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Q4730028 All is Safely Gathered In is the eighth episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 24 November 1972. The episode was a favourite episode of writer David Croft, which he described in an interview with Graham McCann as "a joyous thing". |
Q5038450 Cardiff North West was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff, Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. |
Q686333 Saint-Gervais-sous-Meymont (Auvergnat: Sent Gervasi de Maimont) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.The commune is a member of Parc naturel régional Livradois-Forez and hosts the park's main information center. |
Q7105624 Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences (大阪薬科大学, Ōsaka yakka daigaku) is a private university in Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1904, and it was chartered as a university in 1950. |
Q2900064 Beteza is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Bekily, which is a part of Androy Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 7,000 in 2001 commune census.Only primary schooling is available. The majority 80% of the population of the commune are farmers, wh... |
Q3916549 The 2008 North America 4 is the third tournament between the North America 4 teams. Each of the four teams played each other three times in round-robin play, followed by semi-finals, a final and third-place play-off. |
Q6286516 Joseph Redlhamer (20 October 1713 in Lower Austria – 9 July 1761 in Vienna) was a professor at the University of Vienna.He joined the Jesuits at age 18 and earned a doctorate in philosophy and theology, after which he taught ethics, philosophy and theology in Linz, Graz and Vienna. He was a contemporary of Joh... |
Q7414253 San Giovanni in Tuba is a church in San Giovanni di Duino, a hamlet which forms part of the commune of Duino in the Province of Trieste, north-east Italy. It is located at the resurgence of the Timavo and is notable for the remains of a palaeo-Christian basilica.There are remains indicating that in the beginn... |
Q3435732 Robert Lemaître (7 March 1929 – 9 March 2019) was a former French professional footballer who played as a defender. |
Q6896360 Mollas is a village in the former municipality of Qendër Skrapar in Berat County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Skrapar. |
Q6118716 Jacob Harris was a first-class cricketer and sports coach from Karachi, Pakistan.He was born in Karachi, when it was still part of British India. He studied at St Patrick's High School, Karachi. He played cricket as a right-hand batsman and a leg-break bowler. He played for the Sindh main first-class team from... |
Q16838123 The 1998–99 Czech Cup was the fifth season of the annual football knock-out tournament of the Czech Republic. Winners Jablonec qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. |
Q16835449 The 2013–14 Spartan South Midlands Football League season (known as the 2013–14 Molten Spartan South Midlands Football League for sponsorship reasons) is the 17th in the history of Spartan South Midlands Football League a football competition in England. |
Q16201100 Ahmed Sary (Arabic أحمد ساري); (born August 20, 1968), is an Egyptian former football striker. He was the top scorer of Egyptian Premier League (1994–95) with 10 goals playing for Al Ittihad Al Sakandary. He is currently a manager for Al Ittihad Al Sakandary after short spills in Yemen and Sudan. |
Q15572094 Iris korolkowii is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris and in the Regelia section. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from the mountains of Tien Shan, Pamir and Altai, in Afghanistan and Turkestan (now part of Uzbekistan). It is commonly known as the Redvein Iris. It has long, sword-... |
Q11463469 This is a list of all sumo wrestlers whose pinnacle in the sport has been the fourth highest rank of komusubi and who held the rank in the modern era of sumo since the 1927 merger of the Tokyo and Osaka organizations. There are usually two active komusubi. Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to sekiwake, ōz... |
Q5344293 Edward MacLysaght (Irish: Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames (1923) and made him well known to all those researc... |
Q707846 Peter Hinwood (born 17 May 1946) is an English actor and antiques dealer. |
Q422928 John MacCrate (March 29, 1885 in Dumbarton, Scotland – June 9, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) was a lawyer, a politician, serving as a U.S. Representative from New York, and a justice of the New York Supreme Court.He immigrated with his mother to the United States in 1893 and settled in the Greenpoint neighborhood... |
Q519408 Rommel Pacheco (born 12 July 1986) is a Mexican diver. He was the gold medalist in the 10-meter platform at the 2003 Pan American Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished in 10th place in the 10-meter platform and 3-meter springboard. In the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished in 8th place in the 10-meter pl... |
