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Q15635954 Climate fiction, popularly abbreviated as cli-fi (modelled after the assonance of "sci-fi"), is literature that deals with climate change and global warming. Not necessarily speculative in nature, works of cli-fi may take place in the world as we know it or in the near future. University courses on literature... |
Q16987623 Pedobacter africanus is a species of heparinase-producing bacteria. |
Q25208679 Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (海賊とよばれた男) is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki. It is based on the 2012 novel of same name (in Japanese) by Naoki Hyakuta. It was released in Japan on December 10, 2016. |
Q11775805 Mary Berger may refer to:Mary Odilia Berger (1823 – 1880), German-American religious leader, founded Sisters of St. MaryMary Berger (speed skater) (born 1946), American speed skater |
Q29452869 Mooi Choo Chuah from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to wireless network system and protocol design. |
Q280582 The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. The working title was Lion of Sparta. It stars Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas, Sir Ralph Richardson as ... |
Q7607050 Stella D'oro is a brand of cookies and breadsticks owned by Snyder's-Lance. Stella D'oro means "star of gold" in Italian, and the cookies are inspired by Italian baking. Its products include breadsticks, Swiss Fudge and other cookies, biscotti, and their S-shaped breakfast treats.The Stella D'oro Biscuit Compa... |
Q3655703 Canterbury Fayre 2001 is a 2001 live album by Hawkwind. |
Q7028070 Nicholas Metson Ullett (born 5 March 1941) is a British-born American actor. For a number of years, he was part of a comedy duo with Tony Hendra. |
Q3624590 Arturo Salah Cassani (born 4 December 1949) is a Chilean former footballer and manager. Since January 2016 he is the president of Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. |
Q7384575 Ryan Paul Taylor (born 4 May 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Plymouth Argyle. |
Q594204 Hamed Afagh Eslamieh (Persian: حامد آفاق اسلامیه, born February 1, 1983) is a professional Iranian basketball player who plays for Shahrdari Arak of the Iranian Super League and also for the Iranian national basketball team. He is 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) in height.He is an exceptional 3-point shooter. |
Q5168467 Copenhagen Distortion is a celebration of "Copenhagen Street Life and New Dance Music". With an estimated 100,000 guests per day, it is one of the largest annual gatherings in Europe. The Distortion week starts with 20-40 street parties in the Nørrebro and Vesterbro districts - with an "anything goes" music pr... |
Q6255902 John Edmund Rudderham was a Major League Baseball player. He played one game for the Union Association's Boston Reds in 1884, going 1-for-4 at the plate while making errors in each of his two chances in left field. |
Q4977113 Parzyn [ˈpaʐɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Brusy, 32 km (20 mi) north of Chojnice, and 79 km (49 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.For detail... |
Q1199947 Wusheng County (simplified Chinese: 武胜县; traditional Chinese: 武勝縣; pinyin: Wǔshèng Xiàn) is a county of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the south. It is locates in the southwest of the prefecture-level city of Guang'an and is its westernmost county-level division. |
Q733070 Cornelis van der Aa (Leiden, 22 October 1749 - Amsterdam, 1816), was a bookseller in Haarlem when he was convicted in 1796 by the schepenen of the city to five years imprisonment and consecutive perpetual exile from the department Holland for political reasons as a follower of the stadtholders. At the end of 17... |
Q7667956 t.A.T.u: The Video Collection is a DVD collection from Russian Pop Duo t.A.T.u.. The DVD was only released in Russia in 2003 that contains their music videos from their first two albums. The DVD contains the hits All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us. However, 30 Minutes and How Soon Is Now was not rele... |
Q7722800 The Chronicle, also known as the Two Rivers Chronicle, was a weekly newspaper published in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, from 1872 to 1927. From 1872 to 1899 it was called the Manitowoc County Chronicle, changing its name in 1899 to simply The Chronicle. In 1927 it merged with the rival Two Rivers R... |
Q7336895 The Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City began as a hotel on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and renowned for its luxurious decor and famous guests. It was used as an apartment hotel beginning in 1969, and then purchased in 1978 intending to develop it as a hote... |
Q7569934 SFC, also known as Southern Fried Chicken, is a British-based fast food outlet. It operates a franchise network in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Southern Fried Chicken and its products can be found in over 700 locations, across over 79 countries. |
