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Q189762 Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (Russian: Карл Гу́ставович Фаберже́, Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe; 30 May 1846 – 24 September 1920), was a Russian jeweller best known for the famous Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than... |
Q373179 Alpheus Felch (September 28, 1804 – June 13, 1896) was the fifth Governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan. |
Q2254157 Cork Celtic F.C., originally Evergreen United F.C., was an Irish football club based in Cork. They played in the League of Ireland between 1951 and 1979 and played their home games at Turners Cross. In 1974 they were League of Ireland champions and the following season they reached the second round of the Euro... |
Q1980994 Edward McCallum Morrison (22 February 1948 – 30 May 2011) was a Scottish footballer and manager. Morrison was born in Gourock, and spent the majority of his playing career as a striker at Kilmarnock, where he scored 149 goals in 341 appearances in all competitions. He has been described as a club 'legend'.Morr... |
Q1827266 Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 – February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He won the Academy Award for Best Score of a Musical Picture for Hello Dolly! with Lennie Hayton in 1969. He is the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of composers Randy Newman,... |
Q3985 Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Recklinghausen.Herten was the seat of the governors of the County of Vest Recklinghausen, an autonomous state within the Archbishopric o... |
Q954533 Todd Alcott (born October 22, 1961) is an American screenwriter, playwright, actor, and director. He was born in Crystal Lake, Illinois. |
Q5450710 Finnegan Wakes is a live album by The Dubliners. Recorded at the Gate Theatre on 26 and 27 April 1966 and produced by Nathan Joseph, this was The Dubliners' final recording for Transatlantic Records. But it was also their first to feature their first established line-up of Ronnie Drew (vocals and guitar), Barn... |
Q5076 Wanyan Yongji (died 11 September 1213), courtesy name Xingsheng, was the seventh emperor of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty, which ruled northern China between the 12th and 13th centuries. He reigned for about five years from 1208 until 1213, when he was assassinated by the general Heshilie Zhizhong. Despite having r... |
Q2601984 In enzymology, a GDP-mannose 6-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.132) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactionGDP-D-mannose + 2 NAD+ + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } GDP-D-mannuronate + 2 NADH + 2 H+The 3 substrates of this enzyme are GDP-D-mannose, NAD+, and H2O, w... |
Q5256919 Deng Jiaxian (simplified Chinese: 邓稼先; traditional Chinese: 鄧稼先; pinyin: Dèng Jiàxiān; Wade–Giles: Teng Chia-hsien; June 25, 1924 – July 29, 1986) was a nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs. |
Q6220606 John Baptist Yi (c. 1800 – July 20, 1839) was one of the 103 Korean Martyrs. His feast day is July 20, and he is also venerated along with the rest of The Korean martyrs on September 20.John embraced Roman Catholicism with his elder brother when he was 28 years old. His fervor attracted the attention of the ca... |
Q6692602 The Loving County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Mentone, Texas. The courthouse, the first permanent one in the county, was built in 1935, replacing a temporary courthouse built in 1931. Loving County was organized in 1931 following an oil boom in the area; it reached a peak population of 600 shortly t... |
Q7968364 War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer is a 1983 Canadian television miniseries filmed by Gwynne Dyer. The miniseries was commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada and consists of 8 one-hour episodes. |
Q2612629 The Abarth 205 was a coupe sports car built by Austrian born tuning expert Carlo Abarth between 1950 and 1951. Only three cars were ever built. |
Q771455 Uelfe is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Wupper near Radevormwald. |
Q17092671 The Irish Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums in Ireland, as compiled by Chart-Track on behalf of the Irish Recorded Music Association. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday. |
Q1510162 Gerard "Gerrit" Moll LLD (1785–1838) was a Dutch scientist and mathematician. A polymath in his interests, he published in four languages. |
Q19325732 George Cyril Allen(28 June 1900 – 31 July 1982), published as G. C. Allen, was a British economist and academic. He was Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool from 1933 to 1947, and then Professor of Political Economy at University College London from 1947 to 1967. He wrote on Ja... |