Q2163387 The 1545 siege of Takatō castle marked the first time Takatō had been besieged. Takeda Shingen, continuing his sweep through the Ima Valley of Shinano Province, seeking to take control of the entire province, defeated Takatō Yoritsugu, the castellan. Takatō had relied on support from his allies, Ogasawara Naga... |
Q7934306 The Virginia High-Tech Partnership (VHTP) is an educational consortium that links students from Virginia's five Historically Black Colleges and Universities with corporations, high-tech firms and government agencies for internships, summer positions and career opportunities. |
Q13562528 Kitty Rhoades (née Richie) (April 7, 1951 – June 18, 2016) was an American politician. She was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly who represented the 30th Assembly district and subsequently served as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, Rhoades received a b... |
Q6600427 The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1975. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1975. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".These charts are calcul... |
Q9287465 Helenowo [xɛlɛˈnɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szulborze Wielkie, in Ostrów Mazowiecka County of the Mazovia Province in east-central Poland. |
Q1084181 Christmas Rock Night is a Christian music festival held annually during December in Ennepetal, Germany. The festival does not focus on particular styles of Christian music, but leans toward harder forms including metal and alternative. |
Q3409805 Pseudophilautus pardus is an extinct species of Sri Lankan shrub frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. Despite extensive surveys in recent years, the species is known only from a collection made prior to 1858. The reason for its extinction is unknown but probably relates loss of forests. |
Q3472487 Crayon (also referred to as Crayon the Movie) is a 2010 Malaysian drama film. Written and directed by Dean A. Burhanuddin, it stars Hon Kahoe, Faisal Abdullah, Adibah Noor and Joshry Adamme. Its producers are Dean A. Burhanuddin, Linda Ziegler and Elise A. Hamid.Inspired by true events, the film portrays two u... |
Q16870090 Gallois is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:Jean Gallois (1632–1707), French scholar and abbéLouis Gallois, (born 1944), French businessmanPatrick Gallois (born 1956), French flutist and conductorPierre Marie Gallois (1911–2010), French air-force brigadier-general |
Q15047370 The Very Rev Joseph Brewer Jobberns was Dean of Brechin from 1931 until 1936.He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and ordained in 1895. After a curacy in Dundee he was Rector of Holy Rood Church, Carnoustie from 1896-1922. From 1923 he was the incumbent at St Mary Magdalene, Dundee. |
Q13529395 Mithuna fuscivena is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Sri Lanka, Borneo, Java and Sulawesi. The habitat consists of lowland areas. |
Q15979510 St Stephen's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. It is situated next to Ermysted's Grammar School close to the town centre. It was built in 1836 and was founded by the Tempest family and originally administered by the Society of Jesus. It is a Grade II listed buildin... |
Q17486510 Micael Héber Mendes Freire (born 20 November 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Gafanha on loan from Feirense as a right winger. |
Q18177015 2014 Patna stampede was an accident that occurred on 3 October 2014 on the occasion of Dassehra festival at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, Bihar. |
Q750914 Ewa Partum (born 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland) is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist. Her involvement with feminist movements and themes includes the WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution in Los Angeles in 2007. Her honors include an exhibition ho... |
Q25099974 The Zurich Christmas Open (German: Weihnachtsopen Zürich) is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Zurich, Switzerland. The tournament began in 1977 and has been held 38 consecutive times. In 2013, Polish Grandmaster Radosław Wojtaszek won the tournament. In 2014, German grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch... |
Q7315661 Resnik is a small lunar impact crater that is located within the interior of the huge walled plain Apollo, on the Moon's far side. Apollo is a double-ringed formation with a central floor that has been flooded with basaltic lava. Resnik is located at the northern edge of the dark area of the surface. It lies t... |
Q702755 The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains.Bettina von Arnim writes of Wetterau in her text Diary of a Child in the chapter "Journey to the W... |
