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Q5760655 Hiko Springs, also spelled Hyko Springs, is a natural spring located at the farming community of Hiko, in Lincoln County, eastern Nevada. Its cool water flowing from the hillside spring supports the existence of the desert community.Hiko Springs flows beyond the spring for about 5 miles (8.0 km) in the norther... |
Q3048107 Edmund Hoffmeister (1893–1951) was an officer in the German Army, mainly notable for his service in World War II.Hoffmeister's military service began in 1914 in the Imperial German army. During the 1930s, Hoffmeister was part of the 'Foreign Armies' (German: Fremde Heere) section of the German military and act... |
Q6278863 Jorian Engelbrektsson (born May 15, 1982, Falun, Sweden) became the first non-American to take the Pinball World Champion title, which he did on October 14, 2007 at the PAPA 10 contest (The 10th World Championship organized by the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association, which took place at 101 Keystone Dr ... |
Q2680436 Reicheltia halsteadi, Halstead's toadfish, is a species of pufferfish endemic to Australia. This species grows to a length of 16 centimetres (6.3 in) TL. This species is the only known member of its genus. |
Q1757134 Gnathothlibus is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. |
Q24801 Antoni Martí Petit (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni məɾˈti pəˈtit], born 30 July 1963) is an Andorran architect and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Andorra from May 2011 to 16 May 2019, when he was elected on the ticket of the Democrats for Andorra. He was re-elected in the 2015 parliamentary elec... |
Q16957428 New Zealand competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 36 athletes, 28 men and 8 women. Competitors from New Zealand won ten medals, including 6 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze to finish 36th in the medal table. |
Q7850756 Tube-and-fabric construction is a method of building airframes, which include the fuselages and wings of airplanes. It consists of making a framework of metal tubes (generally welded together) and then covering the framework with an aircraft fabric covering.The tubes are usually of steel or aluminum.The advant... |
Q11091011 The Cao'e River (Chinese: 曹娥江; pinyin: Cáo'é Jiāng) is one of the largest rivers in Zhejiang Province of East China, named after Cao E, a Han dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety. Its main source is in Pan'an County in the Dapan Mountains, and the river empties into the Hangzhou Bay near the Qiantang R... |
Q21245150 Matheus Antunes Ribeiro (born 23 October 1993), known as Matheus Ribeiro, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Santos as a right back. |
Q24912271 Methylobacterium trifolii is a Gram-negative, aerobic, facultatively methylotrophic and rod-shaped bacteria from the genus of Methylobacterium. |
Q27985687 Pee Dee Creek is a stream in Marion and Shelby Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.Pee Dee Creek most likely derives its name from the Pee Dee River. |
Q150872 Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as a child when she married the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. Sh... |
Q6278723 Jorge Luis Velandia Macías [veh-lahn'-deah] (born January 12, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop. |
Q353182 Okolona may refer to a place in the United States:Okolona, ArkansasOkolona (Middletown, Delaware), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, DelawareOkolona, Louisville, KentuckyOkolona, MississippiOkolona, Ohio |
Q432281 Carla Paolina Gallo (born June 24, 1975) is an American actress notable for recurring roles in the television series Undeclared, Carnivàle, Bones, Californication, and a number of film roles. Since her role on Undeclared, she has made frequent appearances in other Judd Apatow productions.She graduated from Cor... |
Q5157450 "Computer Love" is a song performed by Zapp & Roger, issued as the fourth and final single from their fourth studio album The New Zapp IV U. Featuring vocals by Shirley Murdock and Charlie Wilson (a remix of the song without Wilson's vocal was recorded after Total Experience Records president Lonnie Simmons th... |
Q686183 Michael Rummenigge (born 3 February 1964 in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former footballer who played as a forward. |
Q1525355 San Bernardo (Spanish pronunciation: [sam beɾˈnaɾðo]) is a town and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia. |
Q7822748 Anthony Joseph Patrick Laffey (28 May 1925 – 18 September 2017) was an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Laffey made a solitary official A-international appearance for New Zealand in a 5–1 win over New Caledonia on 7 September 1958.In addition to his cap-earning app... |
