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Q311931 Bedřich (Friedrich) Hrozný (Czech: [ˈbɛdr̝ɪx ˈɦrozniː] (listen); May 6, 1879 – December 12, 1952) was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology.
Q4389742 UserLinux was a project to create an operating system based on Debian, and targeted at business customers. The goal was to provide businesses with a freely available, high quality operating system accompanied by certifications, service, and support options.The project was initiated by Bruce Perens in late 2003...
Q2544665 SF Site is a science fiction online magazine edited by Rodger Turner. Established in 1996 by John O'Neill, it is based in Canada, but includes contributors from around the world. It publishes reviews of science fiction books, films, and television, and features interviews with authors and fiction excerpts. C...
Q3499031 Lone Dybkjær (born 23 May 1940 in Copenhagen), is a Danish politician. She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964.She is a member of the Radikale Venstre, a Danish party in the middle of the political spectrum. She...
Q300457 A Little Ain't Enough is the third full-length studio album by David Lee Roth, released in January 1991 through Warner Music Group. It was certified gold on April 11, 1991. Produced by Bob Rock, the album featured the lead guitar work of Jason Becker, a then up-and-coming guitarist who was diagnosed with amyotr...
Q7344885 Robert Gouger (; 26 June 1802 – 4 August 1846) was one of the founders of South Australia and first Colonial Secretary of South Australia.
Q5876352 Hodžić (Cyrillic: Хоџић, pronounced [xôd͡ʒitɕ]) is a common family name found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. It is derived from the word hodža, meaning "master/lord", itself a Turkish loanword (hoca) of ultimately Persian origin (khawaja). Its literal meanings are "little ...
Q5130035 Clay Township is one of nine townships in Spencer County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,801 and it contained 1,185 housing units.
Q4655256 Arizona Business Magazine, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, is the state’s leading monthly Business magazine. Published by AZ Big Media, the magazine covers a wide range of topics focusing on the Arizona business scene, and is aimed at high-level corporate executives and business owners.
Q1585479 The Harleian Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Latin: Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections of the British Library in London (formerly the library of the British Museum). The collection is 7660 manuscripts, including 2200 illuminated manuscripts, mor...
Q1935405 Maastricht Randwyck railway station is located in the suburb Randwyck in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The station is located near the MECC Conference Centre, Academic Hospital Maastricht and parts of Maastricht University.
Q3873784 The Portugal men's national water polo team is the representative for Portugal in international men's water polo. Portugal has contested water polo at the Olympics once, in 1952, when they were eliminated in the first round.
Q5279264 Dion Bates (born 16 July 1981 in Invercargill, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a flanker for the Southland Stags in the Air New Zealand Cup.
Q7397018 Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge is located along the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley of California. Landscape is very flat, bordered by the Sierra and Coast ranges, with intensive agriculture (rice, with walnut, almond, and prune orchards along the river). This riparian community is one of ...
Q6837210 Michelle Quilty is, a camogie player. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final and was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. With a total of 5-26 she was the fourth highest scoring player in the Championship in 2011.
Q2919840 Emek Tzurim National Park (Hebrew: עמק צורים‎, lit. Valley of Flints) is a national park of Israel. It is located on the lower western slope of the Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus and the upper reaches of the Kidron Valley, and abuts the neighborhoods of Wadi al-Joz, At-Tur and Beit Orot, as well as the campu...
Q3465520 Neeruti (German: Megel) is a village in Otepää Parish, Valga County in southeastern Estonia. It's located about 7 km (4 mi) northeast of the town of Otepää. Neeruti has a population of 70 (as of 1 January 2011).
Q14950456 Cyril Joseph Richardson (born December 27, 1990) is an American football guard who is a free agent. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Baylor, where he was a unanimous All-American.
Q15779 Toluene (), also known as toluol (), is an aromatic hydrocarbon. It is a colourless, water-insoluble liquid with the smell associated with paint thinners. It is a mono-substituted benzene derivative, consisting of a CH3 group attached to a phenyl group. As such, its IUPAC systematic name is methylbenzene. Tolue...
Q272537 Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet. Two of her opening lines, The boy stood on the burning deck and The stately homes of England, have acquired classic status.
Q273427 Ranville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.Ranville was the first French village liberated on D-Day. The village was liberated by the British 13th Parachute Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Luard. The château du Heaume in the village was subs...
Q848422 The Botanical Garden of Naples, Italy (in Italian: Orto botanico di Napoli, also Real Orto Botanico) is a research facility of the University of Naples Federico II.The premises take up about 15 hectares and are located on via Foria, adjacent to the gigantic old Albergo dei Poveri, the Royal Hospice for the Poor...
Q4866817 Baxian Caves (Chinese: 八仙洞; pinyin: Bāxiān Dòng) are sea caves located in the east coast of Changbin Township, Taitung County, Taiwan.
Q1259412 The scaled dove (Columbina squammata), also known as scaly dove, Ridgway's dove, mottled dove, and South American zebra dove, is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical...
Q378832 The Class 73 is a class of diesel locomotives operated by SNCB/NMBS in Belgium.The class formed the backbone of the SNCB shunter fleet. Class 77s have replaced them but they are still to be found across Belgium. They were built in three batches: 7301-7335 during 1965-1967, 7336-7375 during 1973-1974 and finally...
Q602112 Courtes is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Q3013343 Dance Nation was a British independent record label which was a subsidiary of Ministry of Sound. When founded in 2007 it was known as Hard2Beat Records, and was rebranded to its current name in 2010.The label's first release was "Now You're Gone" by Basshunter, and they have released other singles and compilat...
Q5047623 Cary Harris (born March 22, 1987) is an American football safety who was most recently a member of the Edmonton Eskimos. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern California as a cornerback. He currently is the head football coach at Gl...
Q872409 Thomas Janeschitz (born 22 June 1966) is a retired Austria international footballer, and a football coach who is currently with the national team in a coach development program.
Q6544210 Liepāja Museum is the largest museum in the historical region of Courland, Latvia and possesses more than 100,000 articles, but in the halls of the museum you can see 1,500 exhibits. Permanent displays tell of Liepāja’s history, starting from its early days and of the ethnography of South Kurzeme. They feature...
Q972689 Yūsuke Minato (湊 祐介, Minato Yūsuke) (born May 13, 1985) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2002. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and earned his best individual finish of sixth in the 10 km individual normal hi...
Q4438368 The Battle of the Valerik River on July 11, 1840 was fought as part of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus. It occurred about 30 km (19 miles) southwest of the fortress of Groznaya (now Grozny) between forces of the Imperial Russian Army and North Caucasian mountaineers led by the naib (viceroy) Ahberdila Muh...
Q296396 Forssa sub-region is a subdivision of Tavastia Proper and one of the Sub-regions of Finland since 2009.
Q2821129 Abdelkrim Al Khatib (Arabic: عبد الكريم الخطيب‎) (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2008) was a surgeon, politician and activist in Morocco. He co-founded the National Popular Movement which would later split and was eventually re-branded as the Justice and Development Party. He became the first leader of Morocco's ...
Q16995661 Holland Apartments is a historic apartment complex located at 324-326 N. Vermilion St. in Danville, Illinois. The building was constructed in two sections; the northern half was built in 1906, while the southern half was completed in 1927. Both sections of the building are designed in the Dutch Revival style;...
Q9161819 Attopsis is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Formicinae. While formerly containing a number of species, the genus is currently monotypic; the type species, Attopsis longipennis, is known from a single Early Miocene fossil found in what is now Croatia.
Q25203203 Memory Man is a crime novel about a man whose wife, daughter and brother in law were murdered, written by David Baldacci. This is the first novel to feature the character Amos Decker. The novel was released in September 2015 by Grand Central Publishing.
Q42164349 Patrick Field (born 6 June 1937) is a Hong Kong middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Q104027 Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; Yiddish: ישור דניאלאוויטש‎; December 9, 1916) is an American actor, filmmaker, and author. A centenarian, he is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut ...
Q408014 Chondroitin sulfate is a sulfated glycosaminoglycan (GAG) composed of a chain of alternating sugars (N-acetylgalactosamine and glucuronic acid). It is usually found attached to proteins as part of a proteoglycan. A chondroitin chain can have over 100 individual sugars, each of which can be sulfated in variable ...
Q976851 Disembowelment, often styled as diSEMBOWELMENT, was an Australian death-doom band that formed in November 1989 featuring Renato Gallina on guitar and vocals, and Paul Mazziotta on drums. In early 1991 Jason Kells joined on lead guitar and at the end of that year the group's line-up was completed by Matthew Skar...
Q7610358 Stephen Rhodes (1951 – 20 February 2017) was a former weekday daytime presenter on BBC Three Counties Radio and BBC Radio Northampton. He originally hosted the Consumer Programme from 10 am until 1:30 pm, but moved to the breakfast show broadcast from 6 am to 9 am. However, after his breakfast show on Tuesday ...
Q2663758 Brocket Hall is a Grade I-listed classical country house set in a large park at the western sideof the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate is equipped with two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house. The freehold on the estate is held by Ba...
Q629857 The Flag of the Azores (Portuguese: Bandeira dos Açores) is the regional flag of the Autonomous Region of the Azores. It is a rectangular bicolour with a field unevenly divided into blue on the hoist, and white on the fly. Adopted in 1979 by the regional government of the Azores, it is based on the traditional ...
Q5124494 The Civil Justice Council is a UK non-departmental public body that advises the Lord Chancellor on civil justice and civil procedure in England and Wales. It was established in 1998 under section 6 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 and is sponsored by the Ministry of Justice.
Q1126592 Conquer is the sixth studio album by the band Soulfly. It saw official release on July 23, 2008, in Australia, although the album had leaked early onto file-sharing networks. It was released on July 29, 2008 in Canada and the United States and debuted at #66 on the U.S. Billboard 200 — Soulfly's highest Billbo...
Q651043 James Edward Neighbour (15 November 1950 – 11 April 2009) was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City, West Ham United and the Seattle Sounders.
Q6712401 M. Appavu is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Tamil Nadu. He has contested the Radhapuram state assembly constituency on several occasions as a candidate of various political parties.
Q5007057 C. echinata may refer to:Caesalpinia echinata, the brazilwood, pau-Brasil or pernambuco, a Brazilian timber tree speciesCarex echinata, the star sedge or little prickly sedge, a plant species native to North and Central America and parts of EurasiaCucumaria echinata, a sea cucumber species found in the Bay of...
Q7194291 Pilodeudorix pseudoderitas, the sombre diopetes, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ghana, eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. The habitat consists of forests.
Q16254735 Ağcayazı is a Turkic word that may refer to several places:
Q16829609 Diário de Noite (Evening Diary) was a Portuguese language daily newspaper published from Panjim, Goa. The first issue was published on 1 December 1919. Luís de Menezes (1878-1938) was the founding editor of the newspaper. Diário de Noite had its offices in São Tomé, Panjim. It gained a wide Goan readership, a...
Q3536564 Atika Wahbi al-Khazraji (1924–1997) was an Iraqi poet and educator.She was born in Baghdad and began publishing poetry at the age of fourteen. al-Khazraji received a BA from the Higher Teachers' Institute, going on to work as a teacher. In 1950, she enrolled in the Sorbonne, receiving a PhD in 1955. She publis...
Q23663931 Nestor Mendez (born January 21, 1971) is a Belizean diplomat and politician. He is currently the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
Q28402014 The 2014–15 English Hockey League season took place from September 2014 until April 2015. The regular season consisted of two periods September until December and then February until March. The end of season play offs were held on the 18 & 19 of April. The Men's Championship was won by Wimbledon and the Women...
Q26706863 Ed Lee Williams (born March 14, 1991) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Fort Hays State. Williams was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2015.
Q28429764 Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Australian band The Seekers. The album was released in June 2009 and peaked within the top 40 in the UK and Australia.
Q27536655 WAGS Miami is an American reality documentary television series that premiered on October 2, 2016, on E! television network, making it the first spin-off of WAGS. The reality show chronicles both the professional and personal lives of several WAGs (an acronym for wives and girlfriends of sportspersons). Amber...
Q1083010 Riverdale is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 3,559, reflecting an increase of 1,061 (+42.5%) from the 2,498 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 128 (+5.4%) from the 2,370 counted in the 1990 Census.R...
Q16998384 My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on 3 January 1967. It was a companion programme to My Word!, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir. The show was last recorded in November 1993 and broadcast in January 1994, then rebroadcast until 2011. I...
Q2170072 The Constitution of Mexico, formally the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (Spanish: Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is the current constitution of Mexico. It was drafted in Santiago de Querétaro, in the State of Querétaro, by a constitutional convention, during the Mex...
Q5292580 Don Epperson (born.January 1938 - died.1973 in Arizona) was an American singer and actor. His daughter, Brenda Epperson is most well known for portraying Ashley Abbott on The Young and the Restless.
Q7879583 The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Jade Empress' is an American selection.
Q4858354 In early Philippine history, the barangay was a complex sociopolitical unit which scholars have historically considered the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago. The term, barangay, refers to both a house on land and a boat on water; containing families, frien...
Q652924 "Bargaining" is the 108th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the twenty-first episode of the show's fifth season and aired on May 3, 2009.
Q7336948 Rivada Networks is a US-based communications technology business with offices in the US and Ireland. The name Rivada is derived from the acronym, "Radio Interoperable Voice and Data Applications." The company specialises in the provision of wireless and interoperable telecommunications systems to public safet...
Q4618525 The 2010 season was TTM's 10th season in the top division of Thai football. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season.
Q3096840 Lamonzie-Saint-Martin is a railway station in Bergerac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Libourne - Le Buisson railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF.
Q73830 Damian Hartard Reichsfreiherr von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck (March 12, 1624 in Trier – December 6, 1678) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and the Bishop of Worms from 1675 to 1678.Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck was the younger brother of Karl Kaspar von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck, who was Archbis...
Q16146748 Benjamin Banks (1727–1795) was an English violin-maker.
Q4776516 Antonio Castillo Lastrucci (February 27, 1882 - November 29, 1967) was a Spanish sculptor, focused in religious works. His works can be found in the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption in Ceuta, several churches of Seville, and in other parts of Spain.
Q7161908 The Pembina County Courthouse in Cavalier, North Dakota was built in 1912. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980.The courthouse is the only Buechner & Orth-designed courthouse in North Dakota. The listing in...
Q5219243 Daniela Schulte (born 30 June 1982 in Berlin) is a German Paralympic swimmer, competing in the S11 class. Having developed a genetically caused visual impairment aged nine, Schulte began to compete in swimming for competitors with a disability at the age of 13. A year later Schulte participated in the 1996 Sum...
Q11485068 Eupithecia ochridata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, France, Portugal, Austria, Croatia and northern Russia. It is also present in the eastern Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.The wingspan is about 18–20 mm.The larvae feed on ...
Q16895970 Norvargodden is a headland and the northernmost point of the island Storøya in the Svalbard archipelago, east of Nordaustlandet. It is named after the vessel Norvarg.
Q19661787 James K. Pettapiece (May 7, 1937 – December 19, 2016) was a Canadian curler. He was the second on the Don Duguid rink that won two Curling Championships and two Brier Championships in 1970 and 1971. Pettapiece also played in the 1973 Macdonald Brier playing second for the Danny Fink rink, finishing with a 4-6...
Q3802592 Catriona rickettsi, common name Doc's aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.
Q24852042 Michael Shane Callahan is an American film and television actor. Callahan graduated from Titusville Area High School in 1992 and then went on to graduate from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1995 with a video business degree and a music degree. He has had prominent roles in feature films such as Well Wishe...
Q151839 Taihape is located in the Rangitikei District of the North Island of New Zealand. It services a large rural community and lies on State Highway 1, which runs North to South through the centre of the North Island.
Q306350 Abbevillian (formerly also Chellean) is a term for the oldest lithic industry found in Europe, dated to between roughly 600,000 and 400,000 years ago.The original artifacts were collected from road construction sites on the Somme river near Abbeville by a French customs officer, Boucher de Perthes. He published...
Q985277 Rivers of Japan are characterized by their relatively short lengths and considerably steep gradients due to the narrow and mountainous topography of the country. An often-cited quote is 'this is not a river, but a waterfall' by the Dutch engineer (o-yatoi gaikokujin) Johannis de Rijke who had visited the Jōganj...
Q5576815 The Godrej family is an Indian Parsi family that manages and largely owns the Godrej Group, a conglomerate founded by Ardeshir Godrej and his brother Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej in 1897, spanning sectors as diverse as real estate, consumer products, industrial engineering, appliances, furniture, security and agri...
Q607769 Giorgio Duboin (born September 30, 1959 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has won four world teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years his regular partner was Norberto Bocchi; now he plays primarily with...
Q1983538 The Newlands Valley is in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is regarded as one of the most picturesque and quiet valleys in the national park, even though it is situated very close to the popular tourist town of Keswick and the busy A66 road.The valley forms part of the civil parish of Ab...
Q625669 La Tour-d'Aigues is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Q4891289 Berepper is a coastal village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the west side of the Lizard peninsula four miles (6 km) south of Helston, near Gunwalloe. Unusually for Cornish names it derives from Norman French - 'beau-repaire', literally meaning 'beautiful retreat'. The Cornish n...
Q5486998 Frank Howard Cann (November 14, 1863 – November 19, 1935) was an American football coach and college athletics instructor. He served the second head football coach at New York University (NYU). He held that position for the 1898 season leading the NYU Violets to a record of 1–3. In 1907, Cann was still at Ne...
Q2639259 Prince Henry of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi (Italian: Enrico Carlo Luigi Giorgio, Principe di Parma, Conte di Bardi) (12 February 1851 in Parma, Duchy of Parma – 14 April 1905 in Menton, France) was the youngest son and child of Charles III, Duke of Parma and his wife Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France,...
Q4969299 The Britannia Range is a subrange of the North Shore Mountains, running along the eastern flank of Howe Sound just north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The range begins in the Deeks Lake/Hanover Mountain area to the north of Brunswick Mountain, which is the highest of the summits of the Cypress Mounta...
Q7302638 The U.S. state of Montana has recognized same-sex marriage since a federal court ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on November 19, 2014. It had previously denied marriage rights to same-sex couples by statute since 1997 and in its State Constitution since 2004. The state appealed the ...
Q6188401 Jesús Calderón is a Spanish composer. He has composed many soundtracks for short films, documentaries, animation films, etc.
Q4933822 Robert Edward Roselli (December 10, 1931 – November 6, 2009) was an American professional baseball player, a catcher who played in Major League Baseball between the 1955 and 1962 seasons. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 185 lb (84 kg), Roselli batted and threw right-handed. He was born in San Francisco.Roselli,...
Q4640711 The 568th Strategic Missile Squadron (568 SMS) is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 462d Strategic Aerospace Wing, stationed at Larson AFB, WashingtonOn 1 April 1961, the 568th Strategic Missile Squadron (ICBM-Titan) went on alert status as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) Int...
Q6814101 Melvin Wandelaar (born 2 January 1990) is a Dutch footballer who plays for SV Robinhood of the Surinamese Hoofdklasse.
Q5295296 Donald Weder (born 1947) of Highland, Illinois is an American inventor and businessman. Weder holds 984 utility patents and 413 design patents for a total of 1397 US patents. Weder is still actively inventing, so his ultimate number of patents is yet to be known.
Q5954851 As of 2012, hydroelectric power stations in the United Kingdom accounted for 1.65 GW of installed electrical generating capacity, being 1.8% of the UK's total generating capacity and 18% of UK's renewable energy generating capacity. This includes four conventional hydroelectric power stations and run-of-river ...
Q41249312 Jordan Lee Williams (born 22 October 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for League One club Barnsley.A product of the Huddersfield Town Academy, he was loaned out to Bury in August 2017, just 2 days after making his debut in the League Cup against Rotherham United.
Q17558499 Katie Class (born March 24, 1963) is an American speed skater. She competed in three events at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Q335266 Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.He has co-discovered the periodic comets 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett, 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu and 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu. Brian Roman is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 11 minor planet between 1988 and 1990, including 4954 Eric, a near-Earth aster...
Q1018161 Mingun (Burmese: မင်းကွန်းမြို့; MLCTS: mang: kwan mrui. [mɪ́ɴɡʊ́ɴ mjo̰]) is a town in Sagaing Township of Sagaing Region, north-west Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. Its main attraction is the ruined Mingun Pahtodawgyi.