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Q128393 A nomad (Middle French: nomade "people without fixed habitation") is a member of a community of people without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from the same areas, including nomadic hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), and tinker or trader nomads.As of 1995, there were an estimated ... |
Q11812182 This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in 1791. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed. |
Q483140 Anaal Nathrakh are a British extreme metal band formed in 1999 in Birmingham, England. They are currently signed to Metal Blade Records. The band's name comes from Merlin's Charm of Making in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur. The band recorded two demos in 1999, which were later released as an album.The band ... |
Q6001552 Ilya Yelizarovich Yelizarov (Russian: Илья Елизарович Елизаров; born January 27, 1963) is a member of the State Duma of Russia. He is a member of the State Duma's Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism. He is a jurist; before service in the State Duma, Yelizarov was deputy editor-in-chief ... |
Q5001034 Burwash was the name of a community in Ontario, Canada, located approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Sudbury. |
Q7103074 The Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls Choir are internationally renowned choirs based in Orlando, Florida. The choirs are open to youth of all religions and backgrounds in grades 3-12.The Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls Choir are founded on European models and affiliated with the Royal School of Church Mus... |
Q16835586 The 'Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) was set up by the Council of Australian Governments through the Ministerial Council on Energy in 2005. The AEMC was established by the Australian Energy Market Commission Establishment Act 2004 (SA), and commenced in July 2005. The Commission consists of one fu... |
Q2866942 Assalé-Kouassikro is a village in eastern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Krégbé, Arrah Department, Moronou Region, Lacs District.Assalé-Kouassikro was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. |
Q6965839 Naresh Puglia (born 20 May 1948) was a member of the 12th Lok Sabha and 13th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, from the Chandrapur constituency.He was elected as a member of the Indian National Congress.On 30 November 1972, Naresh got married to Sheeladevi. He was member of Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra... |
Q4823261 Austin Robertson may refer to:Austin Robertson Sr. (born 1907), Australian rules footballer, father of Austin, Jr.Austin Robertson Jr. (born 1943), Australian rules footballer, son of Austin, Sr. |
Q16896958 Parkside Studio College is a studio school connected with Rosedale and Hewens College in Hayes, Greater London.Students who attend Parkside gain qualifications in key subjects such as English, Mathematics and Science. They also study Information and Communications Technology, Business Studies and one of six s... |
Q17051450 Deadly-2 is a 2010 Kannada action - crime biographical film directed and written by Ravi Shrivatsa. The film is based on the real life incidents of an infamous underworld don, Soma and is a sequel to the same team's 2005 released film, Deadly Soma. The film features Auditya reprising his role as the protagoni... |
Q17386218 Stavros V. Kyriakides (Greek: Σταύρος Β. Κυριακίδης; born 18 October 1971) is a Cypriot businessman and a cultural activist; Managing Director of Kyriakides Piano Gallery (SVK PIANOTECH LTD), President of Avantgarde Cultural Foundation and President of the Cultural Institute. |
Q18217604 Venetian Hills is an official neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its 2010 population was 3,790.It is bordered:on the north by Cascade Avenue/Road SW, Avon Avenue SW, and the Bush Mountain neighborhoodon the north and east by Epworth St. and the Oakland City neighborhoodon the so... |
Q20712686 Ballee is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated mainly in the historic barony of Lecale Lower, with one townland in the barony of Lecale Upper. |
Q20908970 Adams Square was an underground streetcar station located at Adams Square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1898 and was used until 1963. |
Q21039978 Florian Ruck (born 6 February 1992) is a German footballer who plays as a defender and is currently a free agent. |
Q21007785 The Phare de Québec (English: The Quebec Lighthouse) is a proposed complex located on Laurier boulevard in Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, a borough of Quebec City. The complex consists of 4 towers, the main tower at 250m and 65 floors, which would become the tallest building east of Toronto, a second tower at ... |
