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Q4403704 Bishop Sabbas (or Savva; born Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov on September 27, 1958) is a bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. He serves as diocesan bishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari. |
Q15931878 José Vales (born March 26, 1962) is an Argentinian journalist and writer |
Q17403507 Martin Seiferth (born 18 September 1990) is a German professional basketball player who currently plays for the Paderborn Baskets of the German ProA league. He formerly played for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball League. Prior to his professional career, Seiferth played with the Oregon and Eastern Washing... |
Q13447869 Caffrocrambus albistrigatus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Graziano Bassi in 2002. It is found in Lesotho and South Africa. |
Q14832578 Falsischnolea is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:Falsischnolea apicalis Martins & Galileo, 2001Falsischnolea flavoapicalis Breuning, 1940Falsischnolea nigrobasalis Breuning, 1940Falsischnolea pallidipennis (Chevrolat, 1861) |
Q11767579 Marcin Norbert Gugulski (born 25 August 1958) is a Polish politician, journalist, and intelligence analyst who served as Government Press Secretary for Prime Minister Jan Olszewski. |
Q24718689 Sir Cecil Fabian Brackenbury KCIE CSI (13 March 1881 – 29 September 1958) was a civil servant and bureaucrat who served as Chief Secretary of the Madras Presidency from 1935 to 1939. Brackenbury was Chief Secretary when the first elections were held in the Madras Presidency as per the Government of India Act,... |
Q27984719 Gal Branch is a stream in the U.S. state of Missouri.Gal Branch was so named for the fact a large share of the early residents were girls. |
Q2671185 Cedarville is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 741 at the 2010 census, up from 719 in 2000. It is the birthplace of social activist Jane Addams, the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner. |
Q1130493 Therapy? are an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist–vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar. To complete the lineup, the band re... |
Q5346605 Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather (22 May 1919 – 5 April 2005), usually known as Ted Leather, was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and Governor of Bermuda. |
Q5562338 The Gillig Phantom is a series of buses that was produced by American manufacturer Gillig Corporation in Hayward, California. The successor to the long-running Gillig Transit Coach model line, the Phantom marked the transition of Gillig from a producer of yellow school buses to that of transit buses. The fir... |
Q2900194 Ganz is a Canadian company best known for distributing plush animals and collectibles. They are the manufacturer of Webkinz, the toy with an interactive virtual-reality Internet site for children.Founded in 1950 by Holocaust survivors Samuel Ganz and sons Jack and Sam Ganz, it was originally called Ganz Bros.... |
Q6777744 Martyrs & Madmen: The Best of Roger Daltrey is a compilation album of Roger Daltrey recordings issued in 1997. The CD was released on Rhino Records R2 72846 USA. |
Q3841018 Lynn or Lynne is a predominantly feminine given name in English-speaking countries. Now it is more popular as a middle name than as a first name. It is also popular as a suffix for female first names, such as Madalyn/Madalynn, Jocelyn/Jocelynn, Ashlyn/Ashlynn, Kaylynn and Emmalyn/Emmalynn. |
Q2065359 Jorge Cristian Córdoba (born December 12, 1987) is an Argentine professional football player who plays for Dorados de Sinaloa as a striker. |
Q5558101 Gianfranco Faina was an Italian professor. His early experiences were first in the communist party, following his departure from which he participated in many political groups such as the "workers-students league" where the separation between workers and intellectuals was eliminated. He had a pivotal role in t... |
Q2332806 The Stark County Courthouse and its Annex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Canton, Ohio. The courthouse building was designed by Cleveland, Ohio based architect George F. Hammond in 1895. The building is considered to be in the Beaux Arts Architecture style reflecting Classicism styl... |
Q7825626 Tore Forslund (26 February 1927–15 March 2000), also known as Spökprästen ("the ghostpriest"), was a writer, poet, Lutheran priest, street musician, and editor of the magazine A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, that he founded 1957. |
Q519950 Jürgen Zopp (born 29 March 1988) is a professional Estonian tennis player. He is a prominent member of the Estonia Davis Cup team and the current Estonian no. 1. |