Q1149533 Droga krajowa nr 58 (translates from Polish as national road 58) – route belonging to Polish national roads network. It runs through Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeships, leading from junction with expressway S51 in Olsztynek through Szczytno, Ruciane-Nida, Pisz and Biała Piska to Szczuczyn where ends o... |
Q16198246 Geoff Dougherty is a Chicago journalist noted for founding two local news organizations, and for his work as a computer-assisted/quantitative journalist. |
Q17199152 The Venerable William Pearson LL.D (10 August 1662 - 6 February 1715) was Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1690 to 1715.He was the son of Rev John Pearson, Rector of Great Orton, Cumberland.He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford graduating MA in 1688.In 1689 he was appointed to the Prebend of Ampleford in Yo... |
Q19576567 The 1923 South Australian Football League season was the 44th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. |
Q680342 List of airports by IATA code: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - ZSee also: List of airports by ICAO code |
Q6075373 Is It ... Man Or Astroman? was the first album released by the surf rock group Man or Astro-man?. First pressing was on clear blue vinyl; all subsequent pressings were on black vinyl. In deference to "vinyl junkies", the vinyl release sports two additional tracks. "Illudium Q-36" references the Chuck Jones ch... |
Q250983 Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba; 1725–1788) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language. |
Q6197964 Jim Sandral (born 19 February 1933) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Sandral, who didn't start playing football until the age of 16, was a member of Melbourne's 1956 premiership team. Only a reserve in Melbourne's semi-final win, Sandr... |
Q567367 Annual Review of Plant Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews Inc. It was first published in 1950 as Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology. The editor-in-chief is Sabeeha Merchant (University of California). |
Q7587402 St. Catharine, also known as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House, is a historic house near Waldorf, Maryland. It is a two-part frame farmhouse with a two-story, three-bay side-passage main house with a smaller two-story, two-bay wing. It features a one-story hip-roofed porch across the facade added in 1928. It was at thi... |
Q853639 Matti Heikki Ilmari Morottaja or Kuobž-Saammâl Matti, (b. December 28, 1942 in Sammuttijärvi, Finland) is an Inari Sámi author, teacher and member of the Sami Parliament of Finland, serving as president for six years. He has served as president of the Inari Sámi Language Association since its foundation. His so... |
Q5923028 Hoà Bình (listen) is a rural commune (xã) and village of the Chợ Mới District of An Giang Province, Vietnam. |
Q6817729 The 1991 Menzies by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Menzies in Victoria on 11 May 1991. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting member, the former deputy Liberal Party leader Neil Brown.The Australian Labor Party did not field a candidate. The by-election was won by th... |
Q7589838 St. Lukes Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 6th and Chestnut Streets in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.It was built in 1880, and the cornerstone of the church was laid on St. Luke's Day, October 18, 1879 by Bishop Howe. It was designed by noted New York architect Henry Martyn C... |
Q7287727 Ralph Pachalo Jooma is a Malawian politician. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Health in Malawi. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Monkey Bay constituency in the Mangochi District under a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) seat.He was also chairman of the parliamentary committee on budg... |
Q2837900 Leopold "Poldark" Socha (August 28, 1909 – May 12, 1946) was a Polish sewage inspector in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). During the Holocaust Socha used his knowledge of the city's sewage system to shelter a group of Jews from Nazi Germans and their supporters of different nationalities. In 1978 he was ... |
Q7797380 Three Chopt is a neighborhood in western Richmond, Virginia that is located at the southern terminus of the famous Three Notch'd Road, which in itself serves as a main artery for the community. Located in the West End of the city, the neighborhood is directly to the east of the University of Richmond campus an... |
Q17003212 Fort Ellis was a British fort or blockhouse built during the French and Indian War, located at the junction of the Shubenacadie and Stewiacke Rivers, close to Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada. (The location was labelled Ville Pierre Hebert by Charles Morris. The 14 Acadian families in the area vacated with the... |
