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Q19757564 Oksana Saprykina (Original name Оксана Саприкіна; born 18 January 1979) is a road cyclist from Ukraine. She represented her nation at the 2000 Summer Olympics. |
Q29426754 Iler may refer to:Iler, Algeria, a town in AlgeriaIler, Ohio, a community in the United States |
Q23020881 Jack Shelley (1 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q10262627 Cycas javana is a species of cycad in Indonesia. It is found primarily in Java, as well as southern Sumatra and possibly the western Sunda Islands. |
Q6594876 Camassia leichtlinii, commonly known as great camas or large camas, is a perennial herb. It is native to western North America in British Columbia in Canada and the United States, in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. |
Q23212 The Evoluon is a conference centre and former science museum erected by the electronics and electrical company Philips at Eindhoven in the Netherlands in 1966. Since its construction, it has become a landmark and a symbol for the city.The building is unique due to its very futuristic design, resembling a landed ... |
Q498675 Pickens County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 29,431. The county seat is Jasper.Pickens County is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
Q3139634 Homebase is the fourth studio album released by hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The album was released on July 23, 1991, reaching #12 on the Billboard 200 charts and #5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart. It received generally favorable reviews from critics. The album was certified Platinum and ... |
Q1426693 Jared Michael Rushton (born March 3, 1974) is an American musician and former actor. He is best known for his roles in several films from the late 1980s, including Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Big, and Overboard. He has been nominated for two Saturn Awards and two Young Artist Awards. He is also known for his rol... |
Q5214814 Dana Rayne (born March 5, 1981 on Long Island, New York) is an American dance and Pop singer. Rayne was a success on the American club scene where she started off as a DJ in New York. This led to her releasing a song, "Object of My Desire" which was a eurotrance cover of Starpoint's popular dance tune in the m... |
Q7378453 Rugby union in Russia is a moderately popular sport. Russia is ranked 18th worldwide by the World Rugby, having over three hundred clubs and close to 22,000 players nationally. Russia has a professional domestic competition. |
Q5612887 Grønnebakkan is part of the town of Harstad within Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the city centre, just south of Gangsåsbotn, west of Kanebogen, east of Harstadbotn, and southeast of Seljestad.Development there started during the late 1970s on a large ... |
Q459474 Widya Saputra (full name: Widyaningrum Surya Nugraha; born 26 February 1985 in Cimahi, Indonesia) is an Indonesian TV presenter. Since 2006, she is perhaps best known as the presenter of MotoGP World Championship in Trans 7. As of April 2010, she is a Metro TV presenter for the sport news program, MetroSport. |
Q11833726 Rakowo [raˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wyszogród, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.The village is laid out in an east-west line, between the Vistula River (to the south) and the Zakroczym-Płock road (to the north). It is west of the village of D... |
Q4983278 Buckland is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire.Buckland, then known as Bocheland, was one of the three settlements on Portsea Island mentioned in the Domesday Book. The Manor of Bocheland was purchased by Jean de Gisors. De Gisors, a Norman lord who then founded Por... |
Q4682566 Adhurst (also known as Adhurst St Mary) is a hamlet in Hampshire, United Kingdom. The settlement is within the civil parish of Steep, and is located approximately 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north-east of Petersfield. Lothian Bonham-Carter of the Bonham Carter family was born in the hamlet in 1858. |
Q4204090 Ismailov, İsmayılov or Ismaylov (Russian: Исмаилов) is a masculine surname common in the former Soviet countries, its feminine counterpart is Ismailova, İsmayılova or Ismaylova. It may refer to: |
Q6064080 Iosu Iglesias Otxandategi (born 15 December 1976 in Bilbao, Biscay) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back. |
Q1415376 Francesco Rier, also known as Franco Rier (born December 2, 1908 in Rovereto; died in 1991) was an Italian professional football player. |
Q6156215 The Janzen–Connell hypothesis is a widely accepted explanation for the maintenance of tree species biodiversity in tropical rainforests. It was published independently in the early 1970s by Daniel Janzen and Joseph Connell. According to their hypothesis, host-specific herbivores, pathogens, or other natural e... |
