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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 artist |
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 instead of a lawyer. He worked for the Toronto Daily Star and The Globe and Mail. During World War II, he served with the 2nd battalion of the Irish Regiment reaching the rank of Major. After the war, he eventually joined a public relations firm.Grosart was a key party organizer and is credited by many for organizing the victories of the Diefenbaker Tories in the 1957 federal election in which the party defeated the Liberals for the first time since 1930. He was also a key organizer in the subsequent 1958 election in which the Diefenbaker government was returned with the largest majority in Canadian history.In 1962, Diefenbaker appointed Grosart to the Senate. He served as deputy leader of the Opposition from 1974 until 1979, and became Speaker of the Senate of Canada when the Tories again formed government from 1979 to 1980 under Joe Clark. Grosart retired from the Senate in 1981, and was appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada in honour of his long service. |
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 seat in the state government under the 1816 constitution. His brief term as governor was marked by the calling of a state constitutional convention and overshadowed by the national anti-slavery debate, where Dunning urged state leaders to issue and forward resolutions to Congress expressing opposition to the expansion of slavery. As a delegate to the subsequent convention, he successfully advocated legislative and educational reform. As the American Civil War broke out, he left the Democratic party and declared for the Union, personally raising many companies of soldiers for the war effort. He returned to the state senate during the war, and then resumed his law practice after his term ended. He remained popular in the state, and declined several nominations to run for office after retiring from politics. |
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 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.Haterius was a famous Populares orator under Augustus, but his style was sometimes criticized. In Seneca’s Epistle, "On the Proper Style for a Philosopher’s Discourse," he relates that the speech of a philosopher should be able to speak powerfully, yet still keep a steady pace. As an example, he uses Quintus Haterius who, "…never hesitated, never paused; he made only one start, and one stop." Even the Emperor Augustus commented on his quick delivery, saying that his speech was so rapid that he needed a brake.In his later life, Haterius was elected Consul Suffectus (the term used to denote the person who served the remainder of the regular consul’s term if he died or was removed) in 5 BC. Tacitus mentions Haterius many times in the Annals in senatorial debate. After the death of Augustus, Tiberius made a show of reluctance to accept power so that he not look ambitious. Asinius Gallus and Haterius both urged Tiberius to set aside his false modesty and assume power. Tacitus quotes Haterius: quo usque pateris, Caesar non adesse caput rei publicae? ("How long, Caesar, will you allow the state to be without a head?") Suetonius might also quote him, but does not mention his name. Fearing Tiberius' reaction, Haterius went to the palace to beg forgiveness and threw himself at Tiberius' knees. But his clumsy effort brought the emperor to the ground, and the guards, thinking this was an attack upon Tiberius's person, pounced upon Haterius to kill him. The intervention of Livia saved his life.Haterius was also involved in putting restrictions on the luxury of the country. It was decided by the senate that solid gold vessels should not be used to serve food, and that it was disgraceful for men to wear silken clothes from the East.As his age advanced, however, Haterius became less useful. In a senate meeting discussing how to honour the two princes of Tiberius, Haterius brought forth a motion that all decrees passed that day should be erected in the Senate house in solid gold letters; he was laughed at as a fool.Quintus Haterius died with the highest honours at the end of AD 26, in the eighty-ninth year of his age, yet an obituary written by Tacitus says that though he was famous for his speaking during his lifetime, that fame was now dying away and that, "While the research and labours of other authors are valued by an after age, the harmonious fluency of Haterius died with him." |
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 surrounding countryside, has a population of around 1400. |
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, Pinus patula, Vigna unguiculata, Allium cepa, Cajanus, Citrus (including Citrus aurantium), Coffea (including Coffea arabica), Corchorus, Cupressus lusitanica, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus torelliana, Glycine max and Gossypium species. |
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, irregularly connected in the disc and more or less narrowed or partially obsolete towards the dorsum. The hindwings are light bluish-grey. |
