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Q6939595 The Murrin Murrin mine project is a major nickel-cobalt mining operation being conducted in the North Eastern Goldfields, approximately 45 km east of Leonora, Western Australia. The Project was initiated as a joint venture between Murrin Murrin Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anaconda Nickel Lim... |
Q6814592 This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1988 to 1991:1 Marie Bignold was expelled from the Call to Australia Party in November 1988. She served out the remainder of her term as an independent.2 ALP MLC Jack Garland resigned on 9 April 1990. Jeff Shaw was appointed to the resul... |
Q13561970 Jill Parr (born in Burton, Michigan) is a contemporary Christian musician. |
Q4583575 The 1987 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing 6th in the American League East with a record of 67 wins and 95 losses. |
Q2648095 The Allard-Latour was a car made by M. Allard-Latour of Lyons, France. Belt or chain driven, small numbers were made, from 1899 to 1902. Most if not all were sold in the Lyons area. |
Q7306823 Reeferbilly Blowout is a live album from the Scottish neo-rockabilly group The Shakin' Pyramids. It was recorded on 24 May 1981 at Kelvingrove Free Music Festival in Glasgow. |
Q16198242 Thomas FitzJames FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (died 1467/68), called 'Thomas of Drogheda', and also known as the Great Earl, was the son of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond and Mary de Burgh.He was Lord Deputy of Ireland for the Duke of Clarence from 1463 to his death, and in 1464 founded the College ... |
Q15275286 Santipur is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. |
Q3277958 Code of Princess is an action role-playing video game developed by Studio Saizensen and originally published by Agatsuma Entertainment for Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan in April 2012 by Agatsuma Entertainment, and in North America by Atlus USA in October 2012, Agatsuma Entertainment also published the... |
Q2107488 Nicholas "Nick" Delpopolo (born February 8, 1989) is an American judoka. He competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; after defeating Cheung Chi Yip in the second round and Dirk Van Tichelt in the third, he lost to Wang Ki-Chun in the fourth round and was eliminated by Nyam-Ochir Sainjarga... |
Q21196517 The Old Augusta Historic Site contains the remnants of Augusta, Mississippi, a town that was founded along the Leaf River in 1812 and abandoned between 1902 and 1906. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1999. |
Q21531612 Quentin Jerome Hillsman (born October 16, 1970) is the head women's college basketball coach for the Syracuse Orange. He has held that position since 2006 and is only the fourth coach in the 40-year history of the program. |
Q24702892 Dmytro Kucher (born 25 August 1984) is a retired Ukrainian professional boxer.Kucher has the EBU (European) cruiserweight champion title. |
Q2389811 Tala Mungongo is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Malanje. |
Q828074 In chess, a pin is a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece. Moving the attacking piece to bring on the pin is called pinning; the defending piece so restricted is desc... |
Q273642 ESSEC Business School is an international higher education institution located in France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense in the Paris area), Singapore and Morocco. Founded in 1907, ESSEC Business School is one of the most selective French "Grandes écoles" and referred in France as one of the "trois Parisiennes" ... |
Q294601 AMAG Automobil- und Motoren AG is a Swiss car importer and dealer for Audi, Volkswagen, Skoda, and SEAT cars, founded on January 3, 1945 by Walter Haefner. AMAG generated sales of CHF 4,4 billion in 2015 and employed 5,400 people. |
Q1385614 Kazushige Abe (阿部 和重, Abe Kazushige, born September 23, 1968 in Higashine, Yamagata) is a contemporary Japanese writer.In 2004 he was awarded the 132nd Akutagawa Prize for his book about a pedophile called Grand Finale and the Tanizaki Prize 2010 for Pistils. Abe was on the selection committee for the annual S... |
Q6940754 The Army Flying Museum, previously known as the Museum of Army Flying, is a British military aviation museum about the history of flying in the British Army. It is located beside the Army Air Corps Centre in Middle Wallop, close to Andover in Hampshire, England.The museum covers the history of Army aviation fr... |
Q3844149 Mrs. Santa Claus is a 1996 American made-for-television musical fantasy-comedy film starring Angela Lansbury in the title role as Mrs. Claus, the wife of Santa Claus. The film was billed as the first original musical written for television since Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella in 1957. It was originally b... |
