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Q20102598 Since the 1968 Summer Olympics did not feature tennis as an official sport, two unofficial tournaments were held during the Games: a Demonstration tournament and an Exhibition tournament.The Demonstration tournament was played from 14 to 20 October 1968 at three venues in Guadalajara, Mexico: Guadalajara Coun... |
Q166003 A news ticker (sometimes called a "crawler", "crawl" or "slide") is a primarily horizontal, text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space on a television station or network (usually during news programming) or as a long, thin scoreboard-style di... |
Q5338896 Edmond M. Hanrahan (died June 10, 1979) was an American lawyer and government official. He served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1948 and 1949 and also served as a member from 1946-1949. He was appointed to the New York State Racing Commission in 1957 and served until 1975.H... |
Q292599 Maria Nikolayevna Yermolova (Russian: Мария Николаевна Ермолова; July 15 [O.S. July 3] 1853 in Moscow – March 12, 1928, id.) was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the "People's Artist of the Republic" (1921).In the course of her 50... |
Q4966669 The bridges of Budapest, crossing the River Danube from north to south are as follows: |
Q4965664 Dr Brian Winston is the first holder of the Lincoln Professorship at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. He was a Pro Vice Chancellor for 2005-2006 and the former dean of Media and Humanities. |
Q3328215 Murray Sutherland (born 10 April 1953 in Edinburgh) is a former Scottish boxer who fought in middleweight division.Murray Sutherland turned professional in 1977 and in 1981 challenged WBC Light Heavyweight Title holder Matthew Saad Muhammad, but lost by KO in the 9th round. Matthew Saad Muhammad was later quot... |
Q6372187 Karl Ready (born 14 August 1972 in Neath) is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international. During his career, he gained five international caps for Wales. |
Q6440776 Sannas Mudiyanselage Kshanika Kumari Hirimburegama (known as Kshanika Hirimburegama) (born January 1, 1958) is a Sri Lankan academic. She was the 17th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo. Prior to the appointment she was Head of the Department of Plant Sciences and a Member of the University Grants Co... |
Q5206496 DWMP-TV is a commercial television station owned by ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studio is located at Mt. Macalana, Barlig, Mountain Province and the transmitter is located at Mt. Amuyao, Barlig, Mountain Province. |
Q3394090 Polemon notatus is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae. It is endemic to Africa. |
Q921426 Shitagau Noguchi (野口 遵, Noguchi Shitagau, July 26, 1873-January 15, 1944) was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Nichitsu zaibatsu. Known as the father of electrochemical engineering in Japan, he invested heavily in the development of Korea and Manchukou in cooperation with the Imperial Japanese Army and N... |
Q3260828 Louis-Pierre-Eugène Amélie Sédillot (23 June 1808 in Paris – 2 December 1875), was a French orientalist and historian of science and mathematics. |
Q7801835 Tijuana Jazz is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Gary McFarland and trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in 1965 for the Impulse! label. The album was also released in the UK on the HMV label as CLP3541. |
Q671573 The Domodossola–Locarno railway, also known as the Centovalli railway (Italian: Centovallina) is a metre-gauge railway negotiating the dramatic mountainous terrain between Domodossola, Italy, and Locarno, Switzerland. It passes through the villages of Intragna and Santa Maria Maggiore and carried over 1 million... |
Q16798249 Weseham is a surname and may be:Roger Weseham, English medieval academic and bishopRoger de Weseham (Oxford), English medieval archdeacon and university chancellor |
Q25006569 Third-seeds Kevin Curren and Steve Denton won the title and shared $12,000 after beating Raúl Ramírez and Van Winitsky in the final. |
Q18043066 GRAM domain containing 1B, also known as GRAMD1B and KIAA1201, is a protein that is encoded by the GRAMD1B gene. It contains a transmembrane region and two domains of known function; the GRAM domain and a VASt domain. It is predicted to localize in the nucleus, supported by several nuclear transport signals a... |
Q29943173 The Shaki Valley (Dari: درهٔ شاکی) is a valley in the Jaghatu district, Ghazni Province in Afghanistan, which is inhabited with ethnic Hazara. |
Q18857560 Namdalseid is the administrative centre of Namdalseid municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Norwegian County Road 17, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the town of Steinkjer and about the same distance south of the town of Namsos. The Namdalseid Church sits just south... |
