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Q3221506 Le Club des 100 Watts was a youth TV show aired on Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) from 1988 to 1994. It was hosted by Marc-André Coallier. It also featured Quebec celebrities such as Marc Labrèche.
Q15261674 Nene Park is a country park in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. Opened in 1978, it occupies a site approximately three and a half miles long, from slightly west of Castor to the centre of Peterborough. The Park has three lakes, one of which has a watersports centre which provide...
Q1342686 Staf Scheirlinckx (born 12 March 1979 in Herzele) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, the brother of another professional cyclist, Bert Scheirlinckx.Scheirlinckx was one of the tallest riders in the professional peloton at 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in), and was known primarily as a domestique, particular...
Q2448873 In medicine, the presence of elevated transaminases, commonly the transaminases alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST), may be an indicator of liver damage. Other terms employed include transaminasemia, transaminitis (which some sources consider pathologically meaningless) and elevated liv...
Q2424725 "The Legend of Perm Bear" (Russian: "Легенда о пермском медведе") or "The Walking Bear" (Russian: "Идущий медведь") is a sculpture in Perm, which depicts a walking bear (the symbol depicted on the coat of arms of city). It is situated in the central part of city, at the Lenin Street, in front of Organ Concert ...
Q16217267 Jermaine Fagan also known as Prince (born 24 September 1978) is a reggae musician. He was born in Saint Thomas, Jamaica and raised in Portmore.
Q7903035 Utricularia cymbantha is a very small suspended aquatic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). It is an annual plant. Its native distribution includes tropical and South Africa.
Q5042030 Carlos Roberto Elías Galliani (born March 23, 1988, in Callao) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a striker for Cienciano in the Torneo Descentralizado.Elías played for Peru at the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Peru.
Q8074172 Zoombak Inc was a U.S.-based company which developed GPS tracking devices for people and items. It used satellite-enabled GPS and a location network server for tracking. In 2011, Securus, Inc. acquired Zoombak, LLC from TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media.In March 2015 it was announced that Brick...
Q5650158 Hans Hoffmann (born December 2, 1919) was an SS-Rottenführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.Born in India, Hoffmann was a German national with Yugoslavian citizenship. He worked as a locksmith. Following the invasion by Nazi forces, Hoffmann was dr...
Q1223449 Lars Herminius Aquilinus was consul in 448 BC with Titus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus. Their year of office was relatively peaceful, as neither consul took sides in the conflict between the patricians and the plebeians.Lars' filiation, "T. f.", indicates that his father was named Titus. He may have bee...
Q6770139 Mark Velasquez is a photographer who competed on the first season of Bravo's reality television competition, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
Q2654770 Ken Krueger (October 7, 1926 – November 21, 2009) was an American publisher and retailer. Krueger co-founded and organized the first San Diego Comic-Con International convention, then called "San Diego's Golden State Comic-Con," in 1970. Krueger co-created the annual convention with a group of San Diego friend...
Q5724518 Pir Kola Chah (Persian: پيركلاچاه‎, also Romanized as Pīr Kolā Chāh; also known as Pīr Kelā Chāy, Pīrkolāchā, Pīr Kolā Chāy, Pīr Kuleh Chāh, Pīr Kūleh Jāh, and Pirkulekh-Chakh) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its populati...
Q18795450 Songs of Prey is the fifth album by English rock group The Scaramanga Six and the first to feature the band’s long-term drummer Gareth Champion.
Q25111886 CodigoDelSur is an integral digital product creation company based in Montevideo, Uruguay, developing mobile apps for US companies based in New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Chicago. They provide iOS and Android integral app development, web design, and strategy.
Q24572449 Chikkamadu S was an Indian Politician from the state of Karnataka. He was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Q28448618 The 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars season was the franchise's 23rd season in the National Football League and the first under head coach Doug Marrone. Marrone was hired after acting as the team's interim head coach for the final two games of the 2016 season. The team improved on their 3–13 record from 2016 and end...
Q29913421 Marcus Tucker (born June 24, 1992) is an American football wide receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He played college football at Northern Michigan and signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2016.
Q18113579 Podabrus is a genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 110 described species in Podabrus.Many Podabrus appear to mimic fireflies, such as the winter firefly.
