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Q1263554 San Marcos is an island located in the northern portion of Baja California Sur, México. It faces the town of Santa Rosalía on the Gulf of California near Isla Tortuga. The only town on the island is also named San Marcos. The island has a land area of 28.748 km² (11.100 sq mi), the 18th-largest island in Mexic... |
Q7492046 "She Runs Away" is the second of three singles released on the debut album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik. |
Q6420039 Kleber Janke or simply Kleber Lapa (born April 12, 1988 in Lapa), is a Brazilian defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Paraná. |
Q4870228 The Battle of Aguioncha or Aguiuncias, the culmination of a Galician–Portuguese civil war in the Kingdom of León, was fought at the hill called Aguioncha on the river Salas in the province of Ourense between two aristocratic factions. The leader of the victorious faction was the Portuguese count Gonzalo Menénd... |
Q6052862 The International School of the Basel Region AG (ISBR AG) is an English-speaking school for students from ages 3–19 (PYP1-DP2). ISB is an authorised International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, and offers the following programmes:IB Diploma Programme (DP)IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)IB Primary Years Progra... |
Q5651769 Matías Omar Pérez (born 20 July 1985) is a Uruguayan football left-back who plays for Danubio FC. |
Q3710886 El Hamadia District is a district of Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. |
Q7410501 The Samsung SPH-M910 (marketed as the Samsung Intercept) is an Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung. It was released on July 11, 2010, for Sprint in the United States, and was also released on Sprint Nextel-owned prepaid cell phone company Virgin Mobile on October 4, 2010.It was marketed as an updated ve... |
Q2606460 Gornja Obrijež is a village in Croatia. |
Q3656083 Dindica polyphaenaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in Taiwan, the Himalayas, south-east Asia and Sundaland.The wingspan is 45–52 mm.The larvae feed on the young foliage of Litsea species. They are leaf green with subdorsal yellow-white and lateral w... |
Q4673244 Acetabularia caliculus, the umbrella alga, is a species of green alga found in shallow temperate and tropical seas. |
Q19876203 Gladys Eileen Marley (née Pidgeon, 21 March 1906 − 19 November 2002) was a New Zealand swimmer, who represented her country at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario.Born in Dunedin in 1906, Marley was the daughter of Arthur Pidgeon and his wife Jane Dickenson Ross. She grew up in Sawyers Bay, Wha... |
Q3805434 JVN may refer to:Javanese languageJoan van Nuys (1929–2000), American authorJohn von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-American polymathJonathan Van Ness (born 1987), American grooming expertJapan Vulnerability Notes, Japan's national computer security vulnerability database |
Q22285215 Allomyces strangulata is a species of fungus. |
Q22056331 Bathing Boys (Latvian: Peldētāji zēni) is a painting by the artist Jānis Valters (later Johann Walter-Kurau) from 1900. |
Q28209203 Jamaica State Park is a 772-acre state park in Jamaica, Vermont, on the shore of the West River.Activities includes camping, swimming, boating, river fishing, hiking, picnicking, mountain biking, wildlife watching, and winter sports.Facilities include a picnic shelter, 43 tent/trailer sites, 18 lean-to shelte... |
Q3237116 Leung Sheung (Chinese: 梁相; born 1918 - 1978) was a Chinese martial artist who studied Wing Chun, and is known as the first and senior-most student of Ip Man in Hong Kong.Leung Sheung, along with Lok Yiu and Chu Shong Tin are considered to be the three, first generation closed-door students of Ip Man. |
Q7488996 Shannonville Motorsport Park is a motorsport road course circuit in Canada. It is located 15 km east of Belleville, Ontario, roughly midway between Toronto and Montreal, Quebec, near Highway 401 and along the former Provincial Highway 2.It has many configurations, and its tight layout with lots of run-off spac... |
Q5053376 Catherine "Cathy" Alessi is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Elspeth Ballantyne. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 29 July 1992 and remained until her departure on 4 August 1993. |
Q6494361 Last Flight is a book published in 1937 consisting of diary entries and other notes compiled by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart during her failed attempt that year at flying solo across the Pacific Ocean. Her husband, publisher George Palmer Putnam, edited the collection which was published posthumously as a t... |
Q3745947 Fire Up the Blades is the third studio album by Canadian heavy metal band 3 Inches of Blood. It was released on 26 June 2007 by Roadrunner Records and is the band's final release through the label. The band confirmed in February 2006 that they had begun to write new material, and by then had about four songs p... |
