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Q20858285 Bamby Salcedo is the founder of the Los Angeles-based TransLatin@ Coalition, which according to its website "is an organization form[ed] by Trans Latin@ immigrant leaders who have come together in 2009 to organize and advocate for the needs of Trans Latin@s who are immigrants and reside in the US."In 2014 the... |
Q22004131 Dung Kai-cheung, a Chinese fiction writer born in Hong Kong in 1967. He received his B.A. and M. Phil. in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong.He is an author, journalist, playwright and essayist. He works at a part-time lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and mainly teaches Chi... |
Q13459958 Cerconota languescens is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil.The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous, slightly pinkish-tinged with the costa slenderly grey. The stigmata are blackish, the plical very obliquely beyond the first discal, an... |
Q27986305 Milton is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.Milton has the name of the local Milton family, original owners of the land where the community now stands. |
Q422870 Phytoalexins are antimicrobial and often antioxidative substances synthesized de novo by plants that accumulate rapidly at areas of pathogen infection. They are broad spectrum inhibitors and are chemically diverse with different types characteristic of particular plant species. Phytoalexins tend to fall into s... |
Q8063429 Zabalaza is the first solo release from the South African kwaito performer, Thandiswa Mazwai. Before this album, Thandiswa was most famously known as the lead singer for the kwaito group Bongo Maffin. Zabalaza (which means Rebellion in the Xhosa language) incorporates elements of kwaito, traditional Xhosa musi... |
Q7044056 No Compromise is the second album release by contemporary Christian music pianist and singer Keith Green, released in 1978.The album's title derives from "Make My Life a Prayer to You", which begins: "Make my life a prayer to You / I wanna do what You want me to / No empty words and no white lies / no token pr... |
Q6939172 Government Murray College Sialkot (often referred to as Murray College), formerly known as Scotch Mission College, is located in Sialkot in the Punjab province of Pakistan. |
Q2391804 Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Television docudrama that premiered on 7 May 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of ... |
Q266492 Marit Elisabeth Mikkelsplass (born Marit Wold on 22 February 1965) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who competed from 1985 to 1998. She represented Kjelsås IL in Oslo. Today she is married to former Norwegian cross-country skier Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass.Mikkelsplass has three silver medals from the Wint... |
Q5633244 HMS Madagascar was a 38-gun Piémontaise-class frigate originally of the French Navy. Her French name had been Néréide, and she had been built to a design by François Pestel.In 1810 as Néréide, she sailed to Guadeloupe but was repelled by the blockade off Basse-Terre, and returned to Brest after a fight with HM... |
Q4828652 The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is an aviation museum located at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Incorporated in April 1995, and opened to the public in August of the same year, it includes 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) of exhibit space, a library, and an aircraft restoration and repair shop. Th... |
Q7587857 St. Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) is a co-educational secondary school in Santa Cruz, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. |
Q7131323 Pankit Thakker is an Indian actor who has played in various TV series. He started his career in 2001 with Ekta Kapoor's extremely popular serial Kabhii Sautan Kabhii Sahelii which originally aired on DD Metro, and later ran on Star Plus, DD National, and TV Asia. He is best known for playing the roles of Harsh... |
Q4049746 Songs Forever is the title of the 2006 studio album by German singer-songwriter & producer Thomas Anders, consisting mainly of popular swing covers. In this album Thomas Anders opens new sides of the solo career. |
Q376975 The 1979 ATP Buenos Aires was a men's Grand Prix tennis circuit tournament held in Buenos Aires, Argentina that was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the tournament and was held from 19 November through 25 November 1979. Guillermo Vilas won the singles title. |
Q2737159 Topli Dol is a village in the municipality of Surdulica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 122 people. |
Q4601446 The Men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 15–16. |
