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Q685752 Lathyrus sphaericus is a species of wild pea known by the common names grass pea and round-seeded vetchling. It is native to Eurasia and much of Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species. It can grow in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. This is an annual herb producing a slender stem and bearing leaves each made up of two long, narrow, grasslike leaflets up to 6 centimeters long and a coiling, climbing tendril. The inflorescence is made up of one pea flower on a stalk one or two centimeters long ending a in a bristle. The flower is roughly a centimeter long and deep orange-red or dull red in color. The fruit is a hairless legume pod marked with longitudinal stripes.
Q7356627 Roderick Island is an island in the North Coast region of British Columbia. To its west is Finlayson Channel, to its northeast Pooley Island, and to its south the Mathieson Channel and Susan Island. James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's lieutenants during his 1791-95 expedition, first charted its north and west coasts in 1793. It was named by Captain Daniel Pender after Roderick Finlayson.
Q16985126 The 2013 Subway Fresh Fit 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on March 3, 2013, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 316 laps on the 1-mile (1.6 km) asphalt tri-oval, it was the second race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing won the race, his first win in 70 races. Jimmie Johnson finished second while Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five.
Q16172531 Han Seung-oh (Korean: 한승오; Hanja: 韓昇旿; born 1978) was a South Korean human rights activist and civil activist. He was one of founding members of Man of Korea (남성연대) also 2nd leader of Man of Korea, July 29, 2013 until August 14.Han was born in Seoul. In 2008 he was a founding member of Man of Korea, also May 1, 2012, he was appointed to one Leader of General Affairs Team for Sung Jae-gi. On July 8 and July 22 he was Participation of Visit protest for Jecheon Women's Library with Sung Jae-gi. 8 month later, he was appointed to Secretary General of Man of Korea.In July 25, 2013, he was nominated as successor to Sung Jae-gi, before his death. in July 26, 2013 Han was one of visitors Sung Jae-gi's suicide, but he was did not discourage. after four days, Seoul city police investigated, with an innocent disposition.From July 26 to August 14, Han was Sung Jae-gi's funeral and case settled. but this did not rectify infighting so there was demand resignation from some member of Man of Korea. On August 21 2013, he resigned.
Q27064364 National Highway 35 (NH 35) is a National Highway in India. This highway runs entirely in the state Uttar Pradesh.
Q11486420 Aika Hirota (廣田 あいか, Hirota Aika, born 31 January 1999) is a Japanese idol singer and former member of the girl idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku.
Q20065172 The Maule M-1 was a 1930s American single-seat monoplane designed an built by Belford Maule, the first in a series of aircraft designed by Maule.
Q13397044 Lethata fernandezyepezi is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Venezuela.The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are yellow shaded with brown, the costal edge deep ochreous underlined with reddish brown. The dorsum is reddish brown with a reddish-brown area extending from the anal angle to the basal third. There is a fuscous spot in the fold at the basal third and an indistinct spot at the end of the cell, consisting of an irregular ring of reddish-brown scales enclosing a white spot. There is also an outwardly curving transverse line of reddish-brown spots from the costa to the dorsum. The hindwings are grey in the anal area and yellow at the apex.
Q5953467 Dong Zuobin or Tung Tso-pin (1895–1963) was a Chinese archaeologist. He was a leading authority on the oracle bone and turtle shell inscriptions of the Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC). In 1928, Dong supervised the first archaeological dig of Anyang, the Shang capital. Dong was a professor at National Taiwan University and director of the institute of philology and history at Academia Sinica from 1950 to 1954. Dong's construction of a Shang chronology was his most important research achievement.
Q2474318 Brachypelma fossorium is a species of spider in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas), native to Costa Rica.
Q590080 Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), which are the country's first-level administrative division. Each region is headed by an intendant (intendente), appointed by the President of Chile, and a directly-elected regional board (consejo regional).The regions are divided into provinces (the second-level administrative division), each headed by a governor (gobernador) appointed by the President. There are 56 provinces in total. Provinces are divided into communes (the third and lowest level administrative division), which are governed by municipal councils.
Q872948 To Tell the Truth is an American television panel game show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants (the "team of challengers", each an individual or pair) and must identify which is the "central character" whose unusual occupation or experience has been read out by the show's moderator/host. When the panelists question the contestants, the two "impostors" may lie whereas the "central character" must tell the truth. The setup adds the "impostor" element to the format of What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret.The show was created by Bob Stewart and originally produced by Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions. It aired, on networks and in syndication, continuously from 1956 to 1978 and intermittently since then, reaching a total of 28 seasons in 2018.
Q173248 Eric Sidney Watkins (6 September 1928 – 12 September 2012), commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon.Born in Liverpool, Watkins enrolled at the University of Liverpool where he graduated in 1952 later serving four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before specialising in neurosurgery in Oxford and later London. Watkins also acted as a race track doctor at weekends which he continued at Watkins Glen International when he was appointed a Professor of Neurosurgery at Syracuse University.At a meeting with Brabham team boss Bernie Ecclestone, he was offered the role as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash, a role which Watkins performed for twenty-six years. He helped to save the lives of many drivers including Gerhard Berger, Martin Donnelly, Érik Comas, Rubens Barrichello, Karl Wendlinger and Mika Häkkinen. Watkins was also known for his friendship with driver Ayrton Senna.Watkins was married, with four sons and two daughters. He died on 12 September 2012 of a heart attack.
