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Q2303753 Quaglietta is an Italian hamlet (frazione) situated in the municipality of Calabritto, Province of Avellino, Campania. As of 2011 its population was of 443. |
Q5220294 Daniel William Downes (born April 8, 1986) is a retired American mixed martial artist. Even after his retirement, Downes has still continued to stick around the sport of MMA. He became what some call a "fighter turned writer", as he now writes for various MMA media outlets, including MMAjunkie.com |
Q4626926 The 2012 Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks football team represented the University of Tennessee at Martin during the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Jason Simpson and played their home games at Graham Stadium. They are a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They fin... |
Q18123387 Ziapelta sanjuanensis is an extinct species of ankylosaurid from Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) formations in New Mexico. |
Q41625767 Kouachi (Arabic: كواشي) is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:Chérif Kouachi, mass murderer of Charlie Hebdo infamySaïd Kouachi, other mass murderer of Charlie Hebdo infamy |
Q22019660 Alex Young (7 October 1879 – 30 June 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q27662217 Eric Sessler is an American composer and educator. Among his collaborations are works written for Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux; Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutist Jeffrey Khaner; organist Alan Morrison; the Dover Quartet; and the flute & guitar duo of Bonita Boyd & Nicholas Goluses.Also a composer o... |
Q14743053 Leucotabanus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. There are at least 2 described species in Leucotabanus. |
Q1384324 Expeditors (Expeditors International of Washington) is an American worldwide logistics and freight forwarding company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. |
Q6385175 Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2... |
Q1346909 Thomas Mitchell Morris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris (died 1875), also a golfer, was his son. |
Q5970136 IDispatch is the interface that exposes the OLE Automation protocol. Extending IUnknown, it is one of the standard interfaces that can be exposed by COM objects. COM distinguishes between three interface types: custom that are VTABLE-based IUnknown interfaces, dispatch that are IDispatch interfaces supporting... |
Q617156 Apache Velocity is a Java-based template engine that provides a template language to reference objects defined in Java code. It aims to ensure clean separation between the presentation tier and business tiers in a Web application (the model–view–controller design pattern).Velocity is an open source software pro... |
Q4160243 Fran Jeffries (born Frances Ann Makris; May 18, 1937 – December 15, 2016) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. |
Q6602697 This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 429 of the United States Reports:United States v. Morrison, 429 U.S. 1 (1976) (per curiam)United States v. Rose, 429 U.S. 5 (1976) (per curiam)United States v. Dieter, 429 U.S. 6 (1976) (per curiam)United States v. Pomponio, 429 U.S. 10 (1... |
Q5721974 Henry H. Gilmore (August 31, 1832 – December 24, 1891) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served on the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Medford, Massachusetts and as the Mayor of The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Q16203430 Michael Harold Chapel is a former Gwinnett County Georgia police officer, who was convicted in the murder of fifty-three-year-old Emogene Thompson outside a muffler shop on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Sugar Hill, Georgia.On the evening of April 15, 1993, Thompson was shot in the head while she was seate... |
Q16209017 Gulsara Dadabayeva (Cyrillic Гулсара Дадабаева; born 4 July 1976) is a retired Tajikistani long-distance runner who competed primarily in the marathon. She represented her country at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as four World Championships. |
Q16197251 Barbara Smith Warner (born 1967) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. She serves in the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 45, which includes northeastern Portland, Maywood Park and Parkrose. |
Q15377566 Tabernaemontana sananho is a tropical tree species in the family Apocynaceae. Lobo sanango grows in the Amazon Basin of northern South America.In Amazonian traditional medicine, preparations of the leaves, pulp, bark, and latex are either applied topically or taken internally to treat various conditions. Extr... |
Q19716000 Dandepally is a village located in Wrangal-Urban district in the Indian state of Telangana. The village is adopted by honourable Vinod Kumar Boianapalli who is a Member of Parliament (MP) of Karimnagar. The progress works were started on 13 August 2017. |
