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Q17074487 The People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) is a global, ad hoc network of individuals concerned about the operations, development, management, and regulation of the Internet in responsible ways, co-founded by Lauren Weinstein and Peter G. Neumann in November, 1999 in California. PFIR is attempting to beco... |
Q1983003 In biological morphology and anatomy, a sulcus (pl. sulci) is a furrow or fissure. It may be a groove in the surface of a limb or an organ, notably in the surface of the brain, but also in the lungs, certain muscles (including the heart), as well as in bones, and elsewhere. Many sulci are the product of a surf... |
Q7079798 Ogallah is an unincorporated community in Trego County, Kansas, United States. It is located approximately 7 miles east of WaKeeney. |
Q460912 Dimitrios Ioannidis (Greek: Δημήτριος Ιωαννίδης [ðiˈmitri.os i.oaˈniðis]; 13 March 1923 – 16 August 2010), also known as Dimitris Ioannidis, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. |
Q1034644 The Capital District Islanders were a team in the American Hockey League based in Troy, New York, which is located within a region popularly called the Capital District. The Islanders were the principal minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Islanders during the 1990–91, 1991–92 and 19... |
Q1931393 Live at Slane Castle is a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert video released in 2003, two years after the release of their last concert DVD, Off the Map. The concert taped was their second show at Slane Castle in Ireland, the Foo Fighters also played as the opening act, and have their own DVD footage of the concert.... |
Q6414584 Stanley "Kip" Jordan was an American soccer defender who was a 1973 first team All American, then spent three seasons in the North American Soccer League (NASL).Jordan attended Cornell University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1970-1973. He was a 1972 Honorable Mention (third team) and a 1973 first te... |
Q2698070 Tušovice is a village and municipality in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. |
Q148734 Sparganium erectum, the simplestem bur-reed or branched bur-reed, is a perennial plant species in the genus Sparganium.The larvae of the moth Plusia festucae feed on Sparganium erectum. |
Q7700430 The women's doubles event at the 2010 South American Games was held on 24–27 March. |
Q2057521 Vincent Malo or Vincent Malo I (Cambrai 1585/1605, (ca. 1595) – Rome, 1649) was a Flemish painter who after training and working in Antwerp was mainly active in Italy, where he was known, amongst others, as Vincenzo Malo and Vincenzio Malo. |
Q5722132 Henry Graham, of Levens (ca. 1676 – 7 January 1706/1707), also spelt Grahme, was an English gentleman, heir to a Westmorland estate, and member of parliament.Graham was the eldest of the three sons of James Grahme or Graham of Levens (1649–1729), by his marriage to Dorothy Howard, daughter of William Howard an... |
Q2070249 "The Bungy" is the second major single by the Japanese band Nico Touches the Walls released on June 4, 2008, from their debut album Who Are You?. |
Q7257805 This is a list of public holidays in Malawi.Where the relevant event falls on a non-working day, the holiday is on the next working day. |
Q983177 Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid, (born 24 April 1989), also known as Melani Costa, is a Spanish competition swimmer.She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m and the 4 x 200 m freestyle. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 400 metre freestyle, finishing 9th in the heats, failing to qualify fo... |
Q5663008 Mollalar-e Mohammadreza Kandi (Persian: ملالارمحمدرضاكندي, also Romanized as Mollālār-e Moḩammadreẕā Kandī; also known as Mollālar) is a village in Goyjah Bel Rural District, in the Central District of Ahar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 27, in 4 families. |
Q17157186 PhoneDog v. Kravitz, No. 11-03474 (N.D. Cal. November 8, 2011), was a case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California about whether Twitter accounts and their passwords could be company property or trade secrets. In this case a mobile device news website PhoneDog sued Noah Kra... |
Q16066649 Thomas Breckenridge (born 26 February 1865 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Heart of Midlothian, Leith Athletic and Scotland. |
Q1342807 Hayama (葉山町, Hayama-machi) is a town located in Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshū, Japan. As of June 2012, the town had an estimated population of 32,835, and a density of 1,920 per km2. The total area is 17.06 km2. Since 1894, the Japanese Imperial Family has maintained a residence in Hayama, the seaside... |
Q702659 The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; Chinese: 中華民國空軍; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Kōngjūn, lit. "Chinese Republic Air Military") is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces. The ROCAF's primary mission is the defense of the airspace over and around Taiwan. Priorities of the ROCAF includ... |