Q2991265 Polymicrogyria (PMG) is a condition that affects the development of the human brain by multiple small gyri (microgyri) creating excessive folding of the brain leading to an abnormally thick cortex. This abnormality can affect either one region of the brain or multiple regions.The time of onset has yet to be identified; however, it has been found to occur before birth in either the earlier or later stages of brain development. Early stages include impaired proliferation and migration of neuroblasts, while later stages show disordered post-migration development.The symptoms experienced differ depending on what part of the brain is affected. There is no specific treatment to get rid of this condition, but there are medications that can control the symptoms such as seizures, delayed development or weakened muscles as some of the noted effects.
Q536733 The 1975 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 23 June until Saturday 5 July 1975. It was the 89th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1975. Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King won the singles titles.
Q806304 Bandhani (Hindi: बांधानी) is a type of tie-dye textile decorated by plucking the cloth with the fingernails into many tiny bindings that form a figurative design. The term bandhani is derived from the Sanskrit verbal root bandh ("to bind, to tie"). Today, most Bandhini making centers are situated in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh, Punjab region and in Tamil Nadu where it is known as Sungudi.Earliest evidence of Bandhani dates back to Indus Valley Civilization where dyeing was done as early as 4000 B.C. The earliest example of the most pervasive type of Bandhani dots can be seen in the 6th century paintings depicting the life of Buddha found on the wall of Cave 1 at Ajanta. Bandhani is also known as Bandhej Saree, Bandhni, Piliya, and Chungidi in Tamil and regional dialects. Other tying techniques include Mothra, Ekdali and Shikari depending on the manner in which the cloth is tied. The final products are known with various names including Khombi, Ghar Chola, Patori and Chandrokhani
Q2689275 Eric Bruskotter (born March 22, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Cleveland Indians rookie Catcher Rube Baker in Major League II and Major League: Back to the Minors as well as his role as Private Scott Baker in the TV series Tour Of Duty. Bruskotter has an identical twin brother named Karl.
Q7745619 The Last Chancers was originally a one-off television sitcom, screened under the Comedy Lab banner at 11:40pm on Thursday 21 November 2002. This show was later developed into a five-part series which was broadcast on E4 in December 2002. Currently the Channel 4 website has one series consisting of eight episodes listed.
Q11301528 Ninja Kid, known in Japan as GeGeGe no Kitaro - Yōkai Daimakyō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 妖怪大魔境, GeGeGe no Kitaro: The Evil Yōkai Mirror), is an NES game developed by TOSE and published by Bandai. The Japanese version was based on the manga series GeGeGe no Kitaro, but the game was changed to the generic "Ninja Kid" and all reference to Kitaro were removed for the American version.This game was followed by a sequel titled Gegege no Kitarou 2: Youkai Gundan no Chousen, which was released the following year only in Japan also by Bandai; however, that title was a role-playing video game and its plot is unrelated to the original. It was the eighth best selling Famicom game of 1986, selling 1,250,000 copies.
Q4931839 Bob Biver (born February 17, 1985) is a Luxembourg alpine skier.Bob first skied at the age of 3 and joined the Luxembourg national ski team at the age of 10 years. In 2007, he won the slalom on the national championships in Adelboden, and participated at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre in slalom and giant slalom.
Q700434 Oberlichtenau is a village and a former municipality in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the town Pulsnitz.
Q3134051 Herman Chin Loy (Trelawny, 11 July 1948) is a Jamaican record producer, best known for his productions from the late 1960s and early 1970s of artists such as Augustus Pablo, Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis and Bruce Ruffin, and for the Aquarius and Scorpio labels that he ran. He is a Chinese Jamaican.
Q3058755 Essipit (known as Les Escoumins until 1996) is an Innu Indian reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region. It belongs to the Innue Essipit First Nation.The reserve is named after the historical name of the Escoumins River, that around 1664, was known as Esseigiou. Charles Arnaud, who spent many years of his life among the Montagnais stated that the river was also called Etshipi, meaning "river of shells".
Q4557659 The 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army, moving away from single-battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments. They were the only Indian Infantry regiment to remain intact without being amalgamated. They were renumbered 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles with three active battalions and the 4th battalion becoming the 10th training battalion. After the partition of India in 1947, it was allocated to the new Indian Army and renamed The Garhwal Rifles.
Q2837164 Juan Correa (1646–1716) was a Mexican painter. His years of greatest activity were from 1671 to 1716. He painted many religious-themed, Baroque paintings for cathedrals in Mexico. Correa was José de Ibarra's teacher. Correa, along with contemporaries Miguel Cabrera and Cristóbal de Villalpando are important examples of 17th century Mexican Baroque painting.
