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Q235899 Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was t... |
Q1760573 The Westbourne or Kilburn is a mainly re-diverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and which, notwithstanding one main meander, flows southward through Kilburn and the Bayswater (west end of Paddington) to skirt underneath the east of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake then through central ... |
Q4916622 The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is 67.5-acre (27.3 ha) of botanical gardens located adjacent to Lane Park at the southern foot of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama. The gardens are home to over 12,000 different types of plants, 25 unique gardens, more than 30 works of original outdoor sculpture, and severa... |
Q1254751 Nada Obrić (born 1948 in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb folk singer. |
Q5637314 Hacklebarney State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of New Jersey, located between Long Valley and Chester in Morris County. The park is managed by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Other parks in the Black River region include the Black River Wildlife Management Area and the Black River Cou... |
Q7360824 Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (1878–1959) was a British journalist, editor and literary critic. He is often cited as one of the first people to use the word "modernism" in his 1908 book Modernism and Romance, in which he writes, "there are characteristics of modern life in general which can only be summed up, as Mr... |
Q5639218 Hail to the Chimp is a video game developed by Wideload Games and published by Gamecock Media Group. The game was released in 2008 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. |
Q847826 The cluster CL0024+17 is a cluster of galaxies located in Pisces, and about 4 billion light years distant. Cl 0024+17 is allowing astronomers to probe the distribution of dark matter in space. The blue streaks near the center of the image are the smeared images of very distant galaxies that are not part of the... |
Q3266609 a Beautiful Reel. B'z Live-Gym 2002 Green ~Go★Fight★Win~ is the fifth live VHS/DVD released by Japanese rock duo B'z. It features live footage of the Green Live Gym Tour, one of their famous Live Gym Tours. |
Q4706939 Bell of Purity Temple (simplified Chinese: 清凉寺的钟声; traditional Chinese: 清涼寺的鐘聲; pinyin: qīng liáng sì de zhōng shēng) is a 1992 Chinese film about the life of a Japanese infant deserted in China after Sino-Japanese War. It is presented by Shanghai Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin, starring Pu Cunxin, Komaki... |
Q872767 The Gorleben salt dome is a proposed deep geological repository in a salt dome in Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east of Lower Saxony for low-, medium- and high-level radioactive waste. |
Q7999169 Wiercienko [vjɛrˈt͡ɕɛnkɔ] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Ostrowice, within Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. |
Q7802439 Tillandsia atenangoensis is a species in the genus Tillandsia. This species is endemic to Mexico. |
Q2680449 The Briggs Peninsula (64°31′S 63°1′W) is a small peninsula forming the west side of Inverleith Harbour on the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The northeast point of the peninsula was charted in 1927 by DI personnel on the RSS Discovery, who named it Briggs Point for Able Seaman A.C... |
Q17088236 The 2012 Jamaican Local Government Election was held on 26 March 2012 in Jamaica. Directly elected were 228 divisional councillors and the mayor of the municipality of Portmore. Each of the 13 parish councils and parish capital mayoral positions were allocated to a political party. The election was contested ... |
Q7758905 The Quarters (猪仔馆人家) is the fifth Malaysian production by MediaCorp Studios Malaysia. Filming began in September 2011 and took place in Muar, Johor, Malaysia and its rural surroundings. It is shown on weekdays at 7pm. It debuted in Singapore on 3 September 2012.The series is set during an era of samsui women, ... |
Q18811134 José González (born 21 February 1907, date of death unknown) was a Spanish sports shooter. He competed in the 25 m rapid fire pistol event at the 1932 Summer Olympics. |
Q26702305 Giomo del Sodoma, also known as Girolamo Magagni (1507–1563) was an Italian painter, pupil of Il Sodoma and active in painted sacred subjects.He is recalled by Giorgio Vasari as an imitator of Sodoma, who stole works from his master's studio, while the latter was ill in Florence. There are paintings by Giomo... |
Q6062582 The El Pinar Zoo (Spanish: Parque Zoológico El Pinar) Also Zoological Park of El Pinar Is the first zoological garden of Caracas, Venezuela inaugurated 13 August 1945 under the presidency of Isaías Medina Angarita. El pinar zoo is located in El Paraiso Parish in the former grounds of the La Vaquera hacienda, w... |
