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Q6300173 Juan José Trillo (born April 17, 1909, date of death unknown) was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Buenos Aires. In 1928 he was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Cuthbert Taylor of Great Bri... |
Q2422387 Forest Bull, also Ethiopian Bull and Ethiopian Forest Bull, is an animal from Medieval bestiaries. According to Pliny the Elder, they were a breed of ferocious, red cattle, twice as large as normal cattle, from Ethiopia. Their hides were believed to be able to withstand any weapon. Like the Yale, their horns... |
Q5057894 Celestial Empire was a long-lived medium clipper ship built in 1852 for the San Francisco trade. She met with a variety of mishaps characteristic for ships of her era. A second ship by this name set a legal precedent regarding damage done by sailing ships coming in to dock. |
Q1639715 The Pentax K-r is a 12.4-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced on September 9, 2010, and replaced the K-x in Pentax' line-up, with which it shares many features. The K-r is available in three body colors (black, white and red) in North America, with other colors available only in the Japanese ... |
Q16230595 Sir Christopher Garneys or Garnysse (died 1534), was the chief porter of Calais, and a gentleman usher of the king's chamber in the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII. He was the king's companion in the masquerades then popular at court, and won money at cards from his royal master. He was rewarded by an an... |
Q5276771 Dilham Castle, also called Dilham Hall, is situated in the village of Dilham, near Stalham in Norfolk, England. |
Q4747057 Amlaq Qatih or Amlaq el Qatih is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture that is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) northwest of Baaloul, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Qaraoun, Lebanon.The site was discovered and collections made by Henri Fleisch and Maurice Tallon in 1955. Materials recov... |
Q4881553 Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya, also known as Itachuna College, is the only college in Itachuna. Established in 1950, it is located in the district of Hooghly, West Bengal, India. It was affiliated with Calcutta University from 1950 to 1957, but has been affiliated with the University of Burdwan since then. The c... |
Q4916244 Birger Tvedt (1 February 1910 – 1 May 2002) was a Norwegian sports medical and physiotherapist also known as the "Biggen". He was the son of a deacon Sigvard Andreas Tvedt (1876–1965) and Martha Carens Kruse (1882-1966) and married to physical therapist Inger Torgersen (b. 1924). He was nephew to the pastor Ju... |
Q2792158 Zincirli Madrasa (Ukrainian: Зинджирли-медресе; Медресе Ланцюгів, Crimean Tatar: Zıncırlı medrese) is a madrasa, built of stone by Meñli I Giray in 1500 near Bakhchisarai, Crimea. |
Q18353014 The women's javelin throw event at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics was held on August 13 on Stade de Marrakech. |
Q19757553 The women's individual épée competition at the 2014 Asian Games in Goyang was held on 22 September at the Goyang Gymnasium. |
Q28124114 Kambui Olujimi (born 1976) is a New York-based visual artist working across disciplines using installation, photography, performance, tapestry, works on paper, video, large sculptures and painting. His artwork reflects on public discourse, mythology, historical narrative, social practices, exchange, mediated ... |
Q2892325 Bajramovci (Macedonian: Бајрамовци) is a village in the municipality of Centar Župa, Republic of Macedonia. Bajramovci was once a former neighbourhood of the village of Balanci and in 1965 elevated to the status of an independent village. The population density of the village is 6.4 km2. |
Q3451723 Beaver Cove is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The population was 122 at the 2010 census. |
Q7150104 Vice Admiral Paul David Stroop (30 October 1904 – 17 May 1995) was an officer of the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. He held numerous high-ranking staff positions in aviation from the 1930s onward, including World War II service on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. During the late 1940s and ... |
Q7284791 "Raindrops" is a dance music song released in 2006, the first international hit by the relatively new production team Stunt. Produced in Canada by Dave Valler and Gary Johnson, it reached number 8 in Finland. At least six different mixes have been released.[2] Lyrically, "Raindrops" compares the feeling of "ra... |
Q912017 Djamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset. |
Q5079717 Charles Halliley Kellaway, (16 January 1889 – 13 December 1952) was an Australian medical researcher and science administrator. |
Q2140181 Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he had also bee... |
Q5499893 "Free Joe and the Rest of the World" is a short story by Joel Chandler Harris. It was published in The Century Magazine in 1884. |
Q3438410 Hans Erik Dittmar (November 14, 1902 – June 20, 1967) was a Finnish sailor and olympic medalist.He was born and died in Helsinki.Dittmar competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in the monotype class.In 1952 he was the helmsman of the Finnish boat Teresita which finished ... |
Q5208952 Dahrav may refer to:Dəhrəv, AzerbaijanDəhrəz, Azerbaijan |
Q4784018 Aramichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch. |
Q6000422 Illupaividuthy is a village in the Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. |
Q8042795 X v Canada (Commissioner of Patents) is a decision by the Federal Court of Appeal concerning the utility requirement for patenting an invention in Canada. |
