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Q5202618 César Ramírez (American Spanish: [ˈsesaɾ raˈmiɾes]; born January 25, 1990) nicknamed "el Tiburón" ("the Shark"), is a tennis player from Mexico. He played for the Mexican Davis Cup squad in 2012. |
Q6824261 Metopocoilus picticornis is a species of beetle in the Cerambycidae family. It was described by Melzer in 1923. |
Q5406426 Leuggelbach railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It takes its name from the nearby village of Leuggelbach. The station is situated on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and served by the hourly Zürich S-Bahn service S25 between Zurich and Lintha... |
Q3619817 Antonio Marceglia (28 July 1915, Pirano – 13 July 1992, Venice) was a captain in the Naval Engineers during World War II. A municipal swimming pool at 245 via Sandro Gallo in Lido di Venezia is named after him. |
Q466103 The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk.It posits a Victorian era Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor... |
Q566555 Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German ambient/jazz band from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. |
Q1117213 "Life Is a Flower" is a song by Ace of Base, released as their first single from their 1998 album Flowers. The song was released in the US with different lyrics, titled "Whenever You're Near Me", and in a different key. It peaked at number 1 in Hungary and within top 10 in Denmark, Finland, Italy, Scotland, Sp... |
Q6598721 This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada from the appointment of Bora Laskin in 1973 as Chief Justice to his death in office in 1984. Laskin was the first Chief Justice to hear cases under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms implemented in 1982. |
Q7384934 The Rydzyna Castle [rɨˈd͡zɨna] was built at the beginning of the 15th century by Jan of Czernina. At the end of the 17th century, Italian architects Joseph Simon Bellotti and Pompeo Ferrari erected the present Baroque castle on its ancient foundations. The first owners of the castle were the Leszczyński family... |
Q1518850 Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre in Wembley Park, Wembley, London, England. |
Q4407251 The 1996 San Diego Padres season was the 28th season in franchise history. |
Q7257688 The Public and Railway Officers Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. |
Q7071623 Nərimankənd (also, Narimankend) is a village and municipality in the Gobustan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,358. Nariman is a name of Persian origin (Persian: نریمان Narīmān), and Persian word کند kand or kend means village. |
Q4852386 The Balmoral Grist Mill Museum is a restored 1874 water powered grist mill located in Balmoral Mills, Nova Scotia. The site includes a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) walking trail along the ravine of Balmoral Brook. The mill is part of the Nova Scotia Museum system. It could be used to grind wheat, oats, and buckwheat ... |
Q136225 Erysiphe alphitoides is a species of fungus which causes powdery mildew on oak trees. |
Q7180343 Phallus paintings in Bhutan are esoteric symbols, which have their origins in the Chimi Lhakhang monastery near Punakha, the former capital of Bhutan. The village monastery was built in honour of Lama Drukpa Kunley who lived in the 15-16th century and who was popularly known as the "Mad Saint" (nyönpa) or “Div... |
Q7139488 Parornix cotoneasterella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.The larvae feed on Cotoneaster avellana and Cotoneaster hissarica. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant. |
Q4697128 Aime Kiwakana Kiala (born Emmanuel Kiala), was a soukous recording artist, composer and vocalist, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the soukous band TPOK Jazz, led by François Luambo Makiadi, which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s. |
Q6438820 Kroksjön is a small lake southwest of the city Skellefteå. There is a sawmill and a couple of holiday cottages around the lake. The last couple of years more and more people are starting to live there all year round. · |
Q429232 Spritzkuchen is a German fried pastry, similar to doughnuts. |
Q5836071 Kahnab (Persian: كهناب, also Romanized as Kahnāb; also known as Geyanī, Gīānū, Gīnū, Jīānū, and Kayno) is a village in Bonab Rural District, in the Central District of Zanjan County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 65, in 21 families. |
Q17011910 I Don't Want To Be With Nobody But You was the third single from Australian group, Absent Friends, taken from the group's debut album Here's Looking Up Your Address. The single was released in April 1990 and debuted on the Australian Singles Charts at No. 45 in May 1990, peaking at No. 4 in July 1990.It was a... |
Q24037302 Unclaimed Baggage is a collection of 21 short stories based from the author members of the Main Line Writers Group published in 2013 by White Lightning Publishing. The collection is of mixed genres with the common thread that all have been written by then-members of the group.The book was the result of a two-... |
