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Q1165168 Lusanger is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. |
Q7263101 Pylus or Pylos (Ancient Greek: Πύλος) was a town in hollow Elis, described by Pausanias as situated upon the mountain road leading from Elis to Olympia, and at the place where the Ladon flows into the Pineus. Strabo, in a corrupt passage, assigns to it the same situation, and places it in the neighbourhood of ... |
Q4987646 Bulbophyllum citricolor is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q7177365 Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. |
Q2382423 United Nations Security Council resolution 1326, adopted without a vote on 31 October 2000, after examining the application of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Yugoslavia be admitted.In 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugosl... |
Q847385 Žitomir is a village in Zagreb County, Croatia. Administratively, it is a part of the township of Sveti Ivan Zelina. |
Q73788 Michael Ebling (born 27 January 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). On 25 March 2012 he was elected mayor of Mainz as successor of Jens Beutel (SPD). Ebling took over the office of mayor on 18 April 2012. |
Q5589981 The Gowan Block, also known as the Masonic Block, was built as a commercial building and meeting hall located at 416 Ashmun Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Along with the next-door Adams Building, it is now part of the Park Place City Center, a mixed commercial and residential development. It was listed... |
Q17017817 The Keyboard Variations No. 5 in C major, Hob. XVII/5, is a set of Keyboard variations written by Joseph Haydn in 1790 and published by Artaria & Co. on February 9th, 1791. |
Q2817843 The 5th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 29 January 2000. The ceremony was chaired by Claudia Cardinale. The "Most Promising Actor" and "Most Promising Actress" awards were introduced in that year. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc won two awards including Bes... |
Q22096671 Bernadette DiPino is an American law enforcement officer who is serving as the Chief of Police in Sarasota, Florida. DiPino is the first woman to hold the position of chief of police of the Sarasota Police Department. Previously DiPino held the position of chief of police in Ocean City, Maryland from 2003 unt... |
Q23023732 Ottilie Helen MacLaren (or McLaren) Wallace (2 August 1875 – 16 October 1947) was a Scottish sculptor, a pupil of Auguste Rodin and an Associate Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. |
Q4024081 Zefirino Agostini (24 September 1813 - 6 April 1896) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest that served in his hometown of Verona to perform his pastoral duties. He established two religious congregations in his lifetime being the Pious Union of Sisters Devoted to Saint Angela Merici and the Ursuline Sisters of ... |
Q2777120 Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik (born 12 February 1938), better known as Hasu Yajnik, also spelled Hasu Yagnik is a Gujarati novelist, short story writer, critic, editor, folklorist and children's writer from Gujarat, India. |
Q220402 Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. I... |
Q7888102 United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. They used A Song For Europe to choose their entry. The winner was Liverpudlian duo Jemini with the song "Cry Baby". The song went on to gain the worst placing ever for the United Kingdom - last place with no points. |
Q124411 Ferdinand Berthoud, born on 18 March 1727 in Plancemont-sur-Couvet (Principality of Neuchâtel), died in Groslay (Val d'Oise) on 20 June 1807, and was a scientist and watchmaker. He became master watchmaker in Paris in 1753. Berthoud, who held the position of Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and th... |
Q141594 Myxobolus cerebralis is a myxosporean parasite of salmonids (salmon, trout, and their allies) that causes whirling disease in farmed salmon and trout and also in wild fish populations. It was first described in rainbow trout in Germany a century ago, but its range has spread and it has appeared in most of Europ... |
Q7653917 Swaroop Sampat (born 3 November 1958) is an Indian actress who has acted in several Hindi language films such as Naram Garam. She won the Miss India contest in 1979 and represented India at Miss Universe 1979. |
Q2187025 Leighton–Linslade is a civil parish in the district of Central Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire, England, with a population of 37,469 at the 2011 Census.It consists of the settlements of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade, which have a single town council. The River Ouzel provides the border between the parts, with Le... |
