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Q8009022 William Beauford Fields (6 August 1929 – 20 November 1992) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. He was born in Forsyth, Georgia.Fields won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team. |
Q6426512 Kojtryny [kɔi̯ˈtrɨnɨ] (German: Kattreinen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biskupiec, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, 1772-1945 Prussia and Germany (East Prussia). |
Q5125720 Clanculus santamariae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. |
Q6958534 Nagaram is a muncipality in Keesara mandal, Medchal district in Telangana. Due to its proximity to ECIL, Secunderabad and Eastern IT/SEZ of Hyderabad Pocharam it is emerging as a major residential location in Hyderabad. Till 2013 this area was dotted with green paddy fields everywhere. This has changed a lot d... |
Q5976345 I Break Horses are a Swedish indie rock band made up of Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck. The band took its name from a song of the same name by Bill Callahan. |
Q17009636 PQ Monthly was a free, advertising-supported, monthly LGBTQ newspaper and online publication for Oregon and southwest Washington and, briefly, Seattle, published in Portland, Oregon, United States. The first issue was released on February 16, 2012. The last print issue was released in December of 2017. The ow... |
Q4905210 Ahmed Ragab Seada (Arabic: أحمد سعده) a human rights activist, a labor leader in the petroleum sector, and occupies the Executive Director of the National Organization of modern human rights and human development in Egypt. |
Q17026444 The Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show occurred on February 2, 2014 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as part of Super Bowl XLVIII and was headlined by American singer Bruno Mars alongside his band The Hooligans with special guests The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The show was produced by Ricky Kirshner and directed by... |
Q16339095 Alessio di Mauro was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Víctor Estrella Burgos.Paolo Lorenzi won the title, defeating Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras in the final, 6–1, 6–3. |
Q12729937 Henriette Yvonne Stahl (January 9, 1900 – May 25/26, 1984) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer and translator.Born in Sankt Avold, Alsace-Lorraine, in the German Empire (now Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of France), she was illegitimate until her parents' marriage in February 1901. Her mother ... |
Q28229254 San Nicola is a Roman Catholic church and former convent located in the town of Sant'Angelo in Pontano, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy. |
Q1886803 Stephenson is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,065 at the 2000 census. |
Q862569 Sukiyaki (鋤焼, or more commonly すき焼き; [sɯ̥kijaki]) is a Japanese dish that is prepared and served in the nabemono (Japanese hot pot) style.It consists of meat (usually thinly sliced beef) which is slowly cooked or simmered at the table, alongside vegetables and other ingredients, in a shallow iron pot in a mixtu... |
Q3400384 The Welsh Language Board (Welsh: Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg) was a statutory body set up by Her Majesty's Government under the Welsh Language Act 1993. It was an Assembly Sponsored Public Body. It began its life under John Walter Jones OBE, and its last chief executive was Meirion Prys Jones, with Meri Huws acting... |
Q209377 Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh). It was near (but not directly on) the site of Fort Duquesne, a French col... |
Q793753 Robert Edward "Bert" McCracken (born February 25, 1982) is the lead singer and songwriter of the American rock band The Used. |
Q11750728 Punching is a forming process that uses a punch press to force a tool, called a punch, through the workpiece to create a hole via shearing. Punching is applicable to a wide variety of materials that come in sheet form, including sheet metal, paper, vulcanized fibre and some forms of plastic sheet. The punch o... |
Q2081418 Djombo Dany-Gael N'Guessan (born 11 August 1987) is a French former footballer. An attacker, he played as a forward and as a winger.A graduate of the Auxerre Academy, he left France for Scotland when he signed with Rangers in July 2005. He never made a first team appearance for either club, and instead made hi... |
Q5252442 Deimos is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. He debuted in 1st Issue Special #8, (Nov. 1975), and was created by Mike Grell as a foil for Travis Morgan the Warlord. This should not be confused with the Deimos who is one of the Children of Ares. |
