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Q7688180 Tatla Lake is a small unincorporated community in the west Chilcotin area of British Columbia, Canada, located at the west end of its eponymous lake. Situated 220 km west of Williams Lake along Highway 20 (Chilcotin Highway), Tatla Lake's 123 people live approximately halfway between the two ends of the highw...
Q5578137 Kjetil Bjørlo (born 27 March 1968) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor, individual bronze medalist in the classic course at the 1997 World Orienteering Championships in Grimstad.He received a bronze medal in the relay event in 1997, together with Håvard Tveite, Bjørnar Valstad and Petter Thoresen.
Q7093436 One X One is an album by the Japanese R&B duo Chemistry, released on February 18, 2004, by Sony Music Japan.
Q3292067 Tancrède Dumas (1830–1905) was a photographer born in Italy who was active in the Near East. He learned photography in Florence and opened a studio in Beirut in 1860. He was active during the period 1860-1890 and worked in albumen prints.
Q7728877 Danish Union of Journalists (Dansk Journalistforbund, DJ) is a Danish trade union for journalists, graphic designers, communication officers, photographers, media technicians, etc., which was founded on 1 January 1961. Members are both permanent employees and freelancers. The President is Lars Werge Andersen; ...
Q4678077 Ad. Dili Oeste or Associação Desportiva Dili Oeste is a football club of East Timor. The team plays in the Taça Digicel.
Q5190252 In molecular biology, the crustacean neurohormone family of proteins is a family of neuropeptides expressed by arthropods. The family includes the following types of neurohormones:Crustacean hyperglycaemic hormone (CHH). CHH is primarily involved in blood sugar regulation, but also plays a role in the control ...
Q15793522 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Articles, at the forefront of the discipline, range across the full spectrum of anthropology, embracing ...
Q5713358 Kazemabad (Persian: كاظم اباد‎, also Romanized as Kāz̧emābād) is a village in Sirch Rural District, Shahdad District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 85, in 20 families.
Q15108106 Provincial Road 361 is a very short provincial road in Manitoba, Canada.Provincial Road 361 starts at PTH 5 and PTH 50 in McCreary and terminates at the east boundary of Riding Mountain National Park, where it continues as an unmarked road. PR 361 provides access to the Mt. Aggasiz Ski Area, which is the larg...
Q18385824 Paalattu Kunjikannan is a 1980 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed and produced by Boban Kunchacko. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Jayan and Jagathy Sreekumar. The film has musical score by G. Devarajan.
Q16303361 Gerson Marín (born 25 February 1989) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Potros UAEM of Ascenso MX.
Q1379095 Beba is a white Spanish grape variety grown for both wine and table grapes in the province of Extremadura. It is a vigorous, high-yielding vine that is sensitive to low temperatures and dampness during bloom. Annual productivity varies greatly depending on prevailing weather influences. It is grown for both wi...
Q1221589 Minchinhampton is an ancient market town on a hilltop, 4 miles (6.4 km) south south-east of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, in the Cotswolds. The Common offers outstanding views to the east and the west.
Q3940529 Roman Vladimirovich Balashov (Russian: Роман Владимирович Балашов; born February 9, 1977 in Moscow) is a Russian water polo player who played on the silver medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Q5228218 David B. Albo (born April 18, 1962) is a retired Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. He represented the 42nd district of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1994 till 2018.
Q5615792 The Guildford Arts Book Prize has been awarded annually for the best first novel by an author living anywhere in the UK, and announced at the Guildford Book Festival. Between 1998 and 2005 it was sponsored by Pendleton May and known as the Pendleton May First Novel Award, in 2006 by Goss & Co., and in 2007 by ...
Q7555247 Sokolniki [sɔkɔlˈɲikʲi] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
Q6103406 Iłownica [iwɔvˈnit͡sa] (German: Illownitz) is a village in Gmina Jasienica, Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has a population of 1,018 (2016). It lies on the Iłownica River, right tributary of the Vistula, in the Upper Vistula Valley of Oświęcim Basin, in the historical region of Ciesz...
