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Q1679412 SWV, (Sisters With Voices) is an American R&B vocal trio from New York City, New York whose members are Cheryl (Coko) Gamble, Tamara (Taj) Johnson and Leanne (Lelee) Lyons. Formed in 1988 as a gospel group, SWV became one of the most successful R&B groups of the 1990s. They had a series of hits, including "Wea... |
Q7985922 West Middleton is an unincorporated community between Russiaville and Kokomo in western Howard County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.West Middleton's old school's nickname was the Broncos. |
Q4967317 The Bertrand F. Harrison Arboretum, also known as the Brigham Young University Arboretum, is an arboretum located on a hill beside at 800 North Street on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, United States. It includes a native plants from both eastern and western regions of the United States.... |
Q2459953 Bolney is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies 36 miles (58 km) south of London, 11 miles (18 km) north of Brighton, and 27 miles (43 km) east northeast of the county town of Chichester, near the junction of the A23 road with the A272 road. The parish has a lan... |
Q2101764 Hunter Douglas N.V. is a Dutch multinational corporation. Its principal business is making window blinds and coverings. The company is publicly listed; the CEO, Ralph Sonnenberg, owns more than 80% of the stock.The head office is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a management office in Lucerne, Switzerland. |
Q8060155 Yucatán Siglo XXI (Spanish for "21st century") is a convention centre located in northern Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Halls in Siglo XXI have names referring to Maya heritage sites in the region such as "Salón Chichén Itzá", "Salón Uxmal", and "Salón Ek Balam". All of the halls except for Salon Chichen Itza have... |
Q208619 Josmer Volmy "Jozy" Altidore ( JOH-zee AL-ti-dor; born November 6, 1989) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Toronto FC and the United States national team.Altidore made his professional debut in 2006 at the age of 16 with the New York Red Bulls. In the middle of his third seaso... |
Q1979728 The Talich Quartet (Czech: Talichovo kvarteto) is a Czech string quartet founded in 1964, which has won several Grand Prix du Disque awards. |
Q6180196 Jeon Won-Keun (Korean: 전원근, born 13 November 1986) is a South Korean football player. |
Q15999315 Colonel Samuel Gillmor Haughton (1 December 1889 – 19 May 1959) was a politician who was elected in 1945 as an Ulster Unionist MP for Antrim |
Q7549594 So What is a live album by George Russell released on the Blue Note label in 1987, featuring performances by Russell with his Living Time Orchestra recorded in 1983 in Boston. The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and states "These tracks were recorded at the same Boston church con... |
Q2730710 Sagonjevo is a village in the municipality of Kuršumlija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 118 people. |
Q5041590 Carlo Robelli is an Italian maker of guitar and other musical instruments. In the 1960s, Carlo Robelli was a maker of inexpensive electric guitars, such as a model based upon the Gibson Les Paul. The company now focuses on acoustic stringed instruments, such as guitars and violins. Most Carlo Robelli modern pr... |
Q6506110 "Lazy Day" is a popular song by the 1960s band Spanky and Our Gang that peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after its 1967 release and number 1 in the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. It appeared on their album Spanky and Our Gang.The song stayed in the Top 40 four weeks longer than "Sunday Will Ne... |
Q41983338 Drakenberg is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:Hans Drakenberg (1901–1982), Swedish fencer at the 1936 Summer OlympicsOtto Drakenberg (born 1966), Swedish fencerChristian Jacobsen Drakenberg, Norwegian centenarian |
Q66327 Werner Maser (12 July 1922 – 5 April 2007) was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Werner was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries. |
Q20746313 Pwaga is a small town in Mpwapwa District, Dodoma region, central Tanzania. |
Q28089536 Swinton is an unincorporated community in Stoddard County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. |
Q773315 Gomphaeschna furcillata is a dragonfly in the genus Gomphaeschna ("pygmy darners"), in the family Aeshnidae ("darner dragonflies"). A common name for Gomphaeschna furcillata is "harlequin darner".Gomphaeschna furcillata is found in North America. It is native to Canada and the Continental US.The IUCN conservati... |
Q6575890 A One Day International (ODI) is a 50 over cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). An ODI differs from Test matches in that the number of overs per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings. As of November ... |
Q5577393 Gogle may refer to:A misspelling of "Google"A misspelling of "goggle"A misspelling of Nikolai Gogol's surname |