Q14475841 Grand Rabbi Shraga Feivish Hager, also known as the Kosover Rebbe, is the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator. He resides in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York.He is an Alumnus of the Chachmei Lublin, Ponovitch, and Lakewood Yeshivos.Hager is the dayan of the Vizhnitz ... |
Q3702840 Darrin Hancock (born November 3, 1971) is a retired American professional basketball player. In high school and college he was known for his strong offense, while his quick and agile moves to the basket drew comparisons to the likes of Dominique Wilkins. A Parade Magazine and McDonald's All-American standout a... |
Q1444018 Frank Richard Heartz (January 7, 1871 – August 27, 1955) was a Canadian politician who served as the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.He was born in 1871 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of Benjamin Heartz and Henrietta Davison. He was educated in local public schools, followed ... |
Q16211149 There are two pathways that refugees or protected persons find their way into New Zealand: 1) asylum seekers may seek protection after arrival in New Zealand (either as refugees or protected persons); 2) refugees or protected persons may also be resettled from offshore through New Zealand's Refugee Quota Prog... |
Q6829301 Michael Cleary (born 16 August 1966) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Nenagh Éire Óg and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1980s and 1990s. |
Q7738441 The Guards Themselves is an album by New Zealand band, Minuit, that was supposed to be released during early 2005. However, during the production of "The Guards Themselves", lead singer Ruth Carr's left vocal cord was paralysed which delayed the production, and therefore, release of this album to 2006. Accordi... |
Q2901143 Har Hotzvim (Hebrew: הר חוצבים, lit. Stonecutter's Mountain), also Campus of Science-Rich Industries (קריית תעשיות עתירות מדע, Kiryat Ta'asiyot Atirot Mada) is a high-tech industrial park located in northwest Jerusalem. It is the city's main zone for science-based and technology companies, among them Intel, T... |
Q2989721 A stackable switch is a network switch that is fully functional operating standalone but which can also be set up to operate together with one or more other network switches, with this group of switches showing the characteristics of a single switch but having the port capacity of the sum of the combined switc... |
Q5311051 Duboce and Church (Church and Duboce for the J Church line) is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro J Church and N Judah lines, located in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Just east of the station, the two lines enter the Market Street Subway. The station originally opened with the... |
Q1706307 John H. Boyd is an American actor.He is best known for starring as Arlo Glass in the eighth and final season of the Fox espionage thriller 24 in 2010. He also co-starred in the Academy Award-winning political thriller Argo (2012) and starred from 2014 to 2017 as FBI Special Agent James Aubrey on the Fox crime ... |
Q1943596 Paratorna is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae. |
Q5925105 Huai Sai (Thai: ห้วยทราย) is a tambon (subdistrict) of San Kamphaeng District, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. In 2005 it had a total population of 6,217 people. The tambon contains 8 villages. |
Q6782617 Lacuna turneri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles. |
Q42797485 Prof Hugh Nicol FRSE FRIC FCS (1898-1972) was a British bacteriologist and agricultural chemist. |
Q188538 The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. A censored version was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death. The manuscript was not published as a book u... |
Q3522572 Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga (Sinhala: අර්ජුන රණතුංග; born 1 December 1963) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and 1996 Cricket World Cup winning captain for Sri Lanka. Often nicknamed as Captain Cool, he is regarded as the pioneer to lift Sri Lankan cricket from underdog status to one of great forces in cricket... |
Q1278401 Eat 'Em and Smile is the debut full-length solo album by original Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth, released on July 7, 1986. |
Q836086 A private currency is a currency issued by a private entity, be it an individual, a commercial business, a nonprofit or decentralized common enterprise. It is often contrasted with fiat currency issued by governments or central banks. In many countries, the issuance of private paper currencies and/or the mintin... |
Q2374295 Alexander Vladimirovich Zaporozhets (Russian: Александр Владимирович Запорожец, IPA: [zəpɐˈroʐɨt͡s]; 1905-1981) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and a student of Lev Vygotsky and Alexei Leontiev.Zaporozhets studied the psychological mechanisms of voluntary movements, perception and action, as well as th... |
