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Q24203535 Dennis Frederick George Smalldon (1926 – 12 September 1959) was a Welsh professional golfer. He was killed in a road traffic accident at the age of 33. Smalldon won the Welsh Professional Championship in 1953, 1956 and 1959 and had won the Sherwood Forest Foursomes Tournament, partnered by Dai Rees, a week be... |
Q724510 In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect, Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a real gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is forced through a valve or porous plug while keeping it insulated so that no heat is exchanged with th... |
Q2060961 KroniK was an American professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), composed of Brian Adams and Bryan Clark. |
Q1775258 Fossanova Abbey, earlier Fossa Nuova, is a Cistercian monastery in Italy, in the province of Latina, near the railway-station of Priverno, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-east of Rome. |
Q7280047 RADCOM (NASDAQ: RDCM), is a provider of end-to-end quality monitoring and service assurance solutions for telecommunications carriers founded in 1991. RADCOM's U.S. headquarters is in Paramus, New Jersey and its international headquarters is in Tel Aviv, Israel. RADCOM is a member of the RAD Group of companie... |
Q1412211 The Progressive Party (Portuguese: Partido Progressista), along with their opponent the Partido Regenerador, was a political party in Portugal during the constitutional monarchy at the end of the 19th century. |
Q7816766 Thomas Michael McCarthy (born June 18, 1961) is a former middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1985 through 1989 for the Boston Red Sox (1985) and Chicago White Sox (1988–89). Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., McCarthy batted and threw right-handed. |
Q5074337 Charigaon is a village in Barisal District in the Barisal Division of southern-central Bangladesh. |
Q5384114 In the United States of America, the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) authorizes the payment of attorney's fees to a prevailing party in an action against the United States absent a showing by the government that its position in the underlying litigation "was substantially justified." The Act is codified in... |
Q7817733 Tom Sutherland is a former competitive rifle shooter from New Zealand.At the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won the bronze medal in the men's fullbore rifle event. |
Q444709 Ivan Anatolyevich Savin (English: Иван Анатольевич Савин) is a professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). |
Q4966780 Bridgetown (Irish: Baile an Droichid) is a small village in eastern County Clare, Ireland. It is located near Killaloe and has a National School. |
Q4899626 The Beverly Toon House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has also been known as Riverside. It dates from c.1857.A 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources assessed that this house was one of the "best two-s... |
Q3154054 John Shavliani (Georgian: ივანე (იოვანე) შავლიანი), was the noble and founder of House of Shavliani, presumably of Svan origin and King of Abkhazia between 871 and 873. |
Q5800733 Yengi Arkh (Persian: ينگي ارخ, also Romanized as Yengī Arkh and Yangī Azakh) is a village in Gorgin Rural District, Korani District, Bijar County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 164, in 31 families. |
Q18154782 Kari Marie Norgaard is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, a post she has held since 2011. She is known for her research into climate change denial and the politics of global warming. |
Q20800534 Live In Portland is the first live album from the Portland, Oregon-based rock band Blitzen Trapper. It was released as a "name your price" download as through the website Bandcamp through Blitzen Trapper's own label, LidKerCow. The album was available to download in multiple formats, including MP3, FLAC, AL... |
Q28404817 The Association of British HealthTech Industries, formerly the Association of British Healthcare Industries is a trade association for the medical technology sector in the UK. It has about 250 member companies which together provide 80% of the medical technology used in the NHS. It has offices in London. ... |
Q20659427 Armand Berton may refer to:Armand Berton (painter) (1854–1927), French painter, engraver and illustratorArmand Berton (politician) (1859–1916), French politician |
Q3428056 The Transfiguration Altarpiece is an altarpiece of the Transfiguration of Jesus by Perugino, dating to 1517 and now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia.It was probably produced for Santa Maria dei Servi church in Perugia, where it remained until 1542. This church was one of the most notable in the... |
