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Q20053809 The 4th International Emmy Awards took place on November 22, 1976, in New York City, United States. |
Q22265297 Songs of Love is a compilation album by Simply Red in 2010. It is the band’s second romantic-themed compilation following the release of ‘’It’s Only Love’’ in 2000. It peaked at #12 in the United Kingdom and was certified silver. The album features two new recordings "Beside You" and "I Have The Love" while t... |
Q11687818 Bettina Müller-Weissina (born July 12, 1973) is a retired Austrian sprinter. |
Q43285793 Sub-Central Line (Chinese: 城市副中心线; pinyin: Chéngshì Fù Zhōngxīn Xiàn) is a line of Beijing Suburban Railway (BCR). It runs from Beijing West railway station in Fengtai District to Qiaozhuang East railway station in Tongzhou District. It provides faster service to reach Beijing's sub-administrative center in T... |
Q6811885 The Spring Racing Carnival is the name of an Australian Thoroughbred horse racing series held annually in Melbourne during October and November. |
Q5639129 Haik Hovsepian Mehr (Armenian: Հայկ Հովսեփյան Մեհր; January 6, 1945, Tehran – January 19, 1994) was an Iranian Armenian Protestant minister and bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church (part of the Assemblies of God church movement). After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, he was one of the few Christian leaders t... |
Q600707 Hitman: Contracts is a 2004 stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is the third installment in the Hitman video game series. As of April 2009, the game has sold around 2 million copies. High-definition ports of Contract... |
Q983828 Dylan Michael Patton (born July 13, 1992) is an American former actor and former model. He is best known for portraying the role of Will Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives from February 27, 2009 to January 20, 2010.He currently plays Ultimate Frisbee for the Los Angeles Organization of Ultimate Team... |
Q4585376 Reidar Carlsen (1 July 1908 – 2 May 1987) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.Reidar Carlsen was born in Bodin in Nordland county, Norway. He studied at the National School of Forestry (Skogskolen) in the community of Steinkjer (1928–1929).He was Member of Parliament of Norway from 1945-1961. He wa... |
Q6090533 "It's OK!" is a song by British girl band Atomic Kitten. It was written by Hallgeir Rustan along with Mikkel Storleer Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen from Stargate and recorded for the band's second album Feels So Good (2002). The song was released by Virgin Records as the lead single from the album in May 2002... |
Q6559118 Felicity Kenvyn (known as Lissa Evans) is a British television director, producer, novelist and children's author. |
Q6202323 Jingili is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. |
Q16089986 William Alfred Stoltzfus, Jr. (November 3, 1924 – September 6, 2015) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. |
Q2456395 Golemo Selo (Bulgarian: Големо Село) is a small village located between the towns of Dupnitsa and Bobov Dol in Kyustendil Province, western Bulgaria. The village name means "big village". The population of the village is 573 inhabitants (according to the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute data 2007). At ... |
Q4708121 Alan Zaleski was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1982 to 1998, representing the 13th District, which encompasses much of Lorain County, Ohio. By 1998, Zaleski faced term limits, and was subsequently succeeded by Jeff Armbruster, a Republican. |
Q7083384 Old Aloysius is a camogie club that won the All Ireland club championship inNotable players included Lil Kirby, Kathleen Buckley, Renee Fitzgerald and Mary Moran (both later to become Presidents of the Camogie Association), |
Q2730372 Khakhrechi or Khakharechi is a village of Malia and Rathore communities in Gujarat, India. Its coordinates are: 23°5'0"N 70°55'8"E. |
Q15225480 Hoseynabad (Persian: حسين اباد, also Romanized as Ḩoseynābād) is a village in Chahar Gonbad Rural District, in the Central District of Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q5591783 There are 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of... |
Q25091343 The 1999 Women's Professional Softball League season was the third season of professional fastpitch softball for the league named Women's Professional Softball League (WPSL). In 1997 and 1998, WPSL operated under the name Women's Pro Fastpitch (WPF). |
Q15575628 Hieracium nudicaule is a North American plant species in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It grows only in the western United States, primarily in California and Oregon, though with a few populations in Washington and northern Idaho.Hieracium nudicaule is an herb up to 50 cm (20 in) tall, with... |
Q22278157 Paul Hawkins (born 16 April 1987) is a British humourist, published in Germany. His books include Denglisch for Better Knowers, Gebrauchsanleitung Mensch (iHuman: User Guide), and Erwachsenwerden für Anfänger (How to Deal with Adulthood). |
