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Q809678 The barye (symbol: Ba), or sometimes barad, barrie, bary, baryd, baryed, or barie, is the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) unit of pressure. It is equal to 1 dyne per square centimetre.1 Ba = 0.1 Pa = 1×10−6 bar = 1×10−4 pieze = 0.1 N/m2 = 1 g⋅cm−1⋅s−2
Q2879752 Conception Bay (CB) is a bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada.The population (in 2011) of people living in municipalities (or unincorporated census subdivisions) located along the coast of Conception Bay was 90,490 making it one of the most densely populated areas of the province. Conception Bay is adjacent to the St. John's Metropolitan Area which contains 5 of the 10 largest settlements in the province and is home to over 200,000 people.The smaller communities in Newfoundland may often be referenced by the Bay in which they are located, e.g.: 'Port de Grave, CB'.
Q6350718 The Main South Line, sometimes referred to as part of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, is a railway line that runs north and south from Lyttelton in New Zealand through Christchurch and along the east coast of the South Island to Invercargill via Dunedin. It is one of the most important railway lines in New Zealand and was one of the first to be built, with construction commencing in the 1860s. At Christchurch it connects with the Main North Line to Picton, the other part of the South Island Main Trunk.
Q4952337 The Boyd Group is a company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded by Terry Smith of Winnipeg.Under Smith's direction, Boyd grew to be the largest operator of collision repair centres in North America. The company operates locations in the four western Canadian provinces principally under the trade names Boyd Autobody & Glass and Service Collision Repair, as well as in fourteen U.S. states principally under the trade name Gerber Collision & Glass. The company also operates Gerber National Glass Services, an auto glass repair and replacement referral business with affiliated service providers throughout the United States.The Boyd Group Income Fund is an unincorporated, open-ended mutual fund trust created for the purposes of acquiring and holding certain investments, including a majority interest in The Boyd Group Inc. and its subsidiaries. The Fund is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BYD.UN).In 2006, the company was listed as one of the top companies in Manitoba.
Q2602932 William Osael Romero Castillo (born 18 April 1986 in Usulután) is a former Salvadoran footballer who played internationally for the El Salvador national team.
Q6594693 The President of Republic Srpska (Serbo-Croatian: Предсједник Републике Српске/Predsjednik Republike Srpske, lit. President of the Republic of Srpska) is the highest executive authority in Republika Srpska, an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is one of the executive authorities, along with the Government of Republika Srpska. The president of Republika Srpska is directly elected for a term of four years, along with two vice presidents from different constituent nations (Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks). None of them can be from a same constituent nation at the same time. The president's residence is in Banja Luka.The first president was Radovan Karadžić of the Serb Democratic Party, elected to the post in 1992, who led Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War and who was later sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide at Srebrenica, war crimes and crimes against humanity. President Željka Cvijanović of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats took the office in 2018.
Q7898860 Upper Pocosin is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States.
Q6515652 Lee Young-jin (also stylized as Rie Young-zin; born February 24, 1981) is a South Korean model turned actress. She starred in the film Dear Dolphin.
Q7734892 The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy (FCRT) provides education and therapy through horses. It is a UK based registered charity serving as Independent Specialist Provision for young horse enthusiasts with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities whose educational needs post-16 are met by an individual learning programme.The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy operates a residential “Further Education Through Horsemastership” (FETH) Course. FETH course students develop the skills that they require to lead more independent lives. The use and involvement of horses in the education process is at the core of its unique work. Teaching and learning is through transferrable skills from the horse-based environment to skills of daily living.The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy also provides non-residential Equine Facilitated Education and Therapy for young children and older adults with a variety of disabilities. Students are funded by the UK government through their Local Authority. Capital income and expenditure is dependent on charitable donations.The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy's work is spread across three locations in The New Forest, Hampshire, England.
Q4900013 Beyond Protocol was a subscription based Sci-Fi Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS) Computer Game developed by the American independent game developer Dark Sky Entertainment and released in November 2008. The 3D game modelled a persistent and player-driven fictional galaxy. Beyond Protocol was an entirely Player versus player (PvP) game, no Non-player characters (NPCs) exist within the game, all activities (trade, combat, and diplomacy) happened between the players.Due to financial issues the game has been shut down as of April 30, 2011, and the source code was released to the public. In 2014 "After Protocol" was announced as open-source community continuation.
Q6022431 The Indian general election, 2009 in Maharashtra were held for 48 seats with the state going to polls in the first three phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA). UPA consisted of the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party whereas the NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. The Shiv Sena contested on 22 seats in the state and the BJP over 25 seats. Similarly, the NCP contested on 21 seats and the Indian National Congress contested on 25 seats. Other parties in the fray included the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Bahujan Samaj Party which fielded candidates on 47 seats, and the Fourth Front. The MNS which was contesting its first general elections fielded candidates on 11 seats in the state.
Q17478690 The Draken class (Dragon) was a submarine class built for the Swedish Navy 1960-1962. A total of six submarines was delivered and kept in service until the late 1980s when the more modern Näcken-class replaced them. Four of the boats were modernised in 1981–82. The design was a modified version of the Hajen-class with only one shaft with a larger 5-bladed propeller for improved underwater performance and reduced noise.One submarine (HSwMS Nordkaparen) was preserved and can today been seen at the Maritiman in Gothenburg.