Q18670518 Diarmid Noel Paton, (19 March 1859 – 30 September 1928), known as Noel Paton, was a Scottish physician and academic. From 1906 to 1928, he was the Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. |
Q172262 Reine Wisell (born 30 September 1941) is a Swedish former racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. He won ... |
Q375010 Charles Bent (November 11, 1799 – January 19, 1847) was appointed as the first civilian Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by military Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September 1846.Charles Bent had been working as a fur trader in the region since 1828, with his younger brother, William and la... |
Q7787348 Thomas Ballantyne (August 13, 1829 – June 29, 1908) was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Ontario Legislature.Ballantyne was born in Peebles, Scotland, and immigrated to Canada in 1852. He made his fortune as a cheese manufacturer, becoming successful enough to be elected president of the Dairyman's Ass... |
Q1641461 Thomas Dickens Arnold (May 3, 1798 – May 26, 1870) was an American politician who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Tennessee's 2nd district from 1831 to 1833, and the 1st district from 1841 to 1843. A staunch opponent of Andrew Jackson, he spent his first term in Co... |
Q490682 Achipatti is a town in Coimbatore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is suburb of Pollachi. Achipatti pincode is 642002. |
Q20505 Stroppo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Turin and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Cuneo. Stroppo borders the following municipalities: Elva, Macra, Marmora, Prazzo and Sampeyre. |
Q603167 The BMW Hydrogen 7 is a limited production hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle built from 2005-2007 by German automobile manufacturer BMW. The car is based on BMW’s traditional gasoline-powered BMW 7 Series (E65) line of vehicles, and more specifically the 760Li. It uses the same 6 litre V-12 motor as... |
Q1273909 The European Brewery Convention (EBC) is an organization representing the technical and scientific interests of the brewing sector in Europe. The EBC defines itself as the scientific and technological arm of The Brewers of Europe. Among brewers, EBC is perhaps best known for the EBC units measuring beer and wo... |
Q7306498 Redwood Empire Council is the local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves youth in Mendocino and Sonoma counties in California.The Petaluma Area Council #041 (originally Petaluma Council) was founded in 1919, and served the cities/towns of Petaluma, Sonoma, Cotati, and adjacent unincorporated commun... |
Q1814845 al-Qarara (Arabic: القرارة) is a Palestinian town located north of Khan Yunis, in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Qarara had a population of over 16,900 inhabitants in mid-year 2006, mostly adherents of Islam. |
Q1142133 Les Deux-Fays is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. |
Q3719501 Edna Goodrich (born Bessie Edna Stevens; December 22, 1883 – May 26, 1971) was an American Broadway actress, Florodora girl, author, and media sensation during the early 1900s. At one point, she was known as one of America's wealthiest and best dressed performers. She was married to Edwin Stacey of Cincinnati... |
Q5440029 The Federal Boiler Inspection Act, also called the Railroad Inspection Act, expanded the Boiler Inspection Act of 1911 to include I.C.C. regulation not just of train engine boilers, but of the entire train as well as cargo to ensure safety for workers and passengers. In 1915 the Boiler Inspection Act was expa... |
Q6915898 Moses Nadenbousch House, also known as Red Hill and Woodside Farm, is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1885 and is a 2 1⁄2-story, five bay, "I"-house wood frame dwelling with Italianate-style details. It is set on a limestone foundation and has an inter... |
Q16824258 During the 2004–05 Belgian football season, Anderlecht competed in the Belgian First Division. |
Q5822486 Seyyed Sara (Persian: سيدسرا, also Romanized as Seyyed Sarā; also known as Sa‘īd Sarā) is a village in Gurab Pas Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 522, in 118 families. |
Q16892117 Haresfield is a village near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England around one mile from Junction 12 of the M5 motorway and between the villages of Brookthorpe, Harescombe and Hardwicke. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 378.Haresfield today is a largely residential village with a pub, ... |
