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Q5185586 The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c.32) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by W. E. Gladstone's Liberal Government. It was passed on the same day as the Trade Union Act 1871.[1]William Edward Hartpole Lecky described the Act's implications:...[the Act] inflicted a punishm... |
Q2507995 State Route 189 (SR 189) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for much of its length as South Quay Road, the state highway runs 10.82 miles (17.41 km) from U.S. Route 258 (US 258) near Franklin east to US 58 Business in Suffolk. |
Q5038481 The Cardiff Built-up Area or Cardiff Urban Area is the name given to the urban area around Cardiff. The vast bulk of the population and area are contributed by Cardiff which had a population of 335,145 as recorded at the 2011 census. The rest was made up by the towns of Penarth and Dinas Powys connected to the... |
Q6766815 Mark Allen Bradley (born December 3, 1956) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1981 to 1982 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets. |
Q6137910 For the Welsh rugby union player of a similar name see James LeadbeaterJames Ledbetter is an author and editor based in New York City. |
Q7534647 Mohammad Tahir Hussain Khan or Tahir Hussain (19 September 1938 – 2 February 2010) was an Indian film producer and director known for his works in Hindi cinema. |
Q5619582 Guo Guoting (Chinese: 郭国汀), is a former Chinese lawyer, and chief partner of the Shanghai Tian Yi Law Firm. He was one of few lawyers who would defend dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners. He represented the imprisoned lawyer Zheng Enchong and journalist Shi Tao. Because of these activities, the Shanghai au... |
Q24197205 MacNaught or Macnaught is a Scottish surname deriving from MacNeachdan which is a Gaelic patronymic for the Pictish name Nechdan meaning 'Pure'. It was anglicised as Macnaughten and variations of the name have led to Macnaught and MacKnight (also Macknight and McKnight). The MacNaughts of Kilquhanty were a br... |
Q3571750 Yannick Fonsat (born June 16, 1988 in Paris, France) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 400 meters. He was the 2007 European Junior Champion at 400 metres. As French junior champion, he had run at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but didn't make the finals. During the 2007 Indoor se... |
Q307954 Öztürk Karataş (born 15 February 1991 in Kağızman) is a Turkish footballer who plays for FC Espanol Karlsruhe. |
Q16014963 Theodore Anthony Rinaldo (March 11, 1944 – February 13, 2000) was an American charismatic religious leader, businessman, and convicted child sex offender. During the 1970s, Rinaldo and his associates formed and operated a non-profit corporation, Ellogos, and several profit-making businesses based in Snohomish... |
Q19597181 Eudonia magna is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Li, Li and Nuss in 2012. It is found in China (Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Zhejiang).The length of the forewings is 7–9 mm. The forewings are covered with blackish brown scales. The antemedian, postmedian a... |
Q12621424 Pagyesa, or Pagye Temple, is a Buddhist temple in Palgongsan mountain park, near Daegu, South Korea. The temple was first built in 804 by a priest named Simji, and was restored and expanded in the 17th century. |
Q28179220 Nicholson Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.the island is lying 52 km (32 mi) northeast from Port Blair. |
Q38739199 The Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus Metro Station is a metro station located on the Pink Line of the Delhi Metro. It has been built as a part of Phase III of Delhi Metro.There is also an interchange facility with Dhaula Kuan metro station of the Airport Express Line. The footover bridge opened on February 9, 2... |
Q2019722 Olga Seleznyova (born 7 June 1975) is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier. She competed in four events at the 1998 Winter Olympics. |
Q2096191 Shelburne County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. |
Q2571393 Tuensang District (Pron:/ˌtjuːənˈsæŋ/) is the largest district in Nagaland, a state in North-East India. Its headquarters is in Tuensang town. |
Q7286103 Rai Rajeshwar Bali (1889 – 1944) was the Taluqdar of Dariyabad. Dariyabad was a taluq in North India and is at present situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces). |
Q5661035 Sir Harold George Hillier (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1985) was an English horticulturist.In 1921 he joined the family firm, Hillier Nurseries, his early career spent in assisting his father in rebuilding stocks depleted by World War I. He became partner in 1930 and head of the firm on his father's death in 19... |
Q1388817 The Colombian forest mouse (Chilomys instans) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Some authorities consider it to be the only species in the genus Chilomys, while others accept Chilomys fumeus as being a valid species, and it may form part of a species complex. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, an... |