Q5224089 Darnah Governorate (Derna Governorate, Arabic: محافظة درنة) was one of the governorates (muhafazah) of Libya from 1963 to 1983. Its capital was the town of Derna.The governorate's population was 84,112 in 1964 and had risen to 108,407 by 1972.Bayda Governorate - westBenghazi Governorate - south |
Q6946304 "My Recovery Injection" is a song by Biffy Clyro from their 2004 album Infinity Land and was the second single from the album. It was their ninth single overall and reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart. |
Q2840943 Amal Hijazi (Arabic: أمل حجازي; born February 20, 1977) is a Lebanese singer. Hijazi released her debut album, Akher Gharam, in 2001, followed by her second album, Zaman in mid-2002. This album included four number one hit singles, "Zaman", "Oulhali", "Einak" and "Romansyia". Her third album Bedawwar A Albi w... |
Q7292442 Randy Srochenski (born January 15, 1973 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a former Canadian Football League long snapper. He is also a full-time minister serving as Pastor at United Niagara in St. Catharines, Ontario area.He attended Archbishop M.C. O'Neill High School in Regina and played for the Regina Rams of the... |
Q3210609 La Martre is a municipality in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada.In addition to La Martre itself, the municipality also includes the communities of Cap-au-Renard, Christie, and Sainte-Marthe-de-Gaspé. |
Q4657557 Astaf is a village and municipality in the Dashkasan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 361. |
Q3079770 The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934 and first published by Heinemann in 1935, the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an apparently un... |
Q1947072 Mora (Cordillera) is a small town in Bolivia. |
Q7348020 Robert Newman (March 20, 1752 – May 26, 1804) was an American sexton at the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He is considered a Patriot in the American Revolution for hanging lanterns in his church's steeple on April 18, 1775, part of a warning signal devised by Paul Revere during the Battles of Lexi... |
Q8076558 Ágnes Kaczander (also known as Kaczander-Kiss) (born November 21, 1953 in Budapest) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Hungary, who competed at the Summer Olympics for her native country in 1972. There she came fourth in 100 m breaststroke and sixth in 200 m breaststroke.At the European Championships she wo... |
Q22095592 The 2004 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Clemson's 600th win came November 20 against South Carolina, a game notable for a brawl between the two teams. Due to the brawl, the Tigers declined a bowl bid in part because of the unsport... |
Q999634 Buckhart Township, Illinois may refer to the following places:Buckhart Township, Christian County, IllinoisBuckheart Township, Fulton County, Illinois (often misspelled Buckhart Township, Fulton County, Illinois) |
Q7783822 Thiago Araujo da Silva (born June 22, 1983) is a Brazilian football player currently playing for Comercial Futebol Clube (Ribeirão Preto). |
Q18393934 Rehalpura is a hamlet located in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It comes under Rihal Pura Panchayath. It is located 14 km towards South from Dharamshala and 164 km from State capital ShimlaDharamshala, Hamirpur, Chamba and Dalhousie are the nearby Cities to Rehalpura. |
Q5406738 Lauri Johannes Impiö (8 September 1929 in Ranua – 28 January 2006) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1975 to 1987, representing the National Coalition Party. |
Q19666215 Velma Pollard (born 1937) is a Jamaican poet and fiction writer. Among her most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don't Grow Here (1991) and Leaving Traces (2007). She is known for the melodious and expressive mannerisms in her work. She is the sister of Erna Brodber. |
Q25001584 XHVX-FM is a radio station on 89.7 FM in Comalcalco, Tabasco. The station is owned by Grupo VX, a business of the late radio entrepreneur and former federal deputy Moisés Félix Dagdug Lützow, and is known as "La Grande de Tabasco" with a news/talk format. |
Q17812807 Hypericum undulatum, the wavy St Johns Wort, is a perennial herb native to western Europe and northern Africa. The specific name undulatum is Latin, meaning "wavy" or "undulated", referring, just as the common name, to the wavy leaf margins of the herb. The plant has a diploid number of 16 or 32. |
Q10270157 The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 and later acts to relocate populations in poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War. They were developed in three waves. Later developments included the expanded towns: existing towns which were substan... |
Q162596 Javier Lozano Barragán (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ loˈsano βaraˈɣan]; born 26 January 1933) is a Mexican Cardinal and president Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers in the Roman Catholic Church. |
