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Q6656740 Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). It was recorded from four live shows in March 1983 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Morrison's birthplace). The album was composed of songs from Mo...
Q1140311 For the Mexican singer, see Christian Chávez.Cristian Manuel Chávez (born June 16, 1986 in Pilar, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for Wilstermann.Chávez made his competitive debut on 3 July 2005 in a fiery game against Almagro, which was suspended due to violence and recorde...
Q2035568 Raszujka [raˈʂui̯ka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chorzele, within Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
Q6474347 Lajoie Lake, also known as Little Gun Lake, is a small lake in the Bridge River Country of the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located three miles west of the community of Gold Bridge and just southwest of Gun Lake, which is also known as Big Gun Lake. The two lakes together are known as th...
Q8040281 Wyola, Arkansas is an unincorporated community in Crawford Township, Washington County, Arkansas, United States. It is located on Arkansas Highway 74, south of Arnett and east of Brentwood.
Q5456199 Five and Dime is a cartoon short by Walter Lantz Productions, and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is the 74th Oswald short produced by Lantz and the 126th overall. This is the earliest YouTube-copyrighted Walter Lantz cartoon.
Q6061824 Ioan Mire Melik, or Melic (born Iacob Ioan Miren Melik; August 9, 1840 – January 29, 1889), was a Wallachian, later Romanian mathematician, educator and political figure, one of the early members of Junimea literary society. Known for his work in private education, and for his tenure at the University of Iași,...
Q16107510 Hans Petter Fjeld Skinstad (born 13 June 1946 in Nord-Odal) is a Canadian former cross-country skier who competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Q15465039 Frank Thelen (born October 10, 1975) is a German businessman, investor and author based in Bonn, Germany. He was a co-founder of companies such as ip.labs and doo. As of 2014, he is the CEO of venture capital firm e42, now Freigeist Capital, which has invested in startups such as Wunderlist, MyTaxi, KaufDa, p...
Q17476829 Oskar Piotrowski (born August 11, 1996) is a Polish male acrobatic gymnast. Along with his partner, Adam Wojtacki, he competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.
Q23619798 Mauro Diego de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, O.S.B. or Marcos de Tovar y Valle Maldonado (1586 – 22 October, 1666) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Chiapas (1652–1656), and Bishop of Caracas (1639–1652).
Q23091396 Emanuel Balaban (January 27, 1895 – April 17, 1973) was a pianist and free-lance conductor who taught at the Eastman School of Music and later at the Juilliard School.Balaban was born to Joseph Balaban and Olga Ribman Balaban in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Institute of Musical Art, then studied under ...
Q25104069 Turu Qullu (Aymara turu blunt, qullu mountain, "blunt mountain", also spelled Turu Kkollu) is a 4,309-metre-high (14,137 ft) mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the Cochabamba Department, Tapacari Province. Turu Qullu lies northwest of Jach'a Ch'utu.
Q5343078 Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph. D. (June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian, born in Strykersville, New York, and educated at Yale graduating in 1883 with high honors. He taught at Adelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 - 1895 when he became a Professor of History at Yale. Bourne is considered o...
Q7369656 Ross Technology, Inc. was a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, specializing in SPARC microprocessors. It was founded in Austin, Texas in August 1988 by Dr. Roger D. Ross, a leading computer scientist who headed Motorola's Advanced Microprocessor Division and directed the developments of Motorola'...
Q922471 Polymastia pepo is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It is a common species of rocky subtidal and intertidal habitats in the far north of North Island, New Zealand.This is a large, often spherical sponge up to 40 cm in diameter. It is firm and bright orange and rather resembles a pu...
Q7332295 The Ricobayo Dam Arch Bridge is a supported deck arch bridge that carries the National 122 Road over the Ricobayo Reservoir at Esla River, in the province of Zamora, Spain. Its arch is a composite hollow box section of steel and concrete. The total length of the bridge is 219 m (718.5 ft) with an arch spanning...
Q1654259 Liberals and Christians (Liberali e Cristiani) is a liberal-conservative faction within the Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC).It was founded in February 2008 as a continuation of the "Liberal Clubs" and of the Liberal-Popular Union by some members of Forza Italia who decided to switch to UD...
Q6604597 Woussé is a village in the Kongoussi Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso. It has a population of 926.