Q4898611 The Sopwith Long Range Tractor Triplane (L.R.T.Tr) was a prototype British long-range three seat triplane escort fighter of the First World War. Of unusual layout, with a small gunner's nacelle mounted on the upper wing to give an all-round field of fire. Only a single example was built, other, smaller, fighters proving more practicable.
Q392715 Agustín Alejandro Mazzilli (born 20 June 1989) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Dutch club Pinoké and the Argentine national team.He was part of Argentina's gold medal winning team at the 2016 Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament. Agustín has won the bronze medal at the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup and two gold medals at the Pan American Games.
Q15482056 Crassula cotyledonis is a succulent plant endemic to the arid Namaqualand and Karoo regions of South Africa.
Q2397349 A Thousand Billion Dollars (French: Mille milliards de dollars) is a 1982 French thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Patrick Dewaere. It tells the story of a young French journalist who discovers how an American company is using assassinations and other criminal methods to take over French industries.The film was released in France on 10 February 1982. It recorded 1,190,673 admissions in its domestic market.
Q10623669 Perenniporia meridionalis is a poroid crust fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It was described as a new species by Cony Decock and Joost Stalpers in 2006. The holotype specimen was collected in the Province of Nuoro in Italy, where it was found growing on dead wood of Quercus ilex. Distinguishing characteristics of this fungus include its relatively large pores (typically numbering 3 or 4 per millimetre), the hyaline vegetative hyphae that are yellowish to slightly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent, and large spores measuring 6.0–7.7 by 4.5–6.2 µm. P. meridionalis occurs in central and southern Europe, where it is found in warmer forested areas, usually on dead oak wood. It has also been reported to occur in North America.
Q66048 Deutsche Bank AG (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏ̯t͡ʃə ˈbaŋk aːˈgeː] (listen)) is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.The bank is operational in 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas and Asia. As of April 2018, Deutsche Bank is the 15th largest bank in the world by total assets. As the largest German banking institution in the world, it is a component of the DAX stock market index.The company is a universal bank resting on three pillars – the Private & Commercial Bank, the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) and Asset Management (DWS). Its investment banking operations often command substantial deal flow and maintain different "sell side" and "buy side" departments.
Q926912 Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Darryl Philbin on The Office (2005–2013) and Doug Judy (the "Pontiac Bandit") on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films, including Pineapple Express (2008), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), This Is the End (2013), and Sausage Party (2016).
Q2462064 The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Miniseries or Television Movie.
Q2619838 AOL Active Virus Shield (commonly referred to as AVS) was a free antivirus utility made available by AOL. Its engine was based on the one used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The program is no longer available.
Q8059183 Youth Communication is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth media organization based in New York City that promotes youth literacy and civic engagement through youth-led media. The organization was founded in 1980 by youth rights pioneer Keith Hefner, who won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work with Youth Communication in 1989.
Q3437252 Ferdinand Lindley Augustus Buchanan (8 March 1888 – 14 April 1967) was a South African sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the silver medal with the South African team in the team 600 metre military rifle, prone competition.He also participated in the following events:Team 300 and 600 metre military rifle, prone - fifth placeTeam 300 metre military rifle, standing - ninth place
Q16256470 Nobody Knows is a 1970 South Korean drama film directed by Jang Il-ho.
Q5118108 Churchbridge No. 211, Saskatchewan, is a rural municipality of 679 rural residents (2006 census) in the east centralpart of Saskatchewan, Canada. The RM was incorporated January 1, 1913. Other localities in the area include MacNutt, Beresina, Langenburg and Churchbridge.A rural municipality is an administrative district consisting of an elected reeve, councilors, administrator who provide essential services within their area.
Q781713 Goszczyno [ɡɔʂˈt͡ʂɨnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Staroźreby, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
Q27639554 Deletionism and inclusionism are opposing philosophies that largely developed within the community of editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The terms reflect differing opinions on the appropriate scope of the encyclopedia and corresponding tendencies either to delete or to include a given encyclopedia article. Inclusionism and deletionism represent the poles of a spectrum of views, with adherents tending toward either a more relaxed or a more restrictive understanding of Wikipedia's concept of notability. Many users do not identify strongly with either position."Deletionists" are proponents of selective coverage and removal of articles seen as unnecessary or highly substandard. Deletionist viewpoints are commonly motivated by a desire that Wikipedia be focused on and cover significant topics – along with the desire to place a firm cap upon proliferation of promotional use (seen as abuse of the website), trivia, and articles which are, in their opinion, of no general interest, lack suitable source material for high-quality coverage, or are too short or otherwise unacceptably poor in quality."Inclusionists" are proponents of broad retention, including retention of "harmless" articles and articles otherwise deemed substandard to allow for future improvement. Inclusionist viewpoints are commonly motivated by a desire to keep Wikipedia broad in coverage with a much lower entry barrier for topics covered – along with the belief that it is impossible to tell what knowledge might be "useful" or productive, that content often starts poor and is improved if time is allowed, that there is effectively no incremental cost of coverage, that arbitrary lines in the sand are unhelpful and may prove divisive, and that goodwill requires avoiding arbitrary deletion of others' work. Some extend this to include allowing a wider range of sources such as notable blogs and other websites.To the extent that an official stance existed as of 2010, it was that "There is no practical limit to the number of topics it can cover" but "there is an important distinction between what can be done, and what should be done", the latter being the subject of the policy "What Wikipedia is not". The policy concludes "Consequently, this policy is not a free pass for inclusion".