Q21079206 Daniel (Danny) Dolev is an Israeli computer scientist known for his research in cryptography and distributed computing. He holds the Berthold Badler Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the scientific council of the European Research Council. |
Q12062574 This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, Texas.This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Texas. There are five properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property... |
Q17071143 Chinar Kharkar and Mahesh Ogale, popularly known as Chinar-Mahesh, are music composers who are popular for their work in Marathi film industry |
Q21188930 The 1920 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1920 college football season. The Aggies were led by first year head coach Ross Swartz, and completed the season with a record of 1–6–1. |
Q7903664 Uvas Falls is located in Uvas Canyon County Park, near Morgan Hill, California. Nearby falls include, Basin Falls, Black Rock Falls, Triple Falls, Upper Falls and Granuja Falls. |
Q593307 The 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake occurred at 14:19:56 local time on 5 December with a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock occurred along the East African Rift, an active continental rift zone in East Africa that is characterized by normal faulting, and initiated... |
Q4659631 A Snow White Christmas is a Christmas animated television special produced by Filmation and telecast December 19, 1980, on CBS. It is a sequel to the fairy tale "Snow White", unrelated to Filmation's other sequel to "Snow White" titled Happily Ever After (1990).The film's plot revolves around the return of the... |
Q13644934 Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton is a rural community on the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, south Wales. It comprises the villages of Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton. Together they share a community council.The community is bordered by Rhossili and Port Eynon to the south, Llanrhidian Lower and Reynoldston... |
Q724764 This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Ashanti, an American pop, and R&B singer. As of March 2014, she has released five studio albums, twenty-four singles, and twenty-one music videos on her record labels Murder Inc., Def Jam, and Motown.Ashanti's self-titled debut studio album was released in... |
Q7319370 The Rexburg Idaho Temple is the 125th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Announced in late 2003, the temple was dedicated on February 10, 2008 and was the first temple dedicated by Thomas S. Monson as the church's new president. The Rexburg Idaho Temple was the th... |
Q4879154 Bedford Senior High School is a small public high school located in Bedford, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Bedford Area School District. |
Q6326955 KCMC (740 AM) is a radio station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States. It serves the Texarkana area. The station is currently owned by Texarkana Radio Center. Studios are located on Olive Street, just west of the border with Arkansas, and the transmitter is west of Texarkana city limits in the town of N... |
Q2744237 Rudolph Theodorus Baron van Pallandt van Eerde (28 November 1868 – 15 March 1913) was a Dutch sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born in Oldebroek and died in London, Great Britain.In 1908 he finished fourth with the Dutch team in the team trap shooting event. |
Q16253185 How to Survive Summer Camp (ISBN 978-0-19-272704-6) is a novel written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Sue Heap. It was first published in 1985. It features a ten-year-old girl at summer camp. |
Q6314211 JUNO Healthcare Staffing[1] is a placement service for local and foreign healthcare professionals on a full time, travel and per diem assignments to client facilities across the United States. It was founded in 2001 by Dante Raul Teodoro in response to the nursing shortage and rising need for healthcare profe... |
Q5044073 Carnival is a 1931 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and produced by his British & Dominions Film Corporation, starring Matheson Lang, Joseph Schildkraut, Kay Hammond and Chili Bouchier. During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adul... |
Q5387975 Ericameria gilmanii is a rare North American species of flowering plants in the aster family known by the common names Gilman's ericameria, Gilman's goldenbush, Gilman goldenweed, and whiteflower goldenbush. It is endemic to California, where it has been found in and east of the southern Sierra Nevada, in Inyo... |
Q6509599 Sarchil (Persian: سرچيل, also Romanized as Sarchīl; also known as Sarchīl Jalābī and Sarchīl Jallābī) is a village in Qaleh Qazi Rural District, Qaleh Qazi District, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 145, in 32 families. |
Q16066156 Lemuel Shattuck (15 October 1793, Ashby, Massachusetts – 17 January 1859, Boston, Massachusetts) was a Boston politician, historian, bookseller and publisher. |