Q6464622 La Procesión is a 1960 Argentine film directed by Francis Lauric. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. |
Q3696354 Cowboy in Africa is an ABC television series produced in 1967–1968 by Ivan Tors and starring Chuck Connors. A 1966 television pilot turned into a movie and released to cinemas starring Hugh O'Brian as Jim Sinclair was called Africa Texas Style. |
Q7361404 The Roloson Houses, also known as Robert Roloson Houses, are houses in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1894 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Robert W. Roloson.They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. They were designated a Chicago Landmark on December 27, 1979. |
Q670308 Encarnita "Kany" García de Jesús (born September 25, 1982) is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. Born in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, García first appeared on television in 2004 as a contestant on Objetivo Fama. She is widely considered the most successful non-winner in the history of the show.In 2006, García sign... |
Q1162065 Le Mesnil-en-Thelle is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. |
Q16866775 Ulysses Simpson "Killer" McPherson Jr. was an American football and college athletics administrator. He was the second head football coach at Mississippi Vocational College—now known as Mississippi Valley State University—in Itta Bena, Mississippi, serving for four seasons, from 1954 to 1957, and compiling a... |
Q14935195 Lindsay Point is a locality in northwestern Victoria, Australia, located approximately 130 km from Mildura. Its northern extremity, located at 33.981°S 140.963°E, is less than one kilometre from the South Australian town of Murtho and is notable for being the only location in Victoria that lies to the west of... |
Q7757135 The Pilot is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador. The newspaper covers the Lewisporte region, as well as the islands of Fogo and Twillingate and smaller communities within the Road to the Isles region.Formerly owned by Transcontinental Media, the paper was acquir... |
Q803444 The Weesp–Lelystad railway, also known as Flevolijn, is a railway in the Netherlands operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and owned by ProRail. The line runs from Weesp, North Holland to Lelystad, capital of the neighbouring province of Flevoland. It currently has seven stations, these are (southwest to northeast... |
Q1657268 Djibo Airport (IATA: XDJ, ICAO: DFCJ) is an airport serving the village of Djibo in the Soum Province, part of the Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. |
Q17121679 Wyman may refer to:Alfred Lee Wyman (1874–1953), United States federal judgeBill Wyman (born 1936), British bassist born William George Perks Jr.Brad Wyman (born 1963), American film producerDave Wyman (born 1964), American football playerDavid Wyman (born 1929), American historianDevin Wyman (born 1973), Ame... |
Q7928312 Vienna College Namugongo is a private co-education institution, and is home to over four hundred students.It opened its doors to international students early in January 2000, rapidly establishing itself as a haven for senior students from Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Europe, the United States and of cour... |
Q7814760 Tom Alioto (born May 20, 1958 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a retired American soccer defender who played in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and American Indoor Soccer Association. |
Q12953319 Yau, also called Uruwa, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. |
Q13527286 Midara bengueta is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schaus in 1928. It is found in the Philippines. |
Q17071084 Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1985 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1985, to elect 288 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. |
Q24907405 Andorra competed at the 2015 Games of the Small States of Europe, in Reykjavík, Iceland from 1 to 6 June 2015. |
Q21068668 This is a list of Albanian football transfers for the 2015 summer transfer window by club. Only transfers of clubs in the Albanian Superliga are included.The summer transfer window was open on 1 June 2015, although a few transfers take place prior to that date. The window was closed at midnight on 31 August 2... |
Q634277 The Finns Party, formerly known in English as the True Finns (Finnish: Perussuomalaiset, PS, Swedish: Sannfinländarna, Sannf.), is a Finnish populist political party. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.In the 2011 parliamentary election, the party won 19.1% of votes, bec... |
Q7930826 Villains is the second studio album, and first major label release by The Verve Pipe. It was released in March 1996. The band received its first hit in "Photograph", which peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. A year after the release of the album, a reformatted version of "The Freshmen" pe... |