Q5425919 The Men's Individual large hill ski jumping event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 was held on 3 March 2011 at 17:00 CET. The qualification for this event was planned for 2 March 2011 at 18:00 CET, but it was postponed due to wind and fog to 3 March 2011 at 15:30 CET. Andreas Küttel of Switzerland was the defending world champion while his fellow country man Simon Ammann was the Olympic champion.
Q1999010 This article displays the qualifying draw of the 2011 BNP Paribas Open.
Q4909969 William Lawrence Ludwig (May 27, 1882 – September 5, 1947) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1908.
Q16903963 Yanaqucha (Quechua yana black, very dark, qucha lake, "black lake", hispanicized spelling Yanacocha) is a lake in Peru located in the Pasco Region, Pasco Province, Huayllay District. It is situated at a height of about 4,471 metres (14,669 ft). Yanaqucha lies between Waskaqucha in the west and Lake Junin in the east. The lake belongs to the watershed of the Mantaro River.In 2000 the 4.6 m (15 ft) high Yanaqucha-Pallqan dam was erected at the southeastern end of the lake at 11°07′20″S 76°17′19″W, northwest of the village of Pallqan (Palcan). The dam is operated by Electroperu.
Q17513222 The Cala di Labra Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period.
Q17537187 Barningham Hall is a Grade I listed building which stands in the grounds of the estate called Barningham Winter. Both the hall and estate privately owned. The house is close to the village of Matlask in the English County of Norfolk in the United Kingdom. The house was built for Sir Edward Paston in 1612 although the house seen today is the result of renovations, alterations and enlargement carried out under the control and design of Humphry Repton and his architect son John Adey Repton in 1805.
Q27951780 Jo Woo-jin (born January 16, 1979) is a South Korean actor. He appeared in TV series such as 38 Revenue Collection Unit (2016), Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2017) and Mr. Sunshine (2018).
Q40884757 The 2017 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Generali Ladies Linz, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2017 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, on 9–15 October 2017.
Q2555922 Weingart Stadium (formerly ELAC Stadium) is a 22,355-capacity multi-purpose stadium located at East Los Angeles College, in Monterey Park, California. It was built in 1951 at a cost of $3.1 million, and following renovations in 1984 it was renamed after philanthropist Ben Weingart.The stadium played host to all 1984 Olympic field hockey matches. US Field Hockey played a home game here in 1990. The Los Angeles Salsa soccer club called Weingart home in the early 1990s. It is one of the only mid-size stadiums in the western United States that is retrofitted with turf-playing surface certified by the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA).Today, although it remains home to the East Los Angeles College football team, it is best known as the site of the annual Garfield High School–Roosevelt High School football game, better known as the East Los Angeles Classic, which has been responsible for the Stadium's largest crowds, numbering over 25,000.Commencement ceremonies for local high schools such as Schurr High School in Montebello, Alhambra High School in Alhambra and Garfield High School in Los Angeles are held at Weingart Stadium.
Q1035007 Illinois Route 104 is a state highway in central and western Illinois. It extends from Illinois Route 29 near Taylorville, west over the Illinois River at Meredosia to its western terminus in downtown Quincy. This is a distance of 125.91 miles (202.63 km).
Q5171429 Cornelius O'Brien (May 4, 1843 – March 9, 1906) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, archbishop, and author of 39 books.
Q1327891 Passiflora sodiroi is a species of plant in the Passifloraceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.
Q7813300 Tohoku Women's College (東北女子大学, Tōhoku joshi daigaku) is a private women's college in the city of Hirosaki, Aomori prefecture, Japan, established in 1969. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1923.
Q7895843 The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law is a public law school located on the main campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, near the Country Club Plaza. It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in Downtown Kansas City, and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus soon after, where it is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
Q4944276 Boragaon is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Chikodi taluk of Belgaum district in Karnataka.
Q7043161 No. 219 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was founded in 1918 and disbanded in 1957 after four separate periods of service. During the First World War it served as a coastal defence unit, and through most of the Second World War and the 1950s it operated as a night fighter air defence squadron. Three commanders of the squadron went on to be Chiefs of the Air Staff, two of the RAF and one of the Royal Pakistani Air Force.
Q1091227 QDevelop is a free software integrated development environment specialized on the Qt4 framework and C++.It uses gcc for building and gdb for debugging.It supports Source code editor with syntax highlighting with native support for Qt Keywords and integrates different Qt Tools such as Qt Designer and qmake. QDevelop's Editor features code completion and automatic indentation. There's also a project management system and a class browser that enables the programmer to navigate through classes and data structures.
Q6235040 John Geddie (1848–1937) was a journalist and author of several books mainly on the subject of Edinburgh. His earliest books were about foreign parts but it is not known whether he actually visited these places.
Q7973244 Water & Bridges is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released on March 21, 2006 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album accounted for three singles: "I Can't Unlove You," "The Last Ten Years (Superman)" and "Calling Me," all of which charted on Hot Country Songs. These songs respectively reached peaks of 17, 56 and 53.Thom Jurek of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that it "isn't a perfect record, but it's a sincere one.""Someone Somewhere Tonight" was later covered by Pam Tillis and Kellie Pickler, the latter of which release the song as a single to country radio in May 2013. "Half a Man" was originally recorded by Anthony Smith on his album If That Ain't Country, and his version charted at number 40 on Hot Country Songs in 2003. The title track was originally recorded by Collin Raye on his 2000 album Tracks, which was also produced by Dann Huff.
