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Q7311924 A remittance man is a historic term for an emigrant, often from Britain to a colony, supported by regular payments from home, on the expectation that he stay away.Note that in this context, money is being sent in the opposite direction to today's usual usage of the term remittance, which means money that migra...
Q18394262 Thomso is the annual cultural fest of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Established in 1982, the festival is held over a span of three days at the end of October and the beginning of November. The 2013 edition consisted of over 150 events and hosted 6000 guest students from 200 colleges across India, i...
Q18921492 Glyn Sheridan Burgess is a British scholar of medieval language and literature, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on Marie de France, besides other topics, and is the translator of the Penguin edition of the Lays of Marie de France and the Song of Roland. He was awarded a kni...
Q20312277 The 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final was the final game of the 2012 Leinster Senior Football Championship which saw Dublin claim their seventh title in eight years against rivals Meath.
Q718605 Martial law in Poland (Polish: Stan wojenny w Polsce) refers to the period of time from 13 December 1981 to 22 July 1983, when the authoritarian communist government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition. Thousan...
Q632133 Milíkov (German Miltigau) is a village in Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Karlovy Vary and 135 kilometres (84 mi) west of Prague.The municipality covers an area of 19.47 square kilometres (7.52 sq mi) and as of 2011 it had a population of 241.First wri...
Q3067404 Hosoya Jūdayū (細谷 十太夫, 1839–1907) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served the Date clan of Sendai han, and was famous for his role in the Boshin War. He was also known as Naohide 直秀 and Buichiro 武一郎.
Q2991647 Makaravank (Armenian: Մակարավանք) is a 10th to 13th century church complex near the Achajur village of Tavush Province, Armenia, located on the slope of Paitatap Mountain.Though the monastery is no longer used for services, the complex is well preserved. There are 4 churches, a gavit (narthex) that serves the...
Q4738379 Always & Forever: The Classics is a greatest hits album by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It contains Luther's best known cover songs.
Q4813397 The Athenӕum Press Building is an historic building located at 215 First Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It occupies the entire block between First Street, Second Street, Athenaeum Street, and Linskey Way (formerly Munroe Street). Topped by a statue of Athena, it is visible from the Charles River and L...
Q6976847 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts fo...
Q651134 Shirayuki-sensei to kodomo-tachi (白雪先生と子供たち) is a 1950 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ren Yoshimura (吉村廉).
Q1637517 Peramola is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.
Q7202643 Platylesches tina, the small hopper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia (Caprivi) and the Transvaal. The habitat consists of well-wooded savanna and riverine vegetation.The wingspan is 25–29 mm. These skippers are brown with light w...
Q6953009 The NCAA Season 81 basketball tournaments are the postseason tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for basketball at the 2005–06 season. The tournaments are divided into two divisions: the Juniors tournament for male high school students, and the Seniors tournament for male college studen...
Q5035053 Cape Southard (66°32′S 122°5′E) is an ice-covered cape separating the Banzare Coast and Sabrina Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Samuel Lewis Southard, Secretary of the Navy unde...
Q6564749 The fifth series of Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV between 16 April and 4 June 2011. After initial rounds of auditions, forty semi-finalists were chosen to perform across five live shows, with eight appearing in each of the semi-finals. The act from each show who received the highest number of publi...
Q3946999 The 1968-69 NBA season was the Rockets' 2nd season in the NBA.In the playoffs, the Rockets lost to the Atlanta Hawks in six games in the Semifinals.
Q16992163 The FIM Snowcross World Championship is a snowmobile racing championship, inaugurated in 2004. The championship was preceded by the FIM Snowcross World Cup in 2003. Winner of the World Cup was Janne Tapio, Finland.
Q19598956 Do Unto Others is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Thomas H. MacDonald, Peggy Richards and Patrick J. Noonan.
Q11465175 Motojirō Ozaki (尾崎 元次郎, Ozaki Motojirō, October 5, 1870 – January 9, 1945) was a Japanese politician and businessman, member of the House of Representatives and of the House of Peers.Ozaki served as Shizuoka City Education Chairman, Shizuoka Taisei Junior/Senior High School, Shizuoka Blind Dormitory School Pr...