Q4723546 Alfred Tylor (26 January 1824 – 31 December 1884) was an English geologist.
Q6346167 Kfar Dunin (كفردونين) is a village in Lebanon, 102 km from the capital Beirut and 580 m from sea coast remote. Adjacent villages: Deir Kifa, Alkaline, Khirbat Silm, Der Ntar. It is considered first of villages in Bent Jbeil district of Nabatieh Governorate. Its population is 6000 people.
Q6440764 Kseniya Nikandrova (born 1987) is a Kazakhstani handball player. She was born in Kyzylorda. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where the Kazakhstani team placed 10th.
Q11195159 Unai Iparragirre Azpiazu (born 25 July 1988) is a Basque professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Azpeitia, Basque Country, and turned professional with Euskadi Fundazioa in 2013. In addition, he currently practices track cycling.
Q16971277 Bill Pearson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s. A Queensland interstate representative centre, he played club football in Ipswich, Brisbane and Bundaberg, usually at five-eighth.In 1955 Pearson started playing for the Ipswich Rugby League's West End club. In 1957 he became a regular centre for the Queensland rugby league team's annual matches against New South Wales.Pearson moved to Brisbane, playing with the Northern Suburbs club. He played for the Maroons against Great Britain in 1958. Pearson also played for Brisbane in the Bulimba Cup. In the 1961 Brisbane Rugby League Premiership's grand final Pearson captained Norths at five-eighth and was instrumental in his team's victory over Fortitude Valley.In 1964 Pearson moved to Bundaberg where he started playing for the Brothers club in the forwards and became captain coach. In 1965 Brothers reached the grand final in which Pearson was sent off, his team losing to Wanderers. However, in the grand final the following year Brothers defeated Natives. In 1966 he also captained Wide Bay's state championship winning team. In 1967 the Pearson-led Brothers side won the premiership again. That year he also represented Bundaberg against the Australian national team.
Q16237214 Barefoot Waltz (裸足でワルツを, Hadashi de Waltz o), is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Romuko Miike. The manga was serialized in Houbunsha's manga magazine, Hana Oto. The individual chapters were collected into a one-shot, which was published by Hobunsha on July 29, 2006. It was licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing under its Juné imprint, which released the manga on October 7, 2008.
Q16404193 Viktor Karlovich Shmidt (Russian: Ви́ктор Ка́рлович Шми́дт, Russian pronunciation: [ˈvʲiktər ˈkarləvʲɪtɕ ˈʂmit]) was a Russian zoologist, leading Russian specialist in microscopic anatomy and embryology, professor, the Head of Perm University, the Head of Perm National Research Biology Institute at Perm State University.
Q18910237 David Hilton Wheeler (November 18, 1829 – June 18, 1902) was a 19th-century American academic, newspaperman and college president, and also served as the US ambassador to Italy under the Lincoln administration. Active in politics, he was a fierce advocate of public education, which was then a core part of the Republican party platform. In the 1850s, he taught at Cornell College in Iowa and Shimer College in Illinois. He later taught at Northwestern University, where he served as interim president from 1868 to 1869. He subsequently became president of Allegheny College, serving from 1883 to 1888 and again from 1890 to 1893. In addition to his educational and political work, he was known for his writings on Italian history, including Brigandage in South Italy .
Q20643680 PSR J2032 + 4127 , sometimes abbreviated as J2032 , is a pulsar . It is accompanied by a massive Be star named MT91 213 (also 2MASS J20321312 + 4127243 ). The system is located in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of about 1.4 kpc (~ 4570 al ) from the Sun 6 . The system is part of the Cygnus OB 2 association .It is expected that the coming together of the two stars in early 2018 will generate high-energy phenomena.
Q37122489 Manana Matiashvili (IPA: [mɑnɑnɑ mɑtʰiɑʃvili]; Georgian: მანანა მათიაშვილი; born 30 November 1978) is a Georgian poet, translator, journalist, PhD in Philology.
