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Q329503 Kalgoorlie-Boulder, known colloquially as just Kalgoorlie, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located 595 km (370 mi) east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. The city was founded in 1889 by the amalgamation of the towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder, which developed in 1893 during the Coolgardie gold rush, on Western Australia's "Golden Mile". It is also the ultimate destination of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail.At June 2018, Kalgoorlie-Boulder had an estimated urban population of 29,849, a decline from the recent peak of 32,966 in 2013.The name Kalgoorlie is derived from the Wangai word Karlkurla or Kulgooluh, meaning "place of the silky pears". |
Q2250588 Sadao Sei (清 貞雄, Sei Sadao) is a Japanese astronomer who discovered an asteroid in 1983.He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 2909 Hoshi-no-ie, a main-belt asteroid of the Eos family, which he named after his observatory. The meaning of "Hoshi-no-ie" is "a star house". Naming citation was published on 17 February 1984 (M.P.C. 8544). |
Q8060888 Yukthivadi (The Rationalist) was the first rationalist/atheist journal published in Malayalam. The contribution made by Yukthivadi to the renaissance of Kerala, India is significant. The launch of Yukthivadi marks the beginning of organised rationalism in Kerala, which is a key constituent of the Reformation Movement in the state. |
Q5153903 Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress is a central trade union federation in The Bahamas.Leadership:President: Obie Ferguson Jr.General Secretary: Timothy Moore |
Q13560631 Virginia Hawkins is an American actress, who remains best known for her role in the 1980s television series Dynasty as maid Jeanette Robbins.She also appeared regularly in the series Medical Center and made guest appearances on shows such as The Love Boat, Vega$, Trapper John M.D. and Murder She Wrote. |
Q11862168 Lycée franco-finladais d'Helsinki (Finnish: Helsingin ranskalais-suomalainen koulu HRSK) is a Franco-Finnish school in Helsinki, Finland founded by French Catherine Servé in 1947.It is run by the Finnish state since 1977 with a Finnish school system, the Republic of France paying wages of 7-10 teachers. Students graduating there receive the Finnish matriculation examination and French government give to students the diploms of equal value of French baccalauréat. |
Q2085230 Jan or Hans Savery the Younger (1589, Haarlem – bur. 7 August 1654, Utrecht) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Though more often referred to as Jan in connection with his best-known painting, he signed his works with Hans, both names being derivatives of Johannes. |
Q1961526 The AD60 class were Beyer-Garratt patent articulated four-cylinder, simple, non-condensing, coal-fired superheated, 4-8-4+4-8-4 heavy goods steam locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock and Company for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. |
Q5207614 Dachów [ˈdaxuf] (German: Dachow) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bobrowice, within Krosno Odrzańskie County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Bobrowice, 15 km (9 mi) south of Krosno Odrzańskie, and 30 km (19 mi) west of Zielona Góra.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).The village has a population of 113. |
Q5228336 Dave Berg (born in Portland, Oregon) is an American country music songwriter. His credits include the Number One country hits "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" and "These Are My People" by Rodney Atkins, "Somebody" by Reba McEntire, and "Moments" by Emerson Drive, as well as Top 10 country hits "Stupid Boy" by Keith Urban, "Don't Make Me" by Blake Shelton, "What Kinda Gone" by Chris Cagle, and "It's Good to Be Us" by Bucky Covington. Berg has also co-written songs for a wide array of artists such as Jewel, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Jimmy Buffett, Darius Rucker, Meat Loaf, Tim Armstrong (of the punk band Rancid), Sarah Buxton, Ty Herndon, and others, including the 2013 single "Better" by Maggie Rose. Dave Bergs' songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing. |
Q4892189 Berkley Square was designed in 1949 by Paul Revere Williams and is named after Thomas L. Berkley, an African American attorney from Oakland, California. The historic district contained 148 homes. It was built in the African American West Las Vegas area of Las Vegas, Nevada. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Terry and Jerry Holmes were born at 512 Byrnes Avenue in Berkley Square on March 3, 1951 to Canary and Clarence Holmes. |
Q5988674 The immaculate idia (Idia immaculalis) is a species of litter moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from at least California, north and east across Montana to southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.The wingspan is 35–39 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. |
Q7114627 Owen Dennis Ignatius Shannon (December 22, 1879 – April 10, 1918) was a professional baseball catcher. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators. |
