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Q23016903 Blaise Godbe Lipman is an award-winning American filmmaker, actor, political commentator, and a Time Person of the Year for his social activism. |
Q2979260 Kirinia climene, the Iranian Argus, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1783. It is distributed in Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and southern Russia.The larval host-plants are various Poa... |
Q27150040 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Dominika Cibulková.Cibulková went on to win the title, defeating Viktorija Golubic in the final, 6–3, 7–5. |
Q1326796 Noriko Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口 紀子; born 23 May 1985) is a female Japanese long-distance runner who specialised in marathon running. She won the Tokyo Marathon in 2011 in a career best of 2:28:49 hours and was Asian Marathon Champion in 2011.From Kyoto, she began competing in road running competitions in Japan as... |
Q6772623 Marquette Township is a civil township of Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 659 at the 2000 census. |
Q6281939 Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Jr. (6 March 1872 – 11 February 1898) was an officer in the United States Navy in the Spanish–American War. He was the son of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Sr., a major general in the United States Army, and a member of the prominent Breckinridge family. |
Q4925483 Blaston is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is a small parish with a population of 54 according to the 2001 census. As the population had remained less than 100 details from the 2011 census are included in the civil parish of Horninghold. The village is near Nevill H... |
Q5931888 Hugh McShane O'Neill was an early modern Irish nobleman and rebel. Genealogies list Hugh as either the son of Con MacShane O'Neill, 3rd son of Shane O'Neill, or as the 10th son of Shane O'Neill himself. In either case he was a grandson of Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone, and Gearoid Mór Fitzgerald, 8th Earl ... |
Q1259585 New York wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of New York. New York ranks third in grape production by volume after California and Washington. Eighty-three percent of New York's grape area is Vitis labrusca varieties (mostly Concord). The rest is split almost equally between Vitis vini... |
Q863863 Beauvoisin is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. |
Q2024876 Maryna Vergelyuk (born June 24, 1978 in Kherson) is a Ukrainian team handball player. She received a bronze medal with the Ukrainian national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. |
Q6290020 The Joshua Lewis House is a historic house at 178 South Street in Needham, Massachusetts. Built in 1776, it has a well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture, which has been home to a number of individuals of local and national importance, including artist N.C. Wyeth. It was listed on the National R... |
Q7353069 Sikanni Chief Lake is a lake at the headwaters of the Sikanni Chief River in the Northern Rocky Mountains region of British Columbia, Canada. |
Q7449334 Semi Chellas is a writer and screenwriter who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California in 1969 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. |
Q7595285 St Peter's Church is the Parish Church of Selsey, West Sussex and dates from the 13th century. The Church building was originally situated at the location of St Wilfrid's first monastery and cathedral at Church Norton some 2 miles north of the present centre of population. |
Q4103888 Igor Valentinovich Varlamov (Russian: Игорь Валентинович Варламов; born 12 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. |
Q4386509 RD-701 (Russian: Раке́тный дви́гатель 701, Rocket Engine 701) - liquid-fuel rocket engine developed by Energomash, Russia. It was proposed to propel the reusable MAKS space plane before cancellation of this project. The RD-701 is a tripropellant engine that uses staged combustion cycle afterburning of oxidizer... |
Q7393630 Empire Dabchick was a 5,995 GRT Design 1019 cargo ship that was built in 1919 as Kisnop by Atlantic Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States for the United States Shipping Board (USSB). She was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) in 1937. In 1940 she was transferred to the ... |
Q5589005 Government Nizamia General Hospital popularly known as Government Unani Hospital is a public hospital located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is a hospital for general medicine and Unani medicine. It was established during the reign of Nizams. It is located near the historic Charminar. |
Q1413446 Stylasteridae is a family of hydrozoans. |