Q12055015 Circling: 1978-1987 (Krugovanje) is a 1993 poetry collection by the Serbian-American poet Dejan Stojanović (1959). It contains 56 poems in six sequences: "Recircling," "Light Bugs," "A Conversations with Atoms," "A Grain," "A Warden with no Keys," and "Darkness Is Waiting." Sequence, "A Grain," was added to t... |
Q5949439 Dash Akol (in Persian: داش آکُل) is a 1971 Iranian drama film directed by Masoud Kimiai. It was adopted from a short story of the same name written by Sadegh Hedayat in his short story collection, Three Drops of Blood. |
Q18015334 The Ostend Pirates are an American football team based in Ostend. The Pirates are currently members of the Flemish American Football League (FAFL) conference in the Belgian Football League (BFL). |
Q38201864 Arthur C. Fatt (1905-1999) was an American advertising executive at the Grey Advertising Agency. |
Q39082391 Anna Parkina (born 1979) is a Russian artist who lives and works in Moscow. She uses collage as her key artistic method but also works in a variety of media, including performance, sculpture and video. |
Q26944 The Société des Automobiles Alpine SAS, commonly known as Alpine (French pronunciation: [alpin(ə)]), is a French manufacturer of racing and sports cars established in 1955. The Alpine car marque was created in 1954. Jean Rédélé, the founder of Alpine, was originally a Dieppe garage proprietor who began to achie... |
Q6603129 The University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni number is around 243,628 worldwide. |
Q5693009 Hearts in Armor is the second studio album by country singer Trisha Yearwood. Four of its tracks found spots in the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1992 and 1993: "Wrong Side of Memphis" rose to No. 5, "Walkaway Joe" to No. 2, "You Say You Will" to No. 12, and "Down on My Knees" to No. 19. The album ros... |
Q4768654 Anne Walsh Mitchell (born May 26, 1950) is an American educator. She is a consultant in the early childhood education field and President of Early Childhood Policy Research in Climax, New York, and is the immediate past president of the Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Sh... |
Q5097034 The Chief of Navy is the most senior appointment in the Royal Australian Navy, responsible to the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) and the Secretary of Defence. The rank associated with the position is vice admiral (3-star).Vice Admiral Michael Noonan is the current chief of navy; he assumed the position on 0... |
Q705283 Alexander Alexandrovich Efimkin (Russian: Александр Александрович Ефимкин, born 2 December 1981 in Kuybyshev) is a director sportiff for Russian Professional cycling team RusVelo, prior to that a Russian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Team Novo Nordisk. His twin brother is... |
Q4898602 The Nieuport Nighthawk was a British fighter aircraft developed by the Nieuport & General Aircraft company for the Royal Air Force towards the end of the First World War. Although ordered into production before the aircraft first flew, it did not enter large scale service with the RAF owing to unreliable engin... |
Q2012425 Head Against the Wall (French: La Tête contre les murs) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju which stars Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimée, and Charles Aznavour. Called The Keepers on its English release, the story follows an aimless young man who is institutional... |
Q2196129 The 1921 Cleveland Indians season was their second in the National Football League. The team improved on their previous record of 2–4–2, winning three games. They finished eleventh in the league. |
Q5479308 Francesco Coppini or Francesco dei Coppini (born before 1415 in Prato, died as Ignatius on 29 September 1464 in Rome) was an Italian prelate. |
Q3013638 Patella ferruginea, commonly known as the ribbed Mediterranean limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets. It is a large limpet, native to the western Mediterranean Sea, and although common in the past, it is now ra... |
Q4945452 Borislav Gyulemetov (Bulgarian: Борислав Гюлеметов) (born 21 April 1985) is a Bulgarian association footballer who is currently playing as a defender for Bulgarian club Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo. |
Q16838734 Henry Georgen (January 28, 1787 – July 3, 1815) was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Bedford in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1815.He was born in Kingston, Quebec (now Ontario), the son of Christopher Georgen, of German descent, and Phebe Right, of United E... |
Q4923253 HBO Hits is a multiplex channel of HBO in Asia featuring Hollywood blockbuster movies, regardless of genre. HBO Asia and Eros International launched HBO Hits and HBO Defined in India on 21 February 2010. However, the channel was rebranded as HBO HD in India in September 2016. |
Q6891027 Mohamed Amine Aouamri (born February 18, 1983, in Algiers) is an Algerian footballer. He currently played for MC Oran in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. |
Q7491127 Shavur (Persian: شاوور) may refer to:Rashg-e ShavurSadd-e ShavurShavur DistrictShavur Rural District |