Q1440914 Nanaimo is a partially elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on Nanaimo Street between Vanness Avenue and East 24th Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The station takes its name from Nanaimo Street, which is named after the city... |
Q4039351 George is On is the second album by dance music duo Deep Dish. It features their Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart hit "Flashdance" (which features Anousheh Khalili) (also their biggest UK chart hit, reaching #3), as well as a remake of the classic Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams", for which Stevie Nicks provided... |
Q8026473 Wintering Out (1972) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
Q5597586 Grassroots Films of Brooklyn, New York is an independent film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films. Its most recent title is " The Human Experience" |
Q14914496 Tyrosine-protein kinase JAK3 is a tyrosine kinase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the JAK3 gene. |
Q4648893 The A156 is an 11 miles (18 km) long road that runs from the A57 near Saxilby and heads north to Gainsborough. The road runs entirely within Lincolnshire right next to the border with Nottinghamshire. It is a single carriageway for its entire length apart from one small stretch at Torksey Lock where the A1133 ... |
Q195452 Selina Jane Cadell (born 12 August 1953) is an English actress. She is the younger sister of the late actor Simon Cadell and granddaughter of actress Jean Cadell. She is the great niece of the Scottish artist Francis Cadell. |
Q1772521 Boquira is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. |
Q4790854 Sebakwe River or Zibagwe River is a river in Zimbabwe.Sebakwe River is located in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. It has a length 150 kilometres (93 mi) straight line from source to mouth, and is a tributary of Munyati River which it joins in Zhombe East at 18°36′10″S 29°37′08″E.Sebakwe River descends from ... |
Q5268800 A list of all films produced in the Bangladesh film industry in 2011 which are mainly known as Dhallywood. |
Q16850066 İşbank Museum is a bank museum in İstanbul, Turkey |
Q17108483 Millersburg is an unincorporated community in Forest Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.The community is located along Rice County Road 1 (Millersburg Boulevard) near its junction with Chester Avenue. Nearby places include Lonsdale, Faribault, Northfield, and Dundas.ZIP codes 55046 (Lonsdale), 55... |
Q17183866 This May Be the Last Time is a 2014 American documentary film produced and directed by Sterlin Harjo. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2014.After its premiere at Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Channel acquired the distribution rights of the film. The film receive... |
Q18358783 Vernon is an unincorporated community in Woodson County, Kansas, in the United States. |
Q18351289 Derrick Harrison (12 December 1929 – 23 December 1967) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 605), and Batley, as a prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums. |
Q21189826 Tubi is an American streaming service based in San Francisco, California, United States, that launched in 2014. The service provides more than 12,000 titles, including movies and TV shows from studios such as Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures. Tubi is a fr... |
Q22089189 Sunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist. Yapa won the 2010 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "Pilgrims (What is Lost and You Cannot Regain)," which is also published in the Fall 2010 issue of Hyphen, Issue No. 21, the "New Legacy Issue." His debut novel, Yo... |
Q16646041 John Flowers (born June 13, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Champagne Châlons-Reims Basket of LNB Pro A.His mother Pam Kelly-Flowers is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. As a senior at St. Mary's Ryken High School, he averaged 18 points and 13.2 rebounds. Flowers committ... |
Q206271 Ummagumma is the fourth album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It is a double album and was released on 7 November 1969 by Harvest Records. The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester that contained part of their normal set... |
Q2924966 Brian Christopher Moore (born 11 January 1962) is an English former rugby union footballer. He played as a hooker, and is a rugby presenter and pundit for BBC Sport, Talksport and Love Sport Radio. He qualified as a Rugby Football Union referee in February 2010. |
Q387901 Afriqiyah Airways (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية Al-Khuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al-Afrīqiyyah) is a state-owned airline based in Tripoli, Libya. Before the 17 February 2011 revolution, it operated domestic services between Tripoli and Benghazi, and international scheduled services to over 25 countries in Europe, Afr... |
