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Q1941810 Cheliferoides is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Guatemala, Panama, and the United States: C. longimanus, C. planus, and C. segmentatus. |
Q553448 Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College. From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society. |
Q7772542 The Victoria Cross: For Valour is a 2003 BBC television historical documentary presented by Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson examines the history of the Victoria Cross, and follows the story of one of the 1,354 men who were awarded it - Major Robert Henry Cain. The main part of the programme was to describe how in Se... |
Q365001 Adolfo Barán Flis (born 22 November 1961 in Montevideo) is a former Uruguayan footballer. |
Q6356359 The following are the national records in athletics in Romania maintained by its national athletics federation: Federatia Romana de Atletism (FRA). |
Q5495958 Fredrick Leatherbarrow Molyneux (born 1873) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke. |
Q499967 The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey, as well as the planning and construction of new lines. TCDD was... |
Q4606334 2006 HKFC International Soccer Sevens, officially known as The 2006 HKFC Philips Lighting International Soccer Sevens due to sponsorship reason, is the 7th staging of this competition. It was held on 19–21 May 2006.Urawa Red Diamonds, beating Aston Villa by 1-0 in the final, was the Cup winner of the Main Tour... |
Q12713041 Asa Lansford Foster (August 19, 1798 – January 9, 1868) was a Pennsylvanian geologist, merchant, and coal mine owner. He was also a geologist, mining engineer, and publisher and was one of the pioneers of the anthracite industry. He was a native of Massachusetts but immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1818. Foster... |
Q22059157 The Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn located in LaPorte County on the southern edge of LaPorte, Indiana, is a multi-sided barn. Built in 1878 by Marion Ridgeway and called the Door Prairie Barn. The barn sits east of highway 35 surrounded by woods and cultivated fields. The nine-sided barn is south of a rectan... |
Q23409660 Leanne Trimboli (born (1975-11-10)10 November 1975) is an Australian former soccer goalkeeper who played three matches for the Australia women's national soccer team. She was a member of the Australian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but did not play. |
Q28858774 Eric Enge is a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, businessman, author, and public speaker. He is the founder of Stone Temple Consulting. |
Q764268 The Association of Polish Architects (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich, SARP) is a Polish professional architecture organisation. Since 1948 it has been a member of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). It also acts as a publishin... |
Q14934239 Metachroma pellucidum is a species of leaf beetle. It is mostly found in coastal states of the United States, ranging from Texas to Florida to New York, but is also found inland to Indiana. Its length is between 3.4 and 3.8 mm. |
Q1706292 The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago, Illinois, from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town red-light districts, got its name from its proximity to wharves in the city. The Levee district encompassed four blocks in Chicago's South Loop a... |
Q619072 Prenton Park is an association football stadium in Birkenhead, England. It is the home ground of Tranmere Rovers F.C., Liverpool F.C. Women and Liverpool F.C. Reserves. Owned by Tranmere Rovers F.C. who moved here in 1912. The ground has had several rebuilds, with the most recent occurring in 1995 in response ... |
Q14874634 James Chabot Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Formerly Athalmer Beach Provincial Park, it is located in Invermere at the northeast end of Windermere Lake in the Columbia Valley region of the East Kootenay. Windermere Lake Provincial Park is located at the lake's southwestern... |
Q7767717 "The Switch" is the 97th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 11th episode for the sixth season. It aired on January 5, 1995. This episode is particularly notable for revealing Kramer's first name. |
Q15946915 NNLS may refer toIn mathematics, the non-negative least squares optimization problemNew North London Synagogue, see Sternberg CentreNever Not Looking Sexy, a small Australian cover band. |
Q7221713 Walter Edgar Hergesheimer (January 8, 1927 – September 27, 2014) was a Canadian ice hockey forward.Hergesheimer started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. He would also play with the Chicago Black Hawks. His career lasted from 1952 to 1959. His older brother was Phil Hergesheimer (... |
Q17479687 The Crosby by-election, 1981 was a by-election held in England on 26 November 1981 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Crosby on Merseyside. It followed the death of Crosby's MP Sir Graham Page, of the Conservative Party. |
