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Q926212 "When A Child Is Born" is a popular Christmas song. The original melody was "Soleado", a tune from 1974 by Ciro Dammicco (alias Zacar), composer for Italy's Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble, and Dario Baldan Bembo. The tune was based on Damicco's earlier tune "Le rose blu" published in 1972. The English language lyric...
Q5622673 Guy Richard Whatley (born 1975) is an American organist and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in medieval keyboards, sixteenth and seventieth century European music, and nineteenth century German organ music. He is widely known as a continuo player, and as an accompanist. He has performed on historic organs a...
Q6115670 John "Jack" Warner (21 September 1911 – 1980) was a Welsh footballer who played as a wing half.In his early days, he played for Swansea Town, and he went on to make 135 Football League appearances for the Welsh club before moving to Manchester United for 1938-39. He made over 100 league appearances for the Old...
Q13512899 Louis Albert Meldon (10 October 1886, Dublin – 21 February 1956, County Dublin) was an Irish sportsman, who represented his country in both cricket and tennis. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, Meldon played four first-class cricket matches for Ireland, all against Scotland, between 190...
Q7640270 Sunhwa-dong is a legal dong, or neighbourhood of the Jung-gu district in Seoul, South Korea and governed by its administrative dong, Sogong-dong and Hoehyeon-dong.MIAT Mongolian Airlines has its Seoul Branch Office in the Soonhwa Building.The Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal (KMST) formerly had its headquarters...
Q4874788 Baysayeva v. Russia was an April 5, 2007, European Court of Human Rights ruling in the case of forced disappearance of a Chechen man Shakhid Baysayev, which unanimously held Russia responsible for serious violations of the European Convention on Human Rights. The decision was the latest in a series of judgeme...
Q6748176 Mandragora are a space rock/world dance-music band from Brighton, England, whose formative output can be described as psychedelic rock with ethnic sounds and tribal rhythms. Formed in 1983, the band have released 5 albums of their own, and a collaborative album with Phil Thornton. They built up a loyal follow...
Q5093752 The Chester Toy and Doll Museum was a toy museum in Chester, Cheshire, England.The collection included dolls made between 1860–1950 and the largest collection of Matchbox model cars in the world. There were also Dinky cars, Hornby trains, and Meccano models.The museum was located at 13a Lower Bridge Street.
Q7199138 Pittosporum bicolor, commonly known as cheesewood or banyalla, is a flowering shrub or small tree of the Pittosporaceae family, and is native to south eastern Australia.It is common and widespread, growing as an understorey plant in temperate wet sclerophyll forests of south eastern New South Wales, Victoria a...
Q5472650 The Fortified Region of Metz comprised the central and most heavily fortified portion of the Maginot Line. The region was established in 1926 as a military organization for the French fortifications along the frontier with Luxembourg and Germany to the east of Longuyon in northeastern France, forming a shield ...
Q6402753 Lonbar (Persian: لنبر‎) is a village in Sanjabad-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Khalkhal County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,498, in 343 families.
Q16255270 Spidroins are the main proteins in spider silk. Different types of spider silk contain different spidroins, all of which are members of a single protein family. The most-researched type of spirodins are the major ampullate silk proteins (MaSp) used in the construction of dragline silk, the strongest type of s...
Q18391380 Mrithunjayam is a 1988 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Paul Babu. The film stars Devan, Parvathy, Jagathy Sreekumar and Nedumudi Venu in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Ouseppachan.
Q3203936 The Mondesir Heir (French: L'héritier des Mondésir) is a 1940 French-German comedy film directed by Albert Valentin and starring Fernandel, Elvire Popesco and Jules Berry. It was shot in Berlin by the German studio UFA in a co-production arrangement with its own French subsidiary ACE. Made before the Second Wo...
Q12471140 Airlangga Hartarto (born 1 October 1962) is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the current Minister of Industry in President Joko Widodo's Working Cabinet, and the chairman of Golkar Party.
Q16866645 Los Gusanos is a garage/rock/punk band formed in 1992 by Chris Ward (a.k.a. C. J. Ramone of the Ramones). The band began as a side project, but became a full-time job after the Ramones disbanded. Unlike his bassist role in Ramones, Ward sings lead and plays rhythm guitar. With Ward joined by "Dirty" Ed Lynch ...
Q2852340 Tom O'Folliard (1858 – December 19, 1880) was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Both were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. After the war ended, they became cattle rustlers, forming the Bonney gang with fellow outlaws Dave Rudabaugh, Charlie Bowdre, Tom Pick...