Q16254444 Betawad is a village in Sindkheda Taluka in Dhule District of Maharashtra State, India. It belongs to Khandesh and Northern Maharashtra region. It belongs to Nashik Division.It is located 37 km towards North from District headquarters Dhule. 24 km from Shindkhede. 375 km from State capital Mumbai.Betawad Pin ... |
Q18180885 Pedro Romana (c.1460–1536) was a Spanish Renaissance painter. Romana was probably born around Córdoba, Andalusia where he was active from 1488 to 1536. He specialized in religious-themed works for church commissions, especially altarpieces for local churches. His style puts him in the Córdoba School, although... |
Q10804674 Perdita cladothricis is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America. |
Q2430201 Dublin is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,597 at the 2010 census. It is home to Dublin School and Yankee magazine is based there. |
Q1206001 Nakagawa (那珂川市, Nakagawa-shi) is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on October 1, 2018.As of 2016, Nakagawa town has an estimated population of 50,275 and a density of 670 persons per km². The total area is 74.99 km2 (28.95 sq mi). |
Q1399029 Faye is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. It is named after French astronomer Hervé Faye. It is attached to the northeastern rim of the crater Delaunay, with Donati located just a few kilometers to the northeast. It forms part of a chain of craters of increasing... |
Q552031 Daniel Randall James Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American character actor of television, film, and theatre. His best known roles include Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in The Fugitive and its spinoff film U.S. Marshals, Jay Leno in The Late Shift, and Dr. Leslie Arzt in Lost, as well as numerous Rob Zombie ... |
Q6955899 The NWA Central States United States Championship was the version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in the Central States Wrestling territory around Missouri. It existed from 1961 until 1968. Records indicate that Bob Orton, The Viking and The Destroyer also held championship ... |
Q7021202 Next of Kin, also known as The Space Willies, is a science fiction comic novel by English writer Eric Frank Russell. It is the story of a military misfit who successfully conducts a one-man psychological warfare operation against an alien race, with whom humans and allied races are at war. It was published u... |
Q2733640 Sonatikiri is a census town in Gaighata CD Block of Bangaon subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. |
Q3623917 Ars Antiqua Austria is an early music ensemble founded in Linz in 1995 to perform Austrian Baroque music on period instruments. The group was established by Gunar Letzbor and Michael Oman and consists of eight musicians. They research and perform neglected works.During the Baroque period, Austrian music had ma... |
Q5221636 Kathleen Daphne Skillern QPM (29 November 1927 – 20 October 2012) was a British police officer. She was the second woman to hold the rank of commander in the London Metropolitan Police (after Shirley Becke) and the first woman to head a branch at Scotland Yard apart from A4 (Women Police), which was disbanded ... |
Q143766 Hedya salicella is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe.The wingspan is 19–24 mm. The moth flies from June to October. [1].The larvae feed on large holes and willow and poplar. |
Q3438014 The 2009 season was SK Brann's 101st season and their 23rd consecutive season in the Norwegian Premier League. Steinar Nilsen took over as head coach after the six-year tenure of Mons Ivar Mjelde. The club didn't see the big signings or sales in the January transferwindow. Local-lad Erlend Hanstveit left the c... |
Q5323539 The EMLL 1st Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, CMLL) that took place on September 21, 1934 in Arena Modelo (In the same location Arena México was built years later), in Mexico City, Mex... |
Q7703892 Terror To Love (foaled 21 October 2007) is a New Zealand standardbred racehorse. He is best known for being a three-time winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup, in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He is trained by Graham and Paul Court.Terror To Love started his racing career as a two-year-old in early 2010, with the Sapl... |
Q12693181 Januária Airport (IATA: JNA, ICAO: SNJN) is the airport serving Januária, Brazil. |
Q17146725 The Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz (English: Club-Sparrow) is a 15 m class single seat sailplane built in Germany in the 1970s and intended for club use. |
Q20744706 Aarti Singh, born Aarti Sharma is an Indian television actress. She is the niece of actor Govinda and sister to actor/comedian Krushna Abhishek. |
Q23619377 Paul Joseph Revere (Sept 10, 1832 – July 4, 1863) was a Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