Q5106475 Christopher Paul Edmondson (born 25 June 1950) is a British Anglican retired bishop. He was the Bishop of Bolton, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Manchester, from 2008 to 2016. He is presently an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Leeds. |
Q2288608 Elm is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England.The parish at the northeast is at the county boundary with Norfolk, and at the northwest, market town of Wisbech. The northern part of Elm village, at Elm Low Road, acts as a suburb of Wisbech.The civil parish had a resident... |
Q4930817 Blushing Charlie (Swedish: Lyckliga skitar) is a 1970 Swedish drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman. It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. |
Q5276562 Dikoleps umbilicostriata is a minute species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. |
Q1057301 There are several prefixes in the Hebrew language which are appended to regular words to introduce a new meaning. In Hebrew, the letters that form those prefixes are called "formative letters" (Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ, Otiyot HaShimush). Eleven of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are consi... |
Q3311791 Mickaël Le Bihan (born 16 May 1990) is a French footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 team OGC Nice. |
Q3586236 Élan was the lead ship of the French Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by the Lorient shipyard and launched on 27 July 1938. She was interned in Turkey in June 1941 and released to the Free French Naval Forces in December 1944.She remained in French Navy service after the... |
Q6618300 The following elections occurred in the year 1794. |
Q1004955 Mones Quintela is a small town in the Artigas Department of northern Uruguay. |
Q5274074 Didar (Persian: ديدار, also Romanized as Dīdār) is a village in Hesar-e Valiyeasr Rural District, Central District, Avaj County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 358, in 88 families. |
Q6595531 This is a list of seasons played by Real Salt Lake in American (Major League Soccer) and CONCACAF football, from 2005 (when the team was founded) to the most recent completed season. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top scorers for the team in each Major League Soccer season. T... |
Q965160 The 12th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Copenhagen. |
Q14949427 Charles Field-Marsham (born Rupert Charles Field-Marsham) is an entrepreneurial businessman and philanthropist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has businesses in both Canada and Africa, spanning Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Tanzania. He also has offices in Dubai. His philanthropic enterprises ... |
Q13396758 Lesticus coelestis is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Tschitscherine in 1897. |
Q22032290 Feversham College is an cultural and Islamic secondary school and sixth form for girls located in the Undercliffe area of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire.It was established in 1994 as an independent school, before becoming a state-funded voluntary aided school in 2001, coordinating with Bra... |
Q177176 Cynosura or Kynosoura (Ancient Greek: Κυνόσουρα, lit. 'dog's tail') may refer to:Cynosura (Laconia), a settlement that coalesced into ancient SpartaCynosura (Salamis), a promontory of Salamis Islandthe Greek name of Ursa MinorCynosura (nymph), a mountain nymph in Greek mythology |
Q5162101 Conocephalum is a genus of thallose liverworts in the order Marchantiales. The family Conocephalaceae consists of two known species and a number of cryptic species. This genus has worldwide distribution. |
Q5456910 The flag of the Western European Union (WEU) was dark blue with a semicircle of ten yellow five pointed stars, broken at the top, with the organisation's initials in the centre. Although it is the flag of a military organisation, it has rarely been flown in military situations. |
Q7331550 Rick Lewis is the founder and editor of Philosophy Now and thereby one of the main initiators of the popular philosophy movement in the English-speaking world. |
Q8014642 The William Lloyd Garrison School is a historic school building at 20 Hutchings Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in stages between 1910 and 1929 and named for abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, it is a high-quality example of period school architecture, noted at the time for its state-of-the-art featu... |
Q5343526 Edward Horton Hubbard (2 July 1937 – 31 May 1989) was an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England. He also wrote the definitive biography of John Douglas, and played a part in the preservation of Albert Dock in Liverpool.Edward Hubbard w... |
