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Q20676907 Isabelle Harrison (born September 27, 1993) is an American basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the daughter of former NFL Defensive End Dennis Harrison Jr.
Q2846883 Andris Smirnovs (born 6 February 1990) is a Latvian cyclist riding for Alpha Baltic–Maratoni.lv.
Q28187334 2nd Independent Division of Anhui Provincial Military District (Chinese: 安徽省军区独立第2师) was formed on September 6, 1966 from the Public Security Contingent of Anhui province. The division was composed of three regiments (4th to 6th).From September 17, 1967 to November 1969 the division was put under command of 12th Army Corps. After that the division was returned to Anhui Provincial Military District's control.The division was disbanded in March 1976.
Q4559709 Anton Eliassen (born 11 November 1945) is a Norwegian meteorologist.He was born in Oslo to meteorologist Arnt Eliassen and Ellen-Kristine Nome. He graduated from the University of Oslo as cand. real. in 1970. He was assigned with the Norwegian Institute for Air Research from 1972 to 1977, was researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute from 1978 to 1983, and was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1983. His research interests have focused on air pollution transport and climate modelling. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2006.
Q29424752 Anastasia Pivovarova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.Wang Qiang won the title after her opponent Peng Shuai retired in the final, with the score at 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 1–1.
Q61641 Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch (24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher.
Q22277234 Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen, once held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 440.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980, in Howra, Yemen.Bwazir arrived in Guantanamo on May 1, 2002.In December 2015, unnamed officials leaked that Congress had been given notice that 17 individuals would be transferred from Guantanamo starting in thirty days. The US military planned to transfer the last three of those seventeen on January 21, 2016. Both his lawyers and military officials were surprised when Bwazir balked at the last moment, and declined repatriation.On January 5, 2017, Bwazir and three other Yemeni men were transferred to Saudi Arabia.
Q2072609 Ernest Joseph Laurent (June 8, 1859 – June 25, 1929) was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Gentilly and died in Bièvres, Essonne.Laurent was a neo-impressionist artist whose main influences were his instructor Ernest Hébert and his friend Georges Seurat. Laurent took second prize in the Prix de Rome in 1889 and in 1890, Laurent arrived in Rome, where Hébert remained Director of the Académie de France. From Rome, he went to Assisi where he underwent a mystical experience. It would profoundly influence his art. The work he returned to Paris from Assisi was noted for its religious themes.Over time, profound religious devotion influenced his artistic motif and religious symbolism and scenery crept into his work. This aspect of his life ran counter to Seurat's materialism and the two parted ways.Laurent is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Q6659736 Livingstone Clement Sargeant (born 15 April 1947 in Cotton Ground, Nevis), is a former West Indian cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Q4802299 Aruppola is a suburb of Kandy, Sri Lanka. Aruppola is about 4 kilometers from the heart of the Kandy City. Aruppola is popular for its government-funded Technical College. The population of Aruppola consists of mostly middle-class families who work for both the government and the private sector. Arruppola shares a border with the longest river in Sri Lanka, which is Mahaweli river.
Q5132726 Clifford George (Cliff) Pilkey (27 July 1922 – 17 November 2012) was a Canadian politician and trade union leader.Pilkey was an autoworker and United Auto Workers leader in Oshawa's Local 222 before being elected as an Alderman on Oshawa City Council. First elected in 1963, he served as an Alderman until the end of 1966.Pilkey was then elected to the Ontario legislature as the NDP MPP for Oshawa in the 1967 provincial election defeating a former fellow Alderman, Albert Walker. He served one term before being defeated in the 1971 provincial election.In 1976, he was elected president of the Ontario Federation of Labour. He retired from the OFL in 1986.Pilkey was given a Centennial Medal of Canada in 1967, was invested with the Order of Ontario on 11 April 1990 and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on 18 June 2012.His son, Allan Pilkey, was NDP MPP for Oshawa from 1990 to 1995.Cliff Pilkey died in hospital in Ajax, Ontario on 17 November 2012, aged 90, after a long illness.
Q6577882 Nat Sakdatorn (Thai: ณัฐ ศักดาทร) (born January 24, 1983) is a Thai singer-songwriter, actor, writer and the winner of the 4th season of reality talent show True Visions' Academy Fantasia.
Q5605112 Greenwoods was a chain of menswear stores with headquarters in Bradford, England.
Q6311748 Junction Knob (77°36′S 161°39′E) is a descriptive name given by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee to a small but distinctive peak at the junction of Odin Glacier and Alberich Glacier névé areas in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Q5526904 Gastón Minutillo (born December 19, 1987 in Mar del Plata) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Fénix of the Primera B Metropolitana.
