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Q19885373 Umaru Abdullahi, CON (born November 30, 1939) is a Nigerian Jurist and former President of the Nigerian courts of appeals. |
Q25184323 The Medium is a 1960 Australian television production. It was a filmed version of the opera by Menotti. |
Q4119122 Under Ash (Arabic name: "Taht-al-ramad", تحت الرماد) is a first-person shooter sometimes explained to be a response to how Arabs are pictured in video games in general and America's Army in particular. Like America's Army, it is considered to be video game propaganda; however, it differs from America's Army in... |
Q6422364 Knighton is a residential suburban area of Leicester, situated between Clarendon Park to the north, Stoneygate to the east, Oadby and Wigston to the south and the Saffron Lane estate to the west.Originally a separate village a couple of miles from Leicester city centre, it became linked to it by the areas know... |
Q569425 The Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (Russian: острова Анжу, Yakut: Анжу арыылара) are an archipelago and geographical subgroup of the New Siberian Islands archipelago. They are located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Russian Arctic Ocean. |
Q4567910 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to Wales and its people. |
Q3056369 Eric George O'Flaherty (born February 5, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets.O'Flaherty was the first reliever in MLB history to record an earne... |
Q1181878 Decitabine (trade name Dacogen), or 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, acts as an Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitor. It is a drug for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes, a class of conditions where certain blood cells are dysfunctional, and for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Chemically, it is a cytidine analog. |
Q1132914 Elkhonon Goldberg (born 1946) is a neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist known for his work in hemispheric specialization and the "novelty-routinization" theory. |
Q7945921 William Richard Sweatt (1866–1937) was an American industrialist. |
Q3068480 Feramanga Nord or Feramanga Avaratra is a town and commune (Malagasy: kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambatondrazaka, which is a part of Alaotra-Mangoro Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 10,000 in 2001 commune census.Feramanga Nord is served by a lo... |
Q141096 Eritrea sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. |
Q1587036 The Hartbach is a small tributary of the Inn in Upper Austria and originates in the Senftenbach area. It flows from South to North to the Inn and merges with it 2 km east of Obernberg am Inn. |
Q4999959 The 1998 Burnley Borough Council election took place on 7 May 1998 to elect members of Burnley Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.An issue in the election were allegations that there had been misuse... |
Q6630721 The following is a list of notable non-governmental organisations in Cyprus. |
Q7179295 Petter Graver (30 May 1920 – 21 January 1995) was a Norwegian jurist who first served as a diplomat from 1947 to 1988, then as a lawyer until his death. He was the Norwegian ambassador to several countries, among them Israel and the Soviet Union. |
Q2856929 Antoine de Saporta (26 July 1855 – 14 April 1914) was a French aristocrat and non-fiction writer. |
Q5837322 Milan Platovsky Stein (1922 – 2012) was a Czech-Chilean businessman and a Holocaust survivor.He was born into a Jewish family in Prague. His father was a businessman while his mother was a woman of senior Czech bourgeoisie. He lived a carefree childhood. At age 17, in the middle of systematic harassment suffer... |
Q8966766 Haru (波瑠, Haru, born June 17, 1991 in Adachi, Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and model,known for the film Koizora (2007), Maria-sama ga Miteru (2010), the TV drama Asa ga Kita (2015-2016), and for co-hosting of the TBS talk show A-Studio. |
Q33321609 John Francis Shouldice (12 March 1882 – 15 February 1965) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, revolutionary, Gaelic games administrator and civil servant. His championship career with the London and Dublin senior teams spanned sixteen seasons from 1901 until 1916.Born in Ballaghaderreen, County Mayo, Shouldice wa... |
Q21808677 Evaldo da Silva (born 18 October 1958) is a Brazilian sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics. |
Q2639821 Triepeolus grindeliae is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae. It is found in North America. |
Q2321342 "Pinball Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band the Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy. The original recording was released as a single in 1969 and reached No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.The B-side of the "Pinball ... |
