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Q7190863 Pickettywitch was a British pop group. Fronted by singer Polly Brown (also billed as Polly Browne), the group became best known for its hit single, "That Same Old Feeling", which was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod. It reached number five in the UK Singles Chart in 1970. |
Q7362871 Romany media started to develop in the last decades, with an evolution influenced by the Diasporic status of the Romani people (living as minority in many countries). |
Q1157616 Tranqueville-Graux is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. |
Q6549802 The Limnophorini are a tribe of flies, belonging to the family Muscidae. Although the name-giving genus is Limnophora, this was actually described only after the more characteristic and easily recognized Lispe. |
Q6361936 Kanehana Station (金華駅, Kanehana-eki) was a railway station on the Sekihoku Main Line in Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). Opened in 1914, the station closed in March 2016. |
Q4920388 The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, to Regain the Metropolis of the World, Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul is a 1682 novel by John Bunyan. This novel, written in the form of an allegory, tells the story of the town "Mansoul" (Man's soul). Though this town is perfect and bear... |
Q683927 The 5th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1963 in Seefeld, Austria. The men's 20 km individual and team were the only competitions. |
Q7229485 Popowo [pɔˈpɔvɔ] (German: Poppenhagen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Będzino, within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Będzino, 12 km (7 mi) west of Koszalin, and 127 km (79 mi) north-east of the regi... |
Q3143203 Humbert de Pairaud was a dignitary of the Knights Templar in France and England from 1261 to 1275. He came from a noble family from Forez an old French province. He was installed as the commander of Ponthieu in 1257, master of the province of France (1261 and 1265), master of England and of Aquitaine between ... |
Q316715 The Funtenseetauern is a 2,579 m high border peak between Germany and Austria on the northern edge of the Steinernes Meer, one of the nine massifs of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The Funtenseetauern rises south of Berchtesgaden, its broad shoulder towering over the lakes of Königssee and Obersee. To the northwest of... |
Q7769520 The Toll Bridge is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers.Seventeen-year-old Piers leaves home to be a toll bridge keeper. He meets Tess and Adam.Piers is trying to escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend. Adam is a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. ... |
Q570594 The Supreme Oppressor is the second EP released by Reading metal band Sylosis. |
Q18737076 Michael Richard Maskell (25 January 1952 – 4 May 2017) was an English football full back who made one appearance in the Football League for Brentford. |
Q16830343 Alliance is a professional gaming and esports organization based in Sweden that was formed in April 2013. They have teams in Dota 2, Hearthstone, the Super Smash Bros. series and Fortnite, and previously had teams in League of Legends and StarCraft II.In December 2016, the organisation announced that it had b... |
Q15390158 Xylosoma serrata is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to the island of Montserrat. |
Q1144323 The GNU toolchain is a broad collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. These tools form a toolchain (a suite of tools used in a serial manner) used for developing software applications and operating systems.The GNU toolchain plays a vital role in development of Linux, some BSD systems, and s... |
Q275336 John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute PC, FRS (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814), styled Lord Mount Stuart until 1792 and known as The Earl of Bute between 1792 and 1794, was a British nobleman, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1776. |
Q6550889 Lincoln Northeast High School is a public high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lincoln Public Schools district and was established in 1941 when three rival schools (Bethany, Havelock and Jackson) were combined into one. The school is accredited by the North Central Association of ... |
Q2870082 Meet the Flower Kings is the second live album by the progressive rock band The Flower Kings. It was released in 2003 as a double-CD, and also as a two-disc DVD concert video. A limited release book-case version of this includes both the 2-CD and 2-DVD sets together, along with a booklet.The show was recorded ... |
Q6483172 Lancaster Farming is the leading regional farm newspaper for the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. |
