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Q28803219 Fin Kennedy is an English playwright, teacher, and university tutor. He specializes in writing for youth and marginalized communities.Kennedy writes for adults and teenagers and his plays are regularly produced in the UK and worldwide. He is also a teacher of playwriting and a community arts project manager, ...
Q244219 Abigor is an Austrian atmospheric black metal band formed in 1993. They are named after an upper demon of war in Christian demonology.
Q32281 Closure is the first video album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on November 25, 1997. The double VHS set consists of one tape of live concert and behind-the-scenes footage from their Self-Destruct and Further Down the Spiral tours and one tape of music videos.The first cassette's foot...
Q2553015 Wayne Boring (June 5, 1905 – February 20, 1987) was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon.
Q16243187 Tuxpan de Bolaños is an indigenous community of culture (Huichol), has 1269 inhabitants according to INEGI 2010, consolidating it as the more inhabited in its type. It is located in Bolaños Municipality, Jalisco, Mexico. The community bears the name "Kuruxi Manúka" in their native language. It has with basic ...
Q16066113 Richard Flexmore [real name Richard Flexmore Geatter] (1824–1860), was a British clown and pantomimist of the Victorian era.Flexmore was the son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, a well-known dancer who died at an early age. Flexmore was born at Kennington in London on 15 September 1824. At the age of eight he com...
Q2053203 The Battle of Milazzo was fought on October 15, 1718 near the city of Milazzo in Sicily, Italy between Spain and Austria as part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
Q3292276 Marie-Thérèse Letablier (born 4 January 1947), is a French sociologist. Her major sociological works concern work, family and gender issues. She is Research director in the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a senior research fellow in the Paris Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES).Mar...
Q6168615 Jażyniec [jaˈʐɨɲet͡s] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siedlec, within Wolsztyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Siedlec, 8 km (5 mi) south-west of Wolsztyn, and 71 km (44 mi) south-west of the regional capital Po...
Q6568445 This is a list of seasons completed by the Dallas Desperados. The Desperados were a professional arena football franchise of the Arena Football League (AFL), based in Dallas, Texas. The team was established in 2002. They qualified for the playoffs five times, winning three division championships, but never app...
Q6519580 Leigh David Franks (born 7 March 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Scarborough Athletic in the Northern Premier League Division One North.
Q6512572 Ledbury Tunnel is a single-track railway tunnel immediately to the east of Ledbury railway station on the Cotswold Line, in Herefordshire, England. The tunnel through the limestone Dog Hill was opened in 1861 by the Worcester and Hereford Railway, and remains in use today. The tunnel was notorious among steam ...
Q16156345 "Get Hot or Go Home" is a song recorded by Canadian country music artist Rick Tippe. It was released in 1997 as the fourth single from his second studio album, Get Hot or Go Home. It peaked at number 10 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in February 1998.
Q18752558 Else Margarete Barth (3 August 1928, Strinda – 6 January 2015, Groningen) was a Norwegian philosopher.She was a professor of analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen. She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Q21040766 Sutton SignWriting is a Unicode block containing characters used in SignWriting, a system for writing sign languages that was developed by Valerie Sutton in 1974.
Q21623260 Tisha Volleman (born October 26, 1999 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, where she helped her team place 8th, thus earning direct qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics.Volleman represented the Netherlands at the 2016 AT&T American ...
Q20732759 Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas (1912-2011) was a Welsh theologian, specialising in Old Testament studies.
Q26704252 Kate Loveland is an Australian fertility researcher.
Q27057637 Henrik Jonzon (born 15 April 1979) is a Swedish platinum record selling songwriter, producer, musician, and artist. He was born and grew up in Chicago. His music combines indie pop rock with urban, R&B and mainstream pop.From 2013 Jonzon has been writing music for and collaborating with Zara Larsson, Paloma F...
Q28456468 Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a suave secret agent adventure game developed and published by Yak & Co. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge's secret hideaway and put a stop to her evil plans.Chapters 1-4 are currently available on iOS and Android with the complete tale of espionage (includ...
Q2102269 Brachycentrus lateralis is a species of humpless casemaker caddisfly in the family Brachycentridae. It is found in North America.