Q799808 Bafoussam is the capital and largest city of the West Region of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains. It is the 3rd most important (financially) city in Cameroon, after Yaounde and Douala. The communauté urbaine (Urban Community) of Bafoussam, is a decentralized territorial collectivity. Originally called Urban Commune of Bafoussam, the communauté urbaine (Urban Community) of Bafoussam, was born after the Presidential Decree N ° 2008/022 of January 17, 2008 and composed of three communes, namely: the Commune of Bafoussam I (Bafoussam proper), the Commune of Bafoussam II (Baleng) and the Commune of Bafoussam III (Bamougoum).The city had an urban population of 347,517 inhabitants (at the 2008 Census). Bafoussam is the West Region centre of trade, and people are farming coffee, Potatoes, maize and beans. The city has also a coffee processing facility and brewery. It is the main city of the Bamiléké people and is home to the Bafoussam chief's palace. Bafoussam is a group composed of 07 villages (Bamendzi, Banengo, Ndiangdam, Ndiangsouoh, Ndiangbou, Toukouop, Ngoueng, and Banengo city B) with 46 districts or sub-villages.The main neighborhoods of the city are Banengo, Djeleng, Famla (also called Akwa), Kamkop, Quartier Eveché, Quartier Haussa and Tamdja.Bafoussam has two main markets (Marché A and Marché B), several internet cafés, restaurants and supermarkets, and a movie theater. Most of Bafoussam nightlife centers on the area called Akwa (so-named in honor of the neighborhood in Douala). Akwa features several bars, stores, and a live music venue, along with customary vendors of Soya (barbecue beef meat brochettes), Poisson braisé (barbecue fish) and other foods.This is the birthplace of the football player Geremi and his 17 brothers and sisters, as well as the birthplace of his cousin Pierre Webó.
Q468464 The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e. the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. If one bridge has a longer span than another it does not necessarily mean that the bridge is longer from shore to shore (or from abutment to abutment).Suspension bridges have the longest spans of any type of bridge. Cable-stayed bridges, the next longest design, are practical for spans up to just over 1 kilometre. Therefore, the 17 longest bridges on this list are all currently the 17 longest spans of all types of vehicular bridges (other than floating pontoon bridges).Since 1998 Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan holds the record with its span of 1,991 metres (6,532 ft). The Çanakkale 1915 Bridge of the Dardanelles, currently under construction in Turkey, is expected to surpass it with a span of 2,023 metres (6,637 ft).
Q1146865 Cyril Joseph Denneny (December 23, 1891 – September 10, 1970) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League and the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association. His brother Corbett Denneny also played in the NHL.
Q15906842 A filibuster or freebooter, in the context of foreign policy, is someone who engages in an (at least nominally) unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foment or support a revolution. The term is usually used to describe United States citizens who fomented insurrections in Latin America, particularly in the mid-19th century (Texas, California, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia). Filibuster expeditions have also occasionally been used as cover for government-approved deniable operations.Filibusters are irregular soldiers who normally act without official authority from their own government, and are generally motivated by financial gain, political ideology, or the thrill of adventure. The freewheeling actions of the filibusters of the 1850s led to the name being applied figuratively to the political act of filibustering in the United States Congress.Unlike a mercenary, a filibuster works for himself, whilst a mercenary leader works for others.
Q3802035 The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait. The company had relied on Government support in facilitating the ferry service, and this proved to be uncertain. The company opened its main line throughout in 1850. It relied on the co-operation of other railways to reach London and in 1859 it was absorbed by the London and North Western Railway.There were extensive mineral deposits at a number of locations south of the C&HR main line, and the C&HR and the LNWR encouraged the building of branch lines to serve them. Llandudno was an early centre of leisure and holiday travel, and in the last decades of the nineteenth century that traffic became increasingly important. In the twentieth cnetury the North Wales coast became a popular holiday destination, reached largely by rail travel.In 1970 the Britannia Tubular Bridge suffered a serious fire, and the line was closed at that point until 1972, when a new structure at the same site was brought into use.The container traffic at Holyhead has ceased, and passenger connections to the Irish ferries are much reduced, but the entire original main line is still in use for passenger traffic, together with the Llandudno branch and the Conwy Valley line to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Q6264865 John Woolley (28 February 1816 – 11 January 1866) was an academic and clergyman, the first principal of the University of Sydney, Australia.
Q7931543 Vince Marinello is a well-known former longtime sportscaster who was featured on WWL AM/FM radio and, previously, on WDSU television in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was most recently known as a leading media personality covering aspects of the recovery of the city from the devastation following Hurricane Katrina. Before his arrest for the murder of his third wife, he served as an in-house television host and analyst at the Fair Grounds Race Course from 1990-2005.He is currently serving a life sentence for his wife's murder.
Q6390391 Sir Kenneth George Luke (11 November 1896 – 13 June 1971) was a self-made millionaire manufacturer and a leading Australian rules football administrator in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was president of the VFL between 1956 and 1971 and president of the Carlton Football Club from 1938 to 1955.Luke was a member of the Carlton Football Club committee from 1935 to 1937 and Carlton President from 1938 to 1955. He also served as VFL Vice-President 1946 to 1955 and VFL President 1956 to 1971. Along with Eric McCutchan he played a major role in the purchase of land for Waverley Park in 1962 and the development of the stadium, and its main grandstand was named in his honour.Sir Kenneth was inducted to the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Q457925 Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name (1993) by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.