Q7595255 St Peter's Church is in the village of Leck, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Wilfrid, Melling, St John the Baptist, Tunstall, St James the Less, Tatham, the Good Shepherd, Lowgill, and Holy Trinity, Wray, to form the benefice of East Lonsdale. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Q5930045 Michał Radziwiłł Rudy (8 February 1870 – 6 October 1955 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) was a nobleman and diplomat.
Q6744296 Malloussa is a small town and rural commune in Fahs-Anjra Province of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 10,739 people living in 2134 households.
Q16872000 Lee Steere (sometimes hyphenated as Lee-Steere), is the surname of several prominent Western Australians:James George Lee Steere (1830–1903)Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (1866–1957), nephew of James George Lee SteereErnest Henry Lee-Steere (1912–2011), son of Ernest Augustus Lee SteereThe Lee Steere family were originally from Jayes, in Surrey, England. The family took the name Lee Steere in 1675 when John Steere (1649-1689) married Fiducia Lee in Plastoe, Surrey. Members of the family continued to live in Jayes Park, Ockley.Not all of John Steere and Fiducia Lee's descendants had a separate given name with "Lee Steere" as a surname. One of the female descendants married Richard Witts and had a son named Lee Steere Witts, who later "assumed the name of Steere". There are also records of family members named (for example) Lee Steere Steere and Sarah Steere Steere. Others were known simply as "Lee Steere" (including the 1848 High Sheriff of Surrey).
Q16245081 The 2013–14 Cal State Northridge Matadors men's basketball team represented California State University, Northridge during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Matadors, led by first year head coach Reggie Theus, played their home games at the Matadome as members of the Big West Conference. They finished the season 17–18, 7–9 in Big West play to finish in fifth place. They advanced to the championship game of the Big West Conference Tournament where they lost to Cal Poly.
Q21285481 Rawya Rageh is a Senior Crisis Adviser for Amnesty International based in New York City. She was previously a broadcast journalist known for her in-depth coverage of notable stories across the Middle East and Africa, including the Iraq War, the Darfur crisis in Sudan, the Saddam Hussein trial, the Arab Spring, and the Boko Haram conflict in Northern Nigeria. Working as a correspondent for the Al Jazeera English network her contribution to the Peabody Award-winning coverage the network provided of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the Arab Spring was documented in the books 18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution and Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation. The news story she broadcast on 25 January, the first day of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, was selected by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as one of the "50 Great Stories" produced by its alumni in the past 100 years. In addition to her broadcast reporting, Rageh is an active social media journalist, recognized by the Washington Post as one of "The 23 Accounts You Must Follow to Understand Egypt" and by Forbes Middle East Magazine as one of the "100 Arab personalities with the most presence on Twitter."
Q24203537 Arthur Blaikie Purvis, PC (31 March 1890 – 14 August 1941) was a British-born Canadian industrialist who coordinated British war purchases in North America during World War II.
Q20646672 Josephus Wilhelmus "Joop" Zalm (13 November 1897 – 5 February 1969) was a Dutch male weightlifter, who competed in the Middleweight category and represented the Netherlands at international competitions. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Q12026436 Josef Novák (20 October 1900 – 1974) was a Czechoslovak footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.On a club level, he played for SK Židenice.
Q651794 A compiled language is a programming language whose implementations are typically compilers (translators that generate machine code from source code), and not interpreters (step-by-step executors of source code, where no pre-runtime translation takes place).The term is somewhat vague. In principle, any language can be implemented with a compiler or with an interpreter. A combination of both solutions is also common: a compiler can translate the source code into some intermediate form (often called p-code or bytecode), which is then passed to an interpreter which executes it.
Q4200577 Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim, GCMG, (Jawi:z سلطان يحي ڤيترا ابن المرحوم سلطان إبراهيم;z10 December 1917 – 29 March 1979) was the sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia from 21 September 1975 to his death, and twelfth (by some reckoning tenth) Sultan of Kelantan (1960–1979).
Q1850614 University Square (Romanian: Piaţa Universităţii) is located in downtown Bucharest, near the University of Bucharest. It is served by Universitate metro station.Four statues can be found in the University Square, in front of the University; they depict Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1879), Michael the Brave (1874), Gheorghe Lazăr (1889) and Spiru Haret (1932). There are plans to for a massive statue, measuring at least 20 meters, of Constantin Cristocea, one of the city's finest philanthropists, to be erected in the central roundabout.The square was the site of the 1990 Golaniad, a peaceful student protest against the ex-communists in the Romanian government. The demonstrations ended violently when miners from the Jiu Valley were called in by president Ion Iliescu to restore order in Bucharest (see: Mineriad).The Ion Luca Caragiale Bucharest National Theatre and the Intercontinental Hotel (one of the tallest buildings in Bucharest) are also located near University Square.University Square marks the northeastern boundary of the Old Center of Bucharest.
Q4151476 Larry Hoover (born 1950 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American organization leader and founder of the Chicago street gang called the Gangster Disciples. Hoover is currently serving six life sentences at the ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. His sentences include a 150–200 year sentence for a 1973 murder; and in 1997, after a 17-year investigation of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison, he received a life sentence. On October 11, 2018, during a luncheon with President Donald Trump, rapper Kanye West pled for clemency for Hoover.