Q27155770 Schradan, named after Gerhard Schrader, is an obsolete organophosphate insecticide. Schradan itself is a weak cholinesterase inhibitor and requires metabolic activation to become active. |
Q1779140 Kolev (Bulgarian: Колев) is a common Bulgarian surname derived from the name of Nikolaj, Kolja. It is the surname of sons and daughters (for women: Koleva) of a father who is named Nikolaj. Notable people with the name Kolev include:Aleksandar Kolev (born 1992), Bulgarian football forwardAngel Kolev (born 1926... |
Q14950045 The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom. Since 2017, it has been branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced SIL-ip). CILIP in Scotland is an independent... |
Q6966262 Narrow-gap semiconductors are semiconducting materials with a band gap that is comparatively small compared to that of silicon, i.e. smaller than 1.11 eV at room temperature. They are used as infrared detectors or thermoelectrics. |
Q3520312 The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein is an album by funk band Parliament, released in September 1976. The album is notable for featuring horn arrangements by ex-James Brown band member, Fred Wesley. The album charted at #3 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart, #20 on the Billboard pop chart, and became Parliament's seco... |
Q2558680 Roland James Green (born September 2, 1944) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. He has written as Roland Green and Roland J. Green; and had 28 books in the Richard Blade series published under the pen name 'Jeffrey Lord'. |
Q1196170 Musical nationalism refers to the use of musical ideas or motifs that are identified with a specific country, region, or ethnicity, such as folk tunes and melodies, rhythms, and harmonies inspired by them. |
Q4648176 A. Martin Freeman (1878 in Tooting, London – 1959) was a scholar of medieval Irish texts and collector of Irish music.He collected the songs of the older generation of singers in the West Cork Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) in 1913/14 which became Ballyvourney Collection.A lecture was given by Iarla Ó Lionáir... |
Q4566964 This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1950, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans. |
Q11802483 Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet (19 April 1593 – 20 April 1647) was an English politician and baronet. |
Q17641484 Otford Palace, also known as the Archbishop's Palace, is in Otford, an English village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent. The village is located on the River Darent, flowing north down its valley from its source on the North Downs.The King of Mercia, Offa, fought the Kentish Saxons in 776 at ... |
Q7385141 Rykoszyn [rɨˈkɔʂɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piekoszów, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Piekoszów and 16 km (10 mi) west of the regional capital Kielce.The village has a population of ... |
Q2779958 Smerinthulus quadripunctatus is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Huwe in 1895. It is known from Thailand and Sundaland.The ground colour of the forewing is dull reddish yellow in the male, darker and more reddish in the female. There is a dark discal spot and a series of fine, irre... |
Q2161960 Roger de Oliveira Bernardo (born 10 August 1985), known as Roger Bernardo or simply Roger, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Rio Claro. |
Q31951 André Ivan Biyogo Poko (born 1 January 1993) is a Gabonese footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Göztepe and the Gabon national team. |
Q1876711 The Protestant Luisenfriedhof III (German: Der evangelische Luisenfriedhof III) is a cemetery in the Westend district of Berlin. The cemetery is under monument and cultural heritage protection. |
Q4558012 Reginald Doherty defeated Malcolm Whitman 6–1, 3–6, 6–3, 6–0 in the All Comers' Final of the 1902 U.S. Men's National Singles Championship. William Larned defended his title by defeating Doherty in the Challenge Round 4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 8–6. The event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA. |
Q13393891 Argyroeides flavicincta is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1905. It is found in Venezuela.. |
Q14712321 Flat Rock is a historic plantation house located near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia. The house was built in several sections during the first half of the 19th century. It is a two-story, three-bay frame structure flanked by one-story, one-bay wings. The oldest portion likely dates to about 1797. It ha... |
Q18890295 The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Djibouti. |