Q33280391 Agnar "Ag" Pytte (December 23, 1932 – November 6, 2015) was the fourth President of Case Western Reserve University.Pytte was born in Kongsberg, Norway, on December 23, 1932, to Ole and Edith (Christiansen) Pytte.During his senior year of high school, Pytte moved to the United States in 1949 to attend Phillip... |
Q3943107 Ryan Wilson is an American retired professional wrestler who formerly worked for World Wrestling Entertainment in the Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental promotion as Jacob Duncan where he was a former OVW Heavyweight Champion. He is best known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he ... |
Q7791171 Thomas J. Whelan (January 28, 1922 – July 31, 2002) was an American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as the Mayor of Jersey City from 1963 to 1971. |
Q2739004 This page is about the Cassia tora described by Linnaeus. Later authors usually applied the taxon to Senna obtusifolia.Senna tora (originally described by Linnaeus as Cassia tora) is a dicot legume in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Its name is derived from its Sinhala name Tora (තෝර). It grows wild in most o... |
Q4815103 Stella Ross-Craig (19 March 1906 – 6 February 2006) was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora. |
Q528638 Gangbusters was a historical roleplaying game designed by Rick Krebs (based on his original game called "Bloody 20's") with Mark Acres assisting in its development. The game was published by TSR, Inc. Two editions of the game were published. The first edition of the game was published in 1982.Gangbusters is a g... |
Q6391885 Kent Rogert (born September 15, 1972) is a former member of the Nebraska Legislature from Tekamah, Nebraska, United States.Born in Blair, Nebraska, he graduated from Tekamah-Herman High School in 1991. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1995.He was elected to the Legislature in 2006 servin... |
Q11791386 Niedoń [ˈɲedɔɲ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Błaszki, within Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Błaszki, 20 km (12 mi) west of Sieradz, and 73 km (45 mi) west of the regional capital Łódź. |
Q7766278 The Star Inn is a restaurant located in Harome near Helmsley in North Yorkshire, England. The pub has been in the village since the 19th century and the building dates back to the 14th century. It has been known for the quality of its food since the 1970s. The current owner is Andrew Pern who took over in 19... |
Q1915141 Quijorna is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. |
Q6560925 This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Alfred University, located in Alfred, New York, USA. |
Q4645382 The 8th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2002 Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled Next, was directed by Deyan Sudjic. Held at the Arsenale and Giardini exhibition venues, it took place from September 8 to November 3. The exhibition attracted over 100,000 visitors. |
Q5733472 Herbert Arlene (September 5, 1914 – November 9, 1989) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 3rd district from 1967 until 1980. He was the first African-American elected to the Pennsylvania Senate. He also served in the Pennsylva... |
Q16149632 The following is a list of Strictly Come Dancing contestants to date along with their age at the time of competing, professional partners, competition finish, number of dances, highest and lowest scores, total scores and average scores. It does not include any results from any of the Christmas specials or oth... |
Q5859312 Seyyed Ahmad Shah (Persian: سيد احمد شاه, also Romanized as Seyyed Āḥmad Shāh; also known as Cheshmeh Kabūd) is a village in Kuhdasht-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Kuhdasht County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 124, in 22 families. |
Q19650254 DYNJ-TV, branded as RJTV 33 Cebu, channel 33, is a UHF, free-to-air television channel in the Philippines, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network, Inc. owned by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto. This station studios and transmitters are located at Cebu City, Cebu. |
Q19589759 Hincks Wilderness Protection Area is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Hincks about 87 kilometres (54 miles) north of Port Lincoln and 35 kilometres (22 miles) south east of Lock on the Eyre Peninsula. The wilderness protection area was proclaimed... |
Q23022253 Dominican Republic competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. |
Q23771716 Mitchell Taintor (born September 11, 1994) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays as a defender for Sacramento Republic of the USL. |
Q25001132 XHCNE-FM is a radio station on 104.7 FM in Cananea, Sonora. It is owned by Grupo Larsa Comunicaciones and carries its Toño format. |