Q23772480 Alexis Hombrecher (born January 29, 1971) is a German born former professional tennis player from the United States. |
Q14588911 Centrioncus is a genus of stalk-eyed flies in the family Diopsidae. |
Q27985923 Ratan Lal Jaldhari (born 5 October 1948 in Sikar, Rajasthan) is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Rajasthan, India. He has been elected in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election in 2013 from Sikar constituency. |
Q410884 Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless fatty substance of the terpenoid class, which is secreted by many species of blister beetles. It is a burn agent or a poison in large doses, but preparations containing it were historically used as aphrodisiacs. In its natural form, cantharidin is secreted by the male blist... |
Q709440 Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov (Russian: Евгéний Фёдорович Светлáнов; 6 September 1928 – 3 May 2002) was a Russian conductor, composer and a pianist. |
Q7578294 Spitfire are a British band from Crawley, West Sussex, England whose ever-changing line up revolved around brothers Nick and Jeff Pitcher. Other members included Steve White, Justin Welch, Steven Walker (who went on to play in the Auteurs and Modern English), Matt Jordan, and Scott Kenny.Two early EPs on Eve R... |
Q949487 Crucificados pelo Sistema (Crucified by the System) is the first album Ratos de Porão, which was released in 1984 through Punk Rock Discos. In July 2016, it was elected by Rolling Stone Brasil as the best Brazilian punk rock album. |
Q1149772 Devil's Ground is an album by German power metal band Primal Fear. It was released on 23 February 2004.Music videos were made for "Metal is Forever" and "The Healer". |
Q571601 Dairsie, or Osnaburgh, is a village and parish in north-east Fife, Scotland. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southwest of Leuchars Junction, and 3 miles (4.8 km) east-northeast of Cupar on the A91 Stirling to St Andrews road. The village grew out of two smaller settlements (called Dairsiemuir and Osnaburgh), and d... |
Q7630020 Stéphane Michon (born 1974) is a French nordic combined skier who competed in the 1990s. He finished sixth in the 3 × 10 km team event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.Michon used to compete in regional competitions like Franco-Suisse or Transjurassienne. He competes in mountain bike (solo and tandem... |
Q7093209 One Sock Missing is the second album from the Grifters released in 1993 on Shangri-La Records. "Certainly the most low-key (if not lo-fi) of the Grifters' early records, 1993's One Sock Missing is less noisy and aggressive than its immediate predecessor, So Happy Together [1]" One Sock Missing signals the dire... |
Q4502709 The Houston Astros' 2004 season was the 43rd in club history, their 43rd in the National League (NL), eleventh in the National League Central division, and fifth at Minute Maid Park. They hosted that year's All-Star Game, the first at Minute Maid Park. Despite a 44–44 record, Phil Garner replaced Jimy Willia... |
Q138523 1379 Lomonosowa, provisional designation 1936 FC, is a stony background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory in 1936, the asteroid was later named after Russian physicist and astronomer Mikhail Lo... |
Q4761368 Andy Sturgeon (born 1965/1966) is a British landscape and garden designer, author, journalist, broadcaster and commentator in the international garden design sector. |
Q5073120 The Chapel of the Resurrection is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 276 West 151st Street, Manhattan, New York City. |
Q922928 Jean Rabier (16 March 1927 – 15 February 2016) was a French cinematographer who frequently worked with director Claude Chabrol. He had almost 70 film credits spanning a career from 1961–1991.He died on 15 February 2016 at the age of 88. |
Q5276481 Dijamanti... (English translation: Diamonds...) is the third studio album of Bosnian singer Halid Bešlić. It was released in 1984. |
Q2736199 The 1967 Men's African Volleyball Championship was in Tunis, Tunisia, with 4 teams participating in the continental championship. |
Q9045073 Swea Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. |
Q19459221 Jijal is an administrative unit, known as Union council of Kohistan District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.District Kohistan has 4 Tehsils i.e. Dassu, Pattan, Palas and Kandia. Each Tehsil comprises a certain number of Union councils. There are 38 Union councils in district Kohistan. |
Q629435 Albert Auguste Androt (1781 – 19 August 1804) was a French composer. |
Q27729387 The Guinean records in swimming are the fastest ever performances of swimmers from Guinea, which are recognised and ratified by the Fédération Guinéenne de Natation et Sauvetage.All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise. |
