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Q5369452 Puente Nuevo Reservoir is a reservoir in Villaviciosa de Córdoba, province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. |
Q1076798 The women's 78 kg category in judo at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 28 July and 2 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.The gold and silver medals were determined by a single-elimination tournament, with the winner of the final taking gold and the loser receiving silver. Judo events award... |
Q7574324 Speakers' Corner is an area located within Hong Lim Park, Singapore, where citizens and permanent residents of Singapore may demonstrate, hold exhibitions and performances, and speak freely on most topics after prior registration on a government website. Such activities are heavily restricted in other parts of... |
Q3524127 Thierry Bacconnier (2 October 1963 in Paris–1 January 2007) was a French footballer who played in the position of left fullback. His father was a professional player in the 1960s.Born in Mornas, he initially played for Bollène and Sporting Club d'Orange, before joining Paris SG in 1980. Thierry played his firs... |
Q4573091 The 1968 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder during the 1968 college football season. This Colorado squad featured 18 sophomores on the two-deep depth chart and endured an up-and-down season, including the second straight win over Oklahoma in Boulder but also the ... |
Q12659740 Karolis Petrukonis (born May 18, 1987) is a professional Lithuanian basketball player for PGE Turów of the Polish Basketball League. He plays the power forward and center positions. |
Q17593526 Grivac is a village in the municipality of Knić, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 371 inhabitants. |
Q751572 March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies. According to its website, "We believe that every baby deserves the best possible start. Unfortunately, not all babies get one. We are changing that."The organization was founded by President Franklin... |
Q2478017 Seven and the Ragged Tiger is the third studio album by English new wave band Duran Duran. It was released on 21 November 1983 by EMI. It was the band's first and only number one album on the UK Albums Chart, and would prove to be the last studio album for the band's most famous line-up until 2004's Astronaut.... |
Q7758026 "The Preacher and the Slave" is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. It was written as a parody of the hymn "In the Sweet By-and-By". The Industrial Workers of the World (commonly known as the Wobblies) concentrated much of its labor trying to organize migrant workers in lumber and construction camps. When the ... |
Q5538655 George Duggan (August 1812 – June 14, 1876) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West.He was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1812 and moved to Upper Canada with his parents. He studied law at York (Toronto) and was called to the bar in 1837. In 1840, he formed a law firm with his brother John. He... |
Q7998946 Wielding a Red Sword is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the fourth of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. |
Q5489637 Marion Merrell Dow and its predecessor Marion Laboratories was a U.S. pharmaceutical company based in Kansas City, Missouri from 1950 until 1996.The company specialized in bringing to market drugs that had been discovered but unmarketed by other companies including Cardizem which treats arrhythmias and high bl... |
Q2123500 Gocław [ˈɡɔt͡swaf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pilawa, within Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Pilawa, 14 km (9 mi) north-west of Garwolin, and 45 km (28 mi) south-east of Warsaw.The village has a populati... |
Q5626126 Góra [ˈɡura] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wejherowo, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Wejherowo and 45 km (28 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.For details of the history of the region, se... |
Q6406181 Kijura is a town in Kabarole District, in the Western Region of Uganda. |
Q7962619 Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, now the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at 69 Wall Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It is a large Gothic Revival style brick and limestone structure built in 1788, and renovated in the 1887. ... |
Q5888558 Guillermo Franco (February 8, 1811 in Guayaquil – March 1873 in Callao, Peru) was an Ecuadorian general.From a young age, Franco was interested in becoming a military man. He could not participate in the Revolution of October 9, 1820 due to his young age, but soon thereafter enrolled at the Nautical School fou... |
Q6787617 Matiu Te Auripo Te Hau (1912 – 1978) was a notable New Zealand teacher, educationalist and community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Whakatohea iwi. He was born in Omarumutu, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in 1912, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 Ne... |
