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Q18351061 The MGM Resorts Main Event is an 8 team college basketball tournament held during Monday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week of NCAA Division I men's basketball season, with the inaugural tournament beginning in 2014. Games are held at the T-Mobile Arena beginning in 2017, with previous season being held at th...
Q3875363 The 1976 New South Wales Open, also known by its sponsored name Marlboro New South Wales Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia. The men's was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix circuit. It was the 84th e...
Q28131892 Nevada is a state located in the Western United States. Nevada has several census-designated places (CDPs) which are unincorporated communities lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status.
Q30323725 Wavinya Ndeti (born 3 November 1967) is a Kenya politician who was Member of Parliament for Kathiani. She was a WDM-K candidate for Machakos Governor in 2017, having contested the seat previously in 2013 on CCU ticket and lost on both occasions to Incumbent Dr. Alfred Mutua.
Q2457135 VV Goes (acronym and backronym for Voetbalvereniging Gezamenlijk Opwaarts Eendrachtig Sterk, self-styled as GOES) is a football club from Goes, Netherlands. In the 1911–1912 season Goes played in the second tier of Dutch football. Over the years Goes played mostly in the Tweede and Derde Klasse. In the nationa...
Q14375976 Gonia senilis is a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae. It is found in North America.
Q602520 Hamilton (Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille: čɫc̓lc̓lé) is a city in and the county seat of Ravalli County, Montana, United States. The population was 4,348 at the 2010 census. Significant outlying population growth is shown in the area; the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for Hamilton's ZIP Code, 59840, had a population of 12,...
Q210975 Mycoplasma is a mollicute genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall around their cell membranes. This characteristic makes them naturally resistant to many common antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprotrophic. Several species...
Q933434 Michel Drucker, CQ (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long and so permanently (in various shows and on different networks, both public and private), that he once said that some people consider that he was included in the price of their TV se...
Q251464 The City of Blue Mountains is a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, governed by the Blue Mountains City Council. The city is located in the Blue Mountains range west of Sydney.The Mayor of Blue Mountains City Council is councillor Mark Greenhill, a member of the Labor Party.
Q2607167 66 Aquarii is a single star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. 66 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation though the star also bears the Bayer designation of g1 Aquarii. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.673. Based upon an annual parallax ...
Q5124894 Clackmannan Football Club was a football club based in Clackmannan, Scotland. They were members of the Scottish Football League in two spells, both during the 1920s, and played at Chapelhill Park. Players wore blue and white hoops.
Q7589016 The St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located off SR 50 just west of Titusville. The 6,255 acre (25 km2) refuge was established in 1971 to protect the now extinct dusky seaside sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens. It is administered as part of...
Q4590163 The 1995 Algarve Cup was the second edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 14 and 19 March 1995 in Portugal with Sweden winning the event defeating Denmark, 1-0, in the final game. Norway ended up third defeating the USA, 7-5 following penalt...
Q516899 Anna Livingston Reade Street Morton (May 18, 1846 – August 14, 1918) was the second wife of United States Vice President Levi P. Morton. She was known as Anna Street Morton.
Q13360321 Webber (/ˈwɛbər/) is an English occupational surname meaning weaver.
Q3163334 Jazz Party is a 1959 album by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra which contains a "formidable gallery of jazz stars" guesting, including Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Rushing (formerly the vocalist for Count Basie). It featured also a 9-strong percussion section on two tracks.The recording was first digitally remixe...
Q573458 Eilsleben is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Q4719735 Alexander Neil McLean (November 12, 1885 - March 12, 1967) was a Canadian businessman and an appointee to the Senate of Canada.Born in Hartland, New Brunswick, he was known as Neil. Along with his brother, Allan, in 1923 he and a group of investors took control of Connors Brothers Limited, a large fish process...
Q2536626 Shatin (Armenian: Շատին; formerly, Shatik, Hesan Kand, Gasankend, and Hasankand), is a village in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. It is home to the only mountain goat observation point in Armenia. The observation point was constructed with the help of the Norwegian and Armenian governments, the World Wild...
Q5100237 People's Republic of China–Lesotho relations refer to the bilateral relations of the People's Republic of China and Lesotho. Relations began in 1983, with the first significant diplomatic exchange occurring when Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan visited China later that year, followed by King Moshoeshoe II in 198...
Q6327595 Krishan Chandra Singhal (born 1941) is an Indian pharmacologist and has been serving as founder vice chancellor of NIMS University, Jaipur, India.
Q15181138 Angel with the Superscription is a statue by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Originally commissioned by Pope Clement IX for the Ponte Sant'Angelo project, the statue was replaced with a copy and the original was moved to Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, Italy. The statue was started in 1667 and complete...