Q4532892 An Estonian Alien's Passport (Estonian: välismaalase pass) is a travel document that may be issued to a person who is stateless or of undefined citizenship residing in Estonia by the Police and Border Guard Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It can also be used as an identity document. Estonia has abou...
Q4788902 Allianz Parque, also known as Palestra Itália Arena, is a multipurpose stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, built to receive shows, concerts, corporate events and especially football matches of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, the site owner. The stadium has a capacity of 43,713 spectators.The stadium has one of the mo...
Q6760475 Marginella emmae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Q6534252 Leucoptera adenocarpella is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae that is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.The larvae feed on Adenocarpus decorticans. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a nearly full-depth greenish blotch. The mine is not contracted. The frass is deposited in very fine g...
Q6716905 Uzoechi Osisioma "Uzo" Emenike (born 9 November 1994), professionally known as MNEK (, EM-ən-EE-kay), is a British singer and Brit and Grammy-award-winning songwriter and record producer. He has been nominated for a Grammy and he received the ASCAP Vanguard Award.. His writing and production credits range from...
Q4566239 The 1948 County Championship was the 49th officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 8 May to 31 August 1948. Glamorgan County Cricket Club claimed their first title.
Q6510013 Learmonth White Dalrymple (c.1827–26 August 1906) was a New Zealand educationalist who campaigned for girls' secondary education in Dunedin and for women to be admitted to the University of Otago. This was the first Australasian university to agree to this and the school is said to be the first public high sch...
Q3399584 ŽRK Metalurg (WHC Metalurg) (Macedonian: ЖРК Металург) is a women's handball club from Skopje, North Macedonia. The team currently competes in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball and in the EHF Women's Champions League.
Q16870832 Holcombe is a surname, originating in a number of English villages with the name. Early examples are recorded as de Holcombe, and the final e has been dropped from many family names. Notable people with the surname Holcombe (with an e) include:Brett Holcombe, Australian paralympic athleteBrian Holcombe (born ...
Q16222505 Nomani Tonga (born 16 May 1983 in Neiafu) is a Tongan rugby union player, currently playing with the Border Bulldogs in South Africa. His regular position is lock or flanker.
Q11719334 Jan Veleba (born 6 December 1986 in Brno) is a Czech athlete specialising in the sprinting events. He represented his country at three outdoor and two indoor European Championships.
Q5167365 "Cool Water" is a song written in 1936 by Bob Nolan. It is about a man and his mule, Dan, and a mirage in the desert. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as No. 3 on the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Q22266395 Michael McLeod may refer to:Michael McLeod (ice hockey) (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey playerMichael McLeod (politician) (born 1959), Canadian politicianMike McLeod (born 1952), British runnerMike McLeod (gridiron football) (born 1958), American football playerMike McLeod (actor) (born 1985), Canadian film ...
Q12292658 Rumen Dimitrov Hristov is a Bulgarian politician from the Union of Democratic Forces.Graduated "Agricultural Economics", then defended his doctoral dissertation. Later he was extraordinary professor at Southwestern University in Blagoevgrad. He teaches the basics of marketing and akromarketing.In the period 1...
Q461588 Charlotte Dundas is regarded as the world's second successful steamboat, the first towing steamboat and the boat that demonstrated the practicality of steam power for ships.
Q6663047 Lo-Pro is the self-titled debut album of Lo-Pro, released on September 30, 2003. It had one single in "Sunday" which garnered considerable radio play upon release. Throughout 2003 and 2004, Lo-Pro toured with groups like Staind and Three Days Grace in promotion of the album before being dropped from their reco...
Q266533 Margaret Sambiria (in Danish: Margrethe Sambiria, Sambirsdatter or Margrethe Sprænghest; c. 1230 – December 1282) was Queen of Denmark by marriage to King Christopher I, and regent during the minority of her son, King Eric V from 1259 until 1264. She is the first woman confirmed to have formally ruled as regent...
Q59743 Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an ecological economist and Professor of Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Q5810015 Paul Hollander (; 3 October 1932 – 9 April 2019) was a Hungarian-born political sociologist, communist-studies scholar, and non-fiction author. He is known for his criticisms of communism and left-wing politics in general.
Q5621270 Gustave Adrian "Gus" Barnes (9 May 1877 – 14 March 1921) was an English violinist, painter and sculptor with a significant career in South Australia, notably as curator at the Art Gallery.