Q14251553 Pherbellia schoenherri is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic . The females lay eggs on the shells of Succineidae including Succinea putris. The resultant larvae consume the animal and pupate within the shell.P. schoenherri is a very common and widespread species with a ... |
Q10873669 Area code 925 is a California telephone area code that was split from area code 510 on March 14, 1998. It covers the inland portions of the East Bay counties of Alameda and Contra Costa in the central area of California.The area was originally part of area code 415, one of the first three area codes created i... |
Q1924622 France competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Wembley Park, London, England. 316 competitors, 279 men and 37 women, took part in 135 events in 20 sports. |
Q6376660 Kathleen Beedles is a British producer, who has worked on a total of over 2500 episodes of various British soap operas to date. She grew up in Rogart and now resides in London. |
Q6966341 The Narrows Covered Bridge crosses Sugar Creek at the eastern edge of Turkey Run State Park and is a single span Burr Arch Truss covered bridge structure that was built by Joseph A. Britton in 1882.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. |
Q6317324 Justin Anderson (born July 4, 1986) is a former running back for the Northern Illinois Huskies. He was the backup in 2006 for phenom Garrett Wolfe, and in 2007 was the starter for the Huskies. In 2008, he lost many carries to Mico Brown. |
Q7917111 Vathima are Iyers from Tamil Nadu, India. They are Pancha Dravida Brahmins of the Smarta Tradition who follow the Advaita Vedanta propounded by Adi Shankara. |
Q5017710 The Cairns Bulletin is an independent newspaper in circulation in Cairns. It covers the Cairns area from Palm Cove in the north to Gordonvale in the south with a distribution of 38,000 copies, reaching a population of 90,000+ residents. It is available in a print edition and online. |
Q3896764 The Sammarinese Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Fascista Sammarinese) or PFS was a fascist political party that ruled San Marino from 1923 to 1943.It was founded and led by Giuliano Gozi, a Sammarinese World War I veteran who volunteered in the Royal Italian Army, on 10 August 1922, and was modelled directly o... |
Q7259891 Punam is a 2006 documentary film about nine-year-old girl Punam Tamang from Bhaktapur, Nepal. It was directed by Natasa Urban and Lucian Muntean (aka Lunam Docs), a Serbian independent documentary production duo specializing in telling the stories of working children. |
Q5061378 The Central Louisiana State Hospital Dairy Barn is located in Pineville, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1986.Its National Register nomination describes it:The Central Louisiana State Hospital Dairy Barn is of statewide significance in the area of architecture as... |
Q78355 Therese von Lützow (born 4 July 1804 in Stuttgart; died 16 September 1852 in Tjilatjap, Java) was a German author. |
Q5145781 Colla is a genus of moths of the family Bombycidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1865. |
Q16057089 A list of films produced by the Marathi language film industry based in Maharashtra in the year 1985. |
Q16214998 Aradhana Misra (20 April 1974), also known as Mona Misra, is an Indian politician affiliated with Indian National Congress. On 16 May 2014, she was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly representing Rampur, Sangramgarh in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. She has previously been elected as Block Pramu... |
Q17198237 Jasveer Kaur is an Indian television actress. She walked the ramp for the social cause 'Beti' during Gitanjali Gems show as part of India International Jewellery Week (IIJW) in 2013. She's best known for her role as Savita in the Hindi television show Hitler Didi. |
Q18529318 "Dos cruces" is famous Spanish bolero composed by Carmelo Larrea in 1952. The song earned Larrea his second golden record in 1954. Originally entitled "Soledad" (Solitude), it was first recorded by Jorge Gallarzo. Over 80 artists have performed the song ever since, including Niño de Murcia (1957), Angelillo (... |
Q11106693 Gagea filiformis is an Asian species of plants in the lily family, native to Russia (Altay Krai), China (Xinjiang), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Mongolia.Gagea filiformis is a bulb-forming perennial up to 10 cm tall. Flowers are yellow or yellow-green. |
Q20815018 James Barlow may refer to:James Barlow (author), British novelistJames A. Barlow, American geologist and politician |
Q1264066 Vlado Šegrt (1907–1991) was a participant in the National Liberation Struggle and a socio-political worker in the Socialist Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. He was a reserve Major General and national hero of Yugoslavia. From September 1948 to March 1953 he was the President of the Presidium... |