Q19857915 Christian Antonio Díaz Domínguez (born 7 April 1991), known as Christian Díaz, is a Mexican professional football player who plays for Forward Madison FC in USL League One. |
Q41002 .do is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Dominican Republic. NIC.DO has administered the domain since 1991..do: General useart.do: Arts institutionscom.do: Commercial organizationsedu.do: Academic institutionsgob.do / gov.do: Governmental institutionsmil.do: Military institutionsnet.do: In... |
Q3985064 The Schick test, invented between 1910 and 1911, is a test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria. It was named after its inventor, Béla Schick (1877–1967), a Hungarian-born American pediatrician.The test is a simple procedure. A small amount (0.1 ml) of diluted (1/50 MLD) dip... |
Q16105547 Franklyn Rehm Atkinson (born December 13, 1941) is a former professional American football defensive lineman who played in the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at Stanford University, where he was a defensive and offensive tackle. He was the fir... |
Q5390520 Raymundo Cárdenas Hernández (born February 3, 1950) is a Mexican left-wing politician from Zacatecas affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who currently serves in the lower house of the Mexican Congress. |
Q5042171 Carlos Henrique de Oliveira or simply Carlinhos (born January 18, 1986 in Matão) is a central-defender player from Brazil.Made his professional debut on August 6, 2006 against Botafogo in a 1-1 draw, after a swift rise through the Under-20 team. He was loaned to América-SP for the 2007 season. |
Q5341907 Edward Black (December 10, 1793 – May 7, 1845) was a minister and teacher in Canada associated with the Church of Scotland.Edward was born in Penninghame, Scotland and received his education at local schools and, latterly, at the University of Edinburgh. He began to preach as an assistant to his father in 1815... |
Q4657197 "A Guide to Berlin" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1925. It was later translated by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, into English and included in the collection Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976). |
Q6786316 Matchstick Sun was a Norwegian rock band, formed in 1984. In their first four years they were part of the Oslo underground scene, and in their last three years of existence, they released two albums on a major record label, won a Norwegian version of a Grammy, but then broke up. |
Q6643336 A list of thriller films released in the before 1940. |
Q21510467 Muratović (English translation: Son of Murat) is a common Bosnian surname, found throughout the former Yugoslavia and may refer to:Alen Muratović, Montenegrin handball playerHasan Muratović, prime minister of Bosnia and HerzegovinaSamir Muratović, Bosnian footballerSead Muratović, Serbian footballerVedran Mur... |
Q4043188 Lords of Thunder, known as Winds of Thunder (ウィンズ オブ サンダー) in Japan, is a shoot 'em up by Hudson Soft and Red Company for the Turbo CD which was released in 1993. It was ported to the Sega CD in 1995. It is the unofficial follow-up to Gate of Thunder. The game features a heavy metal soundtrack. |
Q6452801 Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences (九州情報大学, Kyūshū jōhō daigaku) is a private university in Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 1998. |
Q5099607 Yussef Suleiman (Arabic: يوسف سليمان, also transcribed as Sleman) (17 September 1986 – 20 February 2013) was a Syrian football player.Suleiman was born in Homs and last played for Al-Wathba SC. He was killed by a mortar shell fired by the armed opposition during the Syrian civil war, while preparing for train... |
Q6532477 "Let's Live for Today" is a song written by David "Shel" Shapiro and Italian lyricist Mogol, with additional English lyrics provided by Michael Julien. It was first recorded, with Italian lyrics, under the title of "Piangi Con Me" (translated as "Cry with Me") by the English band the Rokes in 1966. Later, whe... |
Q1169449 The Wolf and the Lamb is a well-known fable of Aesop and is numbered 155 in the Perry Index. There are several variant stories of tyrannical injustice in which a victim is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defence. |
Q7332704 Ridge Road Historic District is a national historic district located near Nollville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It encompasses six contributing buildings and two contributing sites, related to the early settlement and economic development along Apple Pie Ridge. They buildings are the: Harriett Lyle Hensh... |
Q10295340 Heureta is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. |
Q548956 Marius Sabaliauskas (born 15 November 1978 in Kaunas) is a former Lithuanian cyclist. He ended his career early in 2006 at the age of 28. |