Q5642822 "Halle Berry (She's Fine)" is the lead single by American rapper Hurricane Chris from his second studio album, Unleashed, The song features guest appearances from a local rapper, named Superstarr. The song was produced also by Superstarr, alongside with Play-N-Skillz and Q Smith. The song originally belonged t... |
Q1144968 Tragic Hero Records is a record label founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in March 2005 to represent the growing metalcore and post-hardcore scene of North Carolina. The label was founded by Tommy LaCombe, David Varnedoe and Jason Ganthner. Alesana was the first band the label signed. Among Tragic Hero's best-k... |
Q4129585 Vysotsko (Ukrainian: Висоцько) is a village (selo) in Brodivskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tarnopol Voivodeship in Poland. |
Q8012285 William Heveningham (1604–1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England. |
Q2497057 The fecund vesper mouse (Calomys fecundus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from Bolivia, where it is found in the yungas and Tucumano boliviano forest ecoregions at elevations from 600 to 2700 m. It is regarded by some authorities as conspecific with C. boliviae, and by some a... |
Q6878245 Missie Berteotti (born September 22, 1963) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Berteotti won once on the LPGA Tour in 1993. |
Q5053549 Cation diffusion facilitators (CDFs) are transmembrane proteins that provide tolerance of cells to divalent metal ions, such as cadmium, zinc, and cobalt. These proteins are considered to be efflux pumps that remove these divalent metal ions from cells. However, some members of the CDF superfamily are implicat... |
Q7456500 Seth Gyaniram Bansidhar Podar College (Hindi: सेठ ज्ञानीराम बंसीधर पोदार महाविद्यालय) also referred to as Podar College is a private college in the town Nawalgarh of Jhunjhunu district in the Indian state Rajasthan. Its offering education in Arts, Science and Commerce streams at undergraduate and postgraduate ... |
Q16014825 Bob Bax (1925-2000) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. During the 1940s he played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership as a half back for the Brothers club and also played for the Brisbane rugby league team in the Bulimba Cup. From 1956 to 1970 Bax coached Brothers and Norths, reaching 1... |
Q15443387 Audradus Modicus (or Hardradus; fl. 847–53) was a Frankish ecclesiastic and author during the Carolingian Renaissance. He wrote in Latin.Audradus was a monk of Saint Martin's of Tours. He served as an auxiliary bishop (chorepiscopus) to Archbishop Wenilo of Sens (836–65) from 847 until 849, when he was depose... |
Q19600727 Clear Creek Springs is an unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, in the United States.The community took its name from Clear Creek. |
Q15817077 Energy for Sustainable Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on energy-related aspects of sustainable development. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Daniel B. Jones. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 2.360, rank... |
Q3292560 Marie Guévenoux (born 2 November 1976) is a French politician representing La République En Marche! She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Essonne.Guévenoux holds a position in the Bureau of the National Assembly of the 15th legislature of the French Fif... |
Q1725202 Wilfriede Hoffmann (27 November 1932 – 28 January 2010) was a German athlete. She competed in the women's shot put at the 1960 Summer Olympics. |
Q2786706 Waldron is a village in Wright Township, Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 538 at the 2010 census. |
Q249904 Taitung County (Mandarin Pīnyīn: Táidōng Xiàn; Hokkien POJ: Tâi-tang-koān; Hakka PFS: Thòi-tûng-yen; Paiwan: Valangaw) is the third largest county in Taiwan, located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island. |
Q17002995 The Westmeath Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Westmeath GAA between the top Gaelic football clubs in County Westmeath. The winner of the Westmeath Championship qualifies to represent the county in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, th... |
Q2494314 Oregon Route 339 (OR 339) is an Oregon state highway running from the Washington state line near Ferndale to Milton-Freewater. OR 339 is known as the Freewater Highway No. 339 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 3.43 miles (5.52 km) long and runs north–south, entirely within Umatilla County.OR 339 was e... |
Q6659579 Living with Fibromyalgia: A Journey of Hope and Understanding is a 2007 documentary film by Stephen Eyer and Daneen Akers from Trillusion Media, Inc. The documentary has been called the first feature-length film that explores the chronic pain condition known as fibromyalgia. |
Q1389055 The Le Mans Prototype Challenge (shortened to LMP Challenge or LMPC) was a spec sports prototype formula created by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), organisers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and sports car constructor Oreca. The formula is intended as part of a ladder system for young and upcoming drivers in... |