Q16952239 Country Junkie is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music artist Gord Bamford. It was released on October 8, 2013 by Cache/Sony Music Canada. Bamford premiered the first single, "When Your Lips Are So Close", at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards in September 2013.Country Junkie was nomina... |
Q17069238 Pahloo is a town and a notified area committee in Kulgam district of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. |
Q15376859 Epacris reclinata is a plant of the heath family Ericaceae. The species is native to New South Wales, Australia. It shares the common name fuchsia heath with the closely related Epacris longiflora.Plants grow up to 60 cm (24 in) in height and produce pink to red long tubular flowers between June and December... |
Q23771921 José Nuno Rodrigues Xavier (born 7 March 1997) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for English Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers as a forward. |
Q5929383 Jerry Irwin Mander (born May 1, 1936) is an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. His most recent book, The Capitalism Papers, argues against capitalism as a sustainable and viable system on which to base an economy. |
Q888330 Nathaniel Alexander (March 5, 1756 – March 7, 1808) was a physician and the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1805 to 1807. |
Q7308718 Reynold Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin (c. 1362 – 30 September 1440), a powerful Welsh marcher lord, succeeded to the title on his father's death in July 1388. |
Q7275900 The RAYDAC (for Raytheon Digital Automatic Computer) was a one-of-a-kind computer built by Raytheon. It was started in 1949 and finished in 1953. It was installed at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California.The RAYDAC used 5,200 vacuum tubes and 18,000 crystal diodes. It had 1,152 words of... |
Q3282961 Baby's Got a Gun is the third and final studio album by the English rock band the Only Ones. It was originally released in 1980, on the label Epic. After the lack of commercial success with their previous album Even Serpents Shine, the Only Ones decided that it was time for a slight change of pace in their car... |
Q4685144 Adrian Denard Jones (born June 10, 1981) is a former American football offensive guard. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kansas.Jones has also played for the Kansas City Chiefs. |
Q5100379 The Chinese American Museum (Chinese: 華美博物館; abbreviated CAM) is a museum located in Downtown Los Angeles as a part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. It is dedicated to the history and experience of Chinese Americans in the state of California, the first such museum in Southern California. It ... |
Q3289596 Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani of the Northwestern Iranian languages. The Shabaki language is spoken by the Shabak people in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. It has similarities with the Northwestern Iranian language Gorani (or Hawrami), which is often referred as... |
Q7155818 Pavel Šrut (3 April 1940 in Prague – 20 April 2018) was a Czech poet and writer. |
Q6972942 The National E-Infrastructure Service (NES), formerly the National Grid Service, was an organisation for UK academics and researchers from 2004 through 2011. It was funded by two governmental bodies, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)... |
Q7753768 The New Totalitarians is a 1971 book by British author Roland Huntford. Huntford analyzes the political and social climate of early 1970s Sweden, and argues that it resembles a benevolent totalitarian state in the mould of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The main thesis was that the Swedish government relied ... |
Q112756 Veit Heiduschka (born 20 May 1938) is an Austrian film producer. He has produced 50 films since 1985. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Amour along with Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt and Michael Katz in 2013. |
Q6323369 K. Gopinath (born 19 November 1962) is an Indian politician and was elected in 2011 as a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Hosur constituency. As a candidate of Indian National Congress, he was previously elected to the Assembly from the Hosur constituency in the 2001 and 2006 elections.He los... |
Q13563092 Melissa Febos (born September 28, 1980) is an American writer.She is the author of Whip Smart (St Martin.s Press 2010), a memoir of her work as a professional dominatrix while she was studying at The New School.Her second book, the essay collection Abandon Me, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing on Februar... |
Q6421501 The Klumpane Peaks are a group of small rock peaks on the east side of the mouth of Strengen Valley, on the Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–52) and named Klumpane (t... |
Q6304078 The men's 73 kg competition of the judo events at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, was held on October 28 at the CODE II Gymanasium. The defending champion was Ryan Reser of the United States. |