Q5036873 Captain Zed and the Zee Zone is a short-lived British-American television series, airing on CITV in the United Kingdom. When children go to sleep it is Captain Zed's and his Partner PJ job to prevent children from having nightmares in the dreamzone. The 26-episode series was animated by the Collingwood O'Hare ...
Q7347896 Robert Cook Murray (18 February 1870 – 28 April 1948) was a Scottish sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he won the gold medal with the British team in the team 50 metre small-bore rifle competition. In the 25 metre small-bore rifle event he finished fifth and in the 50 metre rifle, ...
Q6829019 Michael C. Ford (born December 13, 1939) is an American poet, playwright, editor and recording artist.
Q2966313 A railway or railroad is a track where the vehicle travels over two parallel steel bars, called rails. The rails support and guide the wheels of the vehicles, which are traditionally either trains or trams. Modern light rail is a relatively new innovation which combines aspects of those two modes of transpor...
Q4670223 Abu Ibrahim is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Katsina South (Funtua) Senatorial district in April 2003 on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform, serving for one term until May 2007.He was re-elected to the same seat in April 2011.Ibrahim previously worked in the federal civil se...
Q6841545 Middle Ridge is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 6 kilometres (4 mi) from the city centre. At the 2016 Australian Census, the suburb recorded a population of 7,141.Middle Ridge was named in the 1860s, as the area between East and West Creeks where the teamsters who camped at Toowoomba tur...
Q12441378 Baadal is a 1985 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Anand SagarEdited by Subhash Sehgal, starring Shammi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Poonam Dhillon, Arun Govil, Bob Christo and Shakti Kapoor.
Q8039882 wykop.pl is a Polish social networking internet service, founded on December 25, 2005. It is modeled after the American website digg.com (wykop in Polish language means dig out). The basic idea behind wykop.pl is the collection of potentially interesting internet-based information and making them available to ...
Q1198390 Donji Lukavac may refer to the following places:Donji Lukavac, GradačacDonji Lukavac, Nevesinje
Q16983951 The Priory and Parish Church of Saint Mary is in Beddgelert. It is a Grade: II* Listed Building, on the site of one of the oldest Christian establishments in Wales. An early Christian community was established there in the 6th century AD which is mentioned by Gerald of Wales. An Augustinian priory was founded...
Q21646152 The Battalion in the Shadows (Spanish: El batallón de las sombras) is a 1957 Spanish drama film directed by Manuel Mur Oti.
Q21979711 Bédouès-Cocurès is a commune in the department of Lozère, southern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Bédouès and Cocurès.
Q2839186 Aloha, le chant des îles is a 1937 French adventure film directed by Léon Mathot.
Q19699918 Al-Jarniyah (Arabic: الجرنية), also written Jurneyyeh, is a town in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. It is the administrative centre of Al-Jarniyah subdistrict in Al-Thawrah District. The population of the town at the 2004 census was 2686.The town and much of the subdistrict are currently controlled by the Syrian De...
Q5371679 Environmental skepticism is the belief that claims by environmentalists, and the environmental scientists who support them, are false or exaggerated. The term is also applied to those who are critical of environmentalism in general. It can additionally be defined as doubt about the authenticity or severity of ...
Q652981 Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions.
Q549005 Nelson Appleton Miles (August 8, 1839 – May 15, 1925) was an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War. From 1895 to 1903, he served as the last Commanding General of the United States Army before the office was abolished.
Q506846 The Siege of Neuss, from 1474–75, was linked to the Cologne Diocesan Feud and part of the Burgundian Wars. The siege, led by Charles the Bold against the Imperial City of Neuss, was unsuccessful. Charles was compelled by the approach of a powerful Imperial army to raise the siege.
Q7602234 Starr Status is the debut album by rapper Kenn Starr, released August 29, 2006 on Halftooth Records. The album features production from Starr's fellow Low Budget Crew members Kev Brown and Oddisee, as well as Illmind, Khrysis and DJ Roddy Rod. Album guests include Talib Kweli, Asheru, Supastition, Median and D...