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 controversial because of the land ownership issues stemming from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Pro-Israel organizations accused him of being anti-Semitic, which he denies, pointing out that he is Jewish.Norr was fired in April 2003. He had been arrested in an anti-war demonstration on March 20, the day after the United States attacked Iraq. The Chronicle suspended him without pay a few days later, then fired him. The Chronicle's employee rules, and California law, permitted workers to attend demonstrations and engage in political activity. The Chronicle told Norr he was fired for falsifying his time card. Others in the newsroom said that he was fired for his political activity, which included involvement in Palestine solidarity work.In 2004, Norr received a financial settlement with The Chronicle over the firing, which included his retirement, health benefits, and a statement published in the Chronicle. California law prohibits employers from firing employees on the basis of political activities. Norr said the settlement would allow him to continue freelance writing.He now writes for the MacInTouch and Mondoweiss web sites, among others. |
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 — from its opening day on September 16, 1933, to its closing day in 1961. |
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 Bluegrass Boys, and in 1995 moved to Nashville with Buckner and Kevin Sluder. After two years, Sharp returned to North Carolina where he started a band called the Tipton Hill Boys. In 1997, Sharp landed a job touring with John Hartford and played guitar in the style of Lester Flatt on the O Brother Where Art Thou? and Down from the Mountain projects. In 2001, after Hartford died, Sharp moved back to North Carolina and recorded three more CDs. In 2010, Chris produced and performed on the Grammy Nominated recording by the John Hartford String Band Memories of John. |
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 buildings are nearby to the south, although Newton is closer to the Royal Centre stop. On either side of the stop, the tram tracks share the road with other traffic, but only trams are permitted to pass through the stop itself. The stop has two side platforms on either side of the twin tracks.The tram stop opened on 9 March 2004, along with the rest of NET's initial system.With the opening of NET's phase two, Nottingham Trent University is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section. |
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 Ralph and Helen Harbison. His father was a brick manufacturer. He obtained his AB in economics in 1934 from Princeton University, where in 1940 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on labor relations in the iron and steel industry.In World War II Harbison served in the War Production Board, at the War Labor Board, at the Petroleum Administration for War, and at the Army Service Forces. In 1945 he started his academic career as Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1955 he moved to Princeton University, where he was Professor of Economics and International Affairs until 1976. He served as Members of the Organization of American States Task Force on Education, Science, and Culture in the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962. |
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 influence on its timbre. Reed pipes are scaled according to different formulas than for flue pipes. In general, the larger the diameter of a given pipe at a given pitch, the fuller and more fundamental the sound becomes.The system most commonly used to fully document and describe scaling was devised by Johann Gottlob Töpfer. In this system, the diameter of a given note is compared with a reference scale by means of half-tone deviations larger or smaller (indicated by the abbreviation ht). This reference scale is called Normalmensur. Normalmensur is a rank of pipes based on an internal diameter of 155.5 mm (6.12 in) at 8′ C (the lowest note of the modern organ compass) and a mouth width which is one-quarter of the circumference of such a pipe. The scale provides for a reduction in diameter of the pipes by half at every succeeding 17th pipe. This system can be used to produce Normalmensur variation tables or line graphs for the analysis of existing ranks or the design of new ranks.The following is a list of representative 8′ stops in order of increasing diameter (and, therefore, of increasingly fundamental tone) at middle C with respect to Normalmensur, which is listed in the middle. Deviations from Normalmensur are provided after the pipe measurement in brackets.Viole d'orchestre (thin, mordant string stop): 35.6 mm [-10 ht]Salicional (broader-toned, non-imitative string stop): 40.6 mm [-7 ht]Violin diapason (thin-toned principal stop): 46.2 mm [-4 ht]Principal (typical mid-scale principal stop): 50.4 mm [-2 ht]Normalmensur: 54.9 mm [+/-0 ht]Open diapason (broader-toned principal stop): 57.4 mm [+1 ht]Gedeckt (thin-toned flute stop): 65.4 mm [+4 ht]Flûte à cheminée (typical mid-scale flute stop): 74.4 mm [+7 ht]Flûte ouverte (broader-toned flute stop): 81.1 mm [+9 ht]Normalmensur scaling table, 17th halving ratio:From Organ Supply Industries catalog |
