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Q18655665 On 19 December 2014, at 11:20 a.m., police were called to 34 Murray Street in the Cairns suburb of Manoora in Australia, where eight children were found dead. The victims were aged between 18 months and 14 years. The bodies, with stab wounds, were discovered by the children's 20-year-old brother. Neighbours r... |
Q21063024 Professor Wayne Quilliam is one of Australia’s pre-eminent Indigenous photographic artists, curators and cultural advisers working on the international scene. His awards for his career include the NAIDOC Indigenous Artist of the Year, AIMSC Business of the Year, Human Rights Media Award and the Walkley Award... |
Q21998432 Sara Cooper is a New York-based playwright-lyricist and librettist.Cooper graduated from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she is also currently part-time faculty. She is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild of America.Her major wo... |
Q14396914 Stenoma exempta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Pará, Brazil.The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are light glossy grey with a marginal series of black dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen, a slender white marginal stre... |
Q107069 Christopher Eugene O'Donnell (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor and former model. He played Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Chris Reece in School Ties, D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, Jack Foley in the drama film Circle of Friends, Dick Grayson/Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Jason Bro... |
Q7493704 The Shell Turbo Chargers were a Philippine Basketball Association team from 1985 to 2005. It won four PBA championships, two from 1998-1999. Shell sold its franchise to PBL team Welcoat Paints in February 2006.Aside from being known as the Turbo Chargers, Shell was also known as Shell Azodrin Bugbusters, Shell... |
Q5249924 Dee L. Brown (born October 22, 1948) is an American politician from Montana. Brown, a Republican, represented District 3 (District 83, prior to 2005) in Flathead County in the Montana House of Representatives. Brown served as a member of the House Federal Relations, Energy, and Telecommunications committee, ... |
Q9735 Ouégoa is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. |
Q3012056 Ace of Cakes was an American reality television show that aired on the Food Network. The show focused on the daily operations of Duff Goldman's custom cake shop, Charm City Cakes, in Baltimore, Maryland; including small-business ownership, working with various vendors, tasting with customers, constructing cak... |
Q7904384 Ray Benson (born March 16, 1951) is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel, as well as an actor, and voice actor. |
Q1321093 John Hiromu Kitagawa (喜多川 擴, Kitagawa Hiromu, October 23, 1931 – July 9, 2019), known professionally as Johnny Kitagawa (ジャニー喜多川, Janī Kitagawa), was a Japanese businessman and talent manager. He was the founder and president of Johnny & Associates, a production agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan. ... |
Q4692070 Agent Crush is an unreleased British puppet movie starring Ioan Gruffudd, Brian Cox, Neve Campbell, Roger Moore, Brian Blessed, Rula Lenska and Ruby Wax. It is currently awaiting release. |
Q5334600 Ed Buchanan (July 16, 1934 – August 31, 1991) was a Canadian football running back who played nine seasons in the Canadian Football League for three teams. He was a CFL All-Star in 1964 while setting a record with 2,071 yards from scrimmage. Though injured for most of that year, he was part of the Saskatchewa... |
Q1908246 Bratucice [bratuˈt͡ɕit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rzezawa, within Bochnia County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Rzezawa, 12 km (7 mi) north-east of Bochnia, and 43 km (27 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków.T... |
Q8065206 Zakrzewo Wielkie [zaˈkʂɛvɔ ˈvjɛlkʲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grudusk, within Ciechanów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Grudusk, 18 km (11 mi) north of Ciechanów, and 94 km (58 mi) north of Warsaw. |
Q706603 Typhoon Parma, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pepeng, was the second typhoon to affect the Philippines within the span of a week during September 2009.Typhoon Parma was assigned the name Pepeng by PAGASA when it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility days after Typhoon Ketsana wreaked havoc on the c... |
Q776539 Santa Elena Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (694.90 km2) of land and is located roughly 95 km south of the city of Mérida. |
