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Q7954320 WPIN can refer to:WPIN (AM), a radio station (810 AM) licensed to Dublin, Virginia, United StatesWPIN-FM, a radio station (91.5 FM) licensed to Dublin, Virginia, United States
Q5056643 Cedar Creek Township is the name of two townships in the U.S. state of Indiana:Cedar Creek Township, Allen County, IndianaCedar Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana
Q7487692 Shams al-Din 'Ali (b. c. 1387, d. 1438 or 1439) was the Mihrabanid malik of Sistan from 1419 until his death. He was the son of Qutb al-Din Muhammad.
Q10981053 Kitui Central Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Kitui County. The constituency was established for the 1963 elections.
Q3429417 1833 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Q8022010 Willis & Co. is a piano manufacturer, formerly founded in 1884 by Alexander Parker Willis and based in Landshut, Bavaria, Deutschland. A retailer of Willis & Co. in Canada was sold by the Willis family in 1967, and went out of business in 1979. The global branch was merged with the Landshut Willis company in ...
Q2710639 The rough-nosed horned lizard (Ceratophora aspera) is an Agamid lizard from Sri Lanka in lowland dipterocarp forests and secondary forests in the wet zone. It is distinguished from all the other Ceratophora species by the presence of a complex rostral appendage, comprising more scales than rostral scale alone...
Q4390836 Professor John Hope (10 May 1725 – 10 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and botanist. Although he did enormous work on plant classification and plant physiology, due to an absence of publications, he is now best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification.In 1783 he was a joi...
Q5476771 Fox Islands Electric Cooperative is a utility cooperative based in Vinalhaven, Maine.The cooperative provides electricity for the residents of Penobscot Bay islands North Haven and Vinalhaven. Vinalhaven is home to the Fox Islands Wind Project's three 1.5 MW turbines, which provide electricity for both islands...
Q7129896 Panakkad is a village in Malappuram municipality in the state of Kerala, India. Panakkad Thangal family hails from this village. Panakkad serves as one of the residential area of Malappuram city. The English and Foreign Languages University is started its campus at Panakkad in 2013-14 academic year
Q677991 Le Gibloux (1,204 m) is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking the Lake of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg.On the summit is located the Gibloux Radio Tower.
Q17050749 The men's freestyle 57 kilograms (bantamweight) freestyle wrestling competition at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta was held from 28 to 30 August 1962.The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminat...
Q6781119 Sushar Manaying (Thai: สุชาร์ มานะยิ่ง; RTGS: Sucha Manaying; IPA: [sù.t͡ɕʰa: ma:.ná.jîŋ]; born January 9, 1988) is a Thai actress and singer.Sushar achieved widespread fame in Asia, especially China, for her leading role in the 2010 movie Yes or No.
Q5805376 Karl Hildebrand (2 December 1846, in Arnstadt – 17 April 1875, in Halle an der Saale) was a German philologist who specialized in Old Icelandic literature.He studied history and philology at the University of Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke. In 1871 he earned his PhD at Leipzig ...
Q20901619 Flávia Maria de Lima (born 1 July 1993) is a Brazilian middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 800 metres. She represented her country at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Q25757588 Rick Duffett (born July 8, 1946) is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and coach. Duffett was an administrator and coach with Ferris State University for more than 30 years before retiring in 2008.
Q2790788 This list of MTV channels includes every channel broadcast by Viacom Media Networks (known as MTV Networks until 2011) or its partners or affiliates, beginning with the original MTV (Music Television) channel in the U.S., and proceeding by continent, in order of arrival.
Q7344800 Robert Glaser (January 18, 1921 – February 4, 2012) was an American educational psychologist, who has made significant contributions to theories of learning and instruction. The key areas of his research focused on the nature of aptitudes and individual differences, the interaction of knowledge and skill in ex...
Q7999907 Wiktor Dega (1896-1995) was a Polish surgeon. He was an orthopedist who was well known for his work on polio. He served as an expert for the World Health Organization. He created new apparatus and devices to help accident victims and survivors of polio, as well as new therapies and operations for congenital di...