Q3723988 Emanuele Rotondo (born 26 November 1975) is an Italian retired basketball player. Standing at 194 cm (6 ft 4 in), Rotondo usually plays as point guard. He played sixteen seasons for Dinamo Sassari, which co-retired his number 12 along with Travis Diener who wore the same number. |
Q3473010 Howard is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern Howard Township, Knox County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 242. The United States Postal Service has assigned Howard the ZIP Code 43028. The community lies along U.S. Route 36. Originally called "Kinderhook", the communi... |
Q2814799 Twentieth Television, Inc. (stylized as 20th Television) is an American television syndicator and part of 20th Century Fox Television, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.20th Television distributes almost all programming from the television production unit and its subsidiaries and the motion picture studi... |
Q237703 Kerstin Lillemor Ekman, née Hjorth, (born 27 August 1933 in Risinge, Finspång, Östergötland County) is a Swedish novelist. |
Q7603131 The State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is a workers' compensation insurer that was created as a "public enterprise fund" by the U.S. state of California, and today has partial autonomy from the rest of the state government. It is required by state law to maintain its headquarters in San Francisco,... |
Q572392 Erkner is a town in the Oder-Spree District of Brandenburg, Germany, situated on the south-eastern edge of the German capital city Berlin. |
Q1740804 Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the University of California, Berkeley. |
Q1986050 Gonzalo Suárez Morilla (Oviedo, Spain, 30 July 1934) is a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director. |
Q1507073 "No Air" is a song by American singer Jordin Sparks. It features American singer Chris Brown. The song was written by Erik "Blu2th" Griggs, James Fauntleroy II, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas and Steve Russell. It was released in the United States on February 11, 2008 and serves as the second single from Spark... |
Q525462 Puessans is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. |
Q3049760 El Braya is a town and commune in Oran Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 3879. |
Q3021102 Dedići is a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 1991 census, the village is located in the municipality of Srebrenik. |
Q4621177 The 2011 Formula 3 Sudamericana season was the 25th Formula 3 Sudamericana season. It began on 21 March 2011, in Velopark, and ended on 17 December at Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura in Campo Grande.In year most complicated of the category, Fabiano Machado dominated the Championship, winning 17 of the 25... |
Q7321470 Rhos Cross Inn is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ceredigion, west Wales. |
Q6813743 Meltdown is a live album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell (bass guitar) and Charles Hayward (drums). It was recorded live at Robert Wyatt's 2001 Meltdown Festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on June 17, 2001. |
Q5408867 Eulepidotis fortissima is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the neotropics, including Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Ecuador and Guyana. |
Q17018841 Repington v Roberts-Gawen (1881–82) LR 19 Ch D 520 is a leading English trust law case, concerning the requirement of intention to create a trust, and the requisite level of certainty in the beneficiaries. |
Q15956259 Sara Maria Forsberg (born 2 May 1994), known professionally as SAARA (formerly Smo, Smoukahontas, or Smokahontas), is a Finnish singer, songwriter, YouTube personality, and television presenter. As a singer, Forsberg was signed to Capitol Records in 2014 and released her debut single "Ur Cool" in April 2015,... |
Q19461391 Downtown Gastonia Historic District is a national historic district located at Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Gastonia. The commercial, civic, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings w... |
Q18698342 Clinton Day (March 17, 1847 - January 11, 1916) was a noted architect active on the west coast of the United States.Day was born in Brooklyn, and moved to California when 8 years old. His grandfather, Jeremiah Day, was president of Yale University, and his father, Sherman Day, was surveyor-general of Californ... |
Q19878862 Mark S. Hubbard (born October 15, 1966) is an American gospel musician. He started his music career, in 1992, with the release of Trust in Jesus by Tyscot Records. This was his only album to chart on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart. The next two albums, No, I Won't Turn Back in 1995 and He's up The... |