Q10786 Ferentillo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km southeast of Perugia and about 12 km northeast of Terni. The comune, located in the valley of the Nera, is divided by the river into the burghs of Matterella and Precetto.Ferentillo borders the follow... |
Q690798 Lavant is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the upper Drautal valley in East Tyrol, Austria. It is located southeast of the city of Lienz. |
Q33012 Karo, referred to in Indonesia as Bahasa Karo (Karo language), is an Austronesian language that is spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia. It is used by around 600,000 people in North Sumatra. It is mainly spoken in Karo Regency, southern parts of Deli Serdang Regency and northern parts of Dairi Regency, North S... |
Q5226768 The Dashuigou Formation (simplified Chinese: 大水沟组; traditional Chinese: 大水溝組; pinyin: Dàshuǐgōu Zǔ) is a geological formation in Inner Mongolia, north China, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous period.Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. |
Q7292662 The Range Busters was a film series of 24 Westerns of the adventures of a trio of cowboys, many filmed at the Corriganville Movie Ranch, produced by George W. Weeks and distributed by Monogram Pictures. The series used Home on the Range as its theme song with each film featuring the heroes waving goodbye and ... |
Q3752347 Lepturidium is a genus of Cuban plants in the grass family.The only known species is Lepturidium insulare. It is reported only from Isla de la Juventud (formerly called Isle of Pines), part of the Republic of Cuba. |
Q5199514 Cymbula miniata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets. |
Q7675495 Tahir Demi (1919–1961) was an Albanian politician. He was high-ranking member of the Party of Labour of Albania and representative of Albania at Comecon. In 1960 he was arrested and sentenced to death in 1961 for being a member of a pro-Soviet group, led by Rear Admiral Teme Sejko, that had been planning a cou... |
Q1940631 Dasyponyssidae is a small family of mites in the order Mesostigmata. |
Q16255811 James Wynn is a British actor, author and film maker who currently works for HTB Church in London. He is best known for his role as Mr 'Sooty' Sutcliffe on the British TV drama Grange Hill. After leaving the programme in 1983, he gained a place on the BBC film directing course and he went on to work on Comic ... |
Q4885391 Armand Joseph "Big Ben" Cardoni (August 21, 1920 – April 2, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played three seasons with the Boston Braves from 1943 to 1945. |
Q3738349 The Lions Head is a statue along Kennon Road, a major highway in Luzon, Philippines that leads to the city of Baguio. Located in Camp 6, the Lion's Head measures 40 ft (12 m) in height. It was conceptualized by the Lions Club members of Baguio, during the term of Luis Lardizabal as mayor of Baguio from 1969 to... |
Q7673797 Tachina subpilosa is a species of fly in the genus Tachina of the family Tachinidae that is endemic to France. |
Q18128103 The Mistaken Point Formation is a geologic formation in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is recognized as a Lagerstätte preserving fossils dating back to the Ediacaran period. It contains a stratum dated to 565 ± 3 million years ago. |
Q18351997 Dissident is the second studio album by Deadline, released in 1991 by Day Eight Music. |
Q15943762 The Ulu Mosque in Utrecht is located at the Mosque square; the first square or street in the Netherlands named after an Islamic religious building. Besides the Islamic prayer hall, the building also host a room for contemplation for people from any other denomination. The board of the mosque decided to create... |
Q28147510 Adam Mather (26 November 1860 – 31 August 1917) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class matches for New South Wales between 1885/86 and 1886/87. |
Q21808634 James Idun (born 23 April 1963) is a Ghanaian sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics. |
Q894563 The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is a National Recreation Area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. The area is made up of a collection of islands, together with a former island and a peninsula, many of which are open for public recreation and some of which are... |
Q8012581 William Howard Taft Charter High School is a public school located on the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Winnetka Avenue in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school gained affiliated charter status beginning w... |
Q360213 Carlos Jorge Neto Martins (born 29 April 1982) is a Portuguese former footballer. An attacking midfielder, he was noted for his long-range shots.His career, during which he represented both Sporting and Benfica, was marred by injury and indiscipline problems. He also competed professionally in Spain, with Recre... |
