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Q25350404 There are two radio telescopes designated RT-64 (TNA-1500), both in Russia and with similar specifications.With their 64m antenna diameter, they are among the largest radio telescopes in the world.They are:the Bear Lakes RT-64 radio telescope at the Bear Lakes Satellite Communications Center, in Bear Lakes, S...
Q28368831 The 1939 NCAA Golf Championship was the first annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States. The tournament was held at the Wakonda Country Club in Des Moines, Iowa. Stanford captured in the inaugural team champions...
Q15489002 Prasophyllum montanum, commonly known as the mountain leek orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It has a single tubular, green leaf and up to fifty scented, greenish to pinkish flowers. It grows in montane ecosystems at altitudes above 1,500 m (5,000 ft).
Q10733665 Andrena bradleyi, or Bradley's andrena, is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America.
Q1028029 Camarate (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐmɐˈɾatɨ]) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Loures, Lisbon District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Camarate, Unhos e Apelação. With a population of 23,000 inhabitants in 2001, the parish of Camarate extends into an area of 5.52 km²...
Q920212 The Welfare Party (Turkish: Refah Partisi, RP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National Salvation Party (MSP), which were banned from politics. The RP pa...
Q5638002 Hadlock Field is a Minor League baseball stadium in Portland, Maine. It is primarily home to the Portland Sea Dogs of the Eastern League but also the Portland High School Bulldogs and Deering High School Rams baseball teams. The stadium is named for Edson B. Hadlock, Jr., a long-time Portland High School baseb...
Q5552410 Geron Corporation is a biotechnology company located in Menlo Park, California, which specializes in developing and commercializing therapeutic products for cancer that inhibit telomerase.
Q7616130 Stian Hagen is a Norwegian-born professional skier for the German ski manufacturer Völkl, and has contributed to the design of several Völkl ski models, the most recent being the Kuro, which is a powder fatski with a rocker design. He is best known for his graceful big mountain lines and fluid turns. He is oft...
Q7547090 The Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout is a form of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) which is considered either as a separate subspecies Oncorhynchus clarkii behnkei, or as a variety of the Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri). The fish takes its common name from its orig...
Q6781015 Mary and Rhoda is a 2000 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reprising their roles as Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern from the 1970–1977 sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.Although the film is a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, James L. Brooks and...
Q1057324 The Cessna Citation III (Model 650) is an American business jet with 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) of range produced by Cessna and part of the Citation FamilyAnnounced at the October 1976 NBAA convention, it made its maiden flight on May 30, 1979, received its type certification on April 30, 1982 and was delivered betw...
Q4753726 Anders Bengtsson, born 1968, is a Swedish social democratic politician, member of the Riksdag 2002–2006.
Q1049623 Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is an Old World fruit bat found only in the Anjouan and Mohéli islands in the Union of the Comoros in the western Indian Ocean.It is the largest and rarest bat of all Comorian species. Its...
Q2602918 Trasmiera (Spanish: Trasmiera; Cantabrian and historically: Tresmiera) is a historic comarca of Cantabria (Spain), located to the east of the Miera River (tras Miera, meaning behind Miera, from the point of view of Asturias de Santillana), reaching the western side of the Asón. It extends between the bays of S...
Q258 South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Z...
Q6274763 Jonathan Wheatley is a British television and radio news presenter, actor and voice-over artist born in London.His early career included presenting for Seattle's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television station KCTS and writing reports and narrating documentaries for Worldwide Television News. He al...
Q379176 Armactica conchidia is a moth of the family Nolidae. It is primarily found in Australia.The adult moths of this species are dimorphic. The females are fawn, and the forewings have a prominent dark brown patch on the inner margin.
Q846028 Cassis, common name the helmet shells, is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells and their allies.This is the type genus of the subfamily Cassinae.
Q56560 Botlikh (also spelled Botlix) is an Andic language of the Northeast Caucasian language family spoken by the Botlikhs in the Buikhe and Ashino villages in southwestern Dagestan, Russia by approximately 210 people, according to the 2010 census.
