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Q25388021 Figure skating at the 2017 Winter Universiade was held 1–5 February at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Medals will be awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles and ice dancing. |
Q18075149 Synaphea constricta is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.The compact and tufted shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 0.5 metres (0.7 to 1.6 ft). It blooms between June and September producing yellow flowers.It is found in a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia between Wongan Hills... |
Q357301 John Newton (; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist who served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period, and later as the captain of slave ships. He became ordained as an evangelical Anglican cleric, served Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades,... |
Q1247403 Lismore (Scottish Gaelic: Lios Mòr, pronounced [ʎis̪ ˈmoːɾ] possibly meaning "great enclosure", or "garden") is an island of some 2,351 hectares (9.1 sq mi) in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The climate is damp and mild, with over 166 centimetres (65 in) of rain recorded annually. This fertile, low-lying isla... |
Q1698571 USS Brownson (DD-518) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy commissioned on 3 February 1943. She was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 26 December 1943. |
Q6767582 Mark Feldstein (May 3, 1937 – October 2001), was an American artist and photographer best known for his large format photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City.Feldstein, whose parents were German Jews, often remarked that he just happened to be born in Milan, where his family were located... |
Q4633932 The 2nd Tank Division (戦車第2師団, Sensha Dai-ni Shidan), was one of four armored divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. |
Q7139731 Geraldo José da Silva Filho (born December 31, 1979 in Recife), or simply Parral, is a Brazilian right back who plays for Serra Talhada. |
Q211762 Rollainville is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. |
Q950787 Peltaria is a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae. Their distribution ranges from Southeast Europe, Near East to Central Asia. They prefer rocky slopes.Peltraria species are perennials with white or rosa flowers. They are glabrous with sessile, entire and simple leaves. Their siliculae are... |
Q10433732 Guilherme Só (pronounced SAH) (born April 22, 1986 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian football player. |
Q916115 Naraggara was an ancient city in Africa Proconsularis located 33 kilometer northwest of modern-day El Kef, Tunisia. It is considered to be the modern-day town of Sakiet Sidi Youssef, also located in Tunisia. The name Naraggara, a Libyan inscription, suggests a pre-Roman origin for the city, along with the name ... |
Q7592766 St Catherine's School is an independent , co-educational school in Germiston, Gauteng named after Saint Catherine of Siena. A combined school, St Catherine's consists of a pre-primary and primary school alongside the oldest high school in Germiston. |
Q4707848 Alan Stone (April 28, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American opera director, opera singer, and vocal coach. Born and raised in Chicago, Stone notably founded the Chicago Opera Theater in 1974. He served as the company's artistic director for almost two decades, stepping down from the position in 1993 after healt... |
Q6715079 MC Raaka Pee (real name. Petja Turunen, born November 19, 1980) is a Finnish metal musician, co-founder and vocalist of Turmion Kätilöt. He plays the piano and guitar as well.Raaka Pee has a side project named 2 Times Terror which released their debut album in 2010. Raaka Pee is also playing guitar in the musi... |
Q4865943 Barwaaqo is a town in the southwestern Gedo region of Somalia. |
Q7673133 "Table Dancer" is a song by Canadian recording artist Keshia Chante from her third album Night and Day. "Table Dancer" was co-written by Keshia Chante and produced by Alex Greggs. The song was released October 5, 2010 via Chante's official website and later released on October 12 via iTunes Canada. "Table Danc... |
Q171748 The Chengdu–Kunming railway or Chengkun railway (simplified Chinese: 成昆铁路; traditional Chinese: 成昆鐵路; pinyin: chéngkūn tiělù), is a major trunkline railroad in southwestern China between Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province and Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. The line is 1,134 km (705 mi) long and... |
Q7970502 Warren Amerine Stephens (born February 18, 1957) is an American businessman. He is the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Stephens Inc., a full service, privately held investment bank. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.6 bill... |
Q2656829 Girl from Hanoi (Vietnamese: Em bé Hà Nội) is a 1975 Vietnamese drama film directed by Hải Ninh. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Diploma. It also won the Golden Lotus at the 3rd Vietnam Film Festival. |
