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Q5984697 Ibrahim Nooraddeen (Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން އިބްރާހީމް ނުރައްދީން; died 1892) was the sultan of the Maldives, first in 1882 to 1886. After 4 years, 11 months and 29 days, Muhammad Mueenuddeen II took over the throne. Nooraddeen came to power for the second time in 1888, and was the sultan until he died in 1892.
Q923943 Mohan Bikram Singh (born 1935), often referred to as MBS, party name Gharti, is a Nepalese politician. His father was a wealthy landlord in Pyuthan District who was close to King Tribhuvan. MBS however joined the opposition Nepali Congress, and took part in the 1950–1951 uprising for democracy.MBS joined the un...
Q7424348 The Observer has been serving Sarnia-Lambton since 1853 and publishes six times per week, Monday through Saturday.The offices of the Observer are in Sarnia. The paper is printed in London, Ontario, on presses owned by Postmedia, which also publishes the London Free Press and Windsor Star.
Q1932869 Abraham Maurits "Bram" Behr (18 January 1951 – 8 December 1982) was a Surinamese journalist. He published the pamphlet De Rode Surinamer and edited the weekly newspaper Mokro. He also founded (June 24, 1981) and led the Hoxhaist Communist Party of Suriname (CPS) in opposition to the military dictatorship of Dé...
Q555055 Count Sano Tsunetami (佐野 常民, December 28, 1822 – December 12, 1902) was a Japanese statesman and founder of the Japanese Red Cross Society. His son, Admiral Sano Tsuneha, was a leading figure in the establishment of the Scout Association of Japan.
Q5545725 George Washington Prince (March 4, 1854 – September 26, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Tazewell County, Illinois, Prince attended the public schools.He was graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice i...
Q2601140 In enzymology, a glycerol 2-dehydrogenase (NADP+) (EC 1.1.1.156) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactionglycerol + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } glycerone + NADPH + H+Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are glycerol and NADP+, whereas its 3 product...
Q6565185 The following is a list of prominent locations seen in the Buffyverse (created by Joss Whedon).
Q5598177 The Gray Gardens East and West Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 20th century residential subdivision in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The subdivision includes all of the properties on Gray Gardens (East and West), as well as the adjacent 91 Garden Street and 60 Raymond Street. The s...
Q8062208 Yuxarı Seyidlər is a village and municipality in the Zardab Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 755.
Q14680434 This article is about the spring in Cochise County, Arizona. For the town in Yavapai County, Arizona, see Iron Springs.Iron Springs is the historical name of a natural spring in the Whetstone Mountains of southeastern Arizona. It is famous as the site of a confrontation between Wyatt Earp and William "Curly B...
Q1212354 Erzsébet Márkus-Peresztegi (born August 23, 1969 in Sopron, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a retired female weightlifter from Hungary. She became an Olympic medalist during the 2000 Summer Olympics when she won the silver medal in the women's – 69 kg class.
Q4653340 Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music ) is an American production music company headquartered in Hollywood, California, was initially a joint venture between Zomba/Jive and EMI (which now are owned by Universal and Sony/ATV, respectively). APM Music's catalog contains more than 685,000 ...
Q5629549 This season is the first season of HGTV Design Star. It features 10 designers competing for their own show on HGTV.
Q296282 Leander Adrian Paes ( PAYSS; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player. Paes has won eight doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. He holds a career Grand Slam in men's doubles and mixed doubles, and achieved the rare men's doubles/mixed doubles double at the 1999 Wimbledon tournament....
Q13650900 Hahncappsia cayugalis is a moth in the Crambidae family described by Hahn William Capps in 1967. It is found in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Morelos, Chiapas, Veracruz).The wingspan is 21–25 mm for males and 26–28 mm for females. Adults have been recorded on wing from April to October.
Q21067856 This is a list of prequels.Works with darker gray background shading have been primarily described as a sequel, remake, or reboot, but have also been regarded as prequels in a broad sense of the word.
Q24970798 Geoffrey IV (Geoffroy IV) (died 1176), Viscount of Châteaudun, son of Hugues IV, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Marguerite de Saint-Calais, daughter of Sylvestre de Saint-Calais.It is not clear that Geoffrey was ever Viscount of Châteaudun, but some histories list him as such. The only record of him is various ...
