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Q4753758 Anders Dahlvig, born 1957 in Sweden, is the former president of the Swedish furniture store chain, IKEA. Dahlvig started working for IKEA in 1984 and has held various positions since, including Store Manager, Country Manager of United Kingdom and Vice President, Europe. He held the position of CEO between 1999... |
Q7934147 Virginia "Ginnie" Bethel Moon (1844–1925) was born in Virginia in 1844. When she was young, her family moved to Oxford, Ohio where they lived in what is now known as the "Lottie Moon House." She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agen... |
Q4676152 Acromantis is a genus of praying mantis in the subfamily Acromantinae of the family Hymenopodidae. |
Q3602203 The 1984 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in North Conway, New Hampshire in the United States and was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix. The tournament ran from July 30 through August 6, 1984. Joakim Nyström won the singles title. |
Q2064307 Platon Svyrydov (Ukrainian: Платон Миколайович Свиридов; born 20 November 1986, in USSR) is a Ukrainian footballer. He plays for FC Avanhard Kramatorsk. |
Q7235677 Poundswick Grammar School or PGS was a mainstream secondary school in the Poundswick Corridor of "Wythenshawe" and at its peak had over 500 pupils. |
Q684103 Diolinoir is a variety of red wine grape. It was created by André Jaquinet at Station Fédérale de Recheres en Production Végétale de Changins in 1970 by crossing Rouge de Diolly and Pinot noir. Total Swiss plantations of the variety in 2009 stood at 112 hectares (280 acres).Diolinoir has very good resistance to... |
Q3479725 Sergei Vladimirovich Fedorchenko (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Федорченко; born 18 September 1974) is a Kazakhstani former gymnast who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.The "Fedorchenko" is a dismount from high bar with two laid out backflips and three twists. It remains rar... |
Q6383512 Kehunia is a village about 10 km from Narkatiaganj and 30 km from Bettiah in the West Champaran district of Bihar state in northern India. |
Q6272589 Jonathan Binns Were C.M.G., J.P. Victoria, (25 April 1809 – 6 September 1885) was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and a stockbroker — the eponym of JBWere.Were was the third son of the late Nicholas Were, of Landcox, Somerset, and was born at Wellington, in that county. ... |
Q15295658 Yeongwol Challenger Tennis is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Yeongwol County, South Korea. The first event was held on November 2013. Although the actual prize money is $35,000, the tournament belongs to the category of $50,000 and the ranking point is 80 for the winner, and... |
Q17053233 Pioneer DJ (formerly Pioneer Pro DJ) is a brand of Pioneer Corporation that represents the company's range of DJ products. In March 2015 KKR acquired an 85.05 percent stake. The Pioneer DJ product range comprises DJ mixers, decks, headphones, effects units, all-in-one consoles, DJ software controllers, monito... |
Q2220397 Stygopholcus skotophilus is a cellar spider species found in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Montenegro. |
Q23014975 This is a list of Italian television related events from 2015. |
Q29025125 Math Pilots is a private school in Singapore. The school's mission is to cultivate creative and lifelong learning leaders by developing and implementing advanced educational programs and teaching methods enabling students to master knowledge and skills in the fastest possible and inspiring way. Accelerated le... |
Q10278028 Eucithara fusiformis is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. |
Q2164934 Andrena erigeniae, the spring beauty andrena, is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America. |
Q5538834 George Edgar Slusser (July 14, 1939 – November 4, 2014) was an American scholar, professor and writer. Slusser was a well-known science fiction critic. A professor emeritus of comparative literature at University of California, Riverside, he was the first curator of the Eaton collection. |
Q312554 Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is a retired Indian professional tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2006, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a car... |
Q2718934 In celestial mechanics, the longitude of the periapsis, also called longitude of the pericenter, of an orbiting body is the longitude (measured from the point of the vernal equinox) at which the periapsis (closest approach to the central body) would occur if the body's orbit inclination were zero. It is usuall... |