Q6254041 The John R. Waterman House is an historic house at 100 Old Homestead Road in Warwick, Rhode Island. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1800 by John R. Waterman, a prominent local farmer and politician. Waterman played a significant role in what became known as Dorr's Rebellion, an ultimately successful attempt to force liberalizing changes to the state constitution. The house is an excellent local example of Federal style, and is locally distinct for its use of paired interior chimneys instead of a large central one.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Q4684344 Adolph Gregory Schmitt,C.M.M. (20 April 1905 – 5 December 1976) was German Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Q6359522 Kampung Sitakong is a settlement in the Lawas division of Sarawak, Malaysia. It lies approximately 671.7 kilometres (417 mi) east-north-east of the state capital Kuching. Neighbouring settlements include:Kampung Lawas 0 kilometres (0.0 mi) northLawas 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) westKampung Surabaya 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) northeastKampung Gaya 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) southwestKampung Pangaleh 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) southeastKampung Melipat 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) northLong Tuma 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) southKampung Tagai Bangkor 7.6 kilometres (4.7 mi) northKampung Sulai 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) northwestPunang 9.3 kilometres (5.8 mi) northwest
Q13822349 Mecyclothorax lahainae is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Psydrinae. It was described by Britton in 1948.
Q16886480 Michael H. Weber (born January 13, 1978) is an American screenwriter and producer from Great Neck, New York. He and his writing partner Scott Neustadter have written the original screenplays for the films 500 Days of Summer (2009) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009). They also wrote the screenplays for The Spectacular Now (2013), based on the novel by Tim Tharp, The Fault in Our Stars (2014), based on the best-selling novel by John Green and Paper Towns (2015), based on another novel by Green.For writing The Disaster Artist (2017), the pair was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. They also created the sitcom Friends with Benefits, which lasted one season.
Q5791111 Lati (Persian: لتي‎, also Romanized as Latī and Laţī) is a village in Firuzjah Rural District, Bandpey-ye Sharqi District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q17285659 Tayler Wiles (born July 20, 1989) is an American racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Trek–Segafredo. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Wiles originally played soccer until she entered the University of Utah as a pre-medical student at the age of 18. She subsequently took up cycling with her then boyfriend during the sophomore year of her studies in 2008.
Q2954615 The 1997 European Karate Championships was held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain from 2-4 May 1997.
Q27947542 Ato Shemsedin Ahmed or Ato Shemsedin Ahmed Robleh also referred to as Hon. Shemsedin Ahmed (Somali: Ato Shemsediin Axmed Rooble, Arabic: اتو شمسدين أحمد روبلي‎ Amharic: አቶ አህመድ ),was a notable Somali Ethiopian politician.
Q28325123 Keith Baker (15 October 1956 – 2013) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Q43375662 John Shea (8 May 1913 – 7 February 1986) was an Australian cricketer. He played five first-class matches for Western Australia between 1936/37 and 1945/46.
Q81925 The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many years and wars, including the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II, and had many different titles throughout its 280 years of existence. In 1968 the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Fusilier Brigade–the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)–to form the current Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Q7895527 The University of Illinois Institute of Aviation was an aviation institute affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Founded in 1946, it was located at the university-owned Willard Airport in Savoy, Illinois, United States. The institute was the first school in the U.S. to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct all tests leading to the issuance of civilian pilot certificates. It had a long history of providing flight training, and was particularly well known for conducting research into aviation-related human factors. For training purposes, the institute maintained a fleet of 18 Piper Archers, 7 Piper Arrows, 3 twin-engine Piper Seminoles and two Cessna 152s.
Q4881267 The Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main (German: Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften). Founded in 1951 by the Max Planck Society, the institute is actively involved in maintaining the Beilstein database and the conversion of the contents of scientific libraries into electronic media.In 2005, the institute initiated the open access Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and in 2010 the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.
Q8024812 Windward School is an independent school in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It was founded by writer/teacher Shirley Windward in 1971. The school currently enrolls 540 students in grades 7 through 12.
Q409948 Nomifensine (Merital, Alival) is a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, i.e. a drug that increases the amount of synaptic norepinephrine and dopamine available to receptors by blocking the dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake transporters. This is a mechanism of action shared by some recreational drugs like cocaine and the medication tametraline (see DRI). Research showed that the (S)-isomer is responsible for activity.The drug was developed in the 1960s by Hoechst AG (now Sanofi-Aventis), who then test marketed it in the United States. It was an effective antidepressant, without sedative effects. Nomifensine did not interact significantly with alcohol and lacked anticholinergic effects. No withdrawal symptoms were seen after 6 months treatment. The drug was however considered not suitable for agitated patients as it presumably made agitation worse. In January 1986 the drug was withdrawn by its manufacturers for safety reasons.Some case reports in the 1980s suggested that there was potential for psychological dependence on nomifensine, typically in patients with a history of stimulant addiction, or when the drug was used in very high doses (400–600 mg per day).In a 1989 study it was investigated for use in treating adult ADHD and proven effective. In a 1977 study it has not proven of benefit in advanced parkinsonism, except for depression associated with the parkinsonism.
Q4729268 "All Prologue" is the sixth episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Steve Shill. It originally aired on July 6, 2003.