Q7056905 Norrland dialects (Swedish: norrländska mål) is one of the six major dialect groupings of the Swedish language. It comprises the dialects in most of Norrland, except those of Gästrikland and southern Hälsingland, where Svealand Swedish is spoken. Local dialects from Härjedalen and northwest Jämtland (specifically Frostviken in Strömsund Municipality), which traditionally are counted as variants of the Norwegian dialect of Trøndersk, are also excluded, while Jämtland dialects and other dialects of the region are considered to be true Norrland dialects.The border between Norrland dialects and Svealand Swedish runs through Hälsingland, such that the northern Hälsingland dialects are regarded as Norrland dialects and the southern ones as Svealand Swedish; an alternative delineation follows the southern border of Medelpad.The old northern border of the Swedish language in coastal Norrbotten largely followed the eastern and northern borders of Lower and Upper Kalix parishes in modern Kalix Municipality. From there, a vaguely defined linguistic border ran through Lappmarken from the northernmost point of Upper Kalix parish in an arc to the south of Porjus, then followed the Lule River to the border with Norway.
Q17063874 Gudguhar (Persian: گودگوهر‎, also Romanized as Gūdgūhar) is a village in Khabar Rural District, Dehaj District, Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q16951976 The 2006 Barbarians rugby union tour was a series of matches played in May–June 2006 in by Barbarians F.C.. They played against Scotland, England and, for the first time, against Georgia.
Q150101 Citrus limettioides, Palestinian sweet lime or Indian sweet lime or common sweet lime, alternatively considered a cultivar of Citrus × limon, C. × limon 'Indian Lime', is a low acid lime that has been used in Palestine for food, juice and rootstock. It is a member of the sweet limes. Like the Meyer lemon, it is the result of a cross between the citron (Citrus medica) and a mandarin/pomelo hybrid distinct from sweet and sour oranges.It is not the same as the Limetta which is occasionally also called sweet lime.
Q10302903 The Instituto de Odivelas (IO) was a Portuguese military school for young girls, located at Odivelas. It was founded in 1900 and closed in 2015. The last official full name of the school was Instituto de Odivelas (Infante Dom Afonso) (Portuguese for "Institute of Odivelas (Prince Alfonse)").
Q6156366 The Universidad Autónoma del Carmen is an institution of higher education located in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. Founded on June 13, 1967, it is the successor to the Liceo Carmelita, which was established in 1854.
Q20708969 The discography for American country singer Jerrod Niemann consists of seven studio albums, twelve singles, and ten music videos.
Q17532979 Bridport Town Hall is an 18th-century town hall in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
Q9351346 Szeroki may refer to the following places in Poland:Szeroki BórSzeroki Bór PiskiSzeroki Kamień
Q3219638 Laurice Schehadé (also Laurice Schehadé-Benzoni; 1908-2008) was a Lebanese novelist and poet.
Q167776 Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age, is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors. Italian neorealism films mostly contend with the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, representing changes in the Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life, including poverty, oppression, injustice, and desperation.
Q4408308 Saraksh is a fictional planet described in Prisoners of Power ("Обитаемый остров") by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so-called Noon Universe and presents a world that survived an atomic war. As a result, the surface of the planet is mostly covered with debris and junk. This is a great problem for the survivors since many of the old war machines still endanger those living in the regions. For example, in one episode of "Prisoners of Power" the main character's aircraft gets shot down by an old air defense system.Saraksh is notable for its monstrous refraction in the atmosphere. From the surface it looks like the horizon is above the observer which makes the inhabitants of the planet think that they actually live inside a hollow cave in an endless piece of rock rather than on a round planet floating in space. The phenomenon of night and day change is explained by periodic changes in the clouds gathered in the middle of the "cave". In ancient times, there was a school of scientists who did not believe this theory. Their beliefs found little support within the normal populace, though they did inspire a curse word "Massaraksh" (literally: "the world inside-out"). In modern era, their theories gained new prominence when they were used to help to plot long-range ballistic missiles.
Q994738 Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist. As a priest, he was also known as Abbé Nollet.