Q6955573 Nuclep is Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados SA, and Nuclebrás is Empresas Nucleares Brasileiras SA, part of Nuclep.Nuclep (Brazil) was founded in December 1975 to design and fabricate heavy components for nuclear power plants. |
Q142329 1684 Iguassú, provisional designation 1951 QE, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 30.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 23 August 1951, by Argentine astronomer Miguel Itzigsohn at the La Plata Astronomical Observatory, located in the city of La Plata... |
Q7231850 Portland is a locality on the western side of Whangarei Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. Whangarei is about 10 km to the north. Tikorangi is a hill to the west with a summit 161 m above sea level.The population of the Otaika-Portland area was 993 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 18 from 2001.The major indu... |
Q1812779 Michel Hemmerling (January 9, 1889 – September 22, 1962) was a Luxembourgian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Luxembourg City.In 1912 he was a member of the Luxembourgian team which finished fourth in the team, European system competition and fifth in the team, free system event... |
Q4944898 Borek Miński [ˈbɔrɛk ˈmiɲski] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mińsk Mazowiecki, within Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Mińsk Mazowiecki and 39 km (24 mi) east of Warsaw. |
Q2753352 Żmijówek Włościański (Polish pronunciation: [ʐmiˈjuvɛk fwɔɕˈtɕaj̃skʲi]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Troszyn, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Troszyn, 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Ostrołęka, an... |
Q4784894 The Arboretum du parc de Rouelles, also known as the Arboretum des Ardennes, is an arboretum located within the Parc de Rouelles (over 150 hectares) on the Chemin Vicinal 3, south of Montivilliers, north of Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France.Long ago, the park was a medieval property of Pays de Caux wi... |
Q8046593 Yadravi is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India. |
Q5131383 Clement Park is located in Unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. It is part of the Foothills Park and Recreation District. It is the location of the Columbine Memorial, a memorial in honor of the victims of the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. Within the park is Johnston Reservoir, a skate park... |
Q958724 Juan José Mosalini (born November 29, 1943) is an Argentinian bandoneon player. He specializes in tango nuevo and currently resides in France. |
Q21154412 Ratan Devi Coomaraswamy (born Alice Ethel Richardson; 1889 – July 15, 1958) worked under the stage name of Ratan Devī. She recorded Indian music and was a performer of Hindu songs and poems, and went on concert tours in Britain and America. Martin Clayton identifies Alice as one of the significant women overl... |
Q21285518 Alok Chandra Sahoo (born 5 November 1989) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Odisha. |
Q23019580 The 2015–16 NBL season is the 38th season for the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL. Following two seasons without making the playoffs, the Hawks enlisted the services of championship winning coach Rob Beveridge in an attempt to win the championship. |
Q28431134 Lochriea is an extinct genus of conodonts. |
Q3509114 Systena is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 20 described species in Systena. |
Q13130386 Newbiggin is a village in County Durham, in England. Its population at the 2011 census was 146. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale, opposite Holwick. An influx of Derbyshire lead miners into the area in the late 18th century may have brought the name from Biggin. |
Q4970547 British Naturism (until 2009, Central Council for British Naturism) is a members organisation with both individual and organisation members. It promotes Naturism in the United Kingdom, and it is recognised by the International Naturist Federation as the official national naturist organisation in that country. |
Q6651222 "Little One" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby.Sol C. Siegel, the producer of the film High Society, paid Cole Porter $250,000 for his first original film score in eight years. Besides Louis Armstrong, the cast included Bing Crosby, Frank Si... |
Q6833768 Michael Reardon is an English architect, historic building consultant, and interior designer. He worked on the Swan Theatre (1986) in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as being the inspecting architect for Birmingham's St. Philip's Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral.His most notable project, the Swan Theatre... |