Q303569 The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of the different points (the "attack vectors") where an unauthorized user (the "attacker") can try to enter data to or extract data from an environment. Keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a basic security measure. |
Q5165302 The Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR) is a component of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) that provides airspace surveillance and control and directs air sovereignty activities for the continental United States (CONUS).Since September 11, 2001, CONR has been the lead agency for Operation ... |
Q5193941 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, also known as the Peoria Musicians Club, is the oldest standing church building in Peoria, Illinois, United States. The church was constructed in 1856 as the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It was used by various churches and a synagogue until 1913, when it was bought... |
Q4671005 Vachellia schaffneri (twisted acacia or Schaffner's acacia) is a tree native to Mexico and the United States (Texas). |
Q5099322 "Chime" is the first single from the British electronic group Orbital.It was originally recorded on tape and allegedly cost less than £1 to produce. The track was originally released in December 1989 and was a big underground success. In 1990, it had a wider release on FFRR Records, and reached number 17 on th... |
Q2532015 Irthington is a village and civil parish within the City of Carlisle district in Cumbria, England, situated to the north-east of Carlisle Lake District Airport. The population in 2011 was 860 according to the 2011 census. |
Q6009159 "In Color" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Jamey Johnson. It is the first single from his second album, That Lonesome Song, which was initially released to digital retailers in 2007, and was released on August 5, 2008, on Mercury Nashville Records. Johnson co-wrote the song ... |
Q523307 Arnold Jeannesson (born 15 January 1986 in Challans) is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Arkéa–Samsic. He previously specialised in cyclo-cross and mountain biking. Jeannesson wore the white jersey of the highest placed rider under the age of 26 for two days in the ... |
Q313257 Bjelland Point (54°6′S 36°44′W) is a headland on the north coast of South Georgia, immediately south of Second Milestone and 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) east-northeast of Robertson Point. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sig... |
Q7997170 Who Can Know It? is the ninth studio album by American rock band Showbread. The album was released on November 16, 2010 through non-profit record label Come&Live!. Who Can Know It? was produced by Sylvia Massy, who had previously produced Showbread's albums No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical, Age of Reptiles an... |
Q99260 Werner Neumann (21 January 1905, Königstein – 24 April 1991, Leipzig) was a German musicologist. He founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig on 20 November 1950 and was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. |
Q1131862 Adrian Gouffier de Boissy (died 1523) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. |
Q5843624 Sanguni (Persian: سنگوني, also Romanized as Sangūnī) is a village in Mazul Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 219, in 59 families. |
Q22019192 Brown Olson (March 31, 1850 – March 8, 1897) was an American farmer and politician.Born in the town of Christiana, Vernon County, Wisconsin, Olson was the first white child to be born in the town. Olson was a farmer. He served as chairman of the Christiana Town Board and was a Republican. In 1891, Olson serve... |
Q28147477 Roberto Bautista Agut was the defending champion, but withdrew due to a stomach virus.Jack Sock won the title, defeating João Sousa in the final, 6–3, 5–7, 6–3. |
Q15733239 Body image is a person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. It involves how a person sees themselves, compared to the standards that have been set by society. The Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst Paul Schilder coined the phrase body-image in his book The Image and A... |
Q1541373 Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock for protection, in which a rope that is attached to the climber is clipped into the anchors to arrest a fall. This is in contrast to traditional climbing where climbers must place removable protection as they climb. Sp... |
Q5370421 Emerald City was a science fiction fanzine published in print and on the internet by Cheryl Morgan. She had assistance from Kevin Standlee and Anne Murphy. The magazine published 134 regular issues and 6 special issues between September 1995 and October/November 2006. Emerald City received several Hugo Award ... |
Q7894543 University Center Rochester (UCR) was a higher education facility in Rochester, Minnesota. It was part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. |