Q7997190 Lake Township is a civil township of Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,468 at the 2000 census.
Q5016845 Sheung Wan (Chinese: 上環) is an area in Hong Kong, located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central and Sai Ying Pun. Administratively, it is part of the Central and Western District. The name can be variously interpreted as Upper District (occupying relatively high ground compared to Central and...
Q208169 The Republic of Ragusa (Croatian: Dubrovačka Republika) was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian, German and Latin; Raguse in French) in Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808. It reached its commercial peak in the 1...
Q4531863 Slavink is a Dutch meat dish consisting usually of ground meat called "half and half" (half beef, half pork) wrapped in bacon (the Dutch equivalent of bacon is, however, not smoked), and cooked in butter or vegetable oil for about 15 minutes. A variation of the dish called blinde vink is made by wrapping groun...
Q5378482 The England cricket team tour of Australia included the 2006–07 Ashes series, a number of first-class matches against Australian Domestic teams, participation in the tri-nation One-day International series between Australia, New Zealand and England and a Twenty20 match against Australia on 9 January 2007.
Q7150499 Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans (1 April 1894 – 26 October 1967) was a British Conservative Party politician.Having stood unsuccessfully at Leicester West in 1929 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire at the 1931 general election, and served as the constituency's MP until h...
Q1385405 Saint-Augustin-des-Bois is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Q6880875 Mitch Garber (born September 5, 1964) is a Canadian business executive and active philanthropist. He is currently Chairman, and co-investor of Cirque du Soleil, a TPG Capital company, co-investor and Board member of Rackspace, an Apollo Global Management company, and a minority owner and Board member of the N...
Q7564664 Sound Collective is a London-based professional music ensemble.
Q15536757 Hosackia pinnata, synonym Lotus pinnatus, is a species of legume native to western North America from British Columbia to California. It is known by the common names meadow bird's-foot trefoil and bog bird's-foot trefoil. Its distribution extendsg into British Columbia in just a few rare occurrences near Nana...
Q5578452 Golbahar District (Persian: بخش گل‌بهار‎) is a district (bakhsh) in Chenaran County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34,556, in 8,800 families. The District has two cities Shahr Jadid-e Golbahar & Golmakan. The District has two rural districts (dehestan): Bizaki Rural D...
Q10530621 Frane Vladislavić (born 9 January 1994 in Melbourne) is a Croatian football winger, currently a free agent. Vladislavić also holds an Australian passport.
Q3182559 Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt, releasing for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 16 April 2020. Adapted from the 1988 tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020, it is set fifty-seven years later in dystopian Night City, California, an open world wi...
Q16966233 Sigilliclystis is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
Q13390276 Arbelodes mondeensis is a moth in the family Metarbelidae. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Eastern Cape. The habitat consists of thickets and tree clumps.The length of the forewings is about 8.5 mm. The forewings are glossy light yellowish-olive with a brown terminal band edge...
Q15642542 Torre Gaia is a station of Line C of the Rome Metro. It is located along the Via Casilina and serves the Roman districts Torre Gaia and Tor Bella Monaca. The former train station of the Rome–Pantano railway line closed in 2008; the new Metro station, which opened on 9 November 2014, has been built nearby.
Q22948351 The Beirut Heritage Trail is a project undertaken by Solidere with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Beirut.Marked out by bronze medallions grouted into the sidewalk, the trail will link archeological sites, historic public spaces and heritage buildings over a 2.5 km walking circu...
Q24006387 Mathieu Cailler (born June 16, 1984) is a French-American writer of poetry and prose. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train New Writers Award, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize, and the Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. He is also t...
Q3333003 Meletius Doumani (1839 – 1906) was Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1899–1906). He was the first Syrian primate of non-Greek descent in 168 years.When Saint Raphael (then an archimandrite) was elected Bishop of Zahleh, Lebanon in December 1901, Meletius asked him to return to the patriarchate from his miss...
Q30640890 Košarkarsko društvo Ilirija (English: Ilirija Basketball Club), commonly referred to as KD Ilirija or simply Ilirija, is a basketball team based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The team competes in the Slovenian Second League.