Q24885309 Devine is an unincorporated community in Pueblo County, in the U.S. state of Colorado.The community was named after Thomas Devine, a railroad official. |
Q1036975 NGC 496, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5037, UGC 927 or GC 288, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It located approximately 250 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 12 September, 1784 by astronomer William Herschel. |
Q193094 The Dinar (Arabic pronunciation: [diːˈnɑːr]) (Arabic: دينار, (sign: د.ع; code: IQD) is the currency of Iraq. It is issued by the Central Bank of Iraq and is subdivided into 1,000 fils (فلس), although inflation has rendered the fils obsolete since 1990. |
Q2944877 The Rideau Centre (corporately styled as CF Rideau Centre) is a four-level shopping centre on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It borders on Rideau Street, the ByWard Market, the Rideau Canal, the Mackenzie King Bridge, and Nicholas Street in Downtown Ottawa. Over 20 million people visit the mall annu... |
Q6681015 Loretto High School was a small, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory school for young women in Sacramento, California. Although located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento the school was independent of the diocese. In 2005, Loretto High School celebrated its 50th anniversary. In June 2009, the school... |
Q605013 Reiko Yoshida (吉田 玲子, Yoshida Reiko, born December 31, 1967) is a Japanese screenwriter. She has written and supervised numerous screenplays for anime series, live-action dramas and films. Her major works include Kasumin, Kaleido Star, Aria, Maria-sama ga Miteru, D.Gray-man, K-On!, Bakuman and Girls und Panzer... |
Q523146 The 1911 Giro d'Italia was the 3rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 18 May in Rome with a stage that stretched 394.1 km (245 mi) to Florence. It was composed of twelve stages that covered a total distance of 3,530.3 km ... |
Q7903230 Utricularia vitellina is a small or very small, probably perennial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia and is only known from two mountain peaks (Gunung Tahan and Gunung Kerbau) that are over 100 km (62.1 mi) apart. U. vitellina grows as a terrestrial p... |
Q5158301 The Conceição River is a river of Ceará state in eastern Brazil. |
Q5005220 The Bølingen Islands are a group of small islands, 15 kilometres (8 nmi) in extent, lying immediately off the north side of the Publications Ice Shelf in the southeastern part of Prydz Bay. They were discovered and roughly charted by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen in February 1935, charted in greater detail by Norw... |
Q5289373 Kainuu Sámi is an extinct Sámi language that was spoken in Kainuu. It became extinct in the 18th century when the Kainuu Sámi probably assimilated and shifted to speak Finnish. Kainuu Sámi belonged to the Eastern Sámi language group.The original inhabitants of Kainuu were Sámi hunter-fishers. In the 17th centu... |
Q6085811 Isokelekel (Pohnpeian: "shining noble," "wonderful king"), also called Idzikolkol, was a semi-mythical hero warrior from Kosrae who conquered the Saudeleur Dynasty of Pohnpei, an island in the modern Federated States of Micronesia, sometime between the early 16th century and early 17th century. Some Kosraean v... |
Q21364467 Dumbletonius unimaculata is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is host to the vegetable caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps robertsii. |
Q15430675 Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s) was the 18th-century English author of two epistolary novels. Little is known of her life. |
Q16231803 Gonzalo Daniel Mazzia (born January 13, 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentinian football striker playing in Juventud Unida Universitario. |
Q13189128 Anticona (possibly from Quechua for metals or minerals, the inhabitants of the rainforest or the Andes), also called Ticlio, is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 5,150 metres (16,896 ft) high. It is located in the Lima Region, Huarochiri Province, Chicla District, and in the Junín Region, Yauli Province,... |
Q16962052 ShortStraw is an indie rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. ShortStraw is currently signed to their independently formed publishing label Boosh Records in South Africa, with digital distribution by Sony Music. |
Q18910084 Not to be confused with the basketball club Vardar.KK Vardar Osiguruvanje (Macedonian: КК Вардар Осигурување) was a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They played in the Macedonian First League one season. |
Q21079123 A Private Man (2004) is a crime novel by Australian author Malcolm Knox. It won the 2005 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. |
Q21809680 Alice Téligny Mathon was a Haitian feminist, active in the 1920s and 1930s. She was an inaugural member of the Inter-American Commission of Women in 1928 and on 3 March 1934 co-founded the Feminine League for Social Action in Haiti. Other founding members of the League were Fernande Bellegarde, Marie Corvingt... |
Q25203961 Founded on July 16, 1950 the Computer Research Corporation (CRC) was an early developer of minicomputers. |
Q28940930 I. Grant Scott (May 3, 1897 – November 17, 1964) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1936 to 1937 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1937 to 1944. He also served as the Mayor of Cape May from 1941 to 1948.He died of a heart attack on November 17, 1964, in Cape May, New... |
Q643474 In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. A majority of Herod biographers, and "[p]robably a major... |
Q731721 The Plastic Ono Band was a rock band formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 for their collaborative and solo projects.Lennon and Ono began personal and artistic relationship in 1968, collaborating on several experimental releases. Following their marriage in 1969, they decided their future endeavours would ... |
Q2558200 "Today I Am a Clown" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 7, 2003. The episode focuses on Krusty's religion, Judaism.Dan Castellaneta won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his roles in thi... |
Q327508 Gündoğmuş is a town and remote district of Antalya Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, 182 km from the city of Antalya, off the road from Akseki to Manavgat.The town was previously a village named Eksere in the district of Akseki and was renamed Gündoğmuş in 1936. |
Q14875439 Stephen Lewis Secondary School is a public semestered high school in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada administered by the York Region District School Board. Currently, the school enrolls students in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 all of which are from the 'Vaughan Block 10' region. The school is named for Canadian statesman... |
Q210318 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tandag (Lat: Dioecesis Tandagensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. Erected in 1978, the diocese was created from territory in the Diocese of Surigao. The diocese has experienced no jurisdictional changes, and is a suffragan of the A... |
Q4882995 Belizean Americans are Americans who are of Belizean ancestry. These ancestors might be from Belize or of its diaspora. |
Q6378339 Kattenvenne is a village located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. |
Q2139405 Korita (pronounced [kɔˈɾiːta]) is a village in the Municipality of Trebnje in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.The local church is dedicated to Saint Peter and belongs to the Parish of Do... |
Q572426 The 1942-43 OB I bajnokság season was the seventh season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Four teams participated in the final round, and BBTE Budapest won the championship. |
Q32748 Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War. Its aim was... |
Q800578 Brugg railway station (German: Bahnhof Brugg) serves the municipality of Brugg, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Opened in 1856, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.The station forms the junction between the Baden–Aarau railway, part of the original line between Zurich and Olten, the Bözberg railway l... |
Q13531713 Lophocampa niveigutta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in Brazil and Colombia. |
Q14800243 Prosopocera bipunctata is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetles in the subfamily Lamiinae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773, from Sierra Leone. |
Q19901590 This is a list of notable painters from, or associated with, Slovakia . |
Q20078792 Wang Wupin (born 18 January 1991) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. She holds personal bests of 6.58 m (21 ft 7 in) and 14.10 m (46 ft 3 in) for the events, respectively. She was the gold medallist in the triple jump at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships.H... |
Q1473818 A pfleger was a mediaeval office holder in the Holy Roman Empire, a type of burgrave or vogt, who was responsible for the management and defence of a castle or abbey. In Bavaria there was also the title of pflegskommissär, given to someone who represented a pfleger as required (in the sense of a "commissarial"... |
Q38842002 Renaissance (also known as Renesans) is a 1964 French animation and short film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. |
Q6098101 Hüseyin Çakıroğlu (19 September 1957 - 26 October 1986), nicknamed Doktor (English, the doctor) was a Turkish former footballer who played as a midfielder. A 10-time international for the Turkey national football team, Çakıroğlu died suddenly of cancer in 1986 at the age of 29. |
Q5974025 Leucospermum heterophyllum is a low, trailing evergreen shrublet of up to 15 cm (6 in) high, and up to several m in diameter, which is assigned to the Proteaceae family. It has narrow leaves of about 2½ cm (1 in) long and ½ cm (0.2 in) wide, mostly with three teeth near its tip. It has small, globe-shaped, whi... |
Q2168779 Camargo is a town in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 178 at the 2010 census, an increase of 54.8 percent from 115 at the 2000 census. |
Q3053729 Harrisville is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,876 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ritchie County. The town is home to historic Berdine's Five and Dime. |
Q926351 John Eales AM (born 27 June 1970) is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby. He became one of only twenty dual Rugby World Cup winners. |
Q5058434 Celovce may refer to several places in SlovakiaČelovce, Veľký Krtíš DistrictČeľovce - a village in Trebisov District in eastern Kosice Region |
Q2926069 The Western Michigan Broncos are a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team representing Western Michigan University (WMU). They compete in the Mid-American Conference in men's baseball, basketball, football, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, cros... |
Q6483148 Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) is a private, secular, coeducational college preparatory school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves 575 students in preschool through twelfth grade. All grades are housed under one roof. |
Q3968463 The 2001 State Farm Women's Tennis Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States and was part of Tier II of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and ran from February 26 through March 4, 2001. First-seeded Lindsay Dav... |
Q3560959 Bosc de Virós (or Virós-Vallferrera) is a ski resort for Nordic skiing in the town of Bordes de Virós, in the municipality of Alins, in Catalonia, opened in 2001. It's located in the Alt Pirineu Natural Park.The Gall Fer refuge is the base for all activities, including hosting service for 25 people and a resta... |
Q7369304 Ross E. Dunn is an American historian and writer, the author of several books including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, and coauthor of the highly cited History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. He is Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University.The Adventures of Ibn Battuta is based on ... |
Q3427771 The Enarmoniini are a tribe of tortrix moths. |
Q3171299 Cyclostrema huesonicum, common name the Key West cyclostreme, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae. |
Q4790346 Arie Van de Moortel (17 July 1918 in Laeken – 1 May 1976 in Brussels) was a Belgian viola virtuoso, composer and music teacher.Van de Moortel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels receiving first prize in viola and chamber music in 1937. He continued his studies on viola with François Broos receiving ... |
Q14156927 Blyth's shrike-babbler (Pteruthius aeralatus) is a bird species found in the eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia from northern Burma to southern Cambodia. Like others in the genus it is found in montane forests. Males and females have different plumages and variations occur through its range with several pop... |
Q7609712 Stephen Charles Kowalczykowski ("Steve K") is a Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California at Davis. His research focuses on the biochemistry and molecular biology of DNA repair and homologous recombination. His lab combines fluorescence microscopy, optical t... |
Q17156588 In computer programming, resource management refers to techniques for managing resources (components with limited availability).Computer programs may manage their own resources by using features exposed by programming languages (Elder, Jackson & Liblit (2008) is a survey article contrasting different approach... |
Q10393255 Watson Macedo (July 21, 1919 – April 8, 1981) was a Brazilian screenwriter, film editor, producer and director. |
Q20646719 The 2014 NACRA Women's Sevens was the tenth tournament of the North America and Caribbean Women's Sevens Championship, the official rugby sevens continental championships organized by NACRA. Both the women's and men's competitions were held at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, Mexico on 3–4 December 2014.Eight ... |
Q28405823 List of Hubble anniversary images is a list of images released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope anniversaries. They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990 by the Space Shuttle with its crew. |
Q3464529 Saint Margaret of Antioch is a 1631 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1903The artist shows the saint Margaret of Antioch as a shepherdess, holding a crook (referring to the legend that she grazed her nurse's sheep). Behind her is the dragon from whose st... |
Q675754 Laparoscopy (from Ancient Greek λαπάρα (lapara), meaning 'flank, side', and σκοπέω (skopeo), meaning 'to see') invented by George Kelling in 1901, in Germany, is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) with the aid of a camera. The laparoscope aids diagnosis ... |
Q8123 The 1916 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1916), officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were scheduled to be held in Berlin, German Empire, but were eventually cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. Berlin was selected as the host city during the 14th IOC Session in Stockholm on ... |
Q3356829 Majorstuen is a subway station on the Oslo Metro and a light rail station on the Briskeby Line of the Oslo Tramway. It is located in the Majorstuen neighborhood in the Frogner borough.Majorstuen is shared by all the subway lines, and, being located just after the tunnel entrance, it is the only such station no... |
Q338523 The Accademia di San Luca, (the "Academy of Saint Luke") was founded in 1577 as an association of artists in Rome (under the directorship of Federico Zuccari from 1593), with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists", which included painters, sculptors and architects, above that of mere craftsmen. Other fo... |
Q770518 Boumerdès (Arabic: بومرداس; Kabyle: Bumerdes; Bumardas or Bomardas; formerly Rocher Noir) is the capital city of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 28,500 in 1998 and 15,000 in 1987.Boumerdès is a seaside city located in the north of Algeria about 50 km e... |
Q3529593 Anura Tennekoon (born 29 October 1946) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and ODI captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He was educated at the S. Thomas' College in Mount Lavinia.After captaining the school team and being selected as best schoolboy batsman of the year, Tennekoon went on to play first-c... |
Q9199451 Graphium evemon, the blue jay, lesser jay, or pale green triangle is a species of tropical butterfly found in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. |
Q17066245 Playland Park was an amusement park formerly located at 2222 North Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. Playland Park opened in 1943 and was owned by Jimmy Johnson. Prior to this it operated as a small venue at Brackenridge Park ca. 1942. It was the original home of The Rocket, a popular wooden roller coaster. Ed Gai... |
Q4020994 Worthing Thunder is a basketball team from Worthing, England. Founded in 1999, Thunder have competed in the top-tier British Basketball League, having previously dominated the lower leagues and winning back-to-back English Basketball League Division One titles in 2006 and 2007. In the summer of 2011 Worthing T... |
Q15979583 The Trinity Centre, formerly the Holy Trinity Church, in Lawrence Hill, Bristol is designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building. The building is protected by a covenant, which states that it is to only be used for community, arts, youth and education services. This covenant has influenced muc... |
Q4822068 Aurahi is a Village Development Committee in Dhanusa District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 5,589 and had 961 houses. |
Q4640650 The United States Air Force's 55th Mobile Command and Control Squadron (55 MCCS) was a mobile command and control unit located at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. |
Q3624097 Klassa (Bulgarian: Класа, meaning Class in English) was a Bulgarian newspaper, which published content from the Financial Times. The paper was first published on 3 September 2007. Its publisher was Klassa Bulgaria EAD.With a circulation of more than 10,000 copies, its subscribers were mainly legal or economic ... |
Q5095690 Chicago Live! is an hour-long stage and radio variety show hosted by Chicago newspaperman and radio personality Rick Kogan. The multi-platform show is produced by the Chicago Tribune in partnership with The Second City and broadcasts on WGN Radio 720-AM Saturday nights at 11 p.m. It is taped in front of a liv... |
Q5502602 Several ships of the French navy have borne the name Terpsichore, after Terpsichore, one of the Muses of Greek mythology:Terpsichore (1758), captured in 1760 by HMS Aeolus, Pallas, Brilliant, taken into service as HMS Terpsichore and sold in 1766.Terpsichore (1763), 30 gun frigate broken up in 1784.Terpsichore... |
Q4702185 Al-Ameen College of Pharmacy is a pharmacy college in India. It is located in Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, one of several colleges offering pharmacy programs, and is approved by Pharmacy Council of India.The college is affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, and is heade... |
Q24034835 John Rowlandson (September 3, 1876 – 1946) was an English-born merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented Cochrane South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1937 as a Liberal.The son of James Rowlandson and Sarah Mitchell, he was born in Kendal, came to Canada in 1883 and was e... |
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