Q498935 The anterior cerebral artery (ACA) is one of a pair of arteries on the brain that supplies oxygenated blood to most midline portions of the frontal lobes and superior medial parietal lobes. The two anterior cerebral arteries arise from the internal carotid artery and are part of the circle of Willis. The left a... |
Q5707340 Hellenion (Greek: Ἑλλήνιον) has been used to refer to:Hellenion (Naucratis), an Ancient Greek sanctuary in Naucratis of Egypt (founded in the 6th century BC)Hellenion (Sparta), a temple of Zeus Sellanios in SpartaHellenion (Cairo), a short-lived association founded in early 1900s by the Greek community of Egyp... |
Q1943214 The Horse Latitudes is an EP by the emo band The Promise Ring. It was released in 1997 on Jade Tree Records. The album was released between their debut album 30° Everywhere and their hit record Nothing Feels Good. |
Q2607713 Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents.The film was written by Viña Delmar, from a play by Helen... |
Q5535860 George's Cove Labrador, is located on the north shore of Granby Island. The first postmaster was Berton Henry Penney. |
Q2489833 Calvin "Cal" Bruton (born 29 September 1954) is a former player and coach in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). Originally an American import, but in 1983 becoming a naturalised Australian, Bruton has been an integral part of the league since its inception. As a result, Bruton became one of the f... |
Q1979845 The cast of the television series MythBusters performs experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show, as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). |
Q7884320 Unfamiliar Faces is the second studio album by Matt Costa, released in January 22, 2008. In the spring of 2007, Costa teamed up with long-time friend/producer Tom Dumont (No Doubt guitarist) and recorded twelve songs for the album. |
Q6430291 Konstantów [kɔnsˈtantuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dzwola, within Janów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Dzwola, 11 km (7 mi) east of Janów Lubelski, and 63 km (39 mi) south of the regional capital Lublin. |
Q1913617 Ypsolopha ustella, the variable ypsolopha moth, is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae. It is found in most of Europe and is also present in North America.The wingspan is 15–20 mm. It is a variable species with numerous colour forms. Adults are on wing from mid-July to April in western Europe, but can be on wing... |
Q5344248 Edward Martin Blessman (29 December 1907 – 4 February 1942) was a naval aviator in the United States Navy during World War II.Blessman was born in Nott, North Dakota. He was appointed midshipman from the 9th District of Wisconsin on 21 June 1927 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy on 4 June 1931. Service... |
Q7372626 Roy Anderson Butler, Sr. (March 31, 1926 – November 13, 2009), was an American politician and businessman who served as the mayor of the capital city of Austin, Texas, from 1971 until 1975.Butler was the first Austin mayor directly elected by city voters. Prior to his 1971 election, Austin mayors had been app... |
Q4833300 Meşeli, Çubuk is a village in the District of Çubuk, Ankara Province, Turkey. |
Q20641259 Vincent Omumbo (born 2 February 1990) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. |
Q16735594 X21 (次世代ユニットX21, Jisedai Yunitto Ekkusu Nijūichi) was a Japanese girl idol group. It was formed in 2013 of 21 finalists (with the average age of 14 years) of the 13th Japan Bishōjo Contest and is affiliated to the entertainment company Oscar Promotion. |
Q20988479 This is a list of Turkish European Film Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Turkish actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, a European Film Award. |
Q3488949 The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Pub.L. 74–461, enacted February 29, 1936) is a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion. |
Q6245218 John Longmire (born 31 December 1970) is the current coach of the Sydney Swans. As a player, he represented the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1988 to 1999. |
Q5303025 Down to Earth is a BBC One television series first broadcast in 2000 about a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm. The early episodes of the series were based on a series of books written by Faith Addis about their real-life move from London to Devon.The music in the series was composed by Sheridan Tong... |
Q4789725 The Argova River is a tributary of the Mostiştea River in Romania. |
Q1264466 The little ground tyrant (Muscisaxicola fluviatilis) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.It is found in Amazonian Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia; also smaller regions of Colombia and Ecuador.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and rivers. |
Q2448954 Vladimir Aleksandrov (born February 7, 1958) is a Soviet bobsledder who competed in the early 1980s. He won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. |