Q465273 Robert Goodloe Harper (January 1765 – January 14, 1825), a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representativ... |
Q217466 The Sakarya (Turkish: Sakarya Irmağı, Greek: Σαγγάριος, romanized: Sangarios) is the third longest river in Turkey. It runs through what in ancient times was known as Phrygia. It was considered one of the principal rivers of Asia Minor in antiquity, and is mentioned in the Iliad and in Theogony. Its name appear... |
Q7754288 The Nome Nugget is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays in Nome, Alaska, United States and serves the entire Northwest region of Alaska, additionally, it is printed in Anchorage, Alaska for newstands and airports. It was awarded best weekly newspaper in all of Alaska in 2012 by the Alaska Press Club. It ... |
Q6484326 Landau Forte College Derby is an academy in Derby, England. As a secondary school and sixth form, it serves students aged 11–19 from the City of Derby and surrounding areas. |
Q1090324 Château Batailley is a winery in the Pauillac appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. The wine produced at the estate was classified as one of eighteen Cinquièmes Crus (Fifth Growths) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. |
Q6846485 Mike Daniels (23 April 1928 –18 October 2016) was a British dixieland revivalist jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Stanmore, Middlesex, probably best known for his work with his own group The Delta Jazzmen. Some of his other bands have featured talents such as Keith Nichols and John Chilton.He died on 18 O... |
Q7413179 Samyda is a genus of plants in family Salicaceae. There are 11 species, chiefly shrubs of the West Indies.The calyx is quinquepartite and coloured, there is no corolla. |
Q4679182 Adam Hamm (born July 24, 1971) is a former North Dakota Insurance Commissioner who served from 2007 to 2016. He was appointed to the position and he began his work on October 22, 2007. Hamm is a former prosecutor in the Cass County State's Attorney's office and is a native of Jamestown. He won re-election in 2... |
Q5516482 Gadzhi-Karachay is a village in the Davachi Rayon of Azerbaijan.It is suspected that this village has undergone a name change or no longer exists, as no Azerbaijani website mentions it under this name. |
Q4703907 Alfred Graham (September 27, 1905 – October 1969) was a guard who played nine seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the Dayton Triangles . He was born in Miamisburg, Ohio and died in Dayton, Ohio.Despite being a lineman, he twice scored touchdowns via fumble recoveries, once in 1927 and again i... |
Q7088358 Olong O. "Ollie" Ogbu (born May 18, 1987) is a Defensive Line coach for Blinn College in Brenham Texas. Prior to this year he coached Defensive Line at Montana State University- Northern. Previously an American Football defensive end for the Spring League and Hudson Valley Fort of the Fall Experimental Footbal... |
Q1983950 Hancăuți is a village in Edineț District, Moldova. England |
Q16956472 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007. It has been translat... |
Q2348357 Stiefelhöhe is an Odenwald mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. |
Q8077007 Ásgeir Elíasson (22 November 1949 – 9 September 2007) was a football manager and coach of the Iceland national football team between 1991 and 1995. He was manager of Fram Reykjavik for twelve years. Ásgeir played games for the Iceland national football team in three sports: football, handball and volleyball,... |
Q7810163 Tito Biel Chuor (or Chol, Chor) was a high-ranking commander in the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005).Tito Biel, of the Dok section of the Nuer people, was originally in the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), but joined Riek Machar's breakaway faction in 199... |
Q14625310 Chilostoma ambrosi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails. The species is endemic to Italy, and is currently Near threatened due to tourism. |
Q4155717 Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski (Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Двигу́бский; 1771–1839) was a Russian naturalist, professor end rector of the Imperial University of Moscow. |
Q30716336 The men's heavyweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 28 and June 29. Heavyweights were limited to a minimum of 87 kilograms in body mass. |
Q15489336 Prasophyllum flavum, commonly known as the yellow leek orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. It has a single tubular, green leaf with only a short free section and up to fifty scented, yellowish-green flowers. |