Q2636678 Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. He was featured in Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II.
Q1074550 Integrated circuits are put into protective packages to allow easy handling and assembly onto printed circuit boards and to protect the devices from damage. A very large number of different types of package exist. Some package types have standardized dimensions and tolerances, and are registered with trade industry associations such as JEDEC and Pro Electron. Other types are proprietary designations that may be made by only one or two manufacturers. Integrated circuit packaging is the last assembly process before testing and shipping devices to customers.Occasionally specially-processed integrated circuit dies are prepared for direct connections to a substrate without an intermediate header or carrier. In flip chip systems the IC is connected by solder bumps to a substrate. In beam-lead technology, the metallized pads that would be used for wire bonding connections in a conventional chip are thickened and extended to allow external connections to the circuit. Assemblies using "bare" chips have additional packaging or filling with epoxy to protect the devices from moisture.
Q7092729 "One Hour After Midnight" is a poem by Hermann Hesse.
Q6233507 John Fluevog is a Canadian shoe designer. His shoes are noted for their progressive, art deco inspired styles. His shoes are designed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but are made all over the world, including Portugal, Mexico, Peru, China and Vietnam. His shoes often include odd messages engraved into the soles, the most famous being from The Angel Family, whose soles read: Resists alkali, water, acid, fatigue and Satan.
Q5025054 Camberwell Girls Grammar School is an independent Anglican early learning, primary and secondary day school for girls located in Canterbury, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1920 in the hall of St Mark's Church in Camberwell, the school welcomes students of all cultures and currently caters for 750 students from Early learning to Year 12.The school is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), and is a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).
Q1702274 John Gustave Davis (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer and trumpeter.Born in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood. He learned to play the trumpet and by the age of 13 was performing with his grandfather's band. After graduating from high school he worked as a musician for several orchestras, including theater orchestras in nearby Terre Haute, Indiana such as Paul Johnson's orchestra and the Leo Baxter Orchestra. Art Davis, his younger brother, also worked for Leo Baxter. By 1933 was living in New York City. He formed his own trio and recorded several songs with them. From the mid-1930s he worked with Fred Waring as a musician and vocalist, and his success during this time led him to Hollywood.He appeared in his first film in 1937, and the same year appeared in the film Hollywood Hotel, where he introduced the Johnny Mercer song "Hooray for Hollywood". His lively rendition became popular and became closely associated with the film industry. He appeared in fifteen films including Campus Cinderella (1938), Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), Brother Rat (1938), Mr. Chump (1938),'A Child Is Born (1939) and Sarong Girl (1943).Davis continued to work in the music industry throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and spent several years in Detroit, Michigan where he was a popular television performer. He eventually settled in Texas, and died in Pecos from a heart attack during a hunting trip.
Q2517394 Elseya dentata (Gray, 1863), the northern snapping turtle, is a large aquatic turtle found throughout many rivers in northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is one of three species in the nominate subgenus Elseya.
Q5204625 DC Special Series was an umbrella title for one-shots and special issues published by DC Comics between 1977 and 1981. Each issue featured a different character and was often in a different format than the issue before it. DC Special Series was published in four different formats: Dollar Comics, 48 page giants, digests, and treasury editions. Neither the umbrella title nor the numbering system appear on the cover; the title "DC Special Series" appeared only on the first page in the indicia. Most issues featured new material, but eight issues were reprints of previously published material.
Q7188665 Phyllobrostis tephroleuca is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae. It is found in Gauteng, the Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Zimbabwe.The wingspan is 10-10.3 mm for males and 10.8–11 mm for females.
Q3432168 Rinaldo Piscicello (c1415–1457) (called the Cardinal of Naples) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Q7419311 The Santa Clara Battery, with its two remaining coastal guns, one a caliber 305mm (12") Ordóñez HSE Modelo 1892 rifle and the other a 280mm (11") Krupp, stands on the grounds of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Vedado, Havana. UNESCO in 1982 included the battery, together with Old Havana, in its list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. There is a small museum featuring the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the battery. During the crisis, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara set up their headquarters there to prepare the defense of Havana from aerial attack. The museum is in tunnels there known as the Cueva Taganana (Taganana Cave), for the hill on which the battery stands.
Q5720305 Babalkan-e Olya (Persian: بابلكان عليا‎, also Romanized as Bābalkān-e ‘Olyā; also known as Bābalkān-e Bālā and Bālā Bābalkān) is a village in Lalehabad Rural District, Lalehabad District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 379, in 96 families.
