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Q7605462 Steamer Pravda was a Soviet merchant freighter of about 3,100 tonnes displacement, which was active in the Soviet Arctic during the 1930s. This ship had been normally used for carrying timber. It was named after Soviet newspaper Pravda.In 1933, the newly formed Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route sent ...
Q7056046 North Marine Drive is the debut album of Ben Watt. The album was released on Cherry Red in 1983, prior to Watt's success in Everything but the Girl, and reached number one in the UK Indie Chart the same year. The tone of the album is reflective and melancholic, reminiscent of some of the more stripped-down wo...
Q7240565 The Prentis House, built in 1773 in Hadley, Massachusetts by the Dickinson family, is typical of the indigenous style of Saltbox architecture that developed in New England during the Colonial period and remained in use, particularly in rural areas, through the Revolution. The Prentis House was relocated to th...
Q1708646 Clarkia pulchella also known as pinkfairies, ragged robin, and deerhorn clarkia is a species of flowering plant in the Onagraceae family. This wildflower is found in the Pacific Northwest and is the type species of Clarkia. It was first discovered by Meriwether Lewis close to Kamiah, Idaho during the Lewis and...
Q3497168 Stari Vrh Ski Resort is a Slovenian ski resort located at Zapreval in municipality of Škofja Loka. It is a family ski resort, which has 12 km of ski slopes and is just about 20 km away from Škofja Loka and very close to Ljubljana.
Q5309719 Drymaeus liliaceus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Q5162480 Conrad Henry Appel III (born June 17, 1951), is a Metairie, Louisiana, businessman who since 2008 has been a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 9 in suburban Jefferson Parish. Appel won a special election to succeed short-term Senator Steve Scalise, after Scalise was instead elected ...
Q5385148 Erbessa quadricolor is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in Brazil.
Q16256950 In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the hoar fox is a type of fictional monster.
Q17055798 iKwekwezi FM (previously Radio Ndebele) is a South African national radio station based in Pretoria in the Gauteng.
Q18163873 Smokin' Hearts & Broken Guns is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Shaman's Harvest, released on September 16, 2014, through Mascot Label Group.
Q3362573 Paol Keineg (born February 6, 1944) is a Breton-American writer and poet born in Quimerc'h (Brittany).He worked in a several places in Brittany as a supervisor before becoming a teacher in Morlaix. He was fired without any official reason in 1972, because of his political separatist leftist Breton points of vi...
Q16900983 The Swansea Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, at 223 Prospect Street in Somerset, Massachusetts, are a pair of religious properties believed to include the oldest extant Quaker meetinghouse in the state, with the oldest surviving meetinghouse form in which the pulpit and entrance face each other across the ...
Q27064266 Winter's Gate is the seventh studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium. It was released worldwide on September 23, 2016 via Century Media Records. It is a concept album said to be about “a group of Vikings who set out to find a fabled island west of Ireland, despite the treacherous winter...
Q1911725 Perham Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 931 at the 2000 census.Perham Township was originally called Marion Lake Township, and under the latter name was organized in 1872. The present name was adopted in 1877.
Q209640 MŠK Žilina (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈɛm ˈɛʃ ˈkaː ˈʒilina]) is a Slovak football club based in the town of Žilina, that currently plays is the Slovak Superliga. Since the league inception in 1993, the club has won 7 titles and comes second in All-time table that makes them one of the most successful teams in the ...
Q6803336 Meadowbrook High School is a public high school in Byesville, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Rolling Hills Local School District. Athletic teams compete as the Meadowbrook Colts in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the East Central Ohio League as well as the Ohio...
Q1062075 William Mattus Vega (born April 17, 1964 in Barva, Heredia) is a football referee from Costa Rica, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Japan and South Korea.
Q4014769 Viscount International SpA (Viscount) is a musical instrument manufacturer based in Mondaino, Italy. The brand Viscount was registered in 1969 by Marcello Galanti, but the company was established in the late 19th century by his forefather Antonio Galanti. After 1969 Viscount’s primary focus has been on classic...
Q6728975 Mae Naak is a 2003 opera composed by Thai composer Somtow Sucharitkul to an English libretto based on one of Thailand's best known ghost stories Mae Nak Phra Khanong. The story is also the basis for Nonzee Nimibutr's popular film Nang Nak.The opera's title role was created by Hong Kong born soprano Nancy Yuen...
