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Q34515 A hayride, also known as a hayrack ride, is a traditional American and Canadian activity consisting of a recreational ride in a wagon or cart pulled by a tractor, horses or a truck, which has been loaded with hay or straw for comfortable seating. Hayrides traditionally have been held as celebratory activities, u... |
Q1355766 The Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus) is a species of hare native to Japan. |
Q6764562 Mario Benazzi (Cento, August 29, 1902 – Pisa, December 6, 1997) was an Italian zoologist, professor at the Istituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata of the University of Pisa. He published work on platyhelminths and evolutionary cytogenetics.Benazzi is honoured in the polychaete name Diurodrilus benazzii Gerl... |
Q4047616 The Publisher Item Identifier (PII) is a unique identifier used by a number of scientific journal publishers to identify documents. It uses the pre-existing ISSN or ISBN of the publication in question, and adds a character for source publication type, an item number, and a check digit.The system was adopted in... |
Q4664228 The Abbot of Dercongal or Abbot of Holywood (later Commendator of Holywood) was the head of the Premonstratensian monastic community of Dercongal Abbey (or Holywood Abbey as it was later called). The history of the abbots of the house is obscure and very few are known by name. The following is a list of abbots... |
Q1975479 Nellie Yvonne McKay (May 12, 1930 – January 22, 2006) was an American academic and author who was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also taught in English and women's studies, and is best known as the co-editor (with Henry L... |
Q315183 Falkenberg-Höhe is an Amt ("municipal federation") in the district of Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Falkenberg.The Amt Falkenberg-Höhe consists of the following municipalities:Beiersdorf-FreudenbergFalkenbergHeckelberg-BrunowHöhenland |
Q8038594 The Wrocław football riot 2003 was an organised fight between Polish football hooligans in Wrocław, Lower Silesia Poland on 30 March 2003. As a result of the incident, one person died, 229 hooligans were arrested and more than twelve were taken to the hospital. |
Q6164714 Jatti Pind is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivisions, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located to the north east of the district capital Haripur at 34°2'60N 72°57'0E.Major villages in this union council are Jatti Pind (for which the union council is n... |
Q8024006 Wind power in Italy, at the end of 2015, consisted of more than 1,847 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 8,958 megawatts. Wind power contributed 5.4% of Italy electricity generation in 2015 (14,589 GWh). Italy is ranked as the world's tenth producer of wind power as of the end of 2016. Prospects ... |
Q6382982 "Keep It Real" is the second and final single released from Jamal's debut album Last Chance, No Breaks. The song was produced by Erick Sermon. "Keep It Real" was another minor success for Jamal, peaking at #17 on the Hot Rap Singles and #76 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. |
Q682035 Carnaubeira da Penha is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 498 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 12.451 inhabitants and the total area is 1010.17 km². Has also the presence of Indigenous people in reserves. |
Q7828485 Totti Truman Taylor, born Dorothy Leah Pedley (7 September 1915 – 5 March 1981), was a British actress. In 1953, she played Aunt Sally in the BBC television series Worzel Gummidge Turns Detective. She was born in London and died at Denville Hall, Northwood, in Middlesex. She also played various roles in Hancoc... |
Q6017748 "Indestructible" is the second single from Matthew Good Band's second studio album, Underdogs. The song peaked at #7 on Canada's Alternative chart. The song is featured on MuchMusic's Big Shiny 90's compilation. It continues to receive airplay on Canadian rock radio stations. |
Q6639937 This is an alphabetical listing of songs recorded in studio or live by Cyndi Lauper between 1977 and 2018. Lauper's discography, which includes studio and compilation albums, singles, and video releases, is also available. |
Q5636912 Habla Congo or Habla Bantu is a Kongo-based liturgical language of the Palo religion with origins in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, later spreading to other countries in the Caribbean Basin. The language may be called lengua conga or lengua congo but is generally referred to simply as lengua, meaning "langua... |