Q19876560 David O'Brien (born 26 May 1965) is an Irish former yacht racer who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics. |
Q43083315 The Alexander King House is a historic house at 232 South Main Street in Suffield, Connecticut. Built in 1764, the house interior contains one of the state's finest collections of 18th-century Georgian woodwork. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is now a historic house m... |
Q311338 Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen (Finnish: [ˈhɑnːes ˈkolehmɑinen] (listen); 9 December 1889 – 11 January 1966) was a Finnish four-time Olympic Gold medalist and a world record holder in middle- and long-distance running. He was the first in a generation of great Finnish long distance runners, often named the "... |
Q7409154 Same-sex marriage in British Columbia became legal on July 8, 2003, making it the second province in Canada, as well as the second jurisdiction in North America, (and the fourth worldwide) to legalize same-sex marriage, behind Ontario, after a series of court rulings which ultimately landed in favour of same-s... |
Q3129378 Hegewisch (pronounced "heg-wish" by the locals) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's far south side. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Riverdale and South Deering to the west, the East Side to the north, the village of Burnham to the south and the city of Hammond, ... |
Q394316 An aglycone (aglycon or genin) is the compound remaining after the glycosyl group on a glycoside is replaced by a hydrogen atom.For example, the aglycone of a cardiac glycoside would be a steroid molecule. |
Q15498312 Mahlon Burwell (February 18, 1783 – January 25, 1846) was a surveyor and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in New Jersey in 1783 and came to Upper Canada with his family in 1796. He was largely self-schooled and was employed by the government of the province to survey the Talbot settlement and the ... |
Q7405211 Sally Long (December 5, 1901 – August 12, 1987) was a dancer and motion picture actress from Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Eden Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1921. |
Q18029556 Mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the mitochondrial gene MT-ND3. The ND3 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain. ... |
Q5240730 David W. Oliver (December 19, 1819 - February 12, 1905) was the Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1883 to 1887. |
Q3270436 Leo Ayotte (October 10, 1909 – 1976) was a Canadian oil painter and artist. |
Q3484130 Simon Kipkemboi (born April 15, 1960) is a former sprinter from Kenya, who represented his native East African country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 200 metres at the 1987 All-Africa Games. |
Q887053 Blåsut metro station is a station on the green line of the Stockholm metro, located in Blåsut ("Blowout"), Johanneshov, Söderort. The station was on the first metro line (from Slussen south to Hökarängen) and opened on 1 October 1950. It is 3.6 km from Slussen. |
Q1944146 471143 Dziewanna, provisional designation 2010 EK139, is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disc, orbiting the Sun in the outermost region of the Solar System.It was discovered on 13 March 2010, by astronomers Andrzej Udalski, Scott Sheppard, Marcin Kubiak and Chad Trujillo at the Las Campañas Observato... |
Q2960261 Colonel the Hon. Charles Frampton Stallard QC, DSO and MC (4 June 1871 – 13 June 1971) was a South African lawyer, soldier and politician.Born in London, Stallard attended Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1893. He was called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn in 1895. He subsequently went to South Africa a... |
Q4695323 Ahmad Hassan Moussa (Arabic: احمد حسن موسى ; born 17 June 1981) is a Qatari decathlete. He represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics and is a two time Asian Champion in the event (2002 and 2007).Moussa was the bronze medallist at both the 2002 Asian Games and the 2007 Military World Games. He has won... |
Q4833792 B.D.D. is a hit single by British group The Groundhogs. Standing for "Blind, Deaf, Dumb" and taken from their 1969 Album "Blues Obituary", it was a commercial failure in the UK but made number one in Lebanon. |
Q5130187 Clayton Anthony Blommetjies (born 30 August 1990) is a South African rugby union player for the Free State Cheetahs in the Currie Cup. His usual position is either full-back or wing. |
Q4019534 "White Limo" is a song by the American rock band Foo Fighters. It is the second single from their seventh studio album Wasting Light. The single was released on March 28, 2011 as an iTunes digital download. |
Q20826693 Martin A. Ford is a Scottish politician, who is the Scottish Green Party councillor for the (East Garioch ward) of Aberdeenshire Council. He had a prominent role in the consideration of a planning application for a golf course at Balmedie. |