Q16728081 Lorne Clarke is a Canadian singer/songwriter and concert promoter who first began performing in the mid-1970s in the Toronto folk scene. Born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in the isolated mining community of Schefferville, Quebec, Clarke has since worked at a number of careers. These include stints as a mari...
Q2345626 Reginald of Burgundy (died 1321) was Count of Montbéliard, jure uxoris, from 1282 to 1321. He was a son of Hugh of Chalon (from the House of Ivrée), sire of Salins, and his wife Adelaide. He married Guillemette of Neufchâtel and they had a son, Othenin, Count of Montbéliard and a daughter, Joanna, who married ...
Q1986278 Narcissus of Athens is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. Along with the Apostles Urban of Macedonia, Stachys, Ampliatus, Apelles of Heraklion and Aristobulus of Britannia he assisted Saint Andrew. The Apostle Philip ordained St. Narcissus bishop of Athens. His feast day is October 31.
Q4600624 The 2002 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 19–22 September at Mount Juliet Golf Course in Thomastown, Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the third WGC-American Express Championship tournament, following the cancellation of the 2001 edition in the aftermath of the September ...
Q6324175 K. V. Venkateswara Sarma (1919–2005) was an Indian historian of science, particularly the astronomy and mathematics of the Kerala school. He was responsible for bringing to light several of the achievements of the Kerala school. He was editor of the Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Series, and published t...
Q4694313 Agrotis aulacias is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Q7460612 Shadow Valley is a north to northwest flowing drainage within the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. A section of Interstate 15 passes through the valley between Mountain Pass and Halloran Springs. The valley drains to the north from the west flank of the Mescal Range, the Ivanpah Mountains ...
Q7644145 "Supersize Me" is the fifth episode of season 8 and 205th episode overall of the American animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. It aired on MTV on November 17, 2011, along with "Bathroom Break".
Q6752403 Manuel António Lino (4 January 1865, in Angra do Heroísmo – 15 June 1927, in Angra do Heroísmo) was a physician, politician, poet and dramatist, who became Civil Governor of the District of Horta, Portugal in 1906.
Q13582555 The Weight of Your Love is the fourth studio album from British recording group Editors. It was released on 28 June 2013 by PIAS Recordings. The first single "A Ton of Love" first aired on 6 May 2013 on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show, with the music video being released on the same day.This is the first Editors...
Q29944818 Dak-ttongjip (닭똥집), literally "chicken gizzard", is a Korean dish made by stir-frying chicken gizzard with spices. It is a popular anju (accompaniment to alcoholic drinks). The dish can also be called dak-ttongjip-bokkeum (닭똥집볶음), as it is a bokkeum (stir-fried dish).
Q20949820 Any Body…Any Way, (re-released under the name Behind Locked Doors) is a 1968 Sexploitation Roughie film directed by Charles Romine.
Q22019148 Eddie O'Brien (4 May 1883 – 30 January 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Q27064204 Samuel John Murray (December 7, 1918 – April 28, 2004) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, who earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his leadership on the front lines at the Battle of the Bulge. Wounded by gun fire and a bursting shell, Murray continued to direct his men, th...
Q155028 Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, EVDO, etc.) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. EV-DO is an evolution of the CDMA2000 (IS-2000) standard which supports high data rates and can be deployed alongside a wireless car...
Q3434303 Gaetano "Tommy" DeVito (born June 19, 1928) is an American musician and singer, best known as a founding member, baritone vocalist, and lead guitarist of the rock band The Four Seasons.
Q7589864 St. Margaret's Episcopal School is a private, Pre-K – 12th grade college preparatory school for highly intelligent students, located in San Juan Capistrano, California. It is a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES), the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Nati...
Q5762875 Hillcrest Village is a neighbourhood located in the district of North York at the northernmost tip of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hillcrest Village is considered by some to be part of the Don Valley Village, the neighbourhood directly to the south; however, it is quite distinct. It is bordered by Fin...
Q7981857 Welsh Australians are citizens of Australia whose ancestry originates in Wales.
Q4854546 Bandhak is a South Asian American film directed by Hyder Bilgrami and produced by Ramzan Lakhani. It explores the theme of racism against South Asians in the United States in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks through the story of Baldev Singh, an Indian immigrant in New York City who, facing harassme...
