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Q2590997 The UMass Minutemen are the athletic teams that represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst; strictly speaking, the Minutemen nickname applies to men's teams and athletes only — women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen. The Minutemen and Minutewomen compete in NCAA Division I sports competiti... |
Q6127269 The Jamaican Bar Association is a voluntary organisation of attorneys-at-law called to the Jamaican Bar. It was formed on 16 January 1973. The association is not a regulatory or disciplinary body and has no power to hear complaints against attorneys, even if they are members of the association.It strives to ma... |
Q5543643 George R. Johnson (October 19, 1929 – September 28, 1973) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Delaware County district from 1967 to 1968 and the 166th district from 1969 to 1972. |
Q5075028 Charles Aldworth (1677 - 21 September 1714) was an English politician, MP for New Windsor from 1712 to 1714. Charles Aldworth was the son of the King's Auditor, William Aldworth of Frogmore House at Windsor in Berkshire, and his wife, Anne. He was the cousin of Richard Aldworth of Stanlake Park, paternal grand... |
Q1309784 Perizoma minorata, the heath rivulet, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1828 and it is found in most of Europe.The wingspan is 16–20 mm. It is another inconstant species and shows some local and some individual P. minorata variatio... |
Q7159195 Pediasia steppicolellus is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Hans Zerny in 1914. It is found in Uralsk, RussiaThe length of the forewings is 8–9 mm. |
Q7195570 Pinetown is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Pinetown is located on Sweet Briar Road near Red Mill Pond southwest of Lewes. |
Q7299147 Raymond Shonholtz J.D. (June 8, 1943 - January 7, 2012) was the founder of two community mediation organizations; Community Boards in 1976 and Partners for Democratic Change in 1989. |
Q21064819 The 2015 PartyPoker.com World Grand Prix was the eighteenth staging of the World Grand Prix. It was played from 4–10 October 2015 at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after beating James Wade 5–3 in sets in the last year's final, but he was beaten ... |
Q25039572 Barbarian Press is a fine press publisher, owned and operated by Jan Elsted and Crispin Elsted in Mission, B.C., Canada. In 1977, the Elsteds were working toward their PhD's in English literature at the University of London when they met Graham Williams of the Florin Press, who introduced them to letterpress ... |
Q24971570 The statues of John of Matha, Felix of Valois and Saint Ivan are outdoor sculptures by Ferdinand Brokoff, installed on the south side of the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic. |
Q451811 Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor best remembered for originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated... |
Q5643472 Halowax is a New York-based company that was later owned by Union Carbide. It was subsequently taken over by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Koppers, which was later renamed Beazer East. It is the largest US producer of polychlorinated naphthalenes and polychlorinated biphenyls for floor finishing and similar a... |
Q477968 Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen (Arabic: الغرب شراردة بني حسين) was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was situated in north-western Morocco, covers an area of 8,805 square kilometres (3,400 sq mi) and has a population of 1,904,112 (2014 census). The capital was Kenitra.The region la... |
Q3181202 Lauren Hunter MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director. She grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, and was on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Her first primetime... |
Q5039978 Carl Kochao Chang (simplified Chinese: 张可昭; traditional Chinese: 張可昭) is Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Director of Software Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University where he served as its department chair from 2002-2013. ... |
Q6297027 Joy Allen (born in Werrington, Cambridgeshire) was an English actress. |
Q5977483 I Hate Myself (for Loving You) is the ninth album by Thijs van Leer, released under the name Van Leer. |
Q4535958 Malus angustifolia, or southern crabapple, is a species of crabapple native to the eastern and south-central United States from Florida west to eastern Texas and north to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Missouri.Malus angustifolia is a tree sometimes attaining a height of 10 meters (33 feet). The trunk ... |
Q389605 Stevi Lauren Perry (born July 5, 1990) is an American TV host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2008. |
Q6456354 The L. B. King and Company Building is a commercial building located at 1274 Library Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the Annis Furs Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987. |