Q5507338 Fujerd (Persian: فوجرد, also Romanized as Fūjerd) is a village in Estarabad-e Shomali Rural District, Baharan District, Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,226, in 298 families. |
Q17514719 Caroline Now!: The Songs of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys is a 2000 tribute album devoted to songs by the Beach Boys, consisting of cover versions recorded by independent artists. The chosen material focuses on rarities by the group, some of them available only as bootleg recordings such as Adult/Child and Sweet Insanity. The album took nearly three years to produce, with sunshine pop outfit the Free Design reuniting to contribute one track after a three-decade absence from recording. |
Q17626849 John P. Hughey (1836-1900) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Hughey was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1836 and entered service in Anna, Illinois. He died in Fulton County, Kentucky. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown on April 6, 1865, while serving as a Corporal with Company E, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, at the Battle of Sayler's Creek, in Virginia. Hughey won his medal for capturing the battle flag of the Confederate States Army's 38th Virginia Infantry. His Medal of Honor was issued on May 3, 1865. |
Q18171644 Aleksei Igorevich Eskov (Russian: Алексей Игоревич Еськов; born 7 September 1978 in Nevinnomyssk) is a Russian professional football referee and a former player. He has been a full international for FIFA since 2011.Judicial career Aleksei Eskov began in 2003. Worked on matches of tournament of doublers, second and first divisions and the Russian Cup.In the Premier League as the referee made his debut on 3 October 2009. |
Q20713268 Wheal Owles was a tin mine near St Just in Cornwall, the site of a mining disaster in 1893 when twenty miners lost their lives and were drowned. |
Q28968105 Stephen Andrew Maren (born November 7, 1967) is an American behavioral neuroscientist investigating the brain mechanisms of emotional memory, particularly the role context plays in the behavioral expression of fear. He has discovered brain circuits regulating context-dependent memory, including mapping functional connections between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala that are involved in the expression and extinction of learned fear responses.Maren obtained his undergraduate education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in Psychology (BS) in 1989. His undergradaute research resulted in an honors thesis that described, for the first time, the activity of basolateral amygdala neurons during this form of learning. He obtained his PhD in Biological Sciences (Neurobiology) in 1993 at the University of Southern California. Maren explored the role for glutamate receptors in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and the relationship of LTP to learning and memory. He was the first to demonstrate that LTP expression is associated with an increase in postsynaptic glutamate receptors.Maren received his post-doctoral training with Michael S. Fanselow at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1993-1996. He established a role for amygdaloid LTP in Pavlovian fear conditioning, as well as defining the role for the hippocampus in contextual learning and memory.Maren joined the faculty of University of Michigan in 1996 as an Assistant Professor in the Biopsychology Area in the Department of Psychology. He moved to Texas A&M University in 2012, where he is the Claude H. Everett, Jr. '47 Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. He was named University Distinguished Professor in 2018.Maren has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience) in 2001 and the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 2017, both from the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a fellow of both the APA and the Association for Psychological Science. His research is widely cited and he is among the top 1% of cited neuroscientists in the world. Maren's research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1995 and he has received s Memory and Cognitive Disorders award from the McKnight Endowment for Neuroscience and a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the BBRF and is co-Editor-in-Chief of Behavioural Brain Research |
Q3451999 Seaford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 15,294 at the 2010 census. It is serviced by the Seaford Station on the Long Island Rail Road. |
Q1203839 Hichisō (七宗町, Hichisō-chō) is a town located in Kamo District, Gifu, Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the town had an estimated population of 3,801 in and a population density of 94 persons per km2, in 1437 households. The total area of the town was 7.91 square kilometres (3.05 sq mi). |
Q5246207 The Dean Heritage Centre is located in the valley of Soudley, Gloucestershire, England in the Forest of Dean and exists to record and preserve the social and industrial history of the area and its people. The centre comprises the museum itself, a millpond and waterwheel, forester's cottage with garden and animals, art and craft exhibitions and workshops, and trails around the surrounding woodland. In addition, there are picnic tables, barbecue hearths, an adventure playground, a gift shop selling local produce and the Heritage Kitchen, a restaurant providing home-made food. |