Q1051633 North Warwickshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Craig Tracey, a Conservative. |
Q4945432 Boris the Sprinkler is a punk rock band that formed in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1992. |
Q223483 The coat of arms of Montserrat] was adopted in 1909. The arms consist of a shield featuring a lady in green representing Erin, the female personification of Ireland, based on the mythology of Ériu. The lady is holding a golden harp, a symbol of Ireland that features in Ireland's coat of arms. The cross she embr... |
Q5396838 Escambe (also known as San Cosme y San Damián de Cupaica, San Damián de Cupaica, San Cosmo y San Damías De Escambe, or San Damián de Cupahica) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the 17th century in the Florida Panhandle, three miles northwest of the present-day town of Tallahassee, Florida. It was part ... |
Q7267579 Qi Jia (Chinese: 齐佳, born August 9, 1984 in Changchun) is a Chinese ice dancer. She competes with Sun Xu. They are the 2002 & 2003 Chinese national silver medalists and the 2001 national bronze medalists. Their highest placement at an ISU championship was 10th at the 2002 Four Continents Championships. |
Q10853556 This uniform polyhedron compound is a symmetric arrangement of 6 pentagonal antiprisms. It can be constructed by inscribing within an icosahedron one pentagonal antiprism in each of the six possible ways, and then rotating each by 36 degrees about its axis (that passes through the centres of the two opposite ... |
Q1073270 Richeville is a commune in the Eure department in north western France. |
Q6557984 Lisa Renee Foiles is an American actress, presenter, video game journalist, model and YouTuber, who first came to prominence as a cast member of the Nickelodeon series All That. |
Q4888124 Columbarium is a genus of deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinellidae, the pagoda shells.The shells of most species in this family have a long siphonal canal and a noticeable peripheral keel. |
Q6413606 The Kingston Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of May at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Restricted to horses bred in the State of New York, three years of age and older, it is contested on Turf over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (eight and a half furl... |
Q733937 The Siege of Athlone was part of the Williamite War in Ireland between the supporters of King James II, who were known as Jacobites, and the supporters of King William of Orange. The siege began on July 17, 1690 when Williamite Lieutenant-General James Douglas arrived outside the Jacobite held city of Athlone w... |
Q1391665 The International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS) is a journal for cross-disciplinary research, development and applications of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS). The Journal promotes interdisciplinary research and development in an international environment with a focu... |
Q15998700 Narayan Malhar Joshi (5 June 1879 – 30 May 1955) was an Indian trade union leader and follower of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.Joshi got involved in labour issues and started the All India Trade Union Congress in 1921 along with Lala Lajpat Rai. He was the general secretary of AITUC from 1925 to 1929 and from 1940 t... |
Q16902922 Ward Lake, also known as Bill Evers Reservoir, is a 255 acre body of water in Manatee County, Florida, in the United States. It provides most of the water for the city of Bradenton and is a water feature in the Manatee River watershed. |
Q19662014 Cristina Irma Greve (born 20 July 1987) is an Argentine professional racing cyclist. She rides for the Itau Shimano Ladies Power Team. |
Q17173663 The canton of Angers-1 is an administrative division of the Maine-et-Loire department, in western France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Angers.It consists of the following communes:Angers (partly) |
Q39058359 Government Engineering College (GCE), Thanjavur is a government engineering college in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India. It was established in 2012 and offers various courses in UG & PG in Engineering and Technology and it is accredited from UGC and it is affiliated to Anna University.The Tamil Nadu government has... |
Q152211 The Black September Organization (BSO) (Arabic: منظمة أيلول الأسود, Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-aswad) was a Palestinian militant organization founded in 1970. It was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal, and the Munich massacre, in which eleven Israeli athletes and officials wer... |
Q866496 Ferguson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 – 12 July 1932), known as Fergus Hume, was a prolific English novelist. |