Q15060677 Alexander Alexandrovich Yakhontov (Александр Александрович Яхонтов; 20 December [O.S. 8 December] 1879 in Moscow, Russian Empire — 17 November 1973 in Moscow, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera.Jachontov described many new taxa mostly at the subspecies level and wrote biogeogr...
Q13034496 Clarkson is a town in Kou-Kamma Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.Moravian Mission village in the former Humansdorp district, 26 km south-east of Assegaaibos station and 60 km west of Humansdorp. It was established by Bishop H P Halbeck in 1839 and named after Thomas Clarkson who...
Q25392206 This discography is an overview of the musical works of German indie rock band Madsen. The most successful release from Madsen is the top two album, Wo es beginnt.
Q11692795 Danny Reddin was an Irish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Q111116 A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern England. They are named for John Flamsteed who first used them while compiling his Historia Coelestis Britannica.
Q3979131 The Syndicate series is a series of science fiction video games created by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. There are two main titles in the series: Syndicate (1993) and Syndicate Wars (1996), both of which are isometric real-time tactics games. An additional first-person shooter Syndicat...
Q600855 Haamstede is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland.The statistical area "Haamstede", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 2460.
Q2393255 Kostanay Airport (Kazakh: Қостанай халықаралық әуежайы, romanized: Qostanaı halyqaralyq áýejaıy; Russian: Международный аэропорт Костанай) (IATA: KSN, ICAO: UAUU) is an airport located 2 km (1.2 mi) south-west of Kostanay, Kazakhstan.Runways of the airport can accept the following types of airplanes: Tu-134, T...
Q6810268 Marvin Weinstein (born August 18, 1957) known as Meir Weinstein and previously known as Meir Halevi is the national director of the Canadian branch of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and since 2017 has claimed to be the leader of the JDL in North America.
Q4637370 The 409th Air Expeditionary Group is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), which may activate or inactivate the group as needed at any time.The group was first activated in June 1943 during World War II as the 409th Bombardment Group. After moving to ...
Q5558044 Giana Roberge (born December 16, 1970, in New Hampshire) is an American female road cycle racer from who, after retiring from professional cycling in 1999 due to a heart condition, began another successful career as a team director, leading the Saturn Women's road team to become one of the most successful team...
Q899598 Tachima Station (立間駅, Tachima-eki) is a railway station on the Yosan Line in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "U24".
Q3051697 Els Schelfhout (born 1967) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.
Q1950418 Chloroacetaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula ClCH2CHO. Like some related compounds, it is highly electrophilic reagent and a potentially dangerous alkylating agent. The compound is not normally encountered in the anhydrous form, but rather as the hemiacetal (ClCH2CH(OH))2O.Chloroacetaldehyde is ...
Q15438632 James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough (28 January 1618 – 3 June 1665) was a British peer and Member of Parliament, styled Lord Ley from 1629 to 1638.
Q4912417 American singer and songwriter Billy Currington has released six studio albums and one compilation album, all via Mercury Nashville. He has also released twenty singles to country radio, eleven of which reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts: "Must Be Doin' Somethi...
Q16984760 Lividoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Lividoconus has become a subgenus of Conus as Con...
Q4938656 Bojdan (Persian: بجدن‎) may refer to:Bojdan, Rud AbBojdan, Sheshtomad
Q7573932 Spartanburg Historic District is a district in downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The district was expanded in 2000.
Q1894221 Marcus Lauesen (1907-1975) was a Danish author. He debuted with Guds Gøglere in 1928 and had a breakthrough with Og nu venter vi paa Skib. He was awarded De Gyldne Laurbær in 1961 for Mor.
Q1510142 Gerard Francis Loft (6 April 1933 − 4 February 2007) was a New Zealand Roman Catholic bishop.Ordained to the priesthood on 20 July 1958, Loft was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Auki, Solomon Islands in 1983 and resigned in 2004.