Q314818 The New Chambers (German: Neue Kammern) is part of the ensemble of Sanssouci palace in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany. They were constructed for King Frederick the Great of Prussia from 1771 to 1775. |
Q7334852 Ringer is the name of three fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. |
Q5549247 Gerald (Rusty) J. Hills, II is an American politician and educator in the state of Michigan and is currently the communications director for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.Rusty Hills also serves as Chancellor and Founder of Holy Spirits Institute, a non-profit educational venture. His goal is to esta... |
Q298498 Victoria București was a Romanian football club, dissolved right after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. |
Q16152160 Asian Canadians are Canadians who can trace their ancestry back to the continent of Asia or Asian people. Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise the largest and fastest growing visible minority group in Canada, with roughly 17.7% of the Canadian population. Most Asian Canadians are concentrated in the urban a... |
Q4803227 Asad Kamal Mohammed Abdullah al-Hashemi is an Iraqi politician and the current Culture Minister in the government of Nouri al-Maliki |
Q4761328 Andrew Walter Smith (April 1890 – 1968) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward or inside right. He scored 54 goals from 141 appearances in the Football League. |
Q5141306 Cohasset is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Cohasset, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3A) west of downtown Cohasset. The station was opened with the line on October 31, 2007, providing the first rail service to Cohasset since 1959. Cohasset s... |
Q7199448 The Mayoral election of 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1985. The incumbent mayor, Richard Caliguiri of the Democratic Party chose to run for his third term.Calagiri won by over 50 points in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 5 to 1 margin. The Republican nomine... |
Q7801921 The Tiki Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in India. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus. |
Q7326326 Richard Hawkes may refer to:Richard Hawkes (tennis)Richard Hawkes (politician), MP for Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency) |
Q6265380 The John and Ellen Bowman House is a house located in northeast Portland, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1915-16 on six lots and was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence. The house is constructed mostly of concrete block covered with textured stucco and was estimated to cost $35,000.It is listed on the Nation... |
Q17001262 The list of shipwrecks in 1813 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1813. |
Q17017152 Kaatrinile Varum Geetham (lit. The song wafts into the air) is a 1978 Tamil Indian feature film, directed by S. P. Muthuraman for Vijayabhaskar Films. The film stars Muthuraman and Kavitha in the lead roles. |
Q18151662 The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in the U.S. state of South Carolina. |
Q18162608 Bank of New Zealand v Greenwood [1984] 1 NZLR 525 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding land based nuisance claims in tort. |
Q18706116 City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower, also known as City Place, is a historic municipal services complex located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The City Garage is an expansive, largely one-story, polygonal structure with multiple equipment-size access bays. It features arcaded bays and stepped an... |
Q19754156 Lien Mermans (born 27 September 1990) is a Belgian football forward currently playing for Lierse SK. |
Q20250236 Matias Haaranen (born 11 July 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with the Ravensburg Towerstars in the German DEL2.Haaranen made his Liiga debut playing with HPK during the 2014–15 Liiga season. |
Q4687982 Aerial Distributors was a US aircraft manufacturer established in Wichita, Kansas in 1967. It set up to develop the Distributor Wing DWA-1, an unorthodox agricultural aircraft. |
Q8028551 Witte Wartena (born June 18, 1976) is a Dutch artist. His work consists mainly of drawings. His work has been widely shown in international art exhibitions.His work has been described in Metropolis M, a leading Dutch art magazine, as: "one of the few people in the Netherlands who make cutting edge comic strips... |