Q16239947 Pamela Tom is a 5th generation Chinese American producer, director, and screenwriter. Her films often use the theme of Orientalism and feminism. |
Q18637903 Odomsith Singlatsomboun (born 10 May 1989) is a Laotian professional footballer who plays as a defender for SHB Champasak F.C. in the Lao League. |
Q19461782 Flowerdale is a former locality in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2. It is located approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) southwest of the Village of Youngstown and 113 kilometres (70 mi) north of the City of Brooks. The settlement consisted of a post office, general store, and a sod house. Flo... |
Q387087 Anicetus is a parasitic wasp genus in the subfamily Encyrtinae. |
Q26924558 Eduardo Menezes (born 1 May 1980) is a Brazilian Olympic show jumping rider. He participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he finished 5th in the team jumping and 28th in the individual jumping competitions.Menezes competed at the 2015 Pan American Games, finishing in 4th place ... |
Q11781792 Mirosław Graf (born 5 June 1959) is a Polish former ski jumper, inventor of V-style. |
Q1019180 Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England. The A39 road provides access from the towns of Barnstaple, Bideford and Bude. It lies at the south end of Northam Burrows and faces westward into Bideford Bay, opposite Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows. There is an electoral ward with the sam... |
Q3525676 Thomas Woolston (baptised November 1668 – 27 January 1733) was an English theologian. Although he was often classed as a deist, his biographer William H. Trapnell regards him as an Anglican who held unorthodox theological views. |
Q1051238 Sagan Tosu (サガン鳥栖, Sagan Tosu) is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Tosu, Saga Prefecture.Sagan is a coined word with a couple of meanings behind it. One of its homophones is sandstone (砂岩, sagan) in Japanese. This symbolises many small elements u... |
Q2721648 Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; Arabic: محمد بكري, Hebrew: מוחמד בכרי) is an Israeli-Arab Palestinian actor and film director. |
Q1752647 First-seeded Maureen Connolly defeated Ginette Bucaille 6–4, 6–1 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1954 French Championships. |
Q6397534 Kevin St. Jarre (born July 26, 1968, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American author, journalist and educator. His novels in the Night Stalkers series written under the pen name Michael Hawke center on the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. St.Jarre is also a published poet and writes ... |
Q4659094 A Question of Honor is a 1915 American short silent film directed by B. Reeves Eason. |
Q3496462 The Kawasaki P-2J (originally P2V-Kai) was a Maritime patrol and ASW aircraft developed for the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. A turboprop-powered version of the radial-engined P-2 Neptune, the P-2J was developed as an alternative to buying the larger and more expensive P-3 Orion, which would eventually re... |
Q8037974 The men's freestyle 97 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 28 to 30. The competition held with an elimination system of three or four wrestlers in each pool, with the winners qualify for the quarterfinals, semifi... |
Q1660402 Imprivata is an IT security company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2002, Imprivata develops and sells the OneSign Platform for securing employee access to desktops, networks and applications using a single sign-on.In 2017, Imprivata had over 1,700 clients and several offices across America, Eur... |
Q3346557 The commune of Nyabihanga is a commune of Mwaro Province in central Burundi. The capital lies at Nyabihanga. |
Q5546900 Georges Arthur Surdez (1900–1949) was a writer of adventure stories. He was born in Bienne, Switzerland, of French descent. He first visited America at the age of thirteen, and went to school in New York. He invented the term "Russian Roulette" in a story of the same name published in Collier's magazine.He was... |
Q16000624 The following radio station broadcasts on AM frequency 189 kHz: |
Q5935530 Jorge Madrazo Cuéllar is the former Attorney General of Mexico. He served under the government of Ernesto Zedillo.As of 2011 he directs the radio station KDNA in the United States. |
Q20715307 Black Minnaloushe (foaled 5 February 1998) is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Bred in Kentucky, he was sold as a yearling and sent to Ireland to race for the Irish-based Coolmore Stud organisation. After winning both his races as a juvenile, he was initially disappointing in the early part o... |