Q3733745 In addition to numbered highways, Yukon has several other roads that are maintained by the territorial government.The Aishihik Road (pronounced aysh-ee-ack) is an 84-mile road from the Alaska Highway at Canyon Creek (historic mile 996) to the former airfield of Aishihik at the north end of Aishihik Lake. The ...
Q1290668 Ni-Vanuatu is a large group of closely related Melanesian ethnic groups native to the island country of Vanuatu. As such, Ni-Vanuatu are a mixed ethnolinguistic group with a shared ethnogenesis that speak a multitude of languages. It is more frequently used than the demonym Vanuatuan, which is regarded as inco...
Q3018474 John David Molson (June 1, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and sports executive. A member of the Molson family, he served as the president of the Montreal Canadiens for nine years.
Q3132276 Henri (de) Gissey (ca 1621 – 1673) was a French draughtsman and designer who held the post of dessinateur de la Chambre et du cabinet de Roi in the Menus Plaisirs du Roi in the early years of Louis XIV of France. Jean Bérain the Elder, who succeeded him in the post, is likely to have been in some sense his pup...
Q7167872 Perenniporia subacida is a species of poroid fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a plant pathogen that infects Douglas firs. The fungus was originally described in 1885 by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck. Marinus Anton Donk transferred it to the genus Perenniporia in 1967. The four varieties of th...
Q5628646 Spring Lake School District is a public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Spring Lake, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 292 students and 26.6 classroom teachers (on an...
Q3435531 Robert Jaulin (7 March 1928, Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes – 21 November 1996, Grosrouvre) was a French ethnologist. After several journeys to Chad, between 1954 and 1959, among the Sara people, he published in 1967 La Mort Sara (The Sara Death) in which he exposed the various initiation rites through which he ha...
Q1779957 Ane Dahl Torp (born 1 August 1975 in Bærum, Norway) is a Norwegian actress.
Q5137754 The Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 was an Act of Parliament which gave minimum wage protection to coal miners. It was passed in response to strikes over pay which occurred in the same year.
Q22096347 The Findlay Oilers are the athletic teams that represent the University of Findlay, located in Findlay, Ohio, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sporting competitions. The Oilers currently compete as members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The Oilers were a member of the GLIAC since 1997, when the...
Q4771281 Antennas Up is an indie pop rock band from Kansas City, Missouri."Whether they’re creating funky, groovy beats, infectious driving pop or atmospheric noises, Antennas Up takes a fresh approach to every song."Since forming in 2008, the four-some has performed alongside national acts such as Jack's Mannequin, Gi...
Q7931879 Vincent W. Kosuga (January 17, 1915 – January 19, 2001) was an American onion farmer and commodity trader best known for manipulating the onion futures market. Public outcry over his practices led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act, which banned the trading of futures contracts on onions.
Q17040897 Virsa Singh Valtoha is an Indian politician and belongs to Shiromani Akali Dal party. He is a former member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly who represented Khem Karan.He was former Chief spokesperson of Shiromani Akali Dal and also served as District President of the party.
Q17825162 Alkaline phosphatase, placental-like 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ALPPL2 gene.
Q5826635 Hasanabad (Persian: حسن اباد‎, also Romanized as Ḩasanābād; also known as Esmālābād) is a village in Mobarakeh Rural District, in the Central District of Bafq County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q11540757 At least two Japanese naval ships have been named Shii (椎 / しい, "castanopsis") :Japanese destroyer Shii, a Tachibana-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War IIJDS Shii (PF-17, PF-297), a Kusu-class patrol frigate of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, formerly USS Long Beach (PF-34)
Q18175209 John Wu Shi-zhen (January 19, 1921 – August 25, 2014) was a Roman Catholic archbishop.Born in China, Wu Shi-zhen was ordained a priest in 1949. In September 6, 1987, he was clandestinely consecrated as bishop, and from 1990 to 2011 was an archbishop ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nanchang.
Q631660 Turid Rugaas is a Norwegian dog trainer. Rugaas got her first dog in 1948 and has been training since 1969. She set up her dog school Hagan Hundeskole in 1984 on her farm on overlooking the fjords of Norway. She started educating other dog trainers and giving seminars 1992. Since then conducted workshops in 12 ...