Q4842709 Bahour is one of 5 Communes in Pondicherry district in the Indian territory of Puducherry. Bahour Commune comes under Bahour taluk of Puducherry district. Nettapakkam is another commune under Bahour taluk. |
Q27049066 Abbas Miski (born 25 July 1995) is a Lebanese rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Manly Sea Eagles in the NRL. He previously played for the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles in the Canterbury Cup NSW competition. He is a Lebanese national representative. |
Q4862762 Baron Rootes, of Ramsbury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1959 for the businessman Sir William Rootes. He was head of the motor car manufacturer Rootes Ltd. As of 2010 the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in ... |
Q6001989 Imad Matti Sarsam (also transliterated: Emad) was an Iraqi orthopaedic surgeon, teaching at the Department of Orthopedics in Baghdad University and as assistant professor at the Baghdad Medical College, who was assassinated on August 31, 2004, three months after his participation in an international conference... |
Q3224463 Gamesmaster is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #283 (1991). |
Q6879077 The Mississippi Business Journal is a statewide weekly business newspaper, located in Jackson, Mississippi.Each issue contains news coverage relating to the Mississippi business world along with regular opinion and freelance columns. Issues are sold statewide and feature a special list that accompanies that we... |
Q5149897 Columbia University Libraries is the library system of Columbia University and is one of the top five academic library systems in North America and top ten largest libraries by volumes held. With 11.9 million volumes, over 160,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, r... |
Q4856978 Banning, Delaware, USA was a stop in Cedar Creek Hundred on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood positioned at the NE corner of what now is Road 44/Blacksmith Shop Road and Delaware Route 16/Beach Highway. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all Ban... |
Q7302212 The Rebricea Seacă River is a tributary of the Rebricea River in Romania. |
Q2753385 Machcinko [maxˈt͡ɕiŋkɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bielsk, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Q7817854 Thomas Edward Toner (January 25, 1950 – August 26, 1990) was a professional American football player who played linebacker for four seasons for the Green Bay Packers. |
Q6260598 See also John Marten (academic) (died 1473), Master of University College, Oxford, England.John Thomas Marten (born 1951) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. |
Q30531 The tiny-house movement (also known as the "small-house movement") is an architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes. As of 2018 there is no set definition as to what constitutes a tiny house. However, a residential structure under 400 sq. ft is generally considered a tiny home.... |
Q6737615 Robert A. "Maje" McDonnell (July 20, 1920 – July 8, 2010) was an American coach, scout and official with the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. Until he retired in 2009, McDonnell served for four decades as the Phillies' "goodwill ambassador," and was an employee of the team for five of the seven ... |
Q4687833 Aenigmacaris is an extinct genus of malacostracan crustacean, which includes the species Aenigmacaris cornigerum and Aenigmacaris minima. Their closest extant relatives are the mantis shrimp. |
Q1633976 The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. In September 2017, Professor Eleanor Riley became the Director of the Roslin Institute and Dean ... |
Q15145265 The Vienna Document is an agreement between the participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe which was intended to implement confidence and security building measures. Its provisions include an annual exchange of military information about forces located in Europe (defined ... |
Q19863372 The 1989 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 1989, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1989 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium... |
Q16757722 Prochoreutis kurokoi is a moth in the family Choreutidae. It was described by Yutaka Arita in 1987. It is found in Japan. |
Q932839 Drew Struzan (; born March 18, 1947) is an American artist known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars film series. He has also painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers. |
Q21160863 Michal Trpák (born 1982, in České Budějovice, Czech Republic), his art studies started at the Secondary School of Arts in Český Krumlov. He then proceeded to study at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague where he earned his master's degree. During this study he went on a one-year exchange stay t... |
Q28873633 Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto is an American painter. |