Q10792777 Merica elegans, common name the elegant nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. |
Q6709891 Lyria boholensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. |
Q7325951 Richard Gobet (fl. 1382–1390) was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Devizes. |
Q1706316 The Dervish House is a 2010 science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald. The novel was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2011, and won the BSFA Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in the same year. It was a nominee for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The French translation La... |
Q4704145 Alfred Joseph Jenkins (born July 15, 1946) is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for three seasons for the Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins, and Houston Oilers.Jenkins was a backup lineman on Miami's undefeated 1972 Super Bowl championship team. He was one of the playe... |
Q6346927 Kahi Unkahi (Urdu: کہی ان کہی ) (meaning Spoken unspoken) is a 2012 Pakistani telenovela broadcast on Hum TV every Tuesday. Its first episode was aired on 6 November 2012. Written by Nadia Akhtar and directed by Asim Ali, Kahi Unkahi starred by Ayeza Khan, Shehryar Munawar Siddiqui and Urwa Hocane in the lead... |
Q3313763 Mikko Olavi Nousiainen (born 26 April 1975 in Tampere) is a Finnish actor. His father is actor Heikki Nousiainen. |
Q18216889 International Ballet was a British ballet company that operated,with great success, between 1941 and 1953. Its director throughout its existence was Mona Inglesby, who was also its principal ballerina. Although it was Britain's largest ballet company during the war years, and performed to an audience of bet... |
Q120607 Christa Siems (1916–1990) was a German film and television actress. |
Q21071946 Three Sailors (French: Trois de la marine) is a 1934 French comedy film directed by Charles Barrois and starring Armand Bernard, Betty Stockfeld and Henri Alibert. It was remade in 1957. |
Q14493057 Timyra selmatias is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The forewings are purplish-fuscous, sprinkled with blackish. The median third is obscurely streaked with whitish on the veins and there is a narrow irregular orange ... |
Q28540588 Vickie Lela Sims (born 1956) is a retired Church of England priest who served as Archdeacon of Italy and Malta, 2016–2019.Sims was educated at Iowa State University and ordained in 2003. After a curacy in Grantham she was at St Andrew, Coulsdon from 2005 until 2014. She was Chaplain of Milan with Lake Como an... |
Q650694 Lexington Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States, and the principal community of the Lexington Park, Maryland Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 11,626 at the 2010 census. |
Q2869956 The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. They wanted to highlight... |
Q967544 Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968) is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken Lizard films Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest and Super Troopers 2. Si... |
Q16640520 Guillaume-Maurice Guizot (January 11, 1833 - November 23, 1892) was a French essayist, translator, professor of literature and civil servant. |
Q948412 Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpɛlːɛ ˈlɪnːdbærj]; May 24, 1959 – November 11, 1985) was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played parts of five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers. Lindbergh died at age 26 in a single-car accident fiv... |
Q687014 Baron Miklós Wesselényi de Hadad (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈvɛʃɛleːɲi]; archaically English: Nicholas Wesselényi; December 20, 1796 – April 21, 1850), was a Hungarian statesman, leader of the upper house of the Diet, member of the Board of Academy of Sciences, hero of the 1838 Pest flood.A prominent a... |
Q7489147 The Young Wong Fei Hung (simplified Chinese: 少年黄飞鸿; traditional Chinese: 少年黃飛鴻; pinyin: shào nián huáng feī hóng) was a 30 episode TV series that aired in China in 2002. |
Q7154355 Paul David Wiggin (born November 18, 1934) is a former American football player and coach who currently serves as the senior consultant for pro personnel with the Minnesota Vikings.After graduating from Stanford University in 1957, he spent his entire 11-year playing career as a defensive end with the Clevelan... |
Q3939668 Rock 'n Soul Part 1 (also titled Greatest Hits – Rock 'n Soul Part 1) is a greatest hits album by American musical duo Hall & Oates, credited as "Daryl Hall John Oates" on the album cover. Released by RCA Records in October 18, 1983, the album featured mostly hit singles recorded by the duo and released by RC... |