Q16972377 The 1997 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University during the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. They participated as members of the Big 12 Conference in the North Division. The team was coached by head coach Da... |
Q21003986 Henry Wharton was an English soldier known for his service in the Williamite War in Ireland, where he died in 1689. He was a distant relation of his namesake the writer Henry Wharton. |
Q21592185 Sir Leslie Kenneth Edward Boreham (19 October 1918 – 2 May 2004) was an English barrister and judge. He presided over two high-profile court cases, of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe (1981) and Brighton bomber Patrick Magee (1986).Boreham was born in Higham, Suffolk, and educated at Bungay Grammar Schoo... |
Q27998984 A forpet, lippie or lippy was a Scottish unit of dry measure equal to a quarter or fourth-part of a peck. A lippie was so called because a leap was a traditional name for a basket in Scotland. |
Q26837817 Fisayo Mubarak Adarabioyo (born 1 February 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker. |
Q28043212 George Edgar Horton (born January 14, 1910, date of death missing) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1962 to 1978 as member of the Progressive Conservative party. |
Q3803518 The Women's Doubles Tournament at the 2007 İstanbul Cup took place between 21 and 26 May on outdoor clay courts in İstanbul, Turkey. Agnieszka and Urszula Radwańska won the title, defeating Chan Yung-jan and Sania Mirza in the final. |
Q10515192 Several ships of the Swedish Navy have been named HSwMS Tirfing, named after Tyrfing, a magic sword in Norse mythology:HSwMS Tirfing (1866) was a John Ericsson-class monitor launched in 1866 and decommissioned in 1922HSwMS Tirfing (P166) was a Hugin-class patrol boat launched in 1981 and sold in 2008 |
Q3367104 Genesis of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the twelfth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Terry Nation and directed by David Maloney, and originally broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1975 on BBC1.In the serial, the alien time traveller ... |
Q1344633 Enterohepatic circulation refers to the circulation of biliary acids, bilirubin, drugs or other substances from the liver to the bile, followed by entry into the small intestine, absorption by the enterocyte and transport back to the liver. Enterohepatic circulation is an especially important concept in the fi... |
Q7082346 The Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling team is a NCAA Division I wrestling program and is one of four full-member Big 12 Conference schools that participates in wrestling, along with eight Big 12 wrestling affiliate schools. Since the team's first season in 1914–15, it has won 34 team national championships (th... |
Q6504669 Lawrence Township is one of the seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 13,382 people in the township, 8,321 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. |
Q6496980 Latrobe Cricket Club (LCC) is a cricket team which represents Latrobe in the North Western Tasmanian Cricket Association grade cricket competition, in the Australian state of Tasmania. |
Q526873 Alexander Anatolevich Volkov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Волков; born March 29, 1964), commonly known as Sasha Volkov, is a retired Soviet-Ukraine professional basketball player of Russian ethnicity. He was born in Omsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. At 6'10" (2.08 m) tall, he ... |
Q6219965 John B. Guthrie (July 28, 1807 – August 17, 1885), a Democrat, was twice elected Mayor of Pittsburgh and served from 1851 to 1853. |
Q2777287 Bikur Cholim Hospital (Hebrew: בית החולים ביקור חולים) is a 200-bed general hospital in Jerusalem, Israel established in the 19th century. It is the oldest hospital in the country.Bikur Cholim is known for its obstetrics and cardiac departments. The hospital also operates a modern neonatal intensive care unit... |
Q6456633 Luigi Scinti Roger (15 January 1885 – 10 February 1964) was an Italian composer, who emigrated to New York in 1910, and composed music mainly for Italian immigrants in United States.Sometimes known as Louis Roger, he was a talented organist, pianist and orchestra leader. He played in several theaters in Unit... |
Q30315396 Naren is a given name in various cultures.In Inner Mongolia, Naren is a Chinese transcription of the Mongolian word naran (наран), meaning "sun".People with this name include:Naren Tamhane (1931–2002), Indian cricketerNaren Ray (1940–2003), Bengali Indian cartoonistNaren Bakshi (born 1943), Indian-born Americ... |
Q5565021 Swami Shri Mahamandaleshwar Santosh Puri Gita Bharatiji, is a guru who was born in Delhi, India in 1944. She was the disciple of Shri 108 Mahamandaleshwar Swami Shri Hariharanand Ji Maharaj since the age of three. She showed remarkable talents at a young age, delivering discourses on the [Bhagavad Gita] at the... |