Q5063727 Ceratitoidea, formerly Ceratitaceae, is an ammonite superfamily in order Ceratitida characterized in general by highly ornamented or tuberculate shells with ceratitic sutures that may become goniatitic or ammonitic in some offshoots. (Arkell et al. 1962) |
Q7045639 The Nobel Women's Initiative was created in 2006 by six female winners of the Nobel peace prize to support women's groups around the world in campaigning for justice, peace and equality. The six founders are Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchú, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, and Betty Williams. Th... |
Q15997309 Major Lionel Hugh Branson (8 April 1879 – April 1946) was a British magician and officer of the British Indian Army. |
Q5841424 Koturi (Persian: كتوري, also Romanized as Kotūrī) is a village in Sarpaniran Rural District, in the Central District of Pasargad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 103, in 29 families. |
Q18589295 CCFM (Cape Community FM) is a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week community radio station serving the people of Cape Town, South Africa. As a non-profit radio station, CCFM broadcasts a mix of contemporary Christian music, combined with talk, views and interviews, and up-to-the-minute news, weather, and traffic information... |
Q27554134 Susanna Eises (born 18 January 1991) is a Namibian women's international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. She is a member of the Namibia women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 2014 African Women's Championship. On club level she plays for Khomas Nampol ladies FC in Namibia. |
Q28376181 Capo Peloro Lighthouse (Italian: Faro di Capo Peloro) is an active lighthouse located in Punta del Faro on the Strait of Messina, the most north-eastern promontory of Sicily, settled in the Province of Messina, the place closest to Calabria. |
Q166258 The Grumman G-73 Mallard is a medium, twin-engined amphibious aircraft. Many have been modified by replacing the original Pratt & Whitney Wasp H radial engines with modern turboprop engines. Manufactured from 1946 to 1951, production ended when Grumman's larger SA-16 Albatross was introduced. |
Q1391070 Force 17 (Arabic: القوة 17) was a commando and special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement and later of the Office of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority. It was formed in the early 1970s by Ali Hassan Salameh (Abu Hassan). Initially, the group was housed in building 17 of Al-Fakhani Stree... |
Q16217210 James Byrne (born 23 April 1978) is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played 24 AFL games with the Adelaide Crows and after he was delisted he has played for several other clubs. He was captain of the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (V... |
Q2924874 Brian Cooke (born 1937, in Liverpool, Merseyside) is a British comedy writer who, along with co-writer, Johnnie Mortimer, wrote scripts for and devised many of the top television sitcoms during the 1970s, including Man About the House, George and Mildred, and Robin's Nest.Cooke also wrote and created the 1980s... |
Q1387207 Johannes ("John") Maria van Loen (born 4 February 1965 in Utrecht) is a former football striker from the Netherlands, who earned seven caps for the Netherlands national football team, with which he scored one goal. He played in the 1986 FIFA World Cup Qualification and the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. |
Q5040379 Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess, (16 February 1884 – 16 June 1948) was an Australian Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. |
Q7377820 Ruellia capitata (syn. Strobilanthes capitatus T.Anders., Strobilanthes pentstemonoides T.Anders.) is a plant native to Cerrado vegetation of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. |
Q7842468 Early general elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 7 October 2002, after People's National Movement leader Patrick Manning had failed to secure a majority in the hung parliament produced by the 2001 elections. This time the PNM was able to secure a majority, winning 20 of the 36 seats. Voter turnout w... |
Q4853311 Bamba Thiam (born 31 May 1985 in Medina Gounass) is a Senegalese footballer who is a midfielder who plays for Dakar UC. |
Q2901280 Ayapel Airport (IATA: AYA) is an airport located in Ayapel, Colombia. |
Q6571261 A list of films produced in France in 1913. |
Q863637 Callionymus semeiophor, the Nusa Tenggara deepwater dragonet, is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific Ocean around Indonesia. This species grows to a length of 11.3 centimetres (4.4 in) SL. |
Q7087015 Oliva keenii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. |
Q501963 Dirck Vellert (1480, Amsterdam – 1547, Antwerp), was a Flemish Renaissance painter. |