Q310962 Hilderic (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Although dead by the time the Vandal kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event.Hilderic was the grandson of king Genseric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Af... |
Q3246246 The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from 85001 through 86000, inclusive. A detailed description of the table's columns and used data sources are given on the main page. For an overview of the entire catalog of numbered minor planets, see main index. Also see the corresponding list meaning... |
Q5433739 Fane Michael Flaws (born 1951) is a New Zealand musician, songwriter, and artist. He was a member of bands including Blerta, Spats and The Crocodiles. Until joining Blerta he was known by his second name Michael: Bruno Lawrence insisted Fane was a better name.When he was in The Crocodiles, he wrote the song "T... |
Q3359347 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (also known as Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies or simply Baby Geniuses 2) is a 2004 American science fiction family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Gregory Poppen, from a story by Steven Paul. The sequel to the 1999 film Baby Geniuses, the film stars Jon Voight, Scott... |
Q6894819 Moisis Michail Bourlas (Greek: Μωυσής Μιχαήλ Μπουρλάς; May 9, 1918 – March 17, 2011) was a Greek Jewish member of the World War II resistance. |
Q2492939 State Route 768 (SR 768) is a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) long north–south state highway in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. The highway runs from its southern terminus at a signalized intersection with U.S. Route 36 (US 36) in the eastern portion of the city of Mount Vernon to its northern terminus at SR... |
Q16187055 Nick Duffy (born Nicholas John Duffy on 24 June 1956 in Birmingham, England) is a musician, artist, illustrator, and filmmaker.Nick is the elder brother of singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy. They are both co-founders of the folk-pop group The Lilac Time. Nick is a multi-instrumentalist, and has been a frequen... |
Q7129282 Pamela Wright (born 26 June 1964 in Scotland) is a veteran professional golfer who used to play on the Ladies European Tour.She played collegiate golf at Arizona State University and was All-American Second team in 1987 and All-American and All-Conference First team in 1988.She was a member of the European Sol... |
Q5393572 Ernest Mingione is an American actor mainly known for portraying police officers. He made many appearances in Third Watch between 1999 and 2000. He has appeared in shows such as Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Beginning in March 2010, he began a recurring role ... |
Q665713 Elxleben is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. |
Q3622486 Aria is the seventeenth album released by Gianna Nannini in 2002. It reached number 7 on the Italian album chart and number 29 on the album chart in Switzerland. |
Q5635146 Her Majesty's Prison Bure, more commonly known as HM Prison Bure, and often abbreviated to HMP Bure, is a Category C men's prison, located in the parish of Scottow in Norfolk, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and became operational in November 2009. |
Q6836661 Michelangelo Maestri was an Italian artist of the 18th century who died in Rome in 1812. His finest compositions are based on motifs from antique frescos discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum and from designs by Raphael or his pupil Giulio Romano. His work became very popular and often purchased by European t... |
Q5839451 Khalifehabad (Persian: خليفه آباد, also Romanized as Khalīfehābād) is a village in Nurabad Rural District, in the Central District of Delfan County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 909, in 169 families. |
Q6559222 Lissospira bushae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae, |
Q19662226 Kevinia Francis (born (1978-04-12)12 April 1978) is a female road cyclist from Antigua and Barbuda. She became Antigua and Barbuda national time trial champion in 2013. |
Q20684348 Khaled Akil born 1986 in Aleppo is a Syrian artist based in Istanbul. Akil is a self-taught artist who works with different art mediums. He is best known for his photography series Pokémon Go in Syria |
Q21953136 KAB-1500L is a Russian precision guided weapon, part of KAB-1500 family, a laser guided bomb and also the current production standard for use on 4+ and 4++ generation fighter jets, like the Sukhoi Su-30MKI/Sukhoi Su-30MKK, Sukhoi Su-34 and Sukhoi Su-35. It is claimed to be the Russian equivalent to USA's Pave... |
Q24765600 The Lone Tree School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located at 19292 250 North Avenue in rural Bureau County, Illinois. The school was built in 1876 to serve the community of Lone Tree and surrounding Wheatland Township. It was one of three schools in the township, and served school district #3; the distr... |
