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Q4955434 Bragster was a global social networking and video sharing website on which users dare each other to perform stunts and tasks. The website name stems from the 'Bragging Rights' which are earned on the site. The company is based in London, England. The majority of the content is user generated, although some bra... |
Q1083014 Palazzo Gondi is a palace in Florence, Italy, located a block from Piazza della Signoria.It was built in 1490 under design by Giuliano da Sangallo, who was inspired by other major works of stately buildings in the city, such as Palazzo Medici and Palazzo Strozzi. Among the elements borrowed from these earlier ... |
Q7320842 Rhoda Fox Graves (July 2, 1877 – January 25, 1950) was a suffragist, women's rights activist, and early female Republican party politician from St. Lawrence County, New York in the United States. Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate, the first woman to hold office in both the upper ... |
Q7434722 Scopula ferruginea is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. |
Q6927435 Mowtowr-e Zargareha (Persian: موتورزرگرها) may refer to:Mowtowr-e Zargareha 1Mowtowr-e Zargareha 2 |
Q17184186 The Victory Park Historic District of Manchester, New Hampshire, encompasses Victory Park, a city park laid out in 1838, and four buildings that face it across adjacent streets. Originally called Concord Square, Victory Park was laid out by the proprietors of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company who founded Man... |
Q2439341 The Mad Bomberg (German:Der tolle Bomberg) is a 1923 novel by the German writer Josef Winckler. It is loosely based on the legendary exploits of a real-life aristocrat Gisbert von Romberg (1839-1897). The novel has been adapted into films on two occasions. The first was a 1932 film The Mad Bomberg directed by ... |
Q3608419 Alberto Andrés Marcovecchio (Avellaneda, March 6, 1893 – Lanús, February 28, 1958) was an Argentine football player that spent all his career at Racing Club de Avellaneda. His position on the field was forward, converting more than 200 goals during his 11 years playing at Primera División. |
Q19855773 Sinjŭngsan Station is a railway station in Chŭngsal-li, greater Tanch'ŏn city, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Kŭmgol Line of the Korean State Railway. It was opened on 4 December 1943 along with the rest of the Tongam - Paekkŭmsan section of the line. |
Q30645078 Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mu Ye Gui Shi (Chinese: 鬼吹灯之牧野诡事), alternatively known as Ghost Blows Out the Light: Finding Hu Bayi, is a 2017 Chinese web series adapted from the novel series Ghost Blows Out the Light by Zhang Muye. Zhang also acts as the series' executive producer. The series aired via iQiyi eve... |
Q15768 Sodium bromide is an inorganic compound with the formula NaBr. It is a high-melting white, crystalline solid that resembles sodium chloride. It is a widely used source of the bromide ion and has many applications. |
Q6746342 Man from Mundania is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony. The twelfth book of the Xanth series, it concludes the trilogy of Vale of the Vole and Heaven Cent. |
Q2739284 "Romeo and Juliet" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album Making Movies and was released as a single in 1981. Reviewer Dan Bolles has called the song a "classic". The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums Alc... |
Q630484 Antonio Harvey (born July 6, 1970) is a retired American professional basketball player.Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Harvey attended Southern Illinois University (1988–89), Connors State College (1989–90), the University of Georgia (1990–91), and Pfeiffer University (1991–1993). He was bypassed in the 1993... |
Q7146976 Joseph Denis Patrick Labrecque (born March 6, 1971) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. Labrecque played two games (0–1, 4.29 GAA) for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995–96 NHL season, as well as for many other teams across North America and Europe.Lebrecque was born in LaSalle, Quebec. He was d... |
Q6012096 John Stuart Allen (May 13, 1907 – December 27, 1982) was an American astronomer, university professor and university president. He was a native of Indiana, and pursued a career as a professor of astronomy after receiving his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. Allen was the interim president of the U... |
Q3827245 Las Matas de Santa Cruz is the largest city in the Monte Cristi province of the Dominican Republic. |
Q2586256 Larry La Trobe is the name given to a popular, cast bronze statue of a dog situated on the northern end of Melbourne’s City Square (corner of Collins Street and Swanston Street). Along with the Burke and Wills monument, the statue is one of only two free standing art works in the City Square precinct. The stat... |
Q3362996 The European plan on climate change consists of a range of measures adopted by the members of the European Union to fight against climate change. The plan was launched in March 2007, and after months of tough negotiations between the member countries, it was adopted by the European Parliament on December 2008.... |