Q7566568 The South Carolina Department of Education is the state education agency of South Carolina. It is headquartered in Columbia at the Rutledge Building. The agency is overseen by an elected Superintendent of Education, currently Molly Spearman. Previous Superintendents have included Mick Zais, Jim Rex, and Inez ... |
Q7290950 Rancho El Alisal was a 8,912-acre (36.07 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California, given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to the brothers Feliciano and Mariano Soberanes and to William Edward Petty Hartnell. Alisal means Alder tree (sycamore) in Spanish. The land is approximately f... |
Q7786148 This Mitchell and Webb Book is a book written by David Mitchell and Robert Webb of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. A tie-in to the television series That Mitchell and Webb Look, it was released by Fourth Estate Ltd in September 2009 in the UK, and January 2010 in the US.It contains material expanding the li... |
Q8061184 Yoon Dae-nyeong (born 1962) (Korean: 윤대녕) is a South Korean writer. |
Q1523641 This is a list of Swedish football transfers in the winter transfer window 2012–13 by club.Only transfers in and out between 10 January – 2 April 2013 of the Allsvenskan and Superettan are included. |
Q17097371 Suryapet is a constituency of Telangana Legislative Assembly that includes the city of Suryapet. This constituency is currently held by the TRS leader, Guntakandla Jagadish Reddy. It is one of the 4 constituencies in the Suryapet district. The Suryapet assembly constituency is part of the Nalgonda Lok Sabha c... |
Q16842084 Michel Magdinier is a former French slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1973 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Muotathal. |
Q19580303 Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece is a real-time strategy game developed and published by Canadian studio Longbow Digital Arts Inc. It began as Hegemony: Philip of Macedon which revolved around the campaigns of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. It was originally released on Windows on 1... |
Q23418881 Kate Blackwell QC (born 5 October 1969) is a British barrister. A member of Lincoln House Chambers in Manchester, she became a Crown Court Recorder in 2009 and Queen's Counsel in 2012. Blackwell has been described as a ‘no-nonsense prosecutor’ by the Guardian. |
Q23199047 The Woman Michael Married is a lost 1919 American silent society drama film directed by Henry Kolker and produced by and starring Bessie Barriscale. Distribution of the film was through newly formed Robertson-Cole, soon to form into the FBO company. |
Q24191716 The West 7th Street Historic District encompasses a collection of early 20th-century commercial buildings on the 800-1100 blocks of West 7th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. The thirteen buildings of the district were built between 1906 and 1951, and are mainly one and two-story masonry buildings with vernac... |
Q12023062 Jan Schleiss (born September 1, 1994) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for HC Plzeň of the Czech Extraliga.Schleiss made his Czech Extraliga debut playing with HC Plzeň during the 2012-13 Czech Extraliga season. |
Q3421329 The Kloveniersdoelen ("musketeers' shooting range") was a complex of buildings in Amsterdam which served as headquarters and shooting range for the local schutterij (civic guard). The companies of kloveniers were armed with an early type of musket known as an arquebus, known in Dutch as a bus, haakbus or klove... |
Q1913264 Norway is a city in Benton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 545 at the 2010 census. The city is about 17 miles (27 km) southwest of downtown Cedar Rapids. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. Norway is the setting of the movie The Final Season. |
Q2514841 Evangelische Omroep (EO, English: Evangelical Broadcasting) is one of the twelve member-based broadcasting associations contributing to the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system. It has as its mission to bring people into contact with Jesus Christ and its statement of faith is a form of Evangelicalism. EO is ... |
Q5375365 The Enchanted Forest Chronicles is a series of four young adult fantasy novels by Patricia C. Wrede titled Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons. Additionally, the Book of Enchantments includes one short story titled Utensile Strength and also includes a short ... |
Q625369 A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.Generally, the relationship is stable and at least semi-permanent, but the couple does not live together openly and the relationship is usually, but not alway... |
Q7192166 Pierre De Celles (born 14 December 1951) is a Canadian animator, best known for directing 1988's Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw. He was also the Supervising Director for the Spiral Zone animated series. In the 1990s, he did Ren Hoek's screaming and cackling in "Big House Blues," the pilot of The Ren a... |