Q910797 The rufous-throated honeyeater (Conopophila rufogularis) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.It is endemic to northern Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Q846085 Henricosborniidae is a family of extinct notoungulate mammals known from the Late Paleocene to Early Miocene of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. The name honors U.S. paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Q4783497 Arabtec Holding PJSC, together with its subsidiaries, provides construction services for residential, commercial, oil and gas, infrastructure, power, facilities management, and property development sectors in the United Arab Emirates and internationally.It operates through Construction; Mechanical, Electrical ...
Q1958570 Koszyce [kɔˈʂɨt͡sɛ] is a town in Proszowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Koszyce. It lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Proszowice and 47 km (29 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków. The village has a ...
Q16994957 The Institute of Fundraising (IoF) is a registered charity founded in 1983,and is the professional membership body for UK fundraising. The IoF's mission is to support fundraisers through leadership and representation; best practice and compliance; education and networking; and champion and promote fundraising...
Q5583339 Goodell Creek is a tributary of the Skagit River in the U.S. state of Washington.
Q7430701 Scelloides is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, when Daniel J. Bickel and C. E. Dyte designated Scelloides ornatipes as the ...
Q6769639 The discography of Mark Schultz, an American Christian music performer, consists of nine studio albums, 17 singles, and five music videos.Worldwide, Schultz has sold over 1.3 million albums.
Q4920700 Black Duck Cove is an abandoned community in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Q4755537 Andreas Matouschek is a biochemist at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the College of Natural Sciences. His graduate work with Alan Fersht resulted in the seminal application of phi-value analysis to the study of barnase, a bacterial RNAse used in many protein folding studies. Deve...
Q7098311 Opisthosiphon is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.
Q5258283 Dennis Clontz (April 10, 1951 – June 14, 2004) was an American playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 1986. Clontz was part of a team of Los Angeles Times journalists awarded a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporti...
Q15243063 Ludgershall Castle is a ruined 12th-century fortified royal residence at Ludgershall in Wiltshire, England. Three large walls still remain of the castle, which was turned into a hunting lodge by Henry III but fell into disuse by the 15th century. The ruin was listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 1981.
Q4747564 Among the Sleep is a first-person survival horror action-adventure video game developed by Norwegian developer Krillbite Studio for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was released on 29 May 2014 in North America for the PC. The PlayStation 4 version was released on 10 December 2015 ...
Q20814758 Situm is a 1982 Hindi film directed by Aruna Raje and Vikas Desai starring Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Vikram and Asrani among others. The then husband-wife duo worked together in the name of Aruna-Vikas jointly, before Aruna went her separate way.
Q2052952 The Republic of China (Taiwan) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich for the last time as the "Republic of China". The ROC would not return to the Olympics until 1984 and under the name "Chinese Taipei" due to objections by the People's Republic of China over the political status of Taiwan.The PRC, a...
Q655855 Business tourism or business travel is a more limited and focused subset of regular tourism. During business tourism (traveling), individuals are still working and being paid, but are doing so away from both their workplace and home.Some definitions of tourism exclude business travel. However, the World Tourism...
Q2512351 Antar Zerguelaïne (born 4 January 1985 in Jijel, Algeria) is an Algerian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.
Q15461048 William L. Reese (1921 - September 22, 2017) was a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany. He was born in Jefferson City, Missouri.Reese gained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1947. From 1967 to 1999 he was Professor of Philosophy at the State Universi...
Q16860386 Breckenridge is a locational Scottish surname, referring to a person from a place named Breckenridge, and other phonetic spellings, e.g. Breckonridge, Breakenridge, Brackenridge, et al. Such names as the aforementioned are anglicizations of the Scottish place name "Brackenrig". There are several villages in S...
Q8067840 Zbrza [zbʐa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Morawica, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Morawica and 18 km (11 mi) south of the regional capital Kielce.The village has a population of 340.
