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Q1865670 Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield. The film was developed and produced by Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films, with Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton's produc... |
Q450368 Lisbeth Grönfeldt Bergman (born 1948), is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. She was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2004. |
Q653825 Plütscheid is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. |
Q4650515 ACA International, formerly American Collectors Association, is a trade group located in the United States representing collection agencies, creditors, debt buyers, collection attorneys and debt collection industry service providers. The organization was founded in 1939 as the American Collectors Association a... |
Q5524622 Gary Aubert (born 13 August 1952) is a Canadian retired soccer player who earned one cap for the national team in 1973, scoring one goal in the process. |
Q4905886 Big Island Lake Wilderness is a 5,856-acre (2,370 ha) remote protected area in the Munising Ranger District of the Hiawatha National Forest in the Upper Peninsula in the state of Michigan in the United States. The wilderness area is located about one-half mile (0.8 km) northwest of the community of Steuben an... |
Q4817571 U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is a highway in northwest and northeast Minnesota, which runs from the Red River at East Grand Forks and continues east to Duluth, where the route crosses the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge over the Saint Louis Bay. The route connects the cities of East Grand Forks, Bemidji, Grand Rapid... |
Q3114716 The Niamey Grand Market (fr:Grand marché de Niamey) is the largest market and shopping center in Niamey, the capital and largest city in the West African state of Niger. |
Q4998135 Buraykah is a village in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia. |
Q4594473 The 1999 Amsterdam Admirals season was the fifth season for the franchise in the NFL Europe League (NFLEL). The team was led by head coach Al Luginbill in his fifth year, and played its home games at Amsterdam ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands. They finished the regular season in fourth place with a record of fo... |
Q5154026 The commune of Muramvya is a commune of the Muramvya Province in central-western Burundi. The capital lies at Muramvya. |
Q10856036 Pirakuh Rural District (Persian: دهستان پيراكوه) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Jowayin County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,377, in 1,732 families. The rural district has 16 villages. |
Q6321365 Jörg Walter (born 30 June 1957) is a retired East German swimmer. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke, 400 m individual medley and 4 × 100 m medley relay with the best achievement of fourth place in the relay. He also finished in fourth place in the 200 m medley at the 1... |
Q17180595 Patrick Ferrell (born March 2, 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former professional American football offensive guard who played in the National Football League. |
Q20716878 Nathan Shore (born c. 1920) was a Canadian football player who played for the Edmonton Eskimos and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He won the Grey Cup with Winnipeg in 1941. He played junior football in Winnipeg. |
Q36489346 Sardar Al-Haj Mohammad Umar Gorgage is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013. |
Q25425589 Simen Raaen Sandmæl (born 4 August 1990) is a Norwegian footballer who plays in midfielder for KÍ Klaksvík. |
Q732751 Sergey Kudentsov (born 29 July 1978) is a former Russian cyclist. |
Q2671603 Buckley is a village in Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 600 at the 2010 census. |
Q7849988 Tsugawa (津川町, Tsugawa-machi) was a town located in Higashikanbara District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,000 and a density of 59.39 persons per km². The total area was 84.19 km².On April 1, 2005, Tsugawa, along with the town of Kanose, and the villages of Kami... |
Q3308325 Michael Lee Firkins (born May 19, 1967) is an electric guitar player whose sound fuses bluegrass, country, blues, and jazz elements into his distorted rock sound. He is noted amongst guitarists for his prolific use of hybrid picking at high speeds. |
Q4922620 Blackboy Hill was named after the Australian native "black boy" plants, Xanthorrhoea preissii, which dominated the site which is now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia.Originally a military camp, the facilities and adjacent structures were on the hill that is now used by St Anthony's Primary School an... |
Q501953 Badonviller (German: Badenweiler) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France. |