Q21061652 Thomas Salusbury (died 1756), of Shotwick Park, near Chester, born as Thomas Brereton, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1724 and 1756. He was also Lord Mayor of Liverpool.Brereton was the son of Edward Brereton of Chester, a saddler and innkeeper, and his wife Mary Fletcher, daughter of John Fletcher, a barber of Chester. He married Mary Trelawny, the daughter of Henry Trelawny, MP, of Whitley, Devon, before 1714.Brereton's marriage gave him considerable electoral interest at Liverpool. He was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Liverpool at a by-election on 20 November 1724 on the death of Langham Booth, and was then elected in a contest at the general election in 1727. He was appointed Commissioner for victualling the navy in 1729 but lost his seat in Parliament at the consequent by-election on 28 May 1729.Brereton made a second marriage in about 1731 to Catherine Lloyd, daughter of Salusbury Lloyd of Leadbrook, Flintshire, the MP for Flint Boroughs. He was mayor of Liverpool for the year 1733 to 1734. On the death of his father-in-law in 1734 he succeeded to the latter's estates, including Shotwick Park. He was elected MP for Liverpool again at the general election in 1734 and was returned unopposed in 1741. He resigned his office as Commissioner for victualling in 1747 in accordance with the Place Act of 1742, which made it incompatible with a seat in the House of Commons, and was returned unopposed for Liverpool again at the 1747 general election. He was also given a secret service pension of £500 p.a. He changed his surname from Brereton to Salusbury by a 1748 private Act of Parliament. He was returned successfully for Liverpool in a contest at the 1754 general election.Salusbury died on 9 March 1756.There were no children from his second marriage, but he had four sons and a daughter by his first wife. His son Owen Salusbury Brereton became an MP and antiquary.
Q23640754 Angle Vale Bridge is a laminated timber arch bridge erected in 1876 over the Gawler River on Heaslip Road, Angle Vale South Australia. It is the only surviving bridge of its type in Australia.
Q28325020 Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) is a neural machine translation (NMT) system developed by Google and introduced in November 2016, that uses an artificial neural network to increase fluency and accuracy in Google Translate.GNMT improves on the quality of translation by applying an example based (EBMT) machine translation method in which the system "learns from millions of examples". GNMT's proposed architecture of system learning was first tested on over a hundred languages supported by Google Translate. With the large end-to-end framework, the system learns over time to create better, more natural translations. GNMT is capable of translating whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece. The GNMT network can undertake interlingual machine translation by encoding the semantics of the sentence, rather than by memorizing phrase-to-phrase translations.
Q28758684 Volkan Oezdemir (born 19 September 1989) is a Swiss professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxing practitioner competing in the Light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2010, Oezdemir formerly competed for Bellator. As a kickboxing practitioner, he competed for Superkombat Fighting Championship in their heavyweight division. As of March 19, 2019 he is #7 in the official UFC light heavyweight rankings.
Q2134508 Roald Jensen (11 January 1943 – 6 October 1987), nicknamed "Kniksen", of Bergen, Norway was one of that country's most celebrated association football players. He played for SK Brann and Heart of Midlothian F.C. ("Hearts"). Knicksen is a local Bergen word meaning "juggler".Jensen was born in Bergen. From an early age, he was interested in football. He made his Brann senior-team debut in 1960, while still only 17. He made his debut on the national team the same year. Brann, with Jensen, won the league in 1961-62 and in 1963. After Brann's relegation in 1964, Jensen transferred to professional football in Scotland as Heart of Midlothian's first non-British player. While he was in Scotland, Jensen was unable to play for Norway, as the national team did not allow professional players at that time.In 1971 Jensen returned to Brann and won the Norwegian championship (cup) with the club in 1972. Jensen retired from football after the 1973 season, when he was 30 years old. Jensen died in 1987 while playing football for Brann's old-boys' team. The Kniksen award, a prize that acclaims the best players in Norwegian football, is named after Jensen. In 1995 a statue of Jensen was erected outside Brann Stadion in Bergen.
Q2923864 Brantford City was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1949. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Brantford riding.It consisted initially of the City of Brantford (according to its 1914 boundaries) and the township of Oakland and the part of the township of Brantford lying south and west of the Grand River, in the county of Brant.The electoral district was abolished in 1947 when it was merged into Brantford riding.
Q1385875 Eyrbyggja saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeirpɪcːa ˈsaːɣa] (listen)) is one of the Icelanders' sagas; its title can be translated as The Saga of the People of Eyri. It was written by an anonymous writer, who describes a long-standing feud between Snorri Goði and Arnkel Goði, two strong chieftains within the Norse community that settled in Iceland. The title is slightly misleading as it deals also with the clans from Þórsnes and Alptafjörðr on Iceland. The most central character is Snorri Þorgrímsson, referred to as Snorri Goði and Snorri the Priest. Snorri was the nephew of the hero of Gísla saga, and is also featured prominently in Njáls saga and Laxdœla saga. Another main interest of the Eyrbyggja Saga is to trace a few key families as they settled Iceland, specifically around the Snæfellsnes peninsula.The Saga is usually not regarded as artistically equal to Egil's saga, Njáls saga and Laxdæla saga. Nevertheless, it is valued for many reasons, including its historical and folkloric elements. The saga is characterized by a distinct interest in old lore, rituals, pagan practices and superstitions. The saga includes several references to the colonization of Greenland and one reference to an expedition to Vinland. It also mentions a journey by Guðleifr Guðlaugsson and his crew to Great Ireland, which was said to exist beyond Vinland.Sections of the Eyrbyggja Saga have survived in fragments from the 13th century and in numerous manuscripts from the 14th century.
Q16386052 Hitler's Letters and Notes is a book by Werner Maser. It is a collection of Adolf Hitler’s personal correspondence and private notations with comments by Maser. It reproduces photo-facsimiles of the handwritten original documents, with translations thereof, from the age of 17 until his death. Maser contends that the book casts new light onto the development of Hitler’s political philosophy.It was first published in German as Hitlers Briefe und Notizen: sein Weltbild in handschriftlichen Dokumenten in 1973. Heinemann (London) published a slightly adapted translation (by Arnold Pomerans) as a 390-page hardcover in 1974, followed by Harper & Row in the United States. Bantam Books released a paperback version in 1976.