Q523516 Andre de Chauvigny (or Andrew of Chauvigny) (1150–1202) was a Poitevin knight in the service of Richard I of England. He was the second son of Pierre-Hélie of Chauvigny and Haois of Châtellerault. Haois was the great-aunt of King Richard making Andrew and Richard second cousins. |
Q262433 Debra ("Debbie") Lee Flintoff-King, (OAM) (born 20 April 1960 in Melbourne) is a retired Australian athlete, and winner of the women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. |
Q3345401 Ve Plus TV is the new name of the subscription channel Venevision Continental / Novelisima of Venezuela (subsidiary of Grupo Cisneros), retained much of the old programming and Venevision Continental and Novelisima |
Q259223 The two ships of the Belleisle class, HMS Belleisle and HMS Orion, originally built in Britain for the Ottoman Navy, were taken over by the Royal Navy in 1878. |
Q2909986 Bonded Parallels (Armenian: Խճճված զուգահեռներ) is a 2009 film written and directed by Armenian filmmaker Hovhannes Galstyan. This film deals with two stories which take place at different times and linked by the birth of the protagonist, the daughter, and the death of the second main character, the mother. Th... |
Q7275787 The RAM P99 is a paintball marker manufactured by Chinese company Qian Wei and distributed in the United States by Umarex USA under the "Real Action Markers" brand. It is distributed in Europe by Umarex, Germany. The RAM P99 is made under license and designed to replicate the Walther P99. |
Q4014289 Halle Cioffi was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Gretchen Magers.Katerina Maleeva won in the final 6–3, 2–6, 6–2 against Zina Garrison. |
Q5145776 Coll (Scottish Gaelic: Col) is a farming settlement near Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Coll is situated on the B895, between Stornoway and New Tolsta, and is also within the parish of Stornoway. |
Q572711 German submarine U-293 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 17 November 1942 by the Bremer Vulkan Werft (yard) at Bremen-Vegesack as yard number 58, launched on 30 July 1943, and commissioned on 8 September with Kapitänleutnant Leonhard Klingspor in ... |
Q7763468 The Seven Year Itch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod starring Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown.The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.The play was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Year Itch, direc... |
Q2600136 Bulduri Station is a railway station on the Torņakalns – Tukums II Railway in the Bulduri neighbourhood of Jūrmala, Latvia. |
Q4591323 Statistics of Dhivehi League in the 1996 season. |
Q6589035 Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Founded in 1869, it is composed of 30 teams. Each team in the league has a manager, who is responsible for team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Assisted by various coaches, the manager sets the line-... |
Q5136245 Club Fonograma was a United States-based daily Internet publication established in 2008 that was devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, mixtapes, podcasts, and artist interviews. Its focus is on global pop and independent music from artists of Spanish, Caribbean, and Latin American origin or ba... |
Q18159219 Winants Hall is a historic educational building located on the Queens Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Built in 1890 under the leadership of President Merrill Edward Gates, it was the first dormitory built on campus.It is a contributing property in the Queens Campus, Rutgers Universi... |
Q16604114 Chintaman Vanaga was an Indian politician from Maharashtra and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was member of 16th Lok Sabha elected from Palghar (Lok Sabha constituency). He was an advocate by qualification from Mumbai University and served as the President of BJP's Thane district office from 1... |
Q19901439 Hindy Najman is an American academic specialising in Jewish studies and the Hebrew Bible. From 2008 to 2012, she was Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2012 to 2015, she was Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at Yale University. Since July 2015, she has been ... |
Q28221743 The Akar class is a series of replenishment oilers and fleet support ships, originally designed and built for service in the Turkish Navy. |
Q321170 There are two biblical characters named Abihud.One of the sons of Bela, the son of Benjamin; called also Ahihud (1 Chronicles 8:3,7).A son or grandson of Zerubbabel, and member of the Davidic line. Abihud was the father of Eliakim (Matthew 1:13, "Abiud"), and possibly the same as Obadiah (1 Chronicles 3:21).Th... |
Q2422092 South Venice is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 13,949 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q640978 "The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. When issued as a single in May 1970, a month after the Beatles' break-up, it became the group's 20th and last number-one hit on the Billb... |