Q316719 Rory John Delap (born 6 July 1976) is a former footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in England, he made 11 appearances for the Republic of Ireland national team.Delap started his career at Carlisle United and impressed enough to earn a move to Premiership side Derby County in 1998. In 2001, Delap joined ...
Q892150 Bonaventure Patrick Paul OFM† (26 March 1929, Karachi - 18 January 2007) was a former Bishop of Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Q7012379 The Northern Spire Bridge is a bridge over the River Wear in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear. The crossing opened on 28 August 2018. A three-span cable-stayed structure, construction began in May 2015, overseen by Farrans Construction and Victor Buyck Steel Construction.A crossing had been proposed as early as 2005, h...
Q13809434 Makiyamaia gravis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
Q5128297 Classical Movements of Alexandria, Virginia an American concert touring company, specializing in concert and travel arrangements in 145 countries for professional symphonies and choruses as well as conservatory, university, and youth ensembles. Classical Movements produces two choral festivals around the world...
Q10547100 Marek Kysela (born 10 July 1992) is a professional Czech football defender currently playing for FK Baumit Jablonec.
Q17052584 Tell Me Another Morning is an autobiographical novel by Zdena Berger, a survivor of Holocaust camps at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Berger began writing the book in 1955 after coming to North America and in 1961 she published the work through Harper & Brothers. The work went out of print short...
Q15264124 10 Hudson Yards, also known as the South Tower, is an office building that was completed in 2016 in Manhattan's West Side. Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea and the Penn Station area, the building is a part of the Hudson Yards urban renewal project, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Autho...
Q104332 Richard van der Borght (born 18 January 1861 in Potsdam; died 18 April 1926 in Berlin) was a German academic economist and statistician.
Q16248996 Buffalo Boys is a 2013 American drama film inspired by a true story and set in Buffalo, New York. It is about a teen and his best friend who become involved in a plot to murder an old woman, to collect her life insurance as a means to escape their troubled family lives.
Q5784571 Constitución is a ghost station in the Buenos Aires Underground, which was part of Line E until its closure in 1966. It is one of two ghost stations on the line, the other being San José vieja. This was the original terminus of the line when it ended at Constitución railway station and combined with Line C the...
Q22058854 The Valentine Wightman House was a historic house at 1112 Mount Vernon Road in Southington, Connecticut. It was built around 1800 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It has apparently been demolished.
Q38249556 Winburne is an unincorporated community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is 6.2 miles (10.0 km) northeast of Philipsburg. Winburne has a post office with ZIP code 16879.
Q15380102 Agelanthus nyasicus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe.
Q6567205 Most members of the Christian clergy and many lay people have been a preacher to the unconverted. This is an incomplete list of people known for their preaching including their published sermons.
Q1906 Caserta (Italian: [kaˈzɛrta] (listen) or [kaˈsɛrta]; Neapolitan: [kaˈsertə]) is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Sub...
Q171552 The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix (formally the 14° Gran Premio di San Marino) was a Formula One motor race held on 1 May 1994 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, located in Imola, Italy. The San Marino Grand Prix was the third race of the 1994 Formula One season.Fatalities and injuries at this Grand Prix proved...
Q72503 San Giuseppe Vesuviano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, region Campania, located about 20 km east of Naples. The parents of John Gotti emigrated from San Giuseppe Vesuviano. Sights include the sanctuary dedicated to St. Joseph that stands in the center of the city.San Giu...
Q6668920 Lolita Nation is the fourth full-length album by Game Theory, a California power pop band fronted by guitarist and singer-songwriter Scott Miller. Originally released in 1987 as a double LP, the album was reissued by Omnivore Recordings in February 2016 as a double CD set with 21 bonus tracks.
Q674797 Offton is a village in Suffolk, England.Parish Magazine is the Link Newsletter.Parish Magazine on line
Q6413208 Kingsford Community School is a secondary school in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham, East London, England. It opened in September 2000, and educates full-time students from the ages of 11 to 16. The current headteacher is Joan Deslandes, who was awarded an OBE in 2017 in the Queen's Birthday Honours Li...