Q117579 Vicalvi (locally Ucalue) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located in the Valle di Comino about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Rome and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Frosinone. Vicalvi borders the following municipalities: Alvito, Casalvieri, Fontechiari... |
Q3827655 Ikkeri is situated in Sagara taluk about 6 km to the south of Sagara. The word Ikkeri in Kannada means "Two Streets". |
Q922862 Konoe Motohiro (近衛 基熈, 1648–1722), Tajimaru (多治丸) in his childhood, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku from 1690 to 1703. |
Q6511193 The Claremont–Lebanon Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties – two in New Hampshire and two in Vermont, anchored by the cities of Lebanon, New Hampshire and Claremont, New Hampshire. At the 2010 census, the area was defined as two se... |
Q7977706 We Pierce is a 2003 novel by Andrew Huebner. It tells the story of two brothers, Smith and Sam. Smith leads a tank company into battle in Iraq during the Gulf War, while Sam protests the war and struggles with alcohol and narcotic abuse. |
Q7673961 Taco Dibbits (born Amsterdam, 7 September 1968) is an art historian from the Netherlands and director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. |
Q13140398 Biriniwa is a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Biriniwa.It has an area of 1,567 km² and a population of 142,329 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 731. |
Q5902748 Alexander Karpovsky is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and Craig Petrosian on the Amazon series Homecoming. |
Q6382576 Kedestes lenis, the unique ranger, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in South Africa.The wingspan is 26–31 mm for males and 29–35 mm for females. Adults are on wing from October to March (with a peak in spring for subspecies K. l. lenis and in midsummer for subspecies K. l. alba). There is ... |
Q2247551 Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG was a German manufacturer of mass market audio equipment. |
Q7544428 Smerby Castle, also known as Island Muller Castle, is a ruined fortified house on a promontory known as Isla Muller, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, north of Campbeltown. The site is protected as a scheduled monument. |
Q1864717 Amblypneustes pallidus is a species of sea urchin of the family Temnopleuridae. Their armour is covered with spines. It came from the genus Amblypneustes and lives in the sea. Amblypneustes pallidus was first scientifically described in 1816 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck. |
Q7547448 Sneads Spring is an unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. |
Q21816963 The 2016 European Curling Championships were held from November 18 to 26 in Braehead, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Scotland last hosted the European Curling Championships in 2009 in Aberdeen. The Group C competitions will be held in April in Ljubljana, Slovenia.At the conclusion of the championships, the top eight... |
Q28368737 Edit Light is an American independent film production company and marketing agency that primarily focuses on producing short films, commercials, and music videos. |
Q1154866 Politics of Ukraine takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Cabinet of Ministers (until 1996, jointly with the President). Legislative power is vested in the parliament (Verkhovna Rada). Scholars have ... |
Q4893204 Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987) was an English painter, best known for his Second World War portraits of transport and civil defence workers painted in Britain, his portraits of members of the Armed Forces painted overseas and his post-war portraits of the royal family, musicians, stage and film actors. |
Q2328356 Clontarf (Irish: Cluain Tarbh, meaning "meadow of the bull") is an affluent coastal suburb on the northside of Dublin, in Ireland. Whilst Clontarf does not have a single ’village centre’, historically there were two centres of population, one on the coast towards the city, and the fishing village of Clontarf ... |
Q1995468 In mathematics, Hölder's theorem states that the gamma function does not satisfy any algebraic differential equation whose coefficients are rational functions. This result was first proved by Otto Hölder in 1887; several alternative proofs have subsequently been found.The theorem also generalizes to the ... |
Q7690446 Tazewell Thompson (born May 27, 1948), is an African-American theatre director, the former artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse (2006–07) in Westport, Connecticut and the Syracuse Stage (1992–95) in New York state. Prior to that he was an assistant director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.Thom... |
Q6824492 Metro Auditorio (Spanish: Estación Auditorio) is a Mexico City Metro station located on line 7. It is one of the main metro gateways (along with Metro Polanco) to the chic and business-related neighbourhood, Polanco. The entrances to the station are on Paseo de la Reforma, one of the main thoroughfares in Mexi... |