Q7352893 Robin Cardwell Young (née Youngs) is an American television and radio personality. Young was born in Long Island, New York, attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Boston. She has been a Boston-based radio and television host since the late 1970s, when she hosted Evening Magazine for WBZ-TV. She is the sister of veteran film actor John Savage.She began in television as a secretary at Channel 38 in Boston in 1973. In 1975, she went on air as a radio announcer at WBZ (Boston). She made her first television appearance on WBZ-TV's Evening Magazine in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, Young was lead presenter, along with Tom Ellis, for the revamped evening newscasts on WNEV-TV (now WHDH) Channel 7. After one year, she switched her role at the station and began hosting and producing a number of primetime specials under her own production company, Young Visions. In 1988, Young was "Life" section anchor of USA Today: The Television Show, a nationally syndicated news program.She currently co-hosts National Public Radio's daily news magazine program Here and Now along with Jeremy Hobson. The show normally consists of five interview segments with reporters, politicians, artists, authors and experts on a given subject. It is broadcast from noon to 2 pm on WBUR and is distributed by NPR. In July 2013, Here and Now expanded to two hours. The show is produced at WBUR in Boston.Young has won the Peabody and CableACE Awards for documentary film making and five Emmy Awards for excellence in broadcasting.
Q5596386 Grant O. Gale Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Grinnell College Department of Physics. Robert Cadmus [1] typically observes. The observatory is located in Grinnell, Iowa (USA). Constructed in 1984, it is named after Grant O. Gale, a distinguished teacher and curator of the Grinnell Physics Historical Museum. Designed by Woodburn and O'Neil of Des Moines, the building is a 38-foot by 55-foot structure rising 26 feet to the top of the dome. It houses a 24-inch Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by DFM Engineering of Longmont, Colorado. The observatory houses two computer systems: the first controls the telescope and the second accommodates data acquisition and analysis and can be used to store television images. In addition to its primary function as an instructional and research tool, the observatory is also a facility for public viewing of astronomical phenomena under staff supervision.
Q5050162 Castle Island is an island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state in the United States. It is located just off the southern tip of Lopez Island.The island, having a formidable look, was named Old Hundred Island by the U.S. Coast Survey of 1855. It was given its present, descriptive name, by the British on the British Admiralty chart of 1858-60.
Q7420778 Sanya Mateyas (Croatian: Sanja Matejaš) is a Croatian–American actress and singer. She moved to the United States in 1999.She was a leader and a composer for her Los Angeles-based hard-rock band Duda Did It, with an independent album released in 2008.Other than her appearance in Disney's Holes, she has played in some short subjects and had numerous TV appearances. She was also a singer for Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Q8024392 Windows was a smooth jazz band formed in the early 1980s. The band issued eleven albums over a dozen years. Guided by bassist/vocalist Skipper Wise and his writing partner, keyboardist Ed Cohen, the group played a hybrid of fusion and smooth jazz. Peter White performed regularly on many Windows albums. Wise produced White's his first two albums. Windows' popularity peaked in 1989 with the number one radio album The French Laundry.
Q1164132 Port-Sainte-Marie is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.
Q5223335 Dark Mountain, formerly also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain in the Tanzilla Plateau of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of the settlement of Dease Lake, near Cry Lake.
Q4904662 Bierzów [ˈbjɛʐuf] (German Bierzdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarbimierz, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Skarbimierz, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Brzeg, and 45 km (28 mi) west of the regional capital Opole.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).The village has a population of 195.
Q6872817 Miranda Daphne Jane Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Smiley; 19 August 1939 – 30 December 2010), was the daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.
Q5082013 Charles Richard Elrington (1787–1850) was a Church of Ireland cleric and academic, regius professor of divinity in the University of Dublin.
Q3249341 This is a list of all waterways named as rivers in Lebanon. Lebanon has 22 rivers all of which are non navigable; 28 rivers originate on the western face of the Lebanon range and run through the steep gorges and into the Mediterranean Sea, the other 6 arise in the Beqaa Valley.
Q16012177 Ivan Tomašević (10 March 1897 – 31 August 1988) was a notable New Zealand labourer and political activist. He was born in Košarni Do, a village near Orebić, Croatia in 1897.
Q5847721 Jahangirak (Persian: جهانگیرک‎) is a village in Cheshmeh Ziarat Rural District, in the Mirjaveh of Zahedan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q15526928 Arthur Chichester (30 November 1783 – 16 July 1869) was an English politician.He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Honiton 8 January 1835.
Q19875892 The 1926–27 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1926–27 season. Under the fourth year of head coach J. Wilder Tasker (who concurrently served as the head football and baseball coach), the team finished the season with a 7–8 record. This was the 22nd season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe. William & Mary played the season as an independent.
Q10450492 Chlorochroa belfragii, or Belfragi's chlorochroan bug, is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America.
Q3846300 Marco Morosini (1605–1654) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brescia (1645–1654) and Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645).
Q905589 ThinkFree Office is a proprietary office suite written in Java and C++ that runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Android and iOS platforms.Thinkfree Office product family include Thinkfree Online which is the first MS-compatible web-based online office in the world, ThinkFree Office includes a word processor (Hword), a spreadsheet (Cell), a presentation program (Show.)The ThinkFree Office is owned by Hancom. While ThinkFree Office reads and writes Microsoft Office file formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt) and has a look and feel similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Hancom Thinkfree Office also uses a different set of proprietary file formats.