Q1168188 Linda is a 1993 American made-for-television crime drama film based on a novella by John D. MacDonald. It is the second adaptation of that work. |
Q20641541 Tereza Szewieczková (born 4 May 1998) is a Czech football striker, currently playing for Slavia Praha in the Czech First Division. Szewieczková was voted talent of the year at the 2014 Czech Women's Footballer of the Year.She is an Under 19 international. |
Q30223617 John A. Arguelles is an American attorney who was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 18, 1987, to March 1, 1989. |
Q23614883 Richard Duane Kelton (April 29, 1943 – November 27, 1978) was an American actor. |
Q456511 Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy (1584–1660) was a French nobleman and Bailiff Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta. He governed the island of Saint Christopher from 1639 to his death in 1660, first under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique and later under the Knights of Malta themselves. Poincy was the ke... |
Q719824 The James Madison class of submarine was an evolutionary development from the Lafayette class of fleet ballistic missile submarine. They were identical to the Lafayettes except for being initially designed to carry the Polaris A-3 missile instead of the earlier A-2. This class, together with the George Washingt... |
Q3405381 The Prix Volney (English: Volney Prize) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to a work of comparative philology.The prize was founded by Constantin Volney in 1803 and was originally a gold medal worth 1,200 francs. |
Q5299227 Dos quijotes sobre ruedas is a 1966 Argentine film. It won many awards. |
Q3267552 Takahiro Momiyama (籾山高広), known as jamzvillage, is a Japanese singer and solo unit. He was born on September 28, 1978 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He is a part of Sony Music Japan's SME Records division. |
Q7162063 Pen-y-fai is a village in the county borough of Bridgend Wales falling within the Bridgend electoral ward area. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 2,447. |
Q4560017 The 1915 Brooklyn Tip-Tops season was a season in American baseball. The Tip-Tops finished in 7th place in the Federal League, 16 games behind the Chicago Whales. The season was notable in that it featured one of the only known major-league professional baseball games of the modern era in which admission was ... |
Q3328074 María Pilar Jiménez Aleixandre (born 1947, in Madrid) is a Spanish writer, translator and biologist. She lives in Amaía, Galicia, Spain. In her own words:I use the Galician Language as a literary language because I have a forked tongue, however not all the creatures with a forked tongue are bad. I think that a... |
Q7681133 Tamela is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. |
Q505745 The Rendsburg High Bridge (German: Rendsburger Hochbrücke, officially Eisenbahnhochbrücke Rendsburg) is a railway viaduct on the Neumünster–Flensburg line that also serves as a transporter bridge. The bridge crosses the Kiel Canal at Rendsburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is federally owned thr... |
Q3697552 Cristina Parodi (Alessandria, 3 November 1964) is an Italian journalist and television host. |
Q4164565 Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (born 2 December 1946) is an Egyptian novelist and author. Among his best known works are Birds of Amber, No One Sleeps in Alexandria and The Other Place. These have been translated into English and French. |
Q6454645 Kılavuz is a village in Bor district of Niğde Province, Turkey. It is at 37°48′N 34°46′E in the northern slopes of the Toros Mountains. Its distance to Bor is 28 kilometres (17 mi) to Niğde is 23 kilometres (14 mi). The population of Kılavuz was 615 as of 2011. |
Q5857436 Bagh Anar-e Milas (Persian: باغ انارميلاس, also Romanized as Bāgh Anār-e Mīlās) is a village in Milas Rural District, in the Central District of Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,258, in 442 families. |
Q11713406 HMS Riou (K557) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy Buckley class destroyer escort, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945. |
Q19876883 Patyegarang (c 1780s) was an Australian Aboriginal woman, thought to be from the Cammeraygal clan of the Eora nation. Patyegarang (pronounced Pa-te-ga-rang) taught William Dawes the language of her people and is thought to be one of the first people to have taught an Aboriginal language to the early colonist... |
Q21062900 Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of computer science and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at Kings College... |
Q21775869 "Rivers" is a 2015 song by the Australian DJ and record producer Thomas Jack. Upon release, Jack said, "I’m really excited and honored to be releasing ‘Rivers’. It’s been a while since I released new music, and this track is very much in line with my musical direction right now." The track was released on 10 ... |
