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Q20676907 Isabelle Harrison (born September 27, 1993) is an American basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the daughter of former NFL Defensive End Dennis Harrison Jr. |
Q2846883 Andris Smirnovs (born 6 February 1990) is a Latvian cyclist riding for Alpha Baltic–Maratoni.lv. |
Q28187334 2nd Independent Division of Anhui Provincial Military District (Chinese: 安徽省军区独立第2师) was formed on September 6, 1966 from the Public Security Contingent of Anhui province. The division was composed of three regiments (4th to 6th).From September 17, 1967 to November 1969 the division was put under command of 1... |
Q4559709 Anton Eliassen (born 11 November 1945) is a Norwegian meteorologist.He was born in Oslo to meteorologist Arnt Eliassen and Ellen-Kristine Nome. He graduated from the University of Oslo as cand. real. in 1970. He was assigned with the Norwegian Institute for Air Research from 1972 to 1977, was researcher at the... |
Q29424752 Anastasia Pivovarova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.Wang Qiang won the title after her opponent Peng Shuai retired in the final, with the score at 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 1–1. |
Q61641 Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch (24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher. |
Q22277234 Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen, once held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 440.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980, in Howra, Yemen.Bwazir arrived in Guantanamo ... |
Q2072609 Ernest Joseph Laurent (June 8, 1859 – June 25, 1929) was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Gentilly and died in Bièvres, Essonne.Laurent was a neo-impressionist artist whose main influences were his instructor Ernest Hébert and his friend Georges Seurat. Laurent took second prize in the Prix de ... |
Q6659736 Livingstone Clement Sargeant (born 15 April 1947 in Cotton Ground, Nevis), is a former West Indian cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in the 1960s and the 1970s. |
Q4802299 Aruppola is a suburb of Kandy, Sri Lanka. Aruppola is about 4 kilometers from the heart of the Kandy City. Aruppola is popular for its government-funded Technical College. The population of Aruppola consists of mostly middle-class families who work for both the government and the private sector. Arruppola shar... |
Q5132726 Clifford George (Cliff) Pilkey (27 July 1922 – 17 November 2012) was a Canadian politician and trade union leader.Pilkey was an autoworker and United Auto Workers leader in Oshawa's Local 222 before being elected as an Alderman on Oshawa City Council. First elected in 1963, he served as an Alderman until the e... |
Q6577882 Nat Sakdatorn (Thai: ณัฐ ศักดาทร) (born January 24, 1983) is a Thai singer-songwriter, actor, writer and the winner of the 4th season of reality talent show True Visions' Academy Fantasia. |
Q5605112 Greenwoods was a chain of menswear stores with headquarters in Bradford, England. |
Q6311748 Junction Knob (77°36′S 161°39′E) is a descriptive name given by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee to a small but distinctive peak at the junction of Odin Glacier and Alberich Glacier névé areas in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. |
Q5526904 Gastón Minutillo (born December 19, 1987 in Mar del Plata) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Fénix of the Primera B Metropolitana. |
Q7056905 Norrland dialects (Swedish: norrländska mål) is one of the six major dialect groupings of the Swedish language. It comprises the dialects in most of Norrland, except those of Gästrikland and southern Hälsingland, where Svealand Swedish is spoken. Local dialects from Härjedalen and northwest Jämtland (specifica... |
Q17063874 Gudguhar (Persian: گودگوهر, also Romanized as Gūdgūhar) is a village in Khabar Rural District, Dehaj District, Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q16951976 The 2006 Barbarians rugby union tour was a series of matches played in May–June 2006 in by Barbarians F.C.. They played against Scotland, England and, for the first time, against Georgia. |
Q150101 Citrus limettioides, Palestinian sweet lime or Indian sweet lime or common sweet lime, alternatively considered a cultivar of Citrus × limon, C. × limon 'Indian Lime', is a low acid lime that has been used in Palestine for food, juice and rootstock. It is a member of the sweet limes. Like the Meyer lemon, it... |
Q10302903 The Instituto de Odivelas (IO) was a Portuguese military school for young girls, located at Odivelas. It was founded in 1900 and closed in 2015. The last official full name of the school was Instituto de Odivelas (Infante Dom Afonso) (Portuguese for "Institute of Odivelas (Prince Alfonse)"). |
Q6156366 The Universidad Autónoma del Carmen is an institution of higher education located in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. Founded on June 13, 1967, it is the successor to the Liceo Carmelita, which was established in 1854. |