Q1839218 The List of railway routes in Saxony-Anhalt provides a list of all railway routes in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. This includes Intercity-Express, Intercity, Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services. In the route tables, the major stations are shown in bold text. Where intermediate stations are not given,... |
Q18160222 "Don't Look Back" is a song by English drum and bass production duo Matrix & Futurebound. It was released on 6 July 2014. The song entered at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart. |
Q466135 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 2005. |
Q511206 Charles Eugene (German: Carl Eugen; 11 February 1728 – 24 October 1793), Duke of Württemberg, was the eldest son, and successor, of Charles Alexander; his mother was Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis. |
Q6274409 Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman in the Church in Wales, also having held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), who became Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and Bishop of St Asaph from September 1769 until his death. |
Q4876171 BeamWars is a Macintosh snake game released as shareware in 1992 by Steve Crutchfield. It allows up to four people to play simultaneously on a single keyboard. |
Q6391844 Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States. The Asian American Journalist Association, often referred to as the AAJA, notes that there are numerous Asian American women on the air at American television news stat... |
Q610607 Madame Butterfly is a 1915 silent film directed by Sidney Olcott. The film is based upon a John Luther Long short story and the opera Madama Butterfly. |
Q234915 The Hajj (; Arabic: حَجّ Ḥaǧǧ "pilgrimage") is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking th... |
Q3869190 Mzwandile Ndzimandze (born 2 October 1985) is a Swaziland international footballer who plays for Pretoria University. He is commonly referred to as 'Dile'. |
Q2799232 Wilfred Hiram "Wiffy" Cox (October 27, 1896 – February 20, 1969) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1930s.Cox was born and grew up in a tough Irish-Italian section of Brooklyn, New York. He started in golf as a caddie at Westchester County courses and learned to play at sunri... |
Q6673440 "Long as I Live" is a song written by Rick Bowles and Will Robinson, and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery. It was released in February 1996 as the fifth and final single from the album John Michael Montgomery. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & T... |
Q2218566 Pestyakovsky District (Russian: Пестяковский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,100 square kilometers (420 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locali... |
Q3111194 Gornje Dragovlje is a village situated in Gadžin Han municipality in Serbia. |
Q16866688 Howard I Maibach is an American dermatologist, professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). |
Q15198788 Bexley is an unincorporated place in George County, Mississippi. |
Q20711657 "Cruel World" is a song by American recording artist Lana Del Rey, taken from her third studio album, Ultraviolence (2014). The song serves as the album's opening track. It is a "melancholy love song that depicts a self-professed crazy girl who's just ditched her drug addict loser of a boyfriend." The song wa... |
Q18148928 Baskahegan Lake is a body of water in Washington County, Maine, United States. The lake, which covers 6,815 acres (2,758 ha), is the third largest lake in Washington County and one of the largest statewide. It is located in the town of Topsfield, Maine, the former township of Brookton (North Washington, Maine... |
Q3913020 Aenictus fergusoni is a species of reddish brown army ant found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. |
Q24944595 The 2006 BBL Champions Cup was the first edition of the super cup game in German basketball, and was played on September 21, 2006. |
Q19924597 Tamara Korpatsch (born 12 May 1995, in Hamburg) is a German tennis player.Korpatsch so far has won seven singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 November 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 117.She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2016 Ladies Championship Gstaad in the doubles draw,... |
Q28450091 "Ghosts" is the twelfth episode and mid-season premiere of the third season, and 56th episode overall from the Fox series Gotham. The episode was written by executive producer Danny Cannon and directed by Eagle Egilsson. It was first broadcast on January 16, 2017. In the episode, after Mario's funeral, Falcon... |
Q80110 The flag of Canada (French: le drapeau du Canada), often referred to as the Canadian flag, or unofficially as the Maple Leaf and l'Unifolié (French for "the one-leafed"), is the national flag of Canada which consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of 1:2:1, in the middle of which i... |