Q1254306 Dießen Marienmünster Church is a Baroque style church in Dießen am Ammersee in the German district of Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria. |
Q24930178 Chandranagar is a village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, India. It is located in the Dahanu taluka. |
Q22115634 Simoun was a Bourrasque-class destroyer (torpilleur d'escadre) built for the French Navy during the 1920s. |
Q23041944 Callum Louis Chettle (born 28 August 1996) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Basford United.After leaving Nottingham Forest for Ilkeston at the age of 15, he moved up the divisions to join Nuneaton Town in July 2015, and then Peterborough United in January 2016. |
Q24007540 Amir Zoleykani (Persian: امیر زلیکانی; born August 19, 1989), also transliterated as Zoleikani, is an Iranian football Midfielder , who currently plays for Foolad in the Persian Gulf Pro League. |
Q25529555 On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot dead at close range by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The officers were attempting to control Sterling's arms, and Sterling was shot by them after reportedly reaching for the gun in his pocket. Police wer... |
Q29877687 Europe Ablaze is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Studies Group for the Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1985. It is based on air warfare of World War II. |
Q676252 Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robotics. In filmmaking and video game development, it refers to recordi... |
Q3817741 In Denmark, the Higher Technical Examination Programme (HTX, in Danish: Højere Teknisk Eksamen) is a 3-year vocationally oriented general upper secondary programme which builds on the 10th-11th form of the Folkeskole. It leads to the higher technical examination, the HTX-examination, which permits a student to... |
Q367932 Savage Circus is a German/Swedish power metal band originally created as a side project by Thomen Stauch before leaving Blind Guardian. |
Q320960 Ebingen is a town in the large district of Albstadt, district Zollernalbkreis, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Schmiecha, a left-hand tributary of the Danube, south of Tübingen and west of Ulm. |
Q6638525 The list of ship decommissionings in 1931 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1931. |
Q1938877 The spotted betta or Java fighting fish (Betta picta) is a species of gourami endemic to Indonesia where it inhabits relatively cool, 22‒25 °C (72‒75 °F), highland streams of Java and Sumatra.In 1967, D. S. Johnson reported the species to be common in blackwaters of southern Malaya.Of largely unremarkable Bett... |
Q7721670 The Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company was built to provide access to Barry Docks from collieries in the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore areas. Proposed by the coalowners but underwritten by the wealthy Barry Railway Company, it opened in 1897 from near Bridgend to Barry, in Wales.It immediately suffered a major subsid... |
Q4720622 Alexandra Deshorties (born 1975) is a French-Canadian soprano who sings principally opera. She was born in Canada and raised in Marseille, France, where she attended the Conservatory and "where she earned a gold medal/first prize for her performance in vocal juries." She continued her education at the Manhatt... |
Q3527389 The Thésée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley. |
Q5279154 Diodora quadriradiata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. |
Q6158259 In considering a Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia to block the expansion of European powers in Northern China and Korea, President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 talked informally with Japanese visitors to the White House and his Oyster Bay, Long Island estate. He suggested that just as his "Roosevelt Corollary" ... |
Q7855047 Turkey Creek is an unincorporated community in Stone County, Arkansas, United States. Turkey Creek is located on Arkansas Highway 9, 8.7 miles (14.0 km) southwest of Mountain View. The Turkey Creek School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Turkey Creek. |
Q16229192 Nick Jones (born June 26, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for Grizzlys Wolfsburg of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). |
Q13406621 Terpinolene synthase (EC 4.2.3.113, ag9, PmeTPS2, LaLIMS_RR) is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase (cyclizing, terpinolene-forming). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reactiongeranyl diphosphate ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }... |
Q16858002 Anne Mee, née Foldsone (1765–1851) was a prolific English miniature painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