Q233053 A bicycle mechanic or bike mechanic is a mechanic who can perform a wide range of repairs on bicycles. Bicycle mechanics can be employed in various types of stores, ranging from large department stores to small local bike shops; cycling teams, or bicycle manufacturers. |
Q447124 Alphons Czibulka, Alfons Czibulka, or Czibulka Alfonz (14 May 1842 – 27 October 1894) was an Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist, and conductor. |
Q2470261 Miletus (Ancient Greek: Μίλητος) was a character from Greek mythology. |
Q7351324 Robert Young, LL.D., F.E.S.L. (10 September 1822 – 14 October 1888) was a Scottish publisher who was self-taught and proficient in various Oriental languages. He published works, the best known possibly being a Bible translation (commonly referred to as Young's Literal Translation) and his "analytical concorda... |
Q578580 In computing, an odd–even sort or odd–even transposition sort (also known as brick sort) is a relatively simple sorting algorithm, developed originally for use on parallel processors with local interconnections. It is a comparison sort related to bubble sort, with which it shares many characteristics. It func... |
Q7200457 Plagigeyeria is a genus of very small or minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. |
Q7764490 The Sinking Citizenship are a rock band, formed in 2002 in Melbourne, Australia. |
Q22061 Grundviller (German: Grundweiler, Lorraine Franconian: Grendwiller) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. |
Q4987340 Bulbophyllum ambrosia is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. |
Q591015 Barão de Grajaú is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. |
Q2426547 Thomas Pleisch (17 December 1913 – 16 March 1936) was a Swiss ice hockey player who competed for the Swiss national team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. |
Q16927611 Gravity was a start up Content Personalization Company based out of Los Angeles, USA. They helped publishers and advertisers deliver personalized content and ads. The company was founded in 2009 by Amit Kapur, Jim Benedetto, and Steve Pearman. The company was acquired by AOL in January 2014 for a reported $90... |
Q3596412 009 Re:Cyborg is a 2012 Japanese anime film by Kenji Kamiyama. The film takes place in Cyborg 009's future timeline. |
Q17651478 The Zec de la Lièvre (English: "Zec of Hare") is a zone d'exploitation contrôlée (controlled harvesting zone) (ZEC) in the unorganized territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan, in Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec, in Canada. |
Q20639095 Ferretti Battery (Maltese: Batterija ta' Ferretti), also known as Qajjenza Battery (Maltese: Batterija tal-Qajjenza) or Saint George's Battery (Maltese: Batterija ta' San Ġorġ), is an artillery battery in the village of Qajjenza, within the limits of Birżebbuġa, in Malta. It was built by the Order of Saint Jo... |
Q20949881 Almost Friends is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jake Goldberger. The film stars Freddie Highmore, Odeya Rush, Haley Joel Osment, Christopher Meloni, and Marg Helgenberger.The film premiered on October 14, 2016 at the Austin Film Festival. It was released in North America on Novembe... |
Q28224813 The Leader of GroenLeft is the most senior politician within GreenLeft (Dutch: GroenLinks, GL) in the Netherlands. The post is currently held by Jesse Klaver, who succeeded Bram van Ojik in 2015. |
Q962442 Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly ... |
Q599245 Poʻipū (literally, "crashing waves" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County on the southern side of the island of Kauaʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. The population was 979 at the 2010 census. The town features a group of high-end hotels, resorts and one main shopping center. |
Q232023 al-Qalam (Arabic: القلم, “The Pen”) is the sixty-eighth chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 52 verses (āyāt). The Surat describes Allah's justice and the judgment day. Three important themes of this Surah are response to the opponents objections, warning and admonition to the disbelievers, and exhortation of pa... |
Q14876709 Proprotein convertase 1, also known as prohormone convertase, prohormone convertase 3, or neuroendocrine convertase 1 and often abbreviated as PC1/3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PCSK1 gene. PCSK1 and PCSK2 differentially cleave proopiomelanocortin and they act together to process proinsulin a... |
Q6133885 James F. Finlay was a Scottish rugby union player.He was capped four times for Scotland between 1871–75, including the first ever international. He also played for Edinburgh Academicals.He was the brother of Arthur Finlay and Ninian Finlay who were also capped for Scotland. They all appeared together once in 1... |