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 surrounding farmland. It is visible from many parts of northern Montgomery County and southern Frederick County, notably from I-270 north of the town of Germantown. Because of its geological and natural history interest, it was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1969. It is a notable example of an admission-free, privately owned scenic park. |
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 alien named Melan Blue.Brigadoon was directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani and the characters were designed by Takahiro Kimura, both of whom worked on The King of Braves GaoGaiGar and Betterman.The show's setting in Yayoi, Tokyo was based on neighborhoods in which director Yonetani and art director Takashi Nakamura once lived. Color is a recurring theme in the series as well. Most if not all of the episodes have a color in the title, and nearly everyone in the cast is named after a color in one way or another. Likewise, the rainbow is an important image. |
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 west bank of the river. There is a small shaped triangle island called Segget Island. There is a wet market on the island. The West Bank of Segget River was mostly settled by Teochew. The road by the river is called Jalan Trus, most of the business around that area is owned by Teochew Chinese, and Johor Bahru Old Chinese temple is also located here. The roads adjoining with Jalan Trus are Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Jalan Ibrahim and Jalan Dhoby.The East bank of the Segget river was mostly settled by Cantonese immigrants. The Stulang Steam Sawmill owned by Lim Ah Siang located near to Jalan Meldrum, and Jalan Sawmill in the downtown of Johor Bahru is named after this sawmill. Wong Ah Fook owned big pieces of land on the east bank of the river, and Jalan Wong Ah Fook is named after him. Jalan Siu Chin, Jalan Siu Koon and Jalan Siu Nam are the roads named after Wong Ah Fook's son. Johor Bahru railway station is also located on the east bank of the river, the Jalan Stesen is named after the railway station. |
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 Home Section. His career began at CBS where he worked with Lou Dorfsman.Bodkin is an Assistant Managing Editor and oversees design and layout for the newspaper. His staff include the Art Directors, Designers, Production and Layout desks and he is an important factor in the look and feel of the daily front page. Bodkin also works with his Senior Art Director, Steven Heller. Bodkin was the presiding Design Director during 9-11 and had a large influence on the layout of the front page with the headline 'U.S. Attacked".Bodkin has been responsible for many of the visual projects at the paper, including introducing the Cheltenham typeface and redesigning the A-Section of the paper. He also led the team that created the Times Reader, a digital version of the newspaper created in collaboration with Microsoft. |
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 his father again, to Stockport County. |
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 Fellbach. The chemistry student at the University of Stuttgart starts for TSV Schmiden and is trained by Natalia Stsiapanava, Ekaterina Kotelikova and Vladimir Komkov. Their special equipment is the tyres. Pfeffer learned her sport from Nadja Protasova at TSG Tübingen. Her greatest success in the junior category was her participation in the 2008 European Junior Championships in Turin, where she was tenth in the team with Sara Radman.In 2009, Pfeffer managed the seamless transition from junior to performance level. As the oldest athlete and captain, she was initially the central element around which the newly designed national team was built for the next Olympic Games. The first international women's championship was the World Championships of the Year in Mie. There she became 13th with Maike Deuschle, Johanna Gabor, Radman and Karolina Raskina in the group all-around and 13th in the second equipment group, 14th in the first equipment group. At the European Championships in spring 2010 in Bremen, Pfeffer missed out on a medal with Cathrin Puhl, Radman, Mira Bimperling, Raskina and Regina Sergeeva in the team competition as fourth place behind Russia, Italy and Belarus only by one place. With Radman, Puhl, Bimperling and Sergeeva she was also fourth in the first and second apparatus group. In the autumn of that year, the World Championships followed in Moscow, where Pfeffer finished eighth in the team with Radman, Puhl, Bimperling and Sergeeva and fifth in the first and second apparatus groups in the same line-up. At the World Championships one year later in Montpellier she reached sixth place in the group all-around with Radman, Puhl, Nicole Müller, Bimperling and Sergeeva as well as seventh place in the first and fifth place in the second apparatus group. With sixth place, the team qualified directly for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Before the Games, she was still in action at the 2012 European Championships in Nizhny Novgorod. In the group all-around she reached ninth place with Judith Hauser, Müller, Radman, Puhl and Bimperling. In the same line-up, the group took tenth place at the Olympic Games in London. After the Olympic Games, Pfeffer ended her sporting career in rhythmic gymnastics. |
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 archaeology in America". |