Q21015765 Ivory Ella is an online clothing store affiliated with Save the Elephants, an organization specializing in wildlife conservation of elephants. Ivory Ella sells clothing and accessories, donating a portion of the proceeds to the nonprofit organization. Named after Ella, an elephant in Amboseli National Park, t... |
Q22077925 Alex Chu (born August 12, 1992), better known as Xpecial, is an American League of Legends player who is the support for Phoenix 1 of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). He was most previously the support player for Team Dignitas of the NA LCS. He has also played for various tea... |
Q27979007 Andrea Stark, FRSA, (born August 1962) is a British arts executive. She was chief executive of High House Purfleet, director of the Foundation for Future London, the organisation responsible for developing the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a new cultural and educational district and is currently Director of... |
Q30240962 Enrico Bettera (born 13 July 1971) is an Italian racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series and Italian Touring Car Championship. Having previously competed in the Eurocup Mégane Trophy, Touring Car Endurance Series and Renault Clio Cup Italia amongst others. |
Q2125968 De Smedt is a Dutch occupational surname. It is East and West Flemish for "the smith". De Smedt is common in East Flanders, while the agglutinated form Desmedt is primarily used in West Flanders. People with this name include:Bill DeSmedt (born 1943), American science fiction authorCharles De Smedt (1833–191... |
Q2578761 William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres. |
Q649230 Ephraim Paine (August 19, 1730 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut – August 10, 1785 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York) was an American physician and politician from New York. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1784. |
Q6330387 KHTV-CD virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 22) is a digital Class A television station in Los Angeles, California, owned by Venture Technologies Group. The station transmits from the Mt. Harvard Radio Site in the San Gabriel mountains. Its city of license is Los Angeles. |
Q5590679 Grab-Its are microwave-safe cookware easily identifiable by their tab handle. They were introduced by Corning Glass Works in 1977, under the Corning Ware brand and are now sold in a slightly different form by Corelle Brands. Grab-Its are notable as being among the first cookware specifically designed for micro... |
Q1492853 Gama Bomb is a thrash metal band based in Northern Ireland. Their 2009 album Tales from the Grave in Space was one of the first albums ever released as a completely free download while signed to a record label. |
Q343300 Actinidia deliciosa, the fuzzy kiwifruit, is a fruiting vine native to southern China, the fruit of which has been declared the national fruit of that country. Other species of Actinidia are also found in China and range east to Japan and north into southern areas of Russian Far East. This species grows natura... |
Q6523762 Leo Geoghegan (16 May 1936 - 2 March 2015) was a former Australian racing driver. He was the elder of two sons of former New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, both of whom become dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s. While his younger brother Ian "Pete" Geoghegan had much of his success ... |
Q828185 The front crawl or forward crawl, also known as the Australian crawl or American crawl, is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes. As such, the front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle swimming competition, and hence freestyle is used metonymi... |
Q7758849 The Pyralis Effect is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In it, Lalla Ward reprises her role as Romana.The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star vo... |
Q3609614 Aleksite is a rare lead bismuth tellurium sulfosalt mineral with formula PbBi2Te2S2. |
Q7178415 The Petite Suite is a suite of seven piano pieces, written by Alexander Borodin, and acknowledged as his major work for the piano. It was published in 1885, although some of the pieces had been written as far back as the late 1870s. After Borodin's death, Alexander Glazunov orchestrated the work, and added h... |
Q3720328 Clavosurcula sibogae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. |
Q3722495 Gemmula fenestrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. |
Q2921137 Poltavka (Russian: Полтавка) is a village in the Jayyl District of Chuy Region of Kyrgyzstan established by migrants from Poltavshchyna of Ukraine in 1908. Its population was 4,143 in 2009. It is the center of Poltavka aiyl okmotu (rural community). Bishkek - Osh road passes through the settlement. Population ... |
Q4652642 The American International Consortium of Academic Libraries (AMICAL) is an association of 29 American-style universities located in 22 countries. It was founded in 2004 by the American University of Paris, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