Q4209319 The Australian fifty-dollar note is an Australian banknote with a face value of fifty Australian dollars (A$50). It is currently a polymer banknote, featuring portraits of David Unaipon and Edith Cowan. |
Q647594 Dalian Polytechnic University (Chinese: 大连工业大学; pinyin: Dàlián Gōngyè Dàxué) is a university in Dalian, Liaoning. |
Q2857611 Antsahavaribe is a town and commune (Malagasy: kaominina) in northern Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Sambava, which is a part of Sava Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 17,000 in 2001 commune census.Only primary schooling is available. The majority 90% of the pop... |
Q3258089 Lohgarh is a village in Notified Area Committee of Zirakpur in district Mohali in state of Punjab in India. This is not to be confused with another namesake Lohgarh (Bilaspur) in Haryana which was capital of first Sikh state under Banda Singh Bahadur from years 1710-1715.The postal code of Lohgarh is 140603. |
Q4646261 The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 99.5 MHz: |
Q637123 Kim is a male or female given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball and Kimiko. In Kenya it is short for Kimani or Kimathi which are male namesA notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, publi... |
Q7892434 The 1956 United States elections was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. The election saw no major change in power as the Republicans defended the presidency and the Democrats retained control of Congress.In the presidential election, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic former Governor... |
Q10522303 Herbampulla is a monotypic genus of fungi in the family Magnaporthaceae containing the sole species Herbampulla crassirostris. |
Q938542 Maílson Ferreira da Nóbrega (Cruz do Espírito Santo, Paraíba, May 14, 1942) is a Brazilian economist. He was Finance minister in José Sarney's administration during a period of hyperinflation in the late 1980s. He is married and has five children. |
Q17072138 Mazraeh-ye Ahsham Molai (Persian: مزرعه احشام ملائي, also Romanized as Mazra‘eh-ye Āḩshām Molā’ī) is a village in Rostaq Rural District, Rostaq District, Darab County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9, in 4 families. |
Q19987217 Mount Gilead Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings in the central business district of Mount Gilead. It was developed between 1900 and 1955 and includes notable examples of Earl... |
Q21187527 This is a summary of 1931 in music in the United Kingdom. |
Q3042472 The following events occurred in December 1940: |
Q38019135 Daniel Paisner is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator. He has published more than sixty books, including fourteen New York Times best-sellers. He is also the author of three novels, and several works of non-fiction. His novel A Single Happened T... |
Q5368440 Wu Zhu (simplified Chinese: 五铢; traditional Chinese: 五銖; pinyin: wǔ zhū; literally: 'Five Zhu') is a type of Chinese cash coin produced from the Han dynasty in 118 BC when they replaced the earlier San Zhu (三銖; "Three Zhu") cash coins, which had replaced the Ban Liang (半兩) cash coins a year prior, until they t... |
Q1431350 Gander International Airport (IATA: YQX, ICAO: CYQX) is located in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and is operated by the Gander International Airport Authority. Canadian Forces Base Gander shares the airfield but is a separate entity from the airport. |
Q958377 Baron Karol Otto Kniaziewicz (4 May 1762 in Assiten, Courland (now Asīte, Latvia) – 9 May 1842 in Paris) was a Polish general and political activist.Karol attended the Knight School in Warsaw. He participated in the Polish-Russian war of 1792 and the Kościuszko Uprising in the rank of a Major-General in 1794. H... |
Q2897939 Paula Ackerman (Hebrew: פאולה אקרמן, December 7, 1893 — January 12, 1989) was the first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leading the Beth Israel congregation in Meridian, Mississippi from 1951–53 (making her the first woman to assume spiritual leadership of a U.S. mainstream Jewish ... |
Q1359966 Tau Pegasi (τ Pegasi, abbreviated Tau Peg, τ Peg), formally named Salm (a homophone with the planet Samh), is a 4.6 magnitude star in the constellation of Pegasus. |
Q6020775 The Indian Journal of Gastroenterology is a peer-reviewed bimonthly medical journal covering gastroenterology. It is published by the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and is indexed and abstracted in Index Medicus, MEDLINE, and Excerpta Medica.The journal was established in 1982. Past editors-in-chief includ... |