Q20708969 The discography for American country singer Jerrod Niemann consists of seven studio albums, twelve singles, and ten music videos. |
Q17532979 Bridport Town Hall is an 18th-century town hall in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. |
Q9351346 Szeroki may refer to the following places in Poland:Szeroki BórSzeroki Bór PiskiSzeroki Kamień |
Q3219638 Laurice Schehadé (also Laurice Schehadé-Benzoni; 1908-2008) was a Lebanese novelist and poet. |
Q167776 Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age, is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors. Italian neorealism films mostly contend with the difficult economic and moral co... |
Q4408308 Saraksh is a fictional planet described in Prisoners of Power ("Обитаемый остров") by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so-called Noon Universe and presents a world that survived an atomic war. As a result, the surface of the planet is mostly covered with debris and junk. This is a grea... |
Q994738 Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist. As a priest, he was also known as Abbé Nollet. |
Q7352893 Robin Cardwell Young (née Youngs) is an American television and radio personality. Young was born in Long Island, New York, attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Boston. She has been a Boston-based radio and television host since the... |
Q5596386 Grant O. Gale Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Grinnell College Department of Physics. Robert Cadmus [1] typically observes. The observatory is located in Grinnell, Iowa (USA). Constructed in 1984, it is named after Grant O. Gale, a distinguished teacher and curator of the G... |
Q5050162 Castle Island is an island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state in the United States. It is located just off the southern tip of Lopez Island.The island, having a formidable look, was named Old Hundred Island by the U.S. Coast Survey of 1855. It was given its present, descriptive name, by the British on... |
Q7420778 Sanya Mateyas (Croatian: Sanja Matejaš) is a Croatian–American actress and singer. She moved to the United States in 1999.She was a leader and a composer for her Los Angeles-based hard-rock band Duda Did It, with an independent album released in 2008.Other than her appearance in Disney's Holes, she has played ... |
Q8024392 Windows was a smooth jazz band formed in the early 1980s. The band issued eleven albums over a dozen years. Guided by bassist/vocalist Skipper Wise and his writing partner, keyboardist Ed Cohen, the group played a hybrid of fusion and smooth jazz. Peter White performed regularly on many Windows albums. Wise pr... |
Q1164132 Port-Sainte-Marie is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France. |
Q5223335 Dark Mountain, formerly also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain in the Tanzilla Plateau of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of the settlement of Dease Lake, near Cry Lake. |
Q4904662 Bierzów [ˈbjɛʐuf] (German Bierzdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarbimierz, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Skarbimierz, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Brzeg, and 45 km (28 mi) west of the regional capital... |
Q6872817 Miranda Daphne Jane Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Smiley; 19 August 1939 – 30 December 2010), was the daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire. |
Q5082013 Charles Richard Elrington (1787–1850) was a Church of Ireland cleric and academic, regius professor of divinity in the University of Dublin. |
Q3249341 This is a list of all waterways named as rivers in Lebanon. Lebanon has 22 rivers all of which are non navigable; 28 rivers originate on the western face of the Lebanon range and run through the steep gorges and into the Mediterranean Sea, the other 6 arise in the Beqaa Valley. |
Q16012177 Ivan Tomašević (10 March 1897 – 31 August 1988) was a notable New Zealand labourer and political activist. He was born in Košarni Do, a village near Orebić, Croatia in 1897. |
Q5847721 Jahangirak (Persian: جهانگیرک) is a village in Cheshmeh Ziarat Rural District, in the Mirjaveh of Zahedan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q15526928 Arthur Chichester (30 November 1783 – 16 July 1869) was an English politician.He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Honiton 8 January 1835. |
Q19875892 The 1926–27 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1926–27 season. Under the fourth year of head coach J. Wilder Tasker (who concurrently served as the head football and baseball coach), the team finished the season with ... |
Q10450492 Chlorochroa belfragii, or Belfragi's chlorochroan bug, is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America. |
Q3846300 Marco Morosini (1605–1654) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brescia (1645–1654) and Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645). |