Q2368479 The wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place on 19 June 2010 in Stockholm Cathedral. It has been described as "Europe's biggest royal wedding since the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981." Westling thereby acquired Victoria's ducal title, becoming a Swedish... |
Q3468070 Kiva is a village in Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.The southwestern part of the Rutja Airfield is located on the territory of Kiva. |
Q1162163 A director is a person from a group of managers who leads or supervises a particular area of a company. Companies that use this term often have many directors spread throughout different business functions or roles (e.g. director of human resources). The director usually reports directly to a vice president or... |
Q6887658 Mochtheroides is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:Mochtheroides klapperichi Jedlicka, 1953Mochtheroides niger Jedlicka, 1934Mochtheroides philippinensis Jedlicka, 1934Mochtheroides sericans Schmidt-Gobel, 1846 |
Q6613586 This is a list of notable converts to Christianity who were not theists before their conversion. See Nontheism for specifics of what encompasses nontheism. All names should be sourced and the source should indicate they had not been a theist, not merely non-churchgoing, before conversion.See also List of forme... |
Q16016151 George Earl Guinn, known as G. Earl Guinn (August 21, 1912 – June 7, 2004), was from 1951 to 1975 the fifth president of Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. |
Q15619276 Jan Georg Iversen (born 2 March 1956) is a Norwegian cyclist. He was born in Oslo. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he placed seventh in 4000 meter individual pursuit. |
Q18355745 Oakland College was a Presbyterian-affiliated four-year college reserved for whites; it operated from 1830 to 1861 near Lorman, Mississippi. After years of closure during the American Civil War of 1861–1865 and a failure to reorganize following the war, it was closed down. The property was sold to the state. ... |
Q628 Bergamo (US: , Italian: [ˈbɛrɡamo] (listen); Eastern Lombard: Bèrghem [ˈbɛrɡɛm] (listen); Latin: Bergŏmum) is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan, and approximately 30 km (19 mi) from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo, and 70 km (43 mi) f... |
Q8100696 Special police usually describes a police force or unit within a police force whose duties and responsibilities are significantly different from other forces in the same country or from other police in the same force, although there is no consistent international definition. A special constable, in most cases,... |
Q1759012 A yoke, alternatively known as a control wheel is a device used for piloting some fixed-wing aircraft.The pilot uses the yoke to control the attitude of the plane, usually in both pitch and roll. Rotating the control wheel controls the ailerons and the roll axis. Fore and aft movement of the control column con... |
Q177298 Erdek (formerly Artàke, Greek: Αρτάκη) is a town and district of Balıkesir Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. The population was 34000 in 2010. Located on the north coast of Gulf of Erdek at the south of the Sea of Marmara, Erdek is known as a holiday destination that is popular among domestic tourists. ... |
Q1479761 The Federal National Council (FNC) (Arabic: المجلس الوطني الإتحادي, al-Majlis al-Watani al-Ittihadi) is the federal authority of the United Arab Emirates formed to represent the general Emirati people. The FNC consist of 40 members with advisory tasks in the house of legislative council. Twenty members are el... |
Q5041274 Carlfred Bartholomew Broderick (April 7, 1932 – July 27, 1999) was an American psychologist and family therapist, a scholar of marriage and family relations at the University of Southern California, and an author of several books. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1932, and he died of cancer in 1999 in Ce... |
Q2723152 Loose: The Concert is the first live album by Canadian singer Nelly Furtado. Recorded at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the Get Loose Tour, the DVD and accompanying CD of the concert was released on November 19, 2007 in United Kingdom and on December 4 in United States. |
Q7111832 Out to Canaan is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is the fourth book of The Mitford Years series. |
Q804972 La Chapelle-Laurent is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. |
Q4700558 Akebonochō Station (曙町駅, Akebonochō-eki) is a tram station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. |
Q6977379 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Benito County, California.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Benito County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provide... |