Q6633243 This is a list of notable people who have narcolepsy.Jinkx Monsoon, Seattle Drag Queen and stage performerGabe Barham, Drummer for American post-hardcore band Sleeping With SirensFranck Bouyer, French road racing cyclistGeorge M. Church, molecular geneticistWinston Churchill, British politician and former Prim...
Q1088377 Onychoprion, the "brown-backed terns", is a genus of seabirds in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw", and prion, "nail".
Q4602302 The 2003–04 NBL season was the 26th season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 12 teams contested the league. This season marked the first NBL season that featured the New Zealand Breakers, the first New Zealand team in the Australian competition. Also, the Canberra Cannons were replaced...
Q588827 The Lotarev DV-2 (or PSLM DV-2, DV: Dnepr-Váh) is a two-spool turbofan engine manufactured in Považská Bystrica, Slovakia by Považské Strojárne Letecké Motory (PS Aircraft Engines/Motors) (PSLM) (former ZVL Závody na Výrobu Ložísk "Bearings Production/Manufacturing Plant") and designed in partnership with Ivche...
Q1802196 Rolador is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 2,542 (2015 est.) in an area of 295.01 km². It is located 524 km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre, northeast of Alegrete.
Q1526165 Maylandia xanstomachus is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is only known from the Maleri Islands and Kanjedza Island. This species can reach a length of 12.5 centimetres (4.9 in) TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
Q20818249 Gorova River may refer to the following rivers in Romania:Gorova, a tributary of the Bârzava in Caraș-Severin CountyGorova, a tributary of the Râul Alb in Hunedoara CountyGorova River (Tur)
Q5202595 César Mercado (born October 25, 1959 in Maricao, Puerto Rico) is a retired Puerto Rican marathon runner. He competed for his native country in the men's marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing in 31st place. He set his personal best in the classic distance (2:17.31) in 1982.
Q7978857 Framsden Windmill is a Grade II* listed post mill at Framsden, Suffolk, England which is preserved. The mill was known as Webster's Mill when it was a working mill.
Q6091031 It's a Blue World is a 1955 album by Mel Tormé.
Q53104 The singles discography of Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue consists of 74 singles (eight as a featured artist) and fourteen promotional recordings.Minogue's music career began as a result of her popularity in Neighbours, an Australian soap opera. After an impromptu performance with the cast of the show...
Q2114632 Wade Ormsby (born 31 March 1980) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
Q15876622 Charles Aznavour, released in December 1961, is the eighth French studio album by the French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour. This album is also known under the title "Il faut savoir" (You've got to learn). It was in TOP 10 charts in France, Italy, Belgium, Israel and other countries.The album includes songs...
Q14816458 Paranisopodus peruanus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Monne and Monne in 2007.
Q19664412 Jan Bosch (born 1967) is a Dutch computer scientist, Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen and at Chalmers University of Technology, and IT consultant, particularly known for his work on software architecture.
Q24942953 Iranama was a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Independent Newspapers Limited, part of M. D. Gunasena & Company. It was founded on 1964 and was published from Colombo. In 1966 it had an average net sales of 20,000. It had an average circulation of 40,000 in 1973.By 1973/74 the Independ...
Q6853003 The Chesapeake logperch (Percina bimaculata) is a small freshwater fish located in North America. It is found in the Chesapeake Bay drainages. It prefers gravel runs and riffles of small to medium-sized rivers.
Q28055701 Shed Skin Papa is a 2016 Hong Kong comedy-drama film written by Norihiko Tsukada and Roy Szeto based on Tsuksda's Japanese play Nukegara, and directed by Szeto, who had previously directed an award-winning Hong Kong stage adaptation of the play titled Shed Skin in 2011. The film stars Louis Koo as a washed-ou...
Q5032837 Cannons is the second commercial studio album by American contemporary Christian singer Phil Wickham, released on October 2, 2007, the album is outpacing same week sales of Phil Wickham's debut with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital form. He also debuted on Real Rhapsody’s top artists chart in th...
Q958502 Felice Nazzaro (4 December 1881 – 21 March 1940) was an Italian racecar driver, a native of Turin. He won the Kaiserpreis in 1907 as well as the French Grand Prix in 1907 and 1922 and Targa Florio in 1907, and 1913. His European wins in 1907 resulted in an invitation to compete in the 1908 American Grand Prize ...
Q195651 An elevator operator (in British English, usually lift attendant) is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operated elevator.