Q6755195 "Marble House" is a song by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife from their third studio album, Silent Shout (2006). It features contributing vocals from fellow Swedish singer Jay-Jay Johanson. The music video was directed by Chris Hopewell. |
Q7507918 Sid Smith is a freelance writer contributing music-related articles and reviews to both national and regional press. He is the author of the biography of King Crimson, In The Court Of King Crimson (Helter Skelter, 2001, ISBN 1-900924-26-9) and one of the co-authors of Northstars, the book of Granada TV's award... |
Q4729512 All Saints' Church located inside the Kohati Gate of the old walled city of Peshawar in Pakistan, is a parish of the Church of Pakistan. It is an architecturally unique place of Christian worship that bears a striking resemblance to an Islamic saracenic mosque with minarets and a dome. |
Q7877923 Ugrzele [uˈɡʐɛlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krotoszyn, within Krotoszyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.The village has an approximate population of 60. |
Q7397304 Sacred Oath is an American heavy metal band from Bethel, Connecticut. |
Q7820117 Tomohiro Kojiri (小尻知博, Kojiri Tomohiro), (1958 – May 4, 1987) a Japanese journalist for Asahi Shimbun, a popular newspaper with its main office is located in Tokyo, Japan, was killed in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka. During the shooting at the bureau of Asahi Shimbun, the shooter killed Tomohiro and... |
Q7323818 Richard Atkins (1559?–1581), was an English Protestant martyr.Atkins was born at Ross in Herefordshire. Until he was nineteen years old he was a catholic, after that a Protestant, but for how long is uncertain. About Midsummer 1581 he was at Rome armed with his new testament. For his language towards them on t... |
Q15259460 The Malaysia Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team is the wheelchair basketball side that represents Malaysia in international competitions for men as part of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. |
Q18160976 No Atlas were an English progressive-indie band from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, formed in 2013. The band consisted of Ollie Weikert (lead vocals, bass), Bradley Hutchings (guitar, backing vocals), Andy Burgess (drums, percussion).No Atlas (originally called Metropolis) released their debut EP Where People H... |
Q20656846 Karl M. Dallenbach (October 20, 1887 in Champaign, Illinois – December 23, 1971 in Austin, Texas) was an American experimental psychologist whose interests in psychology were heavily influenced by John Wallace Baird. He was a loyal student of Edward Bradford Titchener at Cornell University, received his Ph.D.... |
Q16564923 The Heart of Casanova (German: Das Herz des Casanova) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Erik Lund.The film's art direction was by Siegfried Wroblewsky. |
Q182470 Spessart is a Mittelgebirge, a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. It is bordered by the Vogelsberg, Rhön and Odenwald. The highest elevation is the Geiersberg at 586 metres NN. |
Q1454706 Glanis was a Gaulish god associated with a healing spring at the town of Glanum in the Alpilles mountains of Provence in southern France. There are cisterns at the site of the springs, where pilgrims may have bathed. Near one of them an altar to Glanis and the Glanicae was set up. The Glanicae were a triad of ... |
Q735275 Jetpac is a 1983 shooter video game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game and released for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. It was also released for BBC Micro in 1984. The game is the first instalment in the Jetman series, and is the first game to be released by the company, who were later known as Rare.... |
Q932386 Combretum imberbe (leadwood, Afrikaans: hardekool, Sotho: mohwelere-tšhipi, Tsonga: motswiri/mondzo, Zulu: impondondlovu) is a characteristic and often impressive bushwillow species of the southern Afrotropics. The medium to large tree has a sparse, semi-deciduous canopy of grey-green leaves. The twigs and leav... |
Q6968929 Nathan Daniel Brown (born 14 August 1976) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League.He was drafted in the 1997 AFL Draft at pick number 66 overall, From Pinnaroo, South Australia He made his AFL debut in 1998 against Carlton at Princes Park. His pe... |
Q7107275 Osnaburg Local School District is a school district located in Stark County, Ohio, United States. |