Q2328605 Kricogonia lyside, the lyside sulphur or guayacan sulphur, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae.In seasons with heavy monsoons, this butterfly is seen in massive migrations which are frequent in Texas but more rare in the southwest. It is also an occasional resi... |
Q5248341 Deborah Mary O'Neill (born 4 June 1961) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for New South Wales since 2013. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and formerly represented the seat of Robertson as a member of the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2013. |
Q5614896 The Guernsey Border Agency is the law enforcement body charged with tackling cross border crime and administering the customs and immigration systems for the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The agency is headed by a Chief Officer - Patrick Rice (Head of Law Enforcement) The Agency has been established in shadow form fo... |
Q14824771 Nyssodrysternum decoratum is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Monne in 1992. |
Q11824851 Þingeyri Airport (IATA: TEY, ICAO: BITE) is an airport serving Þingeyri (Thingeyri), Iceland.It is closed for air traffic. |
Q3639283 Sarah Felberbaum (born 20 March 1980) is an Italian actress and model. |
Q4976111 Susanne Ingegerd Rydén (born 2 October 1962) is a Swedish soprano who has been called "Sweden's most renowned singer". She specializes in early music and has performed across Europe and abroad. |
Q16129970 Conch Arena (Hebrew: אולם הקונכייה), is a multi-purpose sports arena that was built in Be'er Sheva by the city council and National Lottery grant of Mifal HaPayis. The arena is located in Be'er Sheva's Sports Quarter, on Etsel Street, adjacent to the Turner Stadium. The arena's capacity is 3,000 seats. |
Q8925134 Bao Youxiang (Chinese: 鲍有祥; pinyin: Bào yǒuxiáng), also known by his Wa name Tax Log Pang (Chinese Wa: Dax Lōug Bang) and his Burmese name Pau Yu Chang (Burmese: ပေါက်ယူချန်း Pauk Yu-hkyan), is the current President of Wa State, chairman of the United Wa State Party, and commander-in-chief of the United Wa Sta... |
Q15622139 Askje is a village in Rennesøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The small, coastal farming and fishing village is located on the southeastern end of the island of Mosterøy. The 0.2-square-kilometre (49-acre) village has a population (2014) of 495, giving the village a population density of 2,475 inh... |
Q24955870 Matthew Wilkas (born April 20, 1978) is an American New York based theatre and film actor, playwright and reality television personality. He is best known for his lead role as Matt in the 2012 feature film Gayby. |
Q7559958 Somerville is a town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 53 km southeast from Melbourne's central business district, and forms part of the urban enclave on Western Port comprising Somerville, Hastings, Bittern, Crib Point, and Tyabb. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. At the 2016 C... |
Q328904 Harley Francis Flanagan (born March 8, 1967) is a musician, writer and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner. He is one of the founders of New York Hardcore band Cro-Mags.At age 12, Flanagan was the drummer for the New York Punk band the Stimulators. When he was nine years old, Flanagan published a book of poetry an... |
Q266283 Davagna (Ligurian: Dägna) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about 13 kilometres (8 mi) northeast of Genoa. The municipality of Davagna borders the following municipalities: Bargagli, Genoa, Lumarzo, Montoggio and Torriglia. |
Q72218 Kim Il-sung Square is a large city square in the Central District of Pyongyang, North Korea, and is named after the country's founding leader, Kim Il-sung. The square was constructed in 1954 according to a master plan for reconstructing the capital after the destruction of the Korean War. It was opened in August... |
Q1661550 The MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with AT&T's WarnerMedia News & Sports, Comcast's NBC Sports Group, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications having minority ownership.The channel's headquarters and studios are ... |
Q647307 Tinea pellionella, the case-bearing clothes moth, is a species of tineoid moth in the family Tineidae, the fungus moths. It is the type species of the genus Tinea, which in turn is the type genus of the subfamily, family, as well as the superfamily Tineoidea. Its scientific name is derived from "tinea", a gener... |
Q6754659 The Marahau River is a river of the Tasman Region, New Zealand. |
Q5076985 Charles R. Duder (1818 – January 26, 1879) was an English-born merchant and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Twillingate and Fogo in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1869 to 1878 as an Anti-Confederate and then Conservative.He was born at Torquay, Devon and came to Newfoundl... |
Q7662060 Synarthonia is a genus of fungi within the Arthoniales order. The genus has not been placed into a family. |