Q775219 American R&B singer Monica has released 8 studio albums, one extended play, and 35 singles (including six as a featured artist). Since the beginning of her career in 1995, she has sold 5.3 million albums in the United States, In 1999, Billboard included her among the top twenty of the Top Pop Artists of the 19...
Q5009336 CBV Total is a stock market index indicating the performance of Vietnam's stock markets. It shows all stocks that are listed in the two Vietnam trading markets, the Hanoi Securities Trading Center and Hochiminh Stock Exchange.It includes all stocks in CBV Index (or CBV LargeCap), CBV MidCap and CBV SmallCap.
Q86277 Franz Schuh (17 October 1804, Scheibbs, Scheibbs District, Lower Austria – 22 December 1865) was an Austrian pathologist and surgeon who was a native of Scheibbs.In 1831 he obtained his medical doctorate in Vienna, afterwards serving as an assistant to Joseph Wattmann (1789–1866). In 1836 he worked as a professo...
Q3575135 Zeleno Brdo (Serbian Cyrillic: Зелено Брдо) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zvezdara.
Q17042083 "My Side of the Bed" is a song by American singer Susanna Hoffs, released in 1990 as the lead single from her debut solo album, When You're a Boy. It was written by Hoffs, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, and produced by David Kahne. "My Side of the Bed" reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q5803822 Volumes 3 & 4 is the second compilation of Josh Homme's project The Desert Sessions. Volume 3: Set Coordinates for the White Dwarf!!! and Volume 4: Hard Walls and Little Trips were released separately on 10-inch vinyl, and then compiled on CD with the extra track "You Keep on Talkin'".
Q4673251 Acetaminosalol is an organic compound with the chemical formula C15H13NO4.It is an esterfication product of salicylic acid and paracetamol. It was marketed by Bayer under the brand name Salophen as an analgesic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Q147264 Hong Kong, a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China, sent a delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 12–28 February 2010. The delegation competed under the name "Hong Kong, China" (中國香港). This was the SAR's third appearance at ...
Q365771 Adolphe Marie Messimy (31 January 1869 – 1 September 1935) was a French politician and general. He served as Minister of War in 1911-12 and then again for a few months during the outbreak of and first three weeks of the First World War. Having begun his career as an army officer, he returned to the Army and suc...
Q4626515 The 2012 Patriot League Baseball Tournament was held on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 12-13 and the finals May 19-20. The higher seeded teams hosted each best of three series. Top seeded Army won their sixth championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division...
Q5856237 Siah Kahur (Persian: سياه کهور‎, also Romanized as Sīāh Kahūr) is a village in Rudbar Rural District, in the Central District of Rudbar-e Jonubi County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 155, in 30 families.
Q18155341 The Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium is a historic academic athletic building at 767 Layne Street in Okolona, Arkansas. It is the only surviving building of a school campus built c. 1950 to provide schooling to local African-American students. The building is a large rectangular structure with no signi...
Q19903186 Bouvet ASA is a Norwegian IT consulting company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway.The company is the result of a merger between Mandator AS and Cell Network AS in 2001 with Cell Network as the acquiring company.The company changed its name to Bouvet in 2007.
Q25053200 The second economy in the Soviet Union was the informal sector in the economy of the Soviet Union. The term was suggested by Gregory Grossman in his seminal article, "The Second Economy of the USSR" (1977). Economist Gerard Roland noted that as Grossman anticipated, "the logic of the second economy tended ove...
Q26924734 Adham El Zabedieh is a Lebanese rugby league player who most recently played for the Mount Pritchard Mounties in the New South Wales Cup. He plays as wing.El Zabedieh is a Lebanese international.
Q13621745 Schizomyia viticola, the grape tube gallmaker, is a species of gall midge found in the eastern United States and Canada. It produces green or bright red galls on new world grape vines.
Q20688889 The 2015 Panda Cup was the second edition of Panda Cup, an under-19 association football competition. The tournament was hosted in Chengdu between 24 and 28 June 2015. Players born on or after 1 January 1997 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Q2098229 Okay is a town along the east bank of the Verdigris River in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 620 at the 2010 census, a 3.9 percent increase from 597 at the 2000 census.
Q409304 Methylamine is an organic compound with a formula of CH3NH2. This colorless gas is a derivative of ammonia, but with one hydrogen atom being replaced by a methyl group. It is the simplest primary amine. It is sold as a solution in methanol, ethanol, tetrahydrofuran, or water, or as the anhydrous gas in pressuri...
Q2097355 Pityriasis lichenoides chronica is an uncommon, idiopathic, acquired dermatosis, characterized by evolving groups of erythematous, scaly papules that may persist for months.