Q4747605 "Amor Mío, ¿Qué Me Has Hecho?" (means "My Love, What Have You Done with Me?") is a song released by Spanish singer-songwriter Camilo Sesto as the first single from his studio album A Voluntad del Cielo (1991). The song was written and produced by Sesto with additional production by Augusto César and became Ses... |
Q16835858 Austropyrgus tumidus is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to western Victoria, Australia. It is known from a few small springs and streams that flow into the lower part of the Glenelg River. |
Q17113300 A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on November 28, 1947. |
Q16762194 Jang Baek-Gyu (Korean: 장백규; born 9 October 1991) is a South Korean footballer who plays as forward for Chungju Hummel in K League Challenge. |
Q13470463 Clivina mustela is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Andrewes in 1923. |
Q3038142 Dunje is a village in Municipality of Prilep, Republic of Macedonia. During the ancient times it was the settlement Dostoneoi (Greek: Δοστινίκα). |
Q27965056 Detroit is a 2017 American period crime drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot, the film's release commemorated the 50th anniversary of the event. The film stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob L... |
Q30820163 Cecilia Dean is an American former fashion model and entrepreneur who was a co-founder of Visionaire, a multi-media art and fashion company. |
Q7331340 Rick Elwood DeMulling (born July 21, 1977 in Cheney, Washington) is a former American football guard who played in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Idaho. DeMulling currently lives in Indi... |
Q3126359 Hambrook is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, situated on the north-eastern outskirts of the city of Bristol. It lies between the larger communities of Winterbourne and Frenchay and is part of the Civil Parish of Winterbourne.A small settlement was recorded at Hambrook in the Domesday Book.Today, Ha... |
Q934587 Mark Anthony Jones (born 7 November 1979 in Builth Wells, Powys) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer who played on the wing for the Scarlets and Wales. Since making his international debut for Wales, he won 47 caps and scored 13 tries.Jones began his domestic career at Builth Wells Youth before joining the... |
Q7586979 St. Ann's Well Gardens is a park in Hove, East Sussex, about half a mile from the shore. The park is renowned for its chalybeate (iron bearing) spring, which is now named St. Ann's Well.In this case, the name "St. Ann" does not refer to any saint. Instead, the name was apparently based on a myth of Annafrieda,... |
Q4932670 Bob Hamley is the former head coach of the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League. He is also a former head coach and General Manager of the Edmonton Rush, and a former NLL player.Hamley played four seasons with the Buffalo Bandits, winning two Championships. Following his playing career, he became h... |
Q96923 Volker Kriegel (24 December 1943 – 15 June 2003) was a German jazz guitarist and founding member of the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble. |
Q7830347 Toxbot is a computer worm that was primarily active in 2005. On infected computers, it opened up a backdoor to allow command and control over the IRC network, thus creating a botnet that at its peak comprised about 1.5 million computers. The two makers of the botnet were arrested in October 2005 and received j... |
Q4556525 The 1891 Chicago Colts season was the 20th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 16th in the National League and the 1st at South Side Park. The Colts finished second in the National League with a record of 82–53. |
Q5496709 Freddie Ove Eriksson (born 23 April 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish motorcycle speedway rider who became the Swedish Under-21 Speedway Champion in 2002. |
Q1875808 Arsen Julfalakyan (Armenian: Արսեն Ջուլֆալակյան, born 8 May 1987) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic silver medalist, World and European Champion, and three-time Olympian. |
Q4591923 The 1996–97 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 27th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, an inter-county knockout competition for Ireland's top championship clubs representing each county. The championship was won by Athenry of Galway, who beat Wolfe Tones of Clare by... |
Q8039273 The Wunü Peaks National Forest Park (Chinese: 五女峰国家森林公园; pinyin: Wǔnǚfēng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōng yuán; literally: 'Five Women Peaks National Forest Park') is a protected forest area under the administration of Tonghua City and to the north of Ji'an in Jilin Province, China. The park extends over an area of 6867 he... |
Q7605764 Steel v Houghton (1788) 1 H Bl 51; 126 ER 32 is a landmark judgment in English law by the House of Lords that is considered to mark the modern legal understanding of private property rights. Ostensibly the matter found that no person has a right at common law to glean the harvest of a private field, but the ju... |
Q4620190 The 2011 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the seventeenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Yeedzin, their third title and second in a row. The league was played as a single round-robin series of matches in anticipation of the commencement of a full National League, ... |
Q19875513 Robert John Barber (born 14 January 1945) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A utility forward, Barber represented North Otago, Canterbury and Southland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1974 tour of Australia and Fiji. He played six ma... |
