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Q2030159 Israel was represented by the artist Izhar Cohen, with the song "Olé, Olé", at the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 4 May in Gothenburg, Sweden. "Olé, Olé" was the winner of the Israeli national final, held on 28 March. This was the second time Cohen was with in Eurovision Song Contest last ti... |
Q28549817 Geoffrey Harold Sidaway (28 October 1942 – 20 April 2014) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 2000 until 2012.Sidaway studied for ordination at Kelham Theological College and was priested in 1967. After curacies in Beighton and Chesterfield he was Vicar of St Bartholomew, Derby from 1972 to 1977. He was Vicar o... |
Q29448234 The Mission of the State of Palestine in the Federal Republic of Germany (Arabic: سفارة دولة فلسطين لدى ألمانيا) is the diplomatic mission of the Palestine in Germany in the absence of fully normalized relations. It is located in Berlin. The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) recognized the State... |
Q407239 Byala Cherkva (Bulgarian: Бяла черква) is a town in Pavlikeni Municipality part of Veliko Turnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria. The settlement is located close to the town of Pavlikeni about 28 km away from the city of Veliko Tarnovo. Its name in Bulgarian means white church, a popular placename around the ... |
Q2168394 Tepavia Trans was a charter airline based in Chişinău, Moldova. It was founded on 18 May 1999 and operated cargo and passenger services as well as sub-charter and wet-lease operations. The airline was shut down in 2006. |
Q379320 Michalovce District (okres Michalovce) is a district inthe Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was split between the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Zemplín (in the west) and Uh (in the east). |
Q6817854 Mer (also called Muri, Miere) is a Papuan language spoken in Papua province of Indonesia. |
Q6596193 SSSIs in the UK are notified using the concept of an Area of Search (AOS), an area of between 400 km2 (150 sq mi) and 4,000 km2 (1,500 sq mi) in size. The Areas of Search were conceived and developed between 1975 and 1979 by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), based on regions created by the Local Government... |
Q7162831 Penhow (Welsh: Pen-hŵ) is a small village and community (parish) just inside the eastern edge of the boundary of the city of Newport, South Wales, within the historic county of Monmouthshire. The name Penhow is believed to be derived from the Welsh word Pen meaning head or top and How derived from the Old Nors... |
Q6487301 The Lanphere Dunes, a unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex, is located in Humboldt County, California. The dune complex consists of the wave slope, fore dune, herbaceous and woody swales, coniferous and riparian forest, freshwater swamp, freshwater marsh, brackish marsh, salt marsh, and in... |
Q6264259 Sir John William Simpson KBE FRIBA (9 August 1858 – 30 March 1933) was an English architect and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1919 to 1921. |
Q4840190 Bad Boy's R&B Hits is a second 2004 compilation album by Bad Boy Records. This album contains R&B hits produced by Bad Boy. |
Q6572658 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008. |
Q4731539 Cecil Allen Blanchard (17 April 1929 – 25 October 2008) is a former Australian federal politician. |
Q2753450 Stare Łubki [ˈstarɛ ˈwupki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bulkowo, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. |
Q861712 A visual dictionary is a dictionary that primarily uses pictures to illustrate the meaning of words. Visual dictionaries are often organized by themes, instead of being an alphabetical list of words. For each theme, an image is labeled with the correct word to identify each component of the item in question. ... |
Q5585377 Gordon Jones (born July 25, 1957) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for five seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Rams. |
Q6168201 Woodburn is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 8,480. |
Q7029107 Nicola Russo (born 8 October 1990) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Aprilia on loan from Pescara. |
Q16255954 Jae-hyuk is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "jae" and nine hanja with the reading "hyuk" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.Peo... |
Q18207541 The 2014 Open de Rennes was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Rennes, France between 6 and 12 October 2014. |
Q13020250 Runglawan Thonahongsa (Thai: รุ้งลาวัณย์ โทนะหงษา) is a Thai movie and TV drama actress.She was born on 30 May 1979 in Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat), She is a Faculty of Arts graduate from Suan Dusit University. |
Q24961423 Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., founded in 1972, is a subsidiary corporation of Volvo Construction Equipment, headquartered in Linyi, Shandong. Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co (or abbreviated SDLG) is one of the most important manufacturers of construction machinery and mining eq... |