Q2353306 M-59 is an east–west state trunkline highway that crosses the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit in the US state of Michigan. It runs between Howell at Interstate 96 (I-96) and I-94 on the Chesterfield–Harrison township line near the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. While primarily a multi-lane surface highway, it is a full freeway from just east of downtown Pontiac near Opdyke Road to just east of the Mound Road/Merrill Road exit in Utica. The various surface highway segments are named either Highland Road, Huron Street or Hall Road, with the latter known as an area for shopping and dining. The rural sections west of Pontiac pass through Oakland County lake country crossing through two state recreational areas.M-59 was first designated with the rest of the original state trunkline highway system by July 1, 1919 between Pontiac and Mt. Clemens. Extensions on both ends brought the termini as far as Howell and New Baltimore before the current termini were established in the 1960s. M-59 was expanded into a freeway in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with additional expansions in the 1980s and 1990s to create the divided highway sections.
Q3391995 Plato Cacheris (born 1929) is an American lawyer.
Q1647681 Santa Lucía (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta luˈsi.a]) is a municipality in the Boaco department of Nicaragua. It has a population of 10,300 (2006, est.) and an extension of 120.78 km². The capital is the town of Santa Lucía located 94 km from Managua. Approx. 72% of the population lives in rural areas and 28% in the urban zones.
Q1007526 The blue-winged parakeet, also known as the Malabar parakeet (Psittacula columboides) is a species of parakeet endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India. Found in small flocks, they fly rapidly in forest clearings while making screeching calls that differ from those of other parakeet species within their distribution range. Their long blue tails tipped in yellow and the dark wings with blue contrast with the dull grey of their head and body. Adult males and females can be easily told apart from the colour of their beak.
Q7758744 The Punisher 1987 is the first ongoing comic book series starring the fictional Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher, following The Punisher limited series published the previous year. The series ran 104 issues from July 1987 to July 1995.
Q3183299 Jonathan's Coffee-House was a significant meeting place in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, famous as the original site of the London Stock Exchange. The coffee house was opened around 1680 by Jonathan Miles in Change (or Exchange) Alley, in the City of London. In 1696, several patrons were implicated in a plot to assassinate William III, and it was thought to be associated with the Popish Plots.In 1698, it was used by John Castaing to post the prices of stocks and commodities, the first evidence of systematic exchange of securities in London. That year, dealers expelled from the Royal Exchange for rowdiness migrated to Jonathan's (as well as to Garraway's Coffee-House).It was the scene of a number of critical events in the history of share trading, including the South Sea Bubble and the panic of 1745. It was destroyed by fire in 1748, and rebuilt. In 1761 a club of 150 brokers and jobbers was formed to trade stocks. The club built its own building in 1773 in Sweeting's Alley, which was dubbed the New Jonathan's, but was renamed the Stock Exchange and evolved into the London School of Economics.The original Jonathan's served as the home of a lottery office until it was destroyed by fire in 1748.
Q2174513 Dalmarnock railway station serves the area of Dalmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland. It is a station on the Argyle Line, 2¼ miles (4 km) south east of Glasgow Central. The northern part of the station is situated in a tunnel (as seen in the image). The station underwent a revamp for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Q369923 Lake Beyşehir (Turkish: Beyşehir Gölü) is a large freshwater lake in Konya provinces, southwestern part of Turkey. It is located at around 37°47′0″N 31°33′0″E and is the largest freshwater lake in Turkey. It has an area of 650 km² and is 45 km long and 20 km wide. It carries the same name as the principal urban centre of its region, Beyşehir.The lake is fed by streams flowing from the Sultan Mountains and the Anamas Mountains. The water level in the lake often fluctuates by year and by season. Lake Beyşehir is used for irrigation and aquaculture, although it is also a national park. There are thirty-two islets in varying sizes in the lake. Lake Beyşehir is also an important site for many bird species.The maximum depth is 10 metres.Water in the lake was at its lowest level during the period 1960-1990 in October 1975 at 1121.96 metres, with 64,500 hectares of water surface. The highest water level in the same period was 1125.50 metres in March 1981, with a surface area of 74,600 hectares.
Q6761407 Maria Cecília Marques (born May 5, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro) is a female water polo player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She played in a defending role in the national squad.
Q7087802 Oliver Paul "Ollie" Ryan (born 26 September 1985) is an English footballer. He played professionally with Lincoln City as a forward and currently is playing for Staveley Miners Welfare.
Q3713421 "Don't Come Around Here No More" is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. It was released in February 1985 as the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Southern Accents album.