Q3440992 Romance of the Three Kingdoms II (Japanese: 三國志II, Hepburn: Sangokushi Tsū, lit. "Three Kingdoms II") is the second in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series of turn-based strategy games produced by Koei and based on the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. |
Q3655782 Dean Furman (born 22 June 1988) is a South African professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SuperSport United in the Premier Soccer League.He made his debut for the South Africa national team in 2012, representing the nation at two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. |
Q7281150 "Radio brennt" ('Radio burns') is a punk song by Die Ärzte. It was the seventh track and the third single from their 1987 album Ist das alles? (13 Höhepunkte mit den Ärzten). On the kid's shirt on the cover is Die Ärzte's mascot Sweet Gwendoline.The song references Falco, Chris de Burgh, Madonna and the song ... |
Q1123393 The 1914–15 FA Cup was the 44th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup), and the last to be held before the cancellation of all football competitions since due to World War I. Sheffield United won the competition f... |
Q4639549 5,7,4'-Trimethoxyflavan is a flavan, a type of flavonoid. It can be found in Xanthorrhoea preissii. |
Q6371899 Karl Heinz Marquardt FASMA is a German-born marine modeller, artist and author. |
Q6048147 Please check the destinations list of the respective International Airlines Group airlines for more details. |
Q6544054 Women's football in Liechtenstein faces challenges because it is not amongst the most popular sports for women. |
Q23698867 Garo: Makai Retsuden (牙狼〈GARO〉-魔戒烈伝-, lit. "Garo: History of Makai") is an omnibus television series which features the cast of the several live action series produced along the years in the Garo metaseries, celebrating its 10th anniversary. It aired between April 8 and June 24, 2016. |
Q3749292 Franca Dall'Olio (born in Cagliari on 5 April 1945) is a former beauty queen, model and politician. She is noted for winning Miss Italia in 1963. |
Q2101105 Cottunculus microps, the polar sculpin, is a species of fathead sculpin, a deepwater fish found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It was first described in 1875 by the Norwegian zoologist Robert Collett, curator of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. |
Q3687399 The Regional Council of Tuscany (Consiglio Regionale della Toscana) is the legislative assembly of Tuscany.It was first elected in 1970, when the ordinary regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948. |
Q3180101 Joseph Thomas Kerrigan (born November 30, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former relief pitcher, manager and longtime pitching coach in Major League Baseball. |
Q5335786 "Eddie's Song" is the second and final single from British pop-punk band Son of Dork's debut, and only, studio album, Welcome to Loserville. Released on 16 January 2006, the single found relative success, peaking at #10 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as reaching #24 in Ireland. The single was the group's fin... |
Q6258743 John St Helier Lander (19 October 1868 in Jersey – 12 February 1944 in Witley, Surrey) was a noted portrait painter. Born John Helier Lander, he added the St. to acknowledge his birthplace of Saint Helier in the Channel Islands. He was given his first paint box by Lillie Langtry, the famous beauty, actress an... |
Q6803539 Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist Al-Tabrizi d... |
Q4271135 There were several gentry families named Lvov (Russian: Львов) in the Russian Empire.One of them is traced from a Mark Demidovich of Lithuanian descent (14th century) and is enlisted into the pedigree book of Tver Guberniya.Another one traces from the 16th century and enlisted into the pedigree books of Mosco... |
Q13091227 Adonidia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae. |
Q1487937 Luigi Burlando (Italian pronunciation: [luˈiːdʒi burˈlando]; 23 January 1899 – 12 December 1967) was an Italian football midfielder and manager. |
Q4612142 UEFA U-19 Championship 2008 (Qualifying Round) was the first round of qualifications for the Final Tournament of 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. 52 teams are split into 13 groups of 4 and teams in each group play each other once. The top two teams in each group and the two best third-placed teams wil... |
Q1145053 Kannō (観応), also sometimes romanized as Kan'ō, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Jōwa and before Bunna. This period spanned the years from February 1350 through September 1352. The emperor in Kyoto was Emperor Sukō (崇光... |