Q4826977 Autoroute 73 may refer to:A73 autoroute, in FranceQuebec Autoroute 73, in Quebec, Canada
Q8066290 Zantigo is the name of a small chain of fast food Mexican restaurants that began operation c. 1999 in Minnesota in the United States and also its predecessor, a separate chain of nearly one hundred locations that existed in the 1970s and 1980s, and after several ownership changes was eventually absorbed into T...
Q4562829 1931 was the 38th season of County Championship cricket in England. New Zealand played their first Test series in England, the hosts winning 1–0. Yorkshire won the championship.
Q10750378 Outlaw Blues is a 1977 American drama film directed by Richard T. Heffron and starring Peter Fonda and Susan Saint James. Written by Bill L. Norton, the film is about an ex-convict and songwriter trying to break into the music business in Austin, Texas. When a famous country singer steals one of his songs and...
Q5683516 Havel of Markvartice, also Havel of Lemberk (Czech: Havel z Lemberka) or Gallus of Lämberg; fl. 1230–1255) was a Bohemian nobleman, Lord of Lemberk Castle and burgrave of Kladsko.
Q1652334 Sanzoles is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 646 inhabitants.
Q354211 Felicia amelloides, the blue daisy bush or blue felicia, is a hairy, soft, usually perennial, evergreen plant, in the daisy family. It can be found along the southern coast of South Africa. It grows as ground cover and produces many very regular branches. It mostly grows to about 50 cm (1.6 ft) high, rarely to ...
Q6761976 Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; born July 29, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and Craig Robinson, a basketball executive, and the mother-in-law of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Q7522669 Sing It High: A Collection of Singles is the only compilation album from artist Neal Morse. This album consists mainly of pop songs and ballads and was released in 2007.
Q7431113 Schellville is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States. Schellville is located in the vicinity of the junction of California State Route 12 and California State Route 121 south of Sonoma. The community had a post office from 1888 to 1931.Schellville has been a regionally importa...
Q621291 Tenente Colonnello Alessandro Buzio was an Italian World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories, four of them shared.
Q3494142 Sporting Union Agen Football is a French association football club founded in 1922. They are based in the town of Agen and their home stadium is the Parc Municipal des Sports. As of the 2009–10 season, they play in the Championnat de France amateur 2 Group F.
Q6943939 The Mutiny Act 1703 (2 & 3 Anne c. 20) was one of the Mutiny Acts passed by the Parliament of England. Although its main purpose was to provide for the punishment of mutiny in the English Army and Royal Navy and other provisions for regulating the armed forces, it differed from other Mutiny Acts by providing (...
Q16155250 Daikoku Danji Japan First Live 2012 (大国男児 Japan First Live 2012) is the first live DVD released by Korean boy group The Boss. It was released on June 6, 2012 on their Japanese label Sony Music Entertainment.
Q19610926 Ramazan Civelek (born 22 January 1996) is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Fatih Karagümrük S.K.
Q4366591 Oleg Georgievich Pogodin (Оле́г Гео́ргиевич Пого́дин, born July 3, 1965 in Salsk) is a Russian film director and scriptwriter. Home was nominated for four Nika Awards, winning the one for the best male actor.
Q43288382 Yasmin Louise Sooka is a leading human rights lawyer, the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa and a trustee of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and got a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is an expert on transition...
Q2511363 Seger Pillot Ellis (July 4, 1904 in Houston, Texas – 1995 in Houston, Texas) was a jazz pianist and vocalist. He also made a few brief film appearances, most notably in collaboration with director Ida Lupino.Ellis began his career as pianist playing live for a local Houston radio station (later known as KPRC) ...
Q384232 Gilberto Martínez Vidal (born October 1, 1979 in Golfito, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays for Audace Cerignola.
Q1000071 Taisei (大成町, Taisei-chō) was a town located in Kudō District, Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.As of 2004, the town had an estimated population of 2,458 and a density of 18.36 persons per km². The total area was 133.91 km².On September 1, 2005, Taisei, along with the town of Kitahiyama (from Setana Distri...
Q7936664 Viswamaanava is a Hindu cultural ideology. Viswa means universal and maanava means human. This ideology is inherent in all Indian scriptures, culture, and traditions. It is extensively discussed and partially practised in Advaita Vedanta traditions. Many great intellectuals lived by this principle and contri...
Q775248 "Why I Love You So Much" is a song by American R&B singer Monica, composed by Daryl Simmons for Monica's debut studio album, Miss Thang (1995). The ballad was released as the album's fourth and final single on a double A-side with "Ain't Nobody" during the second quarter of 1996 (see 1996 in music). The double-...