Q335077 Gravity the Seducer is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Ladytron. It was released on 12 September 2011 by Nettwerk. Recorded in Kent, England, the album has been described as "haunted, evocative, romantic", and having "a feminine warmth".Three singles have been released from the album, "W... |
Q1274615 Filippo Giorgi (born February 9, 1959) is an Italian physicist and an author of 19 chapters and over 250 peer-reviewed articles which he published in such journals as Journal of Geophysical Research, Climate Dynamics and many others. |
Q11424985 Katsuhiko Saka (坂 克彦, Saka Katsuhiko, born September 6, 1985 in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. |
Q22349510 RPI Engineers ice hockey may refer to either of the ice hockey teams that represent Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:RPI Engineers men's ice hockeyRPI Engineers women's ice hockey |
Q26964721 "When You Feel This" is a song by Australian DJs and producers Stafford Brothers with Rick Ross featuring Jay Sean. It was released as a single in Australia on 10 July 2015.The song peaked at number 12 on the Australian Dance Chart, number 9 on the Australian Artists chart and number 70 on the overall Austral... |
Q26944996 Xu Ting (Chinese: 徐婷; 3 October 1990 – 7 September 2016), known as Kitty Xu Ting, was a Chinese actress and blogger who died of cancer in 2016. Previously known for her appearances in Dad Home and Lost in Macau, she was a popular blogger on the microblogging website Sina Weibo with 300,000 followers. Her deat... |
Q28195085 Len Deighton's London Dossier is a guide book to London, edited by British author Len Deighton and published in 1967. It consists of a "collection of personal guides to the hidden gems and sites of London by a range of writers and raconteurs, many of them Len Deighton’s friends." Deighton himself contributes... |
Q1465660 Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (simplified Chinese: 玉龙雪山; traditional Chinese: 玉龍雪山; pinyin: Yùlóng Xuěshān) is a mountain massif or small mountain range in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Lijiang, in Yunnan province, China. Its highest peak is named Shanzidou (扇子陡) and is 5,596 m (18,360 ft) above sea level. |
Q7965775 Walter Padbury (22 December 1820 – 18 April 1907) was an Australian pioneer and philanthropist.Padbury was born at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in the English county of Oxfordshire. He arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in the Protector with his father on 25 February 1830, but in the following July his fa... |
Q6941356 Sardar Mushtaq Ahmed Khan Laghari is from Rahimabad. He was born in Choti Zareen. He is the son of Sardar Mohammad Akbar Khan Laghari. His paternal grandfather was Sardar Noor Mohammed Khan Leghari, founder of Rahimabad. His maternal grandfather was Khan Bahadur Nawab Sardar Din Mohammed Khan Leghari, Leghari ... |
Q5123559 The City of Ainsworth was a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1892 to 1898.In November 1898, she sank during a storm in the worst sternwheeler disaster in Kootenay Lake history. She sank to such a great depth that her wreck would go undiscovered for nearl... |
Q393618 The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations (which became known as ‘Discovery Investigations’) and to propose nature resource conservation and economic dev... |
Q6385397 Mataio Kekūanaōʻa (1791–1868) was descended from the high chiefs of the island of Oʻahu. His first name is the Hawaiian form of Matthew. Kekūanaōʻa translates as "the standing projection" in the Hawaiian language. |
Q649577 Wołów [ˈvɔwuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bliżyn, within Skarżysko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Bliżyn, 9 km (6 mi) west of Skarżysko-Kamienna, and 27 km (17 mi) north-east of the regional capital K... |
Q7592790 St Chad's Church is an Anglican church in Poulton-le-Fylde, a town on the Fylde coastal plain in Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. ... |
Q3134170 Hermann Kreß was a German General der Gebirgstruppe during World War II who commanded the 4th Mountain Division. In 1938 he was appointed to command the 1st Mountain Division's 99th Regiment, which he led until 1943. After heavy losses to the 1st Mountain Division he was given command of the 4th Mountain Divis... |
Q15118972 The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) serves as a regional Institute for Training and Research in Population Studies for the ESCAP region. It was established in Mumbai in July 1956; until July 1970, it was known as the Demographic Training and Research Center (DTRC), and until 1985, it wa... |
Q5341817 Edward Baynes (1768–1829), was an officer in the British Army. He served, mainly in staff roles, during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. However, he is best known for serving as one of the principal staff officers in British North America during the War of 1812 between Britain and the United ... |
