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Q4897691 Bethania Almánzar Sosa (born February 11, 1987 in Bonao) is a female beach volleyball and volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. She twice won the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2007, partnering Margarita Suero. |
Q1793460 Livramento de Nossa Senhora is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. |
Q5009424 CCAT is the public school district containing the Charter Conservatory for Liberal Arts and Technology. It is located in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States, based in Statesboro. |
Q6801338 McGinness is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Joe McGinness (1914-2003), Australian Aboriginal activistJohn McGinness (born 1943), American physicistMike McGinness (born 1947), American politicianPaul McGinness (1896–1955), American World War I flying aceRyan McGinness (born 1972), American a... |
Q3376039 Rune Ulvestad (born 28 March 1957) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He played as a forward for Molde from 1978 to 1986. After his active career, Ulvestad has been coaching Herd. He is the father of the footballers Pål Erik, Fredrik and Dan Peter Ulvestad. |
Q4961643 Brenthia excusana is a species of moth of the family Choreutidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found on Borneo. |
Q19667395 Tim Despic is a Canadian-born London-based British composer. His style of composition has been described as ‘moody and evocative’ (Variety, 2009). |
Q27627621 Robertstown Castle is a fortified house and National Monument in County Meath, Ireland. |
Q27941834 Aref Gholami (born 19 April 1997) is an Iranian footballer who played as a center back for Esteghlal in the Persian Gulf Pro League. |
Q14830181 Uraecha obliquefasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chiang in 1951. It is known from China. |
Q22129122 Fireflies in the North (Japanese: 北の螢, Hepburn: Kita no hotaru) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. The lead star is Tatsuya Nakadai. |
Q23683405 Růžena Beinhauerová (23 September 1912 – 16 May 1968) was a Czech alpine skier. She competed in the women's combined event at the 1936 Winter Olympics. |
Q2838349 Allister Grosart, (December 13, 1906 – February 8, 1984) was a Progressive Conservative politician, Senator, journalist and businessman in Canada.Born in Dublin, Ireland, his mother was a missionary and he was raised in China. He received a degree in law from the University of Toronto but became a journalist ... |
Q2052323 Paris Chipman Dunning (March 15, 1806 – May 9, 1884) was a Democratic state representative, state senator, senate president pro tempore, the tenth Lieutenant Governor, and the ninth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 26, 1848 to December 5, 1849. He is the only person to hold to every elected ... |
Q5728977 Henry Tzu-Yow Yang (Chinese: 楊祖佑; born November 29, 1940) is a Chinese American engineer and educator currently serving as the fifth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, a post he has held since 1994. |
Q1088287 Quintus Haterius was a Roman politician and orator born into a senatorial family about 63 BC. Haterius was the father of Decimus Haterius Agrippa (cos. AD 22) and the grandfather of Quintus Haterius Antoninus (cos. AD 53), and related to the house of Augustus by marriage. His wife may have been a daughter of... |
Q284660 Eext is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 12 km east of Assen.In 2001, the town of Eext had 819 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.44 km², and contained 366 residences.The statistical area "Eext", which can also include the sur... |
Q5042762 Carlos Alberto Vereza de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, born 4 March 1939) is a Brazilian actor. |
Q15121865 For the western spruce bud worm previously known as Choristoneura occidentalis, please see Choristoneura freemaniChoristoneura occidentalis is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania and Gambia.The larvae feed on Maesopsis eminii, Pi... |
Q5389567 Eristhenodes is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Eristhenodes tetrapetra, which is found in Argentina.The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous mixed brownish and sprinkled dark grey and with four broad irregular somewhat oblique dark fuscous fasciae, irregularl... |
Q5726394 Henry Norr (born 1946) is an American technology journalist and activist. He was formerly a technology columnist at the San Francisco ChronicleIn 2002, Norr wrote in the Chronicle about Intel Corp.'s Fab 18 chip plant in Qiryat Gat, Israel, which was responsible for $1.8 billion in exports. The column was con... |