Q24930979 Tulsi Ram Maheshwari Public School, Modinagar (or T.R.M. Public School, Modinagar) (Hindi: तुलसी राम माहेश्वरी पब्लिक स्कूल, मोदीनगर) is a school in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded by Seth Anand Swaroop in 1975.T.R.M. Public School, Modinagar has affiliation with the Central Board of Secondar... |
Q22336796 Nicholas Cristesham (died c. 1403), of Wells, Somerset, was an English politician. |
Q23073753 Robin L. Titus (born (1954-02-21)February 21, 1954) is an American physician and politician. She serves as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly. |
Q23302579 The Arizona Wildcats women's basketball team is the official Varsity women's basketball team at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Basketball is one of eleven women's sports at the University of Arizona. The team is a Division I member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the ... |
Q7396821 Eucorethra is a monotypic genus of phantom midges (flies in the family Chaoboridae). The sole species is Eucorethra underwoodi Underwood, 1903. |
Q10487 Freyung-Grafenau is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Passau, Deggendorf and Regen, the Czech Republic and by Austria. |
Q503077 Severn Trent plc is a water company based in the United Kingdom that is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Severn Trent, the trading name owned by the company, applies to a group of companies employing more than 15,000 people across the United Kingdom, United States ... |
Q6229523 John Dixon Long (September 26, 1817 – 1894) was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist. His 1857 book, Pictures of Slavery in Church and State, was influential in abolitionist circles.Long was born in New Town, Maryland to John W. Long, a slaveholder and former sea-captain... |
Q6693153 Lowell is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, United States, located near the intersection of County Road 329 and County Road 25A. The community is part of the Ocala Metropolitan Statistical Area.The United States Postal Service operates the Lowell Post Office. The Lowell post office has bee... |
Q428220 Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral)... |
Q569812 Veldenz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the former main seat of the County of Veldenz, once a prominent principality to which belonged 120 villages and towns now i... |
Q7842224 Trimethyltin chloride is an organotin compound with the formula (CH3)3SnCl. It is a white solid that is highly toxic and malodorous. It is susceptible to hydrolysis. |
Q7695430 Teklin [ˈtɛklin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzczonów, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Krzczonów and 31 km (19 mi) south of the regional capital Lublin. |
Q5621246 Kulesze-Podawce [kuˈlɛʂɛ pɔˈdaft͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kulesze Kościelne, within Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. |
Q7915031 Vaniyakarambai is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. |
Q2154190 Victory is the fourth studio album by DJ Khaled. It was released on March 2, 2010, under his We the Best Music Group imprint of E1 Records. |
Q4613016 The 2008-09 WCHA hockey season was the tenth season of WCHA women's play. Since its inception, WCHA teams have won the national championship every season. The defending NCAA champions were the WCHA's Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. |
Q6963447 Nanga Parbat Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after the Indian mountain Nanga Parbat, located in the Himalayas. Collie had climbed on Nanga Parbat in 1895. |
Q26261508 Lykoshino (Russian: Лыкошино) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:Lykoshino (settlement), Bologovsky District, Tver Oblast, a settlement in Bologovsky District of Tver OblastLykoshino (village), Bologovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Bologovsky District of Tver OblastLykoshino, Lesnoy Di... |
Q4250968 Raden Ahmad Soebardjo Djojoadisoerjo (Karawang Regency, West Java, 23 March 1896 – 15 December 1978) was a diplomat, one of Indonesia's founding fathers, and an Indonesian national hero. He was the first Foreign Minister of Indonesia. In 1933, he received the degree Meester in de Rechten from Leiden University... |
Q7316503 Resurrection is the 2002 compilation album from English progressive rock band Atomic Rooster. The album comes as a three-disc set, which features songs from Atomic Roooster (1970), Death Walks Behind You (1970) and In Hearing of Atomic Rooster (1971). |
Q5796472 Astaneh (Persian: استانه, also Romanized as Āstāneh; also known as Dar Āstāneh) is a village in Saghder Rural District, Jebalbarez District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 13, in 4 families. |
Q15614947 Hong Kong 2020 is a political group launched on 24 April 2013 by Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary for Administration to provide a platform for soliciting views towards consensus on the constitutional changes to achieve full universal suffrage for election of the Chief Executive in 2017 and all members of th... |
Q10505785 Glomeremus is a cricket genus in the subfamily Gryllacridinae. |
Q43379395 Filippo Franchi (born 14 January 1998) is an Italian football player. He plays for Matelica. |
Q65839 Gallenkirch is a former municipality in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Gallenkirch, Linn, Oberbözberg and Unterbözberg merged to form the new municipality of Bözberg. |
Q846326 Vakil Bazaar (Persian: بازار وکیل) is the main bazaar of Shiraz, Iran, located in the historical center of the city.It is thought that the market originally was established by the Buwayhids in the 11th century AD, and was completed mainly by the Atabaks of Fars, and was renamed after Karim Khan Zand only in th... |