Q7640164 Sungai Nibong is a residential neighbourhood near the eastern coast of Penang Island in Malaysia, about 8.6 km (5.3 mi) south of the centre of George Town, Penang's capital city. The neighbourhood, within the Northeast Penang Island District, was named after the rivers flowing through the area.Sungai Nibong is...
Q6514719 Gunnhild Eide Sundli (born 2 July 1985) is a Norwegian artist. She was born and raised in Orkdal, Norway and now resides in Trondheim.
Q16147075 Stephen Charles Ainlay was the 18th president of Union College. He became president in June 2006, succeeding interim president James Underwood, who succeeded Roger Hull after Hull retired in June 2005. He was succeeded by David R. Harris on July 1, 2018.
Q7750081 "The Man in Love with You" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Gary Harju, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in June 1994 as the fourth and final single from his album Easy Come, Easy Go. It peaked at number 4 in the United States, and number 2 in Canada.
Q1976193 Keratolytic Winter erythema (also known as Oudtshoorn disease or Oudtshoorn skin) is a rare autosomal dominant skin disease of unknown cause which causes redness and peeling of the skin on the palms and soles. Onset, increased prominence and severity usually occurs during winter. It is a type of genodermatosis...
Q3251822 The position of Minister of Mines was a Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for the mining industry. The Department of Mines was created by the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier by Statute 6-7 Edw,. VII, c. 29. and assented to on 27 April 1907. The department was to be presided over by th...
Q6961946 Namma Basava is a Kannada language film starring Puneeth Rajkumar and Gowri Munjal, it was her debut in the Kannada film industry.
Q3000297 The 2004 CAF Confederation Cup was the first edition of the newly created CAF Confederation Cup. Hearts of Oak of Ghana beat fellow Ghanaians Asante Kotoko 8-7 on penalties in the final after the two legs ended 2-2.
Q4638185 45 Draconis is a single star located in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco, around 3,500 light years from the Earth. 45 Draconis is the Flamsteed designation, while it has the Bayer designation of d Draconis. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white hued star with an appare...
Q7373363 Roy D. Simmons Jr. (born August 6, 1935) is a former American lacrosse coach who was the head coach of the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team from 1971 to 1998. Simmons' teams won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Lacrosse Championship six times (one was later vacated), and appeared in...
Q17484197 Brittanee Laverdure (born March 1, 1982) is a wrestler competing for Canada. She won a silver medal in the 55 kg freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow., 2012 World 5th Place, 2010 Word University Champion, 2008 World Bronze Medalist, 2007 World 5th Place. She was the regional winner of the Tom L...
Q18151028 Graves House is a historic home located at Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1780, and is a tripartite Georgian style frame dwelling consisting of a three bay by four bay center section flanked by wings one bay wide and three bays deep.Recorded by the Historic American Buildings...
Q23593908 Anastasia Viktorovna Mishina (Russian: Анастасия Викторовна Мишина, born 24 April 2001) is a Russian pair skater. With her skating partner, Aleksandr Galliamov, she is the 2019 World Junior champion, the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2019 Russian national jun...
Q29021008 The Institute for Public Relations (IPR) is a United States-based, non-profit organization that organizes and sponsors research on public relations.The IPR traces its origins to the 1956 establishment of the Foundations for Public Relations Research and Education, a program of the Public Relations Society of ...
Q483877 Eigersund is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is in the traditional district of Dalane. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Egersund. The town was known for its pottery factory (closed in 1979) and it is among Norway's biggest fishing ports. The villages of Helleland, H...
Q687552 Nassau William Senior (; 26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades on economic and social policy on which he wrote extensively.
Q4739355 The Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union was a trade union of sailors, firemen and ship-board service personnel which existed in the United Kingdom between 1922 and 1926.It was a merger of the British Seafarers' Union and the National Union of Ship's Stewards, both of which were opposed to the principal trade uni...
Q7061953 Nostell Priory (referred to by the National Trust simply as Nostell)is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield. It dates from 1733, and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. The Pr...
Q7371848 Rowdeford School is a special needs community school, near Rowde, Wiltshire, England, for young people with complex needs and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) aged between 11 and 16. The school caters for 130 pupils. In 2008 the school was awarded specialist status in communication and interaction.The school ...