Q22032113 Greenvalley Public School is an educational institution in Nellikuzhi, Kothamangalam, in the state of Kerala, India. The institution is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, for AISSE (Grade 10) and AISSCE (Grade 12) examinations. It was established in 1996 by Ms. Molly Pradeep, late ... |
Q5863179 Tuf Kheymeh (Persian: طوف خيمه, also Romanized as Ţūf Kheymeh) is a village in Tayebi-ye Garmsiri-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 43, in 9 families. |
Q10284957 Francisco Manuel Chaves Pinheiro (5 September 1822 – 19 October 1884) was a Brazilian sculptor. |
Q23585549 James A. Edgerton was an American poet, philosopher and political activist from Alexandria, Virginia, United States. Edgerton was the vice-presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party in the 1928 presidential election. He was on the ticket alongside presidential nominee George Varney. Edgerton defeated form... |
Q1602082 Heleri Saar (born 16 November 1979) is an Estonian footballer, playing as a defender. She was a member of the Estonia women's national football team from 1996–2011, playing 63 matches. |
Q39072155 Anton is a 2008 Irish action thriller. It stars Anthony Fox as Anton, a man drawn into the troubles along the Northern Ireland Border in 1972. The film also features Gerard McSorley, Laura Way, Vincent Fegan, Andy Smith and Ronan Wilmot.The film was directed by Graham Cantwelland written for the screen by Ant... |
Q3460442 Holland is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 1,206 at the 2010 census. It is in the town of Holland and is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q6135054 James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4, 1942 in Orangeburg, South Carolina) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate. |
Q794162 Betaxolol is a selective beta1 receptor blocker used in the treatment of hypertension and glaucoma. Being selective for beta1 receptors, it typically has fewer systemic side effects than non-selective beta-blockers, for example, not causing bronchospasm (mediated by beta2 receptors) as timolol may. Betaxolol a... |
Q128233 Diictodon was a genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont. These mammal-like synapsids lived during the Late Permian period, approximately 255 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of the Madumabisa Mudstone of the Luangwa Basin in Zambia and the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone ... |
Q1940571 The Great Ray Charles is Ray Charles' second studio album for Atlantic Records, released in 1957. It is an instrumental jazz album. Later CD re-issues often include as a bonus, six of eight tracks from The Genius After Hours. The original cover was by Marvin Israel. |
Q346333 Thed Björk (born 14 December 1980 in Vretstorp, Örebro) is a Swedish racing driver, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He also finished second in 2005 and 2009, and third i... |
Q5464044 Fog City Mavericks is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Gary Leva. It chronicles the San Francisco Bay Area's most well known filmmakers through interviews and archival footage. It is narrated by Peter Coyote, who is also featured in the film.The documentary also covers some of the movies made by th... |
Q3667144 Byron Black defeated Rainer Schüttler 6–4, 1–6, 6–3 to win the 1999 Chennai Open singles event. Patrick Rafter was the defending champion but did not defend his title. |
Q7356081 María Rocío Marengo (March 25, 1980 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina) is an Argentinian model, actress, vedette, comedian and dancer. |
Q13729626 Oxynoe viridis is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae. |
Q8051156 Yegor Aleksandrovich Lunev (Russian: Егор Александрович Лунев; born February 14, 1988) is a Russian professional football player. He last played for FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny. |
Q7964978 Walter Goodfellow (1866–1953) was a British zoological collector and ornithologist. |
Q10530143 Drug Research is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering drug development published by Thieme Medical Publishers. The journal was established in 1951 and the editor-in-chief is Martin Wehling (Heidelberg University Faculty of Medicine in Mannheim). |
Q1647333 Nesticus constantinescui is a species of araneomorph spider of the family Nesticidae. It is endemic to Romania. |
Q5348826 Eidsfos Verk (English: Eidsfos Iron Works) was an ironworks located at Eidsfoss in Vestfold, Norway.Eidsfos Verk was established in 1697 when the first blast furnace was first put into operation. The ironwork, which was dependent on hydropower, ore and forest, was located on the isthmus between Eikeren and ... |
Q16999733 Love Has Lifted Me is an album by Stephanie Mills. The album was originally recorded in 1975 after For the First Time was released, but was not released until 1982. |
Q714391 Alin Moldoveanu (Romanian pronunciation: [aˈlin moldoˈve̯anu]; born 3 May 1983, in Focșani) is a Romanian 10 m Air Rifle sport shooter, Olympic champion at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics where he ranked fourth.Moldoveanu won the gold medal in the 10 m Air Rifle in the Lon... |
Q16221512 Alwyne Jan Calinao Perez (20 April 1981) or better known as AJ Perez is a Filipino blogger and motivational speaker who gained prominence as a blogger when his article, "Dear Ex ni Janine Tugonon" ("Dear Janine Tugonon's Ex (Boyfriend)") went viral. He is known for his humorous, fearless and witty writing sty... |
Q29021199 Colin Richard Tincknell (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian politician and the Western Australian state leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 state election, as a One Nation member in South West Region. His term began on 22 May 2017.T... |
Q10612673 Orthotylus modestus is a species of plant bug in the family Miridae. It is found in North America. |
Q629052 Emsbüren is a municipality in the Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Ems, approx. 15 km south of Lingen, and 15 km northwest of Rheine.It has a railway station: Leschede. |
Q2441344 Jaime Fernandes Magalhães (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒajm(ɨ) mɐɡɐˈʎɐ̃ȷ̃ʃ]; born 10 July 1962) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right midfielder.During his professional career, he represented Porto for 15 seasons. |
Q7836088 Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics is a compilation album by American rock band Blues Traveler, released in 2002. It is composed of the band's greatest hits from before they were dropped by A&M Records. |
Q7868463 Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Columbine after Columbine, the flowering herb.USS Columbine (1862), a side wheel tug, was built in New York during 1850 as the A. H. Schultz and purchased by the Navy 12 December 1862.USS Columbine (1917), a lighthouse tender, served in the Navy from 11 April... |
Q845293 Créchy is a commune in the Allier department in central France.Between this village and nearby Billy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago). |
Q580540 The Route nationale 149 (N149) is a trunk road (nationale) in western France. |
Q6575031 This page lists Japan Airlines incidents and accidents. (Bold dates - fatal accidents) |
Q6415239 Kirill Nikolayevich Kotov (Russian: Кирилл Николаевич Котов; born 9 February 1983) is a Russian professional football official and a former player. |
Q4800171 Arthur Edwin Ross (18 December 1869 – 24 May 1923) was an eminent cleric in the Church of Ireland.He was born in 1869 in Montenotte, Cork, the son of David Ross of Glenageary and Anne Maria (née Neligan). He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was ordained in 1895. He was Rector of Ballymena and a Wo... |
Q15433971 Pierre-Charles Canot (c.1710–77) was a French engraver who spent most of his career in England. |
Q5888458 Home Is Where the Hart Is is a 1987 Canadian film, written and directed by Rex Bromfield. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Eric Christmas, and Martin Mull. |
Q829399 Murbach is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Wupper near Leichlingen. |
Q7917523 Vavuniya South Sinhala Divisional Council (Tamil: வவுனியா தெற்கு சிங்கள பிரதேச சபை Vavuṉiyā Teṟku Ciṅkaḷa Piratēca Capai; VSSDC) is the local authority for Vavuniya South DS Division in northern Sri Lanka. VSSDC is responsible for providing a variety of local public services including roads, sanitation, drains... |
Q16234150 Trevon Travis Salazar (born February 28, 1991) is a Belizean racing cyclist, who once competed for his native country at the Vuelta a Guatemala in the junior class in 2009. He currently rides for cycling team, Bahati Foundation Elite Team. In 2009 he won the Jr SanCas/BTB City Classic, a criterium race traver... |
Q20012920 The Western Sizzlers are an American band established in 2013 by ex Georgia Satellites manager Kevin Jennings and guitarist/singer of the Satellites, Rick Richards.Jennings, along with Richards, enlisted the talents of Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke on guitar and vocals along with Steve Marriott's son Toby... |
Q13502759 Cryptolechia pelophaea is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Taiwan. |
Q24037190 San Giovanni XXIII is a modern, Roman Catholic church attached to the new Ospedale Pope John XXIII of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church was designed by the architects Aymeric Zublena, Pippo and Ferdinando Traversi, and consecrated in 2014.Behind the altar is a tryptich of the Crucifixion, painted... |
Q5865944 Francisco Gárate Aranguren (3 February 1857 - 9 September 1929) was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious of the Jesuit order. Aranguren served as an nurse after receiving his qualification in 1877 and became noted for his encouragement and his tender care to the needs of students in his care.His health... |
Q28006724 Clive Montgomery Francis Planta (August 11, 1895–April 17, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1937 from the electoral district of Peace River, a non-partisan Independent member. He was the son of Canadian politician Albert Planta. Planta lat... |
Q42762826 Simone Pinna (born 17 October 1997) is an Italian football player. He plays for Olbia on loan from Cagliari. |
Q3040447 The Triglav Lakes Valley (Slovene: Dolina Triglavskih jezer) is a rocky hanging valley in the Julian Alps in Slovenia, below the sheer sides of Mount Tičarica and Mount Zelnarica southwest of Triglav. The valley is also called the Seven Lakes Valley (Dolina sedmerih jezer), although there are ten and not seven... |
Q2552327 Mythimna pallens, the common wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae distributed throughout the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland in the west, through Europe (all of Russia) to Central Asia and Amur to the Kuriles in the east. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Syste... |
Q51320 Mr. Eko Tunde is a fictional character, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the ABC television series Lost. He is introduced in the second season episode "Adrift" as one of the plane-crash survivors from the plane's tail section. Flashbacks reveal that he became the leader of a gang of guerrillas to save his b... |
Q2069154 Mary Ann Kostecki (August 11, 1934 – May 12, 2008), better known by her ring name Penny Banner, was an American professional wrestler.Best known for her time spent in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), she was also the Commissioner of the Professional Girl Wrestling Association (PGWA) from 1992 until he... |
Q3906759 Ployer Peter Hill (October 24, 1894 – October 30, 1935), known as "Pete" or "Peter", was a pilot and an officer with a varied career, but is best known for his abilities as a test pilot. In an aviation career that spanned eighteen years, Hill piloted nearly 60 of the Army Air Corps' newest aircraft, testing an... |
Q6599237 This is a list of films produced by the Tollywood (Telugu language film industry) based in Hyderabad in the year 2004. |
Q7080913 The Ohio State women's basketball team represents Ohio State University and plays its home games in the Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center, which they moved into in 1998. Prior to 1998, they played at St. John Arena. They have won 12 Big Ten titles, which is the most in the conference and hav... |
Q5320572 Dąbrowa [dɔmˈbrɔva] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krotoszyn, within Krotoszyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. |
Q1638069 John Baillie (10 May 1806 – 29 October 1859) was an English mechanical engineer who worked mainly in Austria and Germany.John Baillie was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, on 10 May 1806. He joined the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn or KFNB) in 1836 when the locomotives orde... |
Q4641336 The 5th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 17 February 2008 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. |
Q4675054 Acrapex leptepilepta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Lesotho. |
Q7261095 Pure Hank is the forty-third studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr. It was released by Warner Bros./Curb Records in April 1991. "If It Will, It Will" and "Angels Are Hard to Find" were released as singles with the former becoming Williams' final top 40 country single, peaking at #26, u... |
Q7996158 "Whiteman Stomp" is a 1927 jazz composition by musician and bandleader Paul Whiteman, Fats Waller, and Jo Trent. The song was released as a 78 single by both Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson. |
Q11789393 Naldo Braidner Kwasie (born 20 April 1986) is a Suriname international footballer who plays as a defender. He played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier. |
Q15998061 Bessie Callender (ca. 1889 – June 26, 1951) was an American sculptor most well known for her sculptures of wildlife in the style of the French animaliers. |
Q15615894 This list of cemeteries in Riverside County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in Riverside County, California. It does not include pet cemeteries. Selected interments are given for no... |
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