Q7632914 Suchitra Bhattacharya (10 January 1950 – 2015) was an Indian novelist.
Q2132212 Lost in Time (Chinese: 忘不了) is a 2003 Hong Kong drama film directed by Derek Yee and starring Cecilia Cheung, Lau Ching-Wan and Louis Koo.
Q6947089 Mycobacterium pyrenivorans is a scotochromogenic, rapidly growing mycobacterium, first isolated from an enrichment culture obtained from soil that was highly contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The soil sample was collected on the site of a former coking plant at Ubach-Palenberg, Germany...
Q809163 Saint-Victor is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.
Q1612173 The MP-446 Viking is a 9mm semi-automatic handgun originating from Russia.
Q5359535 Shingū-Chūō Station (新宮中央駅, Shingū-Chūō-eki) is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line, operated by Kyushu Railway Company in Shingū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Q7137463 Parisian Life is a 1936 French English-language musical film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Max Dearly, Conchita Montenegro, Neil Hamilton.
Q4110571 Christian Vidal (born April 26, 1972 in Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is an Argentine guitarist, member of the symphonic metal band Therion. He has so far released two solo albums.
Q9089727 Cosmopterix sinelinea is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from South Carolina, United States.Adults have been recorded in August.
Q6427977 Kolyai Rural District (Persian: دهستان كليائي‎) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Asadabad County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,909, in 871 families. The rural district has 13 villages.
Q19561168 Lawrence Benjamin Brown (August 29, 1893 – December 25, 1972) was an African-American singer, composer and pianist born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is best known for his arrangements of Negro spirituals, many of which he performed as accompanist for Paul Robeson, performing on piano and singing harmony.
Q3407101 Prohibition is the seventeenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2009 on the Polydor label. The album features political content, as it is described by Fontaine as "a rebellious album", and the song Partir ou rester was written as a reaction to the 2007 French presidential elec...
Q792437 Axel Wöstmann (born 12 April 1961) is a German rower. He competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Q1848916 These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1965.
Q1362810 Greg Evans (born November 13, 1947) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the syndicated comic strip Luann. He received the 2003 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for the strip. He has been nominated four other times for the same award.
Q212758 An alarm clock is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of individuals at specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or short naps; they are sometimes used for other reminders as well. Most use sound; some use light or vibration. Some ha...
Q235452 Yipsi Moreno González (born November 19, 1980 in Camagüey) is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a triple world champion and Olympic silver medalist, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder.In 2016, after the 2008 Olympic gold medallist Belarus athlete Aksana Miankova received a disqualif...
Q3413928 "Let There Be Light" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe. It is the second story in his Future History and was included in the first collection, The Man Who Sold the Moon, but ...
Q7136848 Paresh Baruah (Assamese: পৰেশ বৰুৱা), also known by his alias Paresh Asom, is an insurgent of the armed insurgent group ULFA, which is seeking Independence for Assam from the Indian Union. He is the vice-chairperson and the commander-in-chief of the United Liberation Front of Assam – Independent (ULFA – I).He...
Q7355634 The Rockville Centre Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the Village of Rockville Centre, New York, United States, located on the South Shore of Long Island. Established in 1893, it currently has approximately 52 sworn officers and a total of 90 employees. The department responds to bet...
Q5171728 Field of Corn (with Osage Orange Trees) is a publicly funded art installation in the city of Dublin, Ohio. The installation consists of 109 concrete ears of corn positioned in rows and standing upright in a grassy field. At one end of the field are two rows of Osage-orange trees, one pre-existing and the other...
Q5625425 Gyrinicola batrachiensis are nematode parasites that are members of the order Oxyurida. Members of this order are also known as pinworms. These organisms are nematodes that feed on micro-particles in the gut of vertebrates and invertebrates. Oxyurida is further separated into two superfamilies: Oxyuroidea and...
Q177513 La Bâtie-Montgascon is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.The inhabitants of the commune are known as Batiolans or Batiolanes.
Q6799719 Mbokassa is a village in Mbaïki district in the Lobaye region in the Central African Republic southwest of the capital, Bangui.Nearby towns and villages include Peketo (1.5 nm), Pesselle (3.0 nm), Bossongo-Manoeuvres (3.3 nm), Seoundou (7.6 nm), Sakolongo (7.9 nm), Sebala (8.4 nm), Yaka (1.5 nm) and Boumbe (2....
Q37816 Ridge Falls is an 11-metre (36 ft) high washboard ribbon cascade waterfall found on CN property in Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Nearby attractions include the Bruce Trail, Dofasco 2000 Trail, Battlefield House Museum, Devil's Punch Bowl, Devil's Punch Bowl Conservation Area, Erland Lee House Museum, D...
Q190960 "LoveGame" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her debut studio album, The Fame (2008). Produced by RedOne, the track was released as the album's third single in North America and Europe and the fourth single in Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden after "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)". "LoveGame" was a...
Q2843923 Jesús Manuel Montané Juvillà (Barcelona, 1972) is a film director, writer and journalist. He has done music videos (Begging The Waves, for Lídia Pujol), animated movies such as 2.0 (1998) and Godspeed: One: Secret Legacy (2008), and the live-action feature-length movie Ushima-Next (2011), featuring author Fern...
Q5718190 Chasorka (Persian: چاسركا‎, also Romanized as Chāsorkā) is a village in Sajjadrud Rural District, Bandpey-ye Sharqi District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 172, in 41 families.
Q18151474 Mercer Mall is a shopping mall serving Bluefield, West Virginia. Opened in 1980, the mall features J. C. Penney, Belk, Roses, Rural King, and Hobby Lobby, plus 70 other stores. It is managed by Ershig Properties.
Q20686813 Ethmia baihua is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Yang in 1977. It is found in northern China.
Q13633485 Felimare marci is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae. Placement of this species in Felimare is based on molecular (DNA) evidence.
Q30002267 Neil Small is professor of health research at the University of Bradford. He previously held posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of York. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His book Living and Dying with Dementia – Dialogues about Palliative Care won in the category Non-Clin...
Q12343148 Elias Christian Thorvald Krak (12 June 1830 - 6 November 1908) was a Danish road engineer who headed the Department of Physical Planning (stadskonduktør) for 40 years in the City of Copenhagen and published the first City directory for Copenhagen.
Q304477 This is a list of aviation-related events from 1979:
Q7602096 Starling Inlet or Sha Tau Kok Hoi (Chinese: 沙頭角海) is a harbour in northeast New Territories, Hong Kong. The whole body of water falls within the Closed Area and generally restricted to local residents. Settlements around the harbour include: Sha Tau Kok, Wu Shek Kok (烏石角), Yim Tso Ha (鹽灶下), Nam Chung, Luk Ke...
Q14685925 Howard W. Blake High School is a public high school in Tampa, Florida, United States and operated by the School District of Hillsborough County. It opened in 1956 as a school for African-Americans, and later became an integrated junior high school after the end of segregation. The current building opened in 1...
Q620581 Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo (born 1953) is a Burkinabé political figure who was Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 6 February 1996 to 7 November 2000. He was President of the Economic Community of West African States Commission from 2012 to 2016.
Q975565 Gregorio Ballesteros Honasan II (born March 14, 1948), better known as Gringo Honasan, is a retired Philippine Army officer who led unsuccessful coups d'état against President Corazon Aquino. He played a key role in the 1986 EDSA Revolution that toppled President Ferdinand Marcos.After 1986, he led a series of ...
Q5079227 Charles Hugh Alison (5 March 1883 – 20 October 1952) was a British golf course architect. He worked predominantly with Harry Colt, John Morrison, and Alister MacKenzie, in 1928 forming Colt, Alison & Morrison Ltd. He also played four first-class cricket matches for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1902 and...
Q828388 Al Watan (Arabic: الوطن‎, lit. The Homeland) is a daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia. The chairman of the newspaper is Bandar bin Khalid.Al Watan's main publishing centre was at Abha in the south of the country, close to the Yemen border. The paper was based in the Asir province, the south-west of Saudi Arabia. Ho...
Q6820509 "Merrymaking (Dekobako na Mainichi to, Ai Kawarazu na Bokura)" (メリメイキング 〜凸凹な毎日と、あいかわらずな僕ら〜, Merimeikingu ~Dekobako na Mainichi to, Ai Kawarazu na Bokura~) is the seventh single by Japanese band Antic Cafe. The single is featured on the Shikisai Moment album. The song peaked at No. 63 on the Japanese singles c...