Q5109758 Christian Ogochukwu Ibeagha (born January 10, 1990) is a Nigerian-born American soccer player who currently plays for Oklahoma City Energy FC in the United Soccer League. |
Q15148635 The following is a list of Malayalam films released in 1964. |
Q4988468 Coloconger eximia is an eel in the family Colocongridae (worm eels/short-tail eels). It was described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1967, originally under the genus Ascomana. It is a marine, deep-water dwelling eel which is known from Cape Peninsula, South Africa, in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean.C. eximia h... |
Q11931732 Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 28 November 1954, alongside national elections. All 103 seats in the National Council were won by the National Front. |
Q3424312 Casualty lifting is the first step of casualty movement, an early aspect of emergency medical care. It is the procedure used to put the casualty (the patient) on a stretcher.Developed emergency services use lifting devices, such as scoop stretchers, that allow secured lifting with minimal personnel. Other meth... |
Q2604898 Mengomeyén is a town located in the province of Wele-Nzas, on Rio Muni, mainland Equatorial Guinea.The town is located near what is planned to be the country's future capital, Ciudad de la Paz, and is also site of President Obiang Nguema International Airport. |
Q6349733 Kakusthavarma (435–455) was a ruler of the Kadamba Dynasty of Banavasi in Southern India during the 5th century. Under his rule, the dynasty attained the height of its greatness. Talagunda and Halmidi inscriptions praise him as a formidable Kadamba warrior. He was able to maintain a good relationship with the... |
Q4738239 Alvin Townley (born 1975) is an American author who writes about adventure, service, and inspiration. His most recent book, Defiant, about prisoners of war and POW families during the Vietnam era, is his fourth nationally acclaimed work.He debuted with his best-selling book Legacy of Honor: The Values and Inf... |
Q4908725 Şəkərli (also, Shekerli and Shakirly) is a village and municipality in the Salyan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,204. |
Q1348822 Robert Comrie Turner, (6 June 1920 – 26 January 2012) was a Canadian composer, radio producer, and music educator. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from McGill University in 1943. While there he studied with Douglas Clarke and Claude Champagne. He continued his studies briefly at Colorado Colleg... |
Q1004663 Bulnes is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is 56.35 km2 (21.76 sq mi) in size with a population of 34 (INE 2011). |
Q2795736 Pagasi is a village in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, in western Estonia. |
Q7567895 The South Maitland Railways 10 Class locomotives is a class of 14 2-8-2T steam locomotives built for the East Greta Coal Company (later South Maitland Railway) by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester, England, between 1911 and 1925. Members of this class of locomotive were the last steam locomotives in com... |
Q704481 The 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident (or the Minjinyu 5179 incident) occurred on the morning of September 7, 2010, when a Chinese trawler, Minjinyu 5179, operating in disputed waters collided with Japanese Coast Guard's patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands. There were several Japanese Coast Guard (often a... |
Q2963429 Chiddingstone Hoath is a hamlet in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Notable buildings include Hoath House, and Stonewall Park, for some time home of the Meade-Waldo family.It was visited by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1910. |
Q1274864 The 2007–08 Women's EHF Cup was the 27th edition of the competition, running from 31 August 2007 to 24 May 2008. Dynamo Volgograd followed the steps of the previous edition's champion Zvezda Zvenigorod as the second Russian club to win the competition, beating SD Itxako in the final. |
Q4676129 Acrolophus trichosoma is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It is found in South America. |
Q2596137 Shiroki FC Serena (シロキFCセレーナ) was a women's football team which played in Division 1 of Japan's Nadeshiko League. It founded the league back in 1993. |
Q13448229 Justine Ok is a Korean-American artist and songwriter (signed to Sony/ATV Publishing). Her most well-known work to date as a songwriter is the Korean pop song “Good Boy” by Baek Ji-young ft. Yong Jun-hyung of B2ST, which hit Billboard #4 upon release and stayed in the top 10 for over 6 weeks.Justine Ok is the... |
Q17274834 La señora del intendente (The mayor's wife) is a 1967 Argentine comedy film directed by Armando Bó and starring Isabel Sarli and Pepe Arias. The film had a sequel "Una Viuda descocada" (1980), which was Bó last film. |
Q3729633 This is a list of episodes for the third season (1977–78) of the NBC television series Quincy, M.E..Jack Klugman ended this season two episodes early due to exhaustion. NBC complied and dropped the additional two episodes so Klugman could rest up and return for the fourth season. |