Q15452909 Wallace Howe (March 4, 1878 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts – November 23, 1957 in Los Angeles, California), born Orlando Wallace Howe, was an American film actor. He appeared in 104 films between 1918 and 1936, including many films with Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel, and in short films with the original Our Gang. |
Q987634 San Esteban is one of seven parishes (administrative divisions) in Morcín, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. |
Q4752127 Anatoli Valeryevich Vanzhula (Russian: Анатолий Валерьевич Ванжула; born 29 June 1975) is a Russian former professional footballer. |
Q3462915 Vahakulmu is a village in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. It lies on the Valgejõgi River, where an impounded lake and ruins of watermill are situated. |
Q6861223 The 2000 Milton Keynes Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Milton Keynes Unitary Council in Buckinghamshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.After the election, the composition of the council wasLabour 22Liberal Dem... |
Q2192274 Exerpes asper, the Sargassum blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast of Baja California. According to Fishbase it is currently the only known member of its genus, however, the Catalog of Fishes classifies it within the genus Paraclinus. |
Q7663204 Syrian American Council (or SAC) is a 501c3 grassroots organization of Syrian-Americans that does community organizing, awareness-raising, youth empowerment, media outreach, advocacy, and support for Syrians seeking to build a free, democratic, and pluralistic Syria. As the largest and oldest grassroots organi... |
Q1469860 Frommbach is a small river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Felchbach near Höttingen. |
Q16965618 Podoliacanthus is an extinct genus of Acanthodii ("spiky sharks") which existed in what is now Greenland and Ukraine during the early Devonian period. It was described by Victor Voichyshyn and Hubert Szaniawski in 2012, and the type species is Podoliacanthus zychi. It also contains three presently undescribed... |
Q16225323 Eimear Ann Jermyn Richardson (born 14 September 1986) is an Irish cricketer. In June 2018, she was named in Ireland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. In October 2018, she was named in Ireland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. |
Q9022783 Lino António da Conceição (26 November 1898 – 23 October 1974) was a Portuguese artist known for his Modernist frescoes. He made many friezes, frescos, stained glass and ceramic panels for public buildings in Portugal. He taught in several schools and was director for many years at the Escola Secundária Artíst... |
Q729387 Who's Next is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Who. It developed from the aborted Lifehouse project, a multi-media rock opera written by the group's Pete Townshend as a follow-up to the band's 1969 album Tommy. The project was cancelled owing to its complexity and to conflicts with Kit Lambert, t... |
Q5944748 Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 1754 – 30 June 1842), known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke, Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby, and his wife Elizabeth, Coke was educated at several schools, including Eton College... |
Q1065305 Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano works (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath. In 1850, two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for hig... |
Q4359274 Tamaz Pertia (born 23 December 1974) is a former Georgian football midfielder, currently a manager with Valmieras FK in the Latvian Higher League. |
Q2821748 For the Melkite theologian, see Theodore Abu QurrahAbu Qurra, a member of the Sufrite tribe Banu Ifran of Tlemcen, was the founder of the indigenous Berber Muslim movement with Kharijite tendencies in North Africa after the overthrow of the Umayyad dynasty. Between 767 and 776, Abu Qurra organised an army of m... |
Q7324559 Richard Christopher Mangam (December 21, 1841 – November 18, 1893) was a Private in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the American Civil War. |
Q4697431 Aingoth is situated (NH17) between Nileshwar and Kanhangad towns on the Cochin-Mangalore National Highway. It is in Kasaragod District, Kanhangad Municipality. |
Q639997 The technology in the Dune universe is a key aspect of the fictional setting of the Dune series of science fiction novels written by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. Herbert's concepts and inventions have been analyzed and deconstructed in at least one book, The Science of Dune (2008). Herbert's originating... |
Q7456299 Set The Alarm For Monday is studio album by New York City jazz drummer Bobby Previte & The New Bump. Composition and arrangement is credited to Previte. "The New Bump" refers to a prior Bobby Previte ensemble "Bump the Renaissance" of 1998. The New Bump includes Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone, Steve Bernst... |