Q6487376 Lansdowne Centre (formerly Lansdowne Park Shopping Centre) is a shopping mall in Richmond, British Columbia. It is located on No. 3 Road and is the second largest mall in Richmond after Richmond Centre.It has 120+ stores and services. Anchor stores include Best Buy, HomeSense, Jysk, Toys "R" Us, Winners, Dol...
Q7828030 Total Living Network (TLN) is a religious broadcasting channel based in Aurora, Illinois which carries a wide variety of family and ministry programs.Programs include:Marriage: For Better For Worse, a show dedicated to helping people restore and refresh their marriages using biblical principlesEnjoying Everyda...
Q457493 Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also d...
Q6014295 Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.
Q6105002 J. C. McDonald was an American racecar driver from South Bend, Indiana. The 1930 Indianapolis 500 was his only AAA Championship Car start. He drove a Studebaker "special" that he designed and built.
Q5632944 HMS Justice (W-140), a Royal Navy ship classified as a rescue tug, was built in the United States as U.S. Navy ATR-1-class rescue tug USS ATR-20. Never commissioned into the U.S. Navy, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease at delivery. Returned to the U.S. after the end of World War II, she wa...
Q1091048 Bút Tháp Temple (Vietnamese: Chùa Bút Tháp, hán tự: 寧福寺, Ninh Phúc tự) is a Buddhist temple located near the dyke of the Đuống River, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam. The temple is also popularly called Nhan Thap Temple. The temple was built in the 13th century. The temple houses the biggest A...
Q4615617 The 2009–10 F.C. Motagua season was the fifty-fifth season of Motagua's professional football lifetime. It consisted of two halves, the Apertura, which ran from July to November 2009, and the Clausura, which ran from January to May 2010.
Q5155156 Como gallos de pelea ("As Fighting Cocks") is a 1977 Mexican film. It stars Sara García and Valentin Trujillo.
Q850239 Brunei competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011.
Q3836465 Logozohoué is an arrondissement in the Collines department of Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Savalou. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population o...
Q4984780 Dinaran Rural District (Persian: دهستان ديناران‎) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Ardal County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,548, in 1,394 families. The rural district has 30 villages.
Q16255305 The movement to start school later consists of efforts by health care professionals, sleep scientists, educators, economists, legislators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens to restore a later start to the school day. Based on a growing body of evidence that starting middle and high schools too e...
Q19519946 Timothy Colin Smith (born 15 October 1983) is an Australian politician and a former representative lightweight rower. Since November 2014 he has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Kew. As a rower he made five state representative ap...
Q13817264 Martyringa ussuriella is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Lvovsky in 1979. It is found in Russia (Ussuri) and Japan.
Q24884646 An election to Carmarthen District Council was held in May 1979. It was preceded by the 1976 election and followed by the 1983 election. On the same day, there was a UK General Election and elections to the other local authorities in Wales.
Q1378120 Oberkreuzberg is a village in the municipality of Spiegelau in the Lower Bavarian county of Freyung-Grafenau in Germany. Until 1978 it was an independent municipality .
Q819530 Phantasialand is a theme park in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany that attracts approximately 1.75 million visitors annually. The park was opened in 1967 by Gottlieb Löffelhardt and Richard Schmidt. Although starting as a family-oriented park, Phantasialand has also added thrill rides, especially during r...
Q1772751 Nandyal is a Town in Kurnool district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Nandyal mandal in Nandyal revenue division.
Q18705887 Farmwell Station Middle School is a public middle school in Ashburn, Virginia, a census designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia.The school is part of Loudoun County Public Schools and is located at 44281 Gloucester Parkway in Ashburn.
Q569842 Information Builders is a 40+ year old privately held software company headquartered in New York City. Information Builders provides services in the fields of Business Intelligence, Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.
Q5646136 Hampton, Missouri was a small hamlet in rural Platte County, Missouri.The area around Hampton was picked in 1953 to be home for the Kansas City Industrial Airport. In 1966 Kansas City, Missouri annexed the hamlet as part of upgrading the airport to Kansas City International Airport.The hamlet was one of the f...