Q5550122 Gerard Pappa (also known as "Gerry" and "Pappa Bear" (c. June 19, 1944 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - July, 1980 Borough Park, Brooklyn), was a former Colombo crime family associate and eventually a Genovese crime family soldier and known hitman who was widely feared for his violent tendencies, which directly contributed to his own murder in 1980.
Q7802647 Tillandsia multicaulis is a species in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico (from Chiapas north to Hidalgo).
Q7188557 Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Associate Judge for the Municipal Courts in the US city of Houston, Texas. Frye is the first openly transgender judge appointed in the United States.
Q13424044 Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration is a 2013 book written by retired NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David. The book was released on May 7, 2013 by National Geographic Books. In the book, Aldrin outlines his plan for humans to be able to colonize Mars by the year 2035. The books goes over a number of past and then current space concepts, policy, and future mission concepts. He encouraged future missions to not focus on strictly on Mars exploration, but also on Mars settlement.The books goes beyond just Mars missions to review the overall space exploration vision-scape, such as considering the viability of Lunar missions and international cooperation in space.National Geographic released a video trailer for the book.
Q19867578 Lisa E. Bloom (born 1958) is an American cultural critic, educator and feminist art historian specializing in polar studies, contemporary art, environmental art, history of photography, visual culture and film studies and is known for her books and essay contributions to these areas.
Q20856225 Palokë Nikaj (1892–1961) was a 20th-century Albanian athlete, sports events organizer, footballer, referee, and sports journalist. His pioneering activities in sports made him one of the most notable figures in organized sports in Albania. He is recognized as one of the most important initiators of the creation of KF Vllaznia Shkodër, but he also helped create KF Tirana, by being its first coach.phe
Q28219837 Adranon (present day Adrano) is ancient polis and archaeological site on the southwestern slopes of Mount Etna, near Simeto River, known for the "simetite" variety of amber" northwest of Catania. The ancient city was founded by the ancient Greek ruler Dionysius I of Syracuse around 400 BCE upon a pre-Hellenic neolithic settlement, near a temple dedicated to the god Adranus, worshiped throughout Sicily. Adranus was associated with volcanoes and equated eventually with Hephaestus. The city was conquered by Timoleon at 343-342 BCE and subjugated to Rome in 263 BCE. Romans declared it a civitas stipendiaria (city that had to pay tribute to Rome).
Q2013015 The Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP, French: Observatoire de Haute-Provence) is an astronomical observatory in the southeast of France, about 90 km east of Avignon and 100 km north of Marseille. It was established in 1937 as a national facility for French astronomers. Astronomical observations began in 1943 using the 1.20 m telescope, and the first research papers based on observations made at the observatory were published in 1944. Foreign observers first used the observatory in 1949, when Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge visited.The observatory lies at an altitude of about 650 m, on a plateau near the village of Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département at 43°55′51″N 5°42′48″ECoordinates: 43°55′51″N 5°42′48″E.The site was chosen for an observatory because of its generally very favourable observing conditions. On average, 60% of nights are suitable for astronomical observations, with the best seasons are Summer and Autumn. About 170 nights per year on average are completely cloudless. The seeing is usually around 2" but can reach 1" or lower on occasion. Seeing degrades severely, sometimes to over 10", when the cold Mistral wind blows from the northwest. This happens on about 45 days per year on average, mostly during winter. Good weather conditions often follow a Mistral. On average, atmospheric absorption at OHP is roughly twice that seen at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at La Silla, Chile.The main-belt asteroid 7755 Haute-Provence, discovered by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst in 1989, was named for the region where the discovering observatory is located.
Q6915820 Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz (February 27, 1844 – March 4, 1910), also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater. Jacob Adler describes him as an "authorit[y] on dramaturgy", but also remarks that before being part of the Yiddish theater in London in the mid-1880s he had "wandered in different lands, involved himself in various undertakings, and then moved on often leaving, it is said not altogether pleasant memories behind him." He was one of the few figures in the early years of Yiddish theater who did not participate in the boom years in Imperial Russia (1879–1883).Famous for the speed with which he turned out his plays (usually in no more than three days), he would sometimes start actors rehearsing the first two acts of a play while he wrote the third backstage.
Q4078370 Alexander Grigoryevich Barmin (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Бармин Aleksandr Grigoryevich Barmin; 16 August 1899 – 25 December 1987), most commonly "Alexander Barmine," was an officer in the Soviet Army who fled the purges of the Joseph Stalin era for France and then United States, where he served the US government (including the OSS, VOA, and USIA) and also testified before congressional committees (including the SISS .