Q5269322 Dharmasagar is a Town and a mandal in Warangal (urban) district in Telangana, India. Dharmasagar is well connected with towns like Kazipet, and Hanamakonda by road. It is 14.4 km far from its District Main Town Warangal and 122 km far from its State Capital Hyderabad.Dharmasagar village and Mandal is bounded by Hanamkonda Mandal towards East, Hasanparthy Mandal towards East, Elkathurthi Mandal towards North, Warangal Mandal towards East.
Q7313444 Renova Energy is a California-based solar and battery storage company.
Q1546490 Griend (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣrint] (listen); West Frisian: Gryn) is a small uninhabited Dutch island in the Wadden Sea, lying around 12 kilometres south of Terschelling. It is one of the West Frisian Islands, and belongs to the municipality of Terschelling. The island currently has an area of around 0.1 km2.
Q11763516 Newton City-County Airport (IATA: EWK, ICAO: KEWK, FAA LID: EWK) is three miles east of Newton, in Harvey County, Kansas. It is owned by the City of Newton and Harvey County.The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a reliever airport for Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
Q2689514 Carel Balth (born November 25, 1939) is a Dutch artist and curator.Balth was born in Rotterdam. His work is characterised by the innovative use of new media, where a synthesis of light, motion and space occupies a central position and where new means of perception are investigated. Balth uses a wide array of tools to get to the core of human perception and consistently utilises unconventional means and materials, from vinyl to Plexiglas to deliberately pixilated images. Important influences in his work are Mondriaan and Lucio Fontana.
Q42598 Theodore Marvin DiBiase Jr. (born November 8, 1982) is an American businessman, actor, and retired professional wrestler, best known for his time with WWE.Part of the DiBiase wrestling family, he was trained by Chris Youngblood and Harley Race's Wrestling Academy and debuted in 2006. He won the Fusion Pro Tag Team Championship with his brother Mike DiBiase in February 2007, and also toured Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah. He signed a developmental contract with WWE in July 2007, and was assigned to their developmental facility, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he won the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship in December 2007. Due to injury, he relinquished the championship in January 2008. He made his WWE television debut on May 26, 2008, and quickly formed a tag team with Cody Rhodes. The duo won the World Tag Team Championship twice before forming The Legacy faction alongside Randy Orton. Following The Legacy's dissolution, DiBiase moved into singles competition and received the Million Dollar Championship from his father Ted DiBiase.DiBiase left WWE in 2013 due to family commitments and other business pursuits. He is also an actor, making his film debut in The Marine 2, a direct-to-DVD movie that was released on December 29, 2009.
Q3374083 Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese 12th century noble knight, son of Martim Moniz (legendary figure of the Siege of Lisbon in 1147) and Teresa Afonso.He was the Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos and of the village of Amares, in the north of Portugal, in the modern district of Braga. The said tower, seat of the preeminent family of the Vasconcelos, had previously belonged to the Order of the Knights Templar.Pedro Martins married Teresa Soares da Silva, and had a son and a daughter:João Peres de Vasconcelos, “O Tenreiro”, the first to use the surname Vasconcelos and the one to give it continuity; married to Maria Soares Coelho.Sancha Peres de Vasconcelos, married first to Mendo Afonso, and secondly to João Gomes Barreto.
Q6886249 Mo Mitchell was the head gymnastics coach at the University of Kentucky. He coached the Wildcats gymnastics program from 2005 to 2010. In 2006, he led Kentucky to its first winning season in 13 years, and only the second in program history. In 2008, he duplicated it, by earning his second winning season, including the program's third consecutive trip to the NCAA regionals. In 2006, he earned NCAA Central Region Coach of the Year honors. He is an alumnus of the University of Houston. He is now coaching at Michigan State University.
Q5394374 Ernie Bridge is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Bridge made a single appearance in an official international for the All Whites in a 1-4 loss to Australia on 18 July 1936.
Q3728877 The second season of the Sgt. Frog anime series is a compilation of the fifty-two episodes after episode fifty-one from the series, which first aired in Japan from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 on TV Tokyo.Season 2 uses two opening themes and two ending themes. "Zenkoku Musekinin Jidai" (全国無責任時代, "era of nationwide irresponsibility") by GaGaGa SP is used as the opening from episode 52 to 78. "Kimi ni Juice o Katte Ageru♥" (君にジュースを買ってあげる♥, Kimi ni Jūsu o Katte Ageru♥, "I Want to Buy You Some Juice") by Group Tamashi is used as the opening from episode 79 to 103. "Katte ni Shinryakusha" (勝手に侵略者, "Aribitrarily invaders") by Naoya Ogawa & Mayuko Iwasa is used as the ending from episode 52 to 78. "Kokoro no Mondai" (ココロの問題, "A Problem of the Heart") by toutou is used as the ending from episode 79 to 103.This season of Sgt. Frog was released to Region 1 DVD in North America beginning with the first boxset containing episodes 52-65, on July 26, 2011 by Funimation Entertainment as Season 3 Vol. 1. Season 3 Vol. 2 was released to DVD on August 16, 2011 containing episodes 66-78. Funimation has not yet made any plans to release episodes 79 to 103 on DVD as Season 4.