Q6933557 Mukkoottuthara is a developing Town located in the south eastern part of Kottayam district of Kerala State, India. Sabarimala is only 48 km (30 mi) from Erumely, while travelling through Mukkoottuthara. The roads passing through here are upgraded and maintained as State Highways. The main cultivation is rubbe...
Q975003 Giuseppe Pancera (10 January 1901 in Sona – 19 April 1977 in Castelnuovo del Garda) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He won second place in both the 1928 Giro d'Italia and the 1929 Tour de France.
Q7956977 WVQC-LP (95.7 FM) is a non-profit, low-power FM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, licensed on the frequency 95.7 to Music Resource Center - Cincinnati. The station goes by the name 95.7 MRC Cincinnati’s New Music.The station currently has a construction permit from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (...
Q6360806 The Kanawha Division was a Union Army division which could trace its origins back to a brigade originally commanded by Jacob D. Cox. This division served in western Virginia and Maryland and was at times led by such famous personalities as George Crook and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Q7263186 Pyotr Vladimirovich Zhuykov (Russian: Пётр Владимирович Жуйков; born January 29, 1988) is a Russian professional football player. He last played in the Russian Second Division for FC SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk.
Q27661325 This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country.
Q6505795 The Council of Europe was founded on 5 May 1949 by ten western and northern European states, with Greece joining three months later, and Iceland, Turkey and West Germany joining the next year. It now has 47 member states, with Montenegro being the latest to join.Article 4 of the Council of Europe Statute speci...
Q8079703 UDP-4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-N-acetyl-beta-L-altrosamine transaminase (EC 2.6.1.92, PseC) is an enzyme with systematic name UDP-4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-N-acetyl-beta-L-altrosamine:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reactionUDP-4-amino-4,6-dideoxy-N-acetyl-beta-L-altrosamine + ...
Q17021011 Garehlu (Persian: گره لو‎, also Romanized as Garehlū) is a village in Gilvan Rural District, in the Central District of Tarom County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 12, in 5 families.
Q12335493 Skagen Festival is Denmark's oldest music festival having been held each summer since 1971. The annual event takes place on a number of stages in Skagen in the far north of Jutland over the first weekend of July.
Q9173530 The Battle of Salicha was a clash between Polish insurgent forces and units of the Imperial Russian Army during the January Uprising. It took place on May 26, 1863 near the village of Salicha (Salikha), Russian Empire (the village now lies in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). Insurgent forces were commanded by Ed...
Q16985411 New Cross Gate Cutting or Brockley Nature Reserve is a 4.2 hectare nature reserve in Brockley in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation managed by the London Wildlife Trust. This designated green space runs alongside the East London Line between Brockle...
Q18138105 Undulambia marconalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1924 and it is found in Peru.
Q19864886 Lab Tests Online is a peer-reviewed non-profit web resource about clinical laboratory testing. The site provides information on clinical lab tests as well as conditions that are managed or diagnosed by lab tests. Lab Tests Online also provides summaries of recommendations by age, feature articles on lab-re...
Q26777060 George Chiang is a Taiwanese-Canadian actor, writer, lyricist and composer. Chiang wrote and composed the award-winning musical, Golden Lotus. He also authored the award-winning book, The Railroad Adventures of Chen Sing.
Q332552 Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, (10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Q1191108 Nii-jima (新島) is a volcanic Japanese island administered by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago, and is located approximately 163 kilometres (101 mi) south of Tōkyō and 36 kilometres (22 mi) south of Shimoda Shizuoka Prefe...
Q4739696 Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 8 December 1860 – 2 February 1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over-w...
Q6099316 Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins (29 November 1869 – 26 November 1953) was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950. He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble. He is also well known for "The Three Kings", an arrangement of a song by Peter Co...
Q2239113 Lehragaga is a town and a municipal council in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It is near the border of Punjab and Haryana. Haryana is about 10 km from Lehragaga. It has a railway station. In lehragaga there are many schools, colleges and financial institutes.To distinguish it from the other Le...
Q6119080 Jacob Payson Chamberlain (August 1, 1802 – October 5, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.