Q2743291 This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1740. |
Q7898627 Upper Economy is a rural area of approximately 50 residents and 5 km² located along Trunk 2 in western Colchester County, Nova Scotia. It stretches from along the north shoreline of the western end of Cobequid Bay north into the lower slopes of the Cobequid Mountains. Upper Economy is considered locally to b... |
Q377027 Oleg Ivanovich Betin (Russian: Олег Иванович Бетин) (born August 25, 1950) is a governor of Tambov Oblast in Russia. He was a member of Our Home – Russia party. In 1995 he became governor. He was re-elected on December 7, 2003 with around 70% of the votes cast. Under Betin, Tambov Oblast provided food shipment... |
Q3179410 The Taurus PT92 is a double action/single action, 9mm, double-stack magazine-fed, short recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Taurus in the former Beretta factory in São Paulo, Brazil. |
Q7958709 Wabokieshiek (translated White Cloud, The Light or White Sky Light in English, though Waapakiishik in the Sauk language means "White Sky") (c. 1794 – c. 1841) was a Native American army commander of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) and Sauk tribes in 19th century Illinois, playing a key role in the Black Hawk War of 1... |
Q7143782 Patrick Joseph McReavy (January 16, 1918 – November 13, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 55 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, he played with the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins. In 1939, he played 6 regular season games, never appearing in the p... |
Q3574606 Zahir Zerdab (Arabic: زهير زرداب; born 9 January 1982 in Amiens, France) is an Algerian footballer. He most recently played as a midfielder for MC Alger. |
Q4790318 Arida is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.SpeciesThe genus is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.Arida arizonica (R.C.Jacks. & R.R.Johnson) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm. - California Arizona Nevada, SonoraArida blepharophylla (A.Gray) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm. -... |
Q6144747 Hisahiko Okazaki (岡崎 久彦, Okazaki Hisahiko) (April 8, 1930 – October 26, 2014) was a Japanese diplomat, political commentator, and director of the Okazaki Institute in Tokyo. |
Q6943468 Mustard is a microblogging software application for Android, compatible with both Twitter and Status.net services.As of February 28, 2011 it was the most used identi.ca client for Android platform and the 14th most used client overall.It is mainly developed by Michele Azzolari (Macno) and one of the most inter... |
Q314620 Twiste is a river of Hesse and of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the most important tributary of the Diemel, which it joins in Warburg. Its largest tributaries are the Erpe, Watter, Aar and Wande. |
Q3138418 Odostomia moratora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
Q1475278 The Council of Egypt (Italian: Il consiglio d'Egitto) is a 2002 Italian drama film directed by Emidio Greco. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Leonardo Sciascia. It premiered at the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival, in which it entered the main competition. The film was awarded with a Na... |
Q6068616 Pedro José Dorronsoro González (born 19 May 1977) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper. |
Q15438104 Adalbert Wirz (16 June 1848 – 14 September 1925) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States (1906/1907). |
Q18388710 Terry Wilkins (born 4 July 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q3315297 The Ministry of Justice (Arabic: وزارة العدل) is a government ministry office of the Republic of Tunisia, responsible for justice affairs. Omar Mansour is the current Minister responsible. |
Q2054429 Antonio Menéndez (born 18 August 1946 in Cangas del Narcea) is a Spanish former professional cyclist. |
Q30646911 The 2017–18 FC St. Pauli season is the 107th season in the football club's history and 7th consecutive season in the second division of German football, the 2. Bundesliga and 25th overall. In addition to the domestic league, FC St. Pauli also are participating in this season's edition of the domestic cup, the... |
Q113323 Salomon Wininger (13 December 1877, Gura Humorului, Bukovina – December 1968, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Austrian-Jewish biographer.Before World War I, Wininger lived in Chernivtsi and moved to Vienna during the war years, where he decided to write biographies of famous Jews. This idea was pushed in order to ... |