Q905589 ThinkFree Office is a proprietary office suite written in Java and C++ that runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Android and iOS platforms.Thinkfree Office product family include Thinkfree Online which is the first MS-compatible web-based online office in the world, ThinkFree Office includes a word processor (Hwo... |
Q2353306 M-59 is an east–west state trunkline highway that crosses the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit in the US state of Michigan. It runs between Howell at Interstate 96 (I-96) and I-94 on the Chesterfield–Harrison township line near the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. While primarily a multi-lane surface... |
Q3391995 Plato Cacheris (born 1929) is an American lawyer. |
Q1647681 Santa Lucía (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta luˈsi.a]) is a municipality in the Boaco department of Nicaragua. It has a population of 10,300 (2006, est.) and an extension of 120.78 km². The capital is the town of Santa Lucía located 94 km from Managua. Approx. 72% of the population lives in rural areas and 28%... |
Q1007526 The blue-winged parakeet, also known as the Malabar parakeet (Psittacula columboides) is a species of parakeet endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India. Found in small flocks, they fly rapidly in forest clearings while making screeching calls that differ from those of other parakeet species within their... |
Q7758744 The Punisher 1987 is the first ongoing comic book series starring the fictional Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher, following The Punisher limited series published the previous year. The series ran 104 issues from July 1987 to July 1995. |
Q3183299 Jonathan's Coffee-House was a significant meeting place in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, famous as the original site of the London Stock Exchange. The coffee house was opened around 1680 by Jonathan Miles in Change (or Exchange) Alley, in the City of London. In 1696, several patrons were implicated in... |
Q2174513 Dalmarnock railway station serves the area of Dalmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland. It is a station on the Argyle Line, 2¼ miles (4 km) south east of Glasgow Central. The northern part of the station is situated in a tunnel (as seen in the image). The station underwent a revamp for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. |
Q369923 Lake Beyşehir (Turkish: Beyşehir Gölü) is a large freshwater lake in Konya provinces, southwestern part of Turkey. It is located at around 37°47′0″N 31°33′0″E and is the largest freshwater lake in Turkey. It has an area of 650 km² and is 45 km long and 20 km wide. It carries the same name as the principal urban... |
Q6761407 Maria Cecília Marques (born May 5, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro) is a female water polo player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She played in a defending role in the national squad. |
Q7087802 Oliver Paul "Ollie" Ryan (born 26 September 1985) is an English footballer. He played professionally with Lincoln City as a forward and currently is playing for Staveley Miners Welfare. |
Q3713421 "Don't Come Around Here No More" is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. It was released in February 1985 as the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Southern Accents album. |
Q5550122 Gerard Pappa (also known as "Gerry" and "Pappa Bear" (c. June 19, 1944 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - July, 1980 Borough Park, Brooklyn), was a former Colombo crime family associate and eventually a Genovese crime family soldier and known hitman who was widely feared for his violent tendencies, which directly contrib... |
Q7802647 Tillandsia multicaulis is a species in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico (from Chiapas north to Hidalgo). |
Q7188557 Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Associate Judge for the Municipal Courts in the US city of Houston, Texas. Frye is the first openly transgender judge appointed in the United States. |
Q13424044 Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration is a 2013 book written by retired NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David. The book was released on May 7, 2013 by National Geographic Books. In the book, Aldrin outlines his plan for humans to be able to colonize Mars by the year 2035. The books goes over... |
Q19867578 Lisa E. Bloom (born 1958) is an American cultural critic, educator and feminist art historian specializing in polar studies, contemporary art, environmental art, history of photography, visual culture and film studies and is known for her books and essay contributions to these areas. |
Q20856225 Palokë Nikaj (1892–1961) was a 20th-century Albanian athlete, sports events organizer, footballer, referee, and sports journalist. His pioneering activities in sports made him one of the most notable figures in organized sports in Albania. He is recognized as one of the most important initiators of the creati... |