Q15238761 Allegiant is a science fiction novel for young adults, written by the American author Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins in October 2013. It completes the Divergent trilogy that Roth started with her debut novel Divergent in 2011. The book is written from the perspective of both Beatrice (Tris) and ...
Q29617803 Endrit Braimllari is an Albanian politician, member of Socialist Movement for Integration (Albanian: Lëvizja Socialiste për Integrim, LSI), General Secretary of LSI and the Chairman of LSI of Tirana.
Q33520953 Pelacha (Redsonja Records) is a Spanish dj, producer, record label owner and events promoter.
Q742826 The swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) is a medium-sized sparrow related to the song sparrow.Adults have streaked rusty, buff and black upperparts with an unstreaked gray breast, light belly and a white throat. The wings are strikingly rusty. Most males and a few females have a rust-colored caps. Their face is...
Q30004 Evenki , formerly known as Tungus or Solon, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and (the more closely related) Oroqen language. The name is sometimes wrongly given as "Evenks". It is spoken by Evenks in Russia and China.In certain areas th...
Q3983826 Teo Teocoli (born as Antonio Teocoli in Taranto on 25 February 1945) is an Italian actor, TV conductor, singer and writer, appearing in about 30 mostly Italian productions since 1975.
Q2092363 The Great Seal of the State of South Dakota was designed while the area was a territory, in 1885. The outer ring of the seal contains the text "State of South Dakota" on the top and "Great Seal" on the bottom. Also the year of statehood, 1889. Inside the inner circle of the seal contains the state motto "Under...
Q489061 Super Rookie (Korean: 신입사원; RR: Sin-ip Sa-won; lit. "New Employee") is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Eric Mun, Han Ga-in, Oh Ji-ho, and Lee So-yeon. It aired on MBC from March 23 to May 26, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. The workplace comedy is a satire on Korea's co...
Q92987 Wang Xuan (simplified Chinese: 王选; traditional Chinese: 王選; pinyin: Wáng Xuǎn; February 5, 1937 – February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, was a Chinese computer scientist and businessman. He was a computer application specialist and innovator of the Chinese printing industry, as well as an academician ...
Q7420577 Santolan station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2. Santolan station is one of the many elevated stations that can be found on the line located in Barangay Calumpang in Marikina. The station is located on the stretch of the Marikina–Infanta Highway (also known as Marcos Highway) and...
Q2224859 Tselinograd District (Kazakh: Целиноград ауданы, Tselinograd aýdany) is the district that surrounds the city and country capital of Nur-Sultan in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Akmol. Population: 58,350 (2009 Census results); 42,068 (1999 Census results).
Q591232 Statistics of Allsvenskan in season 1939/1940.
Q7354851 Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels is the third season of Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and was confirmed by VH1's website in a blog on July 16, 2008. In the show, eligible women live on tour buses and travel with Bret Michaels, competing for his attention and affection. The show premiered on January 4, 200...
Q2605257 Ștefești is a commune in Prahova County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Scurtești, Ștefești and Târșoreni.
Q6512363 Lectionary 77, designated by siglum ℓ 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th-century.
Q6968425 Natasha's Justice Project (NJP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to end the nation's current rape kit backlog crisis and empower and assist survivors of sexual assault through travel grants to testify at their trials. NJP was founded by Natasha S. Alexenko, a victim and survivor of sexual assa...
Q7593164 St George's Cross is a junction in the West End of Glasgow, UK. The junction has in many respects been bypassed to the South in the 1960s, with two of the roads, Great Western Road and Maryhill Road bypassing the original site of the junction, whereas New City Road has had access blocked off from the actual ju...
Q16899748 Sankt Johann in Tirol Heliport (ICAO: LOIT) is a public use heliport located in Sankt Johann in Tirol, Tirol, Austria.
Q13510977 Damias calida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on Sulawesi, Seram and in New Guinea.
