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Q6285810 Joseph Nicholson was a public official from Maryland during the American Revolution. He was elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1777 but did not attend. He was married to Elizabeth Hopper; their son Joseph Hopper Nicholson became a U.S. congressman. |
Q8063900 The Dewitt Log Homestead is a registered historic building near Oxford, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1973-04-13.This log cabin was built in 1805 by Zachariah Price Dewitt and Elizabeth Dewitt and is the oldest extant structure in the Oxford Township of Butler County, Ohio. It is the only remaining... |
Q4797815 Arthur Emilius David Anderson, (30 September 1886 – 21 October 1967) was a British Army officer and an English track and field athlete from Brentford, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. |
Q7924460 Viaggiatrice solitaria - Il meglio di Alice is a compilation album of recordings by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released by EMI Music in 1995.Unlike EMI Italiana's 1994 best of package Il vento caldo dell'estate, which mainly included tracks from the artist's early career plus a disco remix of the 1982 du... |
Q4876489 Bear Lodge National Forest is a discontinued entity which has been absorbed into the Black Hills National Forest. It is located in the U.S. in the state of Wyoming, in the north central part of the American mainland. It was established in the Bear Lodge Mountains by the U.S. Forest Service in Wyoming on July ... |
Q6297967 Jozo Bozo, real name Josip Alajbeg (born 1973), is a Croatian children's magician.Alajbeg was born in Zagreb, Croatia where he currently lives. As Jozo Bozo, he has performed at the White House, Washington DC for the Easter Egg Roll. In his professional career he has performed over 8,000 shows on four continen... |
Q7006720 The New Course at Albany, now the Capital Hills at Albany golf course and formerly Albany Municipal Golf Course is an 18-hole golf course located in Albany, New York. |
Q5518655 Galina Alekseyeva (born 27 November 1946) is a Russian former diver who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1968 Summer Olympics. |
Q6633377 Si Sa Ket railway station is a railway station located in Mueang Nuea Subdistrict, Sisaket City, Sisaket. It is a class 1 railway station located 515.09 km (320.1 mi) from Bangkok railway station. The station opened in August 1928 as part of the Northeastern Line Huai Thap Than-Si Sa Ket section. The line cont... |
Q15289013 Acacia setulifera is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia.The bushy, dense and resinous shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1 metre (1 to 3 ft) and produces bright yellow flowers. The p... |
Q28428111 In Strange Company : a story of Chili and the southern seas (1894) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. |
Q14813330 Phoebe cornuta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Olivier in 1795. It is known from French Guiana and Surinam. |
Q13772055 Loxandrus icarus is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America. |
Q3840995 Lygistorrhinidae is a family of long-beaked fungus gnats in the order Diptera. There are about 7 genera and at least 30 described species in Lygistorrhinidae. |
Q877820 Momotarō (桃太郎, "Peach Boy") is a popular hero of Japanese folklore. His name translates as Peach Tarō, a common Japanese masculine name, and is often translated as Peach Boy. Momotarō is the title of various books, films and other works that portray the tale of this hero.There is now a popular notion that Momot... |
Q3048569 Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935) is an American investigative journalist and a former political science professor at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT. |
Q6735993 Main Khiladi Tu Anari (transl. Me, the Player, You, the Novice) is a 1994 Indian action comedy film directed by Sameer Malkan. The screenplay is written by Sachin Bhowmick. Starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Shilpa Shetty in pivotal roles, the film went on to become one of the top 5 highest-grossing movi... |
Q1584602 Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1951. |
Q2609491 Storm Center is a 1956 American film noir drama film directed by Daniel Taradash. The screenplay by Taradash and Elick Moll focuses on what were at the time two very controversial subjects - Communism and book banning - and took a strong stance against censorship. The film stars Bette Davis, and was the first ... |
Q287599 Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 British-American period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage ... |
Q7352447 Robin Hamilton is a former Democratic Party member of the Montana House of Representatives, representing District 92 from January 2005 to January 2011. He did not seek re-election in 2010 and was succeeded by Democrat Bryce Bennett. |