Q148882 Euphorbia esula, commonly known as green spurge or leafy spurge, is a species of spurge native to central and southern Europe (north to England, the Netherlands, and Germany), and eastward through most of Asia north of the Himalaya to Korea and eastern Siberia. |
Q202423 The Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara), is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds Native to North Africa. |
Q7804097 Tim Patten (born 1952) is a former roller derby athlete and self-published author under the pen name D.M. Bordner.In 1973, Patten moved from Wisconsin to San Francisco. He studied computer science in college and has worked off and on in the computer industry ever since.Patten skated for various professional ro... |
Q6803937 As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, an... |
Q29174 The Pungsan or Poongsan (Chosongul: 풍산개; Hanja: 豐山개) is a breed of hunting dog from Korea. They were bred in the Kaema highlands of what is now North Korea. The dogs were traditionally hunting dogs.The dog is a rare breed, and is sometimes smuggled over the North Korea–China border.During the 2000 inter-Korean s... |
Q616859 Sklabiňa is a village and municipality in Martin District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. |
Q11830614 The Princeton Glacier is a glacier in the Sargent Icefield, Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.The glacier was named in 1909 for Princeton University by George Perkins of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.The glacier's terminus is a little over a mile from Nassau Fjord and Prince William Sound. |
Q7231189 The Port of Mayagüez, located northwest of downtown Mayagüez, is the third busiest port on Puerto Rico. The port is situated along Puerto Rico routes 64, 341, and 3341, and stretches for 3.8 miles along the coast. Its main canal is .4 miles wide and its depth ranges from 47 to 120 feet; the water's depth along... |
Q3754048 Escape from Scorpion Island is a BBC children's TV adventure game show in which contestants try to 'escape from an exotic island with a mind of its own' by doing various challenges to improve their chances of escaping. Series 1 was made by RDF Television for CBBC. Series 2 onwards were produced by Foundation/... |
Q4712923 Alcantarea burle-marxii is a species in the genus Alcantarea. This species is endemic to Brazil. |
Q5423059 Eyvashan Golstan (Persian: ايوشان گلستان, also Romanized as Eyvashān Golestān; also known as Eyvashān, ‘Eyvashān Seyl, ‘Eyvashān Sīl, and Yebāsūn) is a village in Qaedrahmat Rural District, Zagheh District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 48, in 9 families. |
Q7348890 Robert Picknell (2 June 1816 – 7 February 1869) was an English cricketer. Picknell was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Chalvington, Sussex.Picknell made his first-class debut for Sussex against Kent in 1837 at the Old County Ground, West Malling. He made three further first-class appearances in that sea... |
Q16147023 Jonathan Daniel Álvez Sagar (born 31 May 1988) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Barcelona Sporting Club |
Q14272809 Rhopobota antrifera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou) and Russia. |
Q13603795 Elachista maritimella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Canada, where it has been recorded from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The habitat consists of salt coastal meadows and vegetation bordering roads.The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are ... |
Q18639394 Kosovo competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was Kosovo's first participation in the Olympics since gaining membership by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in December 2014.Serbia protested Kosovo's admission to the IOC, as it officially claims ... |
Q19872505 The Coonabarabran Times is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. |
Q20712545 Richard John Burde (July 29, 1871 – December 17, 1954) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1919 to 1928 from the electoral district of Alberni, as an Independent Liberal. |
Q3472663 Santa Lucia in Septisolio was an ancient Roman church with a diaconia. It formerly stood at the base of the Palatine Hill, near the Septizodium of Septimius Severus, from which it took its name. The date of its destruction is not certain, although it seems to have disappeared definitively after the pontificate... |
Q28124504 Bernice Steinbaum is a gallerist and curator who founded the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York City in 1977. Steinbaum showed the work of women artists, feminist artists, civil-rights artists and artists of color at a time when they were under-represented and undervalued in the art world. Her Madison Ave... |