Q5898627 The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located at 507 Mulberry Street in North Judson, Indiana. At one time, a significant portion of the working population in North Judson was employed by one of the railroad companies in town. The town once hosted four major rail lines including the Chesapeak... |
Q7501784 Short Fuse Blues is the debut album by Australian blues singer and guitarist Dave Hole, released in 1990. The album was recorded over three days at Planet Studios in Perth, Western Australia. It was financed and produced by Hole. Alligator Records signed Hole as their first non-US artist in 26 years and re-... |
Q3111167 Salsacate is a town in Córdoba Province in Argentina, it is the head town of Pocho Department |
Q5987356 The Idaho Democratic Presidential Caucuses were held on Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008, with 18 national delegates at stake. For the first time, caucuses were held in all 44 counties, all of them open caucuses organized at the county level rather than the precinct level.The Idaho Democratic Caucus was overwhe... |
Q6526807 Leonín Pineda Velázquez (born 30 November 1985) is a Mexican footballer. He currently plays for Mexican club Tampico Madero in the Ascenso MX.Leonín Pineda was the goalie that helped Club Tijuana reach the promotion to the Liga MX back in 2011 when they defeated Irapuato 2-1 on May 21, 2011. |
Q6753020 Manuela, released as Stowaway Girl in the United States, is a 1957 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton. It was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. |
Q7967115 Wanda Garner Cash (born December 21, 1949 in Laredo, Texas) is an advocate for open government, speaker, commentator, expert witness and media adviser on open government issues to former Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Cash retired in 2016 as associate director of the School of Journalism at the Universit... |
Q323850 Podčauš (Serbian Cyrillic: Подчауш) is a village in the municipality of Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Q7634545 Suffolk Construction Company stylized as Suffolk is an American construction contracting company based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional locations in California, Florida, New York and Texas. The company is contracted for work in the aviation, commercial, education, healthcare, gaming and government sec... |
Q5067102 Chah-e Jabari (Persian: چاه جباري, also Romanized as Chāh-e Jabārī) is a village in Bandan Rural District, in the Central District of Nehbandan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q5399408 Essays in Self-criticism (French: Eléments d'autocritique) is one of the chief works of the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, first published in 1974. An English translation by Grahame Lock was published in 1976. |
Q5537531 George Byron Gordon (1870–1927) was a Canadian-American archaeologist, who graduated from Harvard University in 1894. While studying at Harvard, he participated in excavations at Copan in Honduras under the direction of John G. Owens in 1891. Following Owens’ death in the field, Gordon took command of the Copa... |
Q29472752 Kathleen Lowe Melde is a Professor and Associate Dean in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for her contributions to tunable antennae and their integration in electrical packaging.Melde r... |
Q30066158 The South Branch Grass River flows into the Grass River in Clare, New York. The South Branch Grass River and Middle Branch Grass River combine here and become Grass River. |
Q212262 In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Greek: χρυσόμαλλον δέρας khrusómallon dérās) is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, which was held in Colchis. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship.It figures in the tale of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the flee... |
Q1187817 Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, itself part of the Williamsport–Lock Haven combined statistical ar... |
Q1051057 Nuneaton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Marcus Jones, a Conservative. Since 1997, the seat has been seen as an important national bellwether.In the 2015 general election, Nuneaton was the first key marginal seat between the Conservatives and Labour to d... |
Q248201 Vaiaku is a village located on the southern coast of the island of Fongafale in the atoll of Funafuti in Tuvalu.There are 516 inhabitants in Vaiaku, according to the census of 2002, out of 4,492 for the whole atoll of Funafuti, which is the official capital of Tuvalu.All the administrative buildings, including ... |
Q7120461 The Pennsylvania Railroad's class AA1 comprised two experimental electric locomotives constructed in 1905 by the company's own Altoona Works with the assistance of Westinghouse. Intended as testbeds as the PRR began its electrification project, both locomotives remained service into the 1930s. |