Q5078307 Admiral Charles Gordon, CB (c. 1781 – 3 October 1860) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the nineteenth century. Gordon's most notable action was the Action of 18 September 1810, when he was seriously wounded in battle and his frigate HMS Ceylon captured by the French frigate Vénus. Gordon was rec... |
Q6622453 Barbados has Highway coverage throughout the entire country. |
Q27836 Frédéric Sammaritano (born 23 March 1986) is a French professional footballer who plays for Dijon. |
Q4897916 Bethel Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building in rural Clermont County, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1810s under the leadership of one of Ohio's earliest Methodist preachers, it has survived the death of its congregation, and it remains in use for community activities. Together with it... |
Q5208415 Bishop. Dag Heward-Mills is an influential Ghanaian Minister based in Accra, Ghana. He is the founder and Presiding Bishop of the United Denomination originating from the Lighthouse Group Of Churches. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, evangelist, apostle and father of four children.Bishop Dag H... |
Q6225040 John Henry Cann (19 April 1860 – 21 July 1940) was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of James McGowen and William Holman. |
Q5045054 Caroline Earle White (1833–1916) was an American philanthropist and anti-vivisection activist. She co-founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) in 1867, founded its women's branch (WPSPCA) in 1869, and founded the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) in 1883.White wa... |
Q1053271 Cem Islamoglu (born September 4, 1980) is a Turkish-German footballer who plays for SV Waldhof Mannheim. |
Q7789038 Thomas Dover, M.D. (1660–1742), sometimes referred to as "Doctor Quicksilver", was an English physician. He is remembered for his common cold and fever medicine Dover's powder, his work with the poor in Bristol, and his privateering voyage alongside William Dampier and Woodes Rogers that rescued castaway Alexa... |
Q4703160 Al-Safsaf (Arabic: الصفصاف) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located north of Latakia on the shores of Mashqita Lake. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Bayda, Al-Shamiyah and Burj Islam to the west, al-Bahluliyah to the east and Mushayrafet al-Samouk to the sou... |
Q16066315 Tommaso Gazzarini (February 15, 1790 – February 7, 1853) was an Italian painter born in Livorno, who painted religious and historic subjects in a Neoclassic style. |
Q23874818 Sakina Karchaoui (born 26 January 1996) is a French footballer who plays as a left back for Division 1 Féminine club Montpellier and the France national team. |
Q15602727 Ahmad Jafari (Persian: احمد جعفری Born 3 March 1938 Arak, Iran) is an architect based in USA. He is a veteran architect whose career extends over 6 decades. He was with Disney Imagineering as an Architect and Art Director from 1966 to 2004 and has worked alongside Walt Disney and many Disney Legends. In 2006... |
Q17980 Katherine is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated on the Katherine River (after which it is named) below the "Top End", 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of Darwin. It is the fourth largest settlement in the Territory and is known as the place where "The outback meets the tropics". Kathe... |
Q16752165 The fourragère (French: [fuʁaʒɛʁ]) is a military award, distinguishing military units as a whole, in the form of a braided cord. The award was first adopted by France, followed by other nations such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and Luxembourg. Fourragères have been awarded to units of both national ... |
Q7703176 Terrace Heights is a roughly triangle-shaped residential neighbourhood in south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.According to the 2001 federal census, most of the development in the neighbourhood occurred in the first fifteen years after World War II. It was during this time that 84% of the residences in the ne... |
Q8025062 Dorset Green Technology Park (formerly Winfrith Technology Centre) is a science and technology park which is owned by the Homes and Communities Agency. The site was the former UKAEA Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment which was in service from the 1950s to early 1990s. The Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor... |
Q3753094 Fresh from the Farm is a 1915 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. |
Q1090660 Château Romer is a sweet white wine ranked as Second Cru Classé (French, “Second Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde, in the region of Graves, the estate is located in the commune of Fargues de Langon. |
Q521871 Johanne "Hannemor" Gram (née Dybwad, 22 October 1918 – 27 January 2011) was a Norwegian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.Born in Oslo, she was the daughter of Nils Juell Dybwad (1892–1972), a barrister, and his wife Stella Boye Semb. Hannemor Gram was a maternal granddaughter of the renowne... |