Q14834110 Dystasia siporensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1939. |
Q1112554 Coleen Gray (born Doris Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). |
Q3028338 Goofy and Wilbur is a 1939 cartoon short produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on March 17, 1939. It was the first cartoon which featured Goofy in a solo role without Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck.In this cartoon Goofy goes fishing with his pet grasshopper, Wilbur, only for p... |
Q1392759 A lint roller or lint remover is a roll of one-sided adhesive paper on a cardboard or plastic barrel that is mounted on a central spindle, with an attached handle. The device facilitates the removal of lint or other small fibers from most materials such as clothing, upholstery and linen. Once expended, the ro... |
Q1627892 Giclas 29-38, also known as ZZ Piscium, is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV, or ZZ Ceti,whose variability is due to large-amplitude, non-radial pulsations, known as gravity waves. It was first reported to be variable by Shulov and Kopatskaya in 1974. DAV stars are like normal white dwarfs but have lumi... |
Q2923769 Brandon Edward Medders (born January 26, 1980) is a former professional relief pitcher. He appeared for the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants between 2005 and 2010. He threw a 4-seam fastball, curveball, slider, and a cutter. |
Q7921849 Vern Donald Freiburger (December 19, 1923 – February 27, 1990) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman who started two games for the Cleveland Indians near the end of the 1941 season (September 6 and September 15). At 17 years of age, he was the youngest player to appear in an American League game ... |
Q7396135 Sabinas is a city in Sabinas Municipality of the same name located in the northeastern quadrant of the state of Coahuila in Mexico. As of the 2005 census the city had a population of 47,933, while the municipality of which the city serves as municipal seat had a population of 53,042. The municipality has an ar... |
Q2277543 "Symphony of Destruction" is a song by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released as a single from their 1992 album, Countdown to Extinction. The lyrics explore the hypothetical situation where an average citizen is placed in a position where he runs the country while the public is led by a phantom governmen... |
Q5466651 Tubuaia fosbergi is a species of air-breathing land snail or semislug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae. This species is endemic to the Pitcairn Islands. |
Q5405798 Euchaetes is a genus in the subtribe Phaegopterina in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841. |
Q7701120 Teodorów [tɛɔˈdɔruf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Policzna, within Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Policzna, 15 km (9 mi) north-east of Zwoleń, and 104 km (65 mi) south-east of Warsaw. |
Q7716932 The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 is a compilation double album released by Vanguard Records in 1971 covering a large proportion of the material she had released on her first six albums for the label that was not found on the previous year's The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie.Unlike her other first compilation... |
Q7943059 Vriesea rubyae is a plant species in the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil. |
Q235674 Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies (Maria Antonietta Giuseppa Anna; 19 December 1814 – 7 November 1898) was the Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1833 to 1859 as the consort of Leopold II. In signature, she used Maria Antonietta. |
Q6709927 Lyria kuniene is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. |
Q6214243 Joey's Song is the name of a series of music compilation CDs featuring nationally and internationally known artists who are donating their music to help raise awareness and monies to fight epilepsy. The Joey's Song CD series was launched by The Joseph Gomoll Foundation. The Joseph Gomoll Foundation was start... |
Q228149 The Zudar is a peninsula on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It is about 18 square kilometres in area and sharply divided. |
Q29605284 "Exile" is the thirty-second episode of the twenty-ninth series of the British medical drama Casualty. It was written by Kelly Jones, directed by Steve Hughes, and produced by Jonathan Phillips. "Exile" first aired on 16 May 2015 on BBC One in the United Kingdom. The plot sees Charlie Fairhead (Derek Thompson... |
Q21893540 Escape Island is an island near Jurien Bay in Western Australia. |
Q3229877 Lepidocyrtus curvicollis is a species of slender springtail in the family Entomobryidae. |
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