948 and has since been returned to agricultural use.
Q5507098 Fuego en la sangre is a 1966 Argentine film.
Q16948237 The Police and Fire Services (Finance)(Scotland) Act 2001 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament. It was passed by the Parliament on 1 November 2001 and received Royal Assent on 5 December 2001. It was repealed upon the enactment of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, which merged Scotland's territo...
Q16212069 Muhammed Bhola is a wrestler from Pakistan.He competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where he won a bronze medal for wrestling in the Men's Middleweight class.
Q3357455 Ostrów Wielki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɔstruv ˈvjɛlkʲi]; German: Groß Werder) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Miłomłyn, within Ostróda County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.The village has a population of 15.
Q6375056 Katalin Hollósy (born February 16, 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.Hollósy also finished fourth in the K-2 500 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Q7273844 R. Margabandhu is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Anaicut constituency in 1977 election.
Q12053291 Bonner Springs High School is the public secondary school in Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA. It is the only high school operated by Unified School District 204.
Q7816536 Thomas L "Tom" Larson (February 11, 1948 – February 18, 2017) was an American politician and legislator.Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to Wallace and Phyllis (DeLong)Larson, Tom lived in Colfax, Wisconsin and went to Colfax High School. Larson then attended the Chippewa Valley Technical College and was an elect...
Q3614389 This article is about the silent film; for the work which is part of Leoncavallo's opera, Pagliacci, see Vesti la giubbaOn with the Motley (Italian: Amleto e il suo clown) is a 1920 silent Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone.
Q7179660 Pezë Helmës is a village in the former municipality of Pezë in Tirana County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Tirana.
Q663593 The 1970-71 OB I bajnokság season was the 34th season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Six teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.
Q7881027 Uma Ramanan (Tamil: உமா ரமணன்) is an Indian playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil. She is also a Live stage performer who has performed for more than 6,000 concerts spanning 35 years. She hails from Tamil Nadu state of India.
Q13540793 Synchlora herbaria is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Antigua, Dominica and the Virgin Islands.The wingspan is about 13 mm.The larvae have been recorded feeding on Lantana camara.
Q16953265 The men's individual recurve competition at the 2011 World Archery Championships took place from 5–10 July 2011 in Torino, Italy. It marked the first World Championships where the Archery Olympic Round, introduced in 2010, was used for the recurve elimination rounds. 199 archers competed in the qualification ...
Q3822966 La malavita attacca... la polizia risponde! (The Criminals Attack, The Police Respond) is a 1977 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Mario Caiano.
Q28449102 The 1970 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State College during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season, the third season of Bronco football (at the four-year level) and the first as members of the Big Sky Conference and NCAA. In the College Division, they played their home games on ...
Q43176385 Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated Limited was a Singapore publisher, which published Sin Chew Jit Poh (Chinese: 星洲日報) in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as Sin Pin Jit Poh (Chinese: 星檳日報) in Penang, Malaysia.The Malaysia editions were sold to a Malaysian businessman in 1982. In 1975, due to the a new legislatio...
Q2144001 San Felipe Pueblo (Eastern Keres: Katishtya [kʰɑtʰiʂcʰɑ], Navajo Tsédááʼkin) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States, and is located 10 miles (16 km) north of Bernalillo. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 2,080. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Sta...
Q2188052 United Nations Security Council resolution 940, adopted on 31 July 1994, after recalling resolutions 841 (1993), 861 (1993), 862 (1993), 867 (1993), 873 (1993), 875 (1993), 905 (1994), 917 (1994) and 933 (1994), the Council permitted a United States-led force to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and aut...
Q4823949 The Australian Cartoonists' Association is the Australian professional cartoonists' organisation and was established on 17 July 1924 as the Society of Australian Black and White Artists.It soon became The Black and White Artists Society; and, by 1938, its name had been changed to The Black and White Artists Cl...
Q1783294 The University of Ostrava (Czech Ostravská univerzita) is a public university in the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. Founded in 1991, it is the newest public university in Ostrava. It consists of six faculties and two institutes providing university education.
Q5648782 Hannah Ashworth (also Osborne) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks, played by Emma Rigby. Hannah first appeared on-screen on 3 October 2005 and her last appearance was on 12 February 2010.The character was in a controversial storyline in which she developed anorexia nervos...
Q1561999 Dr. Allen E. Fox (born June 25, 1939) is a former world class tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s who went on to be a college coach and author. He was ranked as high as U.S. No. 4 in 1962, and was in the top ten in the U.S. five times between 1961 and 1968.
Q2261184 The Scottish National League was the first ice hockey league in Scotland. It was founded in 1932 by five teams from a single ice rink in Glasgow. The league gradually expanded to encompass teams from many areas of Scotland. It was suspended during the Second World War, but returned in 1946, and for the 1947...