Q28219837 Adranon (present day Adrano) is ancient polis and archaeological site on the southwestern slopes of Mount Etna, near Simeto River, known for the "simetite" variety of amber" northwest of Catania. The ancient city was founded by the ancient Greek ruler Dionysius I of Syracuse around 400 BCE upon a pre-Hellenic... |
Q2013015 The Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP, French: Observatoire de Haute-Provence) is an astronomical observatory in the southeast of France, about 90 km east of Avignon and 100 km north of Marseille. It was established in 1937 as a national facility for French astronomers. Astronomical observations began in 1943 u... |
Q6915820 Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz (February 27, 1844 – March 4, 1910), also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater. Jacob Adler describes him as an "authorit[y] on dramaturgy", but also remarks that before being part of the Yiddish thea... |
Q4078370 Alexander Grigoryevich Barmin (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Бармин Aleksandr Grigoryevich Barmin; 16 August 1899 – 25 December 1987), most commonly "Alexander Barmine," was an officer in the Soviet Army who fled the purges of the Joseph Stalin era for France and then United States, where he served the US gov... |
Q1606627 Henry Andrews Cotton (18 May 1876 – 8 May 1933) was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton (now the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, previously the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum) in Trenton, New Jersey from 1907 to 1930. He and his staff practiced experimental ... |
Q903232 In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups. It is named after the German crystallographer Carl Hermann (who introduced it in 1928) and the French mineralogist Charles-Victor Mauguin (who modified it in 1931). This notation is s... |
Q5546495 George Woodcock, (20 October 1904 – 30 October 1979) was a British trade unionist and general secretary of the Trades Union Congress from 1960 to 1969.Born and brought up in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, he started work at age 12 in the local cotton mill. He became, in 1924, an official of the Bamber Bridge and ... |
Q6119246 Jacob Schueler (died 1918) was a confectionery proprietor in the city of Denver during the early 1870s. Born in Germany's Rhineland in 1835, he immigrated to America in 1850, and arrived in Denver as one of the Pikes Peakers in 1861. He soon went to serve in the American Civil War and returned. In 1873, he ... |
Q5635238 HM Prison Northallerton was a prison in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. It operated from 1788 until December 2013. During that time, it variously housed male and female adult prisoners, women with children, youth offenders, and military prisoners. Latterly Her Majesty's Prison Service struggled to ke... |
Q5139971 Code: Version 2.0 is a 2006 book by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig which proposes that governments have broad regulatory powers over the Internet. The book is released under a Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA 2.5. |
Q2658104 Rosa carolina, commonly known as the Carolina rose, pasture rose, or low rose, is a shrub in the rose family native to eastern North America, where it can be found in nearly all US states and Canadian provinces east of the Great Plains.It is common throughout its range and can be found in a wide variety of op... |
Q5189847 Cruden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Aaron Cruden (born 1989), New Zealand rugby playerAlexander Cruden (1699–1770), Scottish authorDamian Cruden, British theatre directorWilliam Cruden (1726–1785), Scottish minister and author |
Q6886805 The order of battle for the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. |
Q1048350 Cassidy Hugaert Haley is an American singer-songwriter and clothing designer based in Los Angeles. |
Q13561649 Bonnie "Boni" Blackstone (born November 8, 1965) is a retired American professional wrestling announcer, commentator, model, television and radio producer. She was a popular on-air personality in regional territories of the Southern United States during the 1980s, as part of the announcing team in the Global ... |
Q2076629 Peter Lenes (born April 3, 1986) is an American ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Dornbirner EC of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).Prior to turning professional, Lenes attended the University of Vermont where he played four seasons of NCAA Division I college hockey with the Vermont Catamounts me... |
Q6603354 The first V8SuperTourer race was at Hampton Downs on February 18, 2012 with Greg Murphy taking the first ever race win. |