Q1202366 The 1941 German Ice Hockey Championship was the 25th season of the German Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Germany. SC Riessersee won the championship by defeating LTTC Rot-Weiß Berlin in the final. |
Q16251929 The Hadrianic Society is a British historical society focused upon Hadrian's Wall and Roman Britain as well as Antonine Wall, the Gask Ridge, and other Roman Frontier systems.It was founded in 1971 under the leadership of Brian Dobson, David Breeze, and Valerie Maxfield. |
Q15429246 Luis Frangella (July 6, 1944 – December 7, 1990) was an Argentinian figurative post-modern painter and sculptor associated with the expressionist painting of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He died of AIDS in 1990. |
Q435310 Lene Brøndum (born 26 June 1947) is a Danish actress. At the 23rd Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in Hip Hip Hurrah! She has appeared in more than 35 films and television shows since 1976. |
Q23138840 The 2016 VCU Rams baseball team is the program's 46th season fielding a varsity baseball program, and their fourth season the Atlantic 10 Conference.Led by Shawn Stiffler for his third season, the Rams had their most successful baseball season in program history. The Rams advanced to the NCAA Super Regional f... |
Q24455713 This is a list of women photographers who were born in China or whose works are closely associated with that country. |
Q26721039 Volger Branch is a stream in Atchison County in the U.S. state of Missouri.Volger apparently is a corruption of Vogler, the surname of a pioneer settler. |
Q14922035 Chrysobothris gemmata is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America. |
Q1886720 John Spillane (born 1961) is a singer-songwriter from Cork, Ireland. He graduated from University College Cork with a degree in Irish and in English. |
Q7376918 Rudi were a punk rock/power pop band from Belfast, Northern Ireland formed in 1975. |
Q11983271 Lars Fredrik Beckstrøm (born January 22, 1960 in Oslo) is a Norwegian musician who is mostly known for playing bass in the Norwegian rock band deLillos, but has also recorded several albums under the name Beckstrøm. He has written many of the band's well known songs such as "Nittenåttifire" and "Balladen om K... |
Q13565116 Interiors is the fourth release and second full-length album from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental rock group, Ativin. This album strayed from Ativin's typical instrument line-up of guitar, baritone guitar and drums by adding strings on certain tracks, sometimes very prominently. |
Q2427644 State Route 7 (SR 7) is a 216.0-mile-long (347.6 km) state highway that travels in a southeast-to-northwest orientation through portions of Lowndes, Cook, Tift, Turner, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Peach, Crawford, Monroe, Lamar, Pike, and Spalding counties in the southern and central parts of the U.S. state of Geor... |
Q7403493 Salak Selatan LRT station is a Malaysian low-rise rapid transit station situated near and named after the Kuala Lumpur township of Salak South (Malay: Salak Selatan). The station is part of the Sri Petaling Line (formerly known as STAR).The station was opened on July 11, 1998, as part of the second phase of th... |
Q4829569 Avunu, Valliddaru Ishta Paddaru! (English : Yes, they both like each other!) is a 2002 Telugu film written and directed by Vamsy. It won many awards including the Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award. The film's music is composed by Chakri. |
Q188510 Lacrabe is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France. |
Q6820334 Merritt Bucholz (born 28 June 1966) is an American architect who has set up practice in Ireland with his partner Karen McEvoy. He lectures frequently in various universities in Europe and America. |
Q7350741 Rocky Gorge Reservoir is located on the Patuxent River in Howard County, Montgomery County and Prince George's County, Maryland between Laurel and Burtonsville, Maryland. The reservoir was created in 1952 by the construction of the T. Howard Duckett Dam on the Patuxent. The dam is visible from Interstate 95 n... |
Q2325316 Hypsoblennius sordidus is a species of combtooth blenny found in the southeast Pacific ocean, from Lima south to Chile. This species grows to a length of 11.6 centimetres (4.6 in) TL. |
Q16828703 Czech Hell (Estonian: Tšehhi põrgu) was an episode of vigilante justice during the Prague Offensive and the Prague Uprising, World War II in May 1945. It involved the imprisonment and summary execution of unarmed soldiers and officers of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian). |
Q20646548 Wang Junkai (simplified Chinese: 王俊凯; traditional Chinese: 王俊凱; pinyin: Wáng Jùnkǎi, born 21 September 1999), also known as Karry Wang, is a Chinese singer and actor. He was a trainee of TF Family since 2010 and debuted as the leader of TFBoys in 2013. He is one of China’s wealthiest people born after 1990, w... |
