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Q679560 The 2008 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-first season of the Superbike World Championship. Corona Extra ceased to be the championship's title sponsor, as it had been since 1998. The electronics manufacturer HANNspree took over as the title sponsor in 2008 and this arrangement remained in place unti... |
Q4579771 The 1981 Chicago Cubs season was the 110th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 106th in the National League and the 66th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished the first-half in last place at 15-37, 17½ games behind the Philadelphia Phillies, and the second-half in fifth place at 23-28, six games behind the... |
Q2976153 Adrián Jesús Bastía (born 20 December 1978 in Gobernador Crespo, Santa Fe) is an Argentine retired football midfielder. |
Q1865823 Culduie (Scottish Gaelic: Cùil Duibh) is a small hamlet, located on the southwest corner on Applecross peninsula, which is south of Applecross Village (Shore Street) in Strathcarron, Ross-shire Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.Culduie looks over the bay of Pola-creadh toward... |
Q4905619 The Big East Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year award is given to the women's basketball player in the Big East Conference voted as the top performer by the conference coaches. It was first awarded at the end of the 1982–83 season, the first in which the Big East sponsored women's basketball.The ... |
Q4622095 The 2011 Discover Orange Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Stanford Cardinal on Monday, January 3, 2011, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Stanford defeated Virginia Tech 40–12. The game was part of the 2010–2011 Bowl Championship Series of t... |
Q6956461 Na brzegu rzeki is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz, a Polish and American poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. It was first published in 1994. An English translation by Robert Hass, Facing the River, was published in 1995 by Ecco Press. The main themes of the collection are old age and reminiscen... |
Q6966937 Nashville is an unincorporated community in the town of Nashville, Forest County, Wisconsin, United States. Nashville is 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Crandon. |
Q6707676 Lydia Reed (born August 23, 1944) is an American former child actress best known for her role as Tallahassee "Hassie" McCoy from 1957 to 1963 in 145 episodes of the ABC situation comedy The Real McCoys, starring Walter Brennan in the title role of Grandpa Amos McCoy. Irving Pincus was the creator, and Hy Averb... |
Q5142775 Colegio Alonso de Ercilla (English: Alonso de Ercilla School) is a Chilean high school located in Rancagua, Cachapoal Province, Chile. |
Q16635459 Fakes Forgeries Experts is an annual journal on forgery in philately. It was established in 1998 and is published by Postiljonen on behalf of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie and the International Association of Philatelic Experts. The first editor-in-chief was Paolo Vollmeier, followed by Knud Moh... |
Q5850811 Chah-e Maryam (Persian: چاه مریم) is a village in Cheshmeh Ziarat Rural District, in the Corrin of Zahedan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 33, in 6 families. |
Q18124905 Four Assassins, also known as Far Away Eyes, is a 2013 action thriller starring Will Yun Lee, Miguel Ferrer, Hiro Hayama, Mercedes Renard, and Oliver Williams. Inception Media released the DVD and online versions of the film on February 18, 2013. |
Q20721695 Kabeiro phasmida is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae. |
Q21030341 Travers Guy Rogers MC (1876–1967) was an author and priest in the Church of England who became a chaplain to King George V in 1918. |
Q28373826 The 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2017 College Cup) was the 59th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's collegiate soccer. The first, second, third, and quarterfinal rounds were held at college campus sites across the ... |
Q13557051 Glaucina epiphysaria is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.The MONA or Hodges number for Glaucina epiphysaria is 6493. |
Q10322800 Macolo is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Uíge. |
Q266456 The Institute for the Works of Religion (Italian: Istituto per le Opere di Religione – IOR; Latin: Institutum pro Operibus Religionis), commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a private bank situated inside Vatican City and run by a Board of Superintendence which reports to a Supervisory Commission of Cardinals ... |
Q1933130 The Used is the eponymous debut studio album by the American rock band of the same name. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA. |