Q2943389 The Dream Team (French: Les seigneurs) is a 2012 French comedy film directed by Olivier Dahan.
Q5581210 Jean Bolinder (born 5 December 1935, in Linköping) is a Swedish author. He debuted in 1967 with the crime novel "Skulle jag sörja då..." in which he introduces the character Jöran and Marianne Bundin as problem solvers. The fictional couple has since appeared in several of Bolinders books. Jean Bolinder was bo...
Q55432 John Woo SBS (Chinese: 吳宇森; born May 1, 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker, writer, and actor. He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to neo-noir, ‘’wuxia’’ and ...
Q17018380 In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature. It typically indicates a large, open bay, often only slightly receding. It is distinguished from a sound by being shallower. Traditionally, explorers defined a bight as a bay that could be sailed out of on a single ...
Q6875295 In law, misconduct is wrongful, improper, or unlawful conduct motivated by premeditated or intentional purpose or by obstinate indifference to the consequences of one's acts. Misconduct can be considered an unacceptable or improper behavior, especially for a professional person. Two categories of misconduct ar...
Q5244547 The College of Science (COS) of De La Salle University was originally part of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1982, the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics separated to form the College of Science while the liberal arts departments formed the College of Liberal Arts. Although the Co...
Q1936466 Mindflow is a progressive metal band from Brazil. The band was founded in 2003, and they released their first album, Just the Two of Us... Me and Them, the following year. This album turned out to become a great success and has been the record company's bestseller for more than two years, and still is. Their s...
Q4433619 This is a list of diplomatic missions of Panama, excluding honorary consulates. Panama's status as major flag state for maritime vessels and owner of the Panama Canal has led to Panama opening missions in cities with significant harbour traffic, such as Antwerp, Rotterdam, Tampa and Kobe.
Q2991836 Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (أبوالفتح عبدالرحمن منصور الخازنی (Persian), flourished 1115–1130) was an astronomer of Greek origin from Seljuk Persia. His astronomical tables written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar (Zīj al-Sanjarī, 1115) is considered to be one of the m...
Q1159377 "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" is the second single from Lament, Ultravox's seventh studio album, released in 1984.The single effectively put Ultravox back on the map, peaking at no. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and reaching the top 10 in several European countries. The song also entered the Australian and Cana...
Q389599 Anderson's white-bellied rat (Niviventer andersoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to China and known from Yunnan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi provinces. Its range might extend to northern Guizhou. It inhabits montane forest at elevations of 2,000–3,000 m (6,600–9,800 ft) above sea level.I...
Q6703354 Lumley v Gye [1853] EWHC QB J73 is a foundational English tort law case, heard in 1853, in the field of economic tort. It held that one may claim damages from a third person who interferes in the performance of a contract by another.Arising out of the same facts is also Lumley v Wagner, where Mr Lumley success...
Q951557 Wuxi Sports Center (Simplified Chinese: 无锡市体育中心) is a multi-use stadium in Wuxi, China. It is currently used mostly for soccer matches. The stadium holds 30,000 people.
Q3934794 Richard Dresser (born c. 1951) is an American playwright and screenwriter, whose work has been widely performed in theaters across the United States, as well as in Europe. In addition to his plays, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Good Vibrations and the musical Johnny Baseball. Dresser has also serv...
Q3729161 The third season of the American television series MacGyver, consisting of 20 episodes, began on September 21, 1987, and ended on May 4, 1988 and aired on the ABC network. The region 1 DVD was released on September 6, 2005.
Q6838570 Mickey's Warriors is a 1930 short film in Larry Darmour's Mickey McGuire series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters on May 25, 1930 by RKO.
Q6186981 Jesse Williams (born November 2, 1990), nicknamed "Tha Monstar", is an Australian former American football defensive tackle. Williams played college football for the University of Alabama, where he was a starter on the defensive line for the 2011 and 2012 national championship teams. The Seahawks chose him in ...
Q17005195 The Heart of Christmas is the first holiday studio album by Christian Contemporary/pop-rock musician Matthew West. It was released on October 4, 2011 through Sparrow Records. The album was produced by Brown Bannister and Pete Kipley. The album has achieved commercial charting successes, as well as, it has gar...
Q18148405 Equality Texas is a statewide political advocacy organization in Texas that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, including same-sex marriage.