Q8079126 Özgül is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özgül" means "specific".
Q7416079 Sandeep Parekh, born 1971, is an Indian financial sector lawyer who founded Finsec Law Advisors, Mumbai. He attended St. Columba's School in New Delhi, India. He worked as an executive director at the Securities and Exchange Board of India, (SEBI), India’s securities regulator, where he headed the Enforcement department and was the General Counsel. He has been the youngest person to hold the post at the regulator. Previously, he had worked in law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Washington, D.C. He holds an LL.M. (Securities & Finance Regulation) degree from Georgetown University and an LL.B. degree from Delhi University. He was a faculty member of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India's premier management school, and is currently a visiting faculty member there.Sandeep is a member of Mensa, and the Triple Nine Society has published op-eds in the Financial Times and is a columnist at the Economic Times.Parekh was a member of the Cabinet Secretariat task force for measuring performance in ministries and departments of the Government of India. He is a former chairman and member of Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India Committees and Sub-committees. He was appointed the Chairman of the SEBI Committee on Proxy Advisors in December 2018 and is a serving member of the SEBI Committee on Mutual Funds.He is a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader".He has also been recognized for exceptional standing in law by AsiaLaw Profiles, leading financial lawyer by IFLR1000 leading financial lawyer (Legal 500), leading capital markets lawyer by Chambers and Partners and listed as Who's Who of the world (Marquis).He is the author of Fraud, Manipulation and Insider Trading in the Indian Securities Markets, now in its second edition.He is an independent director on the board of India's largest private sector bank HDFC Bank Limited.
Q16727427 John Beaton (born March 2, 1950) is a former Grey Cup champion defensive back who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League, winning two Grey Cup Championships.Beaton started his career with the Edmonton Eskimos, playing 4 seasons and 47 games, intercepting 10 passes, and playing in three Grey Cup games, winning in 1975 against the Montreal Alouettes. In 1976 he joined the Larks for two seasons, playing 17 games and picking off 4 passes, and winning another Grey Cup against his old team in 1977. He finished with 3 seasons with the BC Lions, where he played 40 games with 6 interceptions.
Q1860165 The Ambassador of Germany to Australia is an officer of the German Foreign Office and the head of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Commonwealth of Australia. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and holds non-resident accreditation for Nauru, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The ambassador is based with the embassy in Yarralumla in Canberra but initially from 1952 to 1958 was based in Sydney.The ambassador is currently Dr Anna Prinz since July 2016, who was Ambassador to Slovenia and succeeded Dr Christoph Müller. Germany and Australia have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1952, although official consular representation existed in Sydney and Melbourne since 1879 and an embassy for the German Democratic Republic, with its own ambassador, also existed between 1972 and 1990. The Consulate in Sydney was also re-established in 1952 with Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg appointed until 1956.
Q23806444 Bernice Love Wiggins (also Bernice Love Clay, March 4, 1897 – January 27, 1936) was an African American poet writing during the Harlem Renaissance period. Her work was published in the El Paso Herald, the Chicago Defender, the Houston Informer, and other newspapers across Texas.
Q20384056 Hanna Behnam Yosef Abdulahad Khayat (1884- 30 April 1959) Iraqi physician and politician, He was known as the first minister of health in Iraq from September 12, 1921 to 19 August 1922, Then he became General manager of Public Health Administration in Iraq from 1922 to 1931 after the abolition of the Ministry of Health and its transformation into a Public Administration. In 1925 he became advisor to King Faisal. He was elected twice as a deputy in the Senate for Mosul, first from 1943 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1953. His health projects contributed to the development of health staff in Iraq. He has written many books and pamphlets that have contributed to spreading health awareness in Iraqi health institutes.
Q76606 Carl Bosch (27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.
Q1673110 "Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942–43. Before the war, it was called Savo Sound. Every year on the battle's anniversary, a U.S. ship cruises into the waters and drops a wreath to commemorate the men who lost their lives. For many Navy sailors, and those who served in the area during that time, the waters in this area are considered sacred, and strict silence is observed as ships cruise through.
Q11310854 The George Ryder Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and over at Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1500 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in March or April. It is run on the same day as the Golden Slipper Stakes.The prize money is A$1,000,000.Winx is the only horse to have won the race more than two times.
Q9056314 The Social Christian Party (Partido Social Cristiano – PSC) is a Nicaraguan political party with Christian democrat ideology founded in 1957. As of 2006, the PSC is part of the Sandinista Renovation Movement alliance in the 2006 Nicaraguan general election.
Q5223387 Dark Sceptre is a strategy adventure video game by Mike Singleton's design team Maelstrom Games, for Beyond Software. It was published by Firebird Software for the ZX Spectrum in 1987 and for the Amstrad CPC in 1988.