Q18345740 Challenge the Wild is a 1953 American wildlife documentary film written and directed by Frank A. Graham. The film was released on June 4, 1954, by United Artists.
Q20858239 Ray Johnson and the Bystanders were an American band active from 1955 until 1966. They recorded on Demon Records.
Q20806566 The men's 400 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August.
Q27964653 Wizard's Way is a 2013 comedy film starring Socrates Adams-Florou, Sadie Frost, and Joe Hartley. The debut feature of a director known only as Metal Man, the comedic faux-documentary was shot on location in Manchester on a budget of £400.
Q159325 Lüderitz is a harbour town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia. It lies on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa. It is a port developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island.The town is known for its colonial architecture, including some Art Nouveau work, and for wildlife including seals, penguins...
Q26152 Växjö (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɛkːɧœ]) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 66,275 inhabitants (2016) out of a municipal population of 90,721 (2017). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County and the episcopal see of the Diocese of V...
Q188480 Campagnatico is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Florence and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Grosseto in the valley of the Ombrone River.
Q7594030 St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna. There are just a few buildings in the cove, one of which, Cove Cottage, provides bed and breakfast and a ca...
Q926335 Renaud de Dammartin (Reginald of Boulogne) (c. 1165 – 1227) was Count of Boulogne from 1190, Count of Dammartin from 1200 to 1214 and Count of Aumale from 1204 to 1214. He was son of Alberic III of Dammartin, and Mathilde of Clermont.Brought up at the French court, he was a childhood friend of Philip Augustus. ...
Q5607114 Gregory A. Petsko (born August 7, 1948) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently Professor of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harv...
Q5936260 Hulsea brevifolia is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name shortleaf alpinegold, or shortleaf hulsea. It is endemic to California, where it is an uncommon resident of the High Sierra. It is found between 6,000–8,000 feet (1,800–2,400 m) in elevation.
Q2580229 William Pearson (1934 - 18 June 1995) was an American born baritone, who spent most of his career in Europe, especially in Germany. He was notable for his wide repertoire, stretching from Bach and Handel to spirituals, modernist and avant garde compositions.Pearson was born in Tennessee and studied at the Scho...
Q7960492 "Waited Too Long" / "Play It Loud" is a single by heavy metal band Diamond Head and released in 1981 by DHM Records. It was a double A-side with "Waited Too long" and "Play It Loud". Both tracks eventually ended up on the re-released version of Diamond Head's 1980 debut Lightning to the Nations in 2001 by Sanc...
Q6810829 Mel Rosenberg (born Melvyn Rosenberg, 12 November 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis).
Q7289525 Rami (born Rami Abdel-Hakeem Haikal on 12 September 1983) is a prominent musician in the Jordanian metal scene. He is well known for his distinct guitar work in the band Bilocate.
Q7365930 Ronnie Allen McCollum II (born December 28, 1978) is a former American professional basketball player and current coach. McCollum has had a successful international career, but it was his collegiate career playing for the Centenary Gentlemen basketball team between 1997–98 and 2000–01 for which he is best know...
Q2640831 Aleksandras is a Lithuanian male given name derived from Alexander. People with this name include:Alexander Jagiellon (1461–1506), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of PolandAleksandras Abišala (born 1955), former Prime Minister of LithuaniaAleksandras Ambrazevičius (born 1953), Lithuanian politicianAleksandras...
Q8057182 You Don't Know Jack is a Facebook game application based on the long-running series of trivia games created by Jackbox Games (formerly Jellyvision Games). It was released for public play on Facebook in May 2012 after a beta period. The game builds on the success of the relaunch of the series from the 2011 vide...
Q6274840 Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.Wren received his Ph....
Q16056440 For the 2014 Indian general election, the candidates for the Lok Sabha (lower house of the India parliament) of the Left Democratic Fronts of Kerala are as follows:
Q13618381 Eudonia zophochlaena is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is endemic to New Zealand.The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are light ochreous-brownish. The first line is white and double, blotched with ferruginous-ochreous above and below the middle. The second...