Q5656224 The Independent Popular Action (Spanish: Acción Popular Independiente, API) was a Chilean political party, created on 27 April 1968, intended to be part of the Popular Unity and support the candidacy of Salvador Allende in the presidential election of 1970. Its main leader was Rafael Tarud.In 1969, together wi... |
Q7359059 Datuk Kamarudin bin Meranun is a Malaysian businessman who is currently the Chairman of AirAsia and CEO of the Tune Group. |
Q23771545 Petar Nikolić (born September 25, 1993) is a Macedonian professional basketball Guard who currently plays for Blokotehna in the Macedonian First League. |
Q24075044 Avant Garde is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Constant Deviants. The album was released on May 12, 2015 by their label SIX2SIX Records. Avant Garde's production and mixing was entirely handled by the duo. It was supported by the singles "Breathin","End All Be All" and "Standards". The digital... |
Q26720578 General Nuisance (1941) is the ninth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. |
Q1280344 Echiniscoidea are an order of tardigrades, a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. It was first described by Richters in 1926. |
Q14934161 Griburius scutellaris is a species in the family Chrysomelidae ("leaf beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles").It is found in North America. |
Q1949244 Mosgiel is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989 it has been inside the Dunedin City Council area, but was physically separate from the contiguous suburbs until developments in the ne... |
Q272132 Ærøskøbing Municipality is a former municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the island of Ærø in southern Denmark. Since 1 January 2006 it has been a part of Ærø Municipality The municipality covered an area of 74 km², and had a total population of 3,731 (2005). Its last mayor was Jørgen Otto Jørgen... |
Q475066 Amphawa (Thai: อัมพวา, pronounced [ām.pʰā.wāː]) is a district (amphoe) of Samut Songkhram Province, at the northwestern tip of the Bay of Bangkok. |
Q7897820 "Unwell" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty. It was released in April 2003 as the second single from their third album, More Than You Think You Are (2002). It was written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas. It was very successful on the radio, spending 18 weeks at the top of th... |
Q7831426 Trachysphaera fructigena is a plant pathogen affecting bananas and cacao trees. |
Q676169 Erich Schärer (born 1 September 1946 in Zurich) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (Two-man: 1980), two silvers (Four-man: 1976, 1980), and one bronze (Two-man: 1976).Schärer also won fourteen medals at the... |
Q4774050 Anthurium rugulosum is a species of plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q6516105 The Leeds South by-election, 1908 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds South in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 13 February 1908. |
Q19880925 Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors is a comedy album by Nichols and May.The ten episodes heard here were originally aired on NBC Radio's Monitor program. The final track is an outtake of Nichols and May improvising.The track "The Von Brauns at Home", featuring German characters pretending to be America... |
Q4860886 Barkad Jadid (Persian: بركاڈجديد, also Romanized as Barḵāɖ Jadīd; also known as Barkāh) is a village in Keybar Rural District, Jolgeh Zozan District, Khaf County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 452, in 97 families. |
Q6906470 AMOS 4 is an Israeli commercial communication satellite, part of the AMOS series of satellites. The satellite is positioned at the 65° E longitude in the geostationary belt. It lifted off on 31 August 2013, 20:05 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Transmission and communication services given by this satellite inc... |
Q16146601 Alexandru Mihail Băluță (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru mihaˈil bəˈlut͡sə]; born 13 September 1993) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for Czech club Slavia Prague. |
Q13015462 The Northern Line is a railway line in Thailand. The line heads north terminating at the northern port of Chiang Mai. The line is 751 kilometres (467 mi) between Hua Lamphong Railway Station and Chiang Mai Railway Station. It is the second longest railway line in Thailand. The line first opened in 1896. Major... |
Q16590787 This was the first edition of the tournament.Gilles Müller won the title, defeating Lukáš Lacko in the final, 7-6(7–4), 6–3. |
Q24450615 Manea Khadoum (Arabic:مانع خدوم) (born 17 April 1994) is a Emirati footballer. He currently plays for Ittihad Kalba as a winger . |