Q8051898 The brown onion or yellow onion (Allium cepa L.) is a variety of dry onion with a strong flavour. They have a greenish-white, light yellow, or white inside, its layers of papery skin have a yellow-brown or pale golden colour.It is higher in sulphur content than the white onion, which gives it a stronger, more ... |
Q3175386 Jean de Dinteville (1504–1555) was a French diplomat. He is the left-hand figure in Holbein's 1533 painting The Ambassadors, painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned. Dinteville's motto was Memento mori, meaning "Remember thou shalt die." |
Q2639518 Not to be confused with the draughtboard shark, Cephaloscyllium laticeps, of Australia.The draughtsboard shark (Cephaloscyllium isabellum) is a species of catshark, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, so named for its "checkerboard" color pattern of dark blotches. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is a... |
Q8019749 William Vondenvelden (ca. 1753 – June 20, 1809) was a German-born surveyor, printer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), Germany in 1753 and came to Quebec as a lieutenant with the Hesse-Hanau Chasseurs, which fought for Britain during the American Revolution. He ... |
Q4383294 Pugachev (also Pugachev Southeast) is an air base in Saratov Oblast, Russia located 2 km north of Pugachyov. It is a minor but well-maintained military airfield.Until October 2011 it was the base of the Russian 626th helicopter regiment. |
Q6133428 James Elliott (born December 20, 1976) is an American electronic musician, usually releasing solo material under the alias Ateleia. The name comes from Ateleia, a legume or from ancient Greek meaning tax-free. The music is electronic psychedelic minimalism.Elliott was the co-founder (along with David Daniell) ... |
Q899906 Kotohira Station (琴平駅, Kotohira-eki) is a railway station in Kotohira, Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. |
Q2350373 Đuro Ostojić (born February 17, 1976) is a retired Montenegrin professional basketball player. At 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄2 in), he played the center position. |
Q21430277 Schimpf is a German surname, which originally meant a humorous or playful person, from the Middle High German schimpf, meaning "play" or "amusement". The name may refer to:Axel Schimpf (born 1952), German admiralRichard Schimpf (1897–1972), German generalRolf Schimpf (born 1924), German actor |
Q7720147 "The Bringers of Wonder, Part Two" is the eighteenth episode of the second series of Space: 1999 (and the forty-second overall episode of the programme). The screenplay was written by Terence Feely; the director was Tom Clegg. The final shooting script is dated 23 June 1976. Live-action filming took place W... |
Q4744573 American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, 560 U.S. 183 (2010), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the ability of teams in the National Football League to conspire for purposes of a violation of §1 of the Sherman Act. |
Q17026025 "Sugar Lips" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Buddy Killen and was recorded by Al Hirt for his 1964 album, Sugar Lips. The song reached #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1964.The song was also featured on Hirt's greatest hits album, The Best of Al Hirt.In the mid-la... |
Q16203458 Karen Aletha Maybank (born April 24, 1974) is an American physician, with family roots in Antigua. She is board certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine/public health. Currently, Maybank is an Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. |
Q16208669 Wulfad (died 876) was the archbishop of Bourges from 866 until his death. Prior to that, he was the abbot of Montier-en-Der (from 856) and Soissons (from 858). He also served as a tutor to Carloman, a younger son of King Charles the Bald. Carloman succeeded Wulfad as abbot of Soissons in 860.Wulfad was ordain... |
Q16929706 Markel Humphrey (born November 21, 1987) is an American professional basketball player. |
Q153238 Leo Szilard (; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter f... |
Q725233 Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. |
Q650680 Haman (Hebrew: המן Hâmân; also known as Haman the Agagite or Haman the evil) is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was a vizier in the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, traditionally identified as Xerxes I (died 465 BCE). As his name indicates, Haman was a descend... |
Q91217 Montepulciano (Italian: [ˌmontepulˈtʃaːno]) is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a 605-metre (1,985 ft) limestone ridge, 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Pienza, 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Siena, 124 kilometres (77 mi) southe... |
Q6776464 Martin Riley (5 April 1851 – 1 June 1899) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played seventeen first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1878 to 1882.Born in Liversedge, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England, Riley was a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm fast round arm bowl... |