Q565487 Leftoverture is the fourth studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1976. The album was reissued in remastered format on CD in 2001. It was the band's first album to be certified by the RIAA, and remains their highest selling album, having been certified 5 times platinum in the United States. |
Q1593152 Hector Munro Chadwick (22 October 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English philologist and historian, fellow of Clare College and professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1912–41), described by Peter Searby as 'one of the notable polymaths of Cambridge history'. He took a leading role in integrati... |
Q1981262 The Mius-Front was a heavily fortified German Nazi defensive line along the Mius River in the Donbass region of the Soviet Union and Ukraine during World War II.It was created by the Germans in October 1941, under direction of General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. By the summer of 1943, the Mius-Front consiste... |
Q514605 Pablo Gómez Álvarez (born 1946, in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician. He was president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Senator.He outstandingly participated in the student's movement of 1968. On October 2, 1968, he was taken by the authorities at the Plaza of the Three Cultures during the... |
Q7440833 Sean Frederick Bergman (born April 11, 1970) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, and Minnesota Twins between 1993 and 2000. Bergman attended Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, Illinois, before atte... |
Q1668747 Paratrooper is a 1982 computer game, written by Greg Kuperberg and published by Orion Software. It is based on a 1981 Apple II game called Sabotage developed by Mark Allen. |
Q7028719 Niclas Bendixen (born 8 April 1972) is a Danish director. He won the Reumert prize for the production of the play 69, and the musical En kort en lang. His first television series just aired on Danish national television DR1, the show is called Ditte & Louise which he directed all 8 episodes of the first season... |
Q3996499 The 1960 France rugby union tour of South America was a series of rugby union matches played by the France national team in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.France played a series of matches in Argentina (including three tests v the national team) and also two games in Chile and Uruguay, although those are not con... |
Q7868761 USS David K. Philips (ID-978) was a United States Navy harbor tug during World War I.David K. Philips was built in 1877. She was purchased by the Navy and placed in service on 21 May 1917. She was assigned to the 5th Naval District where she performed net patrol and harbor tug duties in the Norfolk, Virginia r... |
Q5631275 HMS Algerine was a Pigmy-class 10-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She was launched in March 1810. She served in the North Sea and then transferred to the West Indies, where she was wrecked in 1813. |
Q3049946 El Hassaine-Béni Yahi is a town and commune in Mostaganem Province, Algeria. It is located in Aïn Nouïssy District. |
Q5347138 Eerstehoek is a settlement in Gert Sibande District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. |
Q5857554 Abbasabad-e Olya (Persian: عباس ابادعليا, also Romanized as ‘Abbāsābād-e ‘Olyā; also known as ‘Abbāsābād-e Bālā) is a village in Sarcheshmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rafsanjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q16275248 Crínóc, Gaelic feminine forename.Crínóc is attested by a single obituary, dated 1044, for a woman called Crínóc ingen Muirethaig. |
Q16908847 The Manchester Ardwick by-election of 1931 was held on 22 June 1931. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Thomas Lowth. It was won by the Labour candidate Joseph Henderson. |
Q10468577 Den andra skivan is a 2003 GES studio album. |
Q22285859 Leccinum truebloodii is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was described as new to science in 1968 by mycologists Alexander H. Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers, and Roy Watling. |
Q41498748 Jo-Anne Marie Luxton (born 1973) is a New Zealand politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. |
Q3289567 Marcelle Mersereau, (born February 14, 1942 in Pointe-Verte, New Brunswick) is a Canadian politician.A civil servant for most of her career, she also served as a councillor on Bathurst, New Brunswick city council while on the provincial payroll from 1980 to 1991. She resigned her seat on council upon being ele... |
Q7986504 West Side Avenue is a terminal station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located near Claremont Avenue on West Side of Jersey City, New Jersey. |
Q3658128 Blue Love is a compilation album by Antique. The songs are mainly the English versions of the songs featured on Alli Mia Fora. The album was released in Scandinavia by Bonnier Music, and in Greece by V2 Records. It peaked on the Greek Foreign Albums Chart at number one. In June 2008, the album was reprinted an... |