Q28131962 Dimethyltrienolone (developmental code name RU-2420) is a synthetic, orally active, and extremely potent anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) and 17α-alkylated 19-nortestosterone (nandrolone) derivative which was never marketed for medical use. It has among the highest known affinity of any AAS for the androgen ... |
Q27958924 Ian Crampton Baker (23 May 1923 - 11 May 2010), was a British architect, best known for Rutherford School, Paddington, and the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, both of which he co-designed with Leonard Manasseh. |
Q20995819 Auger-Aliassime may refer to:Félix Auger-Aliassime (born 2000), Canadian tennis player, brother of MalikaMalika Auger-Aliassime (born 1998), Canadian tennis player, sister of Félix |
Q3860616 Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Navratilova were the defending champions, but Navratilova did not compete this year.Kuznetsova teamed up with Elena Likhovtseva and successfully defended her title, by defeating Liezel Huber and Magdalena Maleeva 6–3, 6–4 in the final. |
Q2523838 Křižanovice is a very small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 120 inhabitants. |
Q4557977 1902 was the 13th season of County Championship cricket in England. Australia had won a classic Test series against England 2–1. The first two Tests were rained off but the final three were full of drama. Victor Trumper scored a century before lunch in the third Test, Australia won the fourth by just 3 runs an... |
Q4793999 Armstrong Telephone Company is a telecommunications provider, and part of the Armstrong Group of Companies. The company primarily operates as a local exchange carrier in rural markets in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. |
Q5250798 Deer Park is an unincorporated community in Keener Township, Jasper County, Indiana. |
Q3363977 Kløve Station (Norwegian: Kløve holdeplass) is a railway station on the Bergen Line. It is located at Kløve in the western part of the Raundalen valley in Voss municipality, Hordaland county, Norway. The station is served by the Bergen Commuter Rail, operated by Vy, with up to five daily departures in each di... |
Q3424807 Jhurkiya is a village development committee in Morang District in the Kosi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8452 people living in 1974 individual households. |
Q427727 Andreas Biermann (13 September 1980 – 18 July 2014) was a German footballer who last played for FSV Spandauer Kickers. |
Q4720852 Alexandre Gélinas was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the tenth Mayor of Shawinigan from 1937 to 1938.He was born in 1894 in Saint-Barnabé, in the Mauricie region in Quebec, Canada, and was married to Laure Lauterreur. Although they never had children of their own, they looked after Nicole Hou... |
Q5545935 Sir George Washington Browne FRIBA (21 September 1853 – 15 June 1939) was a British architect. He was born in Glasgow, and trained there and in London. He practiced mainly in Edinburgh, where he designed a number of large public and commercial buildings (the British Linen Bank being a frequent client), althoug... |
Q6819202 Merica melanostoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. |
Q92192 Hélène Liebmann née Riese (16 December 1795 – 2 December 1869) was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and published her Piano Sonata when she was 15. She married around 1814 and may have m... |
Q6842780 Midnight Shadow is a 1939 film with an all African-American cast. It was directed and produced by George Randol, who was also African American. |
Q7418692 Sankeertana is a 1987 Telugu-language classical film produced by M. Gangaiah under the Konark Movie Creations banner, directed by Geetha Krishna. It stars Akkineni Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishna in the lead roles, with music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film was later remade in Tamil as Deiva Vaakku. |
Q3324496 Dying of Laughter (Muertos de risa) is a 1999 Spanish black comedy film co-written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia.It stars Santiago Segura and El Gran Wyoming as a comedic duo trying to deal with each other despite their mutual hate in their road to success. |
Q40862649 Pug is a nickname of:Walden L. Ainsworth (1886-1960), US Navy World War II vice admiralPug Bennett (1874–1935), American Major League Baseball playerPug Cavet (1889–1966), American Major League Baseball playerRussell Daugherity (1902-1971), American football playerPeter George Davis (1923-2011), British Secon... |
Q18686064 Manuel Esteban de Esesarte Pesqueira (born 6 January 1961) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca. |
Q18704902 Joseph R. Begich (born January 17, 1930) is an American former politician in the state of Minnesota. He was born in Eveleth, Minnesota. He is an alumnus of the Northwest School of Agriculture, and is a grain and livestock farmer. He served in the House of Representatives for District 6A from 1975 to 1982 and ... |
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