Q11471205 Yamaguma Station (山隈駅, Yamaguma-eki) is a railway station on the Amagi Line located in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Amagi Railway, a third sector public-private partnership corporation. |
Q131306 SPQR (Latin: Senātus Populusque Rōmānus, "The Roman Senate and People", or more freely as "The Senate and People of Rome"; Classical Latin: [sɛˈnaː.tus pɔpuˈlus.kʷɛ roːˈmaː.nus]) refers to the government of the ancient Roman Republic. It appears on Roman currency, at the end of documents made public by inscript... |
Q1399713 This is a list of named geological features on Saturn's moon Titan. Official names for these features have only been announced very recently, as Titan's surface was virtually unknown before the arrival of the Cassini–Huygens probe. Some features were known by informal nicknames beforehand; these names are note... |
Q4378434 The Adventures of Sally is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse. It appeared as a serial in Collier's magazine in the United States from October 8 to December 31, 1921, and in The Grand Magazine in the United Kingdom from April to July 1922.It was first published in book form in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins on 1... |
Q293071 At Dawn in Rivendell is the third album by the Danish group the Tolkien Ensemble. It features songs composed to the lyrics found in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and forms the third part of what was to become a complete musical interpretation of all poems and songs in the book. It is also the first a... |
Q5421660 Express Dairies is a former brand of Dairy Crest, that specialised almost entirely in home deliveries of milk, and other dairy products. |
Q2596452 Palaiseau is one of the four RER B stations in the city of Palaiseau. |
Q28036242 Rhamphophryne festae is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.It is found in Ecuador and Peru.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q998769 The Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) is a species of sea lion that exclusively breeds on the Galápagos Islands and – in smaller numbers – on Isla de la Plata (Ecuador). Being fairly social, and one of the most numerous species in the Galápagos archipelago, they are often spotted sun-bathing on sandy sho... |
Q7355208 Rockey Felker (born February 1, 1953) is a former quarterback, head football coach, and currently serves as director of player personnel for Mississippi State University, in Starkville, Mississippi. After serving three different stints and working for four different head coaches at Mississippi State, Felker is... |
Q1218937 Basque dialects are linguistic varieties of the Basque language which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard Basque. Between six and nine Basque dialects have been historically distinguished:BiscayanGipuzkoanUpper Navarrese (Northern and Southern)Lower Navarrese (East... |
Q7795870 Thomson Francis Mason (1785 – 21 December 1838) was a prominent jurist, lawyer, planter, councilman, judge, and the mayor of Alexandria, District of Columbia (now Virginia) between 1827 and 1830. |
Q3990933 "Thunder" is a 1994 song recorded by English boy band East 17. It was the first single from the album Up All Night. It achieved success in many countries, including Norway, Belgium (Wallonia), UK, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland where it was a top ten hit. |
Q13635112 Anaeudora is a genus of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae. There are at least two described species in Anaeudora. |
Q4800980 Arthur Joseph Gore (November 13, 1907 – September 29, 1986) was a professional baseball umpire who worked in the National League from 1947 to 1956. Gore umpired 1,464 major league games in his 10-year career. He umpired in two World Series and two All-Star Games. Gore played minor league baseball in 1928 and 1... |
Q303170 The Aar Valley Railway (German: Aartalbahn) is a 53.7 km long line between Wiesbaden, the capital of the German state of Hesse, and Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1985 to 2007, the southern end was operated as a heritage railway with historic trains. The Hessian part of the line is heritage-listed. Currentl... |
Q7421385 Sar Kalateh-ye Kafshgiri (Persian: سركلاته كفش گيري, also Romanized as Sar Kalāteh-ye Kafshgīrī; also known as Sar Kalāteh) is a village in Roshanabad Rural District, in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 967, in 240 families. |
Q5091829 Cherangani Hills Forest (Cherangany Hills Forest) is a collection of thirteen forest reserve blocks in western Kenya, located in the Cherangani Hills on the western ridge of the East African Rift. The forested area is about 1,200 square kilometres (463 sq mi), 956 square kilometres (369 sq mi) of which has bee... |
Q17082285 Patna Police (Hindi: पटना पुलिस) is the police service responsible for law enforcement within Patna district, including the capital city of Patna in an Indian state of Bihar. Patna Police is the largest police service in the state. Its headquarters are at Gandhi Maidan Marg in Patna. |