Q12287985 Nea Agathoupoli (Greek: Νέα Αγαθούπολη) is a village in Pieria, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pydna-Kolindros, of which it is a municipal community. The 2011 census recorded 267 residents in the village.
Q13860930 Monochroa gracilella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Pierre Chrétien in 1908. It is found in Algeria.The wingspan is 9-10.5 mm. The forewings are white with brown or black scales. The hindwings are whitish.
Q26793372 Mount Cornish Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Cornish Creek near Muttaburra, Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992.
Q161071 A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, for screwing (installing) and unscrewing (removing) screws. A typical simple screwdriver has a handle and a shaft, ending in a tip the user puts into the screw head before turning the handle. The shaft is usually made of tough steel to resist bending or twisting. Th...
Q1067033 Charles Adolphus Williams, MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was one of the first black players in British football after the Second World War, and later became Britain's first well-known black stand-up comedian.He became famous from his appearances on Granada...
Q571806 Theobald (also Theudebald, Theodolt, or Theodoalt) (died 717/719) was the duke of Bavaria from at least 711, when his father Theodo associated him with his rule at Passau or Salzburg. He was the second son of Theodo and Folchaid. His father divided the duchy between his four sons some time before 715. On his de...
Q3675471 Christopher "Chris" Corchiani Sr. (born March 28, 1968) is a retired American-Italian professional basketball player. At a height of 1.85 m (6'1") tall, and a weight of 88 kg (195 lbs.), played at the point guard position.
Q7810449 The Tivoli Theatre was a movie palace in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It the first of the "big three" movie palaces built by the Balaban & Katz theatre chain run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and their partner Sam Katz, who were also owners of the Rivera Theater (North Side) ...
Q5604249 The Greenlands Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in May.The event is named after Greenlands, the area of the Curragh plain where the ra...
Q2246743 Gmina Drwinia is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bochnia County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Drwinia, which lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Bochnia and 37 km (23 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków.The gmina covers an area of 108.81 ...
Q1760253 Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Russian born French film director, screenwriter and film editor .Moguy was born Leonid Mogilevsky (Russian: Леонид Могилевский) in Russia in 1899. He lived in Russia until 1928, in the United States in the 1940s, and in Italy from 1949 until his death. He was ...
Q9377562 Wola Buczkowska [ˈvɔla but͡ʂˈkɔfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Buczek, within Łask County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Buczek, 6 km (4 mi) south of Łask, and 36 km (22 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
Q5909800 Hot Burritos! The Flying Burrito Brothers Anthology 1969–1972 is an album by the country rock band the Flying Burrito Brothers. It was released in 2000. A forty-three song compilation on two CDs, it includes all of their first three albums — The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969), Burrito Deluxe (1970), and The Fly...
Q5679593 Hassan Ashjari (Persian: حسن اشجاری‎), born 1 August 1979 in Fuman, is an Iranian football player.
Q6990095 "(You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You) Nellie Dean" is a sentimental ballad in common time by Henry W. Armstrong, published in 1905 by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City. The original sheet music is scored in B-flat major for voice and piano and marked andante moderato.It was taken up in 1907 by the British m...
Q6486318 The Langley Baronetcy, of Higham Gobion in the County of Bedford, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 May 1641 for William Langley. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in circa 1790.
Q4740237 Amari Aaron Morgan-Smith (born 3 April 1989) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National League North club A.F.C. Telford United. He has previously played for Crewe Alexandra, Alsager Town, Stockport County, Ilkeston Town, Luton Town, Macclesfield Town, Kidderminster Harriers...
Q394876 Penovsky District (Russian: Пе́новский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Ostashkovsky District in the north, Selizharovsky District in the east, Andreapolsky District in the so...
Q5283834 Divarilima pellucida is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Limidae. Divarilima pellucida has only been found in the waters of New Zealand.
Q10726245 Åhlinska skolan (Åhlin School), or Åhlinska flickskolan (Åhlin Girls' School), was a Swedish Girls school in Stockholm, Sweden. It was active from 1847 until 1939. It was one of the first schools in Sweden which offered serious academic education to female students.
Q28035751 Mariano Fazio is an Argentine Roman Catholic priest who is the Auxiliar Vicar of the Prelature of Opus Dei (2019 to the present).He was born on April 25, 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina . He was the rector of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross from 2002 to 2008, and was the president of the Conferen...
Q33101591 Bengaluru Underworld is a 2017 Indian Kannada crime drama film directed by P. N. Sathya. It stars Aditya in the lead role. Paayal Radhakrishna and Daniel Balaji feature in supporting roles.
Q10703033 Trichopepla atricornis is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America.
Q7064772 November 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 8All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For November 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 25.
Q4758278 Andrew Pinnock (born March 12, 1980) is a former American football fullback. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina.Pinnock has also played for the Denver Broncos.