Q8023051 Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, (known as Wilson Elser), is a law firm with over 800 attorneys in 37 offices throughout the United States and one in London. |
Q16244599 Booth and the Bad Angel is a studio album by Booth and the Bad Angel, a collaborative project between Angelo Badalamenti and Tim Booth. It was released in 1996. It peaked at number 35 on the UK Albums Chart. |
Q14956796 Trichur Heart Hospital is a 500-bed speciality hospital situated in Thrissur, Kerala, India. The hospital is equipped with most modern cardiac catheterisation lab ensuring detailed study of chambers, valves, coronary arteries, and blood flow details. The hospital specializes in neurology, general medicine, ge... |
Q56818471 Kim Dong-woo (born February 5, 1988) is a South Korean football player who plays for FC Seoul. |
Q492357 My Husband Got a Family (Korean: 넝쿨째 굴러온 당신; RR: Neongkuljjae Gulleoon Danshin; lit. You Who Rolled in Unexpectedly, also known as Unexpected You) is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Kim Nam-joo, Yoo Jun-sang, and Youn Yuh-jung. It aired on KBS2 from February 25 to September 9, 2012 on Saturdays a... |
Q5225865 Darvishan (Persian: درويشان, also Romanized as Darvīshān; also known as Imām-i-Darvīshān) is a village in Khenejin Rural District, in the Central District of Komijan County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 384, in 96 families. |
Q13421967 Ivo Baldasar (born 5 August 1958) is a Croatian politician and former Mayor of Split. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) until he was thrown out of the party in 2016. After that, he joined forces with the Milan Bandić 365 party. In 2017, he formed his own party called The Split Party. |
Q16223785 Aleksei Viktorovich Matsyura (Russian: Алексей Викторович Мацюра; born 14 July 1985) is a Russian football player. |
Q19668745 Benjamin David Penny (born 27 October 1959) is an Australian academic specialising in religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China. He is a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia.His area of speciality is Falun Gong as well as the interpretation of Chinese religions by ... |
Q22285606 Paraivongius rufipes is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, observed by Weise in 1883. |
Q10812340 Salt River Township is an inactive township in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.Salt River Township was established in 1845, taking its name from the North Fork Salt River. |
Q2373087 The Rosiers-Joseph Migneret Garden is a green space located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. |
Q5748116 Jon Fält (born 28 August 1979 in Gävle, Sweden) is a Swedish drummer in modern jazz. |
Q1059740 A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged (not to be confused with geographic north and geographic south). The Earth's field has alternated between periods of normal polarity, in which the predominant direction ... |
Q1235720 The Republic of Lucca was a historic state of Italy, which lasted from 1160 to 1805 on the central Italian peninsula. |
Q7150100 Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School (commonly Paul D. Schreiber High School or Schreiber High School) is a four-year public high school located in Port Washington, New York at 101 Campus Drive, in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. The school was originally constructed in 1953 and is n... |
Q7083336 The Old-Age Pensions Act 1908 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in 1908. The Act is often regarded as one of the foundations of modern social welfare in the United Kingdom and forms part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal Government of 1906–1914. Individuals over the age of ... |
Q4784725 The Arbitration Rock was set in 1769 as the boundary marker between the two Long Island townships of Newtown and Bushwick. Since Newtown was in Queens County and Bushwick in Kings County, this rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle also served to mark the dividing line between these two colonial New York countie... |
Q1070700 Kamenec pod Vtáčnikom (Hungarian: Kemenec) is a village and municipality in Prievidza District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. It includes the former separate villages Horny Kamenec and Dolny Kamenec. |
Q2699664 Dendropsophus rossalleni is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Bolivia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes. |
Q7895388 The University of Fairfax is an institution of higher education headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. It offers online cybersecurity graduate degrees (Master of Science, Doctor of Science, and Doctor of Information Assurance), as well as graduate certificates in Information Systems. The entire program is provide... |
Q166532 Christian Pander (born 28 August 1983 in Münster) is a German footballer who plays as a left back. He is currently a free agent, having most recently served Hannover 96 of the Bundesliga. He is known for his powerful left-foot free-kicks and willingness to burst up the left wing. |
Q7364763 Ronald Eugene Cranford (1941 – May 31, 2006) was a neurologist and expert on comas and unconsciousness. He is best known for his work with families on public cases involving persons in a persistent vegetative state. He and three other doctors were responsible for introducing the "do not resuscitate" order. H... |
Q5421249 An explanation of benefits (commonly referred to as an EOB form) is a statement sent by a health insurance company to covered individuals explaining what medical treatments and/or services were paid for on their behalf.The EOB is commonly attached to a check or statement of electronic payment.An EOB typically ... |
Q5224503 Darreh Qir (Persian: دره قير, also Romanized as Darreh Qīr) is a village in Howmeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Ramhormoz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 163, in 32 families. |
Q3011438 Sainte-Marie-Geest is a village situated in the province of Walloon Brabant in the Walloon Region of Belgium. |
Q18164283 The Wassenaar was a Dutch 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic, and the Royal Navy.The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse. The ship was commissioned in 1781.In 1783/1784, the Wassenaar sailed to Batavia under Captain Ge... |
Q19661438 James H. Collins (born c. 1922) is a Canadian former curler. He played as second on the 1954 Brier-winning Team Alberta, skipped by Matt Baldwin. |
Q22058459 Grangeburg, also known as Granger or Grangerburg, is an unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States. Grangeburg is located along Alabama State Route 53, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) east-southeast of Cottonwood. |
Q20860076 The Ceremonial hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society does not serve its original purpose – the last service to the deceased members of the Prague Jewish Community – anymore. It is used as an exhibition space administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. The building is an excellent example of Romanesque Rev... |
Q28332495 The Oyster Bay Rear Range Lighthouse is located on the coast of Dar es salaam, Tanzania in Oyster Bay. The lighthouse works in conjunction with the Oyster Bay Range Front Lighthouse to warn ships away from the cliffs at the Msasani peninsula.The tower is a red square stone tower with one red white strip on th... |
Q9282783 Gustav Adolf Procházka (11 March 1872, Kosmonosy, Mladá Boleslav District, Czechoslovakia – 9 February 1942, Prague) was the second patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became a reformist oriented clergyman, and later co-founder with Karel Farský of the Czechoslo... |
Q2849077 Andy Byatt is an English wildlife documentary film producer for the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) in Bristol. His expertise is in the creation of underwater wildlife films. He co-directed Deep Blue, a natural history feature film about the oceans narrated by Michael Gambon. This film was largely put together ... |
Q5467918 Ford Rowan was a television reporter for NBC News and panelist on Meet the Press during the 1970s and early 1980s. During his tenure with the network, he covered mostly military and security-related issues. Rowan also served as an adjunct professor at the Washington bureau of the Medill School of Journalism at... |
Q4659043 "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century,... |
Q6782025 María Jesús Rosa Durán (born November 11, 1979 in Madrid) also known as Chus Rosa, is a field hockey goalkeeper from Spain, who represented her native country in two Summer Olympic Games (2004 in Athens, Greece and 2008 in Beijing, China). Rosa grew up and developed her skills in Colegio Valdeluz, a strong qua... |
Q218680 Graziano Pellè (Italian pronunciation: [ɡratˈtsjaːno pelˈlɛ]; born 15 July 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chinese club Shandong Luneng and the Italy national team.Pellè began his career at local Serie A club Lecce, and was loaned to three lower-division sides before movin... |
Q2886434 The Machu Picchu Scientific Base is a Peruvian polar scientific research facility in Antarctica, established to conduct Antarctic research on geology, climatology and biology. More specifically, its purpose is to study the continent's geological past, potential sea resources, wind strengths, air pollution, and... |
Q2749932 Trichoderma reesei is a mesophilic and filamentous fungus. It is an anamorph of the fungus Hypocrea jecorina.T. reesei can secrete large amounts of cellulolytic enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases). Microbial cellulases have industrial application in the conversion of cellulose, a major component of plant b... |
Q1078748 Porúbka is a village and municipality in the Sobrance District in the Košice Region of east Slovakia. |
Q2620174 List of champions of the 1884 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open). The tournament was held from 26 August to 27 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. It was the 4th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. |
Q990784 Brother Phelps was an American country music duo formed by brothers Ricky Lee (guitar, vocals) and Doug Phelps (bass guitar, vocals). Prior to the duo's formation in 1992, both brothers were members of The Kentucky Headhunters, a Southern rock-influenced country rock band. In 1993, Brother Phelps charted with i... |
Q1859841 Palenque is a city and municipality located in the north of the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The city was named almost 200 years before the famous nearby Mayan ruins were discovered in the 18th century. The area has a significant indigenous population, mostly of the Ch'ol people, a Mayan descendant. The city is t... |
Q7190631 Pichet In-bang (Thai พิเชษฐ์ อินทร์บาง) is a Thai retired footballer who plays as a Forward and Attacking Midfielder. Previously he played in the Thai League 1 for several clubs. |
Q7614335 Steve Winn (born 16 November 1977) is a Welsh rugby union player. A centre, he has represented Wales A and currently plays his club rugby for the Cornish Pirates having joined from the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons where he made 29 appearances.Winn previously played for Bridgend RFC, Swansea RFC an... |
Q4716353 Alessandro Gambadori (born January 3, 1981) is an Italian professional football player currently playing for Ghivizzano Borgo a Mozzano.He played 2 games in the Serie A in the 2004/05 season for A.S. Livorno Calcio. |
Q5898364 The Hooper Crags (78°25′S 162°43′E) are a rocky spur 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, lying at the south side of Foster Glacier in the Royal Society Range of Antarctica. The feature was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1963 for Lieutenant Benjamin F. Hooper, a helicopter pilot with U.S. Navy ... |
Q7508814 Sidi Redouane is a small town and rural commune in Ouezzane Province of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 20,782 people living in 4116 households. |
Q5091799 Cheragh Chin (Persian: چراغ چين, also Romanized as Cherāgh Chīn) is a village in Jolgeh Rural District Rural District, Shahrabad District, Bardaskan County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38, in 8 families. |
Q16198564 The Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 (S. 954), also commonly referred to as "the farm bill," is one of two United States "farm bills" that were introduced in the 113th United States Congress. The Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 is the bill that was introduced into the United Stat... |
Q17004394 The Department of State Operations and Embassy Security Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2014 (H.R. 2848) is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The bill would authorize $17,573,992,000 to be appropriated to improve the security of U... |
Q17038992 "Stop Your Sobbing" is a song written by Ray Davies for the Kinks' debut album, Kinks. It was later covered by the Pretenders as their first single. |
Q5593327 Graham Virgo is a legal academic and barrister who is currently serving as the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of English Private Law and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a leading academic in the law of restitution.Alongside his academ... |
Q733004 In graph theory, the Kneser graph KGn,k is the graph whose vertices correspond to the k-element subsets of a set of n elements, and where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the two corresponding sets are disjoint. Kneser graphs are named after Martin Kneser, who first investigated them in 1955. |
Q1103521 The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society movement campaigning against the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions. Cluster munitions are a type of explosive weapon widely stockpiled by more than 80 states. They are documented to have caused significant civil... |
Q1972394 Navua District is located within Serua Province in the Central Division of Fiji. During colonial times it was a sugar growing area, but the closure of the sugar mill in Navua in 1923 led to a decline in economic activity in the district. The construction of a resort at Pacific Harbour in the 1970s and an influ... |
Q1396746 Farish Carter Tate (November 20, 1856 – February 7, 1922) was a Georgia state legislator, U.S. Representative and lawyer.Tate was born in Jasper, Georgia, in 1856. He attended North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega. He studied law, gained admittance to the state bar in 1880 and became a practicing att... |
Q3595408 Myristica dactyloides is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Some sources have it as a synonym of Myristica malabarica. |
Q904106 Hokusei Gakuen University (北星学園大学, Hokusei Gakuen daigaku) is a four-year private university in Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The university is run by Hokusei Gakuen School System, whose education philosophy is based on Christianity.Its name Hokusei (北星) means "north (北)" and "star (星)." It is derived... |
Q801837 The Amberg–Lauterhofen railway, also known in the local dialect as the Lauterhöfer Bockl or Lauterhof Goat, was a 28 kilometre long branch line in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany and primarily linked Amberg with two communities which at that time came under the district council of Neumarkt. The line wa... |
Q5221402 Aganope is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. This genus may be synonymous with Ostryocarpus. |
Q199911 Pembroke Athleta Football Club are a Maltese football club from the town of Pembroke, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League.Originally they were founded in 1962 but they were in an amateur level. They competed in the Maltese Third Division in 1994 for the first time.Pembroke Athleta reached the P... |
Q4903548 Bicentenary Medal may either refer to:Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean SocietyBicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts |
Q4773361 The Anthony Road (Route B28) is a major B Route in Western Tasmania, running from the Murchison Highway (A10) at Tullah to the Zeehan Highway (A10) north of Queenstown.It is with the Lyell Highway the only two roads that run within or cross the West Coast Range.The name is derived from the Anthony River which ... |
Q5582705 "Good Little Girls" is the debut song recorded by American country music duo Blue County. It was released in September 2003 as the first single from their debut album Blue County. The song was written by Troy Seals and Brett Jones. |
Q6282393 J. Joseph Curran (June 28, 1922 – January 28, 2012) was an American college basketball coach. He coached at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York from 1953 to 1959.Curran served in the United States Navy during World War II, then attended Canisius, Cornell and Pennsylvania State University after the war - pla... |
Q6745729 "Mamma Knows Best" is a song by British singer-songwriter Jessie J, from her debut studio album Who You Are. It was written and produced by Jessie J (credited Jessica Cornish) and Ashton Thomas, and peaked at number 59 on UK Singles Chart. |
Q6452709 Kyung-ok, also spelled Kyong-ok, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for ... |
Q16796582 Mating pattern may refer to:Checkmate pattern, a game-winning arrangement of chess piecesMating system, sexual reproductive behavior within a group of organisms |
Q13858114 Anania inclusalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Honduras and Colombia. |
Q20814752 Sri Rama Pattabhishekam (English: Coronation of Lord Rama) is a 1978 Telugu mythological film, produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao under Ramakrishna Cine Studios banner. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao, Jamuna, Sangeeta in the lead roles and music was composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao. |
Q3821911 Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. |
Q68165 Kloten is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glatttal). |
Q5108784 Christ Church Cathedral, located today at 2919 St. Charles Avenue, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, was the first non-Roman Catholic church founded in the entire Louisiana Purchase territory. It was founded in 1803 as Christ's Church by the Protestant inhabitants of New Orleans, and is today th... |
Q1167583 The Estádio Cidade de Barcelos is a multi-use stadium in Barcelos, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the home of Primeira Liga side Gil Vicente.The stadium is able to hold 12,504 people and was built in 2004. It opened on 30 May 2004. The inaugural game saw Gil Vicente lose 2-1... |
Q5375398 The Enchanted Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui is a botanical garden located in Kula, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The 8 acres (3.2 ha) garden is in the mountains, at 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level. The gardens contain over 2000 species of subtropical and tropical plants from around the world. The collection... |
Q987384 Aydie is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. |
Q8038263 The Wright State Raiders men's basketball is the men's college basketball team that represents Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio. The school's team currently competes in the Horizon League at the NCAA Division I level. The Raiders won their only national championship in 1983 as an NCAA Division II scho... |
Q4650200 News Breakfast is an Australian news breakfast television program. It is broadcast on ABC and ABC News channel from 6:00 am to 9:00 am AEST/AEDT on weekdays and is hosted by Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland. The program is also streamed live on the ABC's website and the Australia Network throughout the Asia... |
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