Q16915095 The Olentangy Indian Caverns are a series of caves, natural passages and rooms occupying three different levels. The caverns were formed millions of years ago by an underground river that cut through the limestone rock. They were used by the Wyandotte Indians as a refuge from the weather and from their enemie...
Q15401833 "You're Always Here" is a song by Ashley Tisdale. It was written by Tisdale herself and her then-fiancé Christopher French, who also produced the track. The song was released to digital retailers worldwide on December 16, 2013. "You're Always Here" is the first song Tisdale released since her second studio al...
Q4300836 The 2004–05 Ukrainian Premier League Reserves season was an inaugural season of competition between reserve teams of Ukrainian Higher League clubs. The competition among reserve teams became the first official competition since fall of the Soviet Union and similar Soviet competitions in which Ukrainian clubs p...
Q3393462 Tsotyli (Greek: Τσοτύλι, also Τσοτίλι - Tsotili) is a village and a former municipality, now part of the Voio municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was the seat of the municipality of Tsotyli. The municipal unit has an area of 330.269 km2, the community 25.658 km2. The 2011 census recorded 1...
Q3201034 Kyūya Fukada (深田 久弥, Fukada Kyūya, 11 March 1903 – 21 March 1971) was a Japanese writer and mountaineer active during the Shōwa period in Japan.
Q679375 Saint-André-de-Boëge is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Q876007 The Neues Schloss Meersburg (New Castle in Meersburg) is located in Meersburg near Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. From its construction in 1750 until the bishopric was dissolved in 1803 it was the seat of the Prince-Bishop of Constance.
Q14709459 The Rochambeau Library—Providence Community Library is an historic public library building at 708 Hope Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a single-story brick structure with limestone trim, designed by Wallis E. Howe and built in 1930. It has a symmetrical main facade, with the entrance in the center...
Q4569123 Sander Station (Norwegian: Sander stasjon) is a railway station located in Sander in Sør-Odal, Norway on the Kongsvinger Line. The station was built in 1862 as part of the Kongsvinger Line. The station is served five times daily Oslo Commuter Rail line 460 operated by Norwegian State Railways.
Q11723042 The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Q5439321 Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show, based on the American program Fear Factor. The series was first launched as Fear Factor India on Sony TV in 2006 by the programming team of Tarun Katial and Anupama Mandloi where it received a great response from the viewers; however, t...
Q5694988 Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 in 2006.The series focuses on the origins, subgenres, and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to influential bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden, who helped to define heavy metal ...
Q55606 The Wild Strawberries Movement (Chinese: 野草莓運動) is a protest movement in Taiwan begun on 6 November 2008 after the visit of the People's Republic of China's ARATS chairman Chen Yunlin to the island. Police actions on protests aimed at Chen suppressed the display of Taiwan's national flag and the playing of Taiwa...
Q7698845 Templin Morris Potts (November 1, 1855 – March 22, 1927) was a United States Navy Captain and the 11th Naval Governor of Guam. He held many important posts during his time in the Navy, including Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Naval attaché to Kaiser Wilhelm II, and aid for naval personnel. Durin...
Q12061406 The Luxborough Galley was an English ship involved in a notorious maritime incident during the 18th century.
Q7729910 The Devil's Dinner Party is a British reality game show hosted by Pip Torrens. It aired on Sky Atlantic from 23 November 2011 to 4 April 2012.
Q5541874 George William Lukin was the Dean of Wells between 1799 and his death on 27 November 1812.He was born in Braintree, Essex on 26 September 1739 and educated at Eton and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Prebendary of Westminster from 1797 until his appointment as dean.
Q2702014 The 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurred at 08:42 local time (14:42 UTC) on September 5. The epicenter of the 7.6 Mw earthquake was in the Nicoya Peninsula, 11 kilometers east-southeast of Nicoya. A tsunami warning was issued shortly afterwards, but later cancelled. Two people are known to have died, one from a...
Q16975761 Citrobacter rodentium is a Gram-negative species of bacteria.
Q5910609 Iglesia de San Julián Obispo is a church in Burgos, Spain. It was built between November 1975 and September 1977 by the architects Pedro Gutiérrez Ruiz and Pedro Silleras Alonso Celada. The rectangular three naves are organized into five sections and the presbytery is one of the smaller sides. The central nav...