Q1412537 The Open Publication License (OPL) was published by the Open Content Project in 1999 as a public copyright license for documents. It superseded the Open Content License, which was published by the Open Content Project in 1998. Starting around 2002-2003, it began to be superseded, in turn, by the Creative Commo... |
Q17036285 Westside Community Schools, also known locally as District 66, is the third largest school district in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The district has one high school, one middle school, ten elementary schools, and one alternative high school. The district is in the center-west part of Omaha, between the Oma... |
Q3644507 Brian Winfield Sipe (born August 8, 1949) is a former professional American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1974 to 1983. He then played in the United States Football League for two seasons.Although mostly sidelined for the first several years... |
Q2663877 Mel Hopkins (7 November 1934 – 18 October 2010) was a Wales international football player. He played at left back. |
Q1198324 Qingliu (simplified Chinese: 清流县; traditional Chinese: 清流縣; pinyin: Qīngliú Xiàn) is a county of western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Sanming City. |
Q7087895 Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions. |
Q245711 A variant of eccrine spiradenoma which can be multiple on the scalp and can coalesce to form a 'Turban' tumour. In pathology, a cylindroma is a tumour with nests of cells that resemble a cylinder in cross section.Types include:Dermal eccrine cylindroma, a benign tumour of the skinAdenoid cystic carcinoma, a ma... |
Q3433028 Edward William Nelson (1883–1923) was a British marine biologist and polar explorer. Educated at Clifton, Tonbridge and Cambridge, he was independently wealthy. He worked at the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) in Plymouth and was member of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition. i... |
Q7740058 The Holy Thief is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters set in 1144–1145. It is the 19th and penultimate volume of the Cadfael Chronicles, first published in 1992.It was adapted for television in 1998 by Carlton Media for ITV.Heavy rains flood the river which in turn floods the Abbey, threatening the precio... |
Q7065103 Novoyegoryevsky (Russian: Новоего́рьевский; masculine), Novoyegoryevskaya (Новоего́рьевская; feminine), or Novoyegoryevskoye (Новоего́рьевское; neuter) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:Novoyegoryevskoye, Altai Krai, a selo in Yegoryevsky District of Altai KraiNovoyegoryevskoye, Nizhny Novgorod... |
Q95365 Robert Leffler (9 January 1866 in Aschersleben – 15 March 1940 in Berlin) was a German actor and singer. |
Q8015740 Sir William Montagu-Pollock (12 July 1903 – 26 September 1993) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Syria, Peru, Switzerland and Denmark. |
Q16210506 Vincent Philip Koch (born 13 March 1990) is a South African rugby union player for the South Africa national team and Saracens in the English Premiership.Koch regularly plays as a prop and has previously represented the Blue Bulls, UP Tuks and the Pumas.In 2013, he was included in a South Africa President'... |
Q17067404 The Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2013 (H.R. 2655) is a bill that would amend Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to require courts to impose appropriate sanctions on attorneys, law firms, or parties who file frivolous lawsuits and to require them to compensate parties injured by such conduct. Th... |
Q16209874 Sergio Hierrezuelo Castellanos (15 March 1982) is a retired Cuban athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. He reached the semifinals of the 2005 World Championships. In addition, early in his career he won the silver medal at the 1999 World Youth Championships.His personal best in the event is 49.11... |
Q40856007 Cookie is the nickname of:Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900–2002), given by the Duchess of WindsorCookie Belcher (born 1978), American basketball playerCookie Cunningham (1905–1995), American football player, basketball player and basketball coachCookie Cuccurullo (1918–1983), Major League Baseball pitch... |
Q19580064 Genesis Gaming Solutions is a United States casino gaming company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Spring, Texas. Genesis Gaming focuses on casino gaming software namely the BRAVO Poker applications which assists casinos in organization of poker games including table management and player tracking. |
Q4503270 Pantelis Pantelidis (23 November 1983 – 18 February 2016) was a Greek singer, songwriter and lyricist. He died on 18 February 2016 in a car crash. |
Q16535850 The canton of Tarn et Causses is an administrative division of the Aveyron department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Sévérac-d'Aveyron.It consists of the following communes: |
Q27973704 Maria Petronella Löhnis (1888-1964) was a Dutch phytopathologist, microbiologist and botanist noted for studying potato diseases. |
Q1995765 The history of Montreal, located in the province of Quebec, Canada, spans about 800 years. At the time of European contact, the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete and distinct group of Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people. They spoke Laurentian. Jacques Cartier became the first Europ... |