Q3629656 Augusto Marcacci (1892–1969) was an Italian stage and film actor. |
Q71202 Schoharie County ( skoh-HAIR-ee) is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,749, making it the state's fifth-least populous county. The county seat is Schoharie. "Schoharie" comes from a Mohawk word meaning "floating driftwood."Schoharie County is part of the Albany-S... |
Q1769306 Pine Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 11,497 at the 2010 census.Pine Township was named for the abundance of pine trees. |
Q734511 Noviomagus Reginorum was the Roman town which is today called Chichester, situated in the modern English county of West Sussex. |
Q1611654 This is a list of the tlatoque of the pre-Columbian altepetl of Texcoco. |
Q6701313 Luisa Menárguez was a Spanish harpist and educator, who taught several of the world's premier harpists of modern times, including Marisa Robles, Nicanor Zabaleta, [1] and Maria del Milagro Azpiazu. [2] She has been listed as among the great harpists Spain produced in the 20th century, alongside Isabel Espeso, ... |
Q6287190 Joseph Stevenson (27 November 1806 – 8 February 1895) was an English Catholic archivist and editor of historical texts. |
Q5220865 Danny Summers (March 25, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – July 15, 1999) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who had an 18-year pro career, 10 of which were in the AHL and enjoyed a 20-year NHL scouting career for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks. |
Q7256105 Psoloptera is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. |
Q7288972 Ramnakulam is a location in Manjeri Municipality in Malappuram district of Kerala State of south India. |
Q5446228 Fforestganol a Chwm Nofydd is a Site of Special Scientific Interest north of the M4 motorway and east of Tongwynlais, in Cardiff, Wales. |
Q7978035 The Wealthy is an American apple cultivar, and was the earliest to thrive in the Minnesota climate. Horticulturalist Peter Gideon first grew it in 1868, after years of trial and error with various apple varieties.Before 1868, only crab apples grew reliably in Minnesota. Indigenous peoples in the area harvested... |
Q6115649 Jack Waller (born 6 October 1989 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England) is a British water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Great Britain men's national water polo team in the men's event. He is 6 ft 1.5 inches tall. |
Q16924585 The Nanjing CK-1 (exported under the name Chang Kong-1 or CK-1) is a radio-controlled target drone developed by the Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics in the People's Republic of China. It is based on the reverse engineering of Lavochkin La-17C drones supplied to the PRC by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s b... |
Q15427936 Vindoline is a chemical precursor to vinblastine.Vindoline is formed through biosynthesis from Tabersonine. |
Q5987503 Nai bad (Persian: ني آباد, also Romanized as Nīābād and Neyābād; also known as Niāwa and Nīvā) is a village in Razab Rural District, in the Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 408, in 95 families. |
Q5801942 Buraki-ye Olya (Persian: بوركي عليا, also Romanized as Būrakī-ye ‘Olyā; also known as Būrakī, Būrakī Bālā, and Būrakī-ye Bālā) is a village in Khesht Rural District, Khesht District, Kazerun County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,944, in 678 families. |
Q3364195 The parc de la Cerisaie (Park of the Cherry Orchard) is an urban park in the Croix-Rousse 4th arrondissement of Lyon, France. It is partially situated on a slope, leading from the plateau of the Croix-Rousse down towards the river Saône. |
Q21010035 J. Robert Bren (July 23, 1903 – October 1, 1981) was a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer who was active from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. He wrote either the story or screenplay for thirty feature films, as well as producing at least two of those films. |
Q21005780 Maria Faka (Greek: Μαρία Φάκα; born January 2, 1979 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek sport shooter. She was selected as one of eleven shooters to represent the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and had yielded numerous top 25 finishes in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF ... |
Q2367996 Psolus chitonoides, also known as the slipper sea cucumber, the armoured sea cucumber, the creeping armoured sea cucumber or the creeping pedal sea cucumber, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Psolidae. It is found in shallow water on the western coast of North America. The scientific name "chitonoides... |
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