Q4010146 Penn & Teller Tell a Lie is a six-part series starring Penn Jillette and Teller. Each episode contains six or seven stories, including a demonstration performed by the hosts during the recording of the show as the last story. One of the stories is falsified, and the rest are true. During each broadcast, viewe... |
Q5114785 Chrysocrambus linetella is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. |
Q5112280 Christopher Erb (born June 19, 1972) was the Vice President of Brand Marketing at EA SPORTS and the Executive Vice President of Brand Marketing at Legendary Pictures. Erb is currently the Managing Partner of tripleclix. |
Q15007952 "Finders Keepers" is the first episode of the twelfth season and the 211th overall episode of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It aired on Fox in the United States and Canada on September 29, 2013, and is written by Anthony Blasucci and Mike Desilets and directed by John Holmquist. In the episode, Peter... |
Q17021737 The Predator Becomes the Prey Is the third studio album and the follow up to the self-released The Predator EP by American metalcore band Ice Nine Kills. This is their first and only album released after signing with Outerloop Records; a Fearless Records and Outerloop Management collaborative effort, formed N... |
Q21285177 Mamadou Gueye (born 15 March 1986) is a Senegalese athlete competing in the long jump and triple jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 African Games. |
Q21751042 Charlotte Buell Coman (1833 – November 11, 1924) was an American painter. |
Q28128404 The inaugural West of England mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of the West of England metropolitan area. The area is made up of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Subsequent elections will be held every four years. The election was won by Conservative Ti... |
Q15888458 Kamil Brabenec (born 4 February 1951) is a retired Czech professional basketball player. At 6'4" (1.93 m) tall, he was a small forward. He is considered to be one of the best Czech basketball players of all time. |
Q903045 The plain antvireo (Dysithamnus mentalis) is a passerine bird species in the antbird family (Thamnophilidae), wherein it belongs to the antshrike subfamily (Thamnophilinae). It is a resident breeder in tropical Central and South America. |
Q2859793 The Achaemenid Empire was the first Persian empire, founded in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great. This article contains the Achaemenid family tree. |
Q6408465 Kim Chernin (born May 7, 1940 in Bronx, New York) is an American fiction and nonfiction writer, feminist, poet, and memoirist. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry. |
Q28056503 Rheobates palmatus is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae. It is the type species of genus Rheobates erected in 2006. Its common name is palm rocket frog. It is endemic to Colombia. It is considered to be part of a species complex. |
Q7949385 WFMD is a News/Talk/Sports-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Frederick, Maryland, serving the Frederick/Hagerstown area. WFMD is owned and operated by Connoisseur Media. |
Q5643817 Ham is a post-war suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,294.It is named after the 17th century Ham House, home of the Trelawney family. It is about 4 miles north of the present city centre and has suffered from its proximity to the once n... |
Q5245142 Dead Corps, subtitled Dead Corpse, is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1998 by Helix, a short-lived imprint of American company DC Comics. Written by Christopher Hinz and illustrated by Steve Pugh, the story is set in a near-future earth where medical technology has opened the possibility for ... |
Q7614157 Stephen Richards "Steve" Towle (born October 23, 1953 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 6th round of the 1975 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kansas. |
Q6257522 John Sheahan (born 1972) is an Australian born field hockey coach, who is a graduate of Tenri University where the majority of the men's and women's national team graduated. Sheahan has two master's degrees in sports science and has been coaching the men's and women's university teams since graduating himself.... |
Q6426185 Koi Jeeta Koi Haara (lit. One wins, one loses) is a 1976 Bollywood film directed by Samir Ganguly. |
Q8082965 Żabiak [ˈʐabjak] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Namysłów, within Namysłów County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Namysłów and 50 km (31 mi) north-west of the regional capital Opole. |
Q8051467 Yelena Arshintseva (born April 5, 1971) is a retired female race walker from Russia, who competed for her native country in the early 1990s. |