Q391097 Šamši-Adad IV, inscribed mdšam-ši-dIM, was the king of Assyria, 1054/3–1050 BC, the 91st to be listed on the Assyrian Kinglist. He was a son of Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I (1114–1076 BC), the third to have taken the throne, after his brothers Ašarēd-apil-Ekur and Ashur-bel-kala, and he usurped the kingship from the l... |
Q1870709 Lost Witness is the English trance producer and DJ Simon Paul (also known as Si Paul), working in collaboration with songwriter Edward Barton, writer of the 1983 Jane & Barton single, "It's a Fine Day" (later covered by Opus III in 1992), and vocalist Danielle Alexander.He also recorded under the aliases Dusk ... |
Q5075614 Charles William Billingsley (1 January 1910 in Belfast, Ireland – 4 November 1951 in Belfast) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his debut for Ireland against the MCC at Lord's in August 1935, taking 5/54 when bowling in the MCC second innings, which were t... |
Q2886686 Gokashō Station (五箇荘駅, Gokashō-eki) is a railway station in Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan. Tōkaidō Shinkansen passes over just south of Gokashō Station. |
Q818911 Bibra is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany. |
Q4914612 BioDrugs is a peer-reviewed pharmacology journal.It has a 2017 impact factor of 3.825.It is published by Adis International (SpringerNature).BioDrugs is an essential resource for R&D professionals and clinicians with an interest in biologic therapies. BioDrugs covers the development and therapeutic application... |
Q1332976 Robert Sebastian Andrzejuk (born July 17, 1975 in Wrocław, Dolnośląskie) is a Polish fencer who won a silver medal in Men's Team Épée (Fencing) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Tomasz Motyka, Adam Wiercioch, and Radosław Zawrotniak.For his sport achievements, he received: Golden Cross of ... |
Q5490614 Frankamionka [frankaˈmjɔnka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Miączyn, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Zamość and 95 km (59 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin. |
Q873680 The Diocese of Oulu (Finnish: Oulun hiippakunta) is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The diocese was first founded in the town of Kuopio in 1851, but the episcopal see was moved to Oulu in 1900. |
Q5142396 Cold Sweat is a 1993 thriller film about a man who lives a double life as a hitman. The film was directed by Gail Harvey, and stars Ben Cross, Adam Baldwin, and Shannon Tweed. |
Q4794214 The Army Public College of Management and Sciences, commonly known as APCOMS, is a private college located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1999 under the administrative control of the Inspector General Training & Evaluation (IGT&E), Pakistan Army. Its engineering programs are affiliated with... |
Q4802201 Arunai Engineering College (AEC) is a private college located in Thiruvannaamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.AEC was founded in 1993 by Thiru E. V. Velu, on behalf of the Saraswathi Ammal Educational Trust. The college is located on the Chittor - Cuddalore national highway spreading over 31.5 acresThe college has been... |
Q8077717 Çimeliyeni is a village in the District of Aksaray, Aksaray Province, Turkey. |
Q7680835 Tamara Mikhaylovna Sosnova (Russian: Тамара Михайловна Соснова; born 18 December 1949 in Moscow) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer who won two medals at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships. She also competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics but did not reach the finals. Between 1964 and 1968 she won 10 na... |
Q15430449 St. Julien Ravenel (December 15, 1819 – March 16, 1882) was an American physician and agricultural chemist. During the American Civil War, he designed the torpedo boat CSS David that was used to attack the Union ironclad USS New Ironsides. Following the war, he helped pioneer the use of fertilizers in agricul... |
Q16984839 Howard Hoppin (1856–1940) was an American architect from Providence, Rhode Island.Hoppin began his architectural practice in Providence in the late 1870s. Early on, he developed a specialty in small churches. He worked alone until 1890, when he was joined by Spencer P. Read and his brother, Francis L. V. Ho... |
Q28976496 Ram Lal Gurjar is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing the P Vidhan Sabha constituency of Rajasthan. |
Q42891229 Very Rev Edward James Hagan MC OBE DD (1879-1956) was a 20th-century Scottish minister and biblical scholar. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1944. |
Q6800835 McDaniel College is a private liberal arts college in Westminster, Maryland. Established in 1867, it was known as Western Maryland College until 2002 when it was renamed McDaniel College in honor of an alumnus who gave a lifetime of service to the college. The college also has a satellite campus, McDaniel Col... |