Q7500628 The men's 100 meter running deer, double shots was a shooting sports event held as part of the shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the second appearance of the event, which had been introduced in 1908. The competition was held on Wednesday, 3 July 1912.Twenty sport shooters from six nations competed. |
Q564281 Harsleben is a municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. |
Q12335202 Reversible Errors, published in 2002 (paperback edition by Picador, 2003) is Scott Turow's sixth novel, and like the others, set in fictional Kindle County. The novel won the 2003 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction. The title is a legal term.The novel revolves around three 1991 murders for which Rommy Gandolph was convicted. It begins with attorney Arthur Raven being assigned to handle the final appeal of said death row inmate. Though the lawyer does not even want the case, he discovers some problems with the conviction. Unlikely allies are found, including the police officer who made the arrest and the judge who presided over the initial trial. It becomes a race against the clock to determine the truth. The novel's 42 chapters are arranged in two parts, titled Investigation and Proceedings; the action is set in 2001.Many of the minor characters also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional Midwestern Kindle County. |
Q7492951 The Sheikh Mukhtar-Vali Complex is a mausoleum located 5 km southwest of the town of Yangiariq, Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan. It was erected in the 16th century, above the grave of Sheikh Mukhtar-Vali.This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 1 June 1996. |
Q5218844 The Daniel Stevens House is a historic Second Empire house at 7 Sycamore Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1865 for Daniel and Charles Stevens, it is a well-preserved local example of Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. |
Q7126621 Palaiyapatti Vadakkusethi is a village in the Thanjavur taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. |
Q676878 The 1999 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between March 10th and March 14th at the Meiringen-Hasliberg ski resort in Switzerland. The World Championships featured both men's and women's events in the Moguls, Aerials, Dual Moguls and Acro Skiing. This was to be the last appearance of Acro Skiing at the World Championships. |
Q4673582 Achchankulam is a small town in Sri Lanka. It is located within Northern Province. |
Q5022433 Calliostoma monikae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Fautor) . |
Q5820607 Sarab-e Darai (Persian: سراب دارائي, also Romanized as Sarāb-e Dārā’ī; also known as Sarsarāb-e Dārā’ī) is a village in Beyranvand-e Jonubi Rural District, Bayravand District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. In 2006, its population was 36, in 8 families. |
Q7062650 Notgrove Railway Cutting (grid reference SP086209) is a 1.7-hectare (4.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS) and Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS). |
Q3683962 Allied Maritime Command (MC) Naples (MC Naples) was a subordinate command of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. MC Naples operated from the island of Nisida in the Gulf of Pozzuoli and its commander reported directly to the Commander Allied Joint Force Command Naples (Com JFC Naples). The command was deactivated in March 2013. |
Q13055346 Leon McFadden, Jr. (born October 26, 1990) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Diego State. |
Q16231421 Myra Manganye (born 10 November 1986) is a South African Reality Competition titleholder who was crowned South Africa’s Ultimate Brand Ambassador 2013, becoming the official national ambassador of her country to interlink the social and corporate sectors, while benefiting local African communities and countries, and recruiting philanthropists and supporting SME’s. |
Q16198323 Joseph Couture (born Oct. 10, 1969) is a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. |
Q14696167 Tabatinga x-littera is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Tabatinga. It was described by Lane in 1966. |
Q16171491 The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF) is a Korean short film festival, intended to support upcoming young filmmakers. Since its launch in 2002, it is held every June in Seoul, South Korea. |
Q148505 Wolin ([ˈvɔlin]; German: Wollin, [vɔˈliːn], Pomeranian Wòlin) is the name both of a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, just off the Polish coast, and a town on that island. Administratively the island belongs to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Wolin is separated from the island of Usedom (Uznam) by the Strait of Świna, and from mainland Pomerania by the Strait of Dziwna. The island has an area of 265 km2 (102 sq mi) and its highest point is Mount Grzywacz at 116 m above sea levelWater from the river Odra (German: Oder) flows into the Szczecin Lagoon and from there through the Peene west of Usedom, Świna and Dziwna into the Bay of Pomerania in the Baltic Sea.Most of the island consists of forests and postglacial hills. In the middle is the Wolin National Park. The island is a main tourist attraction of northwestern Poland, and it is crossed by several specially marked tourist trails, such as a 73-kilometer-long (45 mi) trail from Międzyzdroje to Dziwnówek. There is a main, electrified rail line, which connects Szczecin and Świnoujście, plus the international road E65 (national road 3 / S3 expressway) crosses the island.Some etymologists believe that the name is related to the name of the ancient historical region of Volhynia. The origins of the name then would come from the resettled Volynians who named the island Volyn. |