Q16881030 Pavlovsk (Russian: Па́вловск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.Urban localitiesPavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, a town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of Saint PetersburgPavlovsk, Voronezh Oblast, a town in Pavlovsky District of Voronezh OblastRural localitiesPavlovsk, Altai Krai, a... |
Q16849733 Jason and Sam Morgan (commonly known by their portmanteau "JaSam") are fictional characters and a supercouple from the ABC daytime drama, General Hospital. They are known to be one of daytime's most popular supercouples. Jason is portrayed by actor Steve Burton; formerly, the role was played by Billy Miller. ... |
Q18129119 Palanpur Junction railway station is a major railway station located in Palanpur, Gujarat, India. The railway station is under the administrative control of Western Railway of Indian Railways. Palanpur Junction railway station has five platforms and a total of six tracks. |
Q15857871 Miaenia elongata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1951. |
Q3713525 Don Giovanni is a 1970 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons. The film is loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan", from the collectio... |
Q28457487 Coach Trip 12 was the twelfth series of Coach Trip in the United Kingdom. The series began airing on 2 March 2015 for 20 episodes, concluding on 27 March 2015.It began on 2 March 2015, airing weekdays at 17:30 on Channel 4. The twelfth series saw Brendan Sheerin return as tour guide, as in all previous editio... |
Q28940986 Susan (Sue) Simensky Bietila (born 1947) is a Milwaukee-based artist whose protest art includes art and illustration for underground newspapers (including RAT and The Guardian) as well as giant street puppets. She became active as a student in the mid-1960s, when she joined with members of the Women's Interna... |
Q30596030 The 2017 AFL season was the 92nd season in the Australian Football League (AFL) contested by the North Melbourne Football Club. |
Q2580635 William W. Stewart (c. 1776 – 10 September 1851) was a Scottish sealer and whaler after whom New Zealand's Stewart Island is named.Stewart served in the Royal Navy from 1793 to 1797. In June 1801 he arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney), New South Wales, and used ₤1500 to purchase a partnership in a Bass Strait sea... |
Q10789271 Machimus novaescotiae is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. |
Q28220083 The Wallaby Rocks Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge at 216 Main Road, at Wallaby Rocks near Sofala, in the Bathurst Region local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Percy Allan and built in 1897 by E. Taylor of Balmain. The property is owned by Roads and Maritime Services, ... |
Q189393 Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North A... |
Q233704 Antonia Major also known as Julia Antonia Major (Latin: Antonia Maior, PIR2 A 884) (born August/September 39 BC), also known as Antonia the Elder, was a daughter of Triumvir Mark Antony and Octavia the Younger and a relative of the first Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was a niece of the first... |
Q110315 Lead poisoning is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body. The brain is the most sensitive. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, inability to have children, and tingling in the hands and feet. It causes almost 10% of intellectual disability of... |
Q8004834 William B. Murphy (January 9, 1908 – July 2, 1970) was an American film editor who, in the course of a twenty-year career, served as president of American Cinema Editors (ACE) from 1952 to 1955 and was distinguished in 1966 with ACE's Eddie Award for his work on the science fiction film, Fantastic Voyage, whic... |
Q7821962 Tony Brown (born 28 May 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who has played in the Australian Football League (AFL) and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).He had to make the choice between cricket and football after representing Victoria in under age cricket. Originally... |
Q1997088 Philip Rowland Filleul (15 July 1885 – 29 July 1974) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.Filleul was born at Bath, Somerset. He was strokeman in the Leander coxless four with John Fenning, Gordon Thomson and Harold Barker which won a silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Su... |
Q2072837 "Show Me the Way" is a song written by Dennis DeYoung and released as the second single from Edge of the Century by Styx. It peaked at No. 3 on the pop singles chart in 1991. It is, to date, Styx's 8th and last top 10 Billboard single.Lead vocalist/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung, a devout Roman Catholic, originall... |
Q6650824 Little Manitou Lake is a small saltwater lake about 120 kilometres south-east of Saskatoon, Canada. The lake was formed by receding glaciers during the most recent ice age. It is fed by underground springs, and has a mineral content high in sodium, magnesium and potassium salts due to it being a terminal lake.... |