Q38227 Wapama Falls is the larger of two waterfalls located on the northern wall of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. It flows almost year-round and during peak flow has been known to inundate the trail bridge crossing its base, making the falls impossible to pass. The falls consist of two primary drops an...
Q16959965 A Spectrum of Infinite Scale is the sixth full-length album by Man or Astro-man? It was released as a CD and a double 10" on clear yellow/red vinyl, on black vinyl, and on additional clear colors.They play an ImageWriter II at the eleventh song, called "A Simple Text File".
Q14372181 The surnames McCabe and MacCabe are Scottish and Irish surnames. They are Anglicisations of the Gaelic Mac Cába, a patronymic name meaning "son of Cába". The nickname or personal name Cába is of uncertain origin. The surname can be written in modern Scottish Gaelic as MacCàba and MacCaibe. Patrick Woulfe cons...
Q4815905 Atkinson is an unincorporated town in Center Township, Benton County, Indiana. The site of Atkinson is home to the county's only junior/senior high school, Benton Central.
Q5621500 Gustavo Saibt Martins, better known as Gustavo Papa (born July 20, 1979), is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a striker, and is the assistant manager of Brasil de Pelotas.
Q3861886 Qiajivik Mountain is a mountain in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. Located in northeastern Baffin Island, it is part of the Baffin Mountains. At 1,965 m (6,447 ft) Qiajivik is the highest mountain in northern Baffin Island and with a topographic prominence of 1,787 m (5,863 ft) it is one of Canada's 142 ultra pr...
Q4593615 Qalakənd (also, Kalakend) is a village in the Gadabay Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Plankənd.
Q5549710 Gerald de Kock is a South African sports commentator specialising in cricket. Formerly media manager of the South African national cricket team, he is currently chief cricket presenter on SuperSport, having worked previously for the SABC.As communications officer for the Proteas, De Kock's task was every day ...
Q7503684 Shrewsbury Library is housed in a Grade 1 listed building situated on Castle Gates near Shrewsbury Castle. The site was the home of Shrewsbury School from 1550 until 1882. The buildings were handed over to the town in 1882 and a free library and museum were opened by The Corporation of Shrewsbury on the sit...
Q2175665 Rumon Gamba (born 24 November 1972), is an English conductor. He studied music at Durham University, and then went to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. He became the first conducting student to obtain the DipRAM (the Royal ...
Q8023285 Wilsonia humilis, the silky wilsonia, is a species of perennial subshrub in the family Convolvulaceae. The species is endemic to Australia, occurring in coastal saltmarshes and also occasionally in inland saline areas, often colonising bare ground.
Q16901018 Tah Rud (Persian: ته رود‎, also Romanized as Tah Rūd) is a village in Nazil Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 50, in 10 families.
Q30609891 Swinging was an Australian children's television show that first aired 10 September 1997 on ABC. The Show aired on the channel until January 2001.
Q1259393 In computer science, a disjoint-set data structure (also called a union–find data structure or merge–find set) is a data structure that tracks a set of elements partitioned into a number of disjoint (non-overlapping) subsets. It provides near-constant-time operations (bounded by the inverse Ackermann function)...
Q4790138 Aria is an airline based in Mulhouse, France. It operates ad hoc passenger and cargo flights, as well as medevac flights. Its main base is Paris - Le Bourget Airport
Q2545612 Lou de Palingboer (19 February 1898 - 23 March 1968) was the founder and figurehead of a new religious movement in the Netherlands.
Q449932 Christina the Astonishing (c.1150 – 24 July 1224), also known as Christina Mirabilis, was a Christian holy woman born in Brustem (near Sint-Truiden), Belgium. She was considered a saint in her own time, and for centuries following her death, as noted by her appearance in the Fasti Mariani Calendar of Saints of ...
Q2484764 Minnesota State Highway 242 was a highway in Minnesota. It connected U.S. Highway 10 and Minnesota State Highway 47 near Coon Rapids with Minnesota State Highway 65 in Blaine. It has been classified by the Metropolitan Council as a primary arterial street.The highway was 5.3 miles (8.5 km) in length.
Q4334632 The Omen is a horror film franchise beginning in 1976. The story was originally written by David Seltzer, who chose not to continue the series after the first novel. The second novel was then written by Joseph Howard; the third novel was done by Gordon McGill. After the third film was produced, a fourth and fi...
Q318383 Bryan Jafet Ruiz González (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbɾajan ˈrwis]; born 18 August 1985) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays for Brazilian club Santos and captains the Costa Rica national team. A left-footed attacking midfielder, he can also play as a second striker.
Q6135609 James Edward Harris, 2nd Earl of Malmesbury (19 August 1778 – 10 September 1841) was a British peer, styled Viscount FitzHarris from 1800 to 1820.Though the son of a great British statesman, James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, the young James Harris only dabbled in politics. His real interests lay in being a...