Q165309 In mathematics, an inequation is a statement that an inequality holds between two values. It is usually written in the form of a pair of expressions denoting the values in question, with a relational sign between them indicating the specific inequality relation. Some examples of inequations are: ... |
Q1703286 Albert Edward Whitford (October 22, 1905 – March 28, 2002) was an American physicist and astronomer. He served as director of the Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lick Observatory. |
Q4861783 Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (May 28, 1922 – February 21, 2012) was the owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Evergreen Review. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and lat... |
Q2888533 Gesher HaZiv (Hebrew: גֶּשֶׁר הַזִּיו, lit. Bridge of Splendor) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Situated in the Western Galilee on the coastal highway between Nahariya and the Lebanese border, opposite the Akhziv National Park, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2017 it had a ... |
Q262027 Maud Edith Eleanor Watson MBE (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946) was an English tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion. |
Q187513 Bidonì (Sardinian: Bidunìu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Cagliari and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Oristano. Bidonì borders the following municipalities: Ghilarza, Nughedu Santa Vittoria, Sedilo,... |
Q5283403 The District of Columbia Army National Guard is the Army component of the District of Columbia National Guard. As the District of Columbia is a federal district and not a state, the guard is placed under the authority of the President of the United States, unlike most other National Guard units which are heade... |
Q4864058 Barry Burman (1943–2001) was an English figurative artist known for his dark and often disturbing subject matter. He was a successful as an artist and teacher. He took an overdose and died aged 57. |
Q12317395 Hugh Parker Guiler (February 15, 1898 – January 7, 1985), also known as Ian Hugo, was Anaïs Nin's husband from 1923 until her death in 1977, and a skilled engraver and filmmaker in his own right. |
Q5040386 Carl Johan Severin Steen (1825–1874) was a Norwegian politician.He was born in Lom, but eventually settled in Førde. He was mayor of the municipality for some time, and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1874. He was also a jurist and later county auditor. |
Q791420 The Avro 533 Manchester was a First World War-era twin-engine biplane photo-reconnaissance and bomber aircraft designed and manufactured by Avro. |
Q7376333 Ruby Isle is a band created when Mark Mallman joined with his high school friend Dan Geller (co-founder of Kindercore Records) and drummer Aaron LeMay. They released an EP, Into the Black in 2007 and released their first full-length album Night Shot in 2008. |
Q7144373 Patchwork is the seventh and final studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. It was released on April 26, 1971, by Capitol Records.In 2007, Australian label Raven Records released the album on CD for the first time, paired with 1970’s Fancy. The album was also made available for digital downloa... |
Q5167229 CoolCalifornia.org is a website for Californians with resources to help them reduce their impact on the environment and combat climate change. The website is geared towards different audiences, including: individuals, small businesses, local government, youth, community organizations, and schools. The website ... |
Q4690321 Yefrosinya Fedorova (Russian: Ефросинья Фёдорова; also Euphrosyne, Afrosinya, Afrosina, Ofrosinya; 1699/1700 – 1748), was a Russian serf. She became the mistress of Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia who fled with him on 26 September 1716. She was the property of Alexei's tutor, Prince Nikifor Vyazemsky, bu... |
Q1090011 Lithium imide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Li2NH. This white solid can be formed by a reaction between lithium amide and lithium hydride.LiNH2 + LiH → Li2NH + H2The product is light-sensitive and can undergo disproportionation to form lithium nitride, which is characteristically red.2 Li2... |
Q17145490 Thinking in Textures is the debut extended play (EP) by Australian musician Chet Faker. It was released on 23 March 2012 by Opulent and Remote Control Records.The album won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards. |
Q13603786 Elachista maculoscella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Manitoba, Ontario, Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania.The wingspan is 6.5–7 mm. The forewings are dark bronzy brown with silvery white or faintly golden tinged markings. There is a silv... |
Q21705227 Saif Uddin Ahmad (Bengali: সাইফ উদ্দিন আহমদ; born 28 February 1957) is a British humanitarian and Chief Executive Officer of Al-Khair Foundation. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of UK charities Muslim Aid and Islamic Help, and he also founded the charities Faith Regen foundation, MADE in Europe an... |