Q7663607 SystemView may refer to:Former name of a product now called IBM DirectorFormer name of an EEsof product now called SystemVue |
Q4927025 A Blizzard Watch was a bulletin issued by the National Weather Service of the United States which meant winds greater than 35 miles per hour (30 kn; 56 km/h), mixed with falling or blowing snow, and visibilities of 1⁄4 mile (0.4 km) or less is forecast for a period of 3 hours or more. A blizzard watch was issu... |
Q1752019 La Romana (Valencian pronunciation: [la roˈmana]) is a village of some 2,500 people, located in the foothills of the Serra del Reclot a few kilometres from Algueña and several kilometres from Hondón de las Nieves and Novelda, in the autonomous community of Valencia, southern Spain.The village is surrounded by ... |
Q5240680 David W. Alexander (June 22, 1812 – April 29, 1886) was an early California politician and pioneer in Los Angeles County, California. He was on the Board of Supervisors in 1853 and 1854, and in 1855 he was elected the third sheriff for the county. |
Q3886759 The Jura Observatory (French: Observatoire astronomique jurassien) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Jura Astronomy Society (French: Société Jurassienne d'Astronomie; SJA). Built in 1993/1998, it is located near Vicques in the Canton of Jura, Switzerland. Its IAU observatory code is 185.... |
Q11816906 Pieńki [ˈpjɛɲki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iłża, within Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Iłża, 20 km (12 mi) south of Radom, and 111 km (69 mi) south of Warsaw. |
Q6404796 In December 1989, Abilio Diniz was the victim of a kidnapping, that took place on the day of the first Brazilian democratic presidential elections after a military dictatorship.It was followed by an almost immediate police rescue that revealed that among the kidnappers were Chileans, Argentinians and two Canad... |
Q6021421 The Indian River (Barbados) is a river of Barbados. It is located in Spring Garden. |
Q4817481 Atractobolus 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. |
Q3701536 Hanandō Station (花堂駅, Hanandō-eki) is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line railway station located in the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. |
Q5430613 Fairmount is a community in Ontario. |
Q1893460 Gridnik is a geometrical typeface designed by Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel, in 1974. It is the digital version of the typewriter typeface Olivetti Politene. |
Q1761751 Eucosma suomiana is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found from Sweden, through Finland and the Baltic region to northern Russia.The wingspan is 10–17 mm. |
Q1797275 Kürbitz is a former municipality in the district of Vogtlandkreis in Saxony in Germany located near Plauen.On 1 January 1999, the village was merged into the municipality Weischlitz. |
Q10400138 Acrocalymma is a fungal genus in the family Lophiostomataceae. It was circumscribed in 1987 by Australian botanists John L. Alcorn and John Irwin to contain the species A. medicaginis, found to cause crown and root disease of alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek words ac... |
Q20806207 This article describes the main round of the 2014–15 Women's EHF Champions League. |
Q22007430 De'Mornay Pierson-El (born December 26, 1995) is an American football wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Nebraska. |
Q104976 Linda Dörendahl (born (1984-07-20)20 July 1984) is a German female volleyball player. She is part of the Germany women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.On club level she played for USC Münster in 2015. |
Q14582708 Monsoma pulveratum, the green alder sawfly, is a species of common sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae. |
Q4805118 Ashio (足尾町, Ashio-machi) was a town located in Kamitsuga District, Tochigi, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 3,465 and a density of 18.65 persons per km². The total area was 185.79 km².On March 20, 2006, Ashio, along with the city of Imaichi, the town of Fujihara, and the village of Ku... |
Q1025610 Tullow (Irish: An Tulach, meaning "The Mound", formerly Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim) is a market town (legally a village) in County Carlow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney where the N81 road intersects with the R725. |
Q734300 The Battle of Nakło (1109) was fought between the forces of the Kingdom of Poland and Pomeranian tribes at Nakło nad Notecią. The Polish troops were led by Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth.In the summer of 1109 the Polish ruler Bolesław III organized an expedition into Pomerania in order to secure his northern bounda... |