Q5572103 During the 2006 season Gloucestershire County Cricket Club played in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship Division 2, the C&G Trophy South Conference, the Natwest Pro40 Division 2 and the Twenty20 Cup Mid/West/Wales Division. |
Q3073248 Rhodacmea is a genus of small freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.Rhodacmea is the type genus of the subfamily Rhodacmeinae. |
Q6389122 Keneil Donald Irving (born 1 July 1981 in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Cayman Islands cricketer. A right-handed batsman, right-arm medium pace bowler and wicket-keeper, he has played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team since 2005. |
Q5409713 Eungbongsan (응봉산; 應峰山) is the name of several mountains in South Korea:Eungbongsan (Gangwon/North Gyeongsang) in the city of Samcheok, Gangwon-do and the county of Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do. 999 metres.Eungbongsan (Hwachon-myeon, Hongcheon) in Hwachon-myeon and Seoseok-myeon, the county of Hongcheon, Gangwon-do.... |
Q1572481 The Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Gazi Atik Ali Paşa Camii) is a 15th century Ottoman mosque located in the Çemberlitaş neighbourhood of the Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. Its construction was started under the orders of the future Grand Vizier Hadım Atik Ali Pasha in 1496 and was completed in 1497... |
Q7607733 Stenoporpia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by James Halliday McDunnough in 1920. |
Q1009864 Christiana is a settlement in Jamaica. The town was originally called Barracks as it was first established as a British military outpost. During the British colonial era it was a popular destination for British citizens because of its cool climate. The name was later changed to Struan Castle. It is rumored t... |
Q10361143 Ricardo Gomes Xavier (born July 22, 1978 in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a Brazilian football forward. |
Q3842534 The Madonna with Child and Saints is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli, executed around 1519-1523. It is housed in the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant Angelo, Rome, Italy.The picture is a traditional Holy Conversation composition. |
Q7513234 Sigurd Jebsen Grieg (22 August 1894 – 3 November 1973) was a Norwegian museologist and archeologist. He is most associated with the excavation of Raknehaugen, a prehistoric burial barrow located at Ullensaker in Akershus, Norway. He was born in the borough of Fana in the city of Bergen, Norway. He was the so... |
Q3078267 Thirty Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1998, the band currently consists of Jared Leto on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Shannon Leto on drums, and Tomo Miličević on lead guitar and keyboards. The band released the debut album 30 Seconds to Mars (2002) to limite... |
Q5200044 Cynthia Ann "Cyndie" Culpeper (June 16, 1962 – August 29, 2005) was the first pulpit rabbi to announce being diagnosed with AIDS, which she did in 1996 when she was rabbi of Agudath Israel in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the first full-time female rabbi and the first Conservative female rabbi in Alabama. |
Q13549408 Pomasia obliterata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found on Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia and Siberut Island. The habitat consists of lowland areas, including alluvial forests.The ground colour is bone-white with grey markings. |
Q12863634 Darejan (Georgian: დარეჯანი) or Nestan-Darejan (ნესტან-დარეჯანი) (c. 1615 – 1668) was a daughter of King Teimuraz I, a ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia, with a notable role in the contemporary politics of Georgia. Her three marriages represented a component of her family's and her own political machination... |
Q42887846 The 1925–26 season was the 15th year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1925 to 30 June 1926. |
Q1018651 Edgewater is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is northeast from the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. Its population was 883 at the 2010 census. This area was damaged by tornadoes on April 15, 1956 and April 8, 1998. The 1998 tornado was rated an F5 on the Fujita sca... |
Q877969 Norrent-Fontes is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. |
Q1292956 Sweetbox is the debut album of Sweetbox. It was the first and only album to have Tina Harris on vocals, and the last to have a R&B urban main influence, as Jade Villalon took over on vocals on Classified and changed the sound of Sweetbox to classical infused pop. The album, Sweetbox, was first released in Janu... |
Q4554659 1844 in archaeology |
Q11791069 Nicki Paull (Queensland, Australia), is an Australian actress. Though predominantly known for her work on television, she has also appeared in films and on stage, as well as performing as a voice-over artist and narrator. |