Q456884 Lene Køppen (born May 5, 1953) is a former badminton player from Denmark who won numerous Danish national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and Camilla Martin are the only Danish women to win both the World (1977) and Al...
Q7999670 Wigmore is a suburb/village in the Unitary Authority of Medway, in Kent, England.
Q5441179 Feed My Lambs, Inc. is a non-profit ministry located in Marietta, GA, which operates tuition-free Christian preschools and grade schools for children living in impoverished areas of metro Atlanta, GA.
Q6457281 LBC Nagham is a Lebanese musical television channel and is LBC Group's musical brand. Launched in 2003, as the brand's name (Arabic: نغم‎; nağam) suggests, it is one of the first specialised music channels launched in the region.
Q4756436 Andrew Brookes is an English aerospace analyst, author of aviation books and aviation journalist.He is a former Royal Air Force pilot, and flew 3,500 hours on strategic reconnaissance Victors, Canberras, and also the Vulcan bomber. He was a NATO Nuclear Release Officer and led an aviation safety team at the Mi...
Q1313664 Lhůta is a village and municipality (obec) in Plzeň-City District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of 3.41 square kilometres (1.32 sq mi), and has a population of 163 (as at 3 July 2006).Lhůta lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of Plzeň and 78 km (48 mi)...
Q6457271 LB2 or LB-2 may refer to:the second individual Homo floresiensis skeletonNakajima LB-2, a long-range, land-based bomber developed in Japan for use by the Imperial Japanese Navy
Q18201985 Oxyptilini is a tribe within the subfamily Pterophorinae of the plume moths or Pterophoridae. The monophyly of this group was established in a 2011 phylogenetic study. A key to distinguish the genera within this tribe was published in 2010.
Q5252525 Deir Shamil (Arabic: دير شميل‎, also spelled Deir el-Shemil) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located west of Hama. Nearby localities include Nahr al-Bared to the north, Tell Salhab to the northeast, Jubb Ramlah to the east, al-Laqbah and Deir Mama to the south...
Q16899647 Sakhteman-e Shuraki (Persian: ساختمان شوركي‎, also Romanized as Sākhtemān-e Shūrakī; also known as Shūrakī) is a village in Dadenjan Rural District, Meymand District, Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q16181027 Marriage Blue (Korean: 결혼전야; RR: Gyeolhonjeonya; lit. "The Night Before the Wedding") is a 2013 South Korean romantic comedy film that follows the misadventures of four engaged couples in the week leading up to their weddings.
Q9304440 Lewin Brzeski Town Hall - a town hall built in the Classical architectural style in 1838. the building is located in the middle of the Lewin Brzeski Market Square (Rynek), the town hall is currently the seat of the Lewin Brzeski City Council and Gmina Lewin Brzeski authorities.
Q26923197 Varun Shrivastava is a social activist from Nagpur, who is working for the uplifting of underprivileged street children.
Q3951185 "Say it Once" is a song by British group Ultra. It was released on 22 June 1998 on in the United Kingdom through East West Records as the second single from their debut album, Ultra (1999).
Q18521071 Denigastrura is a genus of springtails in the family Hypogastruridae. There is at least one described species in Denigastrura, D. tetrophthalma.
Q39071899 Walter Keller was a Swiss sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Q41464062 Bruno Sambo (born 24 March 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for the French club AC Ajaccio II.
Q18745976 Hlava Kasandry (English: Cassandra's Head) is a 1993 Czech video game, developed by Marek Nepožitek's company LetDisk and based on the Polish novel Głow Kasandra. It was released on the Atari ST but is compatible with Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Q683566 Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in th...
Q1448629 The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 19th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party was re-elected to their second consecutive majo...
Q2665343 Masako Katsuki (勝生 真沙子, Katsuki Masako, born Shiono (塩野), October 15) is a Japanese voice actress and narrator formerly affiliated with Theater Echo and now with 81 Produce. Following her debut in Shiroi Kiba: White Fang Monotagari as the role of Mary Scott, Katsuki has lent her voice to several notable anime,...
Q3158398 Grand Jacques is the début album by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel.
Q11956777 William Nelson Cromwell (January 17, 1854 – July 19, 1948) was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures especially in cooperation with Philippe Bunau-Varilla.
Q147876 Japan competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Q1334282 James Meacham (August 16, 1810 – August 23, 1856) was an American politician, minister and professor. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont.
Q7719929 The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is an independent, not-for-profit organization which has raised $569.4 million to support clinical and translational research on breast cancer at medical institutions in the United States and abroad. BCRF currently funds over 200 researchers in 6 continents and 13 c...
Q3972876 Michael Stich was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Jamie Morgan.Todd Martin won in the final 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4) against Pete Sampras.