Q519942 The Lancia LC2 (sometimes referred to as the Lancia-Ferrari) was a series of racing cars built by Italian automobile manufacturer Lancia and powered by engines built by their sister company Ferrari. They were part of Lancia's official factory-backed effort in the World Sportscar Championship from 1983 to 1986, although they continued to be used by privateer teams until 1991. They were also the company's first car meeting the FIA's new Group C regulations for sports prototypes.More powerful than their primary competition, the Porsche 956s, the LC2s were able to secure multiple pole positions during their three and a half seasons with the factory Martini Racing squad. However, deficiencies in reliability and fuel consumption hampered the LC2s' efforts for race wins against the Porsches. LC2s earned three race victories over their lifetimes in the hands of Italian drivers Teo Fabi, Riccardo Patrese, Alessandro Nannini, and Mauro Baldi, as well as German Hans Heyer and Frenchman Bob Wollek.
Q941768 Stingaree is an American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William A. Wellman released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934. The film was based on a story by Ernest William Hornung, which was published in 1905. Set in Australia, it stars Irene Dunne as Hilda Bouverie and Richard Dix as Stingaree.
Q1154746 The DOK-ING Loox (previously known as DOK-ING XD) is a small Croatian three-seat electric city concept car created by DOK-ING. The name XD came from oddly shaped rear lights ("X" shaped) and "D" beginning letter of the company's name.(they've changed the name since then) Loox can travel over 250 km on a single charge with lithium iron phosphate batteries. The car has a low drag coefficient factor of only 0.35. Other features include 360 degree airbags, an integrated safety system for electric stability, ABS brakes and power steering. The XD4 can go from 0–100 km in 4.2 seconds. Currently, the only planned non-Croatian part will be the 32 kWh battery which can go for 200-250 kilometers with a charge time of between three and eight hours. The first prototype was completed at the beginning of 2010 and serial production was expected to start in 2012. DOK-ING first exhibited the car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.DOK-ING is a privately owned Croatian company, established in the late 1991 for the production of robotic Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV's) for unexploded ordnance removal, firefighting, and underground mining.
Q7142510 Passaic Elks Club is located in Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style in 1924.The Elks Club structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2005.
Q1770601 Magic Disk (マジックディスク, Majikku Disuku) is the sixth studio album by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, released on June 23, 2010. It was announced in April 2010 after Gotoh posted an entry into his diary stating the title and that it would be released on June 23, 2010.
Q5524479 Garuhapé-Mi is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in north-eastern Argentina.
Q14326986 The Neelum–Jhelum Hydropower Plant is part of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power scheme in Pakistan, designed to divert water from the Neelum River to a power station on the Jhelum River. The power station is located in (Independent)Azad Kashmir, 42 km (26 mi) south of Muzaffarabad, and has an installed capacity of 969 MW. Construction on the project began in 2008 after a Chinese consortium was awarded the construction contract in July 2007. After delay of many years, the first generator was commissioned in April 2018 and the entire project is completed in August 2018 when the fourth and last unit was synchronized with the national grid on 13 August and attained its maximum generation capacity of 969 MW on August 14, 2018. It will generate 5,150 gigawatt per year at the levelised tariff of Rs 13.50 per unit for 30 years.
Q340088 Leonhardt-Consort, also known as the Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble, was a group of instrumentalists which its director, the keyboard player Gustav Leonhardt founded in 1955 to play baroque music. The Consort was active until around 1990, although some members including Leonhardt himself continued to perform after that date.The ensemble was based in the Netherlands, although it included people whom Leonhardt knew from Vienna, where he taught at the Academy of Music at the beginning of the 1950s.When it was founded the ensemble consisted of Leonhardt, his wife Marie (a violinist) and other string players. It expanded to include wind players such as Frans Brüggen. From early in the ensemble's history they collaborated with singers such as the counter-tenor Alfred Deller.The music of Johann Sebastian Bach was central to the work of Leonhardt and his ensemble. In collaboration with the Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, they recorded from 1971 to 1990 a complete set of Bach cantatas in historically informed performances, the Teldec set. The ensemble participated in Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Groningse Bachvereniging, conducted by Johan van der Meer. They recorded all his harpsichord concertos and the Brandenburg Concertos. They also recorded works by William Lawes and Henry Purcell.
Q6760269 Marjorie Ann "Marge" (née Davis) Anderson (April 21, 1932 – June 29, 2013) was an Ojibwe Elder and politician for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, located in east-central Minnesota.
Q16823896 The 3rd Lux Style Awards ceremony was held in Expo Center in Karachi, Pakistan. The show was hosted by Humayun Saeed, Zara Sheikh and from the members of BNN. The show had the performances by Iman Ali and Reema Khan, Sana Nawaz, Veena Malik, Meera, Saba Qamar and Mikaal Zulfiqar etc. Some of the film and music categories were removed from the award. Most nominations in Television categories were received by serial Mehndi [4].It won all the categories in which it was nominated [3].Larki Punjaban led most nominations [5] and awards [2] in Film categories.PTV led most nominations [6] and winning three.
Q5821444 Karimabad (Persian: كريم اباد‎, also Romanized as Karīmābād) is a village in Saruq Rural District, Takht-e Soleyman District, Takab County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 82, in 18 families.
Q18349412 The Hierlatz Limestone is a geologic formation in Austria. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.