Q7823779 Too (sometimes stylized as too) is the fourth studio album by Fantastic Plastic Machine. It was released on February 26, 2003. It peaked at number 35 on the Oricon Albums Chart. It includes contributions from Incognito, Verbal, Maki Takamiya, Ryohei Yamamoto, Coralie Clément, and Ward E. Sexton. |
Q2328424 Stigmatopora is a genus of pipefishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
Q1971786 Domingo "Sam" Samudio (born February 28, 1937 Dallas, Texas), better known by his stage name Sam the Sham, is a retired American rock and roll singer. Sam the Sham was known for his camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains. As the front man for the Ph... |
Q4056305 Automation and Remote Control (Russian: Автоматика и Телемеханика, romanized: Avtomatika i Telemekhanika) is a Russian scientific journal published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Press and distributed in English by Springer Science+Business Media.The journal was established in April 1936 by the USSR Academy of S... |
Q567296 Niederraden is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. |
Q7519248 Simon MacKenzie (also known as S.P. MacKenzie) is a military historian, author and academic. He was educated at the University of Toronto and received a PhD from the University of Oxford in 1989.MacKenzie teaches at the University of South Carolina. He has won the Templer Medal, a £5000 prize offered by the S... |
Q7808173 Tingo de Saposoa District is one of six districts of the province Huallaga in Peru. |
Q2655270 Żebry-Stara Wieś [ˈʐɛbrɨ ˈstara ˈvjɛɕ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Olszewo-Borki, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Ostrołęka and 94 km (58 mi) north of Warsaw. |
Q6796930 "Maybe Not Tonight" is a song written by Keith Stegall and Dan Hill, and recorded by American country music artists Sammy Kershaw and Lorrie Morgan. It was released in February 1999 as the first single and title track from the album Maybe Not Tonight. The song reached #17 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles... |
Q18137892 Protorthodes mexicana is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by J. Donald Lafontaine in 2014. It is found in Xalapa, Mexico.The length of the forewings is about 12 mm. The forewings are pale whitish buff brown with a dusting of pale-brown scales. The subbasal, antemedial and postmedial lines are ve... |
Q18542752 Wu Jide (born September 1955) is a Chinese politician from Gansu province. He was investigated by the Communist Party of China's anti-graft agency in October 2014. Previously he served as the Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Gansu province Committee. |
Q20707405 Al Wathba National Insurance Co P.S.J.C (AWNIC) (Arabic: شَرِكَة الْوَثْبَة الْوَطَنِيَّة لِلتَّأْمِيْن, romanized: Sharikat Al-Wathbah Al-Waṭaniyyah Lit-Taʾmīn) is a national insurance company of the United Arab Emirates. It was established in 1996, with its registered head office in Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Saif ... |
Q24007315 Fredrik André Bjørkan (born 21 August 1998) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a defender for Bodø/Glimt. He is the son of former player and now head coach for Bodø/Glimt Aasmund Bjørkan. |
Q1119894 The Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Perpignan. It is located in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in the Occitanie region, southern France. It was created in January 2016, replacing the previous communauté d'agg... |
Q2193813 Conway is a city in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 23 at the 2010 census. Conway was founded in 1885. |
Q6565735 The following is a list of Canadian ambassadors to Burkina Faso. Canada established a diplomatic mission to Burkina Faso in 1962.Bruce MacGillivray Williams — 1962Donald Macalister Cornett — 1962–1965Charles Eustace McGaughey — 1965–1966Albert Frederick Hart — 1966–1968Douglas Barcham Hicks — 1968–1969Wilfrid ... |
Q5491738 The Franklin Park Zoo is a 72 acres (290,000 m2) zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is currently operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The zoo is located in the northeast portion of Franklin Park, Boston's largest park and the last component of the cit... |
Q1263074 The pale-vented pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) is a large pigeon (family Columbidae) found in the tropical Americas. Formerly often placed in Columba, it actually belongs to a clade of the older New World genus Patagioenas. With its relatives it represents an evolutionary radiation extending through most of ... |