Q6630195 This is a list of national parks in the Alps.
Q4887006 Bend of Islands is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia, 30 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2016 Census, Bend of Islands had a population of 295.The locality is located on the north bank of the Yarra River near the town of Y...
Q5451296 "Fire" by Ferry Corsten is a trance song that was released as a single in 2005, as well as appearing on Ferry Corsten's 2006 album L.E.F. It features vocals by Simon Le Bon (of the popular 80's band Duran Duran) from the 1990 song "Serious" by Duran Duran, which were re-recorded by Le Bon rather than sampled f...
Q949800 Stanley "Stan" Delong Benham (December 21, 1913 – April 22, 1970) was an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, he barely lost the gold medals in both the two-man and four-man events.Benham also won seven medals at the FIBT World Championshi...
Q6598245 This is a list of people who were producers, directors, designers and other production staff on the Star Trek television series and films.The Series column uses the following abbreviations:TOS – The Original SeriesPII – Phase IITNG – The Next GenerationDS9 – Star Trek: Deep Space NineVOY – VoyagerENT – Enterpr...
Q6915782 Moses Gate is a small district of Farnworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it lies 2.6 miles (4.2 km) southeast of Bolton town centre and 10.8 miles (17.4 km) northwest of the city of Manchester.
Q2901729 The Bidente-Ronco is a river in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The first portion of the river is called the Bidente. Once the river passes under the Ponte dei Veneziani (Bridge of the Venetians) in Meldola, the river is called the Ronco. The source of the river is near the border between the province of F...
Q542535 The 2000 AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament was the 2nd staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Shaoxing, China.
Q6383097 "Keep Young and Beautiful" is a song by Al Dubin (lyrics) and Harry Warren (music), performed by Eddie Cantor and a chorus in the 1933 film Roman Scandals.A recording by Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra was popular in 1934.Annie Lennox recorded a cover of the song for her album Diva (1992).While it does ...
Q7566326 South Bethlehem Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 288 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects. It encompasses a concentration of late-19th through early 20th century commercial, municipal, industr...
Q5815264 Geli Tabeh (Persian: گلي تابه‎, also Romanized as Gelī Tābeh) is a village in Sarbanan Rural District, in the Central District of Zarand County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q21078458 Charles Crawford Davis (November 27, 1893 – December 16, 1966) was an American audio engineer known for his innovations in the motion picture industry.
Q28230369 Virginia State Penitentiary was a prison in Richmond, Virginia. Towards the end of its life it was a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections.First opening in 1800, the prison was completed in 1804; it was built due to a reform movement preceding its construction. Thomas Jefferson initiated these refor...
Q10292508 Guardador de Margens (Portuguese for River bank guard) was Rui Veloso's third album released in 1983.
Q6103601 Sadık Rıfat Pasha (October 25, 1807 – February 11, 1857), was an Ottoman marshal, statesman and diplomat, who was twice Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.Sadık Rifat Pasha's career was initially in line with the three statesmen of the Tanzimat era (Mustafa Reshid Pasha, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha and Mehmed Fuad P...
Q3569067 William Paul Bloomquist (; born November 27, 1977) is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, and Arizona Diamondbacks. Primarily an outfielder and shortstop, he played every position, asid...
Q4978251 Bruce Samazan (born 13 November 1970) is an Australian actor who appeared in several soap operas and drama series on Australian television, the only actor to have played regular roles in Australia's "Big Three" soap operas of the 1990s (E Street, Neighbours and Home and Away).
Q5943807 Oud Sluis is a defunct restaurant in Sluis, Netherlands. It was a fine dining restaurant that had been awarded one or more Michelin stars since 1995. It carried one star in the period 1995–1998, two stars in the period 1999–2005 and three stars from 2006.The chef was Sergio Herman.The restaurant appeared from ...
Q2207255 SM U-12 was a German submarine, built in 1911 and sunk off Scotland in 1915. It was the first submarine to launch a plane at sea. U-12 was a Type U 9 U-boat built for the Imperial German Navy. Her construction was ordered on 15 July 1908 and her keel was laid down by Kaiserliche Werft in Danzig. She was launch...