Q22097998 The 2015–16 Scottish Youth Cup is the 33rd season of the Scottish Youth Cup, the national knockout tournament at youth level organised by the Scottish Football Association for its full and associate member clubs. The tournament was for the under-20 age group, to complement current youth development strategies...
Q22285431 Paraivongius bequaerti is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, observed by Burgeon in 1941.
Q1523772 Laura Sogar (born 27 April 1991) is an American swimmer. She is a two times medal winner representing United States at the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2012 and swims for University of Texas at the United States Short Course Swimming Championships, a domestic and national level swimming championship in...
Q2152921 Grimsargh is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,164, increasing to 2,653 at the 2011 census. The parish is part of the electoral ward of Preston Rural East.
Q7591033 St. Paul's Chapel, on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City, is an Episcopal church built in 1903-07 and designed by I. N. Phelps Stokes, of the firm of Howells & Stokes. The exterior is in the Northern Italian Renaissance Revival style while the interior is Byzantin...
Q5122700 Citizens Here and Abroad is an indie rock group from San Francisco, California, United States. They formed in 2002.
Q3635444 Bartholomew of San Concordio (about 1260 at San Concordia, near Pisa – 11 June 1347 at Pisa) was an Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters. He was the author of the Summa de casibus conscientiae (1338) and of the Ammaestramenti degli antichi.
Q5451450 Fire Star is a 2005 novel by an English author, Chris D'Lacey. It is the sequel to his 2003 novel Icefire, and is followed by The Fire Eternal, which came out in September 2007.
Q88783 Carl Gangolf Kayser (or Carl Gangolph Kaiser; born 12 February 1837, in Vienna; died 2 September 1895) was an Austrian architect at the service of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the Second Mexican Empire. In the later part of his life he returned to Austria and worked on restoring medieval castles.
Q2765827 Wang Yang (Chinese: 王洋; pinyin: Wáng Yáng; born 17 January 1983 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a male Chinese water polo player who was part of the bronze medal winning team at the 2005 National Games. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Q889113 Variants of the bock, a type of bagpipe, were played in Central Europe in what are the modern states of Austria, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The tradition of playing the instrument endured into the 20th century, primarily in the Blata, Chodsko, and Egerland regions of Bohemia, and among the Sorbs of...
Q6164824 Jaunciems Lutheran Church (Latvian: Jaunciema evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca) is a Lutheran church in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is a parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. The church is situated at the address 6/8 Jaunciema 5. šķērslīnija.
Q7608342 This discography documents studio albums and singles released by American R&B/soul singer and songwriter Stephanie Mills.
Q7448672 Selloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the milleria tribe within the daisy family.Speciesformerly includedsee Acmella Aphanactis Flaveria Gymnosperma
Q2097790 United Nations Security Council resolution 829, adopted without a vote on 26 May 1993, after examining the application of the Principality of Monaco for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Monaco be admitted.
Q4873624 Bavachi is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India.
Q7527876 Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet (20 April 1584 – 16 May 1671) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and 1660.[[He was the eldest son of Edward Langham of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, who he succeeded in 1607. He was apprenticed to Sir Richard Napier, a Turkey merchant, for whom he...
Q6570450 This list of Everwood characters follows the credits order. The seasons during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in black. Note that the actors don't necessarily appear in every episode during their time as a main star. In fact, Treat Williams is the only actor to appear in every e...
Q5093867 The Chesterton by-election, 1917 was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 July 1917 for the House of Commons constituency of Chesterton also known as the Western Division of Cambridgeshire.
Q8032859 Woodland Park is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Q16847154 The 2002 IIHF World Championship Final was an ice hockey match that took place on May 11, 2002 in Göteborg, Sweden, to determine the winner of the 2002 IIHF World Championship. Slovakia defeated Russia to win its first championship.