Q4699069 An airway beacon was a rotating light assembly mounted atop a tower. These were once used extensively in the United States for visual navigation by airplane pilots along a specified airway corridor. Approximately 1,500 airway beacons were constructed to guide pilots from city to city, covering 18,000 miles (2... |
Q409973 Transcription factor II Human (Transcription Factor II H; TFIIH) is an important protein complex, having roles in transcription of various protein-coding genes and DNA nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathways. TFIIH first came to light in 1989 when general transcription factor-δ or basic transcription factor 2... |
Q4862812 Baron Slane was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1370 for the Fleming family but forfeited in 1691. |
Q5449878 "Find That" is the first single from Stone Crazy, a 1997 album by East Coast hip hop group The Beatnuts. It was released by Relativity Records in 1996 as a promo single and track on the label's compilation album, Relativity Urban Assault. The song is produced by The Beatnuts and features braggadocios raps by ... |
Q7357864 Roger Beyer is a Republican politician from the US state of Oregon, who most recently served in the Oregon Senate, representing District 9, which includes parts of Clackamas, Linn, and Marion County, Oregon counties. |
Q5455964 Five Have a Mystery to Solve is the twentieth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1962. As the penultimate book in the Famous Five series, it follows the usual formula of finding secret passages, drinking ginger beer, hunting treasure, and foiling evil-doers. |
Q7788643 Thomas Courtenay, 6th/14th Earl of Devon (1432 – 3 April 1461), was the eldest son of Thomas de Courtenay, 5th/13th Earl of Devon, by his wife Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. Through his mother he was a ... |
Q4709142 The Albanian National Lyceum (Albanian: Liceu Kombëtar i Korçës or Liceu Francez) was a high school in the city of Korçë, Albania, fully financed by the Albanian government, but that emphasized the French culture and the European values. The school fully functioned in the years 1917–1939. The building is still... |
Q2554802 Weibersbach is a small river of Bavaria, Germany. It is right tributary of the Kahl in Michelbach, a district of Alzenau. |
Q4725457 Aliabad-e Bandan (Persian: علي ابادبندان, also Romanized as ‘Alīābād-e Bandān) is a village in Neh Rural District, in the Central District of Nehbandan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q13417199 Air Mata Iboe (Perfected spelling: Air Mata Ibu; Malay for A Mother's Tears) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed and written by Njoo Cheong Seng. Starring Fifi Young, Rd Ismail, Ali Sarosa, and Ali Joego, it followed a mother who raises her children lovingly but is ultimately be... |
Q15622261 "No No No" is a song by South Korean girl group Apink. It was released on July 5, 2013 with their third EP, Secret Garden, and is composed by Shinsadong Tiger and Kupa. It had been 14 months since their last album Une Année was released, and it was the first time the group promoted with six members after Hong... |
Q14172335 Ernst Wilhelm Moes (1864 – 1912), was a Dutch art historian and director of the print cabinet for the Rijksmuseum. |
Q18346210 Charles Beckman (August 16, 1813 - January 9, 1892) was an American farmer and politician from Watertown, Wisconsin who held a number of public offices, from mayor to member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
Q18925893 Scada karschina is a species of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Brazil. |
Q27988157 Hotwyred was a television show that aired on BET. It debuted on July 10, 2006, replacing BET.com Countdown. The show focused on technology and video gaming, in addition to the latest music videos. The show was hosted by Lamorne Morris and Alesha Reneé, winners from the BET "New Faces" search.The last episode ... |
Q28223345 The Ghana Hockey Association is the governing body of field hockey in Ghana. It is affiliated to IHF International Hockey Federation and AHF African Hockey Federation. The headquarters of the association is in Accra, Ghana. The main hockey venue of the association is the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium (named a... |
Q29060319 The Stolpersteine in Prague-Nusle lists the Stolpersteine in the district Nusle (Czech pronunciation: [ˈnuslɛ]) of Prague. The district has been split off. Since 2002 it belongs mainly to Praha 4, but parts of it are now in Praha 2. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Eur... |
Q79727 Winslow (Navajo: Béésh Sinil) is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, in the United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 9,655. It is approximately 75 miles (121 km) SE of Flagstaff, 320 miles (510 km) W of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and 329 miles (529 km) SE of Las Vegas. |
Q139059 The Forgotten Rebels are a punk rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1977, the Forgotten Rebels have a discography of seven albums and a collection of EPs and singles. |
Q507856 Habib Boularès (Arabic: الحبيب بولعراس) (29 July 1933 – 18 April 2014) was a Tunisian diplomat and politician. |
Q1239964 Donald Ryder is a retired major general of the United States Army who served as United States Army Provost Marshal General from 2003 to 2006.[1] |
Q2030881 Sultan Majid Afandiyev (Azerbaijani: Sultan Məcid Əfəndiyev; Russian: Султан Меджид Эфендиев), also spelled Efendiyev (May 26, 1887 – April 21, 1938) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. |
Q745648 Bub Asman (born August 17, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a sound editor known for his collaborations with director Clint Eastwood. He and his colleagues on the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, and were nominated the same year for Flags of Our Fathers. He also won ... |
Q4985250 Budy Grabskie [ˈbudɨ ˈɡrapskʲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skierniewice, within Skierniewice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Skierniewice and 57 km (35 mi) north-east of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q7238274 Siddheshwari is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 16,759 people living in 3080 individual households. |
Q4843108 Bahía Creek is a beach resort village at 41.0836° S, 63.9317° W, and municipality in the Adolfo Alsina Department of the Río Negro Province in Argentina. |
Q7793019 Thomas Parker was a Welsh professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Wigan, as a centre, i.e. number 3 or 4. |
Q6755175 Marble Community Church, formerly called St. Paul's Church, is a historic Episcopal church at 123 State Street in Marble, Colorado. The church's main building was originally the building of the St. John's Episcopal Chapel, which was built in Aspen, Colorado in 1886. The church was listed on the National Regist... |
Q4791623 Ark is a personal search engine that uses filters such as hometown, current city, high school, college, gender, relationship status, employee, and interests, to search for new people, old classmates, old friends or acquaintances, and new business contacts. Features include managing users' inboxes from their mo... |
Q16208357 The Battle of the Campobasso Convoy was a naval engagement between three British Royal Navy destroyers and an Italian Regia Marina torpedo boat which took place off Cape Bon in the Mediterranean sea on the night of 3/4 May 1943. The Italians were escorting the 3,566 long tons transport ship Campobasso to Tuni... |
Q16057316 The 2013 CAF Champions League Final was the final of the 2013 CAF Champions League, the 49th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 17th edition under the current CAF Champions League format.The final was contested in two-legged h... |
Q16821598 The 9th Trampoline World Championships were held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States on July 3, 1976. |
Q19570643 This is a list of Brazilian television related events from 2014. |
Q19872208 American International School of Bolivia (AIS/B, Spanish: Colegio Americano Internacional de Bolivia) is an American international school in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It serves grades PreK-12. |
Q37444785 Itkin is a male surname. Its feminine counterpart is Itkina. It may refer toDavid Itkin (born 1957), American conductor and composerIvan Itkin (born 1936), American politicianMaria Itkina (born 1932), Soviet Olympic runner |
Q29413422 Alina Harnasko (Belarusian: Аліна Гарнаско; Russian: Алина Горносько; born 9 August 2001 in Minsk) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 European Junior Hoop silver medalist. |
Q26269633 Ornithinibacillus bavariensis is a Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped and motile bacterium from the genus of Ornithinibacillus which has been isolated from pasteurized milk from Bavaria in Germany. |
Q57143 Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness and dissonance prevalent for example in extreme me... |
Q6773240 Marsden Park (postcode: 2765) is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marsden Park is located 49 kilometres (30 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Blacktown local government area and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.As at the 20... |
Q3325243 Grimbold of Grimslade is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He appears in The Two Towers and The Return of the King, the second and third volumes of the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings as originally published. He also appears in the posthumously published Unfinished Tales. |
Q2059966 The following is a partial list of compositions by the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908). |
Q4020100 William McCrum (20 February 1865 – 21 December 1932) was a wealthy Irish linen manufacturer and sportsman, most famous for being the inventor in 1890 of the penalty kick in football. |
Q471481 Mārtiņš Rubenis (born 26 September 1978) is a retired Latvian luger who competed between 1998 and 2014. He won the bronze medal at the men's singles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, becoming the first Latvian (i.e. representing Republic of Latvia) to win a medal at the Winter Olympics and the only on... |
Q16104501 John Francis McCullough, All Black and Taranaki rugby football representative, was born on January 8, 1936, in Stratford, New Zealand. He attended Stratford Technical High School, playing for the First XV 1952-1954, and went on from there to be selected to the Taranaki side. He alternated between first five... |
Q1361968 Confederation of Independent Poland (KPN, Polish: Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej Polish pronunciation: [kɔnfɛdɛˈratsja ˈpɔlskʲi ɲɛpɔˈdlɛɡwɛj]) is a Polish nationalist political party founded on 1 September 1979 by Leszek Moczulski and others declaring support for the pre-war traditions of Sanacja and Józef P... |
Q6685985 Loudmouth – The Best of Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats is a 1994 greatest hits compilation album from Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, consisting mostly of Boomtown Rats material but also some of Geldof's solo work. It peaked at No. 10 in the UK Albums Chart in July 1994."Crazy" was a previously unreleased ... |
Q5207003 MemoRieS FM (DZLL 107.1) is an FM radio station owned by Primax Broadcasting Network. The station is an affiliate of Radio Mindanao Network in the Philippines. Its studio and transmitter is located at Primax compound, Upper Dominican Hill, Baguio City, Philippines. The station's radio format consists of Classi... |
Q7229849 Popów [ˈpɔpuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Annopol, within Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Annopol, 28 km (17 mi) west of Kraśnik, and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a po... |
Q568461 Anping Bridge (simplified Chinese: 安平桥; traditional Chinese: 安平橋; pinyin: Ānpíng Qiáo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: An-pêng Kiô) is a Song dynasty stone beam bridge in Fujian province. It is 2,070 metres (1.29 mi) long. The bridge is also known as the Wuli Bridge (simplified Chinese: 五里桥; traditional Chinese: 五里橋; pinyin: Wǔ Lǐ... |
Q7837609 The Tree of Peace Society was founded in 1984 and incorporated in New York State on October 17, 1994, as a "foreign" not-for-profit corporation ("foreign" a legal formality owing to tribal sovereignty considerations). Its headquarters are located on the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation in Hogansburg, New York, whi... |
Q5290629 Dominic Francis Ralfs (born 16 December 1967) is a former English cricketer. Ralfs was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Hendon, Middlesex.Ralfs made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1991 Minor Counties Championship against Staffordshire. From 1991 to 1999, he repres... |
Q1963348 Nadiya Ke Paar (lit. Across the river) is a 1948 Indian Bollywood film directed by Kishore Sahu. It was the sixth highest grossing Indian film of 1948. |
Q28232258 Balm is a locality in Alberta, Canada.Balm was so named for balsam trees near the original town site. |
Q2201538 Norway competed at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. |
Q18207425 Gliese 682 c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 682. It is a super-Earth.The planet has a mass of 4.4 ME and a radius of ~1.5 RE if rocky. Gliese 682 c was one of four planets discovered by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and was discovered on March 4, 2014. The planet, at discovery,... |
Q28078174 Chris Mason (born 1976) is an Australian artist. Mason resides in Melbourne. His work is held in several public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Australia and the State Library of Victoria. |
Q30241101 The 2017–18 Premiership Rugby was the 31st season of the top flight of English domestic rugby union competition and the eighth and final one to be sponsored by Aviva (Gallagher purchased the naming rights beginning in the 2018–19 season). The competition was broadcast by BT Sport for the fifth successive seas... |
Q117514 Pacific Grove is a coastal city in Monterey County, California in the United States. The United States Census Bureau estimated its 2013 population at 15,504. Pacific Grove is located between Point Pinos and Monterey.Pacific Grove has numerous Victorian-era houses, some of which have been turned into bed and br... |
Q459972 Ambt Montfort (pronunciation ) is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg.In 1991, the municipalities of Montfort, Posterholt, Reutje and Sint Odiliënberg merged. The original name of the merged municipality was "Posterholt", but it was changed in "Ambt Montfort" in 1994. On January 1, 2007, Ambt... |