Q2602839 MMN80CPU is a Z80A microprocessor clone, working at 3.5 MHz. It was produced during the 1980s at Microelectronica Bucharest for Romanian 8 bit computers such as HC, CIP, JET, TIM-S, CoBra and others. |
Q7086744 Olha Ivankova (born 7 January 1973) is a Ukrainian javelin thrower. Her personal best throw is 61.68 metres (202 ft 4 in), achieved in the qualifying round of the 2007 World Championships, August 2007 in Osaka. She finished tenth at the 2007 World Championships. She also competed at the 2005 World Championshi... |
Q6983675 Andella Ibrahim (born May 2, 1985 in Lokoja, Kogi State) is a Nigerian footballer. |
Q5387446 David Eric "Eric" Schansberg (born March 19, 1965) is a professor of economics at Indiana University Southeast, an author, and a two-time Libertarian candidate for Indiana's 9th Congressional District. |
Q4001111 Former Toto band member, Joseph Williams, recorded a compilation of cover love songs in 2006 entitled Two of Us. The album covers songs from renowned artists including Elton John, Bryan Adams, Diane Warren, Van Morrison and Kevin Cronin. Williams is accompanied by Jim Cox on the piano. |
Q5540519 George Herbert Barlow (January 4, 1921 – March 4, 1979) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. |
Q4789776 Argus "Then Again" Live is a live album by rock band Wishbone Ash. |
Q4803925 Asclepiodotus (Greek: Ἀσκληπιόδοτος) of Lesbos was an ally of Mithridates VI of Pontus during the First Mithridatic War of 90-85 BC. He was close to Mithridates, and had once entertained him as a guest. In the later stages of the war, c. 85 BC, he joined with three other intimates of the king, Cleisthenes of L... |
Q92361 Ottmar Ette (born 14 December 1956 in Zell am Harmersbach, Black Forest, Germany) is Professor of Romance languages and Comparative literature at the University of Potsdam. |
Q21592283 Maggie Campbell-Culver is a garden and plant historian, and a Fellow of The Linnaean Society of London. She has worked on a number of gardens in Sussex and Cornwall, and was the Garden Conservationist at Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester. |
Q756259 Azevka River is in Russia and the Agryzsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Izh River in the basin of the Kama River. |
Q16324207 A War of Our Own is the fourth and final studio album by the Dutch progressive metal band Stream of Passion. Stream of Passion produced the album after leaving Napalm Records, financing it through crowdfunding website Indiegogo, and was their only album with the same line-up than its predecessor. |
Q21597822 Donald James Davis (March 12, 1929 – August 30, 2007) was bishop of Erie in The Episcopal Church. |
Q28405634 Peter Hetherington is a British journalist. He writes regularly for The Guardian on land, communities, and regeneration. He is also a Vice President of the Town and Country Planning Association, and the author of the 2015 book, Whose Land is Our Land? The use and abuse of Britain's forgotten acres. |
Q2045683 Savage is a suburban city 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Scott County in the State of Minnesota. The city is situated on the south bank of the Minnesota River in a region commonly referred to as South of the River, comprising the southern portion of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the sixte... |
Q839070 Interstate 794 (abbreviated I-794; also known as East–West Freeway, Lake Parkway, and Lake Freeway) is a 3.50-mile (5.63 km) Interstate Highway spur route in Milwaukee County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is one of two auxiliary Interstates in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and serves the lakefront, the ... |
Q2988788 Rajput painting, also called Rajasthani painting, evolved and flourished in the royal courts of Rajputana in India. Each Rajputana kingdom evolved a distinct style, but with certain common features. Rajput paintings depict a number of themes, events of epics like the Ramayana. Miniatures in manuscripts or si... |
Q9049401 Neoguillauminia is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1938. It contains only one known species, Neoguillauminia cleopatra, endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relative is Calycopeplus from Australia. |
Q2601873 Pim weights were polished stones about 15 mm (5/8 inch) diameter, equal to about two-thirds of a Hebrew shekel. Many specimens have been found since their initial discovery early in the 20th century, and each one weighs about 7.6 grams, compared to 11.5 grams of a shekel. Its name, which can also be translit... |
Q4978079 Bruce Nissen (born January 20, 1948) is a professor of labor studies and director of research at the Center for Labor Research and Studies (CLRS) at Florida International University (FIU). He also formerly directed that university's Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP). |
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