Q22075277 "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" is a song by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. It was released on 29 June 2015 as the second single from the album Venom. |
Q29887815 Rhabdobacter roseus is a Gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Rhabdobacter which has been isolated from soil. |
Q949357 Fallen Angel is the 12th studio album by British rock band Uriah Heep, released in September 1978 by Bronze Records in the UK and Chrysalis Records in the US. Fallen Angel only reached No. 186 in the US Billboard 200, but in Germany, the band were at the height of their popularity. On this album, the band moved... |
Q5519141 Gallop Racer (ギャロップレーサー) is a series of horse racing video games, created by Tecmo. Originally for the Arcades, it is available on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PC platforms. Thus far, there have been eight editions released in Japan, six in North America and two in Europe. The games in the series inclu... |
Q23707696 Pandemic is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film directed by John Suits and written by Dustin T. Benson. Rachel Nichols stars as a doctor who leads a group to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic. The film is shot in a first-person POV, similar to first-person shooter video games. |
Q7150026 Paul Crooks is a former Formula One engineer.Crooks began his career as an apprentice aeronautical engineer when he was 17 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment based in Farnborough. He spent five years there before joining RAE at the age of 22. For the next five years he worked as a detail designer on aerospace... |
Q3136779 Shades is the sixth studio album by J. J. Cale, released in February 1981. |
Q631037 HVDC BorWin1 is the first HVDC facility in the world to be built for importing power from an offshore wind park to shore, and the first to use voltage source converters (VSC) in Germany. It connects the offshore wind park BARD Offshore 1 and other offshore wind farms in Germany near Borkum to the European powe... |
Q2949153 Cottisford is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire. The parish's northern and northwestern boundaries form part of the boundary between the two counties. The parish includes the hamlet of Juniper Hill about 1 mile (1.6 km) northw... |
Q5567860 Glen "Frosty" Little (December 5, 1925 – October 26, 2010) was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization. |
Q3465196 Rõusa is a village in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish, Pärnu County in western-central Estonia. The village is located at coordinates 58°40′N 25°07′E.Journalist, writer and feminist Lilli Suburg (1841–1923) was born in Rõusa Manor. |
Q5490380 Serruria aemula is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa. It is known by the common name of strawberry spiderhead.This plant used to occur in large numbers on the Cape Flats of Cape Town. Unfortunately its natural habitat now lies under urban spraw... |
Q2660004 Marcel Céline Gerard Edgard Vanthilt (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑrˈsɛl vɑnˈtɪlt]; born 24 August 1957) is a Belgian singer and television presenter. |
Q16729232 André Geneste (born 24 January 1930) is a French former racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1961 Tour de France, where he finished in 75th place. He won he Circuit des Ardennes in 1960. |
Q31041821 Kauppinen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:Aarne Kauppinen (1889–1927), Finnish artisan, smallholder and politicianHannele Kauppinen (born 1955), Finnish singer known by her stage name TaiskaMarko Kauppinen (born 1979), Finnish ice hockey playerJuho Kauppinen (born 1986), Finnish ... |
Q19869959 The following lists events that happened during 1930 in Chile. |
Q20972390 Jay-Roy Jornell Grot (born 13 March 1998) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker or right winger for Eredivisie club Vitesse, on loan from Leeds United. He also plays for Netherlands U21's.Grot is of Surinamese descent, however to date he has only represented the Netherlands internationally... |
Q22907700 December Sleep is an EP by Seirom, independently released on December 25, 2013. |
Q23935847 The Second Battle of Mukalla refers to an armed conflict between al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Saudi-led Coalition. The aim of the coalition offensive was to disable the newly resurgent al-Qaeda Emirate in Yemen by recapturing its capital, Mukalla. The battle led to a coalition victory, in ... |
Q27078088 Ipatasertib (RG7440) is an experimental cancer drug in development by Roche. It is a small molecule inhibitor of AKT, which is a key component of the PI3K/AKT pathway. It was discovered by Array Biopharma and is currently in phase II trials for treatment of breast cancer.In vitro, ipatasertib showed activity ... |