Q7371375 Route 14 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration between Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland. At most times, the line operates from the Patapsco Light Rail Stop in southern Baltimore with short turns at Jumper's Hole in Pasadena. The bus route, one of the longest local routes operated by M... |
Q3948290 Sandro Ruffini (21 September 1889 – 29 November 1954) was an Italian film actor and voice actor. He appeared in 64 films between 1913 and 1954, and was also active in theatre and radio. He was well known for his beautiful "aristocratic" voice and dubbed the voices of many actors for the Italian versions of the... |
Q405816 Ein Feshkha (Arabic: عين فشخة; Hebrew: עינות צוקים, Einot Tzukim; lit. "Cliff springs") is a nature reserve and archaeological site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, about three kilometers south of Qumran in the West Bank. It is named for a spring of brackish water in the area. The Ein Feshkha nature... |
Q6013946 Inbetween is the second studio album by Swedish girlband Bubbles, released on 4 November 2002. It produced two hit singles on the Swedish charts. The song "Somewhere" entered into the charts on 26 April 2002. It peaked at number 10 and remained on the charts for 12 weeks, and it was also included on the Ice Ag... |
Q7081951 Okewela is a small town in Sri Lanka. It is located within Southern Province. |
Q6923255 Mount Rodica (1966 m) is a peak in the Julian Alps in Slovenia. It is accessible from Vogel Ski Resort above Ukanc in the Municipality of Bohinj. |
Q5336702 Eddy Wymeersch is former Chair of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (Belgium), Brussels; Chairman of the European Regional Committee and Member of the Executive Committee and of the Technical Committ... |
Q919781 The 1955–56 British National League season was the second season of the British National League. Five teams participated in the league, and the Nottingham Panthers won the championship. |
Q7147276 Patrick Mullee (born 8 October 1954) is a retired British diplomat. He was the ambassador to Uruguay and Ecuador. |
Q2612317 The Milavce culture was a Bronze Age culture, part of the Urnfield culture. Its type site is Milavče in the Czech Republic. |
Q8045439 Xylodromus uralensis is a species of beetle in the rove beetle family that is endemic to Russia. |
Q4830005 Aweiden or Aweyden was first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany, located south of the city center. Its territory is now part of the Moskovsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia. |
Q18643662 GFH is a financial investment group, with headquarters in Bahrain Financial Harbour (Bahrain), listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange, Kuwait Stock Exchange and Dubai Financial Market. In 2007, GFH listed its GDR’s in the London Stock Exchange. They provide diversified investment and commercial portfolio in s... |
Q20926297 Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness is a 2012 autobiography by the ultramarathon champion Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on June 5, 2012. The book was an instant New York Times best seller, debuting at #7 in hardback non-fiction and remained... |
Q4245529 Vladimir Ivanovich Kuzyutkin (Russian: Владимир Иванович Кузюткин; born 20 February 1947) is a Soviet and Russian volleyball coach, who from 2009–2011 worked as head coach of the Russia women's national volleyball team and helped his team to win the 2010 World Cup. In 2011 he was named a Honored Coach of Russi... |
Q2738622 The University of Salford, Manchester is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) west of Manchester city centre. The Royal Technical Institute, Salford, which opened in 1896, became a College of Advanced Technology in 1956 and gained university status, foll... |
Q741053 Sir William Howard Russell (28 March 1820, Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland – 11 February 1907, London, England) was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the Siege of Sevastopol and th... |
Q4686073 This article is about a newspaper group in Michigan. For other newspapers owned by the same company, see Advance Publications.Advance Newspapers, based in Hudsonville, Michigan, publishes weekly community newspapers for Kent County, Michigan and portions of Muskegon, Ottawa, and Allegan counties. Advance Newsp... |
Q7602584 "Starting Over Again" is a song recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton. The song was written by Donna Summer and her husband Bruce Sudano. Parton's recording was performed as a slow tempo ballad, gradually building to a dramatic crescendo. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from her albu... |