Q564827 Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974, it was a district seat.The University of Kassel maintains a satellite campus in Witzenhausen at which is offered the ecological agricultural sciences programme, which is uni... |
Q7524011 Singled Out is a live album by Diesel released in 2004. It captures a collection of material performed solo/acoustic by Diesel.The album was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2004, but lost to Ways & Means by Paul Kelly.Tracks 1-4 are "studio" tracks, recorded and mixed at... |
Q5937513 Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ) is a quarterly academic journal founded by Richard Pierre Claude in 1982 covering human rights. The journal is intended for scholars and policymakers and follows recent developments from both governments and non-governmental organizations. It includes research in policy analysis, b... |
Q4971929 Broad Run is a 4.3-mile-long (6.9 km) tributary of White Clay Creek located principally in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.The headwaters of Broad Run are in Kaolin, just south of Pennsylvania Route 41. Flowing southward, the stream enters a wide, deep valley. Between tw... |
Q4762327 Angel of Death is a novel by Jack Higgins written in 1995. It tells the story of a famous actress who joins a bloody terrorist movement named after Bloody Sunday's date, 30 January. This terrorist group appear to target random government agencies and terrorists group from members of the Central Intelligence ... |
Q2890220 Flabellaria is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Flabellaria includes one variable species, Flabellaria paniculata. |
Q6450531 Kwon Soon-Hyung (Korean: 권순형, born June 16, 1986) is a South Korean football player who currently plays for Jeju United. He was called AN Global on January 01, 2019.On November 18, 2008, Kwon was as one of sixteen priority member, join Gangwon FC. He played first pro league game in Incheon, April 5, 2009, but ... |
Q7758348 The Princeton University Summer Journalism Program (SJP) is an all-expense paid summer program at Princeton University for rising high school seniors across the country from low-income backgrounds. It was founded in 2002 by four former 'Daily Princetonian' editors. The founding directors include former editor-... |
Q1812594 Završje is a village in Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia. The village is administered as a part of the Brestovac municipality.According to national census of 2011, population of the village is 323. |
Q5068174 Chak-e Sabz Olya (Persian: چك سبزعليا, also Romanized as Chak-e Sabz ‘Olyā; also known as Chak-e Sabz ‘Alī and Chok-e Sabz‘alī) is a village in Mamulan Rural District, Mamulan District, Pol-e Dokhtar County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 106, in 20 families. |
Q3730059 Eulithidium cyclostoma is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails. |
Q16233497 Dane Rampe (born 2 June 1990) is an Australian rules football player who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). |
Q6084498 Democrat Turkey Party (Turkish: Demokrat Türkiye Partisi, DTP) is a former political party in Turkey,The party was founded by a group of MPs issued from the True Path Party on 7 January 1997. The chairman of the party was Hüsamettin Cindoruk, who was a former chairman of the True Path Party. The party particip... |
Q1509903 Gerald Halpin (15 June 1896 – 8 June 1944) was an Australian cyclist. He competed in the men's sprint event at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He won Australian half mile title and was selected in Australian team. Gerald died in Glebe NSW, Australia. |
Q17051009 The men's Greco-Roman 57 kilograms (bantamweight) Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta was held from 25 to 27 August 1962.The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points elim... |
Q17096436 Rubin a.d. (Serbian Cyrillic: Рубин) is a Serbian alcoholic beverages company headquartered in Kruševac, Serbia. |
Q17280090 María Dolores "Lola" Sánchez Caldentey (Valencia, 17 March 1978) is a Spanish politician, and one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election. |
Q11176122 Whampoa West is one of the 24 constituencies of the Kowloon City District Council. The seat elects one member of the council every four years. The seat has currently been held by Kwong Po-yin of Youngspiration. The boundary is loosely based on the Western area of Whampoa Garden. |
Q24579237 Jalen Schlachter (born October 11, 1992) is an American football guard. He played college football for the Ball State Cardinals. O-Line coach at Corunna High School where he owns the shot put record with 64ft |