Q742680 Astraea, Astrea or Astria (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖα; "star-maiden" or "starry night"), in ancient Greek religion, is a daughter of Astraeus and Eos. She is the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision. She is closely associated with the Greek goddess of justice, Dike (daughter of Zeus and Themi... |
Q6816286 Men of Porn, sometimes typeset as Porn (The Men Of) and now simply known as Porn, is a San Francisco-based stoner rock band. They toured with Melvins on their "Double-Drumming Rock for Peace" tour at the end of 2006, and later played a set of dates during 2008 while opening for them on the 2008 Dog Tour. |
Q5938568 Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 – February 26, 1911) was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. |
Q2709832 Kanis is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km north of Woerden. |
Q7735248 The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation is a non-fiction book by Robin Moore first published in 1969 about the notorious "French Connection" drug trafficking scheme. It is followed by the book The Setup. The book was adapted to film in 1971 as The French Connection, written by E... |
Q2042686 Kirk Deighton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north-west of Wetherby, to which it is contiguous, and near the A1(M). The village was in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Wetherby Rural District, until 1974, and is now on the border between Wes... |
Q1789184 Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution or China People's Revolution Military Museum (Chinese: 中国人民革命军事博物馆; pinyin: Zhōngguó rénmín gémìng jūnshì bówùguǎn) is located in Haidian District, Beijing, China. The museum displays restored military equipment from the history of the People's Liberation Army... |
Q40886 Garein is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. |
Q6281030 Joseph Brian "Joe" Amlong (December 17, 1936 – July 1, 2019) was an American competition rower who often teamed with his brother Tom. In 1964 they won the national title in coxless pairs and an Olympic gold medal in the eights. Next year Joe won a bronze medal in the eights at the European championships.Amlong... |
Q6089849 It's All in the Movies is the nineteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1976. |
Q6216900 Johannes Palaschko (13 July 1877 in Berlin – 21 October 1932 in Berlin) was a German composer, violinist and violist who wrote numerous works for both violin and viola. He became a violin student of Joseph Joachim in 1891, concurrently studying music theory with Ernst Eduard Taubert and composition with Heinri... |
Q5749076 Oasis Academy Hextable (formerly Hextable School) was a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Hextable, Kent, England. |
Q7929325 Vijayta Films Pvt Ltd is an Indian entertainment company owned by the Deol family. It started with Betaab (1983), the debut film of veteran actor, Dharmendra's son Sunny Deol and is most known for Ghayal (1990) starring Sunny Deol, which won seven Filmfare Awards. |
Q18635944 "Killpop" is a single by American heavy metal band Slipknot for their fifth major label studio album .5: The Gray Chapter. The song was first released as a promo/digital single on October 16, 2014. It was the fifth promo and fourth overall single released from the album. The song received a retail single rele... |
Q18388853 Thaalam Thettiya Tharattu is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by A. B. Raj and produced by R. S. Sreenivasan. The film stars Menaka, Rajkumar, Lakshmi and Sankaradi in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Raveendran. The film was a remake of the Telugu film Nyayam Kavali. |
Q20817746 Chionodes cusor is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado. |
Q4635555 35 & Ticking (also known as Russ Parr's 35 & Ticking or 35 and Ticking) is an American romantic comedy film written and directed by Russ Parr.The film stars a mostly African American ensemble cast featuring Meagan Good, Nicole Ari Parker, Tamala Jones, Kevin Hart, Kym Whitley, Darius McCrary, Dondre Whitfield,... |
Q21344834 Patricia Ann Hopkins, Lady Hopkins (née Wainwright, born 1942) is an English architect and joint winner, along with her husband Sir Michael Hopkins, of the 1994 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. |
Q22252061 White Girl is a 2016 American film written and directed by Elizabeth Wood in her directorial debut. It stars Morgan Saylor, Brian Marc, India Menuez, Adrian Martinez, Anthony Ramos, Ralph Rodriguez, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Chris Noth and Justin Bartha.The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festi... |
Q3195631 Keur Moussa is an arrondissement of Thiès in Thiès Region in Senegal. |
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