Q20987557 Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 24 February 2019 in order to elect the 101 members of the Parliament of Moldova. The Constitution mandates that elections be held no later than four years and three months from the date of inauguration of the previous legislature.The elections were held under a ...
Q24845681 Herbert Robinson (29 December 1876 – 2 May 1919) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 until his death, representing the seat of Albany.Robinson was born in Red Hill, Victoria, to Irish parents, Margaret (née Thomson) and John Robi...
Q14721963 Sinodorcadion subspinicolle is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1959. It is known from Malaysia.
Q7936625 In the study of vision, visual short-term memory (VSTM) is one of three broad memory systems including iconic memory and long-term memory. VSTM is a type of short-term memory, but one limited to information within the visual domain.The term VSTM refers in a theory-neutral manner to the non-permanent storage of...
Q1183376 Deirdre Cartwright (born 26 July 1958) is a British guitarist and composer, and became well known as the guitar presenter of the groundbreaking BBC Television series Rockschool (1983). The second series of Rockschool attracted audiences of two million viewers every week in the UK and was subsequently shown wor...
Q5140172 Codespa Foundation is a non-profit organization helping poor people and communities in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and the Americas. Founded in 1985 and based in Spain. The organization is presided by the Prince Felipe of Spain. From the beginning of its history Codespa Foundation promoted develop...
Q7382532 Rustom Sorabji "Rusi" Cooper (born 15 December 1922 in Bombay) is a former Indian first-class cricketer.He was a right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut in the 1941/42 Bombay Pentangular Tournament, playing for the Parsees. Later he represented Bombay in the Ranji Trophy.Selected to play for the Re...
Q1987612 Popples is an animated television series, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and marionettes; after this was well-received, it was decided to make a cartoon series with the same characters...
Q3474785 Said Boualam (born at Souk Ahras, French Algeria in 1906, died at Mas-Thibert, France in 1982) was a French politician and army officer. He was a colonel in the French Army, and the founder of the Front Algérie Française, a political and militant movement in favour of French Algeria.He was elected a député dur...
Q5108343 Chris Underhill, MBE, is a social entrepreneur working with marginalised people.He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of London and later with a Master of Science in International Policy from the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in...
Q3889306 Palaeobalistum is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish which ranged from the Cretaceous to Eocene periods.
Q5429817 Fair Haven is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. Fair Haven is 8 miles (13 km) west-southwest of Milledgeville.
Q691394 Acaya is a small village, a community, in the province of Lecce and region of Apulia, in southern Italy.Info:http://acaya.altervista.org
Q7938188 Vladan Spasojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Bлaдaн Спасојевић, born 11 October 1980) is a Serbian football midfielder.Born in Kosovska Mitrovica (SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia) he started his career with FK Bane, moving in 2003 to top league FK Borac Čačak where he stayed until 2008 when he moved to another Serbian SuperLiga...
Q16845185 Bouhlou is a town and commune in Tlemcen Province in northwestern Algeria.
Q6620799 This is a list of football clubs in Sweden, for women's football clubs, see the list of women's football clubs in Sweden.
Q982796 David Gómez Martínez (born February 13, 1981 in O Rosal, Pontevedra) is a Spanish decathlete. He is a two-time national junior champion, an eleven-time national senior champion, and a two-time Olympian. He also won two silver medals for the decathlon at the 2000 IAAF World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chil...
Q16062983 Maurice L. Ayers, sometimes listed as M. S. Ayres, (December 4, 1819 – June 11, 1884) was an American banker, farmer, hotelier and politician from Burlington, Wisconsin, who served a single term as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Racine County.
Q20711761 Billy Marek (born c. 1954) is a former American football running back. He played college football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1972 to 1975. He gained more than 1,200 rushing yards for three consecutive years from 1973 to 1975. He concluded his college football career with 740 yards and 13 to...
Q25052297 Lake Tuctococha (possibly from Quechua tuqtu broody hen, qucha lake) is a lake in Peru located in the Junín Region, Yauli Province, Carhuacayan District. It lies northeast of Yanque.
Q22957255 Catherine Wanjiru (born 7 August 1978) was a Kenyan female volleyball player. She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team.She participated in the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. She competed with the national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She played with K...