Q7760563 The Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published in 1968 and 1970. The individual volumes, Tunc and Nunquam, were less successful than his earlier The Alexandria Quartet, in part because they deviate significantly from his earlier style and because they approach more openly political and ideological problems.Critical responses to the work has varied. Several contemporary critics dismissed Durrell's works at the time, but current scholarship is examining the many ways in which The Revolt of Aphrodite fits into a genre of dystopic fiction.The two novels are:Tunc (1968)Nunquam (1970)The protagonist, Felix Charlock, finds himself increasingly tied to the multinational corporation Merlins, which is most often simply called The Firm. He is both contractually and maritally tied to the Firm. His rebellion and attempt to escape leads to the death of his son and his own incarceration in a mental asylum. His lover at the beginning of the novel, Iolanthe, is likewise captured by the Firm through its net of contracts and capitalist acquisitions, ultimately leading to her death. In the second half of the work, Nunquam, Iolanthe is resurrected as a robot, which ultimately destroys itself along with the director of the Firm, Julian. The novel ends with the burning of the Firm's contracts, but no one knows if this will cause any change.The novels are densely allusive and reflect the political tensions of the May 1968 general strike in Paris. They also address the same theme of multiplicity and contingency Durrell developed in The Alexandria Quartet, often in a way that shows Durrell's interest in Nietzsche:'Haven't you noticed Charlock that most things in life happen just outside one's range of vision? One has to see them out of the corner of one's eye. And any one thing could be the effect of any number of others? I mean there seem to be always a dozen perfectly appropriate explanations to every phenomenon. That is what makes our reasoning minds so unsatisfactory; and yet, they are all we've got, this shabby piece of equipment'.A similar preoccupation with narrative and "cause and effect" is introduced early in the series, and this is made explicit by the character Hippolyta: "There seems to be a hundred reasons to account for every act. Finally one hesitates to ascribe any one of them to the act. Life gets more and more mysterious, not less."
Q7803175 Tim Bevan (1976–2007) was a racing driver from Water Orton, Birmingham in the SEAT Cupra Challenge. He finished the 2006 season 17th with 16 points. He was killed in a road accident in August 2007.
Q2261719 Riccardo Stracciari (June 26, 1875 – October 10, 1955) was a leading Italian baritone. His repertoire consisted mainly of Italian operatic works, with Rossini's Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto becoming his signature roles during a long and distinguished career which stretched from 1899 to 1944.
Q2568008 Neple [ˈnɛplɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Terespol, within Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-west of Terespol, 30 km (19 mi) east of Biała Podlaska, and 118 km (73 mi) north-east of the regional capital Lublin. The village lays in the vicinity of Krzna river and Bug river. The village has a large number of historic monuments and architecture. Caritas relief has operated a holiday resort in Neple.
Q16025092 Herbert Thomas Ames (June 7, 1844 – August 3, 1936) was the mayor of the city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania from 1928 to 1932. In 1934, at the age of 90, he was the Prohibition Party's candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Ames was born in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.He came to Williamsport in July 1869, which was then the lumber capital of Pennsylvania, and resided there until his death, August 3, 1936. Mr. Ames was married, December 21, 1886, to Lizzie W., daughter of Jacob Wise, of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. They had two children, Thomas W. Ames of 338 High Street, Williamsport and Mary, wife of Dr. Herbert P. Haskin, 324 High Street, Williamsport. He formed a partnership with Thomas H. Hammond in 1886.The firm of Ames & Hammond was a well-known legal firm of Williamsport.He was a member of Pine Street Methodist Episcopal church, Williamsport. Ames attended Mansfield Normal School, now Mansfield University. He was listed as the College's oldest living alumnus in his August 1936 obituary.
Q7319099 Rewolucyjni Mściciele (Polish for Revolutionary Avengers, also known as Grupa Rewolucjonistów Mścicieli, translated as Group of Revolutionaries and Avengers) was an anarchist movement operating mostly in Łódź in the Piotrków Governorate of Congress Poland in the years 1910–1914. It has been described as the most radical terrorist organization in the history of Poland.
Q6437591 Krishnapur massacre (Bengali: কৃষ্ণপুর হত্যাকান্ড) took place on 18 September 1971 in Krishnapur and neighbouring villages in the district of Sylhet in Bangladesh. In Krishnapur, the Pakistani occupation army shot 127 Bengali Hindus to death. In the neighbouring villages more than a 100 Hindus were killed.
Q16926883 Australia Wide Coaches is an Australian coach company operating charter services, an express service between Orange and Sydney and services in Central West New South Wales under contract to NSW TrainLink.
Q16233617 Saša Teofanov (Serbian Cyrillic: Саша Теофанов; born 3 April 1990) is a Serbian football midfielder.
Q16018444 Norman Rex Ghormley (February 21, 1941 in San Bernardino, California – November 4, 2009) was an American optometrist who held leadership roles with the American Academy of Optometry and served as an optometrist for collegiate and professional sports teams.
Q20641372 Dumitru Radu (born 3 March 1988, in Ceadîr-Lunga, Moldavian SSR) is a Moldavian football Goalkeeper who plays for FC Saxan.
Q24190579 False Cape Battery is a heritage-listed fortification at Yarrabah Road, East Trinity, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1942 to 1943 during World War II. It is also known as Leper Bay. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 April 1997.
Q24007342 Paco Gigi Craig (born 19 October 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Louisville City in the United Soccer League. He is the son of Mikey Craig, bass player of the band Culture Club.
Q24860496 Zard Forever Best: 25th Anniversary is the fourth compilation album by Japanese pop band Zard. It was released on 10 February 2016 under B-Gram Records.
Q28864500 The 2017 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Bart Kaufman Field on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from May 24 through 28. The Iowa Hawkeyes claimed the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The event aired on the Big Ten Network. The event was held in Bloomington for one year before returning to Omaha, Nebraska, site of the College World Series.

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