Q6226316 John Edward Cleghorn, , (born July 7, 1941) is a Canadian business executive and a former university leader. Cleghorn was former chairman and chief executive officer of Royal Bank of Canada from 1994 until 2001. He is a former chairman of the board of Canadian Pacific Railway. |
Q7620672 Stow of Wedale, or more often Stow, is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland (historically Midlothian), seven miles north of Galashiels. In the 2011 Census the population was 718. It is served by Stow railway station. |
Q7365495 Roncalli College is a Catholic college in Timaru, New Zealand. It was named after Pope John XXIII, whose birth name was Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli. It is a co-educational college, with approximately 500 students from Year 9 to Year 13, it is situated on Craigie Avenue, next to the Sacred Heart Basilica. It is se... |
Q6770614 Marked by Great Size is the Brobdingnagian Bards' first album. It features songs performed by the band at Excalibur Fantasy Faire in Austin, Texas. |
Q5009560 CCGS Simcoe was a Canadian Coast Guard buoy tender and light icebreaker. The second vessel of the name in Canadian government service, Simcoe was in service from 1962 to 2007 based out of the Coast Guard base at Prescott, Ontario working the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway. In 2008 the ship was sold to c... |
Q3342082 Niorouhio is a village in southern Ivory Coast. It sits on the border of Bas-Sassandra and Gôh-Djiboua Districts. Half of the village is in the sub-prefecture of Guéyo, Guéyo Department, Nawa Region, Bas-Sassandra District, and the other half is in the sub-prefecture of Doukouyo, Gagnoa Department, Gôh Region,... |
Q5052016 Cathal Aidhne mac Ailell (died 812) was King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne. |
Q5961276 A hypothetical star is a star, or type of star, that is speculated to exist but has yet to be definitively observed. Hypothetical types of stars have been conjectured to exist, have existed or will exist in the future universe. |
Q7961290 Walawela is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province with postal code of 21048. |
Q5605911 Greg Lindquist (born 1979) is an American artist (painting, sculpture, installation), living and working in New York City. |
Q6234245 John Frewen (1558–1628) was an English Puritan divine. |
Q7157234 Peabody Hall is a building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The 1913 structure is a contributing property to the University of Arkansas Campus Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Peabody Hall has continuously housed the teacher educatio... |
Q8425912 Helena Wong Pik-wan (Chinese: 黃碧雲, born 21 March 1959) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Kowloon West constituency. She is also an academic staff member at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. |
Q6898445 Monavvar Tappeh (Persian: منورتپه; also known as Fīrūzābād) is a village in Pirsalman Rural District, in the Central District of Asadabad County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 418, in 95 families. |
Q7267384 Qemal Vogli (29 September 1929 – 2004) was a famous Albanian footballer who played most of his professional career as goalkeeper for Dinamo Tirana football club. At the age of 17 he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to wear the Albania national football team uniform. Vogli is widely considered as the greates... |
Q23796644 The Hitman's Bodyguard is a 2017 American action comedy thriller film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O'Connor, whose script was on the 2011 Black List survey. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, and Salma Hayek.The Hitman's Bodyguard was released in the United States o... |
Q41453480 William Roach (12 December 1914 – 8 June 1944) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Western Australia in 1933/34. |
Q2073339 Rocky Ford is a Statutory City located in Otero County, Colorado, United States. The population was 4,286 at the United States Census 2000.The community was named for a rocky ford near the original town site. |
Q736811 Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer. He is one of the pioneers and leaders in the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. Marcy was Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy at San Francisco Sta... |
Q1944194 Vim is the name of a range of household cleaning products originally produced by Lever Brothers. The Vim brand is currently owned by European multi-national Spotless Group. |
Q5231683 David Allen Brandon (born May 15, 1952) is an American businessman who serves as chairman of Domino's Pizza. He is the former chief executive officer of Toys "R" Us.From 1999 to 2009, he served as the president and chief executive officer of Domino's, and from 2010 to 2014, he was the athletic director at the ... |
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