Q1846191 Oligotomidae is a family of webspinners in the order Embioptera. There are about 6 genera and at least 40 described species in Oligotomidae.They are known to be found in warmer regions of the Old World and in the Southwestern United States. |
Q7303993 Red Deer County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada within Census Division No. 8 and surrounding the City of Red Deer. The neighbouring municipalities of Red Deer County are Clearwater County to the west, Lacombe County to the north, the County of Stettler No. 6 to the east, Kneehill County to t... |
Q5460911 Florentino Ballecer was a Filipino character actor and a prewar movie player who made his film debut before World War II. Ballecer is typecast in some of his films as the father or a rich man and sometimes a singer.Born in 1889, he made 6 movies under Filippine Pictures namely: Kalapating Puti aka White Dove,... |
Q2084426 Breaffy, officially Breaghwy (; Irish: Bréachmhaigh, meaning "wolf plain"), is a village near Castlebar in County Mayo, Ireland. It is southeast of Castlebar and has a population of about 1,500. |
Q4837318 Princess Baba Jigida is a Sierra Leonean politician. She is a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). She is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament as well as a member of the Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area Rural District outside of Freetown. |
Q5146875 College of Western Idaho (CWI) is a public community college located in Southwest Idaho with its main campus locations in Boise and Nampa. CWI also offers classes at several community locations throughout the Treasure Valley.CWI offers over 60 academic transfer and professional-technical programs leading to an... |
Q3502670 Substitute is a film by the French former footballer Vikash Dhorasoo. Filmed before and during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Dhorasoo "recorded his thoughts and feelings throughout the tournament", resulting in a "deeply unconventional sporting film". |
Q5050699 The Castor and Pollux River is located in Nunavut, Canada about 80 kilometres (50 mi) northeast of Chantry Inlet. In 1839 it was reached from the west by Thomas Simpson and Peter Warren Dease who named it after their two boats. At this point the entire north coast of North America had been roughly mapped from ... |
Q7881487 Murzynowo-Łomno [muʐɨˈnɔvɔ ˈwɔmnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skwierzyna, within Międzyrzecz County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. |
Q7106528 The Osgoldcross by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 5 July 1899. |
Q5458285 Flaxborough is a fictitious town in Lincolnshire, created by author and local journalist Colin Watson as the background for a series of detective novels (The Flaxborough Chronicles) featuring Detective Inspector Walter Purbright and a cast of similar comic characters. Flaxborough cannot be precisely identifie... |
Q5057736 Celebrity Five Go to... is a British reality show first broadcast on Channel 4. First shown on Channel 4 on 10 January 2011, the show is narrated by Jane McDonald.Five celebrities go on holiday together to compete to be the best tour guide for the group. Over two days, each celebrity is given the chance to org... |
Q5112517 Christopher Haydon is a British theatre director and the current Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre in London. After graduating from Cambridge University, and training at Central School of Speech and Drama, Haydon became an associate director at the Bush Theatre and is also associated with the series of pla... |
Q16996006 The LCDR B2 class was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotives of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. The class was designed by William Kirtley and introduced in 1891. |
Q7970575 Warren Webster is president and CEO of luxury digital media company Coveteur. He was previously the president and co-founder of Patch Media, a network of more than 900 local news sites launched in 2007 and sold in 2009 to AOL. Webster departed Patch in 2014 to become COO of goop, the lifestyle company founded ... |
Q6353417 Kalkini Syed Abul Hossain University College is a higher secondary school as well as a degree college affiliated to the National University. It is situated in Madaripur, Bangladesh. It was founded by Member of Parliament Syed Abul Hossain. It is one of the oldest and renowned college in Madaripur District. |
Q17489117 Alick Lindsay Poole (4 March 1908 – 2 January 2008) was a New Zealand botanist and forester. |
Q18158377 Pleasant Hill is an Unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States |
Q18528154 Sir Edward James Dodd, CBE, OStJ, QPM (19 October 1909 – 16 September 1966) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary from 1963 until his death.Dodd was educated at Reading School and HMS Conway. He served with the Merchant Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve from 1925 to 1931. He was with the Metropolitan Police fro... |