Q2219501 Jim van Fessem (born 7 August 1975 in Tilburg) is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper. |
Q5643003 Hallingea is a genus of fungi in the Gallaceaceae family. The genus contains three species found in South America. |
Q16198188 John de Batesford (died 1319) was an English judge. |
Q7357009 Rodney Mims Cook Jr., an authority on classical architecture, urban planning and education, served as both an early board member of New York's Institute of Classical Architecture and Art as well as a founding trustee of the Prince of Wales’s American Foundation, a 501(c)(3) in the US. He established the Prince... |
Q15126961 Joseph Lowe (died 1831) was a Scottish journalist and political economist. He is now known for his pioneer treatment of indexation, and Maurice Kendall called him the generally recognised "father of index numbers".In the debate on the Corn Laws in 1839, Sir Robert Peel cited the views of Lowe and Thomas Tooke... |
Q16994819 Hariman Sanatorium was the first chiropractic hospital with both in-patient and out-patient care in the United States when it opened on July 6, 1928. It was built by George E. Hariman, DC in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He managed the hospital until his death in 1977. His son continued the practice for four ... |
Q13588653 Dichelopa pachydmeta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on the Marquesas Archipelago in French Polynesia. |
Q15979662 Elena Remizova (born 22 September 1986) is a Russian visually impaired Paralympic skier who won three gold and one silver medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. She won her first gold medal in women's 15km classic skiing in Sochi, Russia in 2014. |
Q30113907 Michael Pack is an American publisher, documentary film producer, and non-profit executive.Pack attended Yale College, the University of California at Berkeley, and New York University. Early in his career, he worked for Radiotelevisione Italiana and the U.S. Information Agency.In 1977 Pack founded Manifold P... |
Q7603105 The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. The program wa... |
Q6256364 Rolf Thomas Öberg (born 15 March 1967) is a Swedish musical personality best known as the singer in the acclaimed group bob hund. He was named, in 2000, as the country's best singer. He has gained renown for his musical depth and unique lyrics as well as extremely energetic stage presence.A native of the coas... |
Q163643 Ramenskoye (Russian: Ра́менское, Russian pronunciation: [ˈramʲɪnskəjə]) is a town and the administrative center of Ramensky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 46 kilometers (29 mi) southeast of Moscow. Population: 96,317 (2010 Census); 82,074 (2002 Census); 87,666 (1989 Census); 69,000 (1974); 28,000 (1... |
Q2486022 New York State Route 26 (NY 26) is a north–south state highway that runs for 203.80 miles (327.98 km) through Central New York in the United States. Its southern terminus is located at the Pennsylvania state line south of the town of Vestal in Broome County, where it becomes Pennsylvania Route 267 (PA 267). It... |
Q5051714 Catch the Saint is a collection of two mystery novellas by Fleming Lee, based upon stories by Norman Worker continuing the adventures of the sleuth Simon Templar a.k.a. "The Saint", created by Leslie Charteris. Following usual practice at this point in the series, the front cover credits Charteris, although Le... |
Q1986772 Nicolau is a Portuguese and Catalan given name. People known by this name include:Nicolau Coelho, Portuguese explorerNicolau dos Reis Lobato, East-Timorese politician and national heroNicolau Tolentino de Almeida, the foremost Portuguese satirical poet of the 18th century |
Q560501 Christian Lionel Díaz (born 12 May 1976) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a left back. |
Q530978 The Yverdon to Sainte-Croix Railway (French: Chemin de fer Yverdon–Ste-Croix, YSteC) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line and former railway company in Switzerland. The line connects the towns of Yverdon-les-Bains and Sainte-Croix, both in the canton of Vaud, and is some 24 kilometres (15 mi) ... |
Q7503879 Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Cardiff is a Swaminarayan temple located in the Grangetown area of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. It is the first and largest Hindu temple in Wales and comes under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. |
Q4600346 The 2002 Nordic Figure Skating Championships were the Nordic Figure Skating Championships of the 2001–2002 season. The competition was open to elite figure skaters from Nordic Countries. Skaters competed in two disciplines, ladies singles and men's singles, across two levels: senior (Olympic-level) and junior.... |