Q14715106 The Westport Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Westport, Connecticut, operated by the Westport Astronomical Society and formerly known as the Rolnick Observatory. The observatory is located at the highest elevation in the town. It was built upon the former BR-73 Nike missile site in the mid-19... |
Q2478866 Sultan Abu Bakar State Mosque (Malay: Masjid Negeri Sultan Abu Bakar) is the state mosque of Johor, Malaysia. Located along Jalan Skudai, Johor Bahru, the mosque was constructed between 1892 and 1900, under the direction of Sultan Abu Bakar. |
Q132567 Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterodactyloid pterosaur. |
Q8050130 Yasuyuki Kazama (風間靖幸, Kazama Yasuyuki, born 1 February 1970, Shimosuwa, Nagano, Japan) is a drifting driver from Japan, formerly competing in D1 Grand Prix, well known for using the Nissan Silvia S15. He is also known as Waku Waku and Spin Benz Dokan. |
Q7384388 Ryan Joseph O'Malley (born April 9, 1980) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Chicago Cubs in 2006.O'Malley made his major league debut for the Cubs on August 16, 2006, against the Houston Astros. He pitched eight innings, giving up five hits, six walks, two strikeouts and no runs in a... |
Q7392373 SP-66 is a state highway in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. |
Q7085019 Old Spring Hill is an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. |
Q3752566 Malapterurus tanganyikaensis is a species of electric catfish native to Lake Tanganyika where it occurs in the bordering nations of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. This species grows to a length of 49.5 centimetres (19.5 in) SL. |
Q4987669 Bulbophyllum colubrimodum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q14692709 KOWZ (1170 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to serve Waseca, Minnesota, the station serves the Owatonna-Waseca area. The station is owned by Linder Radio Group. |
Q9310589 "Risingson" is a song by the English trip hop group Massive Attack, released as a single on 7 July 1997. It is the first single from their third album Mezzanine and the eighth single overall. |
Q8027104 Wisconsin is a statue on top of the Wisconsin Capitol Building created by Daniel Chester French. |
Q216490 Hugo Iltis (April 11, 1882, Brno – June 22, 1952, Fredericksburg, Virginia) was a Czech-American biologist. |
Q15455170 Galium wrightii, common name Wright's bedstraw, is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is native to northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States: Sonora, Chihuahua, Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, southwestern Utah (Washington Co.), southern Nevada (Clark + Lincoln Cos.) and southeastern Califo... |
Q23021196 The Blonde Gypsy (French: La caraque blonde) is a 1953 French drama film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Tilda Thamar, Roger Pigaut and Gérard Landry. |
Q28976446 Walter Coulston (31 January 1912 – June 1990) was an English footballer who played as an outside right for South Kirkby, Manchester City, Barnlsey and Notts County. |
Q1952312 Speak, Memory is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual short stories published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966. |
Q6802500 McNealy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Chris McNealy (born 1961), American basketball playerMaverick McNealy (born 1995), American golferRusty McNealy (born 1958), American baseball playerScott McNealy (born 1954), American businessman |
Q556109 Heide–Büsum Airport (German: Flugplatz Heide-Büsum) (IATA: HEI, ICAO: EDXB) is an airport serving Heide, a town in the Dithmarschen district in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The airport is located 1.6 nautical miles (3 km) northeast of Büsum, a town located about 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Hei... |
Q1639389 Plenas is a municipality located in the Campo de Belchite comarca, province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 131 inhabitants. |
Q2371442 Fourth Ring Road may refer to4th Ring Road (Beijing)Fourth Ring Road (Moscow)Vierter Ring unfinished ring road of the Reichs Capital Germania |
Q6436647 The Kreisliga Schwaben-Süd is currently the eighth tier of the German football league system in the southern region of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk of Swabia (German: Schwaben). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben in 2012 it was the ninth tier. From 2008, when the 3. Liga was introduced, was ... |
Q1961359 Cavalier Municipal Airport (FAA LID: 2C8) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) southwest of the central business district of Cavalier, in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. It is owned by the Cavalier Airport Authority. |