Q4975755 Brotton railway station was opened by the Cleveland Railway on 1 November 1875, and served the village of Brotton in North Yorkshire, England. It was built to the designs of the architect William Peachey.It closed on 2 May 1960. |
Q7806461 This is the timeline of the three longest man-made spans in the world, all categories, that at least have the strength to carry some persons. It can be the span of any type of bridge, aerial tramway, power line, structural ceiling or dome etc. |
Q7562895 Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891) was an English orientalist.She was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of the famous orientalist Edward William Lane, who suggested that she and her sons join him in Egypt so that she could report on the female side of Egypt's gender-segregated society. The result was he... |
Q5431490 In mathematics, a fake projective plane (or Mumford surface) is one of the 50 complex algebraic surfaces that have the same Betti numbers as the projective plane, but are not isomorphic to it. Such objects are always algebraic surfaces of general type. |
Q5285739 Dmitry Vladimirovich Labeko (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Лабеко; born 26 April 1990) is a former Russian professional association football player. |
Q6717645 MS&T (Military Simulation & Training) is an international defence simulation and training publication produced bi-monthly in the UK by Halldale Media. |
Q3439107 An independence referendum was held in the Republic of Slovenia on 23 December 1990. Both the ruling center-right coalition and the left-wing opposition supported the referendum and called on voters to support Slovenian independence. The voters were asked the question: "Should the Republic of Slovenia become a... |
Q5516569 The 1999 Gael Linn Cup, the most important representative competition for elite level participants in the women's team field sport of camogie, was won by Munster, who defeated Connacht in the final, played at Bohernabreena. It was the first Gael Linn cu since the introduction of the 15-a-side game, although th... |
Q4714953 Aleksander Konjajev (born 3 June 1909) was a Russian born Slovene agronomist and dean of the Biotechnology Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. He was an expert on microbiology of dairy farming.He wrote numerous scientific books and articles as well as popular science books. He won the Levstik Award twice,... |
Q16899183 Red Rocks College station is an RTD light rail station in Lakewood, Colorado, United States. The station is part of the new W Line which was built as part of the FasTracks expansion. It opened on April 26, 2013 and is operated by the Regional Transportation District.The station is located along the south side... |
Q12286519 Mesolakkos (Greek: Μεσόλακκος) is a village of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Grevena. The 2011 census recorded 49 residents in the village. Mesolakkos is a part of the community of Kalochi. |
Q14834109 Dystasia affinis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1906. |
Q1780216 The Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and it became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's overseas province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement. The war ended when a leftist military coup in Lisbon ... |
Q7606757 The Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley is a luxury resort located on Deer Valley Mountain in Park City, Utah, United States. |
Q6848178 Michael Joseph Neville (baptised Michel Joseph Neville; October 11, 1902 – January 16, 1958) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centreman who played three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto St. Pats, and New York Americans. He died in 1958 and was buried at St. Paul Cemetery in Grand-Mer... |
Q7601544 Starcross, or the Coming of the Moobs! or Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve, released in October 2007. Illustrated by David Wyatt, it is the second book in the Larklight trilogy, sequel to the 2006 novel Larklight. |
Q587235 Eleutherodactylus longipes is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae. It is endemic to Mexico and occurs on the Sierra Madre Oriental between central Nuevo León and adjacent Coahuila in the north and northern Hidalgo in the south. It is also known as the long-footed chirping frog and longfoot robbe... |
Q7001477 Neucleus is a student newspaper published at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The magazine is produced by the University of New England Students' Association. |
Q258377 Saramon is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. |
Q2658118 The 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 43rd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. |
Q4080533 Nenad Begović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Бeгoвић; born January 6, 1980) is a Serbian football player who played in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, Second League of Serbia and Montenegro, Ligue 1, Kazakhstan Premier League, Russian Premier League, Azerbaijan Premier League, Israeli Premier League, Cana... |
Q2481950 The Russian Arctic islands are a number of islands groups and sole islands scattered around the Arctic Ocean. |