Q3196705 Wayne Sandilands (born 23 August 1983 in Benoni, Gauteng) is a South African international football (soccer) goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League. He was in goal for Mamelodi Sundowns when Mor Diouf scored from 65 metres in the 87th minute for rivals SuperSport United in a derby in 2010.
Q4715975 Alexey Viktorovich Galkin (Russian: Алексей Викторович Галкин) is a former Russian GRU officer. A senior lieutenant of the GRU, Alexei Galkin said, whilst being tortured by Chechen separatists, commanded by Abu Movsaev, that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk were organized by a team of twelve GRU officers and ...
Q4631428 The 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. The 22nd Massachusetts was organized by Senator Henry Wilson (future Vice-President during the Ulysses Grant administration) and was therefore known as "Henry Wilson's Regiment." It was...
Q7385001 The 2007 Ryedale District Council election to the Ryedale District Council was held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. One seat was vacant in Pickering East until a by-election in June.
Q5345221 Edward Sapiano is a Canadian defence lawyer, based in Toronto, Ontario, notable for his role in many high-profile criminal cases. He initiated Canada's largest criminal investigation of police, resulting in the arrest and prosecution of several Toronto police officers and was also involved in the so-called To...
Q3510554 Maha Thammaracha II (Thai: มหาธรรมราชาที่ ๒, pronounced [mā.hǎː tʰām.mā.rāː.t͡ɕʰāː tʰîː sɔ̌ːŋ]), born as Luethai (Thai: ลือไทย, pronounced [lɯ̄ː tʰāj]), was a king of the Sukhothai Kingdom.
Q5063762 Ceratocystiopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae.
Q4644251 8,8'-Bieckol is an eckol-type phlorotannin found in the brown algae Ecklonia cava and Ecklonia kurome.
Q15640639 Cyclophora compacta is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found on the Kei Islands and in New Guinea and Queensland.
Q20707212 Cato Nordbeck is a Norwegian former professional racing cyclist. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1965.
Q22442780 The Priory of Saint-Arnoul, named after a legendary fifth-century bishop of Tours, is located in Crépy-en-Valois in France. It was founded between 935 and 943 by Count Ralph II of Valois as a chapter of canons regular, then re-founded as a Benedictine abbey by Count Walter II in 1008. In 1076, Count Simon, on...
Q30682464 Pool B of the 2017 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Group III of the 2017 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and bottom teams proceeding to their respective section of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Grou...
Q1057658 Cet mac Mágach is a Connacht warrior in the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology. He had a rivalry with the Ulster warrior Conall Cernach.In some myths, he is said to be the brother of Conall's mother, making him Conall's uncle.At a feast at the house of Mac Dá Thó, a hospitaller of Leinster, the warriors of Connac...
Q4657558 A Killer Among Us is a 1990 drama/thriller TV film directed by Peter Levin and starring Jasmine Guy and Anna Maria Horsford.
Q413036 Uranium tetrachloride (UCl4) is compound of uranium in oxidation state +4. It was used in the electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS) process of uranium enrichment. It is one of the main starting materials for organouranium chemistry.
Q4928556 "Blow the Whistle" is the first single from Oakland rapper Too $hort's 16th album Blow the Whistle. It is produced by Lil Jon. The song features a refrain of the words "blow the whistle," followed by a series of whistle blasts. Despite not charting on the Billboard Hot 100, it is considered his signature son...
Q5281115 Dirty Weaponry is the second album by hip-hop group Killarmy, released one year after its debut, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. The majority of the album was produced by group member 4th Disciple, with additional production coming from Wu-Elements producer Mathematics. The album features guests appearances fro...
Q5345589 Edward Thomas Branch (December 6, 1811 – September 24, 1861) was a Republic of Texas legislator and Judge, and after the annexation of Texas to the United States, served briefly as Speaker of the Texas House of RepresentativesBranch was born on December 6, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia. After relocating to Jackso...
Q8008856 William F. Poe (July 22, 1931 – May 1, 2014) was the mayor of Tampa, Florida from 1974 to 1979. He later served as the Chairman of a Florida-based property and casualty insurance company. He served in the Air Force, and received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.
Q4734533 Alonzo Breitenstein (November 9, 1857 – June 19, 1932) was a National League pitcher. Breitenstein played for the Philadelphia Quakers in the 1883 season. In one career game, he had a 0-1 record with a 9.00 ERA. Breitenstein allowed nine runs on eight hits, in 5.0 innings pitched. With what hand he batted and ...
Q270526 The Bedwell River is a river in the Clayoquot Sound region of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, emptying into Bedwell Sound, which lies to the north of Meares Island, near the tourist town of Tofino. The indigenous name in the Nuu-chah-nulth language is Oinimitis, which is the names...