Q1964497 Nancy Hower (born May 11, 1966 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer.
Q9386333 Zaldów [ˈzalduf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iwaniska, within Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 1 kilometre (1 mi) north-west of Iwaniska, 14 km (9 mi) south-west of Opatów, and 49 km (30 mi) east of the regional capital Kielce.Th...
Q5441848 Feliksin [fɛˈlikɕin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Garwolin, within Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south of Garwolin and 59 km (37 mi) south-east of Warsaw.The village has a population of 130.
Q7875350 USS Waubansee (YTB-366), originally YT-366, later YTM-366, was a United States Navy harbor tug commissioned in 1944 and stricken in 1983.Waubansee was laid down as a yard tug on 24 April 1944 at Morris Heights, New York, by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corporation. While under construction she was reclassifie...
Q2484466 Veliko Selo (Serbian: Велико Село) is a settlement near the Serbian city of Loznica in the Mačva District. It has a population of 446.
Q4606241 The 2006 Falsterbo Swedish Coast Guard crash was the crash of a CASA C-212 Aviocar turboprop airplane belonging to the Swedish Coast Guard in Falsterbo Canal, Sweden, on 26 October 2006.
Q7924787 Victor John Fangio (born August 22, 1958) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). A 40-year coaching veteran with 32 seasons of NFL experience, Fangio has been a defensive coordinator for 20 of the last 24 seasons at the NFL or college le...
Q2403045 Tempo is a 2003 film directed by Eric Styles and starring Melanie Griffith, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Hugh Dancy.
Q5221584 Daphnandra johnsonii, the Illawarra socketwood is a rare rainforest tree in the Illawarra district of eastern Australia.
Q7796549 Thornton Peak is a prominent mountain that rises above the Daintree Rainforest to a height of 1374 m. The mountain is located about 80 km northwest of Cairns within the catchment of the Daintree River.It is Queensland's fourth highest peak after Mount Bartle Frere at 1,622 m (5,322 ft), Mount Bellenden Ker at...
Q7461090 Shaft is a 1970 detective novel by Ernest Tidyman. The novel inspired the 1971 film Shaft and subsequent film sequels.
Q5117206 The Church of St. Mary, formerly the Church of St. Boniface, is a historic Roman Catholic church in Melrose, Minnesota, United States. The church and the adjacent 1907 rectory were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for having local significance in the themes of European ethni...
Q16224334 H. Hibberd (full name and dates of birth and death unknown) was an English cricketer. Hibberd's batting style is unknown, though it is known he occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper.Hibberd made a single first-class appearance for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club at The Oval in 1866. In a...
Q13223253 Acanthomyrmex laevis is a species of ant that belongs to the Acanthomyrmex genus. It was described by Moffett in 1986, and is abundant in Malaysia.
Q18159178 The Weakley-Truett-Clark House, a.k.a. Fairfax Hall, is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee.
Q18736945 Richie Venton (born 1953) is a Scottish trade unionist and political activist. As of 2018, he is one of two Scottish representatives on the National Executive Council of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) and the national trade union organiser of the Scottish Socialist Party. A former ...
Q2255223 Nemipterus isacanthus, commonly known as the teardrop threadfin bream, is a marine fish native to the western Pacific Ocean.
Q20871875 Brendon Rodney (born 9 April 1992) is a Canadian sprinter. As a member of the Canadian men's relay team, he won bronze medals in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the same event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. He also competed as an ind...
Q1106596 Legio quinta Parthica (the "Fifth Parthian Legion") was a legion of the Roman Empire (and later the Byzantine Empire) garrisoned in Amida, Mesopotamia, established by the Roman emperor Diocletian (284–305), who reorganized the eastern frontier. The legion is described by the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The...
Q2919909 El Verdugo is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1829. It one of the Études philosophiques in La Comédie humaine.
Q660208 The Thaya (Czech: Dyje [ˈdɪjɛ]) is a river in Central Europe, the longest tributary to the Morava River. It is 224 km (139 mi) (322 km (200 mi) with its longest source river German Thaya) long and meanders from west to east in the border area between Lower Austria (Austria) and South Moravia (Czech Republic), t...