Q7275109 The RAE Zephyr was a single-seat, single-engined light pusher configuration biplane designed and built by the Aero Club of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) for the 1923 Lympne Motor Glider Competition. At a late stage the Aero Club chose to enter the more promising RAE Hurricane instead, using the Zephyr... |
Q7556229 A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1906. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misse... |
Q5534401 Colonel Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford, (8 March 1912 – 12 November 2017) was a British-Irish peer and British Army officer. He is the longest-lived peer on record. |
Q4374632 Viktor Yakovlevich Potapov (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Потапов; 29 March 1947 – 10 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian sailor. He won a bronze medal in the Finn class at the 1972 Summer Olympics.He died in Dolgoprudny as a result of an automobile accident on December 10, 2017. |
Q4947141 Suzanne Marie Ernrup, born 30 November 1954 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. She studied at Gothenburg Theatre Academy 1978–81. She is married to the actor Anders Sundquist and they have a daughter called Hedvig. |
Q3892380 Water polo was contested for men only at the 1994 Asian Games at the Hiroshima Big Wave Pool, Hiroshima, Japan from 11 October to 15 October 1994.Kazakhstan won the gold medal with a perfect record in its debut at the Asian Games, China finished second and Japan won the bronze medal in round robin competition. |
Q16237017 David Zurikoyevich Siukayev (Russian: Давид Зурикоевич Сиукаев; born July 14, 1995) is a Russian football midfielder who last played for FC Alania-d Vladikavkaz.He made his debut in the Russian Second Division for FC Alania-d Vladikavkaz on July 12, 2013 in a game against FC Gazprom transgaz Stavropol Ryzdvya... |
Q15534693 Elephantorrhiza elephantina, commonly known as the eland's wattle or elephant's root, is a subshrub in the mimosoid clade of legumes. They occur widely and in several bioregions of southern Africa. Considerable size variation has been noted, and polyploidy was suspected. |
Q23615696 Jenny Emilie Greta "Margareta" Lindberg (31 May 1889 – 6 May 1974) was a Swedish tennis player. She competed in singles at the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished in 15th place. |
Q10848418 HR 6594 is the Bright Star Catalogue designation for a binary star system in the northern constellation of Hercules. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.55; according to the Bortle scale, it is sufficiently bright to be visible from dark suburban skies. The distance t... |
Q31836 Treeswifts or crested swifts are a family, Hemiprocnidae, of aerial near passerine birds, closely related to the true swifts. The family contains a single genus, Hemiprocne, with four species. They are distributed from India and South East Asia through Indonesia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.Treeswifts a... |
Q888332 Ebana was a 5th-century King of the Kingdom of Axum. He is primarily known from the coins that were minted during his reign. |
Q4905954 Big Lakes County, formerly the Municipal District of Big Lakes, is a municipal district in north-central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 17, around the Lesser Slave Lake. Utikuma Lake and Winagami Lake are also located in the municipality. |
Q873125 The Rabnitzbach (also Rabnitz) is one of the source rivers of the Rába. It originates near mount Schöckl and flows in south-east direction to Gleisdorf where it merges with the Rába. The brook reaches a length of app. 28 kilometers.The water has Grade A quality and is one cleaner waters of Styria. It is rich on... |
Q2705593 Avedøre is a station on the Køge radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
Q1955713 The Musée de Tahiti et des Îles ("Museum of Tahiti and the Islands"), Tahitian Te Fare Manaha ("the Museum"), is a Polynesian ethnographic museum in the village of Puna'auia on Tahiti.The museum was founded in 1974 to conserve and restore Polynesian artifacts and cultural practices. It has signed cooperation a... |
Q5489395 The Norrmén house, also known as the Norrmén castle and palace, was a red brick residential house representing the neo-renaissance architecture, situated for 63 years in Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland, opposite the Uspenski Cathedral. It was designed by architect Theodor Höijer for the chairman of the Helsinki... |
Q1954754 The Museum of Ontario Archaeology (formerly the Museum of Indian Archaeology and Pioneer Life, the Museum of Indian Archaeology (London) and the London Museum of Archaeology) is a museum located in northwest London, Ontario, Canada. It is dedicated to the study and public interpretation of over 11,000 years o... |
Q3466428 Näo is a village in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. |
Q3638646 Grant Connell and Todd Martin were the defending champions but did not compete that year.Jan Apell and Brent Haygarth won in the final 3–6, 6–1, 6–3 against Pat Cash and Patrick Rafter. |
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