Q577519 Leonardo Pieraccioni (born 17 February 1965) is an Italian film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter.Born in Florence, he made his directorial debut on Italian TV in 1995, directing The Graduates. His most successful film so far has been 1996's The Cyclone.Also a writer of short stories, his books includ... |
Q11680629 Gumelemi Cay is a tiny island directly north of the Baker's Bay tip of Great Guana Cay in The Bahamas. The island is a sea turtle nesting ground. Loggerhead sea turtles, hawksbill sea turtles and green sea turtles nest on the 2-acre (8,100 m2) island. Baker's Bay Golf & Ocean Club, which owns the island an... |
Q7196543 The Pinto Peak Range is a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada. |
Q2989309 Sir Terepai Tuamure Maoate, KBE (1 September 1934 – 9 July 2012) was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 18 November 1999 to 11 February 2002. He was a member of the Cook Islands Democratic PartyMaoate was born in Rarotonga on 1 September 1934, and educated at Ngatangiia Primary School, Fiji School of Medi... |
Q2197563 Following are the results of the Women's synchronized 10 metre platform event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships held in Rome, Italy, from July 17 to August 2, 2009. |
Q628975 Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (French: Vincent, François, Paul et les autres) is a 1974 French film directed by Claude Sautet based on the novel La grande Marrade by Claude Néron. |
Q4941091 Bonagota moronaecola is a moth of the Tortricidae family which is endemic to Ecuador. The specific epithet refers to Morona-Santiago Province, where the type locality is situated; the suffix –colo is Latin for "I live". The wingspan is about 23 millimetres (0.91 in). |
Q5369921 The Embassy of Zimbabwe in Washington, D.C. is the Zimbabwe's diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 1608 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.The Ambassador is Machivenyika Mapuranga. |
Q7963472 Walter Joseph "Wally" Reinecker (April 12, 1890 – April 18, 1957), born Walter Joseph Smith, was a Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League in 1915. |
Q3231448 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is the fifth title in the Broken Sword series of adventure video games, developed and published by Revolution Software, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation Vita (via the PlayStation Network), Android and iOS. The game was released in two episodes: the first was m... |
Q7886894 Unionville Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Unionville in East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 69 contributing buildings in the village of Unionville. It includes a variety of brick, stone, and frame residences the earliest of which is date... |
Q17008107 The Isador Goodman Show is an early Australian television variety series. The series debuted on 6 November 1956 and ran into early September 1957, aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 and starred pianist Isador Goodman, with some episodes also featuring a guest vocalist. The series is notable as an early attempt ... |
Q15999801 Covent Garden is a street in Cambridge, England, off Mill Road and near The Kite district.The street takes its name from the London market of the same name as there used to be a market garden there.The street has one pub the Six Bells. |
Q1119696 Kosmos 68 (Russian: Космос 68 meaning Cosmos 68) or Zenit-2 No.29 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1965. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 68 was the twenty-eighth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched and had a mass of 4,730.0 kilograms (10,427.9 lb).Kosmos 68 was launch... |
Q16745068 Martin Yarus, better known by the stage name George Tyne (February 6, 1917 – March 7, 2008) was an American stage and film actor and television director. He was blacklisted in the 1950s, and was indicted for contempt of Congress but subsequently acquitted. |
Q24578865 Francis Philip Fatio (Spanish Francisco Phelipe Fatio) (1724-1811), born in Switzerland, was a soldier for France, a viscount in Sardinia, a merchant in London, and a prominent planter in East Florida during both the British period and the second Spanish period.Francis Philip Fatio was born in 1724 in Vevey, ... |
Q19521121 Hans Döring (born Hans Ritter; c. 1490, Heustreu - 1558) was a German painter. |
Q300182 Frank Gordon Dobson (born 15 March 1940) is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London in 2000,... |
Q5494570 Frederick Jerome Beasley (born September 18, 1974) is a former American football fullback in the NFL. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 6th round (180th overall) in 1998 NFL Draft. |
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