Q23039083 Hervey de Glanvill [Glanville] (fl. c. 1140–50) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader. He was a scion of a younger line of the Glanvill family, which had been established in East Anglia, especially Suffolk, since before 1086. He had several sons and daughters, the most prominent of which was Ranulf de Glanvill, who became justiciar of England.In 1144, Nigel, bishop of Ely, instructed Hervey and Ranulf to restore to the monks of Ely Cathedral the lands they were possessing at Bawdsey in Suffolk.In 1147, Hervey was the leader of an East Anglian contingent that joined the Second Crusade. When the fleet mustered at Dartmouth, he and the other crusading leaders formed a sworn commune for the duration of the crusade. During a stop in Portugal on the way to the Holy Land, they were asked by King Afonso I to help him take Muslim-held Lisbon. Hervey dominated the debate in the commune over the king of Portugal's request and, appealing to honour and unity, he convinced the commune to give its assistance. The De expugnatione Lyxbonensi, an eye-witness account of the successful Siege of Lisbon, was probably composed by a member of Hervey's retinue. There is no record, however, that would indicate whether Hervey ever made it to the Holy Land.In 1150, Hervey took part in a joint meeting of the shire moots of Suffolk and Norfolk in the bishop's garden in Norwich. Also present were Nigel, bishop of Ely, and some other East Anglian tenants-in-chief. Before the moots, royal agents were seeking to set aside the immunities of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in order to prosecute a certain Hubert and his accomplices. Hervey gave a speech in opposition to the government, citing his fifty years' experience of the shire moots and the tradition of abbatial independence. His argument was recorded by a neutral eye-witness, and it apparently swayed the assembly.Hervey was possibly still alive as late as 1166. If his own claim of lengthy experience with the shire courts can be trusted, he was an old man when his son Ranulf was born and a very old man at his death. It has been suggested that there were in fact two Herveys de Glanvill, but the two independent accounts of the Portuguese expedition and the East Anglian moots portray similar figures: eloquent, conservative, familiar with the law.
Q6521301 Lemon Creek is a stream located on the South Shore of Staten Island in New York City. It is one of the few remaining ground-level creeks in New York City.
Q1889791 Splash Damage Ltd. is a British video game developer that specializes in multiplayer first-person shooter video games. The studio is best known as the creator of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Q1037359 The Khasi Hills bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus khasiensis) is a species of gecko found in Asia.
Q4940739 A bombing range usually refers to a remote military aerial bombing and gunnery training range used by combat aircraft to attack ground targets (air-to-ground bombing), or a remote area reserved for researching, developing, testing and evaluating new weapons and ammunition. Bombing ranges are used for precision targeting of high-explosive aerial bombs, precision-guided munitions and other aircraft ordnance, as opposed to a field firing range used by infantry and tanks. Various non-explosive inert "practice bombs" are also extensively used for precision aerial targeting bombing practice—to simulate various explosive aerial bomb types and minimise damage and environmental impact to bombing ranges.
Q4864232 Barry Clifton Foote (born February 16, 1952), is an American former professional baseball catcher, scout, coach, and minor league manager, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos (1973–1977), Philadelphia Phillies (1977–1978), Chicago Cubs (1979–1981), and New York Yankees (1981–1982). Foote spent most of his baseball career as a reserve player.
Q7348482 Harper Lake is a dry lake located in the Mojave Desert near the small community of Lockhart, California, in northwestern San Bernardino County of Southern California. The lake is accessible from Harper Lake Road, which runs north off of State Route 58 midway between Boron and Barstow.
Q1385318 Florestano Vancini ( Ferrara, 24 August 1926 - Rome, 18 September 2008) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed over 20 films since 1960. His 1966 film Le stagioni del nostro amore, starring Enrico Maria Salerno, was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1973 film The Assassination of Matteotti was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Q4732896 Allium dichlamydeum is a species of wild onion known by the common name coastal onion. It is endemic to California where it grows on sea cliffs and hills overlooking the ocean, from Santa Barbara County to Mendocino County.Allium dichlamydeum grows from a brown or gray bulb 1.0-1.5 cm wide. It has a stout naked green stem surrounded by 3-6 long onion leaves. Atop the thick stem is an inflorescence of 5-30 flowers. Each flower has six oval-shaped dull-pointed tepals in shades of bright magenta to fuchsia and each flower is about a centimeter wide.
Q1066339 Ampoigné is a former commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of Prée-d'Anjou.
Q14777544 A platform ticket is a type of rail ticket issued by some railway systems, permitting the bearer to access the platforms of a railway station, but not to board and use any train services. It allows people to walk with their friends and loved ones all the way to the passenger car at stations where the general public is not admitted to platforms. Railfans can also purchase platform tickets and enjoy their trainspotting hobbies. They vary in type: some may only allow limited access and a sharply limited time of usage, while others may have totally free access to enter the platform area. During peak usage hours or rush hours, the platforms may only be available for passengers who intend to travel.
Q3332346 The Somalia Medal (French: Médaille de la Somalie) was a campaign medal created in 1992 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council to recognize members of the Canadian Forces who had directly participated in the United Nations effort to stabilize Somalia following the outbreak of its civil war. It is, within the Canadian system of honours, the fourth highest of the war and operational service medals.