Q7759324 The Rainbow Ballroom, at 38 E 5th Avenue (at Lincoln N Lincoln Street), Denver, was a dance hall that was one of the best known dance halls west of the Mississippi, according to a 1946 Billboard article. Its capacity of 3,000 made it the largest indoor dance hall in Colorado during its 28 years of existence — ... |
Q5108030 Chris Sharp (born 1973 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States) is an American singer and musician who participated in the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou.Around age 11, Sharp took up the fiddle and banjo. As a teenager he met George Buckner and joined his band, The Tarheel Blu... |
Q3104268 Petrilje is a village in the municipality of Medveđa, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 63 people. |
Q17015928 Nottingham Trent University is a tram stop on Nottingham Express Transit (NET) in the city of Nottingham suburb of the Arboretum. It is located in the centre of Nottingham Trent University's city campus, between the Boots Library and the Chaucer Building. The university's flagship Arkwright and Newton buildin... |
Q5174513 Cosmopterix nanshanella is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from Zhejiang, China.The length of the forewings is about 6 mm. |
Q6850509 Milan Bor (1936 – 14 May 1998) was a German sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Das Boot. |
Q7914476 Vanderhoef is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Darcey Vanderhoef, American actressLarry N. Vanderhoef (born 1941), American biochemist and academicMarion Vanderhoef (1894–1985), American tennis player |
Q18363702 Real Tonga, stylised as "REALtonga", is an airline that operates domestic flights within Tonga. It commenced operations in March 2013, becoming the 12th airline to operate domestic flights in Tonga since air services began. |
Q1941213 Mimohippopsis inaequalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Mimohippopsis. It was described by Breuning in 1940. |
Q19282246 Frederick Harris Harbison (December 18, 1912 – April 5, 1976) was an American labor economist and Professor of Labor Economics at Princeton University. He was known for his 1959 study Management in the industrial world and other works on labor and management.Harbison was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania to Ra... |
Q7101775 The subject of this article is technical in nature and requires an understanding of organ terminology. This is in the process of being rectified. Many of the terms used here are defined in the pipe organ article.Scaling is the ratio of an organ pipe's diameter to its length. The scaling of a pipe is a major in... |
Q2207325 Sugarloaf Mountain is a small (1,283 foot; 391 m) mountain and park about 10 miles (16 km) south of Frederick, Maryland, USA. The closest village is Barnesville, located just over one mile from the foot of the mountain. The peak of this relatively low mountain is approximately 800 feet (244 m) higher than the ... |
Q12731755 This place is situated in Missenyi District in Kagera Region, Tanzania, its geographical coordinates are 1° 15' 8" South, 31° 25' 13" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Kyaka. |
Q28221 Kong Jie (Chinese: 孔杰; pinyin: Kǒng Jié; born 25 November 1982) is a Chinese professional Go player. |
Q2487170 BRIGADOON: marin & μελαν (BRIGADOON まりんとメラン, Burigadōn Marin to Meran) is a science fiction anime that ran from 2000 to 2001, produced by the Sunrise company, and was adapted as a manga by Nozomi Watase. Its story takes place in Japan in 1969 and it is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an al... |
Q7446244 Segget River (Malay: Sungai Segget, Chinese: 纱玉河) is a river in Johor, Malaysia. The length of the river is about 4,280 meters. It starts from the current Johor Bahru Chinese Cemetery, through the downtown of Johor Bahru city, and ends at Straits of Johor.The Segget River flows through the east bank and the we... |
Q4356983 Karsten Anker Andersen (16 February 1920 – 15 December 1997) was a Norwegian conductor. |
Q7814998 Tom Bodkin is the Design Director at The New York Times. Bodkin, who hails from Great Neck, New York, graduated from John L. Miller Great Neck North High School in 1971. Editor-in-chief of the award-winning school newspaper "Guide Post," he started at The New York Times in the 1980s as an Art Director for the ... |
Q6948626 Myrtle Ethel Maclagan MBE (born 2 April 1911 in Ambala, United Provinces, India; died 11 March 1993 in Surrey, England) was an English cricketer. |
Q5394221 José Ernesto Ochoa Fuentes (born June 21, 1986 in La Unión, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who most recently played for Aspirante in the Salvadoran second division. |
Q7027584 Nick Mullins (born 31 January 1966) is a British journalist and sports commentator, primarily working on BT Sport's Premiership Rugby coverage. |