Q1606627 Henry Andrews Cotton (18 May 1876 – 8 May 1933) was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton (now the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, previously the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum) in Trenton, New Jersey from 1907 to 1930. He and his staff practiced experimental surgical bacteriology on patients, including the routine removal of some or all of patients' teeth, their tonsils, and frequently spleens, colons, ovaries, and other organs. These practices continued long after careful statistical reviews falsified Cotton's claims of extraordinarily high cure rates, and demonstrated very high mortality and morbidity as a result of these aggressive and dangerous measures. After becoming medical director of Trenton State Hospital at the age of 30, Cotton instituted many progressive ideas. These included abolishing mechanical restraints and implementing meetings of daily staff to thrash out patient care.His enthusiasm for the scientific medicine that was taking hold at the opening of the 20th century led him to an unshakable belief that mental illness of all kinds was the result of untreated infections in the body. Based on the observation that patients with high fever often turn delusional or begin hallucinating, Meyer introduced the possibility of mental illness (then viewed as the cutting edge concept of scientific medicine) being a biological cause of behavioral abnormalities, in contrast to eugenic theories which emphasized heredity and to Freud's theories of childhood traumas. Cotton would become the leading practitioner of the new approach in the United States.
Q903232 In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups. It is named after the German crystallographer Carl Hermann (who introduced it in 1928) and the French mineralogist Charles-Victor Mauguin (who modified it in 1931). This notation is sometimes called international notation, because it was adopted as standard by the International Tables For Crystallography since their first edition in 1935.The Hermann–Mauguin notation, compared with the Schoenflies notation, is preferred in crystallography because it can easily be used to include translational symmetry elements, and it specifies the directions of the symmetry axes.
Q5546495 George Woodcock, (20 October 1904 – 30 October 1979) was a British trade unionist and general secretary of the Trades Union Congress from 1960 to 1969.Born and brought up in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, he started work at age 12 in the local cotton mill. He became, in 1924, an official of the Bamber Bridge and District Weavers' Union. He was also active in the Independent Labour Party and the Labour Party. In 1929 he won a TUC scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1929. Having distinguished himself at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and following two years in the civil service, Woodcock joined the TUC in 1936 as head of the research and economic department. Here, Woodcock was much influenced by leading moderates in the trade union movement, such as Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin, and also by the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes.In 1947 he became the TUC's Assistant General Secretary and in 1960, was appointed General Secretary, serving in that position until 1969. In 1970 Woodcock was a candidate for the Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury, but lost to Jo Grimond.
Q6119246 Jacob Schueler (died 1918) was a confectionery proprietor in the city of Denver during the early 1870s. Born in Germany's Rhineland in 1835, he immigrated to America in 1850, and arrived in Denver as one of the Pikes Peakers in 1861. He soon went to serve in the American Civil War and returned. In 1873, he teamed with fellow German immigrant Adolph Coors, investing $18,000 to Coors $2000, to start the Golden Brewery, now known as Coors Brewery, at Golden, Colorado. He continued to operate his other businesses, including a successful bakery and bottling plant in Denver. In 1880 Coors had made enough money to repay his partner's interest, and Schueler sold out to him. In 1889, Schueler went into business with Morris Stackder in Aspen, building the Schueler-Stackder Concentrating mill. In later years Schueler became famous for Rocky Mountain spring water in his own right, running the Ute Chief Mineral Springs bottling works at Manitou Springs, Colorado by the early 20th Century. After a great fire that burnt the bottling plant, the business was never the same.
Q5635238 HM Prison Northallerton was a prison in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. It operated from 1788 until December 2013. During that time, it variously housed male and female adult prisoners, women with children, youth offenders, and military prisoners. Latterly Her Majesty's Prison Service struggled to keep the old prison operating to modern standards, and citing the costs of doing so and the relatively small size of the institution, it closed the prison in 2013. The prison was bought by Hambleton District Council, which plans to redevelop the site.
Q5139971 Code: Version 2.0 is a 2006 book by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig which proposes that governments have broad regulatory powers over the Internet. The book is released under a Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Q2658104 Rosa carolina, commonly known as the Carolina rose, pasture rose, or low rose, is a shrub in the rose family native to eastern North America, where it can be found in nearly all US states and Canadian provinces east of the Great Plains.It is common throughout its range and can be found in a wide variety of open habitats, from thickets and open woods to roadsides and along railroads.
Q5189847 Cruden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Aaron Cruden (born 1989), New Zealand rugby playerAlexander Cruden (1699–1770), Scottish authorDamian Cruden, British theatre directorWilliam Cruden (1726–1785), Scottish minister and author
Q6886805 The order of battle for the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
Q1048350 Cassidy Hugaert Haley is an American singer-songwriter and clothing designer based in Los Angeles.