Q5045445 Carolyn Quinn (born 22 July 1961 in Camberwell, London) is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a political correspondent and for presenting the Today programme and PM. |
Q7976085 The Wayne Central School District is a public school district in New York State that serves approximately 2200 students in portions of the towns of Macedon, Ontario, Walworth and Williamson in Wayne County and portions of the towns of Penfield and Webster in Monroe County, with an operating budget of $44 milli... |
Q4557533 The 18 cm kurze Kanone M 80 (short cannon) was a heavy siege howitzer used by Austria-Hungary during World War I. Designed to replace the M 61 series of siege guns the M 80 family of siege guns offered greater range and armor penetration than the older guns. The proven steel-bronze was used for the barrel and ... |
Q646486 Christmas Mountain: The Story of a Cowboy Angel is a 1981 western film about the true meaning of the Christmas spirit. Starring Mark Miller of Savannah Smiles and Slim Pickens in one of his final roles, the film was originally produced and released in 1981. The original 16MM master was then lost for 20 years. ... |
Q4119881 Benghazi Zoo or Al Fuwayhat (est. 1956) is a zoo and tourist park in the city of Benghazi, Libya. In 1991, Italian firm Cairtieri Trieste signed a $2 million contract to supply a low draught boat named Al-Berka to give tourist excursions on the lagoon inside the park.But now they call it al-bousko |
Q3191581 Desmodema is a small genus of ribbonfishes. |
Q459862 Jade Laroche (born 8 September 1989) is a French model, DJ and former pornographic actress. |
Q16733407 Chelsea is a 2010 Ghanaian direct-to-video thriller film directed by Moses Inwang, and starring Majid Michel, Nadia Buari & John Dumelo. |
Q14651022 Orocrambus melampetrus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Alex Purdie in 1884. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it has been recorded from the South Island. The habitat consists of high alpine grasslands.The wingspan is 24–28 mm. |
Q14720339 Pothyne albosignata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1950. |
Q20720897 X-Ray Mega Airport (also known as Inside Frankfurt Airport) is a five-part British television series which premiered on 21 May 2015 on the Discovery Channel in the United Kingdom and subsequently on international versions of the Discovery Channel in more than 220 territories. The program was commissioned by D... |
Q24753608 Signal Hill is the fourth studio album by Australian singer songwriter, and ARIA Award winner, Monique Brumby. It was released physically and digitally in March 2010.Brumby toured the album across Australia throughout 2010."They're Still Alive" was released as the lead single from the album in March 2010. |
Q17499987 The MTR CRRC Changchun EMU (also known as EWL C-train[1]) is a model of heavy rail electric multiple units of the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong. The 8-car sets are manufactured by Changchun Railway Vehicles for the future East West Corridor, to operate alongside extended SP1900 sets (1151) from the West R... |
Q13520427 Polychrysia esmeralda, the delphinium leaftier (from Ancient Greek πολύς [polus] = "many", and χρυσός [khrusos] = "gold"), is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was originally described by Charles Oberthür in 1880. It is found in Asia (eastern Siberia) and in North America (Alaska, British Columbia, ... |
Q21267174 Helicobacter typhlonius is a Gram-negative bacterium and opportunistic pathogen found in the genus Helicobacter. There are only thirty five known species in this genus, which was discovered in 1982. H. typhlonius has a small number of close relatives, including Helicobacter muridarum, Helicobacter trogontum,... |
Q7505122 Shunrō Oshikawa (押川 春浪, Oshikawa Shunrō, real name 押川 方存 Oshikawa Masaari March 21, 1876 – November 16, 1914) was a Japanese author, journalist and editor, best known as a pioneer of science fiction. |
Q751138 The nonsense rat, Nicobar Archipelago rat, or Miller's Nicobar rat (Rattus burrus) is endemic to the Nicobar Islands in India. It is found on Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar, and Trinket islands. On Car Nicobar Island, Rattus palmarum and Rattus anadamanensis are found instead of the nonsense rat.The nonsense rat... |
Q4942910 BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) is the largest annual book trade fair in the United States. BEA is almost always held in a major city over four days in late May and/or early June. Nearly all significant book publishers in the United States, and many from abro... |
Q255413 Michel David-Weill (born November 23, 1932) is an investment banker and former Chairman of New York City-based Lazard Frères. |
Q574529 Walter Huntley Long (March 5, 1879 – July 4, 1952) was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. |
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