Q1991810 The border between the modern states of Germany and Switzerland extends to 362 kilometres (225 mi), mostly following the High Rhine between Lake Constance and Basel.Much of the border is within the sphere of the Zurich metropolitan area and there is substantial traffic, both for commuting and for shopping acro... |
Q19893707 Mikki Norris (born July 18, 1952) is an American drug policy activist, former publisher, and author, known for her work highlighting the human cost of the US War on Drugs. She co-authored, with husband Chris Conrad and Virginia Resner, Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War and Human Rights and th... |
Q23302677 Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty is a base built around Jalalabad Airport. |
Q4491210 Vasily Yegorovich Flug (March 19, 1860 – December 9, 1955) was an Imperial Russian Army General of the Infantry. A career military officer, he served in the Boxer Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, before joining the White movement during the Russian Civil War. Like many other officers, he went in... |
Q149251 Pinsky Uyezd (Russian: Пинский уезд) was one of the counties of Minsk Governorate and the Governorate-General of Minsk of the Russian Empire and then of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic with its center in Pinsk from 1793 until its formal abolition in 1924 by Soviet authorities. |
Q742016 Ashford is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Connecticut Quiet Corner. The population was 4,317 at the 2010 census. It was founded in 1714. Eastford was a part of Ashford until 1847, when the former split off to organize its own town. For this reason North Ashford is locate... |
Q1758702 Stachys affinis, commonly called crosne, chinese artichoke, japanese artichoke, knotroot, or artichoke betony, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae, originating from China. Its rhizome is a root vegetable that can be eaten raw, pickled, dried or cooked. |
Q6507903 Le Volume Courbe (French for "The volume curve") is a band by French-born, London-based singer/songwriter, Charlotte Marionneau/Charlotte Courbe. "Le Volume Courbe" was a name of a sculpture by a friend of Marionneau's, Marcel Marionneau, a French sculptor living in the region of Vendée (France).In 2001, Le V... |
Q7957159 The WWC Puerto Rico Championship is the secondary professional wrestling championship that is defended in the World Wrestling Council based in Puerto Rico. The title was created in January 1974 and, as its name suggests, is defended exclusively within Puerto Rico. Overall, the title has been possessed by seven... |
Q7255111 Pseudomonas sRNA P16 is a ncRNA that was predicted using bioinformatic tools in the genome of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its expression verified by northern blot analysis. P16 sRNA appears to be conserved across several Pseudomonas species and is consistently located downstream of a ... |
Q864570 Sainte-Euphémie is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. |
Q3609390 Mariero Station (Norwegian: Mariero holdeplass) is a railway station located at Mariero in Stavanger, Norway. Located 4.13 kilometres (2.57 mi) from Stavanger Station, it is served by the Jæren Commuter Rail operated by the Norwegian State Railways by up to four hourly trains in each direction. The station is ... |
Q21510779 Rubashkin (Russian: Рубашкин) is a Russian Jewish surname (see Рубашка). Notable people with the surname include:Rubashkin family, a family of American Haredi Jews, headed byAaron Rubashkin, American founder and owner of the Agriprocessors meat company, and his sons:Moshe RubashkinSholom RubashkinSamuil Rubas... |
Q5210569 Dale Murray is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist for the indie rock band Cuff the Duke, and releases solo material under his own name. |
Q6607279 This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Los Angeles, California, United States, and surrounding neighborhoods and cities such as Hollywood, Vernon, Venice and Anaheim. |
Q6807750 "Meet Her at the Love Parade" is a song recorded by the German artist Da Hool. It was released in August 1997 as the lead single from the album, Here Comes Da Hool. The song had great success in many countries, particularly in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, where it reached the top 10. ... |
Q7457931 The Severn Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Maryland. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. |
Q332027 "Fastitocalon" is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien about a large sea turtle. The setting is explicitly Middle-earth. The poem is included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.The poem is a much-revised version of an earlier poem by Tolkien, also entitled Fastitocalon, published in the Stapeldon Magazine in 1927. The cen... |
Q7608380 Stephanie Roche (born 13 June 1989) is an Irish footballer who plays as a striker for the Italian club C.F. Florentia and the Republic of Ireland women's national football team. Her October 2013 goal in the Women's National League (WNL) for Peamount United was the runner-up for the 2014 FIFA Puskás Award for t... |