Q13561649 Bonnie "Boni" Blackstone (born November 8, 1965) is a retired American professional wrestling announcer, commentator, model, television and radio producer. She was a popular on-air personality in regional territories of the Southern United States during the 1980s, as part of the announcing team in the Global Wrestling Federation and briefly the World Wrestling Federation, as well as the longtime co-host of Superstars of Wrestling with husband Joe Pedicino and Gordon Solie from 1986 to 1992. She was one of the earliest, if not the first, female announcers in professional wrestling and has been praised by fellow women in the industry, such as Missy Hyatt, for portraying a more serious and intelligent personality in contrast to the typical wrestling valet.She retired from wrestling in 1995, and eventually followed her husband into the radio industry. They produced and co-hosted WTLK TV-14 infomercial "Shoppers' Showcase" and, in 2000, began hosting Pro Wrestling this Week on FOX Sports Radio. Blackstone and Pedicino are also the owners of a successful publishing company, Food Fax, which puts out six specialty advertising guides a year. The company originally sent out fax listings to office workers listing lunch menus and daily specials from over 1,000 local restaurants in Cobb County, Georgia. It was the first of its kind to offer such service.
Q2076629 Peter Lenes (born April 3, 1986) is an American ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Dornbirner EC of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).Prior to turning professional, Lenes attended the University of Vermont where he played four seasons of NCAA Division I college hockey with the Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey team where he scored 46 goals and 46 assists for 92 points in 148 games.On January 11, 2012, the Trenton Titans of the ECHL traded Lenes, along with defenseman Jordon Southorn, to the Wheeling Nailers in exchange for future considerations.On July 31, 2013, Lenes returned for to attempt a second stint in Austria, signing a try-out deal as a free agent with Dornbirner EC.
Q6603354 The first V8SuperTourer race was at Hampton Downs on February 18, 2012 with Greg Murphy taking the first ever race win.
Q3162884 MusicaNeo is a global online music platform for free publishing and sale of digital sheet music and performing licenses. The platform caters for all categories of music lovers – professional composers, arrangers, teachers, conductors, text authors, editors, as well as amateur musicians.
Q7267417 Qeshlaq (Persian: قشلاق‎, also Romanized as Qeshlāq) is a village in Tombi Golgir Rural District, Golgir District, Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q25110680 In 2014–15 season the club competed in both parts of Basketball League of Serbia and Radivoj Korać Cup.
Q4462684 Vladimir Nikolaevich Tretyakov (1953 in Arkhangelsk, RSFSR – August 19, 1979), known as the "Arkhangelsk Butcher", was a Soviet serial killer who killed seven women in his hometown between 1977 and 1978.
Q6092032 In metaphysics, the problem of universals refers to the question of whether properties exist, and if so, what they are. Properties are qualities or relations that two or more entities have in common. The various kinds of properties, such as qualities and relations, are referred to as universals. For instance, one can imagine three cup holders on a table that have in common the quality of being circular or exemplifying circularity, or two daughters that have in common being the female offsprings of Frank. There are many such properties, such as being human, red, male or female, liquid, big or small, taller than, father of, etc. While philosophers agree that human beings talk and think about properties, they disagree on whether these universals exist in reality or merely in thought and speech.The problem of universals relates to a number of questions in close relation to not only metaphysics but, to logic and epistemology, all in efforts to understand how the thought of universals has a connection to those of singular properties.
Q2482872 Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group. The label has been dormant since 2005, due to Universal Motown and Universal Republic Records being formed and taking all of the artists from it. Those labels were eventually combined to form the latest iteration of Republic Records.
Q6068561 The Ireland Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. It is one of many Yearly Meetings (YM's) of Friends around the world.In Ireland there are 27 local (preparative) meetings. These are grouped into 7 regional Monthly meetings, which are in turn grouped together in 3 provincial (quarterly) meetings. The three quarterly meetings together constitute the Ireland YM. There are between 1000 and 2000 Friends in Ireland.A notable aspect of the Ireland YM is that it encompasses meetings with widely divergent Christian viewpoints from theologically conservative (evangelical) to theologically liberal. All meetings under its care are in the unprogrammed tradition. It also includes meetings both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
Q1285099 Radimir Čačić (pronounced [râdimiːr tʃâtʃitɕ]; born 11 May 1949) is a Croatian politician and businessman, best known as a leader of the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) and a government minister.Čačić served as the president of the HNS between 1995 and 2000. Following the 2000 Croatian parliamentary election, he became part of the Cabinet of Ivica Račan I where he notably spearheaded the construction of motorways.He was elected president of HNS again in 2008. Following the 2011 parliamentary election, as the leader of the second-largest party in the four-party Kukuriku coalition, Čačić became Deputy Prime Minister, as well as Minister of Economy, in the Government of Zoran Milanović.After causing a car crash that resulted in two fatalities, a Hungarian court sentenced him to 22 months in prison in November 2012. He resigned from his government post, and was ejected from HNS in 2013. After serving his prison sentence, Čačić returned to politics with a new political party, the People's Party - Reformists. In 2017. he was elected for zupan/prefect of Varazdin county.