Q5470085 Cork City F.C. (Irish: Cumann Peile Chathair Chorcaigh) is an Irish football (soccer) club who play in the League of Ireland. City were founded and elected to the league in 1984. Here is a list of all former players. |
Q5005508 Bąków [ˈbɔnkuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rusinów, within Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Rusinów, 12 km (7 mi) north of Przysucha, and 87 km (54 mi) south of Warsaw.The village has a population o... |
Q11057544 Mbaitoli is a Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Nwaorieubi (or Nworieubi).It has an area of 204 km² and a population of 237,555 at the 2006 census, although the state government claims 234 km² and a 2004 population of 255,000.The postal code of the area is 461. M... |
Q6305549 Jukkas River is a river of Sweden. It is a tributary of the Tärendö River. |
Q6113580 Jack L. Landau (born 1953) is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. A native of Colorado, he worked in private legal practice in Oregon before he joined the Oregon Department of Justice. He served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1993 to 2011, and on the Oregon Supreme Court from 2011 to 20... |
Q5219089 Daniel Wier (July 24, 1772 – December 13, 1842) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Newport township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1820 to 1826. His name also appears as Daniel Weir.He was the son of Benjamin Wier and Esther MacNutt. He served as a captain in the militi... |
Q7377291 Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University. He was known for research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology. He was also director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute. |
Q6222382 John Boles Watson (c. 1748 – 1813 Cheltenham) built the first permanent theatre in Cheltenham at York Passage, 1782. Boles Watson also built the Theatre Royal, Gloucester, in 1791 and was closely associated with the Cirencester theatre. |
Q5151491 Comedy in Music is an original Broadway comedy by Victor Borge, with no additional cast involved, performed as a one-man show. |
Q18000967 Luis Cangá (born 18 June 1995) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a central defender for Delfín. |
Q23872074 Jacob Otto Esch (born March 27, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins and San Diego Padres. |
Q20684224 Dr. George Jacobs (born 1952) is a well-known educator and vegan activist in Singapore. |
Q6169592 Roman villa of Camino de Albalate is a Roman site near Calanda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain. |
Q6377305 Kathy Smith (born December 11, 1951) is a personal trainer who became well known for her workout videos during the late 1980s and 1990s. She has sold over 16 million workout videos since 1980. Her exercise and nutrition program Project:You! Type 2 was created in association with the American Diabetes Associati... |
Q2056430 Pat Brady (born October 12, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Rose Is Rose, syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since 1983.Brady started cartooning at the age of five, drawing cartoons during Roman Catholic mass. He was nicknamed "Pasquale" by the priest.... |
Q4875689 The Beach Boys Historic Landmark is a memorial which commemorates the site of the childhood home of Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys. The monument, located at 3701 W. 119th Street, Hawthorne, California, stands on the former location of the Wilsons' house, which was demolished in the mid-1980s ... |
Q566370 Gerhard Kische (born 23 October 1951 in Teterow) is a former German football player.Kische played for FC Hansa Rostock from 1970 to 1981.On the national level, he played for the East German national team (59 and 63 matches respectively), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He won gold at the 1976 ... |
Q6648499 The following are the national records in athletics in Lithuania maintained by Lithuanian national athletics federation: Lietuvos Lengvosios Atletikos Federacija (LLAF). |
Q1045622 Circus is a Japanese visual novel studio known for creating adult-oriented bishōjo games. In addition to the normal Circus brand name, there are other brand divisions including Circus Northern, Circus Fetish, Circus Metal, and Sanctuary. Circus has also been involved in collaboration projects, creating titles ... |
Q16728 Sallent (Catalan pronunciation: [səˈʎen də ʎuβɾəˈɣat]) is a municipality in the comarca of Bages, Province of Barcelona, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain. The river Llobregat divides the municipality into two halves. Its main resources are mining and industry. It was the birthplace of Saint Anthon... |
Q4717540 Alex Mutucumarana (born 15 June 1979) is a cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who plays for Reed CC in the Herts Championship. He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka.Mutucumarana made a single List A appearance for Huntingdonshire, during the 2001 season, against the Gloucester... |