Q465142 Sheila Herrero Lapuente (born 28 June 1976, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain) is an inline speed skater.She won 15 gold medals on World Championships, 36 on European, 88 on Spanish and 4 world records on several distances. She began on Zaragoza's Domingo Miral club. During 1999 and 2000 moved to Roces (Italy) and in 200... |
Q4793746 Ələkçi (also, Alakchi and Alyakchi) is a village in the Lachin Rayon of Azerbaijan. |
Q6764393 The Marinette Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – one in Wisconsin and one in Michigan – anchored by the city of Marinette, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 68,710 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate plac... |
Q6591008 Below is a list of principal owners of National Basketball Association teams: |
Q4634564 The 30mm DS30M Mark 2 is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine ... |
Q4569290 Arnarsaq (ca. 1716 – fl. 1778), was an Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary, assistant to Paul Egede, Hans Glahn, and J. Sverdrup from Greenland. She and Hans Punngujooq translated the Bible into the Inuit language. She had an important position in the Danish missions among the Inuit on Greenland in th... |
Q4978320 The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction. |
Q7797541 Three Inches is an American action with science fiction made-for-television film, intended to serve as the pilot episode for a new series. Created by writer-producer Harley Peyton and directed by Jace Alexander it aired on Syfy on December 29, 2011. The show follows a group of people with superhuman abilities,... |
Q14954548 The Samburgskoye gas field is a natural gas field located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. It was discovered in 2006 and developed by and Novatek. It began production in 2012 and produces natural gas and condensates. The total proven reserves of the Samburgskoye gas field are around 3.47 trillion cubic ... |
Q601942 La locandiera (also known as Mirandolina) is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Cavara, based on the Carlo Goldoni's three-act comedy The Mistress of the Inn. |
Q14701365 Sybra paralongicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1968. |
Q19831481 Alice Mae Lee Jemison (1901–1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. She was supported by the Seneca Tribal Council, and also lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and ... |
Q5880882 Gliese 318 is a white dwarf in the constellation Pyxis. Its spectral type is DA5.5 and it has a visual magnitude of 11.85, which lies 26 light years away. The star was too faint to have had its parallax measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Earth-based measurement gives its parallax as 113.63 ± 1.97 milliarcsec... |
Q4441111 The Old New Year (Russian: Cтаpый Нoвый гoд, romanized: Stariy noviy god) is a 1981 Soviet comedy film directed by Naum Ardashnikov and Oleg Yefremov. After the successful staging at the Moscow Art Theatre (directed by Oleg Yefremov), based on Mikhail Roshchin's play of the same name, it was filmed at Mosfilm... |
Q27973766 Daniel J. Cosgrove (born 1952) is an American biologist and author, currently the Eberly Family Chair of Biology at the Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University. As an author and scientist, he is widely cited by his peers and also held in libraries worldwide. |
Q499397 Fjaler is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Dale. Other places in Fjaler include Espedal, Flekke, Folkestad, Guddal, and Hellevika.Fjaler was the birthplace of famous Norwegian poet Jakob... |
Q16016294 James Anthony Tapp (April 18, 1918 – November 20, 2004) was a Canadian broadcaster.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he began his career with closed-circuit radio broadcasts aboard HMCS Wasaga in World War II. He later became a radio announcer in Montreal. He went on to host a number of early CBC television shows, inc... |
Q4413462 Patrick McCarthy is a record producer from Dublin, Ireland who has worked for several rock and alternative rock artists, including The Waterboys, Counting Crows, R.E.M., and U2. In 1998, he replaced Scott Litt as R.E.M.'s in-house producer, co-producing three of their albums Up, Reveal and Around the Sun as we... |
Q7889809 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).The District was established on February 21... |
Q4670154 Abu Dhabi TV is a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is wholly owned by Ethnic Channels Group. The channel name is used under license from Abu Dhabi Media, the owners of the Emirati-based channel, Abu Dhabi TV.Abu Dhabi TV broadcasts programming primarily from Abu Dhabi TV, in add... |
Q4792205 Arleston is a hamlet in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the centre of Derby. It is located 1.2 miles (1.9 km) northwest of Barrow upon Trent and is part of that village's civil parish. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through Arleston. |