Q7882574 Uncial 0261 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 5th century. The manuscript has survived in a very fragmentary condition.
Q7077973 Oncidium cinnamomeum is a species of orchid endemic to northwestern Venezuela.
Q6564441 This is a list of seasons completed by the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings. The Battle Wings are a professional arena football franchise of the Arena Football League (AFL), based in Bossier City, Louisiana. The team was established in 2001 as a member of arenafootball2 (AF2). Prior to 2004 the team was known a...
Q6699665 Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi is a citizen of Tunisia held in extrajudicial detention by the United States.On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a heavily redacted list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.There were 645 names on the list, wh...
Q7819808 Tommy Roberts (1927 – 2001) was an English footballer, who played as a full back in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers, Watford and Chester.
Q5775307 Zar Qalat (Persian: زرقلات‎, also Romanized as Zar Qalāt) is a village in Rahgan Rural District, Khafr District, Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 419, in 90 families.
Q16896238 Orochen 1-y (Russian: Орочен 1-й) is a rural locality (a selo), one of four settlements, in addition to the Urban-type settlements of Leninsky, the administrative centre of the settlement, and Lebediny, and the village of Yakokut in the Leninsky Urban Settlement of Aldansky District in the Sakha Republic, Rus...
Q18686569 Charles Hamya, is a Ugandan businessman. He is the Managing Director of Multichoice Uganda Limited, a digital communications network provider in Uganda. He is reported to be one of the wealthiest individuals in Uganda.
Q13367547 Anacampsis cosmia is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in South Africa.The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are pale grey closely speckled with dark grey, with scattered black scales. The stigmata are moderate, cloudy and blackish-grey, the plical rather ...
Q29097915 "Where the Wild Things Were" is the 11th episode of season 6 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 121st episode overall, which premiered on March 17, 2017, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Brenna Kouf and was directed by Terrence O'Hara. In the episode, Nick and Eve go...
Q3056759 Sant Quirc de Durro is an isolated chapel situated in the village of Durro, in the territory of Vall de Boí, a commune in the valley with the same name and in Comarca of Alta Ribagorça in the north of Province of Lleida and the autonomous communities of Catalonia in Spain.It is one of the best known places of...
Q1048182 Thomas Cass Ballenger (December 6, 1926 – February 18, 2015) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented North Carolina's 10th Congressional district, centered in North Carolina's foothills, in the United States House of Representatives from 1986 to 2005.
Q17034240 This is a historical timeline of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of the Germanic kingdoms (5th to 8th centuries).
Q8038182 Wright Brothers Day (December 17) is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On S...
Q665225 Mud on the Tires is the third studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. Released in 2003 on Arista Nashville, it produced four hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: the Top Five hits "Celebrity", "Little Moments" and "Whiskey Lullaby", as wel...
Q4696442 Ahwahnee Heritage Days is a festival held in Yosemite Valley, in Yosemite National Park, every February or March annually. The Ahwahnee Hotel celebrates the Roaring Twenties, and the 1930s and 1940s - with music performances, as well as cultural and history events.Ahwahnee Heritage Days was originally held to ...
Q7440097 Sea of Light may refer to:Darya-ye Noor, a famous large Persian diamondSea of Light (album), a 1995 musical album by Uriah Heep
Q3281320 Target panic is a psychological—and perhaps neurological—condition experienced by many archers, both competitive and recreational. The condition has various effects on archers. Target panic was originally blamed on high levels of anxiety and a "fear of failure", but is now understood to be caused by the way in...
Q6915519 Moscow Ring may refer to:Autodrom Moscow, a racing track near Moscow, RussiaMKAD, a beltway encircling Moscow, Russia
Q5408131 The pale-blue monarch (Hypothymis puella) is a small passerine bird in the family Monarchidae endemic to eastern Indonesia.
Q1324907 Luby-Betmont is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.The village church has the curious feature of chiming the hours twice. The reason for this is uncertain, although it may have been to allow workers in the fields a second chance to confirm the hour in order to be sure when to ...
Q7617468 Stinnett is an unincorporated community in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States.
Q6378593 The Katzie First Nation or Katzie Nation is the band government of the Katzie people of the Lower Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada.
Q927948 The MAN NL202 was a low floor single-decker bus built by MAN Nutzfahrzeuge from the late 1980s until 1992. It is derived from the VöV SL-II bus standard. Especially sold in Europe, in particular in Germany, it was replaced by MAN NL262.It has used a fully low floor configuration inside the bus with seats mounte...
Q978694 In African music, the calabash is a percussion instrument of the family of idiophones consisting of a dried half of a large calabash, which is struck with the palms, fingers, wrist or objects to produce a variety of percussive sounds. This instrument is used in traditional dances.