Q1227080 La Tour-du-Meix is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Q7349536 Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958) is a British publisher, author and guardian of Knole House in Kent, which has been a Sackville house for 400 years and is now owned by the National Trust.The eldest son of Hugh Rosslyn Inigo Sackville-West and Bridget Eleanor Cunliffe, ...
Q16280860 Redmond may be a surname or given name, and can refer to the following people:
Q5576119 Godai Station (後台駅, Godai-eki) is a railway station on the Suigun Line in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Q7263411 Pyrausta trimaculalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey.
Q5066455 A referendum on the new constitution of France was held in Chad on 28 September 1958 as part of a wider referendum held across the French Union. The new constitution would see the country become part of the new French Community if accepted, or result in independence if rejected. It was approved by 98.29% of vo...
Q4370872 Poltva (Ukrainian: Полтва) is a village (selo) in Busk Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It was established in 1400. The village has 930 inhabitants.
Q5841018 Abbasabad-e Nowdar (Persian: عباس ابادنودر‎, also Romanized as ‘Abbāsābād-e Nowdar; also known as ‘Abbāsābād) is a village in Kuh Panj Rural District, in the Central District of Bardsir County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
Q19594729 Thomas Joseph Wolf, Jr. (1925 – 1979) was an American composer and piano player. He was best known for his songwriting collaboration with Fran Landesman.
Q16950339 Baree, Son of Kazan is a lost 1925 silent film produced by The Vitagraph Company of American and distributed by Warner Brothers, who acquired Vitagraph. It was based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. The film starred Anita Stewart and is a remake of a 1918 version starring Nell Shipman.
Q11573118 The Boy Inside (王様とボク, Osama to Boku, literally "The King and I"), is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed and written by Tetsu Maeda. It is Maeda's thirteenth film. The plot centers on a boy named Morio who has the IQ of a 6-year-old and his childhood friend who tries to get him to fit into the society. This ...
Q18355223 This is a list of the characters for the manga/anime series Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei.
Q2704908 Cheimerius nufar also known as the Santer seabream is a species in the family Sparidae found in Red Sea south of the Mossel Bay in South Africa and east to India and Sri Lanka. This species is the only known member of the genus Cheimerius. Unlike other members of the sparid family, C. nufar is gonochoric (does...
Q27469974 Ryan Ince (born 16 September 1996) is an English rugby league footballer who plays on the wing for the Widnes Vikings in the Betfred Championship.
Q26882252 Absolute Championship Akhmat (ACA) Formerly known as (Absolute Championship Berkut) is a Russian mixed martial arts, kickboxing and brazilian jiu-jitsu organization and one of the leading promotions in Europe. To date, most events have been hosted in Grozny, Russia. They have also held events in Canada, Unite...
Q27997544 Noonan is an extinct town in Ralls County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.A post office called Noonan was established in 1892, and remained in operation until 1906. The community has the name of James Noonan, an early settler.
Q623447 Diffie–Hellman key exchange (DH) is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel and was one of the first public-key protocols as originally conceptualized by Ralph Merkle and named after Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. DH is one of the earliest practical examples of public key ...
Q367456 Sir Roland "Roy" Welensky, KCMG (né Raphael Welensky; 20 January 1907 – 5 December 1991) was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to an Afrikaner mother and a Lithuanian Jewi...
Q1078428 Iowa Highway 9 is the most northern of Iowa's east–west highways, traversing the entire northern tier of counties. It runs from the eastern terminus of South Dakota Highway 42 at the South Dakota border east of Sioux Falls, South Dakota near Benclare, to the Wisconsin border at Lansing where it continues as Wi...
Q5275874 Digital Harbor High School is a magnet high school located in Baltimore, Maryland. Occupying the campus of the former Southern High School, it is currently one of two secondary schools and a comprehensive high school that specializes in information technology of Baltimore.
Q5362549 Elizabeth Castro, sometimes known as Liz Castro, is an American author and translator best known for her books aimed to educate the reader on particular aspects of website development, such as HTML and Perl. From 1987 to 1993 Castro lived in Barcelona and managed the translation of computer programs. In 1993 s...
Q7957369 WWMB is a dual CW/CW+-affiliated television station licensed to Florence, South Carolina, United States, serving the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions of South Carolina. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on virtual and UHF channel 21 from a transmitter on Pee Dee Church Road in Floydale. Owned by H...