Q2999719 Piala Indonesia (English: Indonesian Cup) is the professional annual cup competition for football clubs in Indonesia. Originally, it started from the amateur football era in 1985. The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) organised the full professional cup competition from 2005 until now. Traditionally, th... |
Q1902743 Marshall Darrow Shulman(1916 - June 21, 2007) was a scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Shulman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a graduate ... |
Q5690147 Heahmund was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868. He died in March 871 at the Battle of Marton. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. |
Q12072883 The Whitworth Hall on Oxford Road and Burlington Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England, is part of the University of Manchester. It has been listed Grade II* since 18 December 1963. The Gothic revival hall lies at the south-east range of the Old Quadrangle of the University, with the Manchester M... |
Q5356085 Waterford is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The district is based in the central urban suburbs of Logan City. It is named for the suburb of Waterford and also includes the suburbs of Beenleigh, Bethania, Edens Landing, Kingston, Holmview, Loganholme, Log... |
Q7109799 Otto Salzer (4 April 1874 – 7 January 1944) was a German racing car driver, famous for his contributions to the success of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Untertürkheim near Stuttgart, where he became team leader in 1903, previously having worked as an engineer since 1896.He had some good results, and was one ... |
Q4891566 Bergen og omland is a region in Hordaland county, Norway. It consists of the districts Midthordland and Nordhordland. The center is the city of Bergen. |
Q67799 Stephan Ackermann (born March 20, 1963) is a German bishop. He was appointed Bishop of Trier in the Moselle area of Germany in 2009. |
Q7495712 Shevgaon taluka (Marathi: शेवगाव तालुका), is a taluka in Ahmednagar subdivision of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra State of India. |
Q2431866 The battle of Zierikzee was a naval battle between a Flemish fleet and an allied Franco-Hollandic fleet which took place on 10 and 11 August 1304. The battle, fought near the town of Zierikzee, ended in a Franco-Holland victory. The battle is part of a larger conflict between the Count of Flanders and his Fren... |
Q1386725 John William Theodore Youngs (usually cited as J. W. T. Youngs, known as Ted Youngs; 21 August 1910 Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India – 20 July 1970 Santa Cruz, California) was an American mathematician.Youngs was the son of a missionary. He completed his undergraduate study at Wheaton College and received his PhD... |
Q6376190 Katharine Gibbs (1863–1934) was the founder of Gibbs College, now a for-profit institution of higher education.Katharine Ryan was born in Galena, Illinois on January 10, 1863. Her father was a successful meat packing merchant who sent her to be educated by two spinsters from New England who provided her with a... |
Q20967565 Alphabear is a freemium Scrabble-style word game that was released by independent video game company Spry Fox in July 2015. It draws on creative elements of one of their older releases, the 2010 game Panda Poet. |
Q23777563 The Patriotic Old Comrades' League (Burmese: မျိုးချစ် ရဲဘော်ဟောင်းများအဖွဲ့; POCL) was a political party in Myanmar. |
Q28182931 The 2017 Newcastle Knights season was the 30th in the club's history. Coached by Nathan Brown and captained by Trent Hodkinson, before being replaced by Sione Mata'utia and Jamie Buhrer in the captaincy role, they competed in the NRL's 2017 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 16th place (out ... |
Q518461 A head-up display or heads-up display, also known as a HUD (), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned "up" and looking forward, instead of an... |
Q6745056 Malvern East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Malvern East recorded a population of 21,707 at the 2016 Census.Malvern East is bounded to the north by Wattletree Road and Gardin... |
Q980407 Josef Václav Myslbek (20 June 1848 – 2 June 1922) was a Czech sculptor and medalist credited with founding the modern Czech sculpting style. |
Q5458327 Fleam Dyke is a linear earthwork between Fulbourn and Balsham in Cambridgeshire. It is now a Scheduled Monument and a 7.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It formed a boundary of the late Anglo-Saxon, pre-Norman administrative division of Flendish Hundred. |
Q5156059 The Compass Rose Flag of the Anglican Communion was designed in 1954 by Canon Edward N. West of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York for the Second International Anglican Congress in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Compass Rose was modernized in 1988 and the new design was laid into the floor of Cant... |
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