Q7371813 Rowan Quentin Smith (8 August 1943 – 23 May 2018) was a Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. |
Q14826831 Abbey Records was a record label active in the United States from roughly 1949 until 1953. |
Q28431478 Macrocoma leprieuri majuscula is a subspecies of Macrocoma leprieuri, a species of leaf beetle. It is found in Egypt, and was described by Jan Bechyné in 1957. It is larger in size than the nominal form of the species, measuring between 4.5 and 6 mm. |
Q29641552 The College of Science at the University of Utah is an academic college of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy. |
Q34817491 Haji Bakr Al-Qahtani (born 6 November 1964) is a Saudi Arabian sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics. |
Q234451 Himiko or Pimiko (卑弥呼, c. 170–248 CE) was a shamaness-queen of Yamatai-koku in Wakoku (倭国). Early Chinese dynastic histories chronicle tributary relations between Queen Himiko and the Cao Wei Kingdom (220–265), and record that the Yayoi period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kin... |
Q5267742 Devon Meadows is a town in Victoria, Australia, 50 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Casey. At the 2016 Census, Devon Meadows had a population of 1,548.Devon Meadows Post Office opened on 21 March 1915, and closed in 1941.Devon Meadows contains a p... |
Q10578101 This is a list of media serving the Omaha metropolitan area in Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. |
Q5420783 Territorial changes of Russia happened by means of military conquest and by ideological and political unions in the course of over five centuries (1533 – present). |
Q5524256 Garrya congdonii, the chaparral silktassel or Congdon silktassel, a fairly common evergreen shrub native to the northern California Coast Ranges, is one of a small biological family of approximately twenty known species in the family Garryaceae, most of which are Garrya. While the female and male sexual organs... |
Q392225 Šolta (pronounced [ʃɔ̂ːlta]; Italian: Solta; Latin: Solentium) is an island in Croatia. It is situated in the Adriatic Sea in the central Dalmatian archipelago, west of the island of Brač, south of Split (separated by Split Channel) and east of the Drvenik islands, Drvenik Mali and Drvenik Veli (separated by th... |
Q5865766 The history of Ohio Wesleyan University began with discussions of a college in Ohio in 1821 when the Ohio Methodist Conference in connection with the Kentucky Conference had established Augusta, the first Methodist institution of higher learning in the United States. But Augusta was an obscure village, quite i... |
Q7821265 Toni Golem (Croatian pronunciation: [tôni ɡǒlem, tôː-]; born 14 January 1982) is a retired Croatian footballer who played as center/right back on defence. He is currently the manager of NK Lučko. |
Q65933 Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (28 September 1636 – 6 August 1689), was Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg by marriage to Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Electress of Brandenburg by marriage to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, the "Great Elector". |
Q7664288 Szczenurze-Kolonia [ʂt͡ʂɛˈnuʐɛ kɔˈlɔɲa] (German: Kolonie Schönehr) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wicko, within Lębork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Wicko, 21 km (13 mi) north of Lębork, and 76 km (47 mi) north-west ... |
Q2582536 The Cidade das Artes (City of Arts) is a cultural complex located in Barra da Tijuca in the Southwest Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was originally planned to open in 2004, with the name of City of Music (Cidade da Música). The formal inauguration was in January 2013, with the musical, "Rock in Rio".The... |
Q3371924 Paul Noël Lasseran (1868 - 17 February 1933) was a French painter, decorator and poet from Lectoure. He is best known for his murals and decor in various churches throughout Gers. These include Chapelle des Carmélites, Lectoure (1889), Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Goutz (1901–1903), Église Saint... |
Q15434361 Henry Hexham (1585?–1650?) was an English military writer. |
Q7964004 Charles Walter "Walt" Kuhn (February 2, 1887 – June 14, 1935), known also as "Red" Kuhn, was a professional baseball player. During his playing career, Kuhn, a catcher, played three seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Chicago White Sox (1912–14). Over those three years, he compiled a batting averag... |
Q5538782 George Edward Rody (1899 - September 13, 1956) was the team captain and leading scorer of the 1921–22 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, which is recognized as the first national championship basketball team at the University of Kansas. He later served as head basketball and baseball coach at Oklahoma A&M ... |
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