Q22099109 My Dangerous Mafia Retirement Plan (Chinese: 火線下的江湖大佬; Cantonese Yale: Fósinhah dīk Gōngwùh Daaihlóu; literally "Triad Boss Under the Line of Fire") is a 2016 Hong Kong modern comedy television drama produced by Leung Choi-yuen for TVB, starring Kent Cheng, Tommy Wong, Eliza Sam and Alice Chan as the main lea... |
Q18546556 42nd Motorized Infantry Battalion is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was originally formed as the 42nd Territorial Defence Battalion "Rukh Oporu" (from Ukrainian: Рух опору – "Resistance movement") in Kirovohrad.The battalion fought in the War in Donbass. |
Q282301 Demonstratives (abbreviated DEM) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic; their meaning depending on a particular frame of reference and cannot be understood without context. Demonstratives ... |
Q235754 Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American television actress. She is known for her roles as Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher in Life Goes On (1989–1993), Christy Huddleston in Christy (1994–1995), Lucy Knight on ER (1998–2000), Samantha Kinsey in Mystery Woman (2003–2007), and as Hailey Dean in the Ha... |
Q3288631 Marcel Aymar (born Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia) is a franco-ontarian musician, composer, writer and actor. He moved to Sudbury, Ontario in 1972 as a teen and was a founding member of the popular franco-ontarian group CANO, playing guitar. During this time, he also helped manage the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontar... |
Q3556033 The Azorean real, also known as the Azorean Moeda Insulana (Insular Currency) was the currency of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, used until 1931. |
Q7812324 Todd Alexander Cooper (born 25 June 1983) is an English former freestyle and butterfly swimmer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he finished in 22nd position in the 100-metre butterfly. Cooper, a member of swimming club Stirling, twice competed at the Commonwealth Games, in 200... |
Q15460991 Marilyn Valeria Pryor, DSG (born Marilyn Valeria Lobb; 1936 – 15 March 2005) was a New Zealand conservative Catholic, Pro-life advocate, who served on the Executive Council of Voice for Life, and served administrative roles for New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. She worked on, and in her latter years was... |
Q1736937 Katzie First Nation is an Indigenous band located in the Lower Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. həṅq̓əmín̓əḿ, the downriver dialect of Halkomelem, is still spoken by Katzie peoples, despite colonization attempts (Canadian Residential School System)].Halkomelem is one of the Coast Salish or Salishan ... |
Q381765 Theodorus the Atheist (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ ἄθεος; c. 340 – c. 250 BC), of Cyrene, was a philosopher of the Cyrenaic school. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher, he taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief, and... |
Q819948 Witalis Ludwiczak (April 20, 1910 – June 17, 1988) was a Polish ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics and in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was also a lawyer and academic teacher at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He specialized in civil law and private international law. He was bor... |
Q3710391 Dee is an unincorporated community and former company town in Hood River County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 281, about 11 miles south of Hood River. |
Q5202971 Cəfərxan (also, Dzhafarkhan) is a village and the least populous municipality in the Saatly Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 375. |
Q375999 Jackie Pigeaud (1937 – 13 November 2016) was a French professor of Latin and historian of medicine. He occupied a chair at the University of Nantes and was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France.His field of research was the relationship of body and soul in the tradition of medical thought. He died in... |
Q1770651 Hoekse Sportvereniging Hoek, known as HSV Hoek is a football club from Hoek, Netherlands. |
Q5326058 Earl Percy Reid (June 8, 1913 – May 11, 1984) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher for one season (1946) with the Boston Braves. For his career, he compiled a 1-0 record, with a 3.00 earned run average, and two strikeouts in three innings pitched.Reid was born in Bangor, Alabama ... |
Q6308560 Julie Tristan is an American television personality from St. Louis, Missouri. |
Q1284770 Heinz Werner (17 August 1910 – 6 May 1989) was a German international footballer. |