Q5520396 Gampsocera is a genus of fly in the family Chloropidae.
Q72389 Nyklovice (German: Niklowitz) is a village and municipality (obec) in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of 3.33 square kilometres (1.29 sq mi), and has a population of 155 (as at 3 July 2006).Nyklovice lies approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) e...
Q4911890 Billie and the Real Belle Bare All is a one-off television programme that aired on ITV2 on 25 January 2010, ahead of the Series 3 premiere of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The programme, which took place at The May Fair, consisted of Billie Piper, who stars as Hannah Baxter in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, inter...
Q16012242 Julio Garceran de Vall (1907–1989) was a Supreme Court Justice of Cuba. He headed a provisional Cuban government-in-exile in the early 1960s. He was a municipal court judge from 1934 to 1946, and later a Supreme Court justice from 1948 to 1959. He died in 1989.
Q16769623 Antonio Luis Medina Comas (born c. 1968) is a licensed industrial engineer, a business executive, and the current president and founder of Convergent strategies an advisory firm that helps companies accelerate growth.(www.convergentstrat.com){web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/confirmanalingenieromedinacomasal...
Q4414294 Kraantje Lek is a pancake restaurant and former inn in Overveen, Netherlands, on the Duinlustweg.It was originally built in 1542 as herberg Rockaers, or "inn of Rockaers", as Rockaers was the former name of the village of Overveen. It was strategically located at the base of a dune referred to as the "Blinkert...
Q19520594 On February 26, 2015, a gunman shot and killed seven people in several locations across the town of Tyrone, Missouri, an unincorporated community approximately 95 miles east of Springfield. The gunman, identified as 36-year-old Joseph Jesse Aldridge, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next d...
Q20020489 Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji (born Oluwatoyosi Akerele, 8 November 1983) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and human development expert whose work cuts across entrepreneurship, education, youth development and public leadership. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Rise Networks, a Nigeria-based priva...
Q20631244 James Raymond Hughes is professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Hughes' research interests relate to political violence and terrorism, secession, national and ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, and democratisation.
Q6585000 Muhsinler is a village in Çaycuma District, Zonguldak Province, Turkey.
Q3803517 Venus Williams was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.Shahar Pe'er won the title by defeating Anastasia Myskina 1–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3) in the final.
Q1183169 Washingtonville is a borough in Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 273 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Q1069525 In traditional Japanese architecture, a shōji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a lattice of wood or bamboo. While washi is the traditional paper, shōji may be made of paper made by modern manufacturing processes; plastic is also in use.
Q24062087 The phrase "Hell on Wheels" was originally used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1860s North America. The h...
Q698208 The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1775...
Q2363062 3 Ninjas is a 1992 American martial arts comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, and Chad Power. It was the only 3 Ninjas film released by Touchstone Pictures, while the others were released by TriStar Pictures. The film is about three young brother...
Q21491619 Fleck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Alexander Fleck (1889–1968), British chemist, FRS, born and educated in GlasgowAbbey Fleck, American inventor of the Makin' Bacon microwave oven bacon cooker in 1993Béla Fleck (born 1958), American banjo playerDaniel Fleck, former Republican member o...
Q1010426 Daubeuf-la-Campagne is a commune in the Eure department in north-western France.
Q2565378 Isacio Calleja García (6 December 1936 – 4 February 2019) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender.
Q7126011 The Paklenik massacre is the massacre of at least 50 Bosniaks by the Army of the Republika Srpska in the Rogatica Municipality on 15 June 1992.
Q6350415 The Kalamazoo River Valley Trail is a planned-to-be 35-mile non-motorized trail in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It currently sits at 22 miles. A master plan for the Trail was completed and portions of the trail are finished and open to the public. A community campaign to raise $5.9 million, to be combined with ...
Q5036244 Capricho árabe (Arab Capriccio) is an 1892 work for classical guitar by Spanish composer Francisco Tárrega.
Q16222918 SS Bigwin is a small steamship ferry that plies the waters of Lake of Bays in Muskoka area of Ontario.
Q5865080 Tavakkolabad-e Darreh Deraz (Persian: توكل اباددره دراز‎, also Romanized as Tavakkolābād-e Darreh Derāz; also known as Tavakkolābād and Vakīl Āqā) is a village in Baladarband Rural District, in the Central District of Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,429, i...
Q18148779 The Akron Champs was the dominant name of a minor league baseball team that represented Akron, Ohio between 1905 and 1920.
Q20713726 Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle is a recumbent stone circle located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated about 2 3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) to the northeast of Inverurie at the end of a south-facing hillside just outside the hamlet of Kirkton of Bourtie. It stands on arable land near a minor road at an altitude...