Q7192969 Pietro Fontana was an early 19th-century engineer. He was Secretary of the Accademia degli Ottusi di Spoleto (known later as the Accademia Spoletina) and founded the Società Agraria Spoletina. In 1812 he discovered the veins of lignite near Ruscio that were later exploited as an important mine.
Q5213775 Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition.
Q5081976 Charles Regan (11 May 1842 – 17 May 1921) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1877.Regan was born in Barnsley and became a brewer's traveller. Between 1873 and 1881 he was living variously in Romford, Essex, Barnsley and Croydon, Surrey.Regan made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1877 season in May against Lancashire when he made his top score of 22. He played in the next four matches for the county until the middle of June. He batted in the upper-middle order throughout his short spell at the club.Regan was a right-handed batsman who played 10 innings in 5 first-class matches with an average of 9.00 and a top score of 22. In 1884, he appeared for Essex against Surrey in a match without status.Regan died in Southend-on-Sea at the age of 79.
Q5509538 Furifuri: Futsū no Mainichi ni Warikonde Kita, Fushigi na Rinjin-tachi no Ohanashi Ohanashi (Japanese: ふりフリ ～ふつうのまいにちにわりこんできた、フシギなリンジンたちのおはなしおはなし～), commonly shortened to simply Furifuri, is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by 130cm released on August 29, 2008, for the PC as a DVD. Furifuri is described by the development team as an everyday interruption adventure game (日常割り込み系ＡＶＧ, Nichijiō Warikomi-kei AVG), and is the fifth title to be developed by 130 cm, after their previous titles such as Princess Bride. The gameplay in Furifuri follows a linear plot line, which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the five female main characters.
Q580801 Lisewiec [liˈsɛvjɛt͡s] (German: Lissau bei Kahlbude) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolbudy, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Kolbudy, 10 km (6 mi) west of Pruszcz Gdański, and 17 km (11 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.The village has a population of 218.
Q7830080 Town on Trial is a 1957 British mystery film directed by John Guillermin and starring John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates and Derek Farr. A whole town comes under suspicion when two grisly murders are carried out—particularly members of the local sports club.
Q16917712 Leucodictyon is a genus of cercozoa.It includes the species Leucodictyon marinum.
Q7172648 Peter Anthony Baker (born 18 September 1945 – 3 October 2000) was an English cricketer. Baker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break, although he primarily played as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Crowthorne, Berkshire and educated at Cheltenham College.Baker made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Berkshire in 1962 against Dorset. From 1962 to 1978, he represented the county in 40 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came in the 1978 Championship when Berkshire played Buckinghamshire.Additionally, he also played 2 List-A matches for Berkshire. His List-A debut for the county came against Hertfordshire in the 1st round of the 1966 Gillette Cup. His second and final List-A match came in the 2nd round of the same competition when Berkshire played Gloucestershire at Church Road Cricket Ground, Reading. In his 2 matches, he scored 14 runs at a batting average of 7.00, with a high score of 9.Baker represented Oxfordshire in a single Minor Counties Championship match in 1981 against Devon. In 1985, Baker played his only career MCCA Knockout Trophy match for Oxfordshire against Shropshire.Baker died at Stourton, Warwickshire on 3 October 2000.
Q6145497 James Wightman Davidson (1 October 1915 – 8 April 1973) was a New Zealand historian and constitutional adviser. Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University from 1950 to 1973, Davidson has been described as the "founding father of modern Pacific Islands historiography as well as constitutional adviser to a succession of Island territories in the throes of decolonisation".
Q18156846 Pinckneyville is a historic frontier settlement site located near Union, Union County, South Carolina. Pinckneyville was established on February 19, 1791 by the General Assembly of South Carolina Act #1491 along with the Washington district, and is one of the earliest settlements in the South Carolina backcountry.The property includes the original site of Pinckneyville and contains the ruins of the brick structure mistakenly referred to as the jail and one other brick building, usually referred to as the old store.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Q2710906 Melanophryniscus stelzneri (bumblebee toad or black-and-yellow walking toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae which is endemic to Argentina and is harvested for the pet trade. Two subspecies are recognized.
Q22935610 Jane Nambakire Mulemwa is a Ugandan chemist and educator. She is the chairperson of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda .