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Q4798240 Arthur Charles Lewis Brown (August 18, 1869 – June 21, 1946) was a prominent professor, author, and scholar who proliferated numerous journal articles, books and monographs regarding the origin of Arthurian Romances. |
Q4715300 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Savin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Савин; born 20 October 1984) is a Russian professional football player. |
Q2663412 Viktor Isidorovich Dolidze (ვიქტორ ისიდორეს ძე დოლიძე, 1890–1933) was a Soviet-Georgian composer.Victor Dolidze was born on 18 July 1890 in the city of Ozurgeti, Kutais Governorate in a poor peasant family.He studied at Tiflis commercial school. In 1910 he won the first prize at a local mandolin contest.After ... |
Q4607723 The Badgers were led by Mark Johnson, who was in his fifth season with the Badgers. The club had a 31–1–4 overall record, and a 23–1–4 conference record. The Badgers won their second straight WCHA regular season title and NCAA title. |
Q4690149 Afritrophon insignis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q3465649 Ollepa is a village in Türi Parish, Järva County in central Estonia.It has a railway station on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron (rail transit). |
Q6141226 James Phillippo (1798, Norfolk, England – 11 May 1879, Spanish Town, Jamaica) was an English Baptist missionary in Jamaica who campaigned for the abolition of slavery. He served in Jamaica from 1823 to his death, with some periods lobbying in England for funds to support his work on the island. He led the foun... |
Q4119328 Picconia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. |
Q3145524 Hyatt Regency Paris – Charles de Gaulle is a 4 star hotel inaugurated in 1992, located close to the Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport and Villepinte exhibition center. It belongs to the American hotel company Hyatt. |
Q3653534 The 1951 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Buenos Aires Province ("Provincia") that beat in the final the selection of Capital |
Q16862664 Lagomarsino is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Diego Lagomarsino, a suspect in the death of Alberto Nisman case in ArgentinaNancy Lagomarsino, American poetRobert J. Lagomarsino (born 1926), American politicianRon Lagomarsino, American film, theatre and television director |
Q18749070 William Oscar "Chink" Lowe (May 23, 1894 – March 12, 1949) was a college football player. He later served as the first commissioner of the Smoky Mountain Conference. |
Q21351725 The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea, was held on 6–9 May 2016. |
Q24033355 The 1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election was held on Tuesday, 3 November 1925. It resulted in a landslide victory for Republican candidate Charles H. Kline. |
Q1041014 Carl Bogdanovich Wenig or, in German, Carl Gottlieb Wenig (Russian: Карл Богданович Вениг; 26 February 1830, in Tallinn – 6 February 1908, in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic-German painter of historical and religious scenes. For many years, he was a Professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. |
Q30633075 United to Advance (Catalan: Units per Avançar, Els Units) is a Catalan centrist and Christian democrat political party founded in July 2017 by ex-members of the Democratic Union of Catalonia and non-independentist catalan nationalists.Units made an electoral pact with the Socialists' Party of Catalonia for th... |
Q855733 In Buddhism, fierce deities are the fierce, wrathful or forceful (Tibetan: trowo, Sanskrit: krodha) forms of enlightened Buddhas, Bodhisattvas or Devas (divine beings). Because of their power to destroy the obstacles to enlightenment, they are also termed krodha-vighnantaka, "fierce destroyers of obstacles". Fi... |
Q837976 212 (two hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 211 and preceding 213. |
Q4743886 A recycling bin (or recycle bin) is a container used to hold recyclables before they are taken to recycling centers. Recycling bins exist in various sizes for use inside and outside homes, offices, and large public facilities. Separate containers are often provided for paper, tin or aluminum cans, and glass or... |
Q4353299 John Calder "Jack" Marshall (March 14, 1877 – August 7, 1965) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Marshall played for the Winnipeg Victorias, Montreal HC, Montreal Shamrocks, Montreal Wanderers, Toronto Pros and Toronto Blueshirts. Marshall was a member of six Stanley Cup championship teams for four... |
Q2631909 In English, Castilian Spanish sometimes refers to the variety of Peninsular Spanish spoken in northern and central Spain or as the language standard for radio and TV speakers. In Spanish, the term castellano (Castilian) usually refers to the Spanish language as a whole, or to the medieval Old Spanish language,... |
Q3374802 Bispebjerg Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. Along with a number of other hospitals and the University of Copenhagen (the Faculty of Health Sciences), Bispebjerg Hospital forms part of the Copenhagen University Hospital. The hospital is a teaching hospital for medical students ... |
Q12630377 The European Taekwondo Union (ETU) is the official governing body for all Taekwondo matters in Europe as a regional organisation of World Taekwondo. It comprises the National Taekwondo Federations of all the European member nations and regulates all Taekwondo matters on a continental basis. The first particip... |
Q18035887 RelA-associated inhibitor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PPP1R13L gene. |
Q970206 James Ira Thomas "Taffy" Jones & Bar, MM (18 April 1896 – 30 August 1960) was a British flying ace during the First World War. Jones was born on 18 April 1896 at Woolstone Farm, near St Clears, Carmarthenshire. In 1913, Jones enlisted in the Territorial Army, though he was soon transferred into the newly estab... |
Q2637927 Ammodendron is a genus of flowering plants, called the sand acacias, in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. Its name is derived from the Greek άμμος ammos ("sand") and δένδρον dendron ("tree"). |
Q7183418 Philip Dadson is a New Zealand musician and artist, who was in the foundation group for the Scratch Orchestra and founder of From Scratch. He was made an Arts Laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2001, and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005. He lectured at the Elam School of Fi... |
Q7967564 Wang Nan (Chinese: 王楠; pinyin: Wáng Nán; born May 28, 1987 in Jilin) is a Chinese male speed skater.He competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in 500m and 1000m events. |
Q6781076 Maryan Qaasim (Somali: Maryam Qaasim Axmed, Arabic: مريم قاسم) is a Somali politician. She served as the Minister for Human Development and Public Services of Somalia from November 2012 to January 2014. She is also the Chairperson of the Tayo Political Party. On 21 March 2017, she was appointed as the Ministe... |
Q16979562 The Size Of Food is an album by New Zealand band Jean-Paul Sartre Experience released in 1989. |
Q16866319 Reotith High School is a public school located in the Dighwa Dubauli area of Bihar.The present principal of the school is mr.yatendra Kumar. |
Q16988150 Pipturus platyphyllus is a species of plant in the Urticaceae family. |
Q20012267 The Pearl Jam 2015 Latin America Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Pearl Jam. The tour consisted of nine shows in Latin America, including venues in Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina. This was the first tour following the Lightning Bolt Tour that finished in 2014 and the first show... |
Q27590562 Brentwood Strangler is a 2015 award-winning holiday-themed horror short film. It was written and directed by John Fitzpatrick following the success of his first short Skypemare, and stars 'scream queen' Jordan Ladd and Australian actor Adam J. Yeend in the title role. The film premiered December 2015 at the A... |
Q14804367 Glenea fatalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1867. It is known from Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. |
Q13408832 The Lithuanian Peninsula (Ukrainian: Литовський півострів; Russian: Литовский полуостров), also known as the Chuvash Peninsula, is a small peninsula in the north of the Crimean Peninsula on the Isthmus of Perekop. It is part of the Krasnoperekopsk region and situated to the east of the city of Armyansk and ne... |
Q5175490 Cotswold Rail was an English spot-hire company of shunting and mainline locomotives, based in Gloucester. |
Q1627891 The Paulding-class destroyers were a series of United States Navy destroyers derived from the Smith class with the torpedo tubes increased from three to six via twin mounts. They were the first destroyers in the US Navy with oil-fired boilers. The 21 Pauldings doubled the number of destroyers in the US Navy. T... |
Q7491543 AdventHealth Shawnee Mission (formerly Shawnee Mission Health), is a 504-bed hospital, owned by the AdventHealth hospital system, located in Merriam in Johnson County, Kansas. In addition to the hospital itself it has a free-standing outpatient surgery, a community health education building, five physician off... |
Q525694 Gitane DeMone is an American singer, songwriter, musician and visual artist.DeMone's music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid 1980s as keyboardist and backing vocalist of the influential deathrock band Christian Death.In addition to her work with Christian Death, Demone has previ... |
Q3959716 Short Orders is a 1923 film starring Stan Laurel. |
Q1676097 Shokichi Iyanaga (彌永 昌吉, Iyanaga Shōkichi, April 2, 1906 – June 1, 2006) was a Japanese mathematician. |
Q6257822 John Siddle is a Welsh graphic designer, photographer, and typographer best known for his creation of the typeface FF Boomshanker. |
Q5090762 Chen Fubin (born January 22, 1978 in Ziyang) is a Chinese slalom canoer who competed in the 2000s. He finished 11th in the C-2 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece after being eliminated in the qualifying round. |
Q7523657 Singing the Dogstar Blues is a 1998 young adult science fiction novel by Alison Goodman. It follows the story of Joss who is a student of time travel and has been given the task of being the study partner of the alien student Mavkel. |
Q7987639 Western Bridge Corporate Federal Credit Union, or WesCorp, was a financial services cooperative headquartered in San Dimas, California. As a corporate credit union, WesCorp provided services to natural person (consumer) credit unions. WesCorp served America's credit union industry as an aggregator of financial... |
Q6955331 NSPCL (NTPC-SAIL Power Company Limited) is a 50:50 joint venture company of NTPC Limited and SAIL, engaged in power generation primarily to meet the captive power requirement of various steel plants of SAIL throughout India. It is one of the institutional category III profit making Indian PSEs. |
Q11273150 Tokoroten (心太, ところてん) is a dish in Japanese cuisine made from agarophytes. Tokoroten has been eaten by the Japanese for over a thousand years. Tokoroten is thought to have been introduced to Japan from China during the Nara period. Tokoroten was traditionally made by boiling tengusa (Gelidium amansii) and the... |
Q4707153 Alan William George Liddell (8 August 1930 – 9 February 1972) was an English cricketer. Liddell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. The son of Allan Liddell, who played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire, he was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire.Liddell made his first-class... |
Q5373096 Emmalocera unitella is a species of snout moth in the genus Emmalocera. It was described by Joseph de Joannis in 1927 and is known from Mozambique. |
Q16934921 Marina Blagojević (also, Marina Šijaković-Blagojević and Marina Blagojević Hughson; born 1958) is a Serbian sociologist, gender scholar, gender expert, and feminist. |
Q16116376 GamePlay was a Croatian video game magazine which used to be published on monthly basis, first priced at 18 kunas, and then later at 20 kunas. It is considered to be the successor of PSX, with most of the team behind PSX also working on GamePlay. It covered a wide range of gaming platforms, always bringing th... |
Q19864175 Aicha Elbasri is a writer and former United Nations official. She is the author of L’Imaginaire carcéral de Jean Genet, a book on Jean Genet, a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. She was previously the Spokesperson for the African Union – United Nations hybrid peacekeeping mi... |
Q20954210 Lucas Búa de Miguel (born 12 January 1994) is a Spanish sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He competed at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships narrowly missing the semifinals. His personal bests in the event are 45.98 seconds outdoors (Castellón 2015) and 46.65 seconds indoors (Madrid 2016). |
Q29011524 Boskey may refer to:Bennett Boskey, American lawyerJayantbhai Patel Boskey, Indian politician |
Q16677228 The Société de l'industrie minérale (SIM: Mineral Industry Society) is a French association of mineral processing companies and people involved in these industries.It was created in 1855. It supports exchange of information on mining through its journals, website, meetings and congresses, and represents the m... |
Q16844288 Holy Fuck is the 2005 eponymous debut release from Canadian electronica band Holy Fuck. Tracks 1 & 5 were recorded 9 November 2004 by Laurence Currie at Idea of East, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The remainder of the album was recorded 21 January 2005 by Dave Newfeld at Stars & Suns, Toronto, Ontario. All the tra... |
Q4886974 Bend is an unincorporated community in Lampasas and San Saba Counties in Western Central Texas. The population was 1,678 as of the 2010 census. It is located on Farm to Market Road 580 on the western leg of a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Colorado River. The Lampasas County portion of Bend is part of the Killee... |
Q5561068 Sir Gilbert James Morley Longden (16 April 1902 – 16 October 1997) was a British Conservative politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hertfordshire South West from 1950 until his retirement at the February 1974 general election. |
Q6972946 The National Ground Water Association (NGWA), headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, is a membership-based nonprofit organization. Founded in 1948, the organization is composed of United States and international groundwater professionals in four membership divisions: water well contractors, scientists and enginee... |
Q3044481 Mogas 90 Football Club is a football club of Benin, playing in the town of Cotonou. They currently play in the Benin Premier League. |
Q5080860 Charles McLelland (19 November 1930 – 2 December 2004) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from 1976 to 1978, and the controller solely of BBC Radio 2 from 1978 to 1980, when the two stations' management teams were separated.McLelland served in the Royal Artillery for two years as his national se... |
Q1391625 Politte Elvins (March 16, 1878 – January 14, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in French Village. St. Francois County, Missouri, Elvins attended the public schools.He was graduated from Carleton College, Farmington, Missouri, in 1897 and from the law department of the University of Missouri in... |
Q3640655 Blacks' Magic is the third album by rap group, Salt-N-Pepa and was released in 1990 on Next Plateau Records. A critical and commercial success, the album peaked at #38 on the Billboard 200, #15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop album charts and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album featured four hit singles, thr... |
Q5748637 Hexachaeta eximia is a species of tephritid or fruit fly in the genus Hexachaeta of the family Tephritidae. |
Q17112560 Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The D'Antin Manuscript (Mother Goose's Rhymes), published in 1967 by Luis d'Antin van Rooten is purportedly a collection of poems written in archaic French with learned glosses. In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French tex... |
Q2899402 Bertram Earl Jones (born June 24, 1942) is a Canadian non-practicing investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that CBC News has reported cost his victims "a conservative estimate of about C$51.3 million taken between 1982 and 2009". After pleading guilty to two charges of fraud in 2010, ... |
Q5199373 Cymatiella eburnea is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. |
Q7892073 The 1972 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 7, 1972. Republican U.S. Representative William L. Scott defeated incumbent Democratic Senator William Spong, Jr.. Scott was the first Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia to be elected in over a century, as the most recent Republican Sen... |
Q16029280 Alverdo Adair Geitgey Geitgey (1864–1932) was a Baker County, Florida landowner and developer who helped found Glen St. Mary. He was also a citrus grower and a pecan grower. Geitgey is listed as a Great Floridian.Geitgey was born in Ohio. He worked in the natural gas business and spent winters in North Florid... |
Q17509527 Escort is a Turkish computer manufacturer and Consumer electronics retail chain. |
Q12473281 Baghban (Gardener) is a 1938 Hindi/Urdu family drama film directed by A. R. Kardar. The story was by Begum Ansari with script and screenplay by Kardar. Film's music was composed by Mushtaq Hussain with lyrics by Mirza Shauq. The cast included Nandrekar, Bimla Kumari, Nazir, Sitara Devi, K. N. Singh, Wasti and... |
Q21029022 Dubmill is a settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately one mile south-west of the village of Mawbray, half-a-mile to the west of the hamlet of Salta, three-quarters of a mile south-west of the hamlet of Hailforth, and one-and-a-half miles nort... |
Q25000428 Orbis Investment Management is an investment management firm headquartered in Bermuda, with offices in London, Vancouver, Sydney, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Luxembourg. The company has a close relationship with Allan Gray Investment Management in South Africa and Allan Gray Australia. Orbis manages a... |
Q21622972 Jake Stuart is a Cook Islands footballer, who currently plays for Clarence United FC, in the PS4 National Premier Leagues - Tasmania. |
Q3298867 Mathieu Schiller (April 14, 1979 – September 19, 2011) was a French bodyboarder. Crowned French champion in 1993, he later won the team event of the European championships in 1995. He died in a shark attack off Saint-Gilles, Réunion. The attack was likely caused by a tiger shark or bull shark; his body was not... |
Q2096282 Lakewood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,603 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Sumter, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q11440 Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), born Daniel Paul Bunten, and also known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first influential multiplayer games), and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.In 1998 she was awarded the Lifeti... |
Q7877387 The Udyan Pandit Award is given for excellence in fruit cultivation in India. An award is given in each of the categories of apple, banana, grapes, guava, mandarin, mango, pineapple and sweet orange. It is sponsored by the National Horticultural Board awarded at both state and national levels. |
Q34101 Tonga (Chitonga), also known as Zambezi, is a Bantu language primarily spoken by the Tonga people who live mainly in the Southern and Western provinces of Zambia, and in northern Zimbabwe, with a few in Mozambique. The language is also spoken by the Iwe, Toka and Leya people, and perhaps by the Kafwe Twa (if the... |
Q2648901 Compton and Shawford is a civil parish in the City of Winchester, Hampshire, England. The word compton means village in a combe and aptly describes the settlement as it primarily consists of a long street on the side of a chalk valley.All Saints church in Compton is unusual in that it has two naves and two ch... |