Q29468121 The Thai Parliament Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์รัฐสภา) is a museum within the Parliament House of Thailand, Bangkok, dedicated to the political history of Thailand after the transition to a constitutional monarchy in 1932. |
Q2521125 The 1986 La Flèche Wallonne was the 50th edition of La Flèche Wallonne cycle race and was held on 16 April 1986. The race started in Spa and finished in Huy. The race was won by Laurent Fignon of the Système U team. |
Q2872451 Auto-Train Corporation (reporting mark AUT) was a privately owned railroad which used its own rolling stock, and traveled on rails leased from major railroads along the route of its trains, serving central Florida from points in the Mid-Atlantic region near Washington, DC, and the Midwest near Louisville, Kent... |
Q6623699 List of hospitals in Tennessee (U.S. state), sorted alphabetically. |
Q5636287 H & L Bloom, Inc. is a private transportation company in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The company is based out of the city of Taunton (MA). They provide commuter service to the following areas:Boston (MA)Bridgewater (MA)Brockton (MA)Dighton (MA)Easton (MA)Fall River (MA)Raynham (MA)Somerset (MA)Taunton (MA... |
Q689587 Ingo Appelt (born 11 December 1961 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to early 1992.He was Bobsleigh World Cup combined men's champion in 1987-8, and four-man champion in 1987-8 and 1988-9. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Appelt won the gold medal in the four-man event at... |
Q7060102 The Northwest Labor Press is a newspaper which covers the American labor movement in the Pacific Northwest. It was known as the Portland Labor Press from 1900 to 1915, the Oregon Labor Press until 1986, and by its present name since then.The newspaper covers union organizing campaigns, contract negotiations, s... |
Q6361499 Kandiaro (Urdu: كنڈيارو), (Sindhi:ڪنڊيارو) is a city in the Naushahro Feroze District of Sindh province of Pakistan. The city is the headquarters of Kandiaro Taluka. All offices of the Taluka administration are located in here. It is famous for dargah Allahabad jalsa. The city population is approximately 2 ... |
Q1534847 Spirit of Communication is the formal name for a statue originally called Genius of Telegraphy, and later Genius of Electricity, and has been the symbol of AT&T (and also the former Western Electric) since their commission was completed in 1916. It is also known informally as the Golden Boy statue. Copmmission... |
Q679649 "Year of tha Boomerang" is a song by the American political rap metal musical group Rage Against the Machine. It originally appeared in the film and on the soundtrack of Higher Learning in 1994. On the back of the soundtrack, the song is called "Year of the Boomerang". Although the track was released as a promo... |
Q6354545 Kaluga [kaˈluɡa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żabno, within Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of Żabno, 22 km (14 mi) north-west of Tarnów, and 65 km (40 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków. |
Q4556991 1895–96 Hongkong Football Cup was the 1895–96 season of the predecessor of Hong Kong Challenge Shield, Hongkong Football Cup.The holder of the cup this season was Kowloon Football Club. |
Q3776547 Gregory of Catino (1060 – aft. 1130) was a monk of the Abbey of Farfa and "one of the most accomplished monastic historians of his age." Gregory died shortly after 1130, possibly in 1133.Gregory was born into the family of the counts of Catino, a town near Farfa. His father, Dono, entered him and his elder bro... |
Q6944234 Mutundwe is a neighborhood in the town of Ssabagabo in Uganda. The name also refers to Mutundwe Hill, where the neighborhood is located. |
Q21449873 Garibay may refer to:Ángel María Garibay K. (1892–1967), Mexican Roman Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culturesDaniel Garibay (born 1973), retired Mexican Major League Baseball player who played pitcher in 2000Fernando Garibay, Mexican music producer, D... |
Q6013602 Inaros I of Athribis (fl. c. 665 BC) was an ancient Egyptian prince who rebelled against the Assyrians during their short-lived occupation of Egypt. His struggle against the Assyrians gave rise to a whole cycle of stories, known as The Inaros Stories, the latest of which date to the 2nd century AD, about 750 y... |
Q4691966 Agelanthus is a genus of Afrotropical plants in family Loranthaceae. They grow in trees, including Acacia and Combretum species, as hemiparasitic shrubs of varying sizes. The host plant is penetrated by a single haustorium, and the stems typically have swollen, flower-producing nodes. The flowers are often clo... |
Q10669833 Jun Miho (美保 純, Miho Jun, born 4 August 1960) is a Japanese actress. |
Q18119627 The women's team tennis competition was held at the 2014 Asian Games. China were the defending champions.Each tie is the best of three rubbers, two singles and one doubles match. |
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