Q5315638 Dunolly is a closed railway station on the Mildura line in the town of Dunolly, Victoria, Australia. The station was one of 35 closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1981 as part of the New Deal timetable for country passengers. Today it is the junction for the lines towards Inglewood, Kulwin, and Robinvale....
Q7170757 The National Federation of Perspectives and Realities Clubs (Fédération Nationale des Clubs Perspectives et Réalités, CPR) was a centrist political movement in France.It was founded in May 1965 by Jean-Pierre Fourcade and was a founding component of the Union for French Democracy in 1978.In July 1995 the Clubs...
Q5174368 The Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia is a private social club in Philadelphia. It was founded in June 1928 by a group of women from Philadelphia and its surroundings. In January 1930, the members had purchased the lot at 1616 Latimer Street, and oversaw the construction of an Art Deco building.The members of ...
Q3137826 Alcithoe larochei ostenfeldi is a subspecies of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Q6368731 This page shows the results of the Karate Competition for men and women at the 2003 Pan American Games, held from August 1 to August 17, 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Q4863240 Barrandov Terraces (Czech: Barrandovské terasy) is a complex of buildings in the southern part of Prague, Czech Republic. It is dominated by the functional view restaurant Terraces (Czech: Terasy) designed by architect Max Urban (1927-31). Barrandov Terraces are a part of the project of Václav M. Havel for the...
Q5259132 Dennisville Historic District is a historic district in the unincorporated community of Dennisville in Dennis Township, Cape May County, New Jersey. The district is bounded by Petersburg Road, Main Street, Church Road, Hall Avenue, Fidler and Academy Roads, and Route 47 It was added to the National Register of...
Q4659754 A Spire for Mansfield, also shortened to A-Spire is a 13-metre (42.7 foot) sculpture, which lies within the centre of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. It was officially endorsed by the former local mayor Tony Egginton and Mansfield District Council. The sculpture was installed in late 2007, as the third p...
Q6424251 Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million is a 2002 non-fiction book by British writer Martin Amis.
Q5282982 The Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal is awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency for an individual’s cumulative record of service reflecting a pattern of increasing levels of responsibility or increasingly strategic impact and with distinctly exceptional achievements that constitute a major contributi...
Q5551652 German submarine U-419 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.She carried out one patrol. She was a member of one wolfpack. She did not sink or damage any ships.She was sunk by a British aircraft in mid-Atlantic in October 1943.
Q1521754 Makadi Bay is a resort town in Egypt. It is located about 30 kilometers south of Hurghada on the Red Sea.
Q13382592 Martin Hill is a special effects artist. He was nominated at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on the film Prometheus, in the category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his nomination with Charley Henley, Richard Stammers and Trevor Wood.In 2014, he was awarded at the 86th Academy Scientific and Technical ...
Q18711671 The Tawhid Kata’ib Horan is a Syrian rebel group that operates in the Daraa and Quneitra governorates of the Horan region. The group has been supplied with BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles. Its founder, major Mohammad al-Turkmani, was killed in clashes with loyalists.
Q21218940 Solidarity–People Before Profit (Irish: Dlúthphartíocht–Pobal Roimh Bhrabús) is an electoral alliance in Ireland. It was formed by members of two left-wing socialist political parties: Solidarity and People Before Profit (PBP). Solidarity was known as the "Anti-Austerity Alliance" (AAA) until 2017. The allian...
Q896953 Bradford Dillman (April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018) was an American actor and author.
Q7184052 Philip Mayne (22 November 1899 – 9 April 2007) was an English centenarian who was thought to have been the last surviving British officer of the First World War until his death at 107. He is also thought to have been the oldest surviving alumnus of Christ's Hospital, of the University of Cambridge Engineering...
Q1448965 Waterloo Lily is a 1972 released album by Caravan on the Deram label. The track "The Love in Your Eye" has been featured as a Caravan live track for many years. Waterloo Lily is the only album by Caravan with Steve Miller as the keyboard player. Miller brought a jazzier feel to the sound of Caravan than had ...
Q2807933 William Benjamin Craig (November 2, 1877 – November 27, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Selma, Alabama, Craig attended the public and high schools of Selma and was graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee.He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and co...
Q5150165 The Columbus University, is an institution of higher education, established on October 12, 1992. It is authorized by the Panamanian Ministry of Education. It is recognized as a private university, by the Panamanian State, through Executive Decree (in Spanish, Decreto Ejecutivo) No. 112, dated February 25, 1994...