Q559818 Gmina Oleśnica is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Oleśnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Oleśnica, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.The gmina covers an area of 243.44 square kilometres (94.0 sq mi), and as of 2006 its t...
Q5542715 George King "Smiler" Murray (September 23, 1898 – October 18, 1955) was a baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and Chicago White Sox.
Q6821697 Mesra is a district in Mostaganem Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Mesra.
Q5278424 Dinner for One, World for Two (Chinese: 一人晚餐, 二人世界; pinyin: Yi Ren Wancan, Er Ren Shijie) is the debut album by Linda Chung, and was released on 20 August 2008. It contains 10 tracks, 2 of those in Mandarin, while are the rest are in Cantonese. 2 versions are published, one containing 5 postcards, while one co...
Q2488461 Uncial 096 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1004 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 7th-century.
Q6683493 Losantiville Country Club (LCC) is a private Country Club founded in 1913 located in Cincinnati, Ohio, which operates golf, tennis and platform tennis, and swimming facilities, and provides food, beverages and services. LCC’s facilities include an 18-hole Championship Golf Course, a swimming complex, Har-Tru c...
Q7249627 Prolita sexpunctella, the long-horned flat-back or groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe and North America.The wingspan is 13–17 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June. They are day-flyers.The larvae feed on the leaves of Calluna species (including Calluna vulgaris), E...
Q7613342 Stephen Craine McLendon (born January 3, 1986) is an American football nose tackle for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Troy.
Q3378604 Pharneuptychia is a genus of satyrid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.
Q4656337 A Day with Dana is a British chat show hosted by Dana Rosemary Scallon which was first aired on BBC Two in 1974.
Q16216065 Matthew Sauk (born March 15, 1976) is an arena football coach and former quarterback. He played his college football at the Utah State University, an af2 quarterback from 2001 to 2005, and an AFL quarterback from 2002 to 2008. He has been a football coach since 2008. After being the offensive coordinator for ...
Q14846275 Amethysphaerion eximium is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Napp in 1992.
Q20982039 Warren Tute was an English sailor, author and television executive. He was born in 1914 in West Hartlepool, County Durham in the north of England and joined the Royal Navy in 1932, at one time serving on HMS Ajax. During the Second World War he served on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff and took part in amphibi...
Q1811603 Clarence Henry Reid (February 14, 1939 – January 17, 2016) was an American musician, songwriter and producer, also known by the stage name and alternate persona Blowfly.
Q1278294 This is a list of the municipalities of Portugal. Portugal is divided into 18 districts (Portuguese: distritos) and 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas), Azores and Madeira. The districts and autonomous regions are further subdivided into 308 municipalities of Portugal (municípios or concelhos). Usually, ...
Q7754150 The Night of the Witches aka Night of the Sorcerers (Spanish: La Noche de los Brujos) is a 1973 horror film which starred Maria Kosti, Loli Tovar aka Maria Dolores del Loreto Tovar, Barbara King, Kali Hansa aka Marisol Hernandez, Jack Taylor, Simón Andreu, and Joseph Thelman. Written and directed by Amando de ...
Q457262 Helen E. Fisher (born May 31, 1945) is an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. She is a biological anthropologist, is a senior research fellow, at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthrop...
Q4078701 Harold Barton (3 August 1910 – 1969) was an English footballer who played as forward. Born in Leigh, Lancashire, he played for Liverpool, for whom he made over 100 appearances, and Sheffield United, for whom he played over 200 times.
Q4871420 The Battle of Khasdour took place in the Eleşkirt Valley, where the Armenian fighters from Transcaucasia engaged with the Turkish army units. Armenians defended themselves well, eventually making a path between the Turkish forces to escape.In the Ahlat region, for several years, the mountains were controlled b...
Q2576625 Willard Robison (September 18, 1894 – June 24, 1968) was an American vocalist, pianist, and composer of popular songs, born in Shelbina, Missouri. His songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana and their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael. Many of his compositions, notably "A...
Q619117 Apollo Korzeniowski (21 February 1820 – 23 May 1869) was a Polish poet, playwright, translator, clandestine political activist, and father of Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad.
