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Q5052737 Catherine Lucette Dargie née Huggett, OAM (6 May 1970 – 13 November 2011) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer who won two medals at two Paralympics. |
Q7241814 Preston is a village located in the Central Coast Council municipal area, near Upper Castra and Ulverstone in the North West region of Tasmania, Australia. In 2011, the village had an estimated population of 250. |
Q5498067 Frederick Howard Collins (1857-1910) was a British indexer and writer. Best known for his Authors' and printers' dictionary (1905), Collins also wrote on the philosophy of Herbert Spencer and on subject indexing. |
Q1080576 Christian Kayßler (14 June 1898 – 10 March 1944) was a German stage and film actor. He was the son of the actor Friedrich Kayßler. He appeared in fourteen films before dying in an Allied bombing raid on Berlin in March 1944 during the Second World War. He played one of the major roles in the popular 1939 aviat... |
Q20732121 Urvara উর্বর is the third-largest confirmed crater on Ceres after Kerwan and neighboring Yalode. Urvara means fertile. It is named after the ancient Indo-Iranian personification of fertility (plants in the Avesta, fertile fields in the Rig Veda). It has a central peak, and a number of unexplained ridges inte... |
Q28179879 Ramparda is a village and former petty princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. |
Q5097510 Chikura (千倉町, Chikura-chō) was a town located in Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of October 1, 2004, the town had an estimated population of 12,527 and a density of 342 persons per km². The total area was 36.64 km². |
Q3835320 Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached #6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Althoug... |
Q3591410 Éric Wenger is a computer programmer, artist and musician based in Paris, France. He produces creative software tools exclusively for the Macintosh platform. |
Q2915216 An umbrella company is a company that employs agency contractors who work on temporary contract assignments, usually through a recruitment agency in the United Kingdom. Recruitment agencies prefer to issue contracts to a limited company as the agency liability would be reduced. It issues invoices to the recrui... |
Q4974471 Brooke Point High School is a public high school located about 40 miles south of Washington D.C. in Stafford, Virginia, United States. It is one of five high schools serving Stafford County Public Schools, and enrolls students in grades nine through twelve in the eastern portion of Stafford County. The school ... |
Q4415155 Family Viewing is a 1987 Canadian drama film. |
Q2995687 The Continuum on South Beach are residential towers /skyscrapers in Miami Beach, Florida's South Beach. They are located directly in the southern extremity of the city, overlooking Government Cut. The south tower, which opened in 2002, is 471 ft (143 m) tall and has 40 floors. The north tower, which opened i... |
Q7336475 Rita Behrend is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva. |
Q874975 Eugene Lukacs (Hungarian: Lukács Jenő, 14 August 1906 – 21 December 1987) was an American statistician notable for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of Characteristic Functions, a classic textbook in the field.Born to a Jewish family in born in Szombathely, fr... |
Q933782 The 2010 Golden Horses Health Sanctuary Malaysian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the Malaysian Open and was an International tournament on the WTA Tour. The event took place from February 22 to February 28 at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian and Country Res... |
Q6809227 Meharbaani is a 1982 Bollywood film starring Dharmendra and Nazir Hussain. |
Q5322819 eCybermission (stylized as eCYBERMISSION) is a U.S. Army-sponsored online educational science fair for students in grades 6-9 in the United States or at US Army schools across the world. The contest is conducted entirely online—groups of 3-4 students submit "Mission Folders", which contain detailed information... |
Q5840705 Abbadbibi (Persian: ابادبي بي, also Romanized as Ābbādbībī) is a village in Nurabad Rural District, in the Central District of Manujan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 299, in 74 families. |
Q17514967 The Barlow Inlet Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. |
Q17478507 La casa de las fieras, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and originally transmitted by Telesistema Mexicano. |
Q17612218 Grace Victoria Cox (born March 10, 1995) is an American actress, known for playing Melanie Cross in the CBS series Under the Dome (2014–15) and Veronica Sawyer in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018). |