Q3663173 The Catacomb of Calepodius (also called the Cemetery of Calepodius) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, notable for containing the tombs of Pope Callixtus I (ironically, the creator of the Catacomb of Callixtus, which once contained the tombs of a dozen other popes) and Pope Julius I, along with the eponymous Cal... |
Q5526025 Gary Sykes (Born 13 February 1984) is a former British super featherweight boxer. Educated at Birkdale High School he is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a former British super featherweight champion. |
Q5340357 Eduardo 'Edu' Espada Gallardo (born 8 March 1981 in Los Corrales, Seville) is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker. |
Q970661 Undløse is the main village of Undløse Parish, located about 17 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Holbæk in Holbæk municipality in northernwest Zealand, Denmark. As of 1 January 2015, it has a population of 1,139. Undløse Church has Baroque woodcuts by Abel Schrøder and notable 15th-century frescoes. |
Q4871189 The Battle of Harem was fought between the FSA and the Syrian Army, from the 17 October to the 25 December 2012. The fight occurred during the Idlib Governorate clashes (June 2012–April 2013) of the Syrian Civil War.By the end of the battle, the town had been captured by the rebels. |
Q13626264 Jairo Joseth Jiménez Robles (born 7 January 1993) is a Panamanian international footballer who plays for UD Universitario. |
Q16194285 Leonid Fiatovich Rezetdinov (Russian: Леонид Фиатович Резетдинов; August 5, 1961) is a Russian composer and a winner of the National Prize of the Russian Academy of Advertising. He was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and attended Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance of Boris Tish... |
Q16146122 Abu'l-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Fasanjas (Persian: ابوالفضل عباس بن فسانجس), was an Iranian statesman Fasanjas family who served the Buyid dynasty.He was from a rich Iranian noble family which was native to Shiraz in Fars. When the Buyid ruler Imad al-Dawla conquered Shiraz, Abu'l-Fadl pledged allegiance to him, and... |
Q16997679 The Jenny McCarthy Show is an American television variety show and sketch comedy series starring Jenny McCarthy that aired on MTV in 1997. |
Q29054078 Gather Up the Chaps is the second studio album by the Chicago-based punk rock supergroup The Falcon which was released by Red Scare Industries on March 18, 2016, almost ten years after their debut album Unicornography. |
Q27681003 Harry Meade (born 4 July 1983) is a British eventing rider. Representing Great Britain, he competed at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, where he won a team silver medal. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Young Rider European Championships with the horse Midnight Dazzler. Harry is a son of... |
Q23807736 ISCB Fellowship is an award granted to scientists that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) judges to have made “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”. As of 2019, there are 76 Fellows of the ISCB including Michael Ashburner, Alex Bateman, B... |
Q1628962 The Main Range is a mountain range and national park in Queensland, Australia, located predominantly in Tregony, Southern Downs Region, 85 kilometres (53 mi) southwest of Brisbane. It is part of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (formerly known as the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves... |
Q1125266 Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer Usher. It was released on March 23, 2004, by Arista Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2003 to 2004, with its production handled by his longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Lil Jon, amon... |
Q1352430 The Lotus 30 was a racing automobile, Colin Chapman's first attempt at a large displacement sports car racing machine following the success of the smaller Lotus 19 and Lotus 23. In a way as a further development of the final Lotus 19 called Lotus 19B, which had a Ford V8 engine installed in place of Coventry ... |
Q1108786 Mons is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. |
Q7636390 The Sullivan Athletic Center is an athletic facility on the campus of DePaul University in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The facility houses McGrath-Phillips Arena, a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena. It is the home arena for the women's volleyball team and part-time home for the women's basketball tea... |
Q62189 Fairfield House, in Newbridge, Bath, England is a Grade II listed building. It was the residence of Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, during the five years he spent in exile (1936–41). Following his return to Ethiopia, he donated it to the city of Bath in 1958 as a residence for the aged.The Italianate two-... |
Q872213 Paul Strudel or Paul Strudl (circa 1648 – 20 November 1708) was an Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer, and painter, ennobled as Baron von Strudel and Vochburg.As a sculptor in the Hofburg, Paul Strudel worked creating statues with his younger brother, Peter Strudel. |