Q1456609 The Treaty of Gerstungen (German: Frieden von Gerstungen) was concluded on 2 February 1074 in Gerstungen Castle on the River Werra in what is now Germany. It required King Henry IV to restore Duke Otto of Northeim to the Duchy of Bavaria. In 1073 the latter had successfully headed the rebellion of the Saxons. ... |
Q17082651 Tolombeh-ye Abuzer (Persian: تلمبه ابوذر, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Ābūẕer) is a village in Posht Rud Rural District, in the Central District of Narmashir County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 133, in 34 families. |
Q14513092 Jason Chao Teng Hei (Chinese: 周庭希; pinyin: Zhōu Tíngxī; born December 12, 1986) was born in Macau. Chao is a voluntary social activist and LGBT rights campaigner. He was President of the New Macau Association and Director of the satirical newspaper Macau Concealer. He co-founded activist organisation Macau C... |
Q1023582 The Cape Government Railways Type C 0-4-0T Midget of 1902 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.In 1902, the Cape Government Railways placed a single 0-4-0 narrow gauge tank steam locomotive in service on the Avontuur branch. In 1912, this locomotive was assimilat... |
Q18637335 Paloma Fabrykant (born (1981-12-07)December 7, 1981) is an Argentine female mixed martial artist and journalist, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Q21527588 Dangerous Holiday is a 1937 American drama film written and directed by Nicholas T. Barrows. The film stars Ronald Sinclair, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Hedda Hopper, Jack La Rue, Jed Prouty and Lynne Roberts. The film was released on June 7, 1937, by Republic Pictures. |
Q24909222 The Îlot Pasteur is a building on the western edge of Monaco under construction since 2016. It will be home to a new middle school, a post office, a recycling center, a data center, an underground carpark, etc. |
Q25495243 My Father's House Hebrew: בית אבי is a 1947 British Mandatory Palestine-American drama film directed by Herbert Kline, with a script by Jewish-American novelist and journalist Meyer Levin. Kline and Levin produced the film. The cinematography is by Floyd Crosby. The film was an official selection of the 195... |
Q176125 Gideon () or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived i... |
Q729763 The 2004 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 91st edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Arm... |
Q6502639 Laverton railway station is located on Werribee line, in the western Melbourne suburb of Laverton. It opened on 1 July 1886.At the up end of the station, the tracks diverge. Express Flinders Street trains take the direct double track route to Newport station,while all-stations Altona trains run on the single t... |
Q1615263 Duke of Berry (French: Duc de Berry) or Duchess of Berry (French: Duchesse de Berry) was a title in the Peerage of France that was created several times for junior members of the French royal family. It was frequently granted to women, members of the royal family or married into it. The last official holder wa... |
Q16193395 Dr. Tihomir Kamenov (Bulgarian: Тихомир Каменов) is a Bulgarian jurist, the founder of the CL BioPharma Group. |
Q1425082 Air Force is a 1943 American World War II aviation film from Warner Bros., produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was one of the first of the p... |
Q2568847 The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants (Czech: Republikánská strana zemědělského a malorolnického lidu, Slovak: Republikánska strana zemedelského a maloroľníckeho ľudu, RSZML) was a centre-right agrarian party of Czechoslovakia, seen as representing big business and agriculture. In the period up to 1935 ... |
Q7256534 Psychotronic Video was a film magazine originally started by publisher/editor Michael J. Weldon in 1980 in New York City as a hand-written and photocopied weekly fanzine entitled Psychotronic TV. It was then relaunched by Weldon under its more commonly known name as an offset quarterly in 1989. Both versions ... |
Q4687366 The Răchita River is a tributary of the Bașeu River in Romania. |
Q633858 Lassing is a municipality in the district of Liezen, Styria, Austria.On July 17, 1998 a local mine collapsed. One man survived but ten others perished. |
Q5228236 David Frank Andrews (born 20 May 1951) is an Australian Christian anarchist author, speaker, social activist, community worker, and a founder of the Waiters' Union, an inner city Christian community network working with Aboriginals, refugees and people with disabilities in Brisbane, Australia. In India at the ... |
Q7761629 "The Routine" is the pilot and first episode of the HBO prison drama television series Oz. Written by Tom Fontana and directed by Darnell Martin, it aired originally on July 12, 1997. |
Q3831847 A liturgical book, or service book, is a book published by the authority of a church body that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its official religious services. |