Q5950038 Juan Ignacio Sills (born 4 May 1987) is an Argentine football defender who plays for Huracán in the Argentine Primera División. |
Q5033861 Canton is a former gold mining town in El Dorado County, California. It was located near Coloma, but its precise location is unknown. |
Q3649325 The Cacciatori d'Africa was a title given to Italian infantry and mounted infantry units raised for colonial service in Africa. First raised in 1887, three battalions of infantry, plus a squadron of mounted Cacciatori, were sent to Eritrea the same year to form part of the Corpo Speciale per L'Africa (Special ... |
Q802608 The Landstuhl–Kusel railway is a branch line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, connecting the town of Kusel to the railway network. It was the first line built by the Palatine Northern Railway Company (Gesellschaft der Pfälzischen Nordbahnen), which was then responsible within the Palatinate for all ... |
Q14602249 George K. Anderson, is a former Major General in the United States Air Force. |
Q14352178 The women's singles nine-ball competition at the 2013 World Games took place from 26 to 30 July at the Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo in Cali, Colombia. |
Q21039577 Erick Tambo de Gankam is a Cameroonian researcher resp. "scientivist" (using science to raise awareness on development issues and improve quality of live with a focus on civil society) as he define himself. He is the research coordinator at the Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences (i... |
Q25223279 My Kitchen Rules is an American competitive cooking reality show, based on the original Australian format of the same name. The eight-episode series premiered on January 12, 2017 and is produced by 7 Beyond and broadcast on the Fox network.The program sees teams of two take turns hosting a dinner party at the... |
Q43082646 Gord Lewis is a Canadian musician from Hamilton, Ontario best known as the founding guitarist of Teenage Head, a popular Canadian punk rock band during the early 1980s. Lewis named the band after a Flamin' Groovies song. Gord Lewis formed Teenage Head along with Westdale High School in Hamilton along with Fr... |
Q3776960 The 2005 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 39th edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 4 September 2005. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Joost Posthuma. |
Q7753958 The Next Big Thing was a radio series produced at WNYC in New York City, and syndicated nationally in the U.S. by Public Radio International. It was offered nationally after the success of PRI's Chicago-based This American Life, which it somewhat resembles; one distinction is that TNBT is more likely to be gi... |
Q526345 Honoré IV (17 May 1758 – 16 February 1819) was Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1814 to 16 February 1819. Because of his health, the state of affairs was managed by a regency of brother Joseph Grimaldi, and his son Prince Honoré V. |
Q3416728 Radio Mali is an album by Ali Farka Touré, consisting of remastered selections from several earlier albums originally recorded between 1975 and 1980. |
Q1527807 Kiezie [ˈkʲɛʑɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sterdyń, within Sokołów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Q5129566 Clauzadella is a genus of fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Clauzadella gordensis, discovered in France and described as new to science in 1996. |
Q61870 Meridian 2 (Russian: Меридиан-2), also known as Meridian No.12L, is a Russian communications satellite. It is the second satellite of the Meridian system, which will replace the older Molniya series. It follows on from Meridian 1, which was launched in December 2006.Meridian 2 was launched on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket... |
Q7181697 Phil Belbin (1925–1993) was an Australian artist, illustrator, cartoonist and amateur cinematographer. He is probably best known for creating what soon became known as the "Candy" multi-colour livery for the State Rail Authority in the 1980s. He is still regarded as one of Australia's leading steam enthusiast... |
Q7109083 Ott's Chapel (also known as Ott's Chapel Sunday School) is a historic chapel in New Castle County, Delaware, located roughly halfway between Newark, Delaware and Elkton, Maryland on Ott's Chapel Road.It was built in 1871 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. |
Q4827215 Autódromo Aldea Romana de Bahía Blanca is a motorsports circuit located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has hosted events in the TC2000 series. |
Q2086127 The fourth season of the television series Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, premiered on October 6, 2002 on The WB and concluded its 22-episode season on May 7, 2003. The season aired in a new timeslot, Sundays at 9:00 pm ET, and then relocated to Wednesdays at 9:00 pm ET, beginning with "Habea... |
Q7046530 Nocturne is the second studio album by American indie rock act Wild Nothing, released on August 28, 2012 by Captured Tracks. |
Q6775187 Martin Joseph Coogan (born 16 September 1961) is a musician and radio presenter. He produces records at the Vibe Recording Studios, Manchester, which he has owned since 2008.Born and brought up in Middleton, Coogan attended Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School, as did his younger brothers, Steve and Brendan.Coog... |
Q5440960 Federico Barba (born 1 September 1993) is an Italian footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Valladolid on loan from Italian club ChievoVerona as a central defender. |
Q5566254 Gladiator: Street Fighter is the second book in the Gladiator Series, by Simon Scarrow. |
Q15673988 The Ferrari 412 T1 was the Formula One racing car with which Scuderia Ferrari competed in the 1994 Formula One World Championship. It was designed by John Barnard and then developed by Gustav Brunner. |
Q14859370 The Ivinj archeological site with Saint Martin’s Church is an archeological site near Pirovac, Dalmatia. This site was proclaimed a cultural good on 20 July 2012 and on the basis of a resolution by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, awarded the status of a protected cultural monument. |
Q15989546 This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in August 2013, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the pa... |
Q18161375 A Rogue's Luck is a 1909 novel by Australian author Arthur Wright. It originated as a 1907 short story. |
Q3814033 BC Žalgiris-2 is the reserve team of the professional basketball club Žalgiris Kaunas. The club is based in Kaunas, Lithuania. The team currently competes in the Lithuanian second division Nacionalinė Krepšinio Lyga. They play their home games at the Žalgiris training facility, which is also home to some young... |
Q24910267 The 2016–17 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Cardinals, led by tenth-year head coach Jeff Walz, played their home games at the KFC Yum! Center and were in their third year in the Atlantic Coa... |
Q2786037 Bucksport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 876 at the 2010 census. It is a rural port on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the merger point with the Waccamaw River. The port has some services available for bo... |
Q7971247 The Warwickshire ring is a connected series of canals forming a circuit around the West Midlands area of England. The ring is formed from the Coventry Canal, the Oxford Canal, the Grand Union Canal, the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. It is a popular route with tourists due to i... |
Q357163 Adil Kaouch (Arabic: عادل الكوش) (born January 1, 1979) is a Moroccan middle distance runner.In 1998 he won the World Junior Championships over 1500 metres. The next year won a 5000 metres gold medal at the 1999 Pan Arab Games.At the 1999 and 2001 World Championships, he took the role of setting a fast early p... |
Q4874249 Baya al Ward (Arabic: بياع الورد, English: The Florist) is the fourth studio album by the Lebanese singer Amal Hijazi released under the label Rotana in 2006. For the project, Hijazi collaborated with renowned producers like Jean Saliba and Fady Bitar and worked with some of the biggest names in the industry ... |
Q1497017 The Heidelberg Disputation was held at the lecture hall of the Augustinian order on April 26, 1518. It was here that Martin Luther, as a delegate for his order, began to have occasion to articulate his views. In the defense of his theses, which culminated in a contrast between divine love and human love, Luth... |
Q702781 Jaebetz is a village and a former municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Fincken. |
Q4933472 Bob Munden (February 8, 1942 – December 10, 2012) was an American exhibition shooter with handguns, rifles and shotguns but is most well known for holding 18 world records in fast draw and having the title "Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived" bestowed on him by Guinness World Records.Bob Munden was born in ... |
Q7454898 The Serious Moonlight Tour was launched in May 1983 in support of David Bowie's album Let's Dance (1983). The tour opened at the Vorst Forest Nationaal, Brussels, on 18 May 1983 and ended in the Hong Kong Coliseum on 8 December 1983; 15 countries visited, 96 performances, and over 2.6M tickets sold. The tour g... |
Q7284268 List of Railway stations in Cameroon includes: |
Q2431184 Highway 110 (AR 110, Ark. 110, and Hwy. 110) is a designation for three east–west state highways in north central Arkansas. One segment of 16.71 miles (26.89 km) runs east from US Highway 65 (US 65) at Botkinburg to Highway 9/Highway 16 near Shirley. A second route of 3.15 miles (5.07 km) begins at Highway 16/... |
Q3876662 Rajeev Ram was the defending champion; however, he lost to Kuznetsov in the second round.Alex Kuznetsov won in the final 6–4, 7–6(1), against Tim Smyczek |
Q7653276 Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) is a development organization founded by Dr R Balasubramaniam based in Saragur near Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. The organization is engaged in building a new civil society in India through its grassroots to policy-level action in health, education and commun... |
Q1798298 Lisleby Fotballklubb is a multi-sports club from Fredrikstad, Norway. The team plays football and athletics at Lisleby Stadion.The club was founded as an association football club on 8 May 1920. Two years later, the club expanded with athletics, wrestling and boxing. From 1924, speed skating was also introduce... |
Q7181139 Pheak Rady (born January 22, 1989) is a former Cambodian footballer who last played for Cambodian Tiger. He was called up for Cambodia national football team in 2007. |
Q94566 Richenza (also spelled as Richeza or Richza) (c. 1025 – before 1083) was a German noblewoman. By her first marriage, she was Countess of Werl. By her second marriage, she was Countess of Northeim, and from 1061 to 1070, Duchess of Bavaria.She is known as Richenza of Swabia, based on the theory that she was a d... |
Q130466 Trachelipus palustris is a species of woodlouse in the genus Trachelipus that can be found on islands like Crete and Cyclades, and also in mainland Greece. |
Q5808146 Aliabad-e Shamshir Bar (Persian: علي ابادشمشيربر, also Romanized as ‘Alīābād-e Shamshīr Bar, Alīābād-e Shamshīr Bor, and ‘Alīābād-e Shamshīr Bor; also known as ‘Alīābād) is a village in Arzuiyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Arzuiyeh County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its populati... |
Q2634598 Trostianets Raion (Ukrainian: Тростянецький район) is one of the 33 regions of Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Trostianets. Population: 36,290 (2015 est.) |
Q19713590 Border Guard Forces (Burmese: နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ်; abbreviated BGF) are subdivisions of the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) consisting of former insurgent groups in Myanmar under the instruction of Regional Military Commands. The government announced its plan to create Border Guard Forces in April 2009, in the h... |
Q27986777 Barren Creek is a stream in Polk County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Bear Creek.The stream headwaters are just west of Missouri Route 13 northwest of Bolivar at 37°37′54″N 93°28′19″W. The stream flows southwest crossing under Missouri Route 32 and Missouri Route 123 to the east and sout... |
Q5154216 There are a number of systems of communication in Uganda, including a system of telephony, radio and television broadcasts, internet, mail, and several newspapers. The use of phones and the internet in Uganda has rapidly increased in the last few years. |
Q2205944 Tehama is a city in Tehama County, California, United States. The population was 418 at the 2010 census, down from 432 at the 2000 census. |
Q3454294 Scoring in Mahjong, a game for four players that originated in China, involves the players obtaining points for their hand of tiles, then paying each other based on the differences in their score and who obtained mahjong (won the hand). The points are given a monetary value agreed by the players. Although in ... |
Q5006678 C.M. Gardner State Park is a Massachusetts state park located in the town of Huntington along a section of the east branch of the Westfield River. The park land was donated to the state in 1959 in memory of Charles M. Gardner, a local farmer, writer, and National Grange leader. The park is managed by the Depar... |
Q6733553 Māhāʻulepū Beach is a beach on the southeast coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. It is two miles long and goes from Punahoa point to Paʻoʻo point. The beach is separated into three different parts: Gillin's Beach, Kawailoa Bay, and Hāʻula Beach. Gillin's Beach, the center section, is known for petroglyphs t... |
Q5637643 Haddeland is a village in Hægebostad municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The village is located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of the village of Eiken. The village of Fjotland lies about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west across the hills in the neighboring municipality of Kvinesdal. Haddeland ... |
Q4968261 Bring It Back is the fourth album by American indie pop band Mates of State. Released March 21, 2006 on Barsuk Records, the band's fourth album was their first to register on the Billboard charts, reaching number 35 on the Independent Albums chart and number 32 on the Top Heatseekers chart. The first track "Th... |
Q7884792 Unicorns, Demos, B-Sides, and Rainbows is a 2005 album by Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer. It was originally released under the title: Demos, B-Sides & Whatnots and sold on Zolof's fall tour with Jet Lag Gemini and Small Towns Burn A Little Slower. This version was self-released and was on a CD-R with a sticke... |
Q5724937 Henry J. Linde (December 31, 1879 – 1917) was an American attorney who served as the 9th North Dakota Attorney General for one term from 1915 to 1916.Linde was born near Ridgeway in Winneshiek County, Iowa. He was educated at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he graduated in the spring of 1901. He studie... |
Q431291 The Libya national futsal team represents Libya in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Libyan Football Federation. It is one of the strongest teams in Africa, As of April 2016, Libya is ranked 31st in the Futsal World Rankings. |
Q7829429 The Toutorsky Mansion, also called the Brown-Toutorsky House, is a five-story, 18-room house located at 1720 16th Street, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. As of 2012, it is the location of the embassy of the Republic of the Congo.The 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) mansion was completed i... |
Q7526267 Sir Charles Norris Nicholson, 1st Baronet (30 July 1857 – 29 November 1918) was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Doncaster from 1906 to 1918. |
Q7696923 Televisa San Ángel (originally Estudios y Laboratorios San Ángel, S.A.) is a film and television studio located in Mexico City. It was originally built by Jorge Stahl as a motion picture studio, and in the 1970s would be sold to the Azcárraga family, which, through ownership of the Televisa networks, continues... |
Q3363889 Parc Phœnix is a 7-hectare (17-acre) botanical garden and zoo in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. |
Q6353482 Kalladka is a village in Bantwal taluk, Karnataka, India.It is famous for KT (Kalladka Tea or Kadak Tea). Kalladka is located 32 km east of Mangalore city. |
Q7183538 Philip Ferns (14 November 1937 – 25 August 2007) was an English footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League. |
Q18159337 Woodlands is a historic home located near Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1896, and is a two-story, wood frame farmhouse with a cross-gable roof and classical and Folk Victorian ornamentation. The front facade features a grand two-tiered porch. Also on the property is a detached ki... |
Q18668651 Boycott Russian Films (Ukrainian: Бойкот російського кіно, Boykot rosiys'koho kino) is the Ukrainian civic campaign that supports the boycott of Russian films and television series. It is a part of a broader boycott campaign called "Do not buy Russian goods!" started by the Ukrainian social movement Vidsich. |
Q27881308 Anita Kaul (née Kripalani;19 September 1954 – 10 October 2016) was an Indian Administrative Service officer best known for her contributions to the Indian education sector. She was one of the principal architects of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act which was the consequential legisla... |
Q10486861 Eratoneura is a genus of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There are at least 190 described species in Eratoneura. |
Q192966 The Afghanistan national football team (Pashto: د افغانستان د فوټبال ملي لوبډله Da Afghānestān da Fūṭbāl Millī Lobḍala; Dari: تیم ملی فوتبال افغانستان) is the national football team of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. Founded in 1922, they played their first international ga... |
Q6727710 Madieu Mohammed Williams (born October 18, 1981) is a former American football safety who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Maryland and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft.Williams has also played for the Minnesota Vikings, ... |
Q533560 Marianne Merchez (born 25 October 1960 in Uccle) is a Belgian doctor from the Catholic University of Louvain and a former European Space Agency astronaut.She is certified in aerospace medicine and in industrial medicine, and she is also a professional pilot (holds a Belgian Air Transport Pilot License from Civi... |
Q4749162 Amy Dickinson (born November 6, 1959) is an American newspaper columnist who writes the syndicated advice column Ask Amy. Dickinson has appeared as a social commentator on ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's The Today Show. |
Q117603 Martin Rhonheimer (born 1950 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss political philosophy professor and priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei. As of July 2017 he is teaching professor at the Opus Dei-affiliated Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. |
Q5545255 George Andrew Toley (April 23, 1916 – March 1, 2008) was an American collegiate tennis coach at the University of Southern California from 1954 to 1980. His teams won ten NCAA team championships (1955, 1958, 1962–64, 1966–69, 1976), nine individual titles and twelve doubles titles, and included stars such as A... |
Q16425794 Salva (Hungarian: Szálva) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Salva, and included Runcu Salvei village until the latter was split off to form a separate commune in 2005.It is a relatively important local railway junction on the line to Sighetu Marmației and lin... |
Q5137050 Samuel Clyde Williams (March 24, 1879 – March 20, 1938) was an All-American football player at the University of Iowa, and a football, basketball, and baseball coach and athletic director at Iowa State University. He is a member of both schools' Halls of Fame. |
Q5121655 In geometry, a circular algebraic curve is a type of plane algebraic curve determined by an equation F(x, y) = 0, where F is a polynomial with real coefficients and the highest-order terms of F form a polynomial divisible by x2 + y2. More precisely, ifF = Fn + Fn−1 + ... + F1 + F0, where each Fi is homogeneous... |
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