Q7791676 Thomas Lamb Farm, also known as "Brick House Farm", is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to the second quarterof the 18th-century, and is a two-story, three-bay, single pile brick dwelling. It has a hall-and-parlor plan. Attached is a 1 1/2-story, three-bay brick kitche... |
Q17403044 Nikki Snel (born August 13, 1993) is a Belgian female acrobatic gymnast. With partner Eline de Smedt, Snel achieved gold in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. |
Q208721 1996 PW is an exceptionally eccentric trans-Neptunian object and damocloid on an orbit typical of long-period comets but one that showed no sign of cometary activity around the time it was discovered. The unusual object measures approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and has a rotation period of 35.4... |
Q23041946 George Albert Holmes was an English professional football outside left who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest and Chesterfield Town, in the Scottish League for Heart of Midlothian and in the Southern League for Coventry City. He was a member of the Nottingham Forest squad which toured Argenti... |
Q2193748 Eulimnichus californicus is a species of minute marsh-loving beetle in the family Limnichidae. It is found in North America. |
Q2118898 Suharivka is a Ukrainian village in the Narodychi Raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast (province). |
Q274176 The death of Bridget Driscoll (c. 1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom. As 44-year-old Driscoll, with her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy, crossed Dolphin Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace ... |
Q2778415 The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein’s theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational wave astronomy. The Institute was founded in 19... |
Q3948986 Santa Cruz Michapa is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department of El Salvador with a population of 12,225 (2001). It celebrates the Fiesta de la Santa Cruz every May 3. |
Q6119474 Jacob Worm Skjelderup (3 December 1804 – 2 September 1863) was Norwegian state secretary from 1859 to 1863, appointed Minister of the Navy in 1860, and temporary councillor of state in 1861. |
Q4633776 The 2nd Marine Logistics Group (2nd MLG) is a logistics unit of the United States Marine Corps and is headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. 2nd MLG was formerly known as 2nd Force Service Support Group (FSSG), reorganized with its sister FSSGs into Marine Logistics Groups in 2005. Th... |
Q5079766 Charles Kenyon (November 2, 1880 – June 27, 1961) was an American screenwriter, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 114 films between 1915 and 1946. He was married to actress Jane Winton from 1927 to 1930. Kenyon was born in San Francisco, California and died in Hollywood, California. |
Q7381871 Russell Williams (born 14 April 1961) is an English former professional road and track cyclist from London. Williams is also a cycling coach and David Duffield's co-commentator on Eurosport. |
Q16191349 Vicky Theresine is a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles. A teacher by profession, she is a member of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front, and was first elected to the Assembly on a proportional basis in 2007. |
Q4729760 All That the Rain Promises, and More... is a wild mushroom identification and field guide by American mycologist David Arora and published in 1991 by Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, California. The book includes detailed descriptions of more than 200 edible and poisonous mushroom species, as well as recipes, stor... |
Q6390539 Kenneth Walter North (May 29, 1930 – September 21, 2010) was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force as well as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. After his release, he commanded various units and was eventually promoted to general in 1982. |
Q5912947 Houghton Down is a hamlet in the civil parish of Houghton in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Stockbridge, which lies approximately 1.4 miles (2.6 km) east from the hamlet. |
Q6377385 Katie is an American talk show that aired in syndication from September 10, 2012 to July 30, 2014. It was hosted by former ABC News correspondent and current Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric. It premiered on September 10, 2012, with the second season debut on September 9, 2013. On December 19, 2013, Disney–ABC D... |
Q7353486 Robsart is a ghost town in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, which is located west of the Lincoln National Forest on Highway 54, north of the town of Carrizozo.Robsart is served by the Southern Pacific Railway; little remains of Robsart but the Robsart Siding.Robsart may have been named by the Souther... |