Q7322674 Ricardo Iribarren (born November 2, 1967 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer who played for a number of teams in Argentina, Ecuador, and United States .Iribarren played in the Argentine Primera for Estudiantes (1985–1990 / 1991–1994) and Belgrano de Córdoba (1994/1996).Iribarren played in Ecuado... |
Q6411480 The King Edward River is a river in the Kimberley of Western Australia.The headwaters of the river rise below Poonjurra Hill and flows in a northerly direction almost parallel with the Kalumburu Road and eventually discharges into Deep Bay then Napier Broome Bay and finally the Indian Ocean.The river has seven... |
Q4225681 William Coward (1657?–1725) was an English physician, controversial writer, and poet. He is now remembered for his sceptical writings on the soul, which Parliament condemned as blasphemous and ordered to be burned in his presence. |
Q6916105 Moshe Gariani (Hebrew: משה גריאני; born 18 June 1957) is a former Israeli international footballer. |
Q5297416 Dora Labbette (4 March 1898 – 3 September 1984) was an English soprano. Her career spanned the concert hall and the opera house. She conspired with Sir Thomas Beecham to appear at the Royal Opera House masquerading as an Italian singer by the name of Lisa Perli. Away from professional concerns she had an affai... |
Q7892101 The 2000 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Robert Byrd won re-election to an eighth term. He won every county and congressional district in the state. |
Q1238398 (Lucius) Egnatius Victor (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul for an uncertain nundinium prior to AD 207. |
Q5583685 The Goodwin Nunataks (84°38′S 161°31′E) are a small group of isolated nunataks lying about 10 nautical miles (20 km) west of the Marshall Mountains of Antarctica, at the south side of Walcott Neve. They were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Michael L. Goodwin, a United States Antarctic ... |
Q1110657 The 2011 Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno season (known as the 2011 Campeonato Nacional Petrobras for sponsorship reasons) was the 80th season of top-flight football in Chile. Universidad Católica was the defending champion. Universidad de Chile won both the Apertura and the Clausura Championshi... |
Q989751 Kırhasan is a village in the District of Karataş, Adana Province, Turkey. |
Q5879720 Holding Monex is a Mexican foreign exchange company that specializes in international transactions and payment services for commercial clients. It is one of the largest dedicated foreign exchange companies providing a number of payment and forex related financial services to both companies and individuals. |
Q18595959 The Songjiang Mosque (Chinese: 松江清真寺; pinyin: Sōngjiāng Qīngzhēnsì), formerly called the Real Religion Mosque, is a mosque in Songjiang District, Shanghai, China. It is the oldest mosque in Shanghai. |
Q22019268 Henry Pye (25 December 1873 – 9 April 1942) was an Australian politician.He was born at Burnewang near Rochester to farmer Edward Pye and Margaret Gorman. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and by the age of nineteen owned a building and contracting company. He went to the goldfields in W... |
Q29098082 Legion is an American cable television series created for FX by Noah Hawley, based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller / Legion. It is connected to the X-Men film series, the first television series to do so. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, aired from February to March 2017. The second... |
Q11610708 The Lei River (Chinese: 耒水) is a right-bank tributary of the middle Xiang River in Hunan, China. It is also the longest tributary and has the second largest drainage system of the Xiang tributaries after the Xiao River. The Lei River has two sources: the Zhejiang River (Chinese: 浙江河), which rises in the Leish... |
Q427956 Tannic acid is a specific form of tannin, a type of polyphenol. Its weak acidity (pKa around 6) is due to the numerous phenol groups in the structure. The chemical formula for commercial tannic acid is often given as C76H52O46, which corresponds with decagalloyl glucose, but in fact it is a mixture of polygall... |
Q1408044 Holothuria is a genus of marine animals of the family Holothuriidae. Members of the genus are found in coastal waters in tropical and temperate regions. They are soft bodied, limbless invertebrates that dwell on the ocean floor. They resemble a cucumber in form.The genus contains some species that are harveste... |
Q6204096 Jo Allyn Lowe Park (32 acres) is a public park, with arboretum, located at the corner of Price Road and Locust Road, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. It is open to the public daily.The park was created in 1980 and named to honor the founder of the Bartlesville Boys Club. It consists of a lake (with fishi... |
Q6753435 Manzanita is a community of Bainbridge Island, Washington. It is located on the waterfront on the west side of the island along Manzanita Road NE and the east shore of Manzanita Bay, including Little Manzanita Bay.A 1908 home on the north shore of Little Manzanita Bay was owned at different times by the sons ... |
Q7566963 The Black Hills Posse was a professional basketball team based in Rapid City, South Dakota that competed in the International Basketball Association beginning in the 1995–96 season. The team was founded by George Daniel, an attorney from Pennsylvania. The Posse were created for Rapid City as a response to the... |
Q652240 Iker Camaño Ortuzar (born March 14, 1979 in Santurce-Santurtzi, Basque Country) is a retired Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental Bora–Hansgrohe. He was part of Endura Racing from 2010 to 2012. Camaño turned professional in 2002 with Phonak and moved to Euskaltel–Euskadi in 2... |
Q662247 Ulrichen is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The population (as of 2007) was 219.Ulrichen was an independent municipality until January 1, 2009, when it merged with Oberwald and Obergesteln to form the municipality Obergoms.In Ulrichen, a... |
Q268878 The Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (in German: Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg), manufacturer of Nymphenburg porcelain, is situated next to the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, capital of Bavaria, and since the mid-eighteenth century has been manufacturing porcelain of high artistic value. |
Q5756400 The High Schells Wilderness is a 121,497-acre (49,168 ha) wilderness area in the Schell Creek Range of White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S. Forest Service. |
Q5202261 Czyżów [ˈt͡ʂɨʐuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gdów, within Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) east of Wieliczka and 22 km (14 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków. |
Q4638307 The 465th Air Refueling Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 507th Operations Group, stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. |
Q6559936 This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in Japan during 2009. |
Q7516836 Silverton is an unincorporated community in Shoshone County, Idaho, United States, located one mile west of Wallace. |
Q5270065 Di You (Chinese: 邸佑; pinyin: Dǐ Yòu; born 26 November 1983) is a Chinese football midfielder. |
Q3027546 The 2006 International Rally Challenge was the inaugural season of the rallying series, which was renamed to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge for 2007 onwards. The season consisted of four rounds and began on May 26, with the Zulu Rally South Africa. The season ended on September 16 with the Rally Sanremo.... |
Q5395835 Erskine Island is a small coral cay in the southern Great Barrier Reef, located 60 kilometres northeast of Gladstone, Queensland and 17 km west-south-west of Heron Island. It is part of the Capricornia Cays National Park and of the Capricornia Cays Important Bird Area. |
Q6387538 Kenneth J. Donnelly (July 15, 1950 – April 2, 2017) was a Massachusetts state senator for the Fourth Middlesex district, which included his hometown of Arlington and several other cities. He was a Democrat who served from 2009-17. Donnelly graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA in La... |
Q13742747 Kenau is a 2014 Dutch / Hungarian / Belgian action film directed by Maarten Treurniet. The film is inspired by the true story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1572 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain. |
Q6097161 Ivan Volodymyrovych Pavlov (Ukrainian: Іван Володимирович Павлов, born 26 September 1998) is a Ukrainian figure skater. He is the 2015 European Youth Olympic champion, 2014 NRW Trophy silver medalist, and a two-time Ukrainian national champion. He has competed in the final segment at seven ISU Championships an... |
Q39059961 "Greatest Love Story" is a song by the American country music group Lanco. It was released in March 2017 as the second single from their debut studio album Hallelujah Nights. Lead singer Brandon Lancaster wrote the song, and Jay Joyce was the producer. The track is about two people falling in and out of love ... |
Q5094852 Chhaupadi (Nepali: छाउपडी Listen ) is a tradition associated with the menstrual taboo, in the western part of Nepal which prohibits Hindu women and girls from participating in normal family activities while menstruating, as they are considered "impure".The women are banned from the house and are required to li... |
Q904929 In physics, a homogeneous material or system has the same properties at every point; it is uniform without irregularities. A uniform electric field (which has the same strength and the same direction at each point) would be compatible with homogeneity (all points experience the same physics). A material constru... |