Q368398 Henri Lachambre (30 December 1846, Vagney, Vosges – 12 June 1904) was a French manufacturer of balloons. His factory was in the Paris suburb Vaugirard. He also participated in ballooning himself carried out 500 ascents. Lachambre supplied balloons to both the US Signal Corps [1] and the ill-fated arctic missio...
Q4757856 Andrew Mackintosh is an actor based in Britain. He is best known for his role as DS Alistair Greig a character he played for 10 years in the long-running ITV drama The Bill.Amongst his other television credits include appearing in series 2 episode 1 of Goodness Gracious Me the TV series, where he played a char...
Q95792 Johann Georg von Soldner (16 July 1776 in Feuchtwangen, Ansbach – 13 May 1833 in Bogenhausen, Munich) was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, first in Berlin and later in 1808 in Munich.
Q1146255 Ferreux-Quincey is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.It was the site of the Benedictine Oratory of the Paraclete.
Q923374 Yankuba Ceesay (born June 26, 1984), also known as Maal, is a Gambian footballer (midfielder), who plays in Finnish Kakkonen for Kokkolan Palloveikot.Yankuba Ceesay is Managed by AsiaEurope Football Group in the UK.
Q6892890 Mohammed Al-Kandari is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1971, Al-Kandari studied medicine before being elected to the National Assembly in 2008. While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Al-Kandari affiliates with the Islamic Salafi Alliance.
Q21188948 The Twenty-Ninth Canadian Ministry is the combined Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ministers that began governing Canada shortly before the opening of the 42nd Parliament. The original members were sworn in during a ceremony held at Rideau Hall on November 4, 2015. Those who were not a...
Q3392836 María Amelia López Soliño (23 December 1911, Corcubión, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain – 20 May 2009, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain) was the oldest-known woman blogger at the time of her death in 2009 aged 97.She had been blogging for more than two years. The blog was set up for her as a gift from her grandson, Daniel,...
Q3596038 Otap (or Otapi) is a village and municipality in Ochamchira District, Abkhazia, a disputed part of Georgia. The village lies on the Otapi River. Otap is noted for its karst cave, Abrskil Cave, which is a tourist attraction in the area.
Q6758753 Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc. (MBN, Inc.) is a radio network in the Philippines. The company provides management and marketing consultancy for radio companies in the country. Its headquarters is located at #6 Tirad Pass Street, Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City.
Q5081712 Charles Boucher Poots (born 1929), often known as Charlie Poots, is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Poots joined Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, acting as Treasurer of the Hillsborough church. He also joined the Protestant Unionist Party (PUP), standing unsuccessfully for th...
Q3953040 Scratch and Bite is the Debut studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band Treat. It was released on February 24, 1985
Q17156192 Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family is an 1871 book written by Lewis Henry Morgan (1818 - 1881) and published by the Smithsonian Institution. It is considered foundational for the discipline of anthropology and particularly for the study of human kinship. It was the culmination of decade...
Q5784280 Khodabakhsh-e Zaval (Persian: خدابخش زوال‎, also Romanized as Khodābakhsh-e Zavāl; also known as Khodābakhsh) is a village in Rostam-e Yek Rural District, in the Central District of Rostam County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34, in 6 families.
Q3488166 Société des observateurs de l'homme, rendered in English as Society of Observers of Man, was a French learned society founded in Paris in 1799. Long considered the birthplace of French anthropology, the society nevertheless dissolved in 1804.
Q17418362 Mahesh Acharya, was the minister of Forest and Soil Conservation of Nepal under the government led by Sushil Koirala. Acharya won the Morang–6 seat in Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2013 from the Nepali Congress. Acharya is the member of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly, he is a central member ...
Q30325824 The New Mexico State Aggies women's basketball team represents New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. They are a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
Q25006008 The annual Fred Mitchell Outstanding Place-Kicker Award (also known as the Fred Mitchell Award) is provided to the nation’s top collegiate place-kicker among more than 750 FCS, Division II, III, NAIA and NJCAA football teams.The Award is named for Fred Mitchell, the record-setting place-kicker, Wittenberg Uni...
Q27279467 Derrick Goold (born July 21, 1975 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American author and award-winning sportswriter best known for his work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Goold has been honored for feature writing and investigative reporting for his work covering baseball, hockey and college athletics. He is also a ...
Q28449115 The 2017 San Jose Earthquakes season is the club's 35th year of existence, their 20th season in Major League Soccer and their 10th consecutive season in the top-flight of American soccer.
Q2979432 Clive James (born 7 October 1939) is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1962.
Q2888498 The Battle of Møn, also known as the Battle of Lolland, took place 31 May–1 June 1677, as part of the Scanian War. A smaller Swedish squadron under Admiral Erik Sjöblad attempted to sail from Gothenburg to join the main Swedish fleet in the Baltic Sea. It was intercepted by a superior Danish force under Niels ...
Q4712964 Alcator C-Mod was a tokamak (a type of magnetically confined fusion device) that operated between 1991 and 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). Notable for its high toroidal magnetic field (of up to 8 Tesla), Alcator C-Mod holds the world record for ...
Q4911169 William Arthur Torrey (June 23, 1934 – May 2, 2018) was a Canadian hockey executive. He served as a general manager in the National Hockey League for the Oakland Seals, New York Islanders, and Florida Panthers. He developed the Islanders into a dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups. He was often know...
Q6946190 My Old Man is a sitcom starring Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett. ITV broadcast 13 episodes in two series during 1974 and 1975.Set in London, Sam Cobbett is the last tenant to leave an old house on a council-condemned road. He goes to live with his daughter, her posh husband (Arth...
Q526637 The Sassetti Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sassetti) is a chapel in the basilica of Santa Trinita in Florence, Italy. It is especially notable for its frescoes of the Stories of St. Francis, considered Domenico Ghirlandaio's masterwork.
Q1193037 The Picui ground dove (Columbina picui) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-alt...
Q1441040 Francesco Foggia (baptized 17 November 1603 – 8 January 1688) was an Italian Baroque composer.
Q10800618 Ngọc Hồi is a rural district (huyện) of Kon Tum province, in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 30,392. The district covers an area of 824 km². The district capital lies at Plei Kần.
Q7683695 Tannishtha Chatterjee (born 23 November 1980) is an Indian film actress best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name for which she was nominated best actress at the British Independent Film Awards. Her ...
Q6152384 Jane Holderness-Roddam, CBE, LVO (née Bullen) was born on 1 July 1948 in Charmouth, Dorset and is a British event rider, winning Badminton Horse Trials in 1968 (on Our Nobby) and 1978 (on Warrior). She also won Burghley Horse Trials in 1976 (on 'Warrior'), and competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Ci...
Q4951875 The Light Flyweight class in the boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games competition is the lightest class. Light flyweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 49 kilograms (108.02 lbs).17 boxers competed.Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. ...
Q7780184 Turret Cone is a small summit (c.455 m) that is locally conspicuous, located 3.8 nautical miles (7 km) east of Cape Royds and 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Cape Barne on Ross Island. Descriptively named by Griffith Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. This article incorporates public dom...
Q16731325 Jorja Leap is an American anthropologist and adjunct professor in the social welfare department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also Director of the Health and Social Justice Partnership at UCLA and is a nationally recognized gang expert.In 2011, Leap was named one of Los Angeles M...
Q4870917 The Battle of Driefontein on 10 March 1900 followed on the Battle of Poplar Grove in the Second Boer War between the British Empire and the Boer republics, in what is now South Africa. In the first half of 1900, the British made an offensive towards the two Boer republic capitals of Bloemfontein and Pretoria. ...
Q5626812 Qeshlaq-e Akhmud-e Vosta (Persian: قشلاق اخمودوسطي‎, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Akhmūd-e Vosţá) is a village in Qeshlaq Rural District, Abish Ahmad District, Kaleybar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 64, in 15 families.
Q16993064 Thermococcus chitonophagus is a chitin-degrading, hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is anaerobic, round to slightly irregular coccus-shaped, 1.2–2.5 μm in diameter, and motile by means of a tuft of flagella.T. chitonophagus is one of only three species of archaeon that ...
Q28223325 Diare is a community in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana. It is a less populated community with nucleated settlement. Most of the inhabitants of the community are farmers especially the men.
Q21361289 Devia is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least two described species in Devia.
Q11107441 Guoli (Chinese: 果里镇) is a town in Huantai County, Zibo, in central Shandong province, China. As of 2018, it has one residential community and 65 villages under its administration.
Q174145 The military of the Republic of Mali consists of the Army (French: Armee de Terre), Republic of Mali Air Force (French: Force Aerienne de la Republique du Mali), and National Guard (French: Garde National du Mali). They number some 7,000 and are under the control of the Minister of Armed Forces and Veterans. Th...
Q745459 Macrobius is a prominent lunar impact crater located to the northwest of the Mare Crisium. Its diameter is 63 km. It was named after ancient Roman writer Macrobius. It lies on the southeast edge of the Lacus Bonitatis, a small lunar mare. The somewhat smaller crater Tisserand lies just to the east. The outer wa...
Q1995708 Bulat Abilov (Kazakh: Болат Әбілов) was the Deputy Chairman of the Otan political party in Kazakhstan. He achieved this position following the death of Parliamentary Speaker and Deputy Chairman Marat Ospanov.In 2011, as leader of the All National Democratic Party Azat, Abilov referred to as "a political game" ...
Q859102 The Cauchy convergence test is a method used to test infinite series for convergence. It relies on bounding sums of terms in the series. This convergence criterion is named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy who published it in his textbook Cours d'Analyse 1821.
Q7035860 Nikolai Vladimirovich Markovnikov, also spelled Morkovnikov (Russian: Николай Владимирович Марковников (Морковников)) (1869, Kazan - 1942, location of death unknown) was a Russian architect and archaeologist, chief architect of the Moscow Kremlin in 1914-1919.Nikolai Markovnikov attended the Imperial Academy o...
Q6540213 Liar's Club is a pop band from the Seattle-Tacoma area. They released three self-produced CDs between 1989 and 1995. The group has since reorganized and has released a fourth album in March, 2013.
Q1564388 HMS Berwick was a Rothesay or Type 12I class anti-submarine frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff and launched on 15 December 1959.
Q3945647 Sally Davies (born 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a painter and photographer, living and working in New York City's East Village since 1983.
Q556213 Wewelsfleth is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Q969129 Xnaheb is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, one of five primary sites identified in the southern Belize region. The center is built on a ridge of foothills that extends from the Maya Mountains, in what is now the Toledo District of Belize. Based on certain architectural similaritie...
Q730516 Anna Christina Warg (23 March 1703 – 5 February 1769, Stockholm), better known as Cajsa (or Kajsa) Warg, was a Swedish cookbook author and one of the best-known cooks in Swedish history.
Q1319152 Hồ Quý Ly (Hán tự: 胡季犛, 1336 - 1407?) was the founding emperor of Hồ dynasty, who rose from the post as an official of Trần dynasty.
Q7095260 Oodweyne (Somali: Oodweyne) is a town in the northwestern Togdheer region of Somaliland. It is town located between Burco and Hargeisa in the western part of Togdheer region.
Q6105360 John David "Dave" Stewart (August 21, 1910 – December 5, 1988) was a businessperson and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented 5th Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1960 to 1966 and 6th Queens from 1966 to 1970 as a Conservative.He was born in Georgetown, Prince ...
Q6267456 Johnny Pattillo (17 October 1914 – August 2002) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played for Aberdeen, Dundee and finally St Johnstone in 1953. He managed St Johnstone for five years, initially performing both playing and management roles.Johnny Pattillo played during a golden era at Dens, playing...
Q27664770 Skins, stylized SKINS, was an Australian-owned company that designs and manufactures compression sportswear for athletes and sports enthusiasts. In January 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy with the Swiss court and ceased business operations.
Q16001631 Acidobacterium capsulatum is a bacterium. It is an acidophilic chemoorganotrophic bacterium containing menaquinone. It is gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, mesophilic, non-spore-forming, capsulated, saccharolytic and rod-shaped. It is also motile by peritrichous flagella. Its type strain is JCM 7670.They ...
Q167946 National Parks (Portuguese: Parques nacionais) are a legally-defined type of protected area of Brazil. The first parks were created in the 1930s, and other parks were gradually added, typically protecting a natural monument such as a waterfall or gorge near to a coastal population centre.At least two early park...
Q38129048 Eleanor Bauer (born Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1983) is an American choreographer and dancer.
Q21445922 Geryonia is a monotypic genus of hydrozoans in the family Geryoniidae. It is represented by the species Geryonia proboscidalis which occurs in the Mediterranean and subtropical seas. In the Mediterranean the species is more numerous and the polyps are larger than in other parts of the world. The diameter of a...
Q194413 Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film presented a heav...
Q516048 Granby is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,134 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Q1572233 "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" is a common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France; the others are the "Blood, toil, tears,...
Q8033679 Louis Elwood Jenkins, Jr., known as Woody Jenkins (born January 3, 1947), is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge and Central City, Louisiana, who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000 and waged three unsuccessful races for the United States Senate in 1978, 1980, and 1996.
Q5366550 Elmer Frank Harris (born November 1939 in Seal Cove, Conception Bay Newfoundland), is a noted Canadian humanitarian.Harris first came to national attention when he was the first Newfoundlander elected as National President of the Radio Television News Directors Association of Canada. Under his leadership meeti...
Q6797946 Mayrung is a community in the central part of the Riverina about 45 kilometres east of Pretty Pine and 35 kilometres north-east of Deniliquin. The Wiradjuri Aborigines, who inhabited the district prior to white settlement, called it 'Carawatha', which is thought to mean 'place of pines'. Mayrung is situated ...
Q678961 The Bristol Braemar was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed at the end of the First World War for the Royal Air Force. Only two prototypes were constructed.
Q1766309 Salvatierra de Tormes is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 78 inhabitants.
Q2918939 Yoav Talmi (Hebrew: יואב תלמי‎; born April 28, 1943 is an Israeli conductor and composer.
Q1053619 Fan art is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work. As fan labor, fan art refers to artworks that are neither created nor (normally) commissioned or endorsed by the creators of the work from which the fan art derives.A different, older meani...
Q12498588 Minter is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama, United States. Minter has one site included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Street Manual Training School.
Q2428987 Diogo Ferreira Salomão (born 14 September 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Romanian club FCSB as a left winger.
Q4647274 A.R.C. is an album by pianist Chick Corea with bassist David Holland and drummer Barry Altschul recorded in 1971 and released on the ECM label.
Q7385629 Ryūnosuke, Ryunosuke or Ryuunosuke (written: 龍之介, 龍之助, 隆之介 or 竜之介) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, 1892–1927), Japanese writerRyunosuke Kingetsu (金月 龍之介, born 1971), Japanese screenwriterRyūnosuke Kusaka (草鹿 龍之介, 1893–1971), Imperial Japanes...
Q7423246 The Sarasota Thunder were a professional indoor football team based in Sarasota, Florida. They played in the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL) for part of the 2013 season before folding. The Thunder initially announced Robarts Arena as their home venue, though they played all their games on the road.
Q17113147 The 2016 European Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 17th edition of the competition and Liptovský Mikuláš hosted the event for the second time after previously hosting it in 2007. The events took place at...
Q18126165 The India women's cricket team toured England during the 2014 season where they defeated England in a one-off Test. This was India's first Test since 2006 and their second victory against England.There was also a three match ODI series which was the part of the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship. England won th...
Q11582502 Aizō Sōma (相馬愛蔵, Sōma Aizō, November 8, 1870 – February 14, 1954) was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of artists and patron of Pan-Asian politics during the pre-war Empire of Japan. He is known as the founder of Nakamura-ya, a noted bakery in Tokyo.
Q24572162 Radhika Rao (born 27 March 1976) is an Indian film director. She started her career with her feature film directorial debut Lucky: No Time for Love (2005) with Vinay Sapru. Her next films were I Love NY (2015) and Sanam Teri Kasam (2016). Radhika Rao also runs a film production company Rao & Sapru with her bu...