Q16253414 Indian actress Aishwarya Rai, credited as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after her marriage, has appeared in over 40 films in five languages, predominantly Hindi and Tamil. She made her acting debut in 1997 with dual role in Mani Ratnam's Tamil political drama film Iruvar, and her Bollywood debut that same year in t... |
Q16559113 Edificio Serrano is a 1932 art deco residential building at 123 Avenida México in colonia Hipódromo in the Condesa area of Mexico City. The architect was Francisco J. Serrano.Author Marisol Flores notes that the building was unconventional for the time, thus reflecting modernity, due to the incorporation of c... |
Q28155483 Lycée Voillaume is a senior high school/sixth-form college in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. |
Q29830753 '''Igillenna Ai Dagalanne''' ඉඟිල්ලෙන්න ඇයි දඟලන්නේ is a 2013 Sri Lankan Sinhala action film directed by Arjuna Kamalanath and co-produced by Isuru Films and Arosha Fernando. It stars Arjuna Kamalanath and Ameesha Kavindi in lead roles. Music composed by Keshan Perera. It is the 1194th Sri Lankan film in th... |
Q731717 William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson" entered the popular language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a descripti... |
Q3146515 IBM Airline Control Program, or ACP, is a discontinued operating system developed by IBM beginning about 1965. In contrast to previous airline transaction processing systems, the most notable aspect of ACP is that it was designed to run on most models of the IBM System/360 mainframe computer family. This depa... |
Q6801356 RSM US LLP is an audit, tax, and consulting firm, focused on the middle market in the United States and a member of the global accounting network RSM International. It is the fifth largest accounting firm in the United States. The firm has over 9,000 employees across 90 cities nationwide providing audit, tax, ... |
Q1144223 FIBA Asia is a zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains all 44 Asian FIBA federations. |
Q5473361 Melicope orbicularis (also called Honokahua melicope or orbicular pelea) is a species of plant in the Rutaceae family. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q16244494 Jacob Richler is a Canadian newspaper and magazine journalist, and the son of novelist Mordecai Richler and Florence Isabel (Wood). He was the inspiration for his father's Jacob Two-Two trilogy of children's books.Richler was a long-time restaurant reviewer for the National Post, known for his biting, highly ... |
Q2630255 The 1991–92 Albanian National Championship was the 53rd season of the Albanian National Championship, the top professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1930. The season began on 21 September 1991 and concluded on 17 May 1992. Flamurtari began the season as defending champio... |
Q5612712 Grzywiczówka [ɡʐɨviˈt͡ʂufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarczyn, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south-east of Tarczyn, 16 km (10 mi) south-west of Piaseczno, and 30 km (19 mi) south of Warsaw. |
Q6138088 James Arthur Link (February 27, 1874 – March 21, 1964) was the coach and athletic trainer of the Kenora Thistles during the team's three Stanley Cup challenges in 1903, 1905, and 1907. He was born in Rat Portage, Ontario, Canada.In 1907, James Link coached Kenora to the Stanley Cup Championships, the smallest ... |
Q6705942 Lutry [ˈlutrɨ] (German: Lautern) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolno, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Kolno and 37 km (23 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. |
Q6834061 Michael Fabián Ríos Ripoll (born 24 April 1985) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for Rangers as right midfielder. |
Q5523360 Garipçe is a village in the District of Sinanpaşa, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. |
Q5563120 Gini & Jony is an Indian kid's fashion brand, promoted by the Lakhani brothers, since 1980. The brand sells apparel through a mix of company-owned and franchisee outlets, and is currently present in 106 cities with 200 exclusive brand outlets and other large format multi-brand stores, like Shoppers Stop, Lifes... |
Q5026571 Camilla Gervide (born 17 November 1980) is a Swedish blogger. She now runs a blog where she summarizes the lives of Swedish celebrities that has approximately 1 200 000 page views a week and is the most read blogger in Sweden according to Bloggportalen. |
Q16056564 Tamils in France refer to the citizens as well as expatriate residents of Tamil origin living in France. Over 100,000 Tamils from both India and Sri Lanka live in France. This is in addition to the Tamil community established in French overseas dominions of Réunion, Martinique, French Guiana etc. |
Q5847875 Falvashan (Persian: فالوشن, also Romanized as Fālvāshan) is a village in Vizhenan Rural District, in the Central District of Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 8 families. |
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