Q1372134 Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English filmmaker of independent film.He is best known for the British cult film This Is England (2006) and its three sequel series (2010–2015). His other films include Small Time (1996), Twenty Four Seven (1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in t... |
Q4671649 Acalanes High School is a public secondary school located in Lafayette, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County. Acalanes was the first of four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District. It was built in 1940 on what was then a tomato field.... |
Q5895964 Jöns-Ove "Jojje" Jönsson, born June 30, 1955 is a Swedish actor and playwright.Jojje won a Golden Mask for best male supporting actor in a play 2000 and 2001. He is most widely known for his roles in the farces of Stefan & Krister, from the 1990s and onwards. He had however had some earlier success playing Iva... |
Q1903620 Martin Dew is a former English male badminton player who specialized in doubles.Dew won two medals in the World Championships, a silver medal in 1983 for men's doubles and a bronze medal in 1987 for mixed doubles. He shared the mixed doubles title at the prestigious All-England Championships twice with Gillian... |
Q5631727 HMS Cachalot (N83) was one of the six-ship class of Grampus-class mine-laying submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built at Scotts, Greenock and launched 2 December 1937. She served in World War II in home waters and the Mediterranean. She was rammed and sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Generale Achille Papa ... |
Q5094056 Chet Atkins' Workshop is the fourteenth studio album recorded by American guitarist Chet Atkins. Full of pop and jazz stylings and no country, this became his best-selling LP to date, peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard Pop album charts. |
Q5053860 Catopsis morreniana is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Central America and southern Mexico. |
Q7917737 Vecherniy Grodno is a Russian language newspaper published in Belarus. |
Q5603941 Greenfield, Pittsylvania County is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
Q3715869 Phyllodesmium magnum is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae. |
Q7678053 Takeo Nakasawa (Japanese: 中澤武雄, February 5, 1913, Koichi prefecture, Japan – June 20, 1946, Khabarovsk, Soviet Union) was a Japanese mathematician who independently invented the theory of matroids, though his work was forgotten for many years. He published four papers (in German) of which the first three intro... |
Q4629353 The 2013 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 3, 2013, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Kansas State Wildcats, champions of the Big 12 Conference, played the Oregon Ducks, an at-large selection from the Pac-12 Conference. This wa... |
Q7840856 Trichonida Province was one of the provinces of the Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture, Greece. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipalities Agrinio (except the municipal units Angelokastro, Arakynthos, Makryneia and Stratos) and Thermo. It was abolished in 2006. |
Q14775119 The Motagua Valley thornscrub is one of the ecoregions that belong to the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. The ecoregion is located in the Motagua valley in eastern Guatemala, and covers an area of 2330 km2.The Motagua Valley is one of the driest areas of Central Amer... |
Q16956201 The 2014 Colonial Athletic Association Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 13–16 at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Champion James Madison University received an automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.The 2014 tournament featured nine teams due to the departure of George Mason fr... |
Q11070321 Xu Fulin (Chinese: 徐傅霖; Wade–Giles: Hsu Fu-lin; 1879 – 12 January 1958) was a politician and legal scholar of the Republic of China.Born in Heping, Guangdong, Xu was educated in Japan and joined the Tongmenghui. In 1909, he became member of the Guangdong Consultative Bureau. He was the provisional Senator in ... |
Q29097750 The 1980 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1980 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1979-80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 1980 National Title Game was played on March 24, 1980 at Market Square Arena in Indianapol... |
Q1473375 USS Fletcher (DD/DDE-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class destroyer, and served in the Pacific during World War II. She received fifteen battle stars for World War II service, and five for Korean War service.Fletcher was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock C... |
Q436552 Yekaterina Puzanova (born 1 January 1979) is a Russian middle distance runner.She won the 1500 metres at the 2002 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna. At the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships she finished sixth in 800 metres, but was tested positive for Norandrosterone and Androstenedione and d... |