Q1192964 Hodogaya-ku (保土ケ谷区) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of 9,400 inhabitants per square kilometer (24,000/sq mi). The total area was 21.91 km2 (8.46 sq mi). |
Q635806 Runkel is a town on the Lahn River in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. |
Q2237577 Hylodes asper, or the Brazilian torrent frog, is a species of frogs in the Hylodidae family. It is endemic to the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states in southeastern Brazil. Living in a high-noise environment, the species uses "semaphoring" to supplement acoustic signalling. |
Q5102835 Chlidonoptera werneri is a species of praying mantis in the genus Chlidonoptera in the order Mantodea. |
Q4853177 Balázs Balogh (born 21 July 1982) is a Hungarian football player currently playing for FC Ilves. |
Q7810210 Tito in ekšn is Slovenian punk rock from the 90s with hit songs Hinavci, Ja znam, Playground, Another day and Taj grad. They influenced young generation of post communist wave in Slovenia not only with their provocative name (Tito in Action written as pronounced) after former Yugoslavian communist dictator Jos... |
Q3273946 Finland was represented by Marion Rung, with the song '"Tipi-tii", at the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 18 March in Luxembourg City. "Tipi-tii" was chosen as the Finnish entry at the national final organised by broadcaster Yle and held on 15 February. Rung would represent Finland again in... |
Q6631956 This is a list of popular parks and gardens in Lahore, often called the city of gardens. 143 |
Q1023683 CH Valladolid was an ice hockey team in Valladolid, Spain. They participated in the Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo. |
Q4996236 The Bulgarian White is a breed of domestic pig from Bulgaria. It was originally created through a grading up breeding process that involved breeding Large Whites and Edelschwein lines with native Bulgarian pigs in the early twentieth century. |
Q7862687 The Tōkai–Tōsan dialect (東海東山方言 Tōkai–Tōsan hōgen) is a group of the transitional Japanese dialects spoken in the southern and eastern Chūbu region. The dialects spoken in the northwest Chubu region are classified as the Hokuriku dialect of Western Japanese. The Tokai–Tosan dialect has three sub-groups: Gifu–A... |
Q16239572 Stanley Herbert Johnson Jr. (born May 29, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats before being selected eighth overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 2015 NBA dr... |
Q8058646 The Youngstown Athletics, or Youngstown A's, was the final name of a baseball team in the Mid-Atlantic League that was based in Youngstown, Ohio, between 1939 and 1941 and 1946 and 1951. |
Q19560242 Mario Ciocco was a Swiss sports shooter. He competed in the 300 m rifle and the 50 m rifle events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Q709201 Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky (Скринский, Александр Николаевич) (born 15 January 1936) is a Russian nuclear physicist.He was born in Orenburg and was educated at the high school in the city of Gorky and then at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.In 1957 he joined the laboratory of Gersh Budker, which was a... |
Q33111805 Jeremiah Shelly (27 February 1891 - 13 August 1963) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. His championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned ten years from 1914 to 1924.Shelly made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he was selected for the Tipperary junior team in 1911. He enj... |
Q1102220 Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film and the third installment in the Jurassic Park film series. The film stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter. It is the first film in the series Steven Spielberg did not direct; neither ... |
Q328005 Guy of Dampierre, Count of Zeeland, also called Guy of Namur (Flemish: Gwijde van Namen) (ca. 1272 – 13 October 1311 in Pavia), was a Flemish noble who was the Lord of Ronse and later the self-proclaimed Count of Zeeland. He was a younger son of Guy, Count of Flanders and Isabelle of Luxembourg.In 1302, with hi... |
Q279128 Marquartstein is a municipality in the southeastern part of Bavaria, Germany and is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Marquartstein and Staudach-Egerndach. It is situated in a region called Chiemgau, approximately 10 km south of Lake Chiemsee between Munich and Salzburg. Most of the area is situated in the va... |
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