Q6229658 John Dolbeer (March 12, 1827 – August 17, 1902) was a partner in the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., one of the early major Humboldt County, California lumber operations based in Eureka. While in that business, he invented the logging engine, more commonly known as the steam donkey or donkey engine. This invaluab...
Q7949007 WEPM is a News/Talk/Sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, serving the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. WEPM is owned and operated by John and David Raese, through licensee West Virginia Radio Corporation of the Alleghenies.
Q6713226 M. V. Seetharamiah (Kannada: ಎಂ.ವಿ.ಸೀತಾರಾಮಯ್ಯ, pen name Raghava; 9 September 1910 – 12 March 1990) was a scholar, professor, researcher and Kannada writer.Born into a family of scholars, on September 9, 1910, in Mysore, the late “model teacher” did his postgraduation in Kannada in 1933.He earned his M.A. from ...
Q5430248 Fairfield Avenue station is a SEPTA Media-Sharon Hill Trolley Line station in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It is officially located at Fairfield Avenue and Terminal Square, but the intersection also includes Bywood Avenue, which is a one-way street running west along the lines until the Beverly Boulevard station...
Q5466682 For Better or For Worse is a 1993 American documentary film produced by David Collier. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Q7918671 Veiled Aristocrats is a 1932 American Pre-Code race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film deals with the theme of "passing" by mixed-race African Americans to avoid racial discrimination, and is a remake of The House Behind the Cedars (1927), based on a novel by the same...
Q5550657 Gerhard Fankhauser (1901–1981) was an embryologist known for his studies on amphibian development. He was a Princeton professor from 1931 to 1969.Fankhauser's research showed the correlation between ploidy and cell size.In his research on Triturus viridescens, a species of newt, Fankhauser discovered that cel...
Q4908079 William M. H. Beck (January 3, 1900 – March 5, 1965) was the head coach of the Rhode Island Rams football team in 1941 and then again from 1946 through 1949. He compiled a 12–22–2 record.Beck also coached the Rhode Island baseball program from 1954 to 1959. As head baseball coach, Beck's overall record was 4...
Q4735512 Alpine Peak, at 9,861 feet (3,006 m) above sea level is a peak in the Sawtooth Range of Idaho. The peak is located in the Sawtooth Wilderness of Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Custer County. The peak is located 1 mi (1.6 km) northeast of Mount Regan, its line parent. Alpine Peak is south of Alpine Lake a...
Q15693986 New Shores is the debut album by English rock band Black Submarine, released on 10 March 2014. The album was produced in Denmark and the United Kingdom at Nick McCabe's studio on Walworth Road at Elephant and Castle junction between 2012 and 2013.The album was preceded by lead single "Here So Rain" published ...
Q19605728 "Tres Semanas" is the first single of the album Gracias Por Estar Aquí. The song was written and performed by Mexican singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís. The song was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year at the 27th Lo Nuestro Awards.
Q1800643 The Lahrer Herrlichkeit is a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld in the county of Altenkirchen in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Q6595779 The episcopate of the Catholic Church in Japan consists solely of a Latin hierarchy, joined in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan.It comprises sixteen ecclesiastical territories, called (arch)dioceses, led by residential prelate bishops: three archdioceses, led by Metropolitan Archbishops, whose ecclesi...
Q3179536 Pico da Neblina National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina) is a national park in the state of Amazonas in the north of Brazil, bordering on Venezuela. It overlaps with several indigenous territories, which creates tensions over land use, as does the military presence due to the border locat...
Q7043666 No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The primary role of 603 Squadron, since reforming on 1 October 1999, was as a Survive to Operate squadron, as well as providing Force Protection.603 Sqn re-roled to become a reserve RAF Police uni...
Q5378179 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is an 1809 satirical poem written by Lord Byron published by James Cawthorn in London.
Q4766900 Anna Carteret (born 11 December 1942 in Bangalore) is a British stage and screen actress.
Q5509674 The Furniture, Manufacturing & Associated Workers Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It has a membership of 620, and is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.
Q4916583 Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) is the public transportation operator in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. Created in 1972 to take over transit operations from private operators, it operates 109 buses on 38 routes. It also operates paratransit and "vintage trolley" (trolley-replica bus) s...
Q5149371 Colston's Girls' School is a girls secondary Academy, located in the Montpelier area of Bristol, England.