Q19645985 The following lists events that happened during 2002 in East Timor.
Q19661289 Caroline Sohgian is a Palestinian footballer who plays as aforward.
Q14702249 Estola basinotata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1866. It is known from Brazil, French Guiana, and Ecuador.
Q513878 Rutland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2010 census, the population was 61,642, making it the second-most populous county in Vermont. Its county seat and most populous municipality is the city of Rutland. It is named after the English county of Rutland.
Q713527 Péter Kuczka (Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1 March 1923 – Budapest, Hungary, 8 December 1999) was a Hungarian writer, poet and science fiction editor.After finishing high school, Kuczka studied at the University of Economy in Hungary while working several jobs. He started writing after the end of World War II and f...
Q78295 Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German zoologist and palaeontologist.
Q7574986 Specific granules are secretory vesicles found exclusively in cells of the immune system called granulocytes.It is sometimes described as applying specifically to neutrophils, and sometimes the term is applied to other types of cells.These granules store a mixture of cytotoxic molecules, including many enzymes...
Q5210324 Dr. Dale A. Lunsford is the sixth president of LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. He assumed that post on July 1, 2007, succeeding Alvin O. Austin. Lunsford's inauguration was held on November 1, 2007 in the newly opened S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center.
Q6383358 Keewaydin is a neighborhood in the Nokomis community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are Minnehaha Parkway to the north, 34th Avenue to the east, 54th Street to the south, and Cedar Avenue to the west. The neighborhood contains the majority of Lake Nokomis. It shares a neighborhood organization with ...
Q2886388 Al Basateen (Arabic:بساتين), is a village in Aley District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon.
Q6494739 Last Tribe was a Swedish heavy metal/power metal band founded by guitarist Magnus Karlsson. Karlsson was born south of Sweden in 1973. He started playing guitar at age 10 and quickly joined many bands. In 1996, he started an education at Malmö College Of Music and was awarded a master's degree in music educati...
Q7639881 Sundsvallsflyg was a small regional airline based in Sundsvall, Sweden. Their own staff worked partly as ground personnel and as cabin crew on the aircraft, which were operated by Braathens Regional. Sundsvallflyg was part of the now dissolved brand Sverigeflyg which incorporated several small domestic airline...
Q7253882 Prętkowice [prɛntkɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Śmigiel, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
Q6409503 Kim Thatcher (born 1964) is an American politician. She is currently a Republican state senator from Oregon's Senate District 13, having won election in 2014. Prior to becoming a senator, she was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from House District 25. She is a resident of Keizer.
Q5546592 George Yates (21 August 1858 — 21 July 1933) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1883.Yates was born at Bolsover, Derbyshire and became a coal miner. Yates played one first-class match for Derbyshire in the 1883 season, against Marylebone Cricket Club in July, which finish...
Q7567426 South Harewood is a hamlet and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population according to the Post Office was included in the civil parish of Wherwell. Its nearest town is Andover, which lies approximately 2.5 miles (5.7 km) north-west from the hamlet.
Q6937277 Murali Krishna Chemuturi (popularly known as Murali Chemuturi) (born 28 June 1950) is an Indian software development expert. He authored ten books, six on software development management, one on management, two translations (Ramayana, and Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit into English) and one on personality engine...
Q5585065 Gordon Henry Dixon, (born 25 March 1930) was a Canadian biochemist, and professor at University of Calgary.He won the 1980 Flavelle Medal.He lived in Victoria, British Columbia, where he died on July 24, 2016.
Q1910760 Matucana paucicostata is a cactus in the genus Matucana of the family Cactaceae. The epithet paucicostata derives from the Latin paucicostatus, meaning little ripped.
Q3771539 Giuseppe Tonucci (9 March 1938 – 11 October 1988) was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Q2041597 Babaići (Бабаићи) is a village in Bijelo Polje Municipality, in northern Montenegro. According to the 2003 census, the village had a population of 105.
Q2654970 Euphylidorea aperta is a Palearctic species of cranefly in the family Limoniidae. It is found in a wide range of habitats and micro habitats: in earth rich with humus, in swamps and marshes, in leaf litter, and in wet spots within the woods.
Q299710 This is a Manchu name; the clan name is Aisin Gioro.The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), personal name Zaitian, was the 11th Emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, without Empress Dowage...