Q22132721 Clara Isabella Siegle (born 2000) is a young award-winning German pianist who started to play the piano when she was four years old. |
Q1785050 Surrey Hills is a 422 km2 (163 sq mi) Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which covers one quarter of the county of Surrey, England. The AONB was designated in 1958 and adjoins the Kent Downs AONB to the east and the South Downs National Park in the south west. |
Q707946 Richard Howard Kline, A.S.C. (November 15, 1926 – August 7, 2018) was an American cinematographer. |
Q2150832 Robert Michael Leeshock (born December 13, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known in television for portraying the role of Liam Kincaid on the sci-fi drama series Earth: Final Conflict. |
Q1432936 Syamsudin Noor International Airport (Indonesian: Bandar Udara Internasional Syamsudin Noor) (IATA: BDJ, ICAO: WAOO) is an international airport serving Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan of Indonesia. It is located in the district of Landasan Ulin, 10 kilometers south-west of Banjarbaru, about 25 km north from t... |
Q130403 A war dance is a dance involving mock combat, usually in reference to tribal warrior societies where such dances were performed as a ritual connected with endemic warfare. Martial arts in various cultures can be performed in dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in preparation f... |
Q1589113 The white-browed shama (Copsychus luzoniensis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.It is endemic to the Philippines. C. l. superciliaris, the Visayan shama, is sometimes considered a distinct species. |
Q4878135 Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, also known as Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building, is a building in Rocky Mountain National Park that is nationally significant for its architecture. |
Q7769592 The Top 100 Canadian Albums is a book by journalist Bob Mersereau, published in 2007 by Goose Lane Editions.Mersereau surveyed 600 music journalists, retailers, musicians and disc jockeys of all ages, from all parts of Canada, who each submitted a list of 10 favourite Canadian albums released between 1957 and ... |
Q3471776 The Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, formerly known as the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary or Hollongapar Reserve Forest (Assamese: হোলোঙাপাৰ গিবন অভয়াৰণ্য), is an isolated protected area of evergreen forest located in Assam, India. The sanctuary was officially constituted and renamed in 1997. Set aside initially i... |
Q7686342 Tarma is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae. |
Q4547066 The 10th Indian Motor Brigade was a formation of the Indian Army during World War II.It was formed in Egypt in March 1942. The brigade left Egypt for Persia in September 1942 and was converted to the 60th Indian Infantry Brigade in July 1943.During its time active the brigade was under the command of three di... |
Q6402981 The Khun Tan Range (Thai: ทิวเขาขุนตาน or, erroneously, ทิวเขาขุนตาล) is a mountain range that occupies a central position in Northern Thailand. Most of the range is located in Chiang Mai, western Chiang Rai, Lampang and Lamphun Provinces.The geological composition of the Khun Tan mountains is different from t... |
Q1859337 Dorcus parallelus is a species of beetles in the family Lucanidae. It was described by Say in 1823. The species is 15–26 millimetres (0.59–1.02 in) long and black or brown in colour. Adult species feed on dead or rotten wood, while larvae feed on decaying stumps and logs. The larvae prefers elms, but can also ... |
Q427797 Bundism was a secular Jewish socialist movement, whose organizational manifestation was the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: אַלגעמײַנער ײדישער אַרבעטער בּונד אין ליטע פוילין און רוסלאַנד, romanized: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Liteh, Poyln un Rusland), founded in th... |
Q16870462 Hamburger is a German surname, meaning "someone from Hamburg". Notable people with the surname include:Michel Berger (born Michel Jean Hamburger, 1947-1992), French singer, son of Jean HamburgerBo Hamburger, Danish cyclistCao Hamburger, Brazilian screenwriter and directorE. W. Hamburger (born 1933), Brazilian... |
Q16860098 Blaxter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Kenneth Blaxter (disambiguation)Mildred Blaxter, British sociologist,writer of the book Mothers & Daughters (book)Blaxter family, owners of Badenyon |
Q16758815 Spilarctia cervina is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1860. It is found on Sumatra and the Mentawai Islands. |
Q18614242 Wawanaki (Aymara), also spelled Wawanaqui) is a mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Andes of Bolivia, about 5,100 metres (16,732 ft) high. It is located in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Pucarani Municipality. Wawanaki is situated west of the main peak of the Kunturiri massif, northeast of Nasa... |