Q7107827 Ostrowo [ɔsˈtrɔvɔ] (German: Ostrowo bei Argenau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniewkowo, within Inowrocław County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Gniewkowo, 11 km (7 mi) north-east of Inowrocław, 26 km (16 mi)... |
Q3142467 Hugo Åbergs Memorial is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Jägersro Racetrack in Malmö, Sweden. Hugo Åbergs Memorial has taken place since 1970. In 2008, the purse of the event was approximately US$291,000 (SEK1,750,000). Hugo Åbergs Memorial is part of the European Grand Circuit. |
Q5381469 Enypia is a genus of moths, commonly called girdle moths, in the family Geometridae. |
Q5406491 Eudemopsis is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae. |
Q4999115 Burleigh Cruikshank (June 4, 1890 – October 1982) was an American football player and Presbyterian minister. In 1914, he was a first-team All-American playing at the center position for Washington & Jefferson College. He later attended the Princeton Theological Seminary and served as a Presbyterian minister ... |
Q7927841 Video Hustler (ビデォ・ハスラ一) is a pool (pocket billiards) arcade game released by Konami in 1981. |
Q4861528 Barnes Hall is a student-services building located in the center of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. It was built in 1887 in a Romanesque style and has 21,618 sq ft. |
Q10842628 İnnaplıhüyüğü is a village in the District of Karataş, Adana Province, Turkey. |
Q1803674 AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm Center for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology is a "research and education initiative run jointly by the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University." Currently represented subjects include physics, astronomy, biotechnology, and bioinformatics. The center host... |
Q15999818 Terry Eades (born 5 March 1944) is a former Northern Irish professional footballer who played in the Football League for Cambridge United and Watford.He made over 250 appearances in the Football League.After his professional footballing career Terry became player/manager of Histon F.C.Terry is also recognize... |
Q16853372 Geir Elsebutangen (born 3 January 1964) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He has served as an elected member of Skien city council. In the 2013 election he was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark.Since 2013 he works as the chief executive officer of ... |
Q1294437 Oskar Holtzmann (20 January 1859, Stuttgart – 10 March 1934, Giessen) was a German theologian who specialized in New Testament studies.From 1877 to 1883 he studied theology at the universities of Strasbourg, Göttingen and Giessen and at the seminary in Friedberg. Afterwards, he served as a pastor in Bickenbach... |
Q37563380 Zacher is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:Daniel Zacher (born 1988), German footballerElmer Zacher (1880–1944), American baseball playerGábor Zacher (born 1960), Hungarian physicianGerd Zacher (1929–2014), German composer, organist and writerHans F. Zacher (1928–2015), German academi... |
Q2734050 The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks. Various claims have been made for this... |
Q6708063 Sir Lyman Melvin Jones (21 September 1843 – 15 April 1917) was a Canadian businessman and politician.Born into a farming family near Whitchurch, Upper Canada, Jones settled as a young man in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he was the representative of A. Harris, Son and Company of Brantford. Following the merger of ... |
Q2522596 "Tommy Gun" is a song by the British punk rock band The Clash, released as the first single from their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978).Joe Strummer said that he got the idea for the song when he was thinking about terrorists, and how they probably enjoy reading about their killings as much as movie st... |
Q3300960 Janne "Tempest" Suni is a Finnish demoscener, pixel artist and tracker musician, and a member of the demogroup Fairlight. He is best known outside the demoscene for being the creator of the song "Acidjazzed Evening", the melody of which hip-hop producer Timbaland is alleged to have plagiarized in the 2006 son... |
Q4908834 Bill Duff (born February 24, 1974) is a former National Football League, NFL Europe, and Arena Football League defensive tackle, and host of Human Weapon on the History Channel. He holds a brown belt in Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art he refers to as "Korean Street Fighting".Duff grew up in Delran Township, ... |
Q1219711 Julia Misbehaves is a 1948 American romantic comedy film, which stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple who are soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when the daughter he has raised, played by Elizabeth Taylor, invites her mother to her wedding. The film als... |