Q16970322 West Virginia's 4th congressional district is an obsolete district existing from 1883 to 1993. While the district's bounds were changed many times over the years, from the 1940 redistricting to the 1970 redistricting, the district was focused on Huntington and the industrial mill towns north of that city. I...
Q4820725 Lieutenant August Hanko was a German World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
Q4603291 The 2004 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his sixth and final season as head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Sta...
Q7450652 Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking assistants to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been used formally since 1993.
Q6389956 Kenneth Le Mesurier Carter (21 June 1906 – 1968) was a Canadian chartered accountant. He is best known for his work as chair of the Royal Commission on Taxation conducted in the 1960s, known as the "Carter Commission".
Q5798340 Qanat-e Kohan-e Deh Shoyib (Persian: قنات كهن ده شعيب‎, also Romanized as Qanāt-e Kohan-e Deh Shoʿyīb; also known as Qanāt-e Kohan-e Shoaybdeh) is a village in Heruz Rural District, Kuhsaran District, Ravar County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 14 families.
Q16081936 KK ABS Primorje is a professional basketball club from Herceg Novi, Montenegro. The team currently competes in First Erste League. A school for all ages and categories has been organized within the club.
Q16734972 Brian Ransom (born July 9, 1960) is an American former gridiron football quarterback who played one season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Ransom played college football at Tennessee State University and attended North High School in Nashville, Tennessee. He was also a membe...
Q17014615 Lebanese Protestant Christians refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of Protestantism in Lebanon and who are a Christian minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim (25% Shia and 25% Sunni) and Christian (24% Maronite and 8% Eastern Orthodox) country.Most Protestants in Lebanon were converted by missionaries, ...
Q24189996 Holystone Slope (76°46′00″S 161°20′00″E) is a glacial slope distributary from Flight Deck Névé, 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) wide, that descends northwest over subdued steps between Dotson Ridge and Dory Nunatak in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1993 in associat...
Q11852312 Anu is a given name and surname found independently in several cultures. The Indian name is a short form of Anuradha, Anurag, Anubhooti, etc. The Finnish name is derived from the Karelian variant of the name Anna, which became popular in Finland after Kersti Bergroth's play Anu ja Mikko of 1932.
Q27532747 Mette Nielsen (born 15 June 1964) is a Danish footballer who played as a defender for the Denmark women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 1991. At the club level, she played for Vorup FB in Denmark.
Q24387157 Jeļena Ostapenko defeated Simona Halep in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2017 French Open. This was Ostapenko's first WTA Tour-level singles title. She became the first Latvian player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, the youngest woman to win th...
Q2422376 A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diacritical mark, such as é (Latin small letter e with acute accent)....
Q4670000 Acharnes (Greek: Αχαρνές, pronounced [axarˈnes], before 1915: Μενίδι Menidi, pronounced [meˈniði]) is a suburb of Athens, Attica, Greece. With 106,943 inhabitants (2011 census), it is the most populous municipality in East Attica. It is part of the Athens Urban area.
Q7650166 The Sutter family, originally from Viking, Alberta, Canada, are one of the most famous families in the National Hockey League (NHL). Six brothers: Brent, Brian, Darryl, Duane, Rich and Ron, reached the NHL in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Four brothers, Brian, Duane, Darryl and Brent, have gone on to become ...
Q6520447 Leitrim–Roscommon North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1923. The constituency elected 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional represen...
Q2244010 Madathukulam is Border to Dindigul District (Saminathapuram) municipality in Tirupur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Q5596465 Grant Strate, (December 7, 1927 – February 9, 2015) was a Canadian dancer, choreographer and academic.Born in Cardston, Alberta, though he started out in Edmonton as a lawyer he was an original member of the National Ballet of Canada and was a soloist, choreographer and teacher with the Company as well. From ...
Q8011083 Šarūnas Raudys is head of the Data Analysis Department at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in Vilnius, Lithuania. Within the department, he is guiding the data mining and artificial neural networks group. His group's research interests include multivariate analysis, statistical pattern recognition...