Q5128988 Air Chief Marshal Sir Claude Bernard Raymond Pelly, (19 August 1902 – 12 August 1972) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the middle of the 20th century. |
Q1610632 Viville is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Bellevigne. |
Q10479754 Jacob David "Jake" Simpson (born 27 October 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Northern Premier League Premier Division side Workington. Having played in the youth teams for Blackburn Rovers, he moved to Shrewsbury Town, where his father Paul was manager. Before the 2010–11 season, Simpson followed ... |
Q13528243 Marc López and David Marrero were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Andreas Beck and Christopher Kas.Austrian couple Oliver Marach and Alexander Peya won the title beating František Čermák and Filip Polášek in the final, 6–4, 6–1. |
Q108585 Camilla Pfeffer (born 24 January 1993 in Filderstadt) is a German rhythmic gymnast. She has competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.Camilla Pfeffer trains at the DTB National Team Centre Fellbach-Schmiden (Federal Training Centre for Rhythmic Gymnastics and Sports Boarding School) and lives in Tübingen and Fellbac... |
Q16066584 Winfield Forrest Prime (November 22, 1860 – September 10, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who twice served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. |
Q21646296 Death-Scort Service is a 2015 independent horror film that was directed by Sean Donohue, who co-wrote the script with Chris Woods. Funding for the movie was partially raised through an Indiegogo campaign and Death-Scourt Service released on October 13, 2015. |
Q6103968 Jean Carl Harrington (October 25, 1901 – April 19, 1998) — known as J. C. Harrington, or "Pinky" to his friends — was an American archaeologist best known for his work at Jamestown, Virginia and his contributions to the methodology of historical archaeology. He has been called the "father of historical archaeo... |
Q14707612 Von Steuben Day is a holiday traditionally held on a weekend in mid-September (von Steuben was born September 17), celebrating the Prussian-born Baron Friedrich von Steuben, who arrived in the United States as a volunteer offering his services to General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. Vo... |
Q1127200 The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.It is located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than 160 kilometres (99 mi) and spread over an ocean area of 26,000 square kilometres (10,0... |
Q5311965 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS (19 May 1798 – 19 November 1882), styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician. He held office under Lord Palmerston as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1855 and as Lord Privy Seal between 1855 and 1858. |
Q1421566 Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films. He was a brother of Harry O. Hoyt. |
Q7318860 Revolutionary Socialist Youth (in French: Jeunesse Socialiste Révolutionnaire) is the youth wing of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR). It published De Fonken. JSR was founded in 1978JSR is the continuation of Schülerfront, that existed 1971-1977. |
Q27005 Denmark competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 60 competitors, 49 men and 11 women, took part in 33 events in 11 sports. |
Q906859 The women's 63 kg weightlifting event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece took place at the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall on August 18.Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three lifts allowed for each lift. In case of a tie, the li... |
Q6698701 Luddington railway station was a station in Luddington, Lincolnshire on the Axholme Joint Railway branch to Fockerby.Former Services |
Q5002581 The Butler Bulldogs football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Butler University located in the U.S. state of Indiana. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Pioneer Football League. Butler's first football team was fielde... |
Q6153999 Jangamaheswarapapuram is a village in Gurajala mandal of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in South India. It is 2 km south of Gurajala. |
Q7278612 The Rabbit River is an 8.6-mile-long (13.8 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, United States. It rises at the outlet of Rabbit Lake, north of Crosby, and flows southwest through a chain of lakes past Ironton, joining the Mississippi River at the outlet of Little Rabbit Lake northwest... |
Q3487873 Starý Bohumín, lit. "Old Bohumín" (German: Alt Oderberg, Polish: Stary Bogumin) is a part of the town of Bohumín in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It has a population of 1,534 (August 2009). |