Q3646976 The Pointe Allobrogia is a mountain of the Mont Blanc massif, overlooking the Col Ferret on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It lies at the southern end of the range south-east of Mont Dolent. |
Q7599329 Stanisławów [staniˈswavuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Odrzywół, within Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. The village administration is taken care of by the officially appointed Zbiegniew Kwasniak |
Q7542135 Slowcoaster is a Canadian indie rock band from Sydney, Nova Scotia.The band's sound is essentially rock-based, with strong influences of reggae, ska, folk and jazz, combined with pop hooks and improvisation. |
Q7200475 Plagiobothrys nothofulvus is a species of flowering plant in the boraginaceae family known by the common names rusty popcornflower and foothill snowdrops. It is native to western North America from Washington, and California, to northern Mexico. It is a spring wildflower in grassy meadows, woodlands, coastal ... |
Q1973459 Thijs Frederiks, better known by his stage name Brutus, (born in Amsterdam on 23 April 1983) is a Dutch rapper originating from Diemen, Netherlands. Alongside his older brother Lange Frans and rapper-singer better known as Baas B was a founding member of D-Men and the band's manager. Brutus had important recor... |
Q18391027 Ron Carruthers is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).He is the son of 1940s Collingwood player Ron H. Carruthers. |
Q19871706 Alexander Burgess (October 31, 1819 – October 8, 1901) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy. He was a graduate of Brown University and the General Theological Seminary, New York. Burgess was ordained to the diaconate on November 3, 1842, and to the priesthood on November 1, 1843; he was con... |
Q706776 Gyeon Singeom (r. 935–936) was the second and final king of Hubaekje, one of the Later Three Kingdoms of Korea. He came to the throne after conspiring with his two brothers, Yanggeom and Yonggeom, to overthrow their father Gyeon Hwon and kill the anointed heir, their younger half-brother Geumgang.The brothers ... |
Q1665546 Langley is a lunar impact crater that is located close to the northwestern limb of the Moon, and from the Earth is viewed edge-on. It is located in the gap between the crater Galvani, which lies across the southeastern rim, and Volta along the northeastern rim. Just to the northwest is Stokes.The rim of Langle... |
Q8100590 HAŠK Mladost (Mladost - lit. "Youth") is an academic sports society from Zagreb, Croatia, sponsored by the University of Zagreb.Clubs named Mladost exist in athletics, field hockey, judo, basketball, bowling on ice and asphalt, fencing, volleyball, swimming, rugby, synchronised swimming, skiing, ice-hockey, ic... |
Q5574603 Go4It was a British children's magazine programme broadcast on Sunday evenings at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4, and one of the few speech-based shows on British national radio aimed at younger listeners. It was broadcast between 2001 and 2009. |
Q3021150 Deepa Sahi is an Indian actress and producer from an Army background, who is best known for her role as Maya in the 1992 movie Maya Memsaab, opposite actor Shah Rukh Khan. She made her directorial debut with the movie Tere Mere Phere in 2011. |
Q5176485 The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) is a consortium of 29 public colleges and universities in 27 states and one Canadian province. Established in 1987, COPLAC advances the aims of its member institutions and drives awareness of the value of public liberal arts education in a student-centered, ... |
Q5499801 Free Dirt is the first full-length album by Australian alternative rock band Died Pretty, released in 1986. The album was repackaged in 2008 by Aztec Music with a second CD containing seven singles and six live recordings from 1986. |
Q5069894 Champagne and Orchids is an American variety show broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The network series ran from September 6, 1948, to January 10, 1949. Champagne and Orchids was a variety show hosted by Adrienne Meyerberg, billed simply as 'Adrienne', who sang in English, French, and Span... |
Q3351956 Follow the Sun is an American adventure and drama series which ran for thirty episodes on the ABC television network from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962. |
Q6563693 A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 1970. |
Q4884672 Belsey may refer to:Bill BelseyIan BelseyBelsey family in On Beauty |
Q6419355 Kjell Eide (15 September 1925 – 29 October 2011) was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Ås, a son of Erling Eide, and was an economist by profession. From 1960 to 1961 he was a secretary for Per Kleppe in the Kleppe Committee. He worked for OECD from 1961 to 1964 and was a deputy under-secretary of state... |
Q5809434 Kateh Talkh (Persian: كته تلخ) is a village in Roqicheh Rural District, Kadkan District, Torbat-e Heydarieh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 108, in 36 families. |
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