Q28997643 Whitehall is an unincorporated community located in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Q2779769 The 1997 La Flèche Wallonne was the 61st edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 16 April 1997. The race started in Spa and finished in Huy. The race was won by Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE team.
Q577246 The 1904 Tour de France was the second Tour de France, held from 2 to 24 July. With a route similar to its previous edition, 1903 Tour de France winner Maurice Garin seemed to have repeated his win by a small margin over Lucien Pothier, while Hippolyte Aucouturier won four of the six stages. But the race became...
Q5014118 CSIRO Hut , also known as the Rabbiters Hut, is an Australian alpine hut in the Kosciuszko National Park. The hut was built by the CSIRO in 1963 as a base camp for researchers investigating methods of rabbit control. It was located in the north-eastern region of Snowy Plain, where the region's rabbit populatio...
Q6075137 Irwin Thomas (born Irwin Thomas Whittridge on 6 January 1971) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He performed professionally using the stage name of Jack Jones when he was the lead vocalist-guitarist in band Southern Sons (1990–96) and again with Rick Price. His other bands and col...
Q6088021 Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan (fl. 1539–1572) (Hebrew: יששכר בן מרדכי אבן שושן) was a Jewish mathematician, living in Ottoman Palestine.At a young age, he moved from Morocco—perhaps from Fes—to Jerusalem, where he became a pupil of Levi ibn Ḥabib. From there he went to Safed, where, under great hardship, he ...
Q16090540 Maidavolu Narasimham (born 1927) was the thirteenth governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2 May 1977 to 30 November 1977. He hails from Mydavolu village of Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh.RBI follows a policy of in-house promotions, where all staff persons are promoted internally. The only two jo...
Q7366223 Rookie of the Year is an indie rock/acoustic band from Fayetteville, North Carolina signed to Cardigan Records. They were signed to One Eleven Records, though their third release fulfilled their contractual obligation to One Eleven and allowed them to sign with a new label. The band is fronted by lead singer/s...
Q3379379 Guo Lei (born April 26, 1982 in Baoding, Hebei) is a male Chinese judoka who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Half middleweight (73–81 kg) event.
Q7107900 Ostrzyca [ɔsˈtʂɨt͡sa] (German: Bernhagen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowogard, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-east of Nowogard, 26 km (16 mi) east of Goleniów, and 46 km (29 mi) north-east o...
Q3512519 TV8 Mont-Blanc is a Savoie-based local television channel, broadcast on Télévision Numérique Terrestre, cable and satellite.
Q2901706 Abraham Stupp (Hebrew: אברהם סטופ‎, 1897 – 26 September 1968) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1955.
Q2255065 Sobra is a rural commune in the Kati Cercle of the Koulikoro Region of Mali. The commune covers an area of approximately 938 square kilometers and contains 10 villages. In the 2009 census it had a population of 9,900. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sandama.
Q792920 Ayele Abshero Biza (Amharic: አየለ አብሽሮ ቢዛ, born 28 December 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who mainly competes in cross country and road races.He came to prominence with a junior silver medal at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships before taking the junior title in 2009. He won the 2008 Ze...
Q404714 Helen Moody successfully defended her title, defeating Dorothy Round in the final, 6–4, 6–8, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1933 Wimbledon Championships.
Q6223891 John Burgeson (19 August 1931 – 12 September 2016) is a former IBM engineer who created the first computer baseball simulation game in 1961 on an IBM 1620 Computer in Akron, Ohio. Burgeson's invention was accepted and officially recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in contribution.A baseball fan an...
Q8016781 William Perfect (1734–1809) was a British surgeon, obstetrician, early psychiatrist, pioneer of humane treatment of mental illness, Freemason, and poet.He was born in Oxford, England, the son of William Perfect (1712–1757), a clergyman of Huguenot extraction who was vicar of East Malling, Kent, from 1745. In ...
Q18207279 Funeral Kings is a 2012 film written and directed by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus starring Dylan Hartigan and Alex Maizus.