Q19986592 Ellenwood is an unincorporated community in Clayton, Henry, Rockdale, and DeKalb counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The community is a southeast suburb of Atlanta and is located along Interstate 675 and Georgia State Route 42.Ellenwood has a post office with ZIP code 30294. |
Q11259914 'Inn of Evil (いのちぼうにふろう, Inochi bonufuro) is a 1971 Japanese film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The film set during the Tokugawa Shogunate and is about a tavern in Edo where smugglers use it as base of operations. The film was adapted from the novel Fukagawa anarakutei (transl. Fukagawa Comfort Restaurant) by... |
Q7984424 West Beaver Township is a township in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,124 at the 2000 census. |
Q2667258 Animal Aid, founded in 1977 by Jean Pink, is a British animal rights organisation. The group campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse - including the consumption of animals as food and their use for medical research - and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. It also investigates and exposes animal ... |
Q6114667 Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006-08 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.Jack Prelutsky was b... |
Q3182350 John Redpath (1796 – March 5, 1869) was a Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist who helped pioneer the industrial movement that made Montreal, Quebec the largest and most prosperous city in Canada. |
Q7401739 St. Lucy Catholic Parish is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Latin Rite in Campbell, California. The church was originally established as a Mission of Saint Martin Parish of San Jose in 1914. The current church was built in 1957. |
Q4986931 Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving Bukit Panjang New Town, Singapore. It is diagonally opposite Bukit Panjang Plaza and adjacent to Bukit Panjang MRT/LRT Station on the Downtown MRT and Bukit Panjang LRT lines. |
Q2078884 The Turkey Fed Cup team represents Turkey in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Türkiye Tenis Federasyonu. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group III. |
Q7775489 The Woman I Loved So Well is the fifth studio album by Planxty. Like their previous album, After The Break, the album was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios and released by Tara Records. Co-produced by band member Dónal Lunny and engineer Brian Masterson, the album was recorded in April and May of 1980 and rele... |
Q5360843 Kamaya Station (釜谷駅, Kamaya-eki) is a railway station on the South Hokkaido Railway Line in Kikonai, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by South Hokkaido Railway Company. |
Q6313264 Junior Félix Madrigal Ortíz (born 2 June 1982 in Morelia) is a Mexican footballer, who plays as Goalkeeper for La Piedad. |
Q5044698 Carole Glasser Langille is a Canadian poet, the author of three books of poetry. |
Q2053480 Parliamentary elections were held in Kazakhstan on 15 January 2012. The result was a victory for the Nur Otan party, which won 83 of the 98 seats in the Mazhilis. However, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) stated that the election "did not meet fundamental principles of democratic... |
Q17092341 The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), which was founded in 1999, is a consortium of major oceanographic institutions around the world, represented by their Directors. POGO's goal is to promote global operational oceanography, the implementation of a Global Ocean Observing System, and th... |
Q5092914 Chesgin (Persian: چسگين, also Romanized as Chesgīn, Cheskīn, Chasgīn, and Chīskīn; also known as Chegīn and Chekīn) is a village in Ebrahimabad Rural District, Ramand District, Buin Zahra County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 480, in 146 families. |
Q4782428 Aq Yaji (Persian: آق ياجي, also Romanized as Āq Yājī) is a village in Zavkuh Rural District, Pishkamar District, Kalaleh County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 486, in 107 families. |
Q14711026 McCampbell–Porter Airport (ICAO: KTFP, FAA LID: TFP, formerly T43) is a county-owned, public-use airport in San Patricio County, Texas, United States. It is located two nautical miles (4 km) north of the central business district of Ingleside, Texas. Formerly known as T. P. McCampbell Airport, it is included ... |
Q16251221 Manal Naharam is a 2015 Indian Tamil language-language feature film written and produced by M.I.Vasanthkumar and directed by Shankar Panikkar starring Prajin Padmanabhan, Gautham, Tejaswini Prakash, Varuna Shetty, Vinod Kumar (VK), Jaise Jose, Jijesh Menon and Shankar himself.The film, a bi-lingual, was made ... |
Q20858438 The Gentlemen were an American garage rock band from Dallas, Texas who were active from 1964-1968. They are best known for their 1966 song, "It's a Cry'n Shame," which has been recognized as one of the greatest songs in garage rock. The band is noted for the contributions of guitarist and songwriter, Seab M... |
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