Q4915319 This is a list of the known wild biota of the Isle of Man.Non-native species are marked *, extinct species are marked †. If this status is uncertain the species is also marked ?.Each listing follows the following format: English name (where one exists), binomial/trinomial scientific name with authorities for u... |
Q7588110 St. George's Church is a former parish church in Dublin, Ireland, designed by Francis Johnston, which is considered to be one of his finest works. It is located at Hardwicke Place, just north of the city centre. The elegant spire, 200 feet (61.0 m) high, became a landmark of the north inner city. |
Q1545016 Gregersen Danish pronunciation: [ˈkʁɛːˀkɐsn̩] is a North German, Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Gregers" (equivalent of "Γρηγόριος", cf. English Gregory). It is an unusual surname in Denmark, shared by little more than 5,800 persons.It may refer to:Atli Gregersen (born 1982... |
Q7647844 Susan K. Freedman is a leading supporter of contemporary public art in New York City. Since 1986, she has been the President of the Public Art Fund, which was founded by her mother Doris Chanin Freedman in 1977.Growing up in New York, Freedman attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and was in Rabbi Sall... |
Q7646247 Suri II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. |
Q1485453 Wilhelm Lambrecht (3 August 1834, Wolbrechtshausen – 17 June 1904, Göttingen) was a German builder of measuring instruments.After doing his exams Lambrecht began a five-year apprenticeship as a mechanic in Einbeck. The handling of the measuring instruments which were, despite their heaviness, less robust and b... |
Q2282717 Sandra Mandir, born Popović, (born 4 August 1977 in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian female basketball player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Croatia women's national basketball team in the women's event. She is 5 ft 10 inches tall. |
Q19334912 Vocaloid 2 is a singing voice synthesizer and the successor to the Vocaloid voice synthesizer application by Yamaha. Unlike the first engine, Vocaloid 2 based its output on vocal samples, rather than voice analysis. The synthesis engine and the user interface were completely revamped, with Japanese Vocaloids ... |
Q13191242 Waña (Aymara for dry, Quechua for a potato variety, Hispanicized spelling Huaña) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,400 metres (17,717 ft) high. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Waña lies northwest of Wamanripa, northeast of ... |
Q13851627 Microcolona dorochares is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It is found on Samoa. |
Q21070008 Les Powell (29 July 1912 – 12 December 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q21285358 Atif Maqbool (born 21 November 1981) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who played for Karachi. |
Q23582160 Stanley Behrend (15 November 1908 – 30 May 1944) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bengal and Europeans. He was killed in action during World War II. |
Q7727171 The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954. It has never been out of print. It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of HM Treasury, Plain Words (1948) and ABC of Plai... |
Q5227208 Data Resources Inc or DRI was co-founded in 1969 by Donald Marron and Otto Eckstein. Marron is best known as the former CEO of PaineWebber and founder of Lightyear Capital. Eckstein was a Harvard University economics professor, economic consultant to Lyndon Baines Johnson and member of the Council of Economic ... |
Q95196 Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü (also spelled Hatin Sürücü; January 17, 1982, in Berlin – February 7, 2005, in Berlin) was a Turkish-Kurdish woman living in Germany whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey. She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her own youngest brother, in an honor killing. Sürücü had div... |
Q612907 The Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russian: орден Александра Невского) is an order of merit of the Russian Federation named in honour of saint Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) and bestowed to civil servants for twenty years or more of highly meritorious service. It was originally established by the Soviet Union as a m... |
Q1257354 James Ware Bradbury (June 10, 1802 – January 6, 1901) was a United States Senator from Maine.Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, he attended the common schools and Gorham Academy. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, he became principal of Hallowell Academy and founder of the first normal school in New Hamp... |
Q4800880 L'Article 47 is a 1913 American silent short drama film starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, Howard Davies, Ethel Jewett, and Ernest Joy. The film is based on the 1872 French play of the same name by Adolphe Belot. |
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