Q2650474 Lü (simplified Chinese: 吕; traditional Chinese: 呂; pinyin: Lǚ) was a Zhou dynasty vassal state in present-day central China in the early years of the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC). |
Q4889400 Benjamin Wilson is an Australian football referee. He is also an accountant. Wilson was a referee at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. |
Q2846799 Paranthrene thalassina is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from Malawi. |
Q6187075 Jessica Ahlquist (born June 21, 1995) is an activist and public speaker who filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Cranston High School West, where she was a student, to remove a religious prayer from its auditorium. The suit, Ahlquist v. Cranston, was filed with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union, ... |
Q514014 Jutatip Maneephan (Thai: จุฑาธิป มณีพันธุ์; born 8 July 1988) is a Thai road bicycle racer and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Thailand Women's Cycling Team. |
Q17119033 The Janus Mirror is the second full-length album from Brooklyn-based symphonic rock band Emanuel and the Fear and was released via Haldern Pop in September 2012. |
Q14702294 Chrysoprasis suturella is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by White in 1853. |
Q5652930 Aphyosemion splendopleure is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the family Aplocheilidae. It is found in brooks and streams in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. |
Q10719275 Wardomyces moseri is a species of mold in the family Microascaceae. It was described as new to science by Walter Gams in 1995. The specific epithet honours mycologist Meinhard Moser "on the occasion of his 70th birthday". The type locality was a riverbank in the savanna area east of Villavicencio, Colombia. ... |
Q33093629 Lodovico Centofiorini or Francesco Centofiorini (died 1651) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nicotera (1650–1651). |
Q7874724 USS Thompson may refer to:USS Thompson (DD-305), named for Richard Wigginton Thompson and served in the 1920s; currently an exposed shipwreck in San Francisco Bay.USS Thompson (DD-627), named for Robert Means Thompson and served during World War II and the Korean War |
Q109298 Zapata County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 14,018. Its county seat is Zapata. The county is named for Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata, a rancher in the area who rebelled against Mexico.Zapata County comprises the Zapata, TX Micropolitan Statistical Are... |
Q6468107 Lacamas Lake is a small lake in Clark County, Washington. It is a popular place to fish and water ski for locals from Vancouver, Camas and Washougal. It connects to Round Lake via a channel that runs under the SR 500 bridge on the southeast side of the lake. In the 1990s many high tech manufacturing plants an... |
Q1026582 Caledonian MacBrayne (Scottish Gaelic: Caledonian Mac a' Bhriuthainn), usually shortened to CalMac, is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west coast. Since 2006 the company's official name has been ... |
Q1145528 Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953) is an American actor best known for playing the roles of Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, Herbert Viola on the TV series Moonlighting, Miles Dalby in the film Risky Business, famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film Ray as well as for playing the role ... |
Q172437 Art Cross (January 24, 1918 in Jersey City, New Jersey – April 15, 2005 in LaPorte, Indiana) was an American racecar driver. He was the first recipient of the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Award in 1952. |
Q7549287 So Good Together is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire. It was released in 1999 and was preceded by the single What Do You Say. What Do You Say peaked at number 3 on the country chart and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Video. It also became her highest... |
Q694521 The Junkers W 34 was a German-built, single-engine, passenger and transport aircraft. Developed in the 1920s, it was taken into service in 1926. The passenger version could take a pilot and five passengers. The aircraft was developed from the Junkers W 33. Further development led to the Junkers Ju 46. |
Q6682364 The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper employees and ... |
Q4679459 Adam Maxwell (born 24 October 1976) is an English author. He is best known for his crime novels for adults and chapter books for kids aged 6-12. |
Q4613544 The 2009 Cincinnati Bengals season was the 40th season for the team in the National Football League and their 42nd overall. They finished the season at 10–6–0, and sweeping the entire AFC North division, they improved on their 2008 record of 4–11–1, winning the AFC North Division and making the playoffs for th... |