Q3169410 Jean-Pierre Hubert (May 25, 1941 in Strasbourg – May 1, 2006 in Wissembourg) was a science fiction and detective fiction author. He won the Prix Rosny-Aîné several times and has been reviewed by Locus (magazine). |
Q715074 Hwachae (화채; 花菜) is a general term for traditional Korean punches, made with various fruits or edible flower petals. The fruits and flowers are soaked in honied water or honied magnolia berry juice. In modern South Korea, carbonated drinks and/or fruit juices are also commonly added to hwachae. Hwachae is often... |
Q7261596 Pursurah (also spelled Pursura) is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Arambag subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. |
Q5430633 Fairmount Bagel is a Montreal-style bagel bakery in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the Mile End neighbourhood of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. The first location was opened in 1919 opened on Saint-Laurent Boulevard by Isadore Shlafman. The current location, on 74 Fairmount Avenue West was opened in 1949. Fairmo... |
Q6920664 Mount Erek (Armenian: Վարագա լեռ, Varaga leř) is a mountain overlooking the city of Van in eastern Turkey.The ruined prominent Armenian monastery of Varagavank ("monastery of Varag") is located at the foot of the mountain |
Q4958424 Bravig Imbs was an American novelist and poet as well as a broadcaster and newspaperman. |
Q5449513 FinalRune Productions is an independent audio drama production company based in Alfred, Maine. Their award-winning productions were featured in the Wall Street Journal on February 25, 2010. |
Q7128893 The Palace of the Carrancas (Portuguese: Palácio das Carrancas/Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis) is a former-residence in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto. It houses the Soares dos Reis National Museum. |
Q7056894 North Suicide Peak is a 5,065 feet (1,544 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska, located in Chugach State Park. |
Q2913911 Elena Meissner also called Elena Buznea-Meissner, (born Elena Buznea; 1867–1940) was a Romanian feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Romanian women's movement organisation Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române (1918) and its president in 1919. |
Q6360588 This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast on Televisión Española in Spain. |
Q21190626 Golden Lotus Awards are awarded at the Macau International Movie Festival and Macau International Television Festival. The awards are given annually and first awarded in 2009. The awards are given out by Macau Film and Television Media Association and China International Cultural Communication Center. |
Q26318561 The Drinking Fountain is a Grade II-listed monument at Roehampton Lane, Roehampton, London SW15.It was built in 1882, and designed by J. C. Radford. |
Q28933404 The 2017 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker tournament that is taking place from 8 March to 12 March 2017 in Nicosia, Cyprus. It is the 21st edition of the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and also doubles as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour. |
Q42393096 The 2017 Shenzhen Longhua Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first (men) and second (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Shenzhen, China between 30 October and 12 November 2... |
Q3510997 Jošavica is a village in central Croatia, in the municipality/town of Petrinja, Sisak-Moslavina County. It is connected by the D30 highway. |
Q21356468 Archaeterphis is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene, though the locality is unknown (possibly Russia). It contains only one species, Archaeterphis hennigi.The generic name is a combination of the Greek word Arche (beginning) and Terp... |
Q38776712 Henri Baumann (born 15 August 1927) was a Swiss basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. |
Q204151 Woodbridge Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 99,585, reflecting an increase of 2,382 (+2.5%) from the 97,203 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 4,117 (+4.4%) from the 93,086 c... |
Q6651771 The Little Rock and Western Railway (reporting mark LRWN) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Perry, Arkansas, and owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc..LRWN operates over a 79 miles (127 km) line from Danville, Arkansas to Pulaski, Arkansas, then over 3 miles (4.8 km) of Union Pacific Railroad (UP) ... |
Q5378272 England Golf is the governing body for male and female amateur golf in England. It represents over 1,900 golf clubs with over 740,000 members and is affiliated to The R&A, the joint global governing body of golf. It was formed in 2012 as a merger between the English Golf Union, the governing body for men, and ... |
Q2276991 The Man from St. Petersburg is a thriller novel written by Ken Follett and published in 1982. |
Q1664764 The Toyota All-Star Showdown was a nonpoints, all-star race that brought together the top drivers in NASCAR's lower-level series.It was inaugurated in 2003, and all six events so far have been held at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale in suburban Los Angeles. Historically held in October or November, NASCAR moved... |
Q3280831 The Seibel S-4 was a two-bladed, single-engine helicopter built by Seibel Helicopter. Designed by Charles Seibel, the S-4 was evaluated by the United States Army under the designation YH-24 Sky Hawk, but would be rejected for service. The S-4B would serve as the basis for the design of the Cessna CH-1 Skyhook... |
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