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. Von Steuben is still regarded as one of the most important German Americans, as his training of the young American troops made victory against the British possible and thus his work helped in gaining independence for the United States of America. The day is generally considered the German-American event of the year; celebrations focus on parades in which participants march, dance, and play music. |
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 (10,000 sq mi) between the Solomon Sea to the north and the Coral Sea to the south. The aggregate land area of the islands is about 1,871 square kilometres (722 sq mi), with Vanatinai (Tagula) being the largest.Rogeia, Samarai and Sariba lie closest to New Guinea, while Misima, Vanatinai, and Rossel islands lie further east. |
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 lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won. Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk. |
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 fielded in 1887. The team plays its home games at the 7,500 seat Butler Bowl in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Bulldogs are coached by Jeff Voris. |
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 of Riverton. |
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 practice and torpedo launching practice. |
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 Areas). The book plans to improve the standard of living amongst the poor rural population through voluntary campaigns such as community participation and entrepreneurship.It cites like Fabio Rosa who helped in changing the structure of Palmares, a rural district in Brazil, by rural electrification. The access to water and electricity and better agricultural methods had led to prosperity in the region. Further, it describes Magarpatta, the organisation of Magarpatta city, which now provides home to over 35,000 people and the development of an IT park. |
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 North Carolina Tar Heels. |
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 practice in Oslo the same year. From 1958 he practiced as a barrister before the Supreme Court of Norway. He became a very well known and sought-after defense lawyer. He served in the defense in several serious criminal cases. Among his most prominent trials were the Hollekim case (1964) where he went against his own client who had confessed to murder and got him acquitted. The Liv case (1982) involved a woman accused of having killed her husband after years of being subjected to psychological and physical abuse. A bust of Nordhus, sculptured by Nils Aas, is located at the Oslo Courthouse. |
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, the angry soldiers refused to fight troops of Min's invading rival Wu unless Xue were surrendered to them. After Xue was given to them, they killed him and ate his flesh. |
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 parliamentary term. From 2006 to 2007, Zdrojewski chaired the Parliamentary Delegation of Platforma Obywatelska, and from 2007 to 2014, served as Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Since 2014, he has been a Member of the European Parliament of the 8th legislature. |
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 1971. It traces its history to the reform movement within the Armenian Apostolic Church resulting in the founding, on July 1, 1846, of the first Armenian Evangelical Church by 37 men and 3 women in Pera (near Constantinople), Turkey. |
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 south of the Ghaggar river. The people of the area are known as Puadhi and speak the Puadhi dialect of Punjabi. |
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 five-man group, the Mašín Gang, carried out raids against state institutions in Czechoslovakia before being forced to flee to the West in October 1953. The group crossed the Czech border to East Germany, making their way to West Berlin while an estimated 25,000 East German policemen, soldiers and secret agents were searching for them. Two of their members were wounded in shootouts in which a total of four East German policemen were killed, but Paumer and the remaining two members of the Mašín Gang successfully made it to the West and ultimately to the United States.After returning to the Czech Republic following the fall of Communism, Paumer retired to his old home town. He remained a controversial figure who was reviled by some as a murderer but hailed by others as a heroic resistance figure. He was honoured by the Czech government in 2008 and the Czech Prime Minister, Petr Nečas, declared that Paumer had made a heroic decision to fight Communist oppression. |
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 politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a World Heritage Site mainly due to the temple.Bhikkhus of the two chapters of Malwatte and Asgiriya conduct daily worship in the inner chamber of the temple. Rituals are performed three times daily: at dawn, at noon and in the evenings. On Wednesdays, there is a symbolic bathing of the relic with an herbal preparation made from scented water and fragrant flowers called Nanumura Mangallaya. This holy water is believed to contain healing powers and is distributed among those present.The temple sustained damage from bombings by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 1989 and by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1998 but was fully restored each time. |