Q3708773 Harford is a town in Cortland County, New York, United States. The population was 943 at the 2010 census. Harford is in the southwest corner of Cortland County and is south of Cortland. |
Q1453075 USS Hampton (SSN-767), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to bear this name. The earlier Hamptons were given their names for varying reasons, but SSN-767 was specifically named for four cities: Hampton, Virginia; Hampton, Iowa; Hampton, South Carolina; and Hampton, New ... |
Q5299845 Double Live is a 1997 album by Rheostatics. It collects a variety of live performances by the band, ranging from intimate club settings to record store sessions to their arena tour with The Tragically Hip in 1996.The album includes a number of tracks which have never appeared on any previous Rheostatics album... |
Q156312 The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day. Nearly all branches of natural science have contributed to understanding of the main events of Earth's past, characterized by constant geological change and biological evolution.The geological time scale (GTS), ... |
Q1563132 Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced by Cézanne, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard, Heron made a significant contri... |
Q6149634 Nelson Arturo Liriano Bonilla (born June 3, 1964) is a Dominican former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball from 1987 through 1998 for the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1999, he play... |
Q2130544 Teresa "Tracy" Bond (born Teresa "Tracy" Draco, and also known as the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the 1963 James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and its 1969 film adaptation. She is the second Bond girl to marry 007, the first being in You Only Liv... |
Q545483 Sergei Aleksandrovich Fokin (Russian: Сергей Александрович Фокин; born 26 July 1961 in Ulyanovsk) is a former Russian footballer. He was famous during the days he played for CSKA Moscow for scoring numerous own goals, including 1990 league game against FC Spartak Moscow and European cup games against A.S. Roma ... |
Q136468 1148 Rarahu, provisional designation 1929 NA and previously also known as 1148 Raraju, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 32 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Alexander Deutsch at the Simeiz Observatory in 1929, the asteroid's name was taken from a French novel by... |
Q5079652 Charles Kinnaird Graham (June 3, 1824 – April 15, 1889) was a sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and later a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a civil engineer, he helped plan and lay out Central Park in New York City. |
Q5034632 Cape Campbell Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Cape Campbell in the Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.The original lighthouse at this site was first lit on 1 August 1870. However, this lighthouse was constructed of timber, and in 1898 these tim... |
Q1953946 Florentino García Martínez (born 1942, in Mochales or Madrid) is a former Catholic priest, now married and for many years professor of religion and theology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is a leading expert on messianic ideas in the Dead Sea scrolls.He is responsible for the standard tr... |
Q990959 Broumov (German: Promenhof) is a village and municipality (obec) in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of 10.17 square kilometres (3.93 sq mi), and has a population of 145 (as at 3 July 2006).Broumov lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Tachov, ... |
Q7391655 The SM UB-48 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. It was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 11 June 1917 as SM UB-48.The submarine conducted nine patrols and sank 32 ships during the war for a total loss of 104,488 ... |
Q9168623 Ben Blushi (born 1 January 1969) is an Albanian politician, writer and journalist. |
Q6576157 This is a list of stations in Phase 1 of the Kochi Metro. There are 24 stations planned on the line from Aluva to SN Junction, Tripunithura. 16 of them are currently in operation. |
Q109592 Wilhelm Pauck was born in Laasphe, in Westphalia, Germany [today, Bad Laasphe], January 31, 1901, and died in Palo Alto, California, September 3, 1981. A German-American church historian and historical theologian in the field of Reformation studies, Pauck's fifty-year teaching career reached from the Universit... |
Q2800967 Murena is Belgian comic book written by Jean Dufaux and drawn by Philippe Delaby. The series is set in ancient Rome, around 54 AD, when Emperor Nero seized power. The strip is mainly characterized by its realistic style and the additional historical information. The first volume was published by Dargaud in 199... |
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