Q19891710 High School Mortar is situated in Mortar, in the Begusarai district of the state of Bihar, India. Mortar high school is the only high school serving the villages near Mortar, and students from the outlying villages travel to Mortar to study there. |
Q23058919 Southwest University is a for-profit virtual college located at 2200 Veterans Boulevard in Kenner, Louisiana offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. The school does not operate under an academic calendar but instead allows students to enroll and begin coursework at will. Final examinations are ... |
Q24944088 The Hajipur-Muzaffarpur-Samastipur-Barauni section is a railway line connecting Hajipur to Barauni Via Muzaffarpur, Samastipur the Indian state of Bihar. The 157.37 km (98 mi) line passes through the plains of North Bihar and the Gangetic Plain in Bihar. |
Q24993268 The 1998–99 FA Vase was the 25th season of the FA Vase, an annual football competition for teams in the lower reaches of the English football league system.Tiverton Town won the competition, beating Bedlington Terriers in the final. |
Q1431999 American Nightmare (briefly known as Give Up the Ghost) is a hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. They have released three albums, one EP and a compilation of earlier released material under the name American Nightmare. |
Q3525445 Arthur Chudleigh Beaumont "Chud" Langton (2 March 1912 – 27 November 1942) was a South African cricketer who played in 15 Tests from 1935 to 1939. Jack Fingleton rated him amongst the best medium-paced bowlers he ever saw.Langton was educated at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg. A tall, red-headed all-rou... |
Q11675266 USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) was a destroyer tender, the first of her class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea. The vessel was named for Samuel Gompers, a distinguished American labor leader during the late nineteenth century.Samuel Gompers was laid d... |
Q8074417 Zoran Vuković (born 6 September 1955 in Brusna, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War. During the course of the war he was in... |
Q420798 Akrobatisches Potpourri (also known as Gymnastikerfamilie Grunato) is an 1895 German short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Max and Emil Skladanowsky and starring the Grunato family. It is one of the first German produced films.Filmed in the park of the Berlin-Moabit Public Theat... |
Q4956383 A branch collar is the often visible swelling in a woody plant that forms at the base of a branch where it is attached to its parent branch or to the tree's trunk. The top of the branch collar consists of dense interlocking wood grain, which provides mechanical support to the branch attachment. Branch collars... |
Q6636791 This is part of the list of road junctions in the United Kingdom. Many road junctions are named after pubs. For more information regarding the derivation of pub names see pub names. |
Q7235424 Pottuvil electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Pottuvil in Ampara District, Eastern Province. The district was a two-member constituency between July 1977 and February 1989. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka in... |
Q2855429 SM91 is the Norwegian designation for a tram type which operated on the Oslo Tramway until 2002. The trams were imported from Sweden, where they had originally run on the Gothenburg Tramway under the designation M25. The trams were originally delivered to the Gothenburg Tramway between 1958 and 1961. A total o... |
Q5275917 Digital Media Academy (commonly referred to as "DMA") is a digital art and technology education company, located in Los Gatos, CA, and Vancouver, BC, primarily offering STEM summer camp and arts programs for kids, age 6-17, at several universities in the US and Canada, including Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Chicag... |
Q4676981 Actinopeltis may refer to:Actinopeltis (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family MicrothyriaceaeActinopeltis (trilobite), an extinct genus of trilobites in the family Cheiruridae |
Q1876063 Magic is the third album from Djumbo. It was released as a normal version and also a special version with an extra book in November 2008. |
Q8037175 Worth Allen Ryder (November 10, 1884 Kirkwood, Illinois - February 17, 1960 Berkeley, California) was an American artist, curator, and art professor. |
Q7362624 Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 9 March 1980. The Front of Socialist Unity and Democracy, dominated by the Romanian Communist Party and including other mass organisations, was the only organisation that contested the election. No prospective candidate could run for office without the Front's ap... |
Q15921638 The Taoyuan Hakka Culture Hall (Chinese: 桃園縣客家文化館; pinyin: Táoyuán Xiàn Kèjiā Wénhuàguǎn) is a Hakka cultural center in Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. |
Q18754773 Berry & MacFarlane Monument is a heritage-listed memorial at Sherwood Road, Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1902. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. |
Q25036422 The following is the discography of DJ Umek, including albums and singles. |
Q736582 Vladimir A. Kossogovsky (14 January 1857 - 12 September 1918) - was a Russian Lieutenant-General, commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, and a part of the General Staff of the Imperial Russian Army. |
Q27995871 The 1902–03 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1902–03 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 3–5–1. |
Q29831525 Liberty 1784: The Second War for Independence is an alternate history novel written by Robert Conroy. |
Q1373092 Wurmsbach Abbey (Kloster Mariazell-Wurmsbach) is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Bollingen, a locality of Rapperswil-Jona, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is located on the north shore of upper Lake Zürich. The house is a part of the Order of Cistercians of the Common Observance (O.Cist.... |
Q206597 The Dangerous Summer is a nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway published posthumously in 1985 and written in 1959 and 1960. The book describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, during the "dangerous summer" of 1959. It has been cited as Hemingway's la... |
Q7085445 Old World Wisconsin is an open-air museum located near Eagle, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. It depicts housing and the daily life of settlers in 19th-century Wisconsin, with separate areas representing the traditions of different ethnic groups who settled in the state. Costumed interpreters po... |
Q1346681 Louis Antoine François Baillon (20 January 1778 – 3 December 1855) was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville.His father, Jean-François-Emmanuel Baillon (1742-1801), a lawyer and correspondent of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, introduced him to nat... |
Q7550694 The Social Justice Party is a democratic and progressive political party in Egypt. |
Q6787721 Matoaca High School is an American secondary school in the Matoaca community of unincorporated Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States This is the newer campus of the school; the old school campus was converted into a middle school, known currently as Matoaca Middle School (8th grade campus). The school's... |
Q8010533 William Henry Noble (September 22, 1788 – February 5, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New Milford, Connecticut, received a limited education, and became a farmer and tanner. Noble moved to Ballston Spa, where he was an active in the Episcopal church and served as a vestryman. He later r... |
Q1384421 Santo Anzà (born 17 November 1980 in Catania, Italy) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for the UCI ProTeam Vacansoleil–DCM. |
Q16820306 Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encount... |
Q2821970 Abronia reidi is a species of arboreal alligator lizard described in 1961 by John E. Werler and Frederick A. Shannon. |
Q674799 FC Biel-Bienne is a football club based in Biel/Bienne. The currently play in the 2. Liga Interregional. |
Q5127555 Clarkia modesta is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common name Waltham Creek clarkia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the woodlands of several of the central mountain ranges, including the North and Central Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada foothill... |
Q7320173 Frangula caroliniana, commonly called the Carolina buckthorn, is an upright shrub or small tree native to the southeastern, south-central, and mid-western parts of the United States, from Texas east to Florida and north as far as Maryland, Ohio, Missouri, and Oklahoma. There is also an isolated population in ... |
Q2602946 Triisodon is a genus of extinct mesonychian mammal that existed during the Early Paleocene of New Mexico, North America. The genus was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1881 as a member of the Acreodi, a now invalid taxon that encompassed both creodonts and mesonychians. The premolar teeth have three points, he... |
Q486470 Anas Urbaningrum (born July 15, 1969), is a former Indonesian politician who was the chairman of the Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat), the party who won Indonesia's general election in 2009. Elected at the age of 40, he was one of the youngest party leaders in Indonesia. Before this, he was the head of the De... |
Q258241 The 2010–11 season of the Oberliga Hamburg, the highest association football league in the German state of Hamburg, was the third season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system. |
Q17010842 Hope Meets Foster is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope and saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label. |
Q15217887 The Florennes Castle (formerly the Château de Beaufort) in Florennes, Namur, Belgium, is a castle that dates back to the 9th century, although the most of the modern structure is much more recent. |
Q22058856 The Capt. Samuel Woodruff House is a historic house at 23 Old State Road in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1840, it is a well-preserved and somewhat rare example of a square Greek Revival farmhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. |
Q30600917 Sub Rosa is a 2010 queer novel by Canadian Amber Dawn published by Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press. The novel was Dawn's debut novel, and is a work of speculative fiction that touches on topics of sex, work, imagination, and survival. It narrates the story of "Little," a teenage girl who cannot remember he... |
Q2275184 Mountain Village is a Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, southwestern Colorado. It is located just southwest of Telluride in the San Juan Mountains. The elevation of the town rises above Telluride to 9,540 feet. The population was 1,320 at the 2010 census and estimated at 1,395 as of 2015. |
Q299669 Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. |
Q485131 Queen Seondeok of Silla (Korean: 선덕여왕 Korean pronunciation: [sʌn.dʌk jʌ.waŋ]; c. 595~610 – 17 February 647/January 8, Lunar Calendar) reigned as Queen Regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen. She was the second fe... |
Q244361 The pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a small species of New World monkey native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. The species is notable for being the smallest monkey and one of the smallest primates in the world, at just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) (Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is sma... |
Q4965254 Brian Setencich (born 1962) served in the California Assembly for one term from 1994 to 1996 and as Speaker of that body from September 14, 1995 to January 4, 1996. Setencich, a Republican, was the first freshman legislator to serve as Speaker of the Assembly in more than a century. He was previously a city co... |
Q7939406 Vogrie House forms the centrepiece of Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian. It is the former home of the Dewar family and was built in 1876 by Andrew Heiton, the town architect for Perth.The house is an example of Victorian baronial splendour and is said to be one of the best surviving examples of Heiton's work. ... |
Q5444505 The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at Binghamton University, State University of New York was founded in September 1976 and serves as one of the preeminent centers for advanced study of systemic history (especially the world-systems dynamics) and histor... |
Q1901965 Marland Pratt Billings (March 11, 1902 – October 9, 1996) was an American structural geologist who was considered one of the greatest authorities on North American geology. Billings was Professor of Geology at Harvard University for almost his entire career, having joined the faculty in 1930 and retired to eme... |
Q674886 Seiry is a village lying within the municipality of Lully, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It formerly existed as an autonomous municipality, but on 1 January 2006 was merged, together with Bollion, into the larger Lully.Seiry first appears in 1180 AD as Seirie. The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland... |
Q7232398 Karnataka's coastline called Karavali stretches 300 km between Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district and Karwar in Uttara Kannada district. The coastline of Karnataka has been along the eastern shore of Arabian Sea. Karnataka has one major and ten minor ports in this coastal belt. Kali, Belekeri, Gangavali... |
Q7331516 Richard Ira "Rick" Klaw (born December 22, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American editor, essayist, and bookseller. |
Q686272 Oblinghem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. |
Q4353126 Baltic Yachts is a shipyard specialized in sailing yachts. It is located in the municipality of Larsmo in Finland, where it is the largest employer.The shipyard was established in 1973 and now produces sailing yachts between 50 feet (15 m) and 197 feet (60 m) in length. Advanced and light materials, such as ca... |
Q1062191 Saint-Jean-des-Champs is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. |
Q663932 This is a list of Nintendo 3DS games released or planned for release physically on Nintendo 3DS game cards and/or digitally on the Nintendo eShop. |
Q6957496 Nadeau is an unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States. Nadeau is located in Nadeau Township along US Highway 41 and the Canadian National Railway, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Carney. Nadeau has a post office with ZIP code 49863. |
Q4349443 Maia Estianty (born Maia Estianty, 27 January 1976), known as Maia Ahmad during her marriage to fellow musician Ahmad Dhani, is an Indonesian musician, music producer, songwriter, singer, actress, businesswoman, talent show judge, and television personality.Estianty was born in Surabaya, East Java, and showe... |
Q12483972 The Christian Church of Southern Sumatra is a Protestant church in Indonesia, based on the southern part of the island of Sumatra, the Provinces of Lampung, Jambi, South Sumatra, and Bengkulu. The synod office is located in Lampung.The denomination was officially founded on 6 August 1987. It has 30,000–35,000... |
Q20676161 Asif Nazar Butt (born 28 February 1987) better known by his stage name DJ Butt is Pakistani DJ, political activist and businessman from Lahore best known for his work as a disc jockey in the events of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He is also owner of a cafe named DJ Butt Café in Model Town, Lahore. |
Q29996625 The Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario are an American professional basketball team of the NBA G League that began play in the 2017–18 season. The franchise is owned by and affiliated with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team is based in Ontario, California. |
Q490953 Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,541. Its county seat is Berkeley Springs. The county was formed in 1820 from parts of Hampshire and Berkeley Counties and named in honor of General Daniel Morgan, prominent soldier of the American... |
Q7331366 Richard Robert Elias (January 7, 1955 – April 2, 2019) was an American singer and songwriter based in Nashville.Elias is best known for being a founding member of Rich Mullins' A Ragamuffin Band, which recorded and toured from 1993 through 2000. |
Q5591440 Gracechurch Street is a main road in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London, which is designated the A1213.It is home to a number of shops, restaurants, and offices and has an entrance to Leadenhall Market, a covered market dating from the 14th century. |
Q2623514 The Contender is an American reality television series that initially aired from March 3, 2005 to January 7, 2009 on NBC, ESPN, and Versus and currently airs on Epix. Each season of the series follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and ... |
Q918054 The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships from 1956 to 1966. The ... |
Q3071731 The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji. Established in Levuka on 4 September 1869 by George Littleton Griffiths (1844 Woolwich, England - 1908 Suva, Fiji), it is Fiji's oldest number 1 newspaper still operating. The newspaper's masthead states that it is: "The First Newspa... |
Q6438425 Karl Kristoffer Göbel (born 23 October 1978) is a Swedish vocalist. He has sung for both the heavy metal band Destiny and sang for Falconer between 2003 and 2005 - a position from which he was fired to make way for the returning original vocalist, Mathias Blad. He was hired by Destiny in 2001 and left sometime... |
Q15463138 Jack Jackson (20 February 1906 – 15 January 1978) was an English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era, and who later became a highly influential radio disc jockey. The BBC’s nickname “Auntie” is often credited to Jackson. |
Q948266 Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒɔzef lɑ̃ɡɛ də ʒɛʁʒi]; 25 August 1677 – 11 May 1753) was a French ecclesiastic and theologian. He was first bishop of Soissons, then a member of the Académie française, and finally archbishop of Sens. |
Q3380422 In enzymology, a 1,2-dehydroreticulinium reductase (NADPH) (EC 1.5.1.27) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction(R)-reticuline + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 1,2-dehydroreticulinium + NADPH + H+Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are (R)-reticulin... |
Q6264564 John Wilton (Penguin, Tasmania, 31 January 1925 – 13 October 2002) was the member for Broadmeadows in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1985. He was a member of the Labor Party. |
Q7942127 Vote for Love is a 1996 album by Kenny Rogers released exclusively for sale on QVC. It was later made available in retail stores under the title Always & Forever. |
Q7383253 Ruth Wallace (born 1 February 1993) is an Australian rules football player who plays for Norwood Football Club in the SANFL Women's League. She is also former soccer player who played for Adelaide United in the Australian W-League.In 2014, Wallace ran the New York Marathon as part of the Indigenous Marathon Pr... |
Q17015969 Ireland is competing at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013. |
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