Q2425681 Thomas Lamison Sprague (October 2, 1894 – September 17, 1972) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy, who served during World War II as commander of the aircraft carrier Intrepid and took part in the battles of Guam, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. |
Q4660289 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Betty Smith, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz.First produced in 1951, the musical is based on Smith's autobiographical novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), but when Shirley Booth was cast as Aunt Cissy, a secondary c... |
Q1004697 bulthaup (legally: Bulthaup GmbH & Co. KG) is a German kitchen manufacturer headquartered in Aich, Bodenkirchen, close to Landshut in Lower Bavaria. It has a headcount of 530, and records revenues of around 120 million euros – 80% of which is account for by exports. |
Q7852728 Tumulla was a crossing loop part way up the steep Tumulla Bank. |
Q7936005 Vishnuvadi is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India. |
Q175441 Rashard Quovon Lewis (born August 8, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. Rashard entered the NBA directly from Alief Elsik High School. He rose to prominence in the NBA as a scorer with the Seattle SuperSonics, and was later a member of the Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards and Miami Hea... |
Q6306002 Jules Polonetsky (born August 18, 1965) is an American lawyer and internet privacy expert from Brooklyn, New York who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Future of Privacy Forum. Polonetsky is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Consumer Privacy, with co-editors Omer Tene and Evan Selinger. |
Q16627580 The 2013 Yemeni League is the 21st edition of top level football in Yemen.The season started on February 28 and finished on 8 July, played in one calendar year rather than the previous editions which have been played over two calendar years. |
Q17523832 Major General Julian Richard Free is a retired British Army officer who served as commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. |
Q28119318 Charles "Charlie" Burrell (born October 4, 1920) is a classical and jazz bass player most prominently known for being the first African-American to be a member of a major American symphony (the San Francisco Symphony). For this accomplishment he is often referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of Classical Music"... |
Q21189856 Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a nonprofit virtual charter school in Exeter, New Hampshire, the only public online high school in the state. It offers full-time and part-time admissions. The school was founded in 2007 by Steve Kossakoski, who holds a doctorate in education administration f... |
Q13553877 The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (original title: La Fille du 14 juillet) is a 2013 French comedy film directed by Antonin Peretjatko. |
Q21426988 Adventures of Malia is a 2015 independent animation short film directed, animated and written by Shubhavi Arya. The film was completed by Shubhavi Arya at the age of 16 years.Adventures of Malia held its US premiere on 21 March 2015 at the School Daze Movie Fest in Oregon. As of November 2015, it has been acc... |
Q21588740 Tristan Jeskanen (born February 5, 1996) is a Finnish-American luger, holding citizenship from both nations but competing athletically for Finland. His father Sami Jeskanen moved from Lahti, Finland to the United States, where he currently teaches Canadian Studies at the State University of New York Plattsbur... |
Q19930848 Oceanobacillus is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped and motile bacteria genus from the family of Bacillaceae with a peritrichous flagella. |
Q2334343 A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on 20 October 1948; all 40 aboard died. A subsequent inquiry found that the accident was likely caused by the crew's reliance on a combination of erroneous chart... |
Q656871 University of Khartoum (shortened to UofK) (Arabic: جامعة الخرطوم) is a multi-campus, co-educational, public university located in Khartoum. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independence. Since that d... |
Q2562250 The Legend of Dragoon is a role-playing video game developed by SCE Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999 in Japan, 2000 in North America, and 2001 in Europe. Set in the high fantasy land of Endiness, the game follows a group of warriors led by Dart Feld as they ... |
Q6564766 Shams Palace (Persian: کاخ شمس; Romanized as kakh-e Shams/ Kāx-e Šams, also known as Pearl Palace Persian: کاخ مروارید; kakh-e Morvarid/ Kāx-e Morvārid ) is a large estate designed by Taliesin Associated Architects on instructions from princess Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last S... |
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