Q3162884 MusicaNeo is a global online music platform for free publishing and sale of digital sheet music and performing licenses. The platform caters for all categories of music lovers – professional composers, arrangers, teachers, conductors, text authors, editors, as well as amateur musicians. |
Q7267417 Qeshlaq (Persian: قشلاق, also Romanized as Qeshlāq) is a village in Tombi Golgir Rural District, Golgir District, Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. |
Q25110680 In 2014–15 season the club competed in both parts of Basketball League of Serbia and Radivoj Korać Cup. |
Q4462684 Vladimir Nikolaevich Tretyakov (1953 in Arkhangelsk, RSFSR – August 19, 1979), known as the "Arkhangelsk Butcher", was a Soviet serial killer who killed seven women in his hometown between 1977 and 1978. |
Q6092032 In metaphysics, the problem of universals refers to the question of whether properties exist, and if so, what they are. Properties are qualities or relations that two or more entities have in common. The various kinds of properties, such as qualities and relations, are referred to as universals. For instance, ... |
Q2482872 Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group. The label has been dormant since 2005, due to Universal Motown and Universal Republic Records being formed and taking all of the artists from it. Those labels were eventually combine... |
Q6068561 The Ireland Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. It is one of many Yearly Meetings (YM's) of Friends around the world.In Ireland there are 27 local (preparative) meetings. These are grouped into 7 regional Monthly meetings, which are in turn grouped together in... |
Q1285099 Radimir Čačić (pronounced [râdimiːr tʃâtʃitɕ]; born 11 May 1949) is a Croatian politician and businessman, best known as a leader of the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats (HNS) and a government minister.Čačić served as the president of the HNS between 1995 and 2000. Following the 2000 Croatian parlia... |
Q7192969 Pietro Fontana was an early 19th-century engineer. He was Secretary of the Accademia degli Ottusi di Spoleto (known later as the Accademia Spoletina) and founded the Società Agraria Spoletina. In 1812 he discovered the veins of lignite near Ruscio that were later exploited as an important mine. |
Q5213775 Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition. |
Q5081976 Charles Regan (11 May 1842 – 17 May 1921) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1877.Regan was born in Barnsley and became a brewer's traveller. Between 1873 and 1881 he was living variously in Romford, Essex, Barnsley and Croydon, Surrey.Regan made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1877 season i... |
Q5509538 Furifuri: Futsū no Mainichi ni Warikonde Kita, Fushigi na Rinjin-tachi no Ohanashi Ohanashi (Japanese: ふりフリ ～ふつうのまいにちにわりこんできた、フシギなリンジンたちのおはなしおはなし～), commonly shortened to simply Furifuri, is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by 130cm released on August 29, 2008, for the PC as a DVD. Furifuri is described... |
Q580801 Lisewiec [liˈsɛvjɛt͡s] (German: Lissau bei Kahlbude) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kolbudy, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Kolbudy, 10 km (6 mi) west of Pruszcz Gdański, and 17 km (11 mi) south-west... |
Q7830080 Town on Trial is a 1957 British mystery film directed by John Guillermin and starring John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates and Derek Farr. A whole town comes under suspicion when two grisly murders are carried out—particularly members of the local sports club. |
Q16917712 Leucodictyon is a genus of cercozoa.It includes the species Leucodictyon marinum. |
Q7172648 Peter Anthony Baker (born 18 September 1945 – 3 October 2000) was an English cricketer. Baker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break, although he primarily played as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Crowthorne, Berkshire and educated at Cheltenham College.Baker made his Minor Counties Champi... |
Q6145497 James Wightman Davidson (1 October 1915 – 8 April 1973) was a New Zealand historian and constitutional adviser. Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University from 1950 to 1973, Davidson has been described as the "founding father of modern Pacific Islands historiography as well as constitut... |
Q18156846 Pinckneyville is a historic frontier settlement site located near Union, Union County, South Carolina. Pinckneyville was established on February 19, 1791 by the General Assembly of South Carolina Act #1491 along with the Washington district, and is one of the earliest settlements in the South Carolina backc... |
Q2710906 Melanophryniscus stelzneri (bumblebee toad or black-and-yellow walking toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae which is endemic to Argentina and is harvested for the pet trade. Two subspecies are recognized. |
Q22935610 Jane Nambakire Mulemwa is a Ugandan chemist and educator. She is the chairperson of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda . |
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