Q2082969 The Wassenaar Agreement was an agreement reached in 1982 between employers' organisations and labour unions in the Netherlands to restrain wage growth in return for the adoption of policies to combat unemployment and inflation, such as reductions in working hours and the expansion of part-time employment. The ...
Q136959 Fabrizio Miccoli (Italian pronunciation: [faˈbrittsjo ˈmikkoli]; born on 27 June 1979) is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.He scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo, also spending time on loan to Benf...
Q3843849 Malcolm Shotton (born 16 February 1957) is an English former professional footballer and manager. He was on the books of Leicester City as an apprentice but failed to make the break into senior football there. He played for Atherstone United and Nuneaton Borough in non-league football before signing for Oxford...
Q87312 Philipp Moog (born August 29, 1961 in Munich, Germany) is a German television actor, author and voice actor. He is the German voice of Neil Patrick Harris, Ewan McGregor and Owen Wilson.
Q7927436 Victorlemoinea is an extinct litoptern genus of the family Macraucheniidae, that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene. Fossils of Victorlemoinea have been found in the Las Flores, Sarmiento and Koluel Kaike Formations of Argentina, the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil and La Meseta Formation, Antarctica.
Q4723487 Alfred Street Baptist Church's initial beginnings date back to 1803 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States and located in the city's oldest African-American neighborhood, the Bottoms Alexandria, Virginia. In 1806, the colored members of the church Alexandria Baptist Society established the Colored Baptist Soci...
Q853434 Bessay-sur-Allier is a commune in the Allier department in central France.
Q4566440 Kari Nyquist (October 17, 1918 - April 20, 2011) was a Norwegian ceramist. She is most associated with her decorated ceramics from the Stavangerflint AS plant in Stavanger, Norway. Her designs are most often found pottery of blue clay or stoneware.
Q6769901 Mark Sullivan (born 20 October 1964) was a South African cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Buckinghamshire.
Q4804019 Ascosubramania is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Ascosubramania melano...
Q3245752 Yusuke Nakamura (中村 友亮, Nakamura Yūsuke, born October 6, 1986) is a former Japanese football player.
Q7391023 SM*SH is the first studio album by the Indonesian boy band, SM*SH, released in Jakarta on June 26, 2011. The album contains pop-dance music produced by Star Signal, Veronica Lukitoand Lidi Management. It was released by Ancora Music and Star Signal.The album sold over 1 million copies within six months in Indo...
Q225105 NU'EST (Korean: 뉴이스트; short for New Establish Style Tempo) is a South Korean boy band formed by Pledis Entertainment. The group debuted on March 15, 2012, with the digital single "Face". The group consists of five members: JR, Aron, Baekho, Minhyun, and Ren.
Q6693377 Lower Chehalis (Łəw̓ál̕məš) is a member of the Tsamosan (or Olympic Peninsula) branch of the Coast Salish family of Salishan languages. In some classifications, Lower Chehalis is placed closer to Quinault than it is to Upper Chehalis.
Q16842349 Hema TV is a Bosnian local commercial television channel based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The program is mainly produced in Bosnian language, 24 hours via cable networks.
Q16920898 Westbrook is a surname. Notable people with the name include:Brian Westbrook, an American football playerByron Westbrook, an American football playerChris I. Westbrook, French physicistDanniella Westbrook, an actress and television hostessDede Westbrook, American football playerJake Westbrook, baseball player...
Q5717092 Nasieh (Persian: نسيه‎, also Romanized as Nasīeh) is a village in Sajjadrud Rural District, Bandpey-ye Sharqi District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 299, in 87 families.
Q21189539 The 2015 Sports Authority Mountain West Football Championship Game determined the 2015 football champion of the Mountain West Conference (MW).
Q22086881 HD 137388 is a class K2IV (orange subgiant) star in the constellation Apus. Its apparent magnitude is 8.70 and it is approximately 128 light years away based on parallax.It has a surface temperature of 5182 K and is 47% as luminous and 88% as massive as the Sun, with 85% of its diameter, and is thought to be ...