Q3312161 Corick (from Irish Comhrac, meaning 'confluence') is a megalithic site and townland in the civil parish of Ballynascreen, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It includes a stone circle and a stone row. The Corick stone circles and alignments are located 2 km north east of Ballybriest court-tomb, 400 metres ... |
Q751838 A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text. It is a subset of the online role-playing community which caters to both gamers and creative writers. Play-by-post games may be based on other role... |
Q2673328 Maharishi Vedic City (MVC) is a city in Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,294 at the 2010 census. The city was first incorporated in 2001 as "Vedic City" but then officially changed its name to "Maharishi Vedic City" five months later. It was the first city to incorporate in Iowa sinc... |
Q223727 Beitar Jerusalem Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים; Moadon Kaduregel Beitar Yerushalayim), commonly known as Beitar Jerusalem, or simply as Beitar, is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Jerusalem, that plays in the Israeli Premier League, the top tier in Israeli footbal... |
Q537308 San Lawrenz (English: Saint Lawrence) is a village on the island of Gozo, Malta. Its name is derived from Lawrence of Rome who is the patron saint for the village. It has a population of 748, as of March 2014. The Dwejra nature reserve is administratively part of the town. Prominently in the reserve is the Fun... |
Q2082226 A government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) is a non-governmental organization that was set up or sponsored by a government in order to further its political interests and mimic the civic groups and civil society at home, or promote its international or geopolitical interests abroad. |
Q5228413 David Mike Broda (September 17, 1944 – June 13, 2010) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 to 2004 as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus. |
Q7895327 The University of Delaware Press (UDP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware in the United States, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware, where the University Press is also based.Established in the early 1970s, the UDP published few books until 1975, when it joined the Associa... |
Q15438754 Rodney L. Lowman (born 1949) is an American psychologist, academic administrator and entrepreneur whose major contributions have been in the areas of career assessment and counseling, ethical issues in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I-O Psychology), the integration of clinical psychology and I-O ps... |
Q4635438 The 34th Strategic Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 11th Strategic Group at Zaragoza Air Base, Spain. It was inactivated on 7 August 1990.The first predecessor of the squadron, the 34th Air Transport Squadron served on the South Atlantic ferrying route during ... |
Q5219299 Daniele Sciarra (born 12 July 1991 in Atri) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Chieti on loan from Serie B side Pescara. |
Q525993 Tricia Minelia Flores is a competitive jumper and runner who has represented the University of Belize. She represented Belize internationally at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. |
Q4706880 Alan Holder (10 December 1931 – June 2013) was a footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Lincoln City and Tranmere Rovers. |
Q19865423 This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Ferry County, Washington, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic ... |
Q1309965 George Fowell Plant Ltd, an established manufacturer of construction and industrial machinery in Wolverhampton, built a mid-engined sports car in 1962. The Gitane featured a rear-mounted 997c.c. Mini engine, Weber carburettor, multi-tubular frame, and disk brakes. A top speed of 130 mph (210 km/h) was claimed.... |
Q2889473 Marensis simplex is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Marensis. It was described by Bates in 1865. |
Q15814614 Heidi Metzger is a German former professional racing cyclist. She won the German National Road Race Championship in 1990 and 1991. |
Q19871589 Abraham Buchanan Addams, Jr. (July 12, 1926 – December 10, 2017) was an American football end who played for the Detroit Lions. He played college football at Indiana University, having previously attended Louisville Male High School. He died on December 10, 2017 at the age of 91. |
Q20716432 This is the list of awards and nominations received by Carl Cox, whose career in electronic dance music both as a DJ, Remixer and Music Producer has spanned over 30 years.Amongst His major competitive achievements, Cox has won thirteen DJ Awards, three International Dance Music Award's, three DJ Mag Award's a... |
Q773075 Bailly is a lunar impact crater that is located near the south-west limb of the Moon. It was named after French astronomer Jean S. Bailly. The oblique viewing angle gives the crater a foreshortened appearance, and the location near the limb can limit visibility due to libration. The most favorable time for view... |