Q7182954 Philatelic Federation of Pakistan is the governing body of philately in Pakistan. It is a member of Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) and Federation of Inter-Asian Philately (F.I.A.P.). |
Q6108999 JS Genkai is a Hiuchi Class Auxiliary Multi-purpose Support (AMS) ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).The ship was built by Universal in Keihin and commissioned into service on 20 Feb 2008.The primary mission of the Genkai is to support training exercises of other ships, including shooting pr... |
Q7685850 Target 3 Billion is a book by the former President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Srijan Pal Singh. The book highlights the issues prevailing in rural India and suggests measures to improve standards of living. It focuses on the inclusive development project called PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural... |
Q4963862 Brian Christopher Goodwin (born November 2, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals and Kansas City Royals. Before his professional career, Goodwin played college baseball for the N... |
Q4266806 Alf Nordhus (25 August 1919 – 19 December 1997) was a Norwegian barrister. Alf Magnus Nordhus was born in Bergen, Norway. Nordhus graduated from the University of Oslo with a law degree in 1943. He was a public prosecutor from 1946 to 1947. Nordhus was licensed as an attorney in 1953 and opened his own law pr... |
Q16207009 Xue Wenjie (薛文傑) (died 934) was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Min. He was a close associate of Min's emperor Wang Lin (Emperor Huizong), by flattering the emperor and finding creative, if cruel, methods to extract funds from the people for the emperor's use. In 934, t... |
Q3241256 Onomastus rattotensis, is a species of spider of the genus Onomastus. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. The species was first discovered from Rattota area of Matale District, hence the specific name. |
Q30646230 The 1987–88 Honduran Segunda División was the 21st season of the Honduran Segunda División. Under the management of Mario Sandoval, C.D. Curacao won the tournament after finishing first in the final round (or Cuadrangular) and obtained promotion to the 1988–89 Honduran Liga Nacional. |
Q3047478 Edgar Alwin Payne (1 March 1883 – 8 April 1947) was an American Western landscape painter and muralist. |
Q323398 Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski [ˈbɔɡdan zdrɔˈjɛfskʲi] (listen) (born 18 May 1957) is a Polish politician and local government leader. He served as the Mayor of Wrocław from 4 June 1990 to 1 September 2001, a Senator of the 4th legislature, and a Member of the Polish Parliament (the Sejm) of the 4th, 5th, and 6th par... |
Q3779816 Gunnin' for Glory is a compilation album by American glam metal band Nitro, consisting of older demos from the O.F.R. and H.W.D.W.S. sessions, as well as three tracks by Batio's former band, the Michael Angelo Band. |
Q3550221 The Armenian Evangelical Union of North America resulted from the merger of the Armenian Evangelical Union of Eastern States and Canada (founded in 1901) and the Armenian Evangelical Union of California (founded in 1908). The merger took place at a Constitutional Assembly held in Detroit, Michigan, in October ... |
Q759556 Bhadrak is a city of Odisha state in eastern India. It came into existence on 1 April 1993. The city is the district headquarters of Bhadrak district. According to legend, the city derives its name from the Goddess Bhadrakali, whose temple is on the banks of the Salandi River. |
Q1325189 Siphonodon is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. |
Q7045862 Noblesville Township is one of nine townships in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 50,564 and it contained 20,122 housing units. |
Q889904 Puadh (Gurmukhi: ਪੁਆਧ ; Devanagari: पुआध; IAST: [puādha], sometimes anglicized as Poadh or Powadh) is a historic region in north India that comprises parts of present-day Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the U.T. of Chandigarh, India. It has the Sutlej river in its north and covers the regions immediately ... |
Q465474 Milan Paumer (April 7, 1931 – July 22, 2010) was a member of a militant Czechoslovak anticommunist resistance group that attracted worldwide fame – and notoriety – for killing seven men in the early 1952s in robberies of money and arms and for evading the biggest manhunt in the history of the Eastern Bloc. His ... |
Q385552 Holque (from Flemish; Holke in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. |
Q289175 Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local pol... |