Q6722663 Macarthur Girls High School is situated on the Parramatta River next to Parramatta City, New South Wales, Australia. The school was named after John Macarthur, a pioneer of the Australian wool industry. The school was built in 1934 with later additions in 1955, 1975, 1996 and 2010. The school offers students ... |
Q13420363 Vouvray is a French wine region in the Loire Valley located in the Touraine district just east of the city of Tours in the commune of Vouvray. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) is dedicated almost exclusively to Chenin blanc; the obscure and minor grape Arbois is permitted but rarely used.Wine product... |
Q1049300 Nanae Station (七飯駅, Nanae-eki) is a railway station on the JR Hokkaido Hakodate Main Line. It is located in Nanae, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by JR Hokkaido and has the station number "H71". |
Q279355 Le Magnoray is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. |
Q15840565 Pinotti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:Henrique Walter Pinotti, Brazilian physician, surgeon, professor of surgery at the University of São Paulo's Medical SchoolJosé Aristodemo Pinotti (born 1934), Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, educational l... |
Q5759354 "Highlands" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind in 1997.It is Dylan's longest known studio recording at sixteen minutes and thirty-one seconds. |
Q5884306 Holoptygma is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae. |
Q3037386 Poriče is a village in the municipality of Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Q5126976 Clarine Nardi Riddle (born 1949) is a former Attorney General of Connecticut, United States, serving from 1989 to 1991. She is the only woman to have held that position. |
Q2267257 Jacob Vernes (31 May 1728 – 22 October 1791) was a Genevan theologian and Protestant pastor in Geneva, famous for his correspondence with Voltaire and Rousseau. |
Q6523405 Abgurandan (Persian: اب گوراندان, also Romanized as Ābgūrāndān; also known as Āb Charīān and Lāgū-ye Charīān) is a village in Abtar Rural District, in the Central District of Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 277, in 63 families. |
Q3297933 The Intersindical Nacional Galega (Galician National Inter-Union in English language) was a nationalist and anticapitalist galician union formed in March 1977 as a result of the merge of the Galician Workers Union, UTEG, UTSG, UTBG, STGAP and the SGTM. Francisco García Montes was elected Secretary General. The... |
Q23039460 The 2015 Sport 1 Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Scheveningen, Netherlands between 20 and 26 July 2015. |
Q30245744 Sana Dalawa ang Puso (International title: Two Hearts / transl. Hopefully Two Hearts) is a 2018 Philippine drama television series starring Jodi Sta. Maria in her first dual role, together with Richard Yap and Robin Padilla. The series premiered on ABS-CBN's PrimeTanghali noontime block and worldwide via The ... |
Q230045 Tiffani Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for starring as Kelly Kapowski on NBC's Saved by the Bell (1989–93) and as Valerie Malone on Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994–98). Thiessen has also starred in other TV series such as Fox's Fastlane (2002–03), ABC's What About B... |
Q2671888 Glasgow is a village in Scott County, Illinois, United States. The population was 170 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q886780 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1494. |
Q883488 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1062. |
Q2658828 Francis Monkman (born 9 June 1949, in Hampstead, North London, England) is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky. He is the son of the late Kenneth Monkman, an authority on the writer Laurenc... |
Q7510477 The Siege of Udo was a battle during the final years of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (17th century) of Japan.During this part of the Sekigahara campaign, Katō Kiyomasa helped the cause of the Tokugawa under Tokugawa Ieyasu in Kyūshū. Kato Kiyomasa took the castle of Udo after a long siege. Udo castle at the time... |
Q3442586 Ligne Roset is a French modern furniture company that has over 200 stores and more than 1,000 retail distributors worldwide. The company was founded by Antoine Roset in 1860 in Montagnieu, France as a small business manufacturing bentwood walking sticks. In 1936, the company started manufacturing upholstered f... |
Q6152150 Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 – 13 January 1612) was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain. |
Q4714967 The Dobriașul Mic River is a tributary of the Râul Târgului in Romania. |
Q7238645 Prathama means first in Sanskrit.Prathama Blood Centre is blood bank situated at Ahmedabad, jointly established in 2000, by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and Advanced Transfusion Medicine Research Foundation as non-profit voluntary organization. About 50,000 voluntary blood donors donate blood annually at Pr... |
Q3470520 Sam Millar is a crime writer and playwright. from Belfast, Northern Ireland.Millar is also a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. |
Q7844822 Trochaclis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ataphridae. |
Q7722511 The Chilean Inca trail (El Camino del Inca en Chile) is a local and popular term among local tourism initiatives and Chilean anthropologists and archaeologists for the various branches of the Qhapak Ñan (the Inca road system) in Chile and its associated Inca archaeological sites. |
Q3969243 Carrara-Avenza railway station, also known simply as Carrara or Avenza, is a railway station of the city of Carrara, Italy. It is located on the Genova-Pisa line. It is the only station serving the Tuscan city, after the closure of Carrara San Martino in 1969. |
Q16993309 Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust in North West England, with headquarters in Prestwich, near Manchester. It provides mental health services in Bolton, Salford and Trafford, inpatient alcohol and drug recovery services in Prestwich as well as community services i... |
Q19872998 "The Emperor of Lancashire" is a 1941 comic song written by Roger MacDougall for the British comedian George Formby. In it Formby boastfully proclaims about his future success that will one day make him Emperor of the English county of Lancashire. It is filled with a number of references to Lancashire dialect... |
Q3858586 Mino Vergnaghi (10 April 1955, Trivero) is an Italian singer and songwriter.In 1979 he won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Amare". |
Q28232169 Julnar was a 900-ton, 210-ft long river paddle steamer built in 1908 by E. Rennie and Co. of Greenwich, London, for the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company. At the time she was the fastest vessel on the river. The ship, modified and renamed HMS Julnar, was sunk in 1916 while attempting to steam upri... |
Q14720420 Prosoplus flavoguttatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1925. It is known from Papua New Guinea. |
Q13634329 Probezzia albitibia is a species of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. |
Q155402 Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Ahmed Sheku Turay) (January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader who was the first President of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France.A devout Mus... |
Q1163186 The Battle of Svolder (Svold or Swold) was a naval battle fought in September 999 or 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his enemies. The backdrop of the battle was the unification of Norway into a single state, long-standing Danish efforts to gain control o... |
Q3054261 An explosive device is device that relies on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide a violent release of energy.Applications of explosive devices include:Building implosion (demolition)ExcavationExplosive formingExplosive weldingMiningMurderAssassinationRiot controlTerrorismWarTypes of exp... |
Q4890845 Beograd Mala (Serbian Cyrillic: Бeoгpaд Maлa) is a neighborhood of the city of Niš, Serbia. It is located in Niš municipality of Crveni Krst. |
Q7548935 Montage Mountain is a ski area in Pennsylvania, located 8 miles (13 km) from downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania. It is located about 125 miles (201 km) northwest of Philadelphia and New York City. There are 26 trails, two terrain parks, and one of Pennsylvania's longest snow tubing areas. The mountain has a summi... |
Q2598379 Reba: Duets is the twenty-seventh studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire. It was released September 18, 2007,by MCA Nashville Records and September 24, 2007, by Humphead Records in the UK, and was produced by Tony Brown, Dann Huff, McEntire, and Justin Timberlake.Reba: Duets was McEntire's... |
Q7334539 Rin Saitō (斉藤 倫, Saitō Rin) is a Japanese manga artist born on May 2 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She is a resident of Tokyo. She made her debut in the October 1981 issue of Bessatsu Margaret. |
Q4947574 Bosseopentaenoic acid (BPA) is a conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acid. Bosseopentaenoic acid can be extracted from the red coralline algae, Bossiella orbigniana. The first total synthesis of methyl bosseopentaenoate by consecutive palladium-catalyzed reactions was reported in 2011. In 2017, bosseopentaenoic ... |
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