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 Melodifestivalen 2011 song "I'm in Love" as well as a cover of Leona Lewis' worldwide hit "Bleeding Love". |
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 terminus station of Line 4.When completed, the station will serve the Taytay poblacion where the Taytay Municipal Hall and the St. John the Baptist Church are located. It will link directly to SM City Taytay where a terminal for jeepneys and buses bound for Angono, Binangonan, Cardona and other southern Rizal municipalities on the Manila East Road can be found. It will also serve the following destinations in Taytay: New Taytay Public Market, Robina Farms, Mount Zion Memorial Park, Holy Gardens Memorial and Taytay Public Cemetery. |
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 moda, where many well-known fashion designers have high-end boutiques. The most exclusive Italian shoemakers maintain boutiques on this street.In 2009, architect Fabio Novembre designed a months-long art installation, titled Per fare un albero, ‘To make a tree’ in conjunction with the city of Milan's Department of Design, Events and Fashion and Fiat — featuring 20 full-size fiberglass planter replicas of the company's 500C cabriolet along Via Monte Napoleone.In 2002, the Street Association started a media project including the Radio and the Portal, in order to relaunch the Made in Italy brand. Sponsored by the Department of Fashion, Tourism and Major Events of the Municipality of Milan, Italy Fashion System, and Assomoda, today it is the first instrument of revival and information on Made in Italy worldwide. |
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-loving and indolent, he is seen as the antithesis to his predecessor, Frederick II. Under his reign, Prussia was weakened internally and externally, and he failed to deal adequately with the challenges to the existing order posed by the French Revolution. His religious policies were directed against the Enlightenment and aimed at restoring a traditional Protestantism. However, he was a patron of the arts and responsible for the construction of some notable buildings, among them the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. |
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 Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.Cárdenas Batel is a member of a distinguished political family: his grandfather, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, served as President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940, and his father, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, has been a presidential candidate on three occasions and was the first democratically elected Head of Government of the Federal District (Mexico City). Both father and grandfather also served as governors of Michoacán.Some PRD members criticized Cárdenas Batel for his lack of support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador during the 2006 presidential campaign; some even asked him to leave the party. On the night of election, according to the Wall Street Journal, Batel accepted a call from López Obrador's opponent and eventual winner, Felipe Calderón. He was succeeded in the position as Michoacán governor by Leonel Godoy in February 2008.Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)Lázaro Cárdenas Batel is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), and had previously served as a member of WOLA's Board of Directors. An expert in migration and electoral processes in Latin America, Mr. Cárdenas has also been a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a member of the Advisory Board for the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program, a member of The Inter-American Dialogue, and the Chief of Mission for several electoral observation missions for the Organization of American States (OAS).Areas of Expertise: Migration, Latin American Politics, Electoral Processes, Regional DevelopmentEducation:Cárdenas Batel holds a degree in ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City from 1983 to 1987. |
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 series, the CD version was self-released. A vinyl LP limited to 1000 copies was released on December 6, 2005 through Troubleman Unlimited. Of the vinyl, 100 were on white with a poster available through mailorder only, the remaining 900 were on black. Along with all Isis' other live albums, it is set to be re-released on June 14, 2011 in digital format almost a full year after Isis' dissolution. |
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 recorded for her shelved My Story album, "Ghetto" is influenced by the Crunk&B subgrene in the early to mid-2000s. Its instrumentation consists essentially of synthesizers and a drum machine rhythm and lyrically, finds Rowland, as the protagonist, singing sensually about becoming attracted to dangerous men.One of Rowland's favorites on Ms. Kelly, "Ghetto" was released as the album's second single to US radios on August 7, 2007, while "Work" was serviced as the album's second international single. The song performed weakly on the Billboard charts, reaching number nine on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart only, ranking it among Rowland's lowest-selling single to date. An accompanying music video was directed by Andrew Gura and shot in Los Angeles, California in August 2007. |