Q6762594 The Maricopa Unified School District is the main public school district in the city of Maricopa, Arizona. It operates six elementary schools, two middle schools, and Maricopa High School.The district (as of 2014) is at a "B" rating. |
Q8961535 Festuca dolichophylla is a species of grass which is endemic to western South America with an occurrence in Costa Rica. |
Q10715838 Vinternatten (English: "One Winters Night") is a Christmas album by Swedish singer Sanna Nielsen, released in Sweden on November 19, 2012. This is her second solo Christmas album, following her 1997 release, "Min önskejul". The album features the lead single "Viskar ömt mitt namn", a ballad version of her Mel... |
Q20718156 Taytay station is one of two proposed stations along the planned Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 4 (Line 4) in Taytay, Rizal, Philippines. It will be located in Dolores, the poblacion (municipal proper) of Taytay, by the SM City Taytay shopping mall on Taytay Diversion Road. It will be the eastern termi... |
Q716983 Hwanggumbol Station is a station on Hyŏksin Line of the Pyongyang Metro.The station is next to a park and short distance from Sinso Bridge crossing the Potong River. |
Q23021478 The 2016 Pan American Fencing Championships were being held at the Convention Center Vasco Nuñez de Balboa in Panama City from 21 to 26 June 2016. The event was organized by the Pan American Fencing Confederation and the National Fencing Association of Panama. |
Q35139850 Cao Mojie (born 10 April 1992) is a Chinese long distance runner. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. |
Q40283666 Mackenzie Little (born 22 December 1996) is an Australian female javelin thrower, who won an individual gold medal at the 2013 World Youth Championships. |
Q2516633 Tricliona is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms. |
Q2362714 Via Monte Napoleone, also spelled Via Montenapoleone, is an upscale shopping street in Milan, Italy, and Europe's most expensive street (2018). It is famous for its ready-to-wear fashion and jewelry shops, and for being the most important street of the Milan fashion district known as the Quadrilatero della mod... |
Q152229 Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death. He was in personal union the Prince-elector of Brandenburg and (via the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel. Pleasure-lo... |
Q532018 Saint Hilary of Arles, also known by his Latin name Hilarius (c. 403-449), was a bishop of Arles in Southern France. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, with his feast day celebrated on 5 May. |
Q1938773 Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (born April 2, 1964 in Jiquilpan, Michoacán) is a Mexican politician. He served as governor of Michoacán from 2002 to 2008), representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Prior to his election to that office in 2001, he had represented his home state in both the federal Chamb... |
Q6654448 Recorded on March 19, 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden, Live. 02 is Isis's second live release. It is sourced from a Swedish radio recording, and, as such, is the best-sounding of Isis' live releases thus far. The original radio broadcast on P3 Live did not feature the song "Carry."As with the rest of the live serie... |
Q3350309 The Republic of Chile is an overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking country, with the exceptions of isolated native and immigrant communities. According to Ethnologue, Chile has nine living languages and seven extinct. |
Q2067003 "Ghetto" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland, featuring vocals by rapper Snoop Dogg. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Lonny Bereal and Rowland, and produced by the former for Rowland's second solo album Ms. Kelly (2007). A mid-paced R&B ballad which was originally record... |
Q7229176 The Pope House Museum, built in 1901, is a restored home once owned by Dr. M.T. Pope, a prominent African-American citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Pope House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and was also an official project of the Save America’s Treasures Program. Since t... |
Q2743989 Hear My Music is a posthumous compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, released on November 30, 2004 by Dagger Records. The album contains instrumental studio jams and demos recorded in early 1969. |
Q6907242 Moody Street Irregulars (subtitled A Jack Kerouac Newsletter) was an American publication dedicated to the history and the cultural influences of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Edited and published by Joy Walsh, it featured articles, memoirs, reviews and poetry. Published from Clarence Center, New York,... |
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