Q6204029 JoAnna James is a soul, folk and blues, American musician from St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for her sultry whispers or gale-force wails, JoAnna James has been said to be born with "a voice guaranteed to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up" (Pulse of the Twin Cities). |
Q8779071 Oscar Freire is a station on Line 4-Yellow of the São Paulo Metro operated by ViaQuatro. Its opening was scheduled for 2017, same year of the opening of Higienópolis-Mackenzie station. After its opening date was delayed many times, on 31 March 2018, during opening cerimony of CPTM Line 13-Jade, Governor Gerald... |
Q7446926 Seisetsu Shōchō (Ch'ing-cho Cheng-ch'eng, 清拙正澄) (1274–1339) was a Chinese Buddhist missionary to Japan.A disciple of Ku-lin Ch'ing-mao of the Rinzai school, Seisetsu was an adherent of the gozan movement, which subsumed religious practices to secular authority.Seisetsu emigrated to Japan in 1326, with three d... |
Q2429975 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg was a music venue in Utrecht, Netherlands with a capacity of 5,000 people. It was designed by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. The venue hosted concerts by many famous artists, spanning many different genres. The old building (except the main hall) has been demolished and the city o... |
Q17199069 Radley is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, in the United States. |
Q2478968 René Vázquez Díaz is a Cuban-Swedish writer and translator, winner of the Radio France Internationale's Juan Rulfo Award 2007 for his novel Welcome to Miami Doctor Leal(Latin American Literary Review Press, Pittsburgh 2009). One of his most notable novels is The Island of Cundeamor. His latest published book i... |
Q25324735 Seok Cheol Yun or Yoon Suk-Chul (Korean: 윤석철; born April 10, 1985) is a Jazz Pianist and Composer from South Korea. He won first place at the Ulsan Jazz Festival in 2005 and won third place at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival competition in 2008. Beyond their award records, Yun appeared in various radi... |
Q39073439 Charles Cooke III (born July 1, 1994) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for both James Madison University and the University of Dayton. |
Q10792336 Megaphorus laphroides is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. |
Q379356 The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,092 km) route from Illinois to Utah that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail.The Mormon Trai... |
Q5080673 Charles Stowell "Father" Marriott (14 September 1895 – 13 October 1966) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. Marriott played between 1919 and 1938 and was considered one of the best leg-break and googly bowlers of the time. He went on to teach,... |
Q10062 Laura Kay Berg (born January 6, 1975) is an American college softball head coach of the Oregon State Beavers and former collegiate four-time All-American, left-handed softball player at the position of center fielder originally from Santa Fe Springs, California. She played for the Fresno State Bulldogs from 1994... |
Q476696 Si Mueang Mai (Thai: ศรีเมืองใหม่, pronounced [sǐː mɯ̄a̯ŋ màj]) is a district (Amphoe) in the northeastern part of Ubon Ratchathani Province, northeastern Thailand; it may also be spelled Sri Mueang Mai. |
Q5186265 Cristian Sebastián Tavio (born 22 September 1979, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football left back who plays for Platense in the Primera B Metropolitana. |
Q6382210 Ken Stephanson (born November 13, 1941) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played 106 games in the World Hockey Association for the Winnipeg Jets and Ottawa Nationals. |
Q7985266 West Grove is an unincorporated community in western Davis County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 2 west of the city of Bloomfield, the county seat of Davis County. Its elevation is 942 feet (287 m).West Grove's post office was established as the Weeping Willow post office on 21 June 1852 be... |
Q3106166 Gilles Constantinian (born October 27, 1964 in Lyon, France) is a former professional footballer. He played as a centre forward. |
Q5470558 Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219 (1988), was a case decided on by the United States Supreme Court. The case restricted judicial immunity in certain instances. |
Q7129448 Pams (previously Pam's) is a New Zealand company, owned by Foodstuffs, which also owns New World, Pak'n Save and Four Square. Pams sources and brands a wide range of supermarket goods as a house brand. |
Q7967926 Wangyuzhuang railway station is a station of Jingbao Railway in Hebei. |
Q3738826 Turbonilla mayana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
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