Q243199 Riofreddo is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Rome.Riofreddo borders the following municipalities: Arsoli, Cineto Romano, Oricola, Roviano, Vallinfreda. |
Q4849278 Bakersfield is an unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the dispersed community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000. |
Q3011024 1D-chiro-Inositol (formerly D-chiro-Inositol, commonly abbreviated DCI) is a member of a family of related substances often referred to collectively as "inositol," although that term encompasses several isomers of questionable biological relevance, including 1L-chiro-Inositol. Myo-Inositol is converted into DC... |
Q5023236 Calophyllum rufinerve is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It is found only living in the wild in West Papua in Indonesia. |
Q7998165 Founded in 1944, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra (WSO) is the oldest professional Symphony Orchestra in Kansas, performing out of Century II Concert Hall in downtown Wichita.Throughout its 75 years of existence, the orchestra’s mission has been to provide the state with the highest quality musical presentations... |
Q7734635 Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild, also known as The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, is the earliest surviving example of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry. The genre takes the form of a contest, or "war of words", between two poets, each trying to outclass the other in vituper... |
Q4163416 Unity Presbyterian Church is a presbyterian church in Belize City, Belize. It was built by the Presbyterian Church of Belize to establish a church in a poor area of Belize City that was struck hard by a hurricane in 2000 which caused severe flooding in the area. The church also received assistance from charita... |
Q5084488 Charles Bannister (1879 – August 1952) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Manchester City and Lincoln City and in the Southern League for Swindon Town and Reading. A centre half, he was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and emigrated to Australia after his retirement from p... |
Q7372571 Roy Benson (January 17, 1914 – December 6, 1977) was a stage magician born in Courbevoie in France. He was an accomplished musician. He is credited for Special Effects, having created the monster for the film The Flesh Eaters (1964) directed by his first cousin, Jack Curtis. He died of emphysema. |
Q17024748 "You Know My Name" is a song by the American alternative rock musician Courtney Love. It was released on May 4, 2014 on Cherry Forever Records, packaged as a double A-side single with the song "Wedding Day".Featuring themes of public fame and notoriety, "You Know My Name" was written by Love, guitarist Micko ... |
Q19876025 The Dean Delt-Air 250 was an American twin-seat amateur-built, delta wing light aircraft. Designed and built by Herbert Dean of Flint, Michigan, the aircraft was destroyed on its first flight and Dean was killed. |
Q10491450 The European Agreement on Au Pair Placement is an international agreement within the Council of Europe, originally signed in Strasbourg, France on 24 November 1969. It came into force on 30 May 1971, and regulates au pair placements. It states that the placed person shall neither be seen as a traditional empl... |
Q20630524 Maria Astashkina (Russian: Мария Асташкина), (born 5 April 1999 in Penza, Russia) is a Russian swimmer.She won 4 gold medals in (200 m, 100 m, 50m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley) at the 2015 European Games. |
Q2628151 Yardiella is a monotypic genus of Australian crevice weavers containing the single species, Yardiella humphreysi. It was first described by Michael R. Gray in 1994, and has only been found in Australia. |
Q510455 Ulysses (pronounced ) is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Kansas, United States. It is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,161. |
Q7419209 The Santa Barbara Biltmore (also known as the Biltmore) is a luxury hotel located in Santa Barbara, California. Opened in 1927 as part of the Biltmore Hotels chain, it is known for its landmark Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and gardens and operates today as the Four Seasons Resort—The Biltmore Santa B... |
Q2232182 Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an Italian politician and trade unionist.Carniti was born in Castelleone, in the province of Cremona, Lombardy. He was general secretary of CISL, a major trade union federation, between 1979 and 1985.Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on P... |
Q3022730 Denis Jean Hamel (born May 10, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who last played semi-professionally in the LNAH. A former star in junior, Hamel was not able to translate his scoring success in junior to the National Hockey League (NHL), although he had success at the AHL level, be... |
Q513881 Osvaldo José Piazza (born 6 April 1947 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football defender, now a manager. |
Q5307536 Drill are a band from North East England. They were formed in early 1989 and released albums on the Abstract Sounds, Retribution Records and Muza Muza labels. After splitting in 1994 they reformed in 2005 releasing a new album in 2008. The Drill project was shelved late 2009.Drill are notable for not using a... |
Q5554690 Getting to This was the second album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1970. The album was the band's last until a brief reunion in the 1990s. Peter Banks joined from Yes after the recording of Getting to This, but the band split up at the end of 1970. The album reached 8 on the UK album cha... |
Q5386136 Eric Biefeld is a former U.S. soccer defender. He played three seasons in the Western Soccer Alliance and one season in the American Professional Soccer League. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1986. |
Q572335 The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition. Costa-Gavras's immigrant drama Eden Is West served as the closing night film at the festival. The festival's jury president ... |
Q3131517 Henri Louis de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné (Henri Louis Marie; 30 August 1745 – 24 April 1809), was a French courtier and the penultimate Grand Chamberlain of France. |
Q624006 Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963. The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 110 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 72.1%. |
Q7958572 Waaksamheyd was a Dutch 300 ton burthen snow that was hired to transport supplies to the colony of New South Wales. Under the command of Deter Smit, the vessel transported supplies to Port Jackson in 1790 from Batavia (Jakarta). Captain John Hunter was transported back to England in 1792 on board the Waaksamhe... |
Q7057934 Northeast Manual Training School, also known as Edison High School, was a historic school building located in the Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903-1905 as a 31⁄2-story, random-coursed granite building in the Romanesque style. It featured a center turret, flanked by p... |
Q7608668 Stephen Barretto (born 2 March 1989 in Goa) is an Indian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sporting Clube de Goa in the I-League. |
Q16224138 Essex Ferry was a 3,242 GRT train ferry built in 1956 by John Brown and Company for British Railways. She served until 1981 when she was laid up. In 1983, she was reduced to a floating pontoon and used in the salvage of the semi-submersible drilling rig Alexander L. Kielland before being scrapped later that y... |
Q16980039 Thomas Lorenz is an Austrian make-up artist and hair stylist living and working in Vienna and Paris. |
Q18111773 Dhari assembly constituency (ધારી વિધાનસભા બેઠક) is one of the 182 assembly constituency of Gujarat. It is located in Amreli District. |
Q14819034 Oxathres erotyloides is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1864. |
Q23035217 The Nan'yō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha Sugar Mill is a former industrial facility in the village of Songsong on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands. Its ruins are a significant reminder of the South Pacific Mandate period, when Imperial Japan engaged in large-scale sugar cane farming in the North... |
Q1177543 Davide Giordano (22 March 1864 Courmayeur – 1 February 1954 Venezia) was an Italian physician and politician.He came from a Waldensian family originally from Torre Pellice, the son of Giacomo and Susetta Hugon.He was president of Venice's Institute of Science, Literature and Arts. |
Q864106 Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state.As of the 2... |
Q254978 A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest... |
Q7755606 The Other Women is a 2000 album by The Corn Sisters, a duo consisting of Carolyn Mark and Neko Case.The album was recorded live at Hattie's Hat in Seattle, Washington, in May 1998. The majority of the album consists of Carolyn Mark compositions and cover songs. The song "High On Cruel" had previously appeared ... |
Q1009902 Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Edinburgh, 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Haddington, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Ormiston.The land where the village lies is said to have been granted by William the Lion to Calum Cormack in 1169, who gave the church, wit... |
Q7613469 Steven Richard Nicosia (born August 6, 1955) is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays during eight seasons spanning 1978–1985. Listed at 5' 10" and weighing 185 lb., Nicosia batted and threw right-handed. He w... |
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