Q4632990 The Twenty-ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1845, to March 4, 1847, during the first two years of James Po... |
Q842010 The Ford Crown Victoria (colloquially called the "Crown Vic") is a full-size sedan that was marketed and manufactured by Ford from the 1992 to the 2011 model years. The successor to the Ford LTD Crown Victoria, the Ford Crown Victoria served as the flagship sedan of the Ford model line, slotted above the Ford ... |
Q2997538 Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England which was active from 1985-2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, a bar and a café bar. Cornerhouse was operated by Greater Manchester Arts Cent... |
Q316339 Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement, and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas. His work is considered a turning point in the history of seco... |
Q1076086 Chondromalacia patellae (also known as CMP) is an inflammation of the underside of the patella and softening of the cartilage.The cartilage under the kneecap is a natural shock absorber, and overuse, injury, and many other factors can cause increased deterioration and breakdown of the cartilage. The cartilage ... |
Q1513549 Inveraray Jail, in Inveraray, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, is a 19th-century prison and courthouse. In use as a prison from 1820 to 1889, the building is now a living museum. It is a category A listed building. |
Q6522887 Lennox Yearwood, Jr. is a minister and community activist who is also an influential member of political hip hop. Yearwood currently serves as President of the Hip Hop Caucus, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers young people to participate in elections, policymaking and service project... |
Q4667213 Abertysswg (Welsh: Abertyswg) is a village in the county borough of Caerphilly, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. |
Q7256197 Psyche was an online peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on consciousness and its relation to the brain from perspectives provided by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and anthropology. It was established in 1994 by Patrick... |
Q7355134 Rocket Science is the tenth album by the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech released in 2000. It is also the last album of the band before the 2011 comeback. |
Q478613 The unhappy triad, also known as a blown knee among other names, is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and meniscus. Analysis during the 1990s indicated that this 'classic' O'Donoghue triad is actually an unusual clinical entity among athletes with knee injuries. Some autho... |
Q6680172 Lords of Dogtown: Music from the Motion Picture is the 2005 soundtrack album for the movie Lords of Dogtown. |
Q8062441 Yvonne Elkuch (born 31 March 1968) is Liechtenstein cyclist who came 47th in the road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea,17th place, where she carried the flag for Liechtenstein at the opening ceremony. |
Q6381883 Matt Pope (born August 5, 1984) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently with the Cardiff Devils of the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League. Pope previously played for Tohoku Free Blades in the Asia League Ice Hockey (AL). |
Q3105864 Kalâat Khasba is a town and commune in the Kef Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 2,871.and is the chief town of a delegation of 7,353 people. |
Q141603 Bolivia competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Comité Olímpico Boliviano sent a total of 5 athletes to the Games, 3 men and 2 women, to compete only in athletics, shooting, and swimming; all of them had competed in their first Olympics. Three athletes were... |
Q11738067 Kazimierz Kurzawski (born 29 October 1942) is a Polish former sports shooter. He competed in the 50 metre pistol event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. |
Q5934916 Jorge Díaz Serrano (6 February 1921 – 25 April 2011) was a Mexican politician and engineer, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, ambassador to the Soviet Union, senator, and director general of Pemex from 1976 to 1981. |
Q109651 Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 132,646. The county seat is Eureka.Humboldt County comprises the Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna, California Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located on the far North Coast, about 270 miles (430 km) north of San Fra... |
Q2586305 East End is a census-designated place (CDP) in Saline County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 6,998 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
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