Q19843142 The 2015–16 season was Morecambe's ninth consecutive season in League Two, the fourth tier of English football.They began the season on 8 August 2015, with the opening match of their League Two campaign. They also competed in three cup competitions, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the League Trophy.They were e... |
Q24893837 Beesons is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. |
Q2398946 Arlette Fortin (1949 – August 11, 2009) was a writer in Quebec, Canada.The daughter of René Fortin and Mariette Huot, she was born in Jonquière. Her first novel C'est la faute au bonheur received the Prix Robert-Cliche. It was followed by La vie est une virgule in 2007 and Clara Tremblay chesseldéenne (2010). ... |
Q1253897 Dr. Feelgood are an English pub rock band formed in 1971. Hailing from Canvey Island, Essex, the group are best known for early singles such as "She Does It Right", "Roxette", "Back in the Night" and "Milk and Alcohol". The group's original distinctively British R&B sound was centred on Wilko Johnson's choppy ... |
Q2348608 Environmental geology, like hydrogeology, is an applied science concerned with the practical application of the principles of geology in the solving of environmental problems. It is a multidisciplinary field that is closely related to engineering geology and, to a lesser extent, to environmental geography. Eac... |
Q1257317 The National Awakening Party (Indonesian: Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa), frequently abbreviated to PKB, is an Islam-based political party in Indonesia.The party was founded in 1999, by the traditionalist strand of Muslim society in Indonesia, which overlaps with the membership of Nahdlatul Ulama. The party is des... |
Q2455103 Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut studio album by American rock band Matchbox 20, released in 1996. The album features a sound similar to traditional rock sound and post-grunge. The album features themes of adolescence, loneliness, psychological abuse, humiliation, depression, anger, and alcoholism. Th... |
Q7833462 tranquility is a nonviolent musical platform game created in 1991 for Macintosh and Windows computers by musician William A. Romanowski. The game features generative algorithms that determine music and level layout based on the player's actions. For this reason, and due to its use of generated ambient music, t... |
Q3966488 Spellsinger (1983) is a fantasy novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the first in the Spellsinger series. |
Q16846061 A vehicle breakdown is the mechanical failure of a motor vehicle in such a way that the underlying problem prevents the vehicle from being operated at all, or impedes the vehicle's operation so much, that it is very difficult, nearly impossible, or else dangerous to operate. Vehicle breakdowns can occur for a... |
Q6383721 Keiland Terrell Williams (born August 14, 1986) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2010. He played college football at Louisiana State University.He also played for the Detroit Lions. |
Q62822 Otto Warburg (20 July 1859 – 10 January 1938), was a German-Jewish botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert, and president of the Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1921. |
Q7095093 Onur Acar (born 1 January 1983) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kartalspor in the TFF Second League. |
Q4753992 In mathematics, Anderson's theorem is a result in real analysis and geometry which says that the integral of an integrable, symmetric, unimodal, non-negative function f over an n-dimensional convex body K does not decrease if K is translated inwards towards the origin. This is a natural statement, since the gr... |
Q4769109 Annette Polly Williams (January 10, 1937 – November 9, 2014) was an American counselor, clerical worker and politician from Milwaukee who served 10 terms as a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing her assembly district from her election in 1980 until January 3, 2011. |
Q6277675 Jorge Arango (29 November 1917 – 21 October 2007) was a Colombian-born US architect.Arango was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and educated in Chile, Colombia and at Harvard. Arango was invited to come to America by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the U.S. State Department.He was co-founder of the Arango ... |
Q5425122 FC Reading Revolution was an American soccer team based in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 2009, the team played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northeast Keystone Division.The team played its hom... |
Q3035918 Vučija (Serbian Cyrillic: Вучија) is a village in the municipality of Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Q7998102 Wichenstein Castle is a castle in the municipality of Oberriet of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. |
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