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 then, the city of Raleigh has taken over management of the Pope House Museum and opened it for tours for the first time.Since the early 19th century, the area where the Pope House is located has gone through many transformations. When the original governor’s mansion was built at the end of Fayetteville Street on the site of the present Memorial Auditorium, it was thought that fashionable residences would be built nearby. Although a few substantial homes were constructed by white families, when Reverend Henry Tupper moved Shaw University to the neighborhood in 1870, many new African-American residents drawn to Raleigh after the Civil War settled in the area. Pope attended Leonard Medical Center at Shaw University before beginning his medical practice.Black professionals began to build homes in the area known as the Third Ward, which included the 500 block of South Wilmington Street. In 1901, Pope decided to build his house in this area. Pope’s neighbors included other prominent African Americans, including another doctor and a pharmacist. His home was located near his office on East Hargett Street, which at the time was the heart of the black business district.Pope installed the latest technology in his home, including combination gas and electric fixtures, a kitchen with running water, a full bathroom on the second floor, coal burning heating stoves, and a telephone. He also installed a call bell system, with buttons in each room and an annunciator in the back hall. Pope began to see patients in the house during the 1920s and 1930s, when his health began to fail. The small area at the rear of the back hall, adjacent to the kitchen, was configured to include a small hand sink and built-in cabinet for instruments.After Pope married Delia Haywood Phillips in 1907, the couple added a garage and wired the home for electricity. In the 1920s, the original front porch was removed, and the current sleeping porch constructed on brick piers. In the 1940s, the northern half of the first floor space below the porch was enclosed with brick, as it remains today. They eventually had two children, Evelyn and Ruth. After the deaths of their parents, Evelyn and Ruth maintained the family home, though they lived in Durham and Chapel Hill respectively.Although the Pope House remains in the neighborhood, the area around it has dramatically changed. Older homes and businesses were replaced with office buildings, parking lots and newer homes. The most evident change was the construction of the Raleigh Convention Center directly across the street from the house. Today, the house is in the shadows of skyscrapers that were built in the 1980s and 1990s.The Pope House was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999. The following month the trustees of the Pope Charitable Foundation decided to begin the process of turning the house into a museum. One month later, The Pope House Museum Foundation was incorporated as a non-profit organization. The extensive family papers were sorted and catalogued, and donated to the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2011 due to financial concerns, the Pope House Museum approached the city of Raleigh about purchasing the Pope House Museum to ensure its survival. Since the purchase, the Pope House Museum has been managed by Raleigh Parks and Recreation which has opened the Pope House Museum for regular tours for the first time. |
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, it had a run of 28 issues from Winter 1978 to 1992. Some issues were edited by Walsh with Michael Basinski and Ana Pine.The magazine's approach is indicated by the contents of issue number 9 (1981), a special Vanity of Duluoz issue including essays and articles by Gregory Stephenson, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, plus an interview with William S. Burroughs by Jennie Skerl.Issue number 11 (Spring/Summer 1982) was a special "French Connection" issue, featuring articles and essays about Kerouac, his French-Canadian ancestry and his popularity in Quebec.Issue number 15, published in 1985, was a special "Music Issue":“Missing the Beat” by Joel Scherzer“Jack and the Beatstalkers” by Warren Peace“Kerouac and the Big Beat” by Joel Scherzer"Mark Murphy’s Bop for Kerouac" by John Jablonski“Through a Swinging Looking Glass or Steps to Discovering Jack Kerouac” by Con Holland-SkinnerPoems: “To Kerouac” by Tony Quagliano, “Thelonious Monk” by Michael F. Hopkins, “Bird in Paradise” by Steve Dalashinsky, “Jazz for Jack” by Tom Clark, “Aalborg” by Finn Slumstrup, “Jack Kerouac” by Dann Belanger“The Golden Juke Box” by Kevin Ring“Van Morrison and Kerouac” by Alex AlbrightBook reviews, including “Mysteries of Magritte” by Harold Norse, “Jack Kerouac” by Tom Clark, “All the News” by Mark Pawlak“Jazz and the Modern Symphony and the News Music”, two articles by Jack Kerouac and Tom Livornese |
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