Q5446196 Ffaldybrenin is a village in Llanycrwys community formed around the parish church in Carmarthenshire, Wales. In the late 19th century Church and State separated but the same area is now represented as a local authority by the Ffaldybrenin Community Council and the church by the parochial church council.It was ... |
Q15983488 The System is a 2014 Pakistani Urdu-language action drama film, directed by Norway-based Shahzad Ghufoor, produced by Ghafoor Butt of Leos Productions (Norway). Nadeem Baig, Shafqat Cheema, Irfan Khoosat, and Nayyar Ejaz play the lead roles.The film is set in a neighbourhood in Lahore and telescopes out from ... |
Q17146162 The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album gives broad coverage to the music of Central Europe and the music of Eastern Europe, focusing on traditional styles. Five of the fifteen... |
Q17309073 Giuseppe Zucca (1887–1959) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote twenty six screenplays during his career, including the 1949 adventure film William Tell. |
Q10493646 Faktiskt is a 2006 studio album by Orup. |
Q25350055 The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Luxembourg with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 10 occurred on 11 July with a mountain stage to Superbagnères. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July, with ... |
Q30593378 Basti railway station is a main railway station in Basti district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is BST. It serves Basti city. The station consists of four platforms.It is an important railway station of North Eastern Railway Zone.The main line connecting Lucknow with Gorakhpur and places in Bihar and Assam in the ... |
Q3477068 Lakeview is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 5,615 at the 2010 census. |
Q5168888 KSV (Dutch: Katholieke Studenten Vereniging, English: Catholic Student Society) Sanctus Virgilius (also known as Virgiel) is the largest student fraternity/sorority in Delft, named after the Irish born astronomer, geometer and bishop Saint Virgil. There are about 2000 student members (mostly students at TU Del... |
Q546959 Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé (4 November 1769 – 2 December 1833) was a French poet. |
Q14693009 Providence Academy is a private, co-ed, Catholic college-preparatory school (PreK-12) at 15100 Schmidt Lake Road, Plymouth, Minnesota. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. |
Q4122243 Juan Manuel Urtubey (born September 6, 1969) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and current governor of Salta Province. Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and chairman of both the Constitutio... |
Q14982023 John Walters (1721–1797) was a Welsh cleric from Glamorgan in the eighteenth century. He wrote a couple manifestos, including A Dissertation on the Welsh Language (1770), in which he praised the Welsh language. He was a noted lexicographer, publishing An English–Welsh Dictionary in fifteen parts (1770 to 179... |
Q3444768 Zoran Đinđić, the sixth Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, was assassinated at 12:23 p.m. Central European Time on Wednesday, March 12, 2003, in Belgrade, Serbia. Đinđić was fatally shot by a sniper while exiting his vehicle outside of the back entrance of the Serbian government headquarters. |
Q2190231 Lortet’s barbel (Barbus lorteti) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae.It is only found in the lower course of Orontes River in Syria and Turkey., the main lower cases of the river were poisoned and nearly dried in 1989 and changed the lake from being abundant to completely fishless. Aside ... |
Q11360043 Kazusa-Azuma Station (上総東駅, Kazusa-Azuma-eki) is a railway station operated by the Isumi Railway Company's Isumi Line, located in Isumi, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 5.2 kilometers from the eastern terminus of the Izumi Line at Ōhara. |
Q4905144 Big Blue Bubble, Inc. is an independent Canadian developer, and publisher of mobile video games headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, with an office in San Francisco, California. The company is best known for the My Singing Monsters mobile game franchise. |
Q15485995 Mervyn C. Oliver MBE (3 March 1886 – 10 December 1958) was a twentieth century British calligrapher and silversmith taught by Edward Johnston and an early Craft Member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators (SSI). He is most renowned for his work on the Stalingrad Sword as well as the designing of several... |
Q877587 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tumaco (Latin: Tumacoënsis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Popayán, in southwestern Colombia.Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral San Andrés, dedicated to Saint Andrew, in the city of Tumaco, Nariño Department. |
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