Q944703 Olean is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 1,963 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from the Latin word "oleum" due to the discovery of crude oil in nearby Ischua.The town of Olean is in the southeast corner of the county. The city of Olean, originally the village of... |
Q2670655 Stormont Castle is a mansion on the Stormont Estate in east Belfast which is used as the main meeting place of the Northern Ireland Executive. It was never a castle as such: the original building was reworked in the nineteenth century in the Scottish baronial style with features such as bartizans used for dec... |
Q4889301 Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003) was a U.S. Navy officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank. |
Q4049810 Sound of the Street is DMX Krew's debut album released on Rephlex in 1996. |
Q7134336 Pixar Pier and Paradise Gardens Park are themed lands at Disney California Adventure, based on that of Victorian boardwalks that were once found along the coast of California. Despite its name and the presence of a nearby man-made lake, Pixar Pier is not actually a pier, but a waterside area of the park. Incre... |
Q6203969 Jo-Anna Downey (February 1, 1967—December 2016) was a multiple Canadian Comedy Award-nominated stand-up comedian.She was the host of two popular weekly Toronto, Ontario comedy shows, Open Mike at Spirits (since 1996) and Standing on the Danforth.Downey suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 2012 and... |
Q920612 Classic Hits Live is Foreigner's first live album. It was released in 1993, and contains live versions of many of their well-known songs all of which were taken from various concerts between 1977 and 1985. |
Q6962475 Nanchang Bayi Stadium (Simplified Chinese: 南昌八一体育场) is a multi-use stadium in Nanchang, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletics events. This stadium's capacity is 26,000 people. |
Q1725249 The Canton of Excideuil is a former canton of the Dordogne département, in France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 14 communes, which joined the canton of Isle-Loue-Auvézère in 2015.The lowest point is in Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideui... |
Q3332480 Arif İsayev (born 28 July 1985 in Baku) is a retired Azerbaijani Footballer who played as an Attacking midfielder in both Azerbaijan and Turkey. |
Q3041035 Dugojnica is a village in the municipality of Surdulica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 275 people. |
Q6614604 This is a list of cricket grounds in Pakistan that have been used for first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket matches. For grounds used in international cricket, see the map and the notes column. |
Q6806762 Medicine for Melancholy is a 2008 independent romantic drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins. The film stars Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins, and Elizabeth Acker. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 7, 2008. It was released in a limited release on January 30, 2009, by IFC Film... |
Q6539159 Li Xiang (Chinese:李响; Pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎng; born 16 February 1989 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a Chinese football player. He has played for Khonkaen F.C. since the 2011 season, when it was in the Thai Premier League. |
Q15641652 Anopina wrighti is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in Colorado in the United States.The wingspan is about 14 mm. |
Q17059489 The Yorkshire Party is a political party in Yorkshire, a region of the United Kingdom. Founded in 2014, it campaigns for the establishment of a devolved Yorkshire Assembly within the UK, with powers over education, environment, transport and housing.It describes itself as a centrist party built on social demo... |
Q17626636 Jamierra Faulkner (born March 9, 1992) is an American basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She previously played for UMMC Ekaterinburg. She was selected in the third round of the 2014 WNBA Draft, 34th overall. |
Q18386326 Pamela Kasabiiti Mbabazi (born 6 April 1969) is a Ugandan university professor, academic, and academic administrator, who currently serves as the Chairperson of the National Planning Authority of Uganda. She was installed in that position in April 2019, to serve a five-year term, renewable one time.She previo... |
Q23846079 Anton Andreyevich Terekhov (Russian: Антон Андреевич Терехов; born 30 January 1998) is a Russian football player who plays as right winger for Krylia Sovetov Samara on loan from Dynamo Moscow. |
Q16155178 This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament of Scotland, where, as a unicameral legislature, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit.From 1707 to 1963 there were sixteen Scottish representati... |
Q460971 Biecz (Polish pronunciation: ['bʲɛt͡ʂ] (listen)) (German: Beitsch) is a town and municipality in southeastern Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Gorlice County. It is in the Carpathian Mountains, in the Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie, by the Ropa River. Due to its rich history, it is often referred to as "little Kr... |
Q8055517 The York Railway (reporting mark YRC) is a shortline railroad operating 42 miles (68 km) of track in and near York, Pennsylvania. The company was created in 1999 through a consolidation of Yorkrail, Inc. (reporting mark YKR) and the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (M&P), both owned by the Emons Railroad Gro... |
Q7895751 The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) is a research and teaching facility operated by the University of Michigan. It is located on the south shore of Douglas Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The station consists of 10,000 acres (40 km²) of land near Pellston, Michigan in the northern Lower P... |
Q930496 Rodrigo Roncero, also known as "RoRo", uncle of Mateo Morrone, alias Morronzero, Morroculo o Duketto, (born 16 February 1977, in Buenos Aires), is a retired Argentine former rugby union player. The last team in which he played was Stade Français in the Top 14. He has also played for Gloucester Rugby in the Guin... |
Q6336918 KRNN is a non-commercial (NPR) music radio station in Juneau, Alaska, broadcasting on 102.7 FM. KRNN airs a variety of music genres which include, jazz, classical, and adult album alternative. |
Q6421607 Klæburuten is a Norwegian bus company located in Trondheim. It operates the regional buses in Klæbu and to Trondheim in addition to the Airport Bus from Trondheim to Trondheim Airport, Værnes.The bus company operates 26 daily buses between Trondheim and Klæbu. In Trondheim buses stop both at Trondheim Central ... |
Q2204567 Świdwie [ˈɕfidvjɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sępólno Krajeńskie, within Sępólno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Sępólno Krajeńskie and 45 km (28 mi) north-west of Bydgoszcz.The village has a populati... |
Q2740144 Huang Haiqiang (born 8 February 1988 in Zhejiang) is a Chinese high jumper.He won the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships, the latter in a personal best jump of 2.32 metres. He competed at the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final.He represented his country in t... |
Q426568 Marena Josefina Bencomo Giménez (born April 15, 1974 in Valencia, Carabobo) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 1996 and first runner-up to Miss Universe 1997. |
Q2951688 The 1989–90 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 79th since its establishment. |
Q3487718 Souvenir d'Italie is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. |
Q5489689 Frank Walter Snook (born March 28, 1949) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Diego Padres in its 1973 season. Listed at 6' 2", 180 lb., Snook batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Somerville, New Jersey. |
Q8037604 Wrapped Up Good is the second studio album by Australian country band The McClymonts released in Australia on 26 January 2010 by Universal Records.The album entered the Australian music chart at Number 2 and remained on the chart for 14 weeks. |
Q56356515 The ballet Prince Hodong, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism as a part of the Nation Branding project, is an original work based on a traditional tale, Prince Hodong and Nakrang Princess. Sung-nam Lim, the 1st Artistic Director of the Korea National Ballet, choreographed Prince Hodong i... |
Q2713024 Nurse 3D is a 2013 American 3D erotic horror thriller film directed by Doug Aarniokoski and written by Aarniokoski and David Loughery. Starring Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, and Corbin Bleu, the film is inspired by the photography of Lionsgate's chief marketing officer, Tim Palen. Production took place fro... |
Q2294120 GAMMA is a Dutch Hardware store-chain. It started in May 11, 1971 in Breda. The headquarters of the franchise-organisation Intergamma is located in Leusden and as of 2011 it has 245 stores, of which 164 are located in the Netherlands and 81 in Belgium. Intergamma also owns the Hardware store-chain Karwei. |
Q5786736 Nazami Kandi (Persian: نظمي كندي, also Romanized as Naz̧amī Kandī) is a village in Yowla Galdi Rural District, in the Central District of Showt County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q19895866 Lists of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the year 2015 are found at:List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2015List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, July–December 2015 |
Q22516407 The Kakaskutatakuch River is a tributary of the Iskaskunikaw River in Regional County Municipality (RCM) of Eeyou Istchee James Bay (municipality) in the area of the Nord-du-Québec, Canadian province of Quebec, in Canada.The hydrographic slope of the Kakaskutatakuch River is served by the northern route comin... |
Q1755519 Watertown is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, along the South Fork of the Crow River. The population was 4,205 at the 2010 census. |
Q446118 Shadoe Stevens (born Terry Keith Ingstad; November 3, 1947) is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of American Top 40 from 1988 to 1995. He currently hosts the internationally syndicated radio show, Top of the World, and co-hosts Mental Radio, an entertaining app... |
Q901885 Quincy Market is a historic market complex near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1824–26 and named in honor of Mayor Josiah Quincy, who organized its construction without any tax or debt. The market is a designated National Historic Landmark and Boston Landmark, significant... |
Q5773587 Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in North Carolina's capital, Raleigh, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas within its 102 acres (41 ha), the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and one... |
Q1585810 Harold Henderson Earthman (April 13, 1900 – February 26, 1987) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee. |
Q5274280 Didymogenes is a genus of green algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae. |
Q7175844 Peter Wiltberger Meldrim (4 December 1848 − 13 December 1933) was an attorney, politician, judge and an army officer from Georgia, United States. Early in his career, he worked to expand African-Americans' access to education as chairman of the Georgia State Commission on the Education of Colored Persons. He s... |
Q5215197 The Dance Smartly Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run annually during July at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A Grade II stakes race raced on turf, it is open to horses three years of age and olderInaugurated in 1986, it was raced on dirt through 1989 at a distance of 1 1⁄8 miles. In 1990 ... |
Q17052794 Dear Brother (おにいさまへ..., Oniisama e...) is a Japanese anime series directed by Osamu Dezaki that aired on NHK-BS2 from July 14, 1991 to May 31, 1992. It was based on the 1975 manga of the same name by Riyoko Ikeda, about an ordinary girl that attends a prestigious girls' school.Note that the English translat... |
Q51106 Pinto is a Chilean town and commune in Diguillín Province, Ñuble Region. It is bordered by the commune of Coihueco to the north, Chillán and San Ignacio to the west, and El Carmen and Antuco to the south. The commune shares its eastern border with the Argentine province of Neuquén. |
Q5603079 The Green Point Lighthouse is a provincial heritage site in Clanstal in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.In 1995 it was described in the Government Gazette as an "unusual cast-iron structure, erected in 1905, [...] the oldest lighthouse on the KwaZulu-Natal coast." |
Q7205206 PLRI (Parallel Logic Radio Interface) is a set of circuits of interest to radio amateursAmateur Radio (hams). These circuits are fully compatible with IRLP (Internet Radio Linking Project). IRLP is trademarked by Dave Cameron. The circuit shown below is the Deluxe PLRI interface, and is used to connect a radio... |
Q7845668 Trophon plicatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q1183658 Shion Tsuji (辻詩音, Tsuji Shion) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "Sky Chord (Otona ni Naru Kimi e)," which was used as the ending theme song for the anime Bleach (the 18th song to be used for the ending credits of the anime). |
Q33453 Čepljani is a village in Croatia. |
Q7296048 Ratu Bagus is a Balinese guru who developed a technique of Bio-energy Shaking Meditation. He is said to transmit healing energy through his touch and picture, induce spontaneous shaking and laughing in the recipient, release them of mental, physical, emotional and spiritual blocks. Ratu’s following in the Wes... |
Q7364042 Ronald J. Konopka (1947-2015) was an American geneticist who studied chronobiology. He made his most notable contribution to the field while working with Drosophila in the lab of Seymour Benzer at the California Institute of Technology. During this work, Konopka discovered the period (per) gene, which control... |
Q17514385 The Capitan Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. |
Q19601044 Constituency PP-194 (Multan-I) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab. |
Q19668694 Oruno Lara (1879 – 1924) was a Guadeloupean poet, author and historian, not to be confused with his grandson Dr. Oruno D. Lara, also a historian. Head of Pointe-à-Pitre's Guadeloupe Littéraire journal, he arrived in France in 1914 with hopes of further developing his project of a literary and political journ... |
Q284254 Karyn Parsons (born October 8, 1966) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role as Hilary Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. Parsons also starred in the 1995 film Major Payne opposite Damon Wayans. |
Q52292 Grassano is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is located between the Bradano and Basento rivers at an elevation ranging from about 150 to 576 metres (492 to 1,890 ft) above sea level. The town proper is 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Matera and 59 kilometre... |
Q1768261 El Pedroso de la Armuña is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 290 people. |
Q4554070 The following lists events that happened during 1817 in Australia. |
Q91664 Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (24 September 1861 – 18 July 1930) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis, especially on elliptic, modular and automorphic functions. He was one of the main collaborators of Felix Klein, with whom he produced two classic, two-volume monographs on elliptic mo... |
Q6235688 John Arthur Goodchild (1851–1914) was a physician, and later author of several works of poetry and mysticism, most famously Light of the West. According to Benham (see below) Goodchild had a private medical practice in Bordighera, Italy, serving mainly expatriate Britons. From 1873 until the early 1900s he sta... |
Q5519536 Gama is a small town in western-central Senegal. It is located in the Kaolack Region.Nearby towns and villages include Gordilene (1.0 nm), Ali Gane (2.2 nm), Keur Deuri (2.2 nm), Keur Tierno Tala (2.2 nm), Ndiayene Bagana (1.9 nm), Kebe Lanim(2.2 nm), Dimbe Korki (1.4 nm), Keur Modou (1.4 nm), Nianguene (2.0 n... |
Q6865054 Mini Marvels is an all-ages comic book written and illustrated by Chris Giarrusso and published by Marvel Comics. The comic has been published in the form of back-ups in other comic books as well as original one-shots and trade paperback collections. The comics are a humorous depiction of the Marvel heroes as ... |
Q1893986 Dumitrești is a commune located in Vrancea County, Romania. It is composed of sixteen villages: Biceștii de Jos, Biceștii de Sus, Blidari, Dumitrești, Dumitreștii de Sus, Dumitreștii-Faţă, Găloiești, Lăstuni, Lupoaia, Motnău, Poienița, Roșcari, Siminoc, Tinoasa, Trestia and Valea Mică. |
Q7497760 Shinshu Honan Junior College (信州豊南短期大学, Shinshū honan tanki daigaku) is a private junior college in Tatsuno, Nagano, Japan. It was originally established as a women's junior college in 1983. In 2000 it became coeducational. |
Q322529 Frumpy was a German progressive rock/krautrock band based in Hamburg, which was active between 1970–1972 and 1990–1995. Formed after the break-up of folk rockers The City Preachers, Frumpy released four albums in 1970–1973 and achieved considerable commercial success. The German press hailed them as the best Ge... |
Q1266784 Christine Francine Wilhelmina "Tine" Van Rompuy (born 28 August 1955, in Leuven) is a Belgian nurse, politician and syndicalist, member of the Workers Party of Belgium, a leftist party in Belgium.Van Rompuy is the sister of Herman Van Rompuy, EU's first full-time president of the European Council, and the Flem... |
Q7086998 Oliva februaryana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. |
Q6825597 Meugher (/ˈmuː.fər/) is a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It lies in remote country between Wharfedale and Nidderdale, in the parish of Stonebeck Down less than 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park but within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Beauty. The hill has a conical pea... |
Q17009014 Kielvale is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire. |
Q16744927 Louis Bisilliat (25 February 1931 – 5 May 2010) was a French racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1959 Tour de France. |
Q17388223 Pat Butler (16 May 1913 – 7 March 2001) was a British boxer who won the British welterweight title in 1934. |
Q22004225 Evan Shanks (born October 10, 1964) is an American rock bassist for Symbol Six and Entropy. |
Q25352310 MTV Roadies X4 : Your Gang, Your Glory is the thirteenth season of Indian reality show MTV Roadies. The show is hosted by Gaelyn Mendonca. It started airing on MTV India from February 20, 2016. The audition episodes were aired from 20 February 2016 and the journey episodes began airing on 6 April 2016. Balra... |
Q33133790 Jovica Jevtić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Јевтић; born 1975) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. |
Q5328057 East Central Penobscot is an unorganized territory in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 343 at the 2010 census. |
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