Q310509 Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (23 December 1827 – 7 April 1871) was an Austrian admiral. He commanded the fleet of the North Sea during the Second Schleswig War of 1864, and the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. He is often considered one of the best naval officers of the 19th century, due to his tactical inventiveness, sense of command, and inspirational leadership. |
Q282536 Jasná is a small village situated in central Slovakia, in the Low Tatras mountains. It is a part of the municipality Demänovská Dolina. |
Q2628604 Krtíš is a 36.5 km long river in southern central Slovakia. It flows through Zvolen and Veľký Krtíš districts, through the towns of Modrý Kameň and Veľký Krtíš. It enters the Ipeľ river near Slovenské Ďarmoty as a right tributary. |
Q312766 Akutaq is a food in western Alaska and northern Canada. It is a Yup'ik word, meaning something mixed. Other names include agutak (ᐊᑯᑕᖅ), Eskimo ice cream, Indian ice cream, Native ice cream or Alaskan ice cream. Traditionally it was made with whipped fat mixed with berries like cranberries, salmonberries, crowberries, cloudberries (also known as salmonberry in Alaska), and blueberries, fish, tundra greens, or roots with animal oil or fat. It may also include whitefish, caribou tallow, moose tallow, walrus tallow, or seal oil. There is also a kind of akutaq which is called snow akutaq. Recent additions include sugar, milk, and Crisco. |
Q5393038 Muhos railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Muhos in the Northern Ostrobothnia region in Finland on the Oulu–Kontiomäki railway line. It is the second station east from Oulu railway station and the first passenger service station east from Oulu. The station was opened in 1927, and it was a staffed station until in 1998 when centralized traffic control was installed. |
Q519505 Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison directed by Norman Taurog and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was the first of a complementary pair of Edison biopics that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released in 1940. Edison, the Man starring Spencer Tracy soon followed to complete the two-part story of Edison's life.The film had a special preview on February 10, 1940 in Port Huron, Michigan, the place where Thomas Edison spent his childhood. |
Q5543447 George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1 May 1721 – 7 May 1803) was an English diplomat and politician. |
Q5470937 Fort Clinton was the main defensive garrison of the Revolutionary War defense network at West Point. Commanded by and named after Benedict Arnold before his betrayal of the Revolutionary Army and defection to the British, it was later renamed after General James Clinton. Construction was begun under Captain Louis de la Radiere, and completed under the command of Tadeusz Kosciuszko between 1778–1780; it was the key defensive fort, overlooking the turn in the Hudson River and the Great Chain. After the war, the remains of Fort Clinton fell into disrepair and were eventually demolished to make way for the expansion of the United States Military Academy, founded at the garrison in 1802. Today, all that remains of the fort are some earthworks and stone base structures, easily seen off of Thayer Road as it rounds the plain and the soccer fields at West Point. |
Q5082607 The Charles Street Transit Terminal at 15 Charles Street West in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada is the main bus station and former downtown hub for local Grand River Transit (GRT) bus services for Kitchener and Waterloo. The terminal is now solely used by a number of intercity operators, including Greyhound, GO Transit, Coach Canada and Aboutown.It was the largest public service facility run by GRT, with the Cambridge Ainslie Street terminal being the only other staffed bus station. |
Q16106055 Manuel Ramírez Gómez (1942-2014) was a Colombian economist specializing in applied microeconomics. He was the director of the research center at the Economics Department in Universidad del Rosario. He was director of economic research at Econometria Ltda., president of Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Económicas, and co-founder of Asociación Colombiana de Economía de la Salud. |
Q143329 Ravin Bay (66°32′S 138°27′E) is a small bay between Cape Pepin and the point where Francais Glacier discharges into the sea. Discovered in 1840 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville and named by him for the aspect of the coast, "ravin" being French for ravine. |
Q16023441 Archbishop Dr Henry Hanlon MHM (13 January 1862 – 18 August 1937), was an English Roman Catholic bishop, belonging to the order of the Mill Hill Missionaries. |
Q7727622 The Cornell Farm (1848) is an oil on canvas landscape by Edward Hicks. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1964. The picture depicts the farmland and cattle of Pennsylvanian James Cornell. Hicks's inscription along the bottom of the picture reads: "An Indian summer view of the Farm & Stock OF JAMES C. CORNELL of Northampton Bucks county Pennsylvania. That took the Premium in the Agricultural society, October the 12, 1848 Painted by E. Hicks in the 69th year of his age." The work has been exhibited frequently, with its first display at the Bucks County Bi-Centennial Celebration, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1882.The NGA writes, "Having no background in academic art, Hicks employed the direct approach of a primitive or folk painter. The horizontal band of livestock across the foreground, although childlike in its simplicity, clearly presents each prize-winning animal as an individual portrait. Hicks' delight in creating ornamental pattern is evident in the arrangement of fences, while the rich red and bright white of the house and barn symmetrically flank this central landscape. Although the stark silhouettes of figures and buildings seem naive, Hicks softly blended his paints over the orchard to give the impression of space existing well beyond what the eye can see." |
Q4619103 The year 2010 in animation involved some animation-related events. |
Q91817 Helmut Janz (April 11, 1934 Gladbeck, Germany - November 19, 2000 Neu-Ulm, Germany) was a German track and field athlete.He finished fourth behind an American sweep in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1960 Olympics. Later in the season he achieved a European record at 49.9. He was the West German champion at 400 hurdles seven times in a row (1957-1963). In 1963 he was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize. |
Q7578039 Spirit of the Season was recorded during the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's 2006 Christmas concert "The Spirit of the Season," with special guest Sissel, joined by the Mormon Tabernacle orchestra and bells, conducted by Music Director Craig Jessop. The album was released in 2007 along with a concert DVD and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical chart within five weeks of its release and remained there for nine weeks. The album was also nominated for two Grammy Awards, Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Engineered Album - Classical. The recorded concert was also broadcast on PBS stations in December 2007 to more than 4 million Americans.The album was the choir's first No. 1 Billboard Classical album. The album was also released in Sissel's home of Norway via Universal Norway on December 10, 2007 due to high demand where it charted in the top 10. |
Q17064699 Kha is the second consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, kha is derived from the Brahmi letter , which is probably derived from the Aramaic ("Q"). |
Q30708630 Bisalpur may refer to:Bisalpur, Nepal, a village development committee in Baitadi District of western NepalBisalpur, Pilibhit, a city in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaBisalpur (Assembly constituency)Bisalpur, Rajasthan, a town in the Tonk district of India; located beside the Bisalpur Dam |
Q28864495 The 2017 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Monarchs played their home games at the Foreman Field in Norfolk, Virginia as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by ninth-year head coach Bobby Wilder. The Monarchs finished the season 5–7, 3–5 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place. |
Q725600 Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (sometimes Amyot; Chinese: 錢德明; pinyin: Qián Démíng; February 1718 - October 9, 1793) was a French Jesuit missionary in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. |
Q762392 Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid. |
Q1011116 Portola Valley is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, which was founded in 1964. It is the wealthiest town in America per the American Community Survey, based on per-capita income for communities larger than 4,000. Home prices are also among the highest in the nation. |
Q2273777 USS Hughes (DD-410) was a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, named after Commander Edward Merritt Hughes.Hughes was laid down on 15 September 1937 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 17 June 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Edward M. Hughes, widow of Commander Hughes; and commissioned at Boston Navy Yard, on 21 September 1939, Lieutenant Commander Donald J. Ramsey in command. |
Q302126 The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 380 metres (1,250 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western hemisphere, and the second tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan. It is also the second tallest freestanding structure of any type in Canada, behind the CN Tower but ahead of First Canadian Place. It is the 40th tallest freestanding structure in the world. The Superstack is located on top of the largest nickel smelting operation in the world at Vale Inco's Copper Cliff processing facility in the city of Greater Sudbury.In 2018, Vale announced that the stack will be decommissioned and dismantled beginning in 2020. |
Q2907939 Wélton Araújo Melo (born April 17, 1975 in Cambuci, Rio de Janeiro) is a former Brazilian footballer who played professionally as either a forward or midfielder in South America, Europe and the United States, including five season in Major League Soccer. |
Q6763695 Marin Boulevard is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located south of Grand Street in Jersey City, New Jersey.The station opened on April 22, 2000. Northbound service from the station is available to Hoboken Terminal and Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. Southbound service is available to West Side Avenue in Jersey City and 22nd Street in Bayonne. Connection to PATH trains to midtown Manhattan and to New Jersey Transit commuter train service are available at Hoboken Terminal. Transfers to PATH trains to Newark, Harrison, and downtown Manhattan are available at Exchange Place. |
Q428546 Lozinghem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. |
Q2911068 Meir Park (Hebrew: גן מאיר, Gan Meir) is a park dating back to the early 1940s in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is named after the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff and is home to the Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center. |
Q6523489 Leo-Raymond de Neckère, C.M. (6 June 1800 – 4 September 1833), was a Belgian-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of New Orleans from 1830 until his death in 1833. |
Q1332373 Liaoyang County (simplified Chinese: 辽阳县; traditional Chinese: 遼陽縣; pinyin: Liáoyáng Xiàn) is a county in east-central Liaoning province of Northeast China. It is under the administration of Liaoyang City, located in between the urban area of Liaoyang City and Anshan City. |
Q6207602 Jockvale is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the municipal boundaries of Ottawa. |
Q1983412 Smallscaled gurnards (Chelidonichthys) is a fish genus in the family Triglidae. |
Q3016453 The Estado Falcón worm snake (Amerotyphlops lehneri ) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Venezuela. |
Q5148980 Colorado Water Trust* (“CWT”) is a non-profit conservation organization based in the state of Colorado. Its mission is to engage in and support voluntary, market-based efforts to restore and protect streamflows using permanent acquisitions of water, leases of water, and physical solutions. CWT is also a resource to Colorado land trusts encountering water issues in connection with their land conservation activities. |
Q5173714 Corydoras griseus, the gray corydoras, is a small catfish of the corydoras genus. Its natural range is in the Brazilian Amazon region in small tributary streams. |
Q12615726 Jeongseon-eup (Korean: 정선읍) is a town in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It is famous for the three day "Jeongseon Arirang Festival," held every fall. Jeongseon is also famous for its 5 Day Market (5일장) which offers up a variety of traditional Korean herbs, vegetables, and traditional medicines.The city is also home to Jeongseon Stadium which hosts WK-League soccer matches weekly starting Summer of 2012. |
Q23882049 Bill Appleberry (born March 14, 1967) is a multi-platinum American record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician. Specializing in Rock and Pop genres, he's produced records for the likes of The Wallflowers, Puddle of Mudd, and Adema. Appleberry has produced and mixed every song released by NBC's The Voice. His engineering and keyboard credits include artists like Stone Temple Pilots, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, The Fugees, 311, and Hole. |
Q2827030 Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia de Frumerie (November 20, 1869 – April 2, 1937) was a Swedish artist who spent much of her career in France.She was born Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia Kjellberg in Skövde and studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1886 to 1890. She lived in Paris from 1892 to 1923, where she studied with Rodin. She produced mainly smaller sculptures and ceramics. She married Gustaf de Frumerie, a captain in the Swedish army and later a doctor, in Paris. During the 1890s, she became part of the avant-garde group of artists in Paris, including August Strindberg whose image she captured in a sculpture. She also worked in collaboration with Edmond Lachenal.De Frumerie died in Stockholm at the age of 67.Her work is included in the collections of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and the Västergötlands museum in Skara. |
Q18548492 Tecuci County was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania, in the historical region Moldavia. The county seat was Tecuci. The county was located in the central-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the south of Moldavia. The county bordered on the east with the counties of Tutova and Covurlui, on the south with the county Râmnicu Sărat, and to the west with the counties Putna and Bacău. Because of its shape, its northern extreme was the meeting point of Bacău and Tutova counties. |
Q6263981 John Wilbur Dwight (May 24, 1859 – January 28, 1928) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1902 to 1913. He also served as House majority whip between 1909 and 1911. He then became House minority whip from 1911 to 1913.Dwight was born May 24, 1859 in Dryden, New York. His father, Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight (1819–1885), was a prominent politician and businessman in New York of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Rebecca Anne Cady. After his retirement from Congress, John Dwight continued to live in Washington, D.C. and died there. He served as President of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway from 1913 to 1928. Dwight was a member of the Republican Party. |
Q913614 The Agaricaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi and include the genus Agaricus, as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae. |
Q974965 Myingyan (Burmese: မြင်းခြံ; MLCTS: mrang:hkram, [mjɪ́ɴd͡ʑàɴ]) is a city and district in the Mandalay Division of central Myanmar, previously, it was a district in the Meiktila Division of Upper Burma. It is currently the capital of Myingyan Township and lies along the National Highway 2. As of 2014, the city had a population of 276,096 and the district had 1,055,957. It lies in the valley of the Ayeyarwady River, to the south of Mandalay, on the east bank of the river. The area around the town is flat, especially to the north and along the banks of the Ayeyarwady. Inland the country rises in gently undulating slopes. The most noticeable feature is Popa Hill, an extinct volcano, to the south-east. The highest peak is 4,962 ft. above sea-level. The climate is dry, with high south winds from March until September. The annual rainfall averages about 35 in. The temperature varies between 106 and 70 Fahrenheit. The ordinary crops are millet, sesame, cotton, maize, rice and a great variety of peas and beans. There are no forests, but a great deal of low scrubland. Myingyan is the head of the branch railway to Thazi and the main line between Yangon and Mandalay.Myingyan Prison in Myingyan District was known as the most infamous detention center among Burma's political prisoners for its atrocities from early 1990s' to October 1999 when the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) was granted an access to the prison. |
Q5306587 Dreamin' My Dreams is the fourteenth album of original recordings by Patty Loveless. Released in September 2005, the album debuted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on October 1, 2005 at #29 (its peak), staying on the charts for 8 weeks until November 26, 2005.This was the last album Loveless recorded for Epic Records before the label closed its Nashville division in 2005. |
Q6174494 Melnyk is a Canadian electronic music producer who lives and works in London, UK. |
Q3089533 Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Duke of Saxony (Given names: Full name: Johann Friedrich Konrad Carl Eduard Horst Arnold Matthias Prinz von Sachsen-Meiningen Herzog zu Sachsen; born 14 April 1952) is a German businessman and the current head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Meiningen. |
Q538100 Talesa, Talèse, Talèze, or Ataresa (died after 1136) was an Aragonese noblewoman and relative of the royal Jiménez dynasty. She was the daughter of Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza, natural brother of King Sancho Ramírez of Aragon and Navarre. She married Gaston IV of Béarn and acted as regent of the viscounty of Béarn during his absences on Crusade in 1096-1101, and after his death for their son in 1131-1134. |
Q5040015 Carl Dale (born 29 April 1966) is a Welsh former professional footballer. During his career, he made over 300 appearances in the Football League for Cardiff City and Chester City, scoring over 100 goals. He remains a cult favourite among the fans of his former teams. |
Q935647 Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician. |
Q141335 1605 Milankovitch, provisional designation 1936 GA, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 31 kilometers in diameter. It was named after Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković. |
Q4411448 Mikko Hauhia (born 3 September 1984) is a Finnish footballer who plays for FC Lahti in Veikkausliiga. |
Q4875715 The Beach Haven School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Beach Haven, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 105 students and 11.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District (Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom and Surf City), along with students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township, as well as the sending district of Ocean Township. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Southern Regional Middle School (grades 7 and 8; 937 students) and Southern Regional High School (grades 9 – 12; 2,064 students). Both schools are in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township. |
Q7375418 Roztocze [rɔsˈtɔt͡ʂɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Choszczno, within Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Choszczno and 64 km (40 mi) south-east of the regional capital Szczecin.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. |
Q7120818 Commonwealth was a large sidewheel steamboat built in 1854–55 for passenger service on Long Island Sound. The most celebrated Sound steamer of her day, Commonwealth was especially noted for the elegance and comfort of her passenger accommodations, which included gas lighting, steam heating, and an "enchantingly beautiful" domed roof in her upper saloon. Her stability of motion led her captain to describe Commonwealth as the finest rough weather steamboat ever built in the United States.Commonwealth would spend her entire career on Long Island Sound routes, first from New York to Allyn's Point, Connecticut under the management of the Norwich and New London Steamboat Company, and later to Stonington and Groton with the New Jersey Steam Navigation and the Merchants' Steamship companies. During the American Civil War, she was part of the transport network that moved northern state Union regiments to the battlefront. Commonwealth's end came prematurely when she was destroyed by a dockyard fire at Groton in December 1865. |
Q5285929 Do Ab (Persian: دواب, also Romanized as Do Āb) is a village in Emamzadeh Seyyed Mahmud Rural District, Sardasht District, Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q1873770 Lucy Glanville (born 16 October 1994) is an Australian biathlete. She has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. |
Q18210815 The People's Party for Reform (Arabic: حزب الشعب للإصلاح, Ḥizb Al-Sha'ab Lil Islah) is an Iraqi Liberal Civil political party founded in 2011 under its previous name, the People's Party. It was later renamed to its current name in mid-2017.The party's Secretary-General is Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, an Iraqi liberal secular politician who has been a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq since 2014 serving in the Judiciary Committee. |
Q17901730 The Voice of Holland (season 5) is the fifth season of the Dutch reality singing competition, created by media tycoon John de Mol. It aired during 2014 on RTL4. Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk returned as co-hosts, while Jamai Loman replaced Winston Gerschtanowitz as host of the red room. Marco Borsato, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Ilse DeLange and Ali B returned as coaches.One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner. |
Q14397720 Stenoma hypocirrha is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil.The wingspan is about 35 mm. The forewings are white and the hindwings are pale whitish ochreous. The forewings and hindwings are whitish yellowish beneath. |
Q2938323 Carex bebbii, Bebb's sedge, is a species of sedge native to the northern United States and Canada. Carex bebbii grows in a variety of wetland habitats such as lakeshores, streambanks, ditches, meadows, swamps, and seeps. It forms dense tufts with culms up to 90 centimeters tall. |
Q188520 Classical elements typically refer to the concepts in ancient Greece of earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. Ancient cultures in Persia, Greece, Babylonia, Japan, Tibet, and India had similar lists , sometimes referring in local languages to "air" as "wind" and the fifth element as "void". The Chinese Wu Xing system lists Wood (木 mù), Fire (火 huǒ), Earth (土 tǔ), Metal (金 jīn), and Water (水 shuǐ), though these are described more as energies or transitions rather than as types of material.These different cultures and even individual philosophers had widely varying explanations concerning their attributes and how they related to observable phenomena as well as cosmology. Sometimes these theories overlapped with mythology and were personified in deities. Some of these interpretations included atomism (the idea of very small, indivisible portions of matter), but other interpretations considered the elements to be divisible into infinitely small pieces without changing their nature.While the classification of the material world in ancient Indian, Hellenistic Egypt, and ancient Greece into Air, Earth, Fire and Water was more philosophical, during the Islamic Golden Age medieval middle eastern scientists used practical, experimental observation to classify materials. In Europe, the Ancient Greek system of Aristotle evolved slightly into the medieval system, which for the first time in Europe became subject to experimental verification in the 1600s, during the Scientific Revolution.Modern science does not support the classical elements as the material basis of the physical world. Atomic theory classifies atoms into more than a hundred chemical elements such as oxygen, iron, and mercury. These elements form chemical compounds and mixtures, and under different temperatures and pressures, these substances can adopt different states of matter. The most commonly observed states of solid, liquid, gas, and plasma share many attributes with the classical elements of earth, water, air, and fire, respectively, but these states are due to similar behavior of different types of atoms at similar energy levels, and not due to containing a certain type of atom or a certain type of substance. |
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