Q2319815 Nomex is a flame-resistant meta-aramid material developed in the early 1960s by DuPont and first marketed in 1967. |
Q262326 Constant Vanden Stock Stadium (French: Stade Constant Vanden Stock, Dutch: Constant Vanden Stockstadion [kɔ̃ːˈstɑ̃ː vɑndɛn ˈstɔk ˌstaːdijɔn]) is a football stadium in the municipality of Anderlecht, Brussels. It is home to R.S.C. Anderlecht. It also hosted the UEFA Euro 1972 semifinal Hungary against Soviet Un... |
Q7654606 The Swedish Board of Agriculture (Swedish: Statens jordbruksverk, commonly known as Jordbruksverket) is a Government agency in Sweden that answers to the Ministry of Agriculture. The agency headquarters is located in Jönköping.It is responsible for agriculture, horticulture and reindeer husbandry, and functio... |
Q6555738 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring (the comedy duo Lee and Herring), and narrated by Tom Baker as the title character Lionel Nimrod, an over-the-top parody of Leonard Nimoy. The show itself somewhat parodies the Leonard Nimoy program "In... |
Q1688264 Jessica Schultz (born January 2, 1985 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American curler from Richfield, Minnesota. She currently plays second for Erika Brown. |
Q272630 Albia Dominica (also referred to as Dominica, Albia Domnica, Domnica, or Domnica Augusta; c. 337 – after 378) was a Roman Augusta, wife to Emperor Valens. Valens, who ruled from 364-378, was emperor of the East and co-emperor with his brother Valentinian I. |
Q794936 Buková is a village and municipality of Trnava District in the Trnava region, Slovakia. The village is located in the Little Carpathians and Buková reservoir is located nearby. The surrounding is a natural protected area. Near the village center are the ruins of the Ostrý Kameň Castle. |
Q5308867 The Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 was the first act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom specifically dealing with laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking. The legislation was enacted as a direct response to the failure of the courts' power making it impossible under the law, as it stood, to confi... |
Q3322083 Mont Saint-Quentin overlooks the Somme River in the region of Picardie approximately 1.5 km north of the town of Péronne, Somme, France. The hill is about 100 metres high but as it is situated in a bend of the river it dominates the whole position and is of strategic significance. During World War I, it was a... |
Q6173934 Jeffery Adam Granger (born December 16, 1971 in San Pedro, California) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
Q6697596 Lucius Calpurnius Piso was a Roman statesman of the 1st century. He was the grandson and son of men who had made huge fortunes from selling armaments which were used by the Roman legions. Piso was a close relative of Julius Caesar. His mother and Caesar's mother, Aurelia Cotta, were Rutilias of the same family... |
Q902113 Sean James Teale (born 18 June 1992) is a British actor, known for his roles as Prince Condé in Reign, Nick Levan in Skins, and Ben Larson in the Syfy series Incorporated. Co-stars in the new Fox sci-fi/drama series The Gifted. |
Q7933183 Violent Waves is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Circa Survive. It was released on August 28, 2012. As Circa Survive wanted a record that would capture the band's live sound, where they felt the magic of the band lay, they recorded the album in one week and produced it themselves. Violent Wav... |
Q7156621 Pay the Girl is the self-titled debut studio album released by American rock band Pay the Girl. It is their only studio album release to date. It was released on March 4, 2003, under TVT Records, which is now defunct.Five producers lent their producing abilities to the album: Matt Senatore, Rich Liggett, Rick ... |
Q17039702 This is a list of players in NCAA Division I FBS and its predecessors who have accumulated at least 4,000 receiving yards in their college football careers. Statistics are updated through the end of the 2018 season. Players still active in college are shown in bold. |
Q17098404 The Office for Cooperation with Civil Society of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Канцеларија за сарадњу с цивилним друштвом / Kancelarija za saradnju sa civilnim društvom) is a cooperation body of the Government of Serbia. It was constituted on 23 April 2010. According to its mandate, Office should provide t... |
Q19571656 Enter Three Dragons is 1978 Hong Kong martial art Bruceploitation movie, directed by Joseph Kong and starring Bruce Lai (Chang Yi Tao), Nick Cheung Lik and Philip Ko. This also happens to be Dragon Lee`s Hong Kong film debut. |
Q5658288 Adrian Jamaal Moss (born December 14, 1981) is an American professional basketball player. Born in Houston, Texas he played college basketball for Florida. He was the captain of the Gators team that won the 2006 NCAA championship. Subsequently, he pursued a professional career, playing in several leagues in Eu... |
Q25112465 Fetal abnormalities are conditions that affect a fetus or embryo and may be fatal or cause disease after birth.Acardiac twinAchondrogenesisAchondroplasiaