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Q7621490 Strange and Beautiful is Aqualung's first US album release: a compilation of tracks from Aqualung's first two albums: Aqualung and Still Life. This compilation making up his first US release includes "Strange and Beautiful," "Brighter Than Sunshine," and "Falling Out of Love."The track "Brighter Than Sunshine"...
Q7715572 The Banner is a hardcore punk band from Bloomfield, New Jersey.The Banner broke up for a brief period in 2006, before reuniting with founding member Garrett Defalco. The band released their third studio album, Frailty: The Hellbound Heart in 2008, which was recorded and produced at the Machine Shop studio in ...
Q3344147 The North Para River is a river located in the Barossa Valley of the Australian state of South Australia.The river’s name is based directly on the Kaurna word pari which means river. The "north" descriptor distinguishes it from the South Para River with which it merges.
Q5147655 Colm Begley (born 31 August 1986) is an Irish Gaelic football player. He has also played Australian rules football for the St Kilda Football Club and the Brisbane Lions of the Australian Football League (AFL).Colm played a crucial part in Stradbally's Laois championship title win stopping Portlaoise going for...
Q305142 Volxheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.
Q6639508 This is a list of sister states, regions, and cities in the U.S. state of Florida. Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states a...
Q2884692 The Barney Allis Plaza is a park located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri at the intersection of 12th Street and Wyandotte. It is named after the prominent Kansas City hotelier, and owner of the Standard Theater, Barney Allis (1886-1962). From April 11 2006 until 2011, it was the home of the Kansas City Expl...
Q4560995 The 1921 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the National League with a record of 70–83, 24 games behind the New York Giants.
Q2452975 The Order of the Liberator was the highest distinction of Venezuela and was appointed for services to the country, outstanding merit and benefits made to the community. For Venezuelans the order ranks first in the order of precedence from other orders, national and foreign.The President of Venezuela is the Chi...
Q5578529 Gold & Wood is a manufacturer of high-end hand-crafted eyeglasses and sunglasses.The company was founded in 1995 by Maurice Leonard and has its production facilities in Luxembourg.Gold & Wood uses precious materials like diamonds, gold, wood taken from authorised and supervised plantations, and buffalo horn fr...
Q17019616 The University of Santo Tomas Singers or UST Singers is the premiere mixed choral ensemble of Asia's oldest university, the University of Santo Tomas. It was founded in 1992 by Prof. Fidel Calalang Jr. and is composed of students and alumni from the different colleges of the university.
Q7876030 UTRome is a database of three-prime untranslated regions in C. elegans
Q7639599 "Sunday and Me" is a song written by Neil Diamond and was released by Jay and the Americans in 1965. The song went to #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965 and was on the charts for 8 weeks.The song went to #19 in Canada in December 1965 and was on the charts for 6 weeks."Sunday and Me" was the first songwritin...
Q2844498 Amro Abdulrahman Ali El-Geziry (born 19 November 1986) is an Egyptian-born modern pentathlete. He competed for Egypt at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics and placed 32nd, 33rd and 25th, respectively. His brothers, Emad and Omar, are also Olympic pentathletes.
Q7813187 Togniniaceae is family of fungi in the order Diaporthales.
Q15046069 Hypatopa juno is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Costa Rica.The length of the forewings is 4.4–6 mm. The forewings are reddish brown or pale brownish grey intermixed with brownish-grey scales tipped with pale brownish grey and brown scales. The hindwings are translucent pale grey, gradually...
Q5808664 Kuh Dim-e Bala (Persian: كوه ديم بالا‎, also Romanized as Kūh Dīm-e Bālā) is a village in Polan Rural District, Polan District, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 341, in 66 families.
Q19666615 Lillian Mbabazi is a Ugandan recording artist and entertainer. She was a member of Blu*3. In 2014, she was one of the featured artists in the second season of "Coke Studio Africa".
Q689684 Joseph Philippe de Clairville (1742 – 31 July 1830) was a notable French botanist and entomologist, who was mainly active in Switzerland. De Clairville’s collection of Coleoptera, his chief interest, is in the Natural History Museum in Basel. He was also interested in Diptera and Odonata.After his stay in Nyon...
Q7505759 Shuvee (January 22, 1966 – April 1, 1986) was an American Thoroughbred Champion Hall of Fame racehorse.
Q4893284 Bernard Lewis Jackson (born April 2, 1985) is a former American football player. He played college football as a quarterback at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a junior, he was the starter for a majority of the 2006 season before losing his eligibility for academic reasons for his senior season.
Q240015 Tom Ford (born 17 August 1983 in Glen Parva, Leicestershire) is an English professional snooker player from the Midlands. Ford reached the final of the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic, before losing the final 2–4 to Mark Selby. He also reached the semi-final of the 2018 UK Championship, before losing 1–6 to eventual c...
Q6784321 The Joint Base Cape Cod is a joint base created by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States War Department in 1935. Governor James Curley signed the state bill to allocate and purchase land for a military facility, and establishing a formal commission to manage this new state military property a...
Q90313 Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Q942764 "First Sorrow" (German: "Erstes Leid") is a short story by Franz Kafka probably written between the fall of 1921 and the spring of 1922. It appeared in Kurt Wolff Verlag's art periodical Genius, III no. 2 (dated 1921, actually published in 1922) and in the Christmas 1923 supplement to the Prager Presse. The sto...
Q5003271 Buxton Lamas was a railway station in Buxton with Lamas, Norfolk. It was located near the Bure Valley Railway's present Buxton station.
Q375267 The 22nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 23 May 1969. At this festival a new non-competitive section called "Directors' Fortnight" is added, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to the If.... by Lindsay Anderson. The festival opened ...
Q2076429 The Iranian Film Festival (IFF) was a film festival held annually in the Netherlands. Until now, the festival has taken place in Utrecht (2007), Rotterdam (2008), and in 2009 the festival will take place in filmtheatre De Fabriek in Zaandam.
Q5648281 Hank Bagby (died 11 December 1993) was originally a singer around Denver in the mid-1940s. He started playing sax in San Francisco in the late 1940s and worked with such musicians as Leo Wright, Kenny Drew, and the late Addison Farmer. In the early 1950s, he worked in Los Angeles with the late Joe Maini, Frank...
Q6171217 M.A. Jean Moloise Ogoudjobi (born 23 October 1985) is a Beninese taekwondo practitioner. He competed in the men's 58 kg taekwondo event at the 2008 Summer Olympics but was eliminated in the first round by losing to Chutchawal Khawlaor of Thailand 4-2.
Q5429852 The Fair Love (Korean: 페어 러브; RR: Pe-eo Reobeu; lit. "Fair Love") is a 2010 South Korean romance film starring Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Ha-na. It premiered at the 2009 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on January 14, 2010.
Q6782629 Masaomi (written: 正臣 or 将臣) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Masaomi Kanzaki (神崎 将臣), Japanese manga artistMasaomi Kobayashi (born 1982), Japanese cricketerMasaomi Yasuoka (安岡 正臣, 1886–1948), Japanese general
Q16887680 Laurent Amir Khlifa Khedider Haddad (Hebrew: לורן עמיר חליפה חדידר חדד‎, born 20 June 1984 in Paris, France), better known as Amir Haddad (Hebrew: עמיר חדד‎), or simply as Amir, is a French-Israeli singer and songwriter. He took part in 2006 in the Israeli music competition Kokhav Nolad, released his album Va...
Q16732017 Niels Marnegrave (born December 9, 1987) is a Belgian basketball player for Spirou Charleroi.
Q23808014 The 1986–87 VfL Bochum season was the 49th season in club history.
Q22976812 Rafig Hashimov - "Honored Artist of Azerbaijan", announcer of AzTV, tele-journalist, essayist, director.
Q28124585 St. Philip Neri Parish Historic District is a historic Roman Catholic church complex and national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings: the church, rectory, former convent and school, school, and boiler house / garage. The church was built ...
Q4497489 Georgy Stepanovich Khizha (Russian: Гео́ргий Степа́нович Хижа́; born 2 May 1938, Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR) was a Russian politician and business manager who was one of the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of the Russian Federation during the early years of President Boris Yeltsin's administration.
Q1278221 Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is a public university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is 35 miles (56 km) west of Detroit and eight miles (13 km) east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Today, the university is governed by an eight-member Board of Regents who...
Q2623299 Flixton railway station is in Flixton, Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. The station, and all services calling there, are operated by Northern. It is 6 1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road on the Manchester to Liverpool Line.
Q4809713 The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), founded in 1978, is an association of evangelical Protestant Christian schools.
Q4647785 Augustus Goodyear Heaton (April 28, 1844 – October 11, 1930) was an American artist, author and leading numismatist. He is best known for his painting The Recall of Columbus and among coin collectors for writing A Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints, which introduced numismatists to mint mark...
Q3208320 Sylvanian Families (シルバニアファミリー, Shirubania famirī) is a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal figurines made of flocked plastic. They were created by the Japanese gaming company Epoch in 1985 and distributed worldwide by a number of companies.
Q3826230 A sport horse or sporthorse is a type of horse, rather than any particular breed. The term is usually applied to horses bred for the traditional Olympic equestrian sporting events of dressage, eventing, show jumping, and combined driving, but the precise definition varies. In the United States, horses used i...
Q4666068 Abdullah Suhail al-Musharrekh (born 23 February 1986) is a football defender who plays in the UAE League. His particular left-back position, but it can also play and central defender. His strengths are his speed, which makes any counterattack dangerous, and his dribbling skill. He is one of the main first tea...
Q92132 Klaus and Eva Herlitz are German businesspeople, living in Berlin. They are married since 1972 and they have three sons. Klaus Herlitz (born 1947 in Berlin) and Eva Herlitz (born 1952 in Solingen) are the initiators of the Buddy Bears and United Buddy Bears activities, "an international symbol of collaboration a...
Q7795207 Thomas Willis Pratt, (born 1812, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American engineer. He is best known for his 1844 patent for the Pratt truss, which he designed with his father, Caleb Pratt. He died in 1875.
Q3505707 Koldo Gorostiaga Atxalandabaso (born 30 May 1940) is a Spanish Basque university lecturer in law and economics, and politician. He served one term in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004 as a representative of Batasuna, a Basque nationalist party.
Q167172 In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. Stereotypes are generalized because one assumes that the stereotype is true for each individual person in the category. While such generalizations may be useful when making quick decisions, they may be errone...
Q4830529 Axiodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Warren in 1894.
Q3366102 The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) was founded in 2007 by more than 15 government representatives as an international cooperative forum, bringing together states and sub-national jurisdictions that have implemented or are planning to implement emissions trading systems (ETS). Then governor of C...
Q462045 The Emden Company was a Prussian trading company which was established in 1752 to trade primarily with the city of Canton in China. Its full name was the Royal Prussian Asiatic Company in Emden to Canton and China (Königlich Preußische Asiatische Compagnie in Emden nach Canton und China), but it was generally k...
Q5533161 Geniai (Varėna) is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village has a population of 43 people.
Q6282840 Joseph Eastham High School was a comprehensive school in Salford, England, built at the end of the 1950s by Lancashire County Council, and following reorganisation arising from the Local Government Act 1972, came under the auspices of Salford City Council. The school served the areas of Little Hulton, Walkden,...
Q5085736 Charles Herbert Lockyer Young (7 December 1877 – 22 February 1914) was an Australian rules footballer who played the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He became one of the club's first premiership players, playing in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Dick Wardill. Y...
Q5261759 Dereiçi is a village in the District of Sason, Batman Province, Turkey. As of 2011, it had a population of 61 people.
Q1024230 Navlya (Russian: На́вля) is an urban-type settlement in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Navlinsky District.
Q3144683 Héloïse Côté (born 1979) is a Québécoise author of fantasy novels and a researcher in the sciences of education.
Q2582350 Will Jordan (born Wilbur Rauch, July 27, 1927 – September 6, 2018) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian best known for his resemblance—and ability to do uncanny impressions of—television host and newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan. Jordan was a friend of and early influence on comedian Lenny Bruc...
Q7600107 Stanmore railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Suburban line, serving the Sydney suburb of Stanmore in New South Wales, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains T2 Inner West & Leppington line services. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 19...
Q4674379 Acmanthera is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Acmanthera comprises 7 species of trees, shrubs, or subshrubs native to Brazil.
Q15459045 Howard Bahr (born 1946) is an American novelist, born in Meridian, Mississippi.
Q6460039 LSV-2 may refer to the following vessels of the US Navy:USS Ozark (LSV-2), 1942–1974Cutthroat (LSV-2), an unmanned submarine commissioned in 2000 ([1], [2])USAV CW3 Harold C. Clinger (LSV-2)
Q6431582 Korea is an unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Route 1693 east of the city of Frenchburg, the county seat of Menifee County. Its elevation is 1,119 feet (341 m). Their post office closed in February 1982 Korea is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistic...
Q69278 Adalbert Geheeb (March 21, 1842, in Geisa – 13 September 1909 in Konigsfelden, Brugg, Aargau) was a German botanist specializing in mosses. The son of a pharmacist, he studied natural history as a pastime, and published extensively.In 1864-65 he studied pharmacy in Jena. Up until 1892, he served as a pharmacist ...
Q4789195 Argall is a surname, and may refer to:Dave Argall (born 1958), American politicianJohn Argall (fl. 1604), English cleric and logicianPhilip Argall (1855–1912), Australian cricket Test match umpireRichard Argall (fl. 1621), a poet, of whom little is known and existence is disputedSamuel Argall (1572 or 1580 – 1...
Q4994188 Henri Lloyd is a British clothing brand that specialised in sailing apparel and fashion for men and women. Established in Manchester in 1963, the company had 40 stores spanning the UK, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe. In June 2018, the firm was acquired by Swedish investment firm, Aligro Group.
Q1579151 Itaúsa is a Brazilian holding company which controls several companies active in areas such as the financial and real estate sectors; industries including wood panels, pottery and metal; health; chemicals; and fashion. The main companies that Itaúsa controls are Itaú Unibanco, Duratex and Alpargatas.It is one ...
Q3031477 Paulo Moura (15 July 1932 – 12 July 2010) was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist.Born in São José do Rio Preto, where his father was the maestro of a marching band and encouraged his son to train as a tailor, Paulo instead studied in the National Music School and performed with the Brazilian Symphonic Orc...
Q10332780 Moviecom is one of the biggest cinema chain in Brazil. It has 82 theaters located in 16 cities in six different states.
Q6438531 Krisztián Brunczvik (born 25 September 1989) is a Slovak football midfielder of Hungarian ethnicity who currently plays for the Corgoň Liga club FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda.
Q7854445 Turbonilla ornata, common name the ornate turbonilla, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Q16957857 TraceSecurity is a risk management firm that provides cloud-based IT governance, risk, and compliance management solutions for organizations.Peter Stewart and Jim Stickley founded TraceSecurity in 2003. The firm is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with executive offices in Los Gatos, California. Jason Wells se...
Q16243226 Madison Walthall (October 19, 1792 – June 15, 1848) was a member of the California State Legislature and served in the US Army during the Mexican–American War.Madison was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia to parents John Wathall and Catherine Madison. He had one child with his first wife, Mary Anne Wils...
Q16062211 Salomon Hamelin (April 6, 1810 – September 10, 1893) was a political figure in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Council of Manitoba from 1871 to 1876.He was the son of Jacques Hamelin and Angelique Tourengeau. In 1831, he married Isabella Vandale. Hamelin ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative...
Q16751348 Chi Hong (Sam) Wong (born 25 May 1962) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2014. He is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.Wong was born in British Hong Kong to Ngan Kan and Fat Wong. His future wife, Carol Lu, introduced him to the ...
Q18151549 Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures (also known as Larryboy, which is also for the title card) is an American 2D-animated children's direct-to-video series which is a spin-off of the computer animated series VeggieTales created by Big Idea Entertainment. The first video titled "Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows", ...
Q28873610 David J. Mangelsdorf is an American biologist and chemist, currently the Alfred J. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology, Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 2008, he was elected to the National Academy of Scie...
Q849067 Brassó was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central Romania (south-eastern Transylvania). The capital of the county was Brassó (Braşov in Romanian, Kronstadt in German).
Q450998 August Leopold Crelle (17 March 1780 – 6 October 1855) was a German mathematician. He was born in Eichwerder near Wriezen, Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. He is the founder of Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (also known as Crelle's Journal). He befriended Niels Henrik Abel and published seven ...
Q7308641 Reginald Ashley Caton (1897–1971) was an English publisher. He appears as a literary character, especially in novels by Kingsley Amis.In 1924 he founded the Fortune Press in London, initially as a small press specialising in gay erotica. Such was his admiration for the Nonesuch Press’s 1924 translation of Plat...
Q568833 Meuse-Inférieure ([møz ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ] "Lower Meuse"; Dutch: Beneden-Maas; German: Unteren-Maas) was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It was named after the river Meuse. Its territory corresponded largely with the present-day province...
Q1478111 Stichometry refers to the practice of counting lines in texts: Ancient Greeks and Romans measured the length of their books in lines, just as modern books are measured in pages. This practice was rediscovered by German and French scholars in the 19th century. Stichos is the Greek word for a 'line' of prose or ...
Q4873158 Battleground National Cemetery is a military burial ground, located along Georgia Avenue near Fort Stevens, in Washington, D.C.'s Brightwood neighborhood. The cemetery is managed by the National Park Service, together with other components of Rock Creek Park.
Q5553400 Ralph M. Anderson (October 29, 1936 – November 27, 1960) was an American college and professional football player. An offensive end, he played college football at Santa Monica College and Los Angeles State University, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Los Angeles Chargers in 19...
Q289051 Jiaozhou (simplified Chinese: 胶州; traditional Chinese: 膠州; pinyin: Jiāozhōu), formerly Jiaoxian or Jiao County, is a county-level city of Qingdao sub-provincial city, Shandong Province, China. It gained its current county-level city designation in 1987. It has an area of 1,313 km2 (507 sq mi) and a population a...
Q4999038 Paraburkholderia unamae is a species of bacteria.
Q942867 Jean Marie Auguste Bachelot de La Pylaie (May 25, 1786 in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine – October 12, 1856) was a French botanist, explorer and archaeologist. He studied at Laval, and then in Paris at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he was a pupil of Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and Henri Marie Ducrot...
Q1996241 Arignote or Arignota (; Greek: Ἀριγνώτη, Arignṓtē) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Croton or Samos who flourished around the year 500 BCE. She was known as a student of Pythagoras and Theano and, according to some traditions, their daughter as well.
Q16903712 WQDD-LP (93.5 FM) was a radio station licensed to Girardville, Pennsylvania, United States. The station was owned by Golden Age Communications.WQDD-LP's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on June 27, 2018, due to the station having been silent since September 26, 2016.
Q7051351 Noritoshi Kanai (金井紀年, カナイ・ノリトシ) (February 25, 1923-April 22, 2017) was a Japanese-born executive of the Los Angeles branch of the food importer, Mutual Trading Company. He is sometimes credited with the idea of opening the first authentic sushi bar in the United States during the 1960s.
Q4770650 Ansgar Løvold (19 November 1888 – 12 November 1961) was a wrestler, butcher and philanthropist from Kristiansund, Norway. He is most known for participating at the 1912 Summer Olympics and for launching the idea for the Kristiansund and Frei Fixed Link.Løvold started wrestling during his journeyman years whil...
Q16558323 The Honda S660 is a two-seat sports car which fits in the very small kei car category. It is manufactured by the Japanese manufacturer Honda. The car weighs approximately 830 kg with the manual transmission and 850 kg with the CVT automatic. A prototype was shown at the November 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, the maj...
Q16892209 Hearn Stage at The Kress Theatre is a small, blackbox performance space located at the corner of Fourth and Johnston streets in downtown Alexandria, Louisiana in the historic Rapides Foundation Building. The Kress Theatre gets its name from the building's former occupant, the Kress Five and Dime Store. Two lo...
Q19281899 Triston Cole (born January 4, 1976) is a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives. First elected in 2014, Cole represents Antrim, Charlevoix, Montmorency, Oscoda, and Otsego counties in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula.Prior to his election to the House, Cole was a hunting guide for ...
Q24278849 Battle of Memories is a 2017 Chinese science fiction crime thriller film directed by Leste Chen and starring Huang Bo, Xu Jinglei, Duan Yihong, Yang Zishan and Ann Hsu. It was released in China on April 28, 2017.
Q2037057 Sete Rios station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
Q38600940 Scott Speiser (/skot spizerʃ/ SKOT SPIZE-er) is an American actor and writer. He currently stars as Overkill in Amazon's remake of The Tick television series. He is a longtime member of the Blue Man Group stage show, and was previously a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company improvisational comedy troupe.
Q868502 The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England.The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard...
Q223403 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a form of counseling intervention that draws on various theories of alternative medicine including acupuncture, neuro-linguistic programming, energy medicine, and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). It is best known through Gary Craig's EFT Handbook, published in the late 1990s, ...