Q2602172 In enzymology, a hydroxymalonate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.167) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactionhydroxymalonate + NAD+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } oxomalonate + NADH + H+Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are hydroxymalonate and NAD+, whereas its... |
Q18047741 Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 4 isoform 2, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the COX4I2 gene. COX4I2 is a nuclear-encoded isoform of cytochrome c oxidase (COX) subunit 4. Cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV) is a multi-subunit enzyme complex that couples the transfer of electrons from cytoch... |
Q1165092 La Regrippière is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. |
Q5868107 The History of local government districts in Middlesex outside the metropolitan area began in 1835 with the formation of poor law unions. This was followed by the creation of various forms of local government body to administer the rapidly growing towns of the area. By 1934 until its abolition in 1965, the ent... |
Q7047748 Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs is a 1991 opera by Michael Nyman that began as an opera-ballet titled La Princesse de Milan choreographed by Karine Saporta. The libretto is William Shakespeare's The Tempest, as abridged by the composer. The title is derived from Caliban's line, "This isle is full of noises, soun... |
Q1335063 Wucheng (Chinese: 婺城; pinyin: Wùchéng) is a district of the city of Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China. |
Q5493195 François R. Bouchet is a French astronomer specializing in physical cosmology, including formation of large scale structures and cosmic background radiation. He serves as the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris liaison for the Planck Mission Project. |
Q272457 Hurricane Carol in 1953 was the strongest storm of the 1953 Atlantic hurricane season and the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin since the 1938 New England hurricane. Carol is also the first named storm to attain Category 5 status. Carol developed on August 28 off the west coast of Africa, althoug... |
Q6382557 Keddaso (also spelled Keddasa ( Tulu: keḍḍasa ಕೆಡ್ಡಸ )), or Bhumi Puje, is popularly known as the "festival of worshipping Mother Earth" in the Tulu Nadu region of South India. Mother Earth(Bhoomi Devi) gets menstruated and the day is celebrated holistically in Tulunad in the name of ‘Keddasa’. This is an imp... |
Q4588844 The 1993 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and were coached by Terry Donahue. It was Donahue's 18th season as the UCLA head coach. The Bruins fini... |
Q10695708 The Ol' Razzle Dazzle is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, and was released by Eleven on 1 June 2012. Higgins began work on the album after a quiet retreat from the industry to refocus her life on other pursuits, including attending University and living in a share house. A... |
Q6818459 Ali bin Kmeikh Al-Muraikhi-Al-Mutairi (Arabic: علي بن كميخ المريخي المطيري) commonly known as Ali Komaikh (Arabic: علي كميخ) is a Saudi Arabian former football player who is currently manager of the Jordanian club Shabab Al-Ordon. |
Q365725 Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in Weimar Germany. |
Q21066361 Babachi Lawal is the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria and former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, North-East zone.He was sworn-in as Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria on August 31, 2015 along with Femi Adesina, the incumbent special adviser on media and publicity to Muhamm... |
Q21010044 Grande Fratello 14 premieres on 24 September 2015. It is the 14th Italian edition of the reality franchise Big Brother. For the last time Alessia Marcuzzi returned as the main host of the show. This also had a twist, which was housemates were divided in pairs.Federica Lepanto emerged as the winner on Day 78. |
Q13388240 Lecithocera sextacta is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea. |
Q19285850 Hugh l'Aleman, who died 1264, was a knight of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and heir to the Lordship of Caesarea via his mother. |
Q5930392 Hugh Colvin VC (1 February 1887 – 16 September 1962) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.He was 30 years old, and a second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Cheshi... |
Q4699669 Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya (Nepali: अजय कुमार चौरसिया) is a Nepalese politician. He is representative to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the Nepalese legislative election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.He has been Member of Parliament from Nepali Congress .He is representative from the Parsa District,Constituency 2, Raut... |
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