Q460979 He Zhuoqiang (Chinese: 何灼强; born: 12 January 1967) is a male Chinese weightlifter. He competed at 1988 Seoul Olympics, and won a bronze medal in men's 52 kg.
Q7804914 Time After Time is a 1986 album by Oscar Peterson.
Q1779051 Kolbastı is a popular Turkish dance. It was originally created in the 1930s in the seaport of Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. Loosely translated, 'kolbastı' means 'caught red-handed by the police.' According to legend, the name comes from nightly police patrols of the city to round up ...
Q6124497 A gubernatorial election was held in Jakarta on 11 July 2012, with a second round run-off on 20 September 2012 to elect the Governor of Jakarta for the next five-year term. Incumbent governor Fauzi Bowo was running for a second successive term.The first round resulted with two top-voted candidates, Joko Widodo...
Q22286680 Cunninghamella septata is a species of fungus in the family Cunninghamellaceae. It was described as new to science by mycologist Ru-Yong Zheng in 2001. Colonies of C. septata are low and flat, not greater than 1 mm high. Growth of the fungus is slow at 28 °C (82 °F), taking 14 days to reach a diameter of 9 cm...
Q5190424 "Cry For Help EP" is an EP released by the German hard rock band Bonfire. It was released in 2012 as a charity to prevent animal abuse. It was supported by PETA and specifically combated the Ukrainian government's policy to reward people for killing stray street dogs. The track 'Cry For Help' was originally pa...
Q15846605 Schmid's law (also Schmid factor, m) describes the slip plane and the slip direction of a stressed material, which can resolve the most amount of shear stress.Schmid's Law states that the critically resolved shear stress (τ) is equal to the stress applied to the material (σ) multiplied by the cosine of the an...
Q17417455 Nilambur Balan was an Indian actor in Malayalam movies. He was one of the prominent supporting actor in late 1960s and 1970s in Malayalam movies. He has acted in more than 50 movies.
Q18438236 Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion and he successfully defended his title, after Roger Federer withdrew from the final, the first walkover in a final in the tournament’s 45-year history.Kei Nishikori, Milos Raonic & Marin Čilić made their debuts at the event.
Q18431537 Light Coorporation are an avant-garde and progressive rock band formed in 2007. Their influences include jazz, fusion and psychedelic rock. The band’s music also draws heavily from the legacy of the Canterbury scene artists and the Rock in Opposition movement.
Q19871854 Andrés Fernández Alcántara (born 22 November 1960) is a Spanish sculptor, engraver and painter. He lives and works in Alcala de Henares, Spain.
Q22122737 Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon is a 3D motion-simulator attraction at Universal Studios Florida based on Jimmy Fallon's tenure at The Tonight Show. It opened on April 6, 2017.The ride is in 3D. It was revealed by Fallon on social media that Industrial Light & Magic was in charge of filming motion...
Q1294623 Kolja Blacher (born 1963) is a German violin player. He plays the 1730 "Tritton" Stradivarius.Aged 15, Blacher won the Jugend musiziert competition and studied violin with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard in New York City. He then continued his studies with Sándor Végh. He was first concertmaster of the Berlin Philh...
Q209741 Program music or programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to the audience in the form of program notes, inviting imaginative correlations with the music. A classic example is Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique...
Q673187 In Love and Death is the second studio album by American rock band The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and was later certified platinum in the United States, indicating over 1,000,000 copies shipped. It is their most commercially successful album to date. The title and music reference a number of tr...
Q9293883 "Drive" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was the first track on and the lead single from their eighth studio album Automatic for the People in 1992, and it was the first song lead singer Michael Stipe wrote on a computer. Although not as commercially successful as previous lead singles "Lo...
Q2350142 Thirthahalli is a panchayat town located in the Shivamoga District of the state of Karnataka, India. It lies on the bank of the river Tunga and is also the headquarters of the Thirthahalli Taluk of Shimoga district. Nearest Railway stations are Anandpura (55 Km), Shivamogga (62 Km) and Bhadravathi (68 km). The...