Q16939539 Kerry James Evans (born 1983) is an American poet. He holds a PhD in English from Florida State University and an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He lives in Tallahassee with his wife.Evans’ debut book, Bangalore was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was a 201...
Q19282143 Lucien Genot (born 20 April 1901, date of death unknown) was a French sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Q732364 Askø is a Danish island north of Lolland. It covers an area of 2.82 km² and has 55 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005).In 1954, there were 170 inhabitants and one vehicle.In 2014 energy company SEAS-NVE discovered a Neolithic boat in a submerged settlement as it replaced sea cables by Askø Island. The boat had ...
Q71527 Sandra Wagner-Sachse (born September 9, 1969) is an archer from Germany who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won a silver medal in the 1996 team event and a bronze medal in the 2000 team event.
Q7781494 Theo Streete (born 23 November 1987) is an English footballer who plays for AFC Telford United.
Q4772913 Anthony Lake (born 22 March 1974 in Antigua) is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He has played 12 first-class and 26 List A matches in his career, mainly for the Leeward Islands. He also represented Antigua and Barbuda in the cricket tournament at the 1998...
Q5547730 Georgia Southern Railroad Company was incorporated under act of the Georgia General Assembly on March 2, 1875. The line of railroad of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company in Georgia was sold in foreclosure on November 3, 1874 and conveyed to Georgia Southern Railroad Company on March 29, 1876. Georgia ...
Q7917055 Vasyl' Pavlovych Ovchynnikov or Ovchinnikiv (1868–1934) was a performing artist in the Moscow Theatre (Bolshoi?). A renowned singer he was also a popularizer of the bandura at the turn of the century. He is also remembered as the author of one of the first Bandura handbooks.He wrote about himself in 1928 ..." ...
Q3904110 Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro ('the young gypsy') and Lo zingarello di Cosenza ('the little gypsy from Cosenza') (Cosenza, c.1505 – 1565) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was known for his altarpieces, mythological scenes and portraits.
Q7781932 Theodore O'Connor (May 8, 1995 – May 28, 2008), nicknamed "Teddy," was a 14.1 3⁄4 hands (57.75 inches, 147 cm) pony (though of horse phenotype) who competed internationally at the highest level of eventing. Ridden by Olympian Karen O'Connor, he performed exceedingly well at such events as the Rolex Kentucky Th...
Q7543837 SmartCell Technology, LLC was a mobile applications developer with its headquarters in Irvine, California, United States, and a development center in Shanghai, China. Commonly referred to as "SmartCell" for short, the company was founded in 2001 by its President and CEO, Bruce Wang, whose previous involvement...
Q5311540 Ducks Ahoy! is an action game game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers and the Commodore 64. In it, the player maneuvers a boat around a flooded city to pick up ducks and ferry them to safety before they drown. The player must also avoid a hippopotamus, who randomly appears to try to destroy the player's b...
Q7562594 "Sonífera Ilha" is the debut single by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released in 1984. The song, as well as its b-side "Toda Cor", was co-composed by Ciro Pessoa, one of the lead singers and founding members of the group, who would leave the band before the release of their first, self-titled album, in which the ...
Q5454943 The Fishers Island Club is a country club located near the eastern end of Fishers Island in New York. The club includes an eighteen-hole golf course designed by Seth Raynor that was ranked ninth in the 2009 Golf Digest list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.The golf course has been called the "Cypress Poi...
Q1955502 Spodnja Polskava (pronounced [ˈspoːdnja pɔlˈskaːʋa]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Slovenska Bistrica in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Drava Statistical Region.The parish church in the settlement...
Q16460169 Hooker Township, Nebraska may refer to one of the following places:Hooker Township, Dixon County, NebraskaHooker Township, Gage County, Nebraska
Q2291583 La Reverdie, stylized as "LaReverdie", is an Italian group performing polyphonic medieval and Renaissance music.
Q6406650 Kilchousland Chapel (Scottish Gaelic: Chill Chuslainn "St Constantine's Chapel") is a medieval chapel near Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Built in the 12th century, the chapel was dedicated to St. Constantine.