Q8273067 Chen Hsiu-ching (Chinese: 陳秀卿; 25 October 1950 – 22 April 2011) was a Taiwanese politician. She earned an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Changhua Normal University and was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2001. She won reelection against Chen Chin-ting of the Non-Partisan Solid... |
Q2881832 Caratunk is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 69 at the 2010 census. |
Q151819 Qa'a (also Qáa or Ka'a) was the last king of the First Dynasty of Egypt. He reigned for 33 years at the end of the 30th century BC. |
Q4261198 John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995) was an American news commentator and game show panelist during the 1940s and 1950s who later became best known as a product spokesman. |
Q96879 Gustav Humbert (born February 1950 in Celle, West Germany) is the former Chief executive officer and President of Airbus SAS, and a former member of the EADS Executive Committee. |
Q6149974 Jan Stanisławski (1893–1973) was a Polish lexicographer.Before World War II, as a lecturer in English at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, Stanisławski compiled an English-Polish, Polish-English dictionary. This one-volume dictionary was reprinted during World War II in Great Britain (first reprin... |
Q570788 The pygmy falcons, Polihierax, are a genus of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It contains the following species: |
Q2792555 Igo Galama (876 to 910) was the legendary fifth potestaat (or elected governor) of Friesland, now a province of the Netherlands. There is no evidence that he existed.The history of Friesland says that Galama was elected in 876 as potestaat. He would have been an excellent soldier, who did everything possible ... |
Q2680422 Tabarin Peninsula (63°32′S 57°0′W) is a peninsula 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and 5 to 12 nautical miles (22 km) wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered and charted by the Swedish Antarcti... |
Q543752 Jango is a free online music streaming service available worldwide.Stating that its uninterrupted playlists are handmade by music experts and many of them are updated weekly, the service will recommend its users on various playlists mainly based on mood or activity. Jango offers playlists for activities such as... |
Q599429 Benny Powell (March 1, 1930 – June 26, 2010) was an African-American jazz trombonist. He played both standard (tenor) trombone and bass trombone. |
Q1572750 Samuel Adamson (born 27 November 1969) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter who has lived and worked in the UK since 1991. He was born in Adelaide and lives in London. |
Q6186329 Jesse Fortune (February 28, 1930 – August 31, 2009) was an American Chicago blues singer and barber. |
Q4584483 The 1988 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by third-year head coach Keith Gilbertson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Ida... |
Q4984564 Buddleja davidii 'Purple Friend' is a British cultivar raised by Andrew Bullock of The Lavender Garden, Tetbury, and introduced to commerce in 2002. The shrub was named by Natasha Bellamy as a 'good Purple Friend' for Butterflies.[1] |
Q4999353 Burma sent a delegation to compete at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its athletes finished twenty eight in the overall medal count. |
Q16463807 Nasimabad (Persian: نسيم اباد) may refer to:Nasimabad, FarsNasimabad, IsfahanNasimabad-e Bala, Isfahan ProvinceNasimabad, QazvinNasimabad, Razavi Khorasan |
Q8046075 YWCA Greater Los Angeles is a charitable organization with a focus on addressing issues of poverty, homelessness, domestic violence and skills training for the community. |
Q18527650 Rosamond Davenport Hill (4 August 1825 – 6 August 1902) was a British educational administrator and prison reformer. |
Q19968724 David Laury III (born April 9, 1990) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Lamar State and Iona. |
Q20487002 Coal Brook is a tributary of the Lackawanna River in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 2.2 miles (3.5 km) long and flows through Fell Township and Carbondale. The watershed of the stream has an area of 1.93 square miles (5.0 km2). The stream experiences flow loss and ... |
Q2431273 Otis is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Lower partial hedge of Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,612 at the 2010 census.For geographic and demographic information on East Otis, which is part of the town of Otis, see East Otis, Massachusetts.... |
Q132240 HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, the ships significantly improved on the speed, armament, and armour of the preceding Indefatigable class. T... |
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