Q297881 Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 – 26 December 1969) was a French novelist, poet and journalist.Born in the family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that...
Q14479702 William Walter Keeton (30 April 1905 – 10 October 1980) was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1934 and 1939. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1940 and played first-class cricket as a right-handed opening batsman between 1926 and 1952 for Nottinghamshire. Keeton scored a century against e...
Q2715603 Sirugamani is a panchayat town in Tiruchirappalli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It's situated on the banks of river cauvery, just a few miles away from Trichy on the way towards Karur. To be specific, it is in between Perugamani and Kaavalkara Palayam near Pettavaaithalai.
Q145516 Acalypha rubrinervis (string tree or stringwood) is an extinct plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), from the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was called string tree on account of the thin pendulous inflorescences which resembled red strings. Disturbance following human settlement on...
Q2454207 Million Dollar Duck (also titled as $1,000,000 Duck) is a 1971 American comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions about a goose that lays golden eggs scenario. It was directed by Vincent McEveety, and stars Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan and Joe Flynn.
Q2347371 Hylkje is a village in the borough of Åsane in Bergen, Norway. On January 1, 2008, the population of the Hylkje urban area was 2137. The urban area covered a land area of 2.59 square kilometres, and had a population density of 825 per square kilometre. European route E39 runs through Hylkje.
Q6951512 In enzymology, a N-sulfoglucosamine-3-sulfatase (EC 3.1.6.15) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction of cleaving off the 3-sulfate groups of the N-sulfo-D-glucosamine 3-O-sulfate units of heparin.This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on sulfuric ester bonds. The...
Q7956817 WVGA (105.9 FM) better known as "Newstalk 105.9" is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lakeland, Georgia, United States, the station serves the Valdosta, Georgia area. The station is currently owned by WVGA.
Q330591 Abraham Scultetus (24 August 1566 – 24 October 1625) was a German professor of theology, and the court preacher for the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V.
Q5310024 DuVal High School (DHS) is a comprehensive public four-year high school in the Seabrook census-designated place in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, with a Lanham postal address. Prior to 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau defined the area containing DuVal High as being within the Goddard CDP.The schoo...
Q11519292 Shokokaigisho-mae Station (商工会議所前駅, Shōkōkaigisho-mae-eki) is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line station located in the city of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Q5245262 Dead Lucky is a 1960 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, Alfred Burke and Michael Ripper. A crime reporter teams up with a fashion journalist to investigate illegal goings-on at a Mayfair gambling club. The film was produced by Robert Dun...
Q5320114 Dávid Hudák (born 21 March 1993) is a Slovak football defender who currently plays for Mezőkövesd-Zsóry SE. He is ethnic Hungarian.
Q4737237 Alucita nubifera is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Colombia.
Q22350786 Miss Stevens is a 2016 American drama film directed by Julia Hart, in her directorial debut, from a screenplay by Hart and Jordan Horowitz. The film stars Lily Rabe, Timothée Chalamet, Lili Reinhart, Anthony Quintal, Oscar Nunez, and Rob Huebel. The plot follows a teacher who chaperones a small group of high ...
Q5782864 Nakatu (Persian: نكتو‎, also Romanized as Nakatū; also known as Lakatu, Nagatū, Nagtū, and Taktu) is a village in Ijrud-e Pain Rural District, Halab District, Ijrud County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 652, in 146 families.
Q19458972 Injuwarampur is a village in Kanpur Dehat district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.It is located in Derapur tehsil and near to Rura town at a distance of 7 kilometres. Post office, primary school and upper primary school are here in government sector.
Q24263864 XHQG-FM is a radio station on 107.9 FM in La Noria, serving Querétaro, Querétaro. The station is owned by Organización Editorial Mexicana and carries a news/talk format known as ABC Radio.
Q12303755 Blaagaard Seminarium (also spelled Blågård Seminarium) has been the name of two teacher training colleges both originating in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. The first of them, which was the first teacher training college in Denmark, changed its name to Jonstrup Seminarium in 1808. The second on...
Q804241 The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, or Lady Usher of the Black Rod, generally shortened to Black Rod, is an official in the parliaments of several Commonwealth countries. The position originates in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.In the United Kingdom, Black Rod is principally respo...