Q7916997 Vasthy E. Mompoint (born September 7, 1980) is an American voice and musical actress. She completed her television voice acting role as Layla on the 4Kids Entertainment edit of Winx Club.Mompoint, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, grew up in Hoover, Alabama and graduated from Hoover High School in 1998. She... |
Q5633417 For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mohawk.HMS Mohawk was a Tribal class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1907 and sold for scrap in 1919.During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, being damaged by a mine in 1915 and fighting in ... |
Q7125905 The Pakistani nationality law governs citizenship of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The principal legislation determining nationality, the Pakistan Citizenship Act, was passed by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 13 April 1951. Since Cambodia changed its laws, Pakistan is the only country in Asia with... |
Q3862426 Montgomery City is an unincorporated community in Mono County, California. It is located 2.5 miles (4 km) east-northeast of Benton, at an elevation of 6450 feet (1966 m). |
Q8025592 Winner Cup 2009 was the 4th edition of the Israeli basketball pre-season tournament Winner Cup. It was played between October 4 and October 8 in Jerusalem at the Malha Arena, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Hapoel Jerusalem has won the cup after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv 86-80 in the final. MVP was Tre ... |
Q7361799 The Third Lake is a lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is about 800 metres (2,625 ft) long and 270 metres (886 ft) wide, and lies at an elevation of 395 metres (1,296 ft) about 14.3 kilometres (8.9 mi) northwest of the community of Schreiber. It is part of the Pays Plat river system, which flows... |
Q6171332 Jean Picard was a French bookbinder, active around 1540. Picard is notable for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier. He may also have worked at the French royal bindery.While the Grolier bindings have long been sought after, the identities of the binders who made them were forgotten until t... |
Q6676056 Lootera, (transl. Robber) is a 2013 Indian historical romance film directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and partly based on author O. Henry's 1907 short story The Last Leaf. It is the second film directed by Motwane after his critically acclaimed film Udaan. Set in the era of the 1950s, against the backdrop of th... |
Q7850944 Tubulin/FtsZ family, GTPase domain is an evolutionary conserved protein domain.This domain is found in all tubulin chains, as well as the bacterial FtsZ family of proteins. These proteins are involved in polymer formation. Tubulin is the major component of microtubules, while FtsZ is the polymer-forming protei... |
Q7621117 Strain is the third studio album by American industrial group, Flesh Field, which was released on November 8, 2004 on Metropolis Records. This is not only Flesh Field's debut album on Metropolis Records, but this is also their first album that features the vocals of Wendy Yanko after the departure of Rian Mill... |
Q14501816 Trechus bedeli is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Trechinae. It was described by Jeannel in 1922. |
Q16898659 Puducherry railway station (station code: PDY) is a railway station serving the city of Pondicherry. |
Q16751760 Cochylimorpha kohibabae is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Afghanistan. |
Q12314648 Gunnar Andersen (12 May 1911 – 13 November 1981) was a Danish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. |
Q25022209 Colegio Miraflores Colegio Miraflores is a network of private schools located in Mexico |
Q26268105 Sofia Riga (born 18 July 1988) is a Greek long distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She competed in the women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She finished in 103rd place with a time of 2:49:07. |
Q27735912 Reece Marshall is a rugby union player currently playing for Aviva Premiership side Northampton Saints.Marshall began his rugby career at Moulton College, where the likes of his Northampton Saints teammates Howard Packman, Tom Collins and Tom Stephenson also graduated, and progressed to become a full-time Sai... |
Q34371031 Alma Gertrude Vansittart Strettell (1853–1939), was a British translator and poet known for her translations of folk songs, folk tales, and poems from Greek, Romanian, French, Provençal, German, Norwegian, and other languages. |
Q7006736 New Creek is an 18.4-mile-long (29.6 km) stream in eastern West Virginia. It is the third major West Virginia tributary to the North Branch Potomac River. Via the Potomac, it is part of the watershed of Chesapeake Bay. |
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