Q1128708 The Florida Everblades are a minor league ice hockey team based in Estero, Florida; near Fort Myers. They play in the ECHL and are affiliated with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL) as of the 2019–20 season. Their home game...
Q7196050 Pink Mammoth is a San Francisco-based non-profit artist collective, founded by Ryel K and Derek Hena in August, 2003. It is based partially on the philosophy of Burning Man, a radically expressive temporary city held annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, and dedicated to unconditional self-support and f...
Q67147 Count Georg Ludwig Cancrin (Russian: Егор Францевич Канкрин; 16 November 1774 – 10 September 1845) was a Russian German aristocrat and as a politician best known for spearheading reforms in the Russian financial system early in the 19th century.
Q7166658 Per Carlqvist (born July 25, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish plasma physicist with an interest in astrophysical applications. In 1963, he received the degree of civilingenjör from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1970 the Tekn. lic., and in 1980 the Tekn. D.He is currently affiliated wi...
Q7653580 Swanesang ([ˈsvanə.saŋ], "Swan song") is the second full-length album by South African punk rock band Fokofpolisiekar. It was released in 2006 by Rhythm Records and is 45:33 minutes long. It is not as heavy as previous albums and contains more melodic and alternative sounds. It includes the song Brand Suid-Afr...
Q6231407 The 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards, former United States Senator from North Carolina and Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 began on December 28, 2006 when he announced his entry into the 2008 presidential election in the city of New Orleans near sites devastated by Hurricane Katrina. On...
Q7660765 Sylvester Bembery (born March 1, 1965) is a former American football lineman in the Arena Football League. Bembery, #78, was an offensive and defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Storm from 1994–99, and once again joined the Storm for the 2001 campaign.
Q8000961 Wild sage is a common name for several plants and may refer to:Lantana camara—Spanish flagSalvia, a genus of plants commonly called "sage"Salvia verbenaca—Clary sageSalvia urticifolia—Nettleaf sageArtemisia, a genus of plants including some called "sage" or "sagebrush"
Q5433633 Fananserin (RP-62203) is a drug which acts as a potent antagonist at both the 5HT2A receptor, and the Dopamine D4 receptor, but without blocking other dopamine receptors such as D2. It has sedative and antipsychotic effects, and has been researched for the treatment of schizophrenia, although efficacy was less...
Q2503588 State Route 452 (SR 452), also known as Bill France Boulevard, is a west–east state highway that runs along the border between Rutherford and Wilson counties in the middle part of the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is primarily a service road for the Nashville Superspeedway, connecting I-840 with US 231/SR 10.The ...
Q3957739 The 1939–40 Serie C was the fifth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.
Q7190338 Piaskowiec [pjasˈkɔvjɛt͡s] (German Sandenberg) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korsze, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia).
Q5198261 Molleda is one of seven parishes (administrative divisions) in the Corvera de Asturias municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The population is 717 (INE 2006).
Q6877394 Miss Smith To You! is the third album by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. The album has nine covers of music from the 30's to the 50's, plus three original tunes written by bandleader Lavay Smith and pianist and arranger Chris Seibert.
Q7087009 Oliva irisans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.
Q5442162 Felix Chenier (January 19, 1843 – November 2, 1910) was a lawyer and political figure in Manitoba. He represented Baie St. Paul from 1875 to 1878 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.He was born in Saint-Hermas, Canada East, the son of Felix Chenier and Sophie Legault dite Des Laurier, went on to study law ...
Q13483007 Stygioides persephone is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found on Crete.
Q16930565 Orphée (Orpheus) is an opera by the French composer Louis Lully, with contributions from his brother Jean-Baptiste Lully the Younger. It was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 21 February 1690. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts and a prologue. The libr...
Q16185539 Ismail Aden Rage (born 3 January 1953) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Bukene constituency since 2010.
Q733861 Gnaphosa limbata is a ground spider species found in Norway.
Q311583 Yitzhak Rachamim Navon (Hebrew: יצחק נבון‎‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015) was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party. He was the first Israeli president to be Sephardi and born in Jerusalem, ...
Q2358099 The Honorable George Percy (4 September 1580 – in or after 1627) was an English explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia.