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Q7969716 Warner Walton Cope (January 31, 1824 – January 17, 1903), also known as W. W. Cope, was the sixth Chief Justice of California.
Q6382621 Trollbäcken is a district of Tyresö Municipality in Sweden. It is located south of Bollmora along county road 260. Trollbäcken contains almost exclusively detached houses. In the area of Trollbäcken centre (Trollbäckens centrum), also known as Alléplan, there are some multi-apartment buildings and commercial ...
Q750390 The following tables are the list of cities in India by population. Often cities are bifurcated into multiple regions (municipalities) which results in creation of cities within cities which may figure in the list. The entire work of this article is based on Census of India, 2011, conducted by the Office of the...
Q5377433 Engelsviken is a village in Fredrikstad municipality, Norway. As of 2003 it is considered by Statistics Norway as a part of the Greater Lervik area.
Q1476938 The OFC Women's Nations Cup (previously known as the OFC Women's Championship) is a women's association football tournament for national teams who belong to the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). It was held every three years from 1983 to 1989. Currently, the tournament is held at irregular intervals. Of th...
Q1625415 Monday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River, 27 miles (43.5 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Hocking and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 116 square miles (300 km²) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. Mond...
Q6142654 James Smith Lithgow (November 29, 1812 — February 21, 1902) was an American politician, and the sixteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from January 2, 1866 to February 14, 1867. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and apprenticed as a coppersmith there.He moved to Louisville in 1832 and worked various job...
Q3914274 Spathularia flavida, commonly known as the yellow earth tongue, the yellow fan, or the fairy fan, is an ascomycete fungus found in coniferous forests of Asia, Europe and North America. It produces a small, fan- or spoon-shaped fruit body with a flat, wavy or lobed cream to yellow colored "head" raised on a whi...
Q1393749 Pablo Tusset (born 1965) is a Spanish writer.Tusset was born in Barcelona. In 2001 he published The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant (original title: Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán), which won the Tigre Juan Award.In 2006 he published his second novel, En el nombre del cerdo (literally: In...
Q6909439 Moray Firth School was an independent school located at Gollanfield, between Inverness and Nairn, Scotland. It was open 2002–2010 and during that period was the only independent school in the Highland council area.
Q1869864 The Lord Howe fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina), also known as the Lord Howe Island fantail or fawn-breasted fantail, was a small bird in the fantail family, Rhipiduridae. It is an extinct subspecies of the New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa). It was endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea,...
Q7138892 Parli Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency came into existence in 2008, following the implementation of the delimitation of the legislative assembly constituencies. This constituency covers part o...
Q6395221 The Kester Peaks are three aligned rock peaks standing together 5 nautical miles (9 km) south of Mount Malville on the east side of the Forrestal Range, in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1956–66, and were...
Q7269387 Quartz Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Quartz Lake is only 150 yards (140 m) east of Middle Quartz Lake. Quartz Lake is a 6 miles (9.7 km) hike from the Bowman Lake Picnic Area. The historic Quartz Lake Patrol Cabin is on the western shore of Quartz Lake.
Q4119140 The 1975 Palestine Cup was the 3rd edition of the Palestine Cup of Nations, it was held in Tunisia between 19 and 28 December. Ten nations took part in the competition of which Egypt won.
Q18345684 Lebogang Mabatle is a South African football defender. She plays for University of Pretoria and the South Africa women's national football team.
Q13400548 Aspidoglossa szekessyi is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Kult in 1950.
Q2575062 Baildon is a civil parish and townin Northern England. It is part of the Bradford Metropolitan District in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire and within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire.It lies 3 miles (5 km) north of Bradford city centre.Other nearby suburbs include Shipley to th...
Q4682455 The Adhaalath Party (AP) (Dhivehi: ޢަދާލަތު ޕާޓީ, Justice Party) is a political party in the Maldives.
Q6206247 Joanne Yeoh Pei Sze (Chinese: 杨佩丝; born 1977) is a Malaysian violinist and currently a lecturer in music at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Yeoh began playing piano at the age of four and violin at eight. Although classically trained, she also plays in contemporary settings. She released her solo instrumental debut...
Q412460 Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) is a fluorocarbon with chemical formula C2F4. It is the simplest perfluorinated alkene. This gaseous species is used primarily in the industrial preparation of polymers.
Q782111 Mohammed Aly Reda (born February 19, 1975 in Cairo) is an Egyptian boxer who competed in the Super Heavyweight class (over 91 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.At the AllAfrica Games 2003 he lost the final to Gbenga Oluokun.At the Olympics he beat Carlos Takam, Jaroslavas Jaksto and sensa...
Q817526 Benjamin Hickman Bunn (October 19, 1844 – August 25, 1907) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born on a farm in Nash County, near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Bunn attended the local schools. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a second lieutenant in Company A, 47th Nor...
Q7614544 Steven Campbell (1953–2007) was a painter from Scotland.
Q4353435 The 1997 Jabalpur earthquake occurred on May 22, at 04:21:31 AM in Jabalpur District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The epicenter of the earthquake was located near Koshamghat village. According to geologist Dr V. Subramanyan, former professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay),...
Q6129674 The Mount Hua Sect, also known as the Huashan Sect, is a fictional martial arts sect mentioned in several works of wuxia fiction. It is commonly featured as one of the leading orthodox sects in the wulin (martial artists' community). It is named after the place where it is based, Mount Hua. The sect appears in...
Q7080561 "Oh What a Dream" is a 1954 blues song written by Chuck Willis and originally performed by Ruth Brown backed by members of The Drifters (only credited as her Rhythmakers). The song has been described as a torch song with a gospel tint, adding up to a big dose of that R&B balladeering as expressed in the lyrics...
Q256762 Ernő Nagy (2 August 1898 – 8 December 1977) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Other members of the team included Aladár Gerevich, Gyula Glykais, Endre Kabos, Attila Petschauer, and György Piller. He retired from competition in 1938, at which point h...
Q6795708 Maximilian Gosseau de Henef (also spelled Coseaux and de Heneff) was an Austrian architect of Alsatian descent.He designed Star fort Tvrđa in Osijek (German: Esseg), in today's Croatia. Gosseau took over planning of the fort when construction was already underway. Gosseau had to tackle quite a few problems. He...
Q6594162 The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the National League Central division. Since the establishment of the Rule 4 Draft the Pirates have selected 54 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Ru...
Q2272139 The 2003-04 Serbian Hockey League season was the 13th season of the Serbian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Serbia. Five teams participated in the league, and HK Vojvodina Novi Sad won the championship.
Q412374 Gyeonggi Science High School (GSHS, Korean: 경기과학고등학교), established in 1983 originally as a Science High school, is currently a science High school for the gifted in Suwon, South Korea. It was the first science high school established in South Korea, and was transformed into a science high school for the gifted,...
Q4725473 Aliabad-e Farasudeh (Persian: علي ابادفرسوده‎, also Romanized as ‘Alīābād-e Farasūdeh; also known as ‘Alīābād) is a village in Behnamvasat-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Varamin County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,178, in 548 families.
Q3391084 Plakala is a village in Pljevlja Municipality, in northern Montenegro. According to the 2003 census, the village had a population of 4 people.
Q19892287 The Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, commonly referred to as the Concerto alla rustica (Italian for "rustic concerto"), is a concerto for orchestra without soloists by Antonio Vivaldi. It was written between mid-1720 and 1730, and is one of the composer's best-known concertos.
Q38233794 Fumio Iwai (born 17 July 1960), is a Japanese politician who currently serves as the Ambassador of Japan to Iraq.
Q3741851 Federico Pasquini (born in 1973 in Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball coach and general manager.His first time as a head coach was with Orlandina Basket in 2003.From 2016 to 2018 he was the head coach of the Italian basketball team Banco di Sardegna Sassari of Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He i...
Q1596020 The 2001–02 Heineken Cup was the seventh edition of the Heineken Cup. Competing teams from France, Ireland, Italy, Wales, England and Scotland, were divided into six pools of four, in which teams played home and away matches against each other. The pool winners and two best runners-up qualified for the knock-o...
Q955062 Emyvale, known before the Plantation of Ulster as Scarnageeragh (Irish: Scairbh na gCaorach, meaning "shallow ford of the sheep"), is a village and townland in the north of County Monaghan, Ireland. It is on the main Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny road, the (N2), about 10 km (6 miles) north of Monaghan and 8 k...
Q2428547 State Route 355 (SR 355) is a 19.9-mile-long (32.0 km) south–north state highway in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. Its route is contained within portions of Marion, Chattahoochee, and Talbot counties.The northern segment was originally part of SR 267 and was built around 1950. By 1963, SR ...
Q7639145 Sundance is a charter vessel owned by Capital Pleasure Boats and operating on the River Thames. Former names are Gay Enterprise and Solent Enterprise.
Q410537 Sucrose acetoisobutyrate (SAIB) is an emulsifier and has E number E444. In the United States, SAIB is categorized as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as a food additive in cocktail mixers, beer, malt beverages, or wine coolers and is a potential replacement for brominated vegetable oil.
Q6742317 Fredrick Malcolm Francke (21 March 1939 in Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played for Queensland.A leg spinner, Francke played for Ceylon in 1957/58, and worked and played cricket in England for several years prior to migrating to Australia. He reports having had offe...
Q5074836 Reverend Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790 – June 4, 1862) was an American author and Congregational minister, who popularized the motto "a place for everything and everything in its place". His uncle was Chauncey Goodrich; his siblings included a brother Samuel Griswold Goodrich, and a sister, Abigail Goodrich ...
Q6321411 Jörn Koblitz (born 1961) is publisher of MetBase - the Meteorite Information Database and Bibliography of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences and curator of the MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, located in Bremen, Germany. He also is co-founder and managing director of microFAB Bremen GmbH,...
Q1117853 Petit-Noir is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Q779238 Pollestres is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Q5159732 The Confederate Stamp Alliance is a philatelic organization dedicated to the collection and study of postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America (CSA). It is an affiliate (No. 73) of the American Philatelic Society.
Q6894134 Mohetjata (English: The Curse) is a 2004 Khmer horror/suspense film directed by Parn Puong Bopha and distributed by Angkorwat Production. It stars Sim Solika and Pan Jomrong.
Q7107766 Ostropel is a typical Romanian stew that is primarily made from chicken mixed with a thick tomato sauce. Additionally, garlic or spring onions can be added to the dish. Rabbit, lamb, or other types of meat are also sometimes used and, alternatively, vegetarian versions can be made during fasting periods.
Q5714882 Hennessy Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in the town of Young, New South Wales, Australia. The College was established in 2000, and in 2013 had a school population of over 550 students, catering for students in Year 7 to Year 12.
Q15641376 Holcocera dominae is a moth in the Blastobasidae family which is endemic to Costa Rica.
Q16972258 The 1952 Victorian Football Association season was the 71st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 21 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Oakleigh's fourth VFA premiership.
Q20648324 The 2015 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio was the 17th running of the women's Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, a women's bicycle race in Italy. It was the second race of the 2015 UCI Women's Road World Cup season and was held on 29 March 2015 starting and finishing in Cittiglio. The race was ...
Q27981501 Paul Robert Abramson (1937–2018) was an American political scientist known for his research and writing on American, European, and Israeli elections. He was a professor of political science at Michigan State University.Born on November 28, 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri, Abramson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from W...
Q18202528 Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (born 15 September 1977) is a French politician and the Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs in the Second Philippe Government.Lemoyne was named Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs on 21 June 2017.
Q6243875 Håkan Winberg (born 30 July 1931) is a Swedish politician. He served as a member of the Riksdag from 1971 to 1982 for the Moderate Party. He was also Minister of Justice from 1979 to 1981.
Q7982179 Wembley Downs is an inner northwestern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is about 10 km from the CBD.The name "Wembley Downs" is actually derived from the name of the local golf course and the name was used by residents before being officially approved in 1959. The golf course was named after the suburb o...
Q4940711 The bombing of Kobe in World War II on March 16 and 17, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing stages of World War II. The city would be bombed again in later ...
Q6760 UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours later than the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be written as, for example, 2019-02-08T23:36:06+03:00.Some areas in the world use...
Q7875580 USS Wilson (DD-408), a Benham-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Wilson, a seaman in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Q5074788 Charles A. Allen was an American football coach. Allen was the head football coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He held that position for the 1900 season. His coaching record at Alma was 7–2–1.
Q3346424 Nuno Miguel Prata Coelho (born 23 November 1987) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Belenenses SAD mainly as a defensive midfielder but also as a central defender.
Q2723877 The Marjeyoun District is a district in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Marjeyoun.Marjeyoun (also Marjayoun Marj Ayoun) stands majestically at a hill facing Mount Haramoun (Jabal El Sheikh, Mount Hermon) to the East, Beaufort 1000 years old Crusader Castle (Sh'ief Arnoun) ab...
Q1979133 DeskSpace, formerly known as Yod'm 3D (short for Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D) is a virtual desktop manager available for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
Q7242794 Pride Radio is an LGBTQ+ lifestyle top 40 radio network launched by Clear Channel Communications Format Lab on terrestrial HD2 & HD3 stations and online via CCRD (Clear Channel Radio Digital) in 2006. The radio division became known as iHeartMedia on September 16, 2014. It is one of several music channels that...
Q3402231 Bayandalai (Mongolian: Баяндалай, Rich ocean) is a sum (district) of Ömnögovi Province in southern Mongolia.
Q5461117 Ouratea quintasii is a species of plant in the family Ochnaceae. It is endemic to São Tomé Island. It is a small tree.
Q5258841 Dennis Parichy is an American lighting designer. He won the 1980 Drama Desk Award for Talley's Folly and the Obie Award in 1981.
Q6110072 Jabdi is a Village Development Committee in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,565 and had 938 houses in the town.
Q2254675 Stanovišče (pronounced [stanɔˈʋiːʃtʃɛ]; Italian: Stanovischis) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kobarid in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is located in the Breginj Combe.
Q2121522 Tim Maeyens (born in Brugge, 23 August 1981) is a Belgian rower who competes primarily in the single scull. He competed at three Olympic Games.He started rowing at the age of nine and rows for the Royal Rowing Association of Bruges.In 1999, Maeyens won the bronze medal in the single scull at the Junior World R...
Q3952995 The 1986–87 Scottish Premier Division season was won by Rangers, six points ahead of Celtic. Clydebank and Hamilton Academical were relegated.
Q7855131 Turkey competed at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China from 12 August to 23 August 2011. A total of 81 athletes were a part of the Turkish team competing in eight sports branches.Turkey finished in ninth position on the medal tally, including seven gold, seven silver and eight bronze meda...
Q7387197 S. J. Clarkson is a British television director.
Q16063330 Samuel Austin Cherry (April 14, 1850–May 11, 1881) was an lieutenant in the United States Army. He spent most of his military career at posts in Wyoming and Nebraska. In 1879, he participated in the Battle of Milk Creek, where he commanded a group of 20 men in a rear-guard action that allowed their column t...
Q11424306 Usaburō Chisaki II (Japanese: 地崎宇三郎 (二代)) (January 2, 1897 – June 29, 1951) was a Japanese businessman and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan under the Empire of Japan. He was the father of Usaburō Chisaki III.
Q2380088 A climbing specialist or climber, also known as a grimpeur, is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, such as those found among hills or mountains.
Q7683581 This article discusses tanks of the interwar period.World War I established the validity of the tank concept and between the two world wars, many nations needed to have tanks, but only a few had the industrial resources to design and build them. During and after World War I, Britain and France were the intelle...
Q573513 The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem railway (also high-speed railway to Jerusalem, Plan A1, and Railway 29) is a railway line that will connect the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in Israel. It has been under construction in stages since 2001 and has been partially operational since 25 September 2018. It will serve as the ...
Q72694 As spouses of popular monarchs, all wives of Belgian monarchs have been titled Queen of the Belgians and styled Majesty, with the exception of Leopold III of Belgium's second wife Mary Lilian Baels, who was styled Princess of Belgium and Princess of Réthy. Widows and wives of former kings are styled Queen of Bel...
Q2135316 Brezje pod Nanosom (pronounced [ˈbɾeːzjɛ pɔt ˈnaːnɔsɔm]; Italian: Bresie) is a small settlement below the eastern slopes of Mount Nanos in the Municipality of Postojna in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Q836524 This list of Intercity-Express lines lists all Intercity-Express lines in Germany, not including ICE Sprinter.Legend:Routes segments written in bold have a frequency of one train per hour.Routes segments written in Italics are only operated by selected trains or no more frequently than every four hours.Route se...
Q5535956 George Angus Garrett (August 5, 1888 – September 29, 1971) was an American investment banker and diplomat. In April 1947, he was appointed minister to Ireland; in 1950, he became the first United States Ambassador to Ireland, a position he held until May 1951.
Q5741996 Hermon Camp House is a historic home located at Trumansburg in Tompkins County, New York. It was built in 1845-1847 and consists of a two-story central block flanked by two slightly lower wings in the Greek Revival style. The main block is dominated by a full-height portico with six fluted Doric order columns...
Q2395679 The Gare d'Heilles-Mouchy (Heilles-Mouchy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Heilles in the Oise department, France. The station is served by TER Hauts-de-France trains from Creil to Beauvais.
Q5507321 Fuhuodao (复活道 Resurrection Way) is a new religious movement in the People's Republic of China. It has been founded in Henan by Guo Guangxu and Wen Qiuhui in 1990. It is active in Anhui, as well and is a fork of Linglingjiao.
Q5012656 CL-HTTP is a web server, client and proxy written in Common Lisp. It is based on its own web application framework. It was written by John C. Mallery "in about 10 days" starting in 1994 on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. In the same year a port to Macintosh Common Lisp was done. In 1996 CL-HTTP became the first web ...
Q374328 The pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus), historically known as the blue crow or Maximilian's jay, is a jay between the North American blue jay and the Eurasian jay in size. It is the only member of the genus Gymnorhinus. Its overall proportions are very nutcracker-like and indeed this can be seen as converg...
Q5040079 Carl Earn (March 7, 1921 – April 1, 2007) was an American tennis player who competed on the amateur and professional circuits in the 1940s and 1950s.The left-hander reached as high as World No. 7 in the professional ranks (the Professional Players Association, instated by Bill Tilden) in 1946.Earn was inducted...
Q15641485 Holcocera amicitiae is a moth in the Blastobasidae family which is endemic to Costa Rica.
Q22000471 The Class 385 is an electric multiple unit built by Hitachi Rail for Abellio ScotRail. A total of 70 units have been built, divided into 46 three-car and 24 four-car sets. The new trains were bought to operate services on newly electrified lines in the Central Belt on a mixture of both suburban and inter-urba...
Q22958480 Philip George Jeffreys Baker (born 1975) is a former Great Britain international rower.Baker was educated at Abingdon School where he was captain of the Abingdon School Boat Club eights before moving on to Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.He represented Great Britain at the 1999 World Rowing Championships ...
Q27466684 Elma Soiron (8 June 1918 in Acomb, Yorkshire – May 2016 in London) was an English actress, who was best known for playing Madame Dubois in "The Path of Duty", the fourth episode of the first series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs (31 October 1971), and Madame Huguot in "A Patriotic O...
Q37154286 Stewart Stevenson Moore QC (1 January 1860 – 28 March 1951) was a Manx lawyer, who was the First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls on the Isle of Man.
Q5514794 Althepus is a genus of spiders in the Psilodercidae family. It was first described in 1898 by Tamerlan Thorell. As of 2019, it contains 60 species, all from Asia.
Q2944427 Sofie Karoline Haugen (born 22 April 1995) is a Norwegian speed skater. She won a bronze medal in team sprint at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships in Kolomna, Russia, along with Martine Ripsrud and Anne Gulbrandsen. Haugen participated in the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in 2016, 2017...
Q2604358 Avtozavodskaya (Russian: Автозаво́дская, lit. auto factory) is a station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow Metro. It is named for the nearby Zavod Imeni Likhacheva, where ZIS and ZIL limousines were built. The station was opened in 1943, a few months before Novokuznetskaya and Paveletskaya. The archit...
Q834946 State Route 11 (SR 11) is a 21.28-mile (34.25 km) long state highway that serves Skagit and Whatcom counties in the U.S. state of Washington. SR 11, known as Chuckanut Drive, begins at an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) north of Burlington and continues northwest through several small towns and the Chuckanu...
Q2366363 The Fiat Zero, known also as the Fiat 12/15 hp, was a car produced by FIAT from 1912 to 1915. (The letters 'hp' defined its fiscal horse power rather than its bhp.) At launch it sold for 8,000 lire, which later was reduced to 6,900 lire, the equivalent of 23,250 € in 2003. It was equipped with a 1.8-liter, ...