Q637670 Ephippidae is a family containing the spadefishes, with about eight genera and a total of 20 marine species. Well-known species include the Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber) and the reef-dwelling genus Platax, the batfishes, which are kept as aquarium fish. They are spade-shaped and laterally compressed... |
Q4918786 Bitchfield and Bassingthorpe is a civil parish which includes Boothby Pagnell and Burton Coggles in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 154 across 59 homes. By the 2011 census there were 157 households, made of 366 people.The civil parish ... |
Q141140 A ḥosayniya or hussainiya (Persian: حسینیه hoseyniye), also known as an ashurkhana, imambargah, or imambara, is a congregation hall for Twelver Shia Muslim commemoration ceremonies, especially those associated with the Mourning of Muharram. The name comes from Husayn ibn Ali, the third of the Twelve Imams and ... |
Q3199800 Kristine Mann (August 29, 1873–1945) was an American educator and physician, with a particular interest in working women's health. She was an early practitioner of psychoanalysis in North America. |
Q4723169 Alfred Miodowicz (born 28 June 1929) is a former Polish politician and trade union activist. He was born in Poznań. A member of communist Polish United Workers Party, he held posts in the State National Council, Central Committee and Political Bureau. He was also the leader of the All-Poland Alliance of Trade ... |
Q5314762 Dundas District Public School was a middle school, that was originally a high school, built in 1928 located in Dundas, now part of the City of Hamilton, Ontario. It is part of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. It is currently closed and will not re-open. |
Q47613 This page is a list of staff at South Park Elementary from the characters in the American animated television series South Park. |
Q7323399 Richard Warren "Rich" Olive (December 2, 1949 – June 20, 2016) was an American realtor and politician from Iowa. A Democrat, he served the Fifth District in the Iowa Senate from 2007 until 2011.Olive served on several committees in the Iowa Senate: the Commerce committee; the Agriculture committee, where he wa... |
Q5565614 Give is an EP and single by American rock band Cold. |
Q3023054 Filago vulgaris or Filago germanica, commonly known as common cudweed or common cottonrose, is an annual herbaceous plant of the genus Filago. It is in the Inuleae tribe of the Sunflower (Asteraceae) family. Common names also include: Danish—Kugle-museurt, and Norwegian—Kuleullurt. |
Q5084840 Charlie Fetoai (born 11 January 1987) is a rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition.Charlie Fetoai's position of choice is as a centre. |
Q3630978 The 2002 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 101st edition of the Cincinnati Masters and was part of the Tennis Masters Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio in the United States fro... |
Q5468142 Fore Street is a restaurant in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It is located a block from Commercial Street and Portland's waterfront. Opened in 1996, the restaurant was named one of Gourmet Magazine's top 50 restaurants in the United States in 2002, being placed 16th on the list. Chef Sam Haywar... |
Q5393006 Ernest E. Moore February 10, 1881 – May 16, 1962) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives. |
Q4817083 Kemenli is a village in Mut district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is in the wide valley of Göksu River in Toros Mountains. At 36°31′N 33°30′E it is situated between Göksu River and the Turkish state highway D.715. Its distance to Mut was 18 kilometres (11 mi) and to Mersin is 143 kilometres (89 mi). The popu... |
Q13896329 Nigilgia eucallynta is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1937. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. |
Q19518443 Allan Lynch (born 30 July 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q23879763 Ankitta Sharma is an Indian television actress. |
Q2738544 Mizrahi music (Hebrew: מוזיקה מזרחית muzika mizrahit [ˈmuzika mizraˈ ħit], "Eastern/Oriental music") refers to a music genre in Israel that combines elements from Europe, North Africa and the Arab world, and is mainly performed by Israelis of Mizrahi descent. It is usually sung in Hebrew, literary Hebrew, or... |
Q6339655 KUNU-LD, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 28), is a low-powered Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Victoria, Texas, United States. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is sister to ABC affiliate KAVU-TV (channel 25) and four other low-power stations: NBC affiliate KMOL-LD (channel 17), CBS ... |
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