Q935151 "Air on the G String" is August Wilhelmj's arrangement of the second movement in Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.The arrangement differs from the original in that the part of the first violins is transposed down so that it can be played entirely on a violin's lowest string, i... |
Q7048542 The Nomer Tamid Synagogue of Białystok (also known as the Nomer Tamid Beth Midrash; Polish: Synagoga Nomer Tamid w Białymstoku; Hebrew: בית כנסת נומר תמיד [Synagogue of the Eternal Flame]) was a wooden synagogue in Białystok built in 1703 or 1711. Funding for the building was provided by Jan Klemens Branicki.... |
Q827428 State elections were held in Saarland on 30 August 2009, the same date as the Saxony and Thuringia state elections. The election decided control of the Landtag of Saarland (Saarland's parliament). |
Q951907 Bengt Fredrik Lindberg (born 2 February 1986) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. Lindberg grew up in Östersund.From 2006 until 2008 he played both Third and Second positions for Sebastian Kraupp. In 2009 he and Kraupp joined Niklas Edin's team with Lindberg throwing Second stones.At their first major tournament... |
Q7916649 Vasile Tărâţeanu (born September 27, 1945 in Nijni Sinivtsi) is a writer and activist from Ukraine. |
Q5462033 Åse Nygård Pedersen is a Norwegian handball player. She played 76 matches and scored 96 goals for the Norwegian national team between 1978 and 1984. She participated at the 1982 World Women's Handball Championship, where the Norwegian team placed seventh. |
Q4809661 The Association of British Muslims (AoBM) is an organisation of British Muslims, initially founded in 1889 by Shaykh Abdullah Quilliam. |
Q7380314 Rupert Edward Elessing Jeffcoat (born 23 June 1970, Edinburgh) is a Scottish organist, composer and Anglican priest. Married to Catherine Jeffcoat. |
Q2646386 "Some Die Young" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Laleh, taken as the lead single from her fourth studio album, Sjung. It was released in Scandinavia on 22 January 2012 through Warner Music Sweden, and in Germany on 30 August 2013 through Universal Music Germany. The pop song was written and produced by ... |
Q4408911 Saryan (Armenian: Սարյան) is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include:Ghazaros (Lazar) Saryan (1920–1998), Armenian composerMartiros Saryan (1880–1972), Armenian painterMichael B. Saryan (born 1982), American lawyerRafael Saryan (born 1990), Russian footballer |
Q16754711 Macroptila nubecula is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Schaus in 1911. It is found in Costa Rica. |
Q16887329 Johnny Lyon Hills, are a range of hills, north of the Tres Alamos Wash and the Little Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Its highest elevation is the summit of 5732 feet at 32°08′09″N 110°13′59″W. |
Q28222173 Heap Place is a populated place situated in Apache County, Arizona. It has an estimated elevation of 5,577 feet (1,700 m) above sea level. |
Q29406850 Corey Jensen (born 8 January 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and lock for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL. |
Q737444 Dresden is a city in Decatur County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 41. |
Q295376 John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 30 ranking titles, including four World Championships and three UK Championships, as well as two Masters titles, making him one of the most successful players in the history of the sport.I... |
Q14687961 The passenger depot of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) in Chicago, Illinois was located at the northwest corner of Roosevelt Road (12th Street) and Clark Street, just east of the main line of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to its LaSalle Street Station. Between 1... |
Q540159 The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because... |
Q6229500 John Rice Divers (24 November 1931 – 9 November 2005) was a Scottish football player.Divers was born in Glasgow and began his career with junior side Ashfield, before transferring to Clyde. He stayed there for 3 years, and he won the 1955 Scottish Cup. He later played for Exeter City and East Stirlingshire. |
Q168105 Zbigniew Kruszyński (born 14 October 1960 in Tczew), commonly known as Detsi Kruszyński or Detzi Kruszyński, is a retired Polish-German football midfielder, who was also adept in defence and attack. In an 18-year professional career, he played league football in Poland, Germany and England. He is probably best ... |
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