Q16843271 The Heroes of Woodstock Tour was a North American concert tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The tour featured several bands, most of which performed at the original Woodstock festival or feature members that performed at the festival. The musicians featured differed slightl... |
Q77951 Cyrillus Jarre (born February 2, 1878 in Ahrweiler, Rhine Province, Germany as Rudolf Jarre, died March 8, 1952 in Jinan, Shandong, China, Chinese: 杨恩赉; pinyin: Yáng ēnlài, also known as Cirillo Rudolfus Jarre) was a Franciscan Archbishop in Jinan, Shandong Province, China and a translator of texts on canon law ... |
Q8063757 Zacatrophon beebei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. |
Q6839738 Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 5 March 1985. All candidates for seats in Congress ran as independents. |
Q7130815 Panel Quiz Attack 25 (パネルクイズ アタック25) is a game show airing once weekly on the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation network in Japan. The program first aired on April 6, 1975. |
Q10428758 Bert och bacillerna (Swedish: Bert and the bacilli) is a diary-style novel, written by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson and originally published in 1997. It tells the story of Bert Ljung from 7 November to 31 December the year he turns 12 during the autumn term in 5th grade at his school in Sweden. |
Q4965807 Maria Elizabeth of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (16 April 1663 – 23 January 1748), was the daughter of Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg and Elsa Elisabeth Brahe af Wisingsborg, cousin of Charles XI of Sweden and the sister of Adolph John II, Count Palatine of Kleeburg and Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken. She is fore... |
Q1084266 Rut is a village in Dzhebel Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria. |
Q24864462 The World of Us (Korean: 우리들; RR: Woorideul) is a 2016 South Korean drama film written and directed by Yoon Ga-eun in her feature-length directorial debut. The film was released in South Korea on June 16, 2016. |
Q14804417 Glenea suensoni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Leopold Heyrovský in 1939. |
Q41502346 Jocelyn Viterna is an American academic. She is a professor of Sociology at Harvard University, and the author of a book about the role of women in the Salvadoran Civil War. |
Q1131824 Dunbar is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,042 at the 2010 census, down from 1,219 at the 2000 census. |
Q2914458 Extracellular fluid (ECF) denotes all body fluid outside the cells of any multicellular organism. Total body water in healthy adults is about 60% (range 45 to 75%) of total body weight; women and the obese have a lower percentage than lean men. About two thirds of this is intracellular fluid within cells, and ... |
Q7299366 Rayonier Inc, headquartered in Wildlight, Florida, is a timberland real estate investment trust ("REIT") with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. Its core business segments are timber and real estate. As of December 31, 2017, the c... |
Q2628209 The Audi Pikes Peak quattro was a sport utility vehicle concept car. It was created by German premium automobile manufacturer, Audi. The Pikes Peak quattro was first introduced at the 2003 North American International Auto Show. It was the first of three concept cars designed by Audi and shown in 2003, ahea... |
Q5108753 Christ Church is a Reformed and evangelical church in Moscow, Idaho, pastored by Douglas Wilson, and a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The congregation is known for conservative ideology and a number of institutional projects, including a publishing operation (Canon Press), a magazin... |
Q7958044 WYHT (105.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Mansfield, Ohio, United States, the station serves the Mid-Ohio area. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. |
Q7128069 The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (a.k.a. Palm Springs International ShortFest) held annually in Palm Springs, California is the largest film festival for short films in the United States.The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films takes place across seven days each June, showin... |
Q7148284 Patricia Keyser Smith "Patsy" Ticer (January 6, 1935 – August 7, 2017) was an American politician.Ticer was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from George Washington High School. In 1955, Ticer received her bachelor's degree in political science from Sweet Briar College.... |
Q1006152 Luciano De Crescenzo (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃaːno de kreʃˈʃɛntso]; 20 August 1928 – 18 July 2019) was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer. |
Q1073070 Muids is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. |
Q6921581 Mount Kannon (観音岳, Kannon-dake) is located in the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is named after Kannon the bodhisattva of compassion. |
Q7831796 Tracy Maxwell Heard (born February 3, 1963) is the former Minority Leader of the Ohio House of Representatives, and previously served as the minority whip, assistant majority leader and as the majority leader. She is the first African-American woman, and one of two African-Americans, the other being William L.... |
Q8534941 Cerro de la Neblina (lit. "Mountain of the Mist"), also known as Serra da Neblina in Brazil and Sierra de la Neblina in Venezuela, is a sandstone massif located in the northern Amazon Basin. It is a tilted, heavily eroded plateau, with a deep canyon in its central portion (Cañón Grande), drained by the Baria R... |
Q6777581 Martin Roy (Marty) Wood (born June 4, 1933) is a rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducted Wood in 1991.Marty was born June 4, 1933 in Carstairs, Alberta, to Dorothy and Harry Wood. His great grandfather was Henry Wise Wood, the founding presiden... |
Q16728020 Pamela Chopra (born 1938) is a Bollywood playback singer. She is the widow of veteran film director Yash Chopra. She has also written and produced several films. |
Q3446603 Rubén Darío Ramirez Lezcano (born 11 January 1966 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan politician. |
Q16834821 Each team in the 2014 Indonesian Inter Island Cup minimum must name an 18-man squad (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by the Liga Indonesia deadline of 7 January 2014. Injury replacements are allowed until 24 hours before the team's first match. |
Q1924205 Rent a Friend (2000) is a romantic comedy film directed by Eddy Terstall. The film was produced by Jordaan Film and BNN TV. |
Q24912178 Hingoli Deccan railway station serves Hingoli in Hingoli district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. |
Q27517577 Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton (born 9 November 1942) is a British property developer, a founder of Stanhope plc, and the co-founder of the property company Chelsfield with Elliott Bernerd. |
Q1024044 Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 1 January 1995) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery was known for his flamboyant and outlandish costumes and makeup as well as his (sometimes controversial) performances. Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a significant... |
Q2184630 Brookwood is a National Rail railway station in Brookwood in the English county of Surrey. It is 27 miles 79 chains (45.0 km) down the line from London Waterloo. |
Q7319375 Rexford is a hamlet in Saratoga County, New York, United States, located on the north bank of the Mohawk River.Rexford is in the Town of Clifton Park, near the southwest town line. Its boundaries, like those of neighboring Alplaus, are unofficial and necessarily vague. To the south, it is bounded by the Moha... |
Q1589230 Borgholm Castle (Swedish: Borgholms slott) in Borgholm, Sweden, is today only a ruin of the fortress that was first built in the second half of the 13th century and rebuilt many times in later centuries. It is linked to Halltorp estate, to the south. The castle was destroyed in a fire on 14 October 1806. |
Q5271128 Diana Hilary Coole (born 1952) is Professor of Political and Social Theory in the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London. Her main field of research covers, broadly, contemporary continental philosophy with special interests in poststructuralism (especially Foucault), and feminism an... |
Q6269847 Jolanta Antas (born 20 February 1954 in Szczecin) is a Polish scientist and professor of linguistics at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.She is the head of the Institute of Theory of Communication at the Faculty of Polish Language and Literature of the Jagiellonian University. She conducts research on pra... |
Q8027946 Witeck Communications, Inc. is a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm that provides strategic public relations and marketing communications services for corporate and non-profit clients. Witeck Communications specializes in the Gay and Lesbian Consumer Market; health, disability and social issues; and r... |
Q5185428 A crime of opportunity is a crime that is committed without planning when the perpetrator sees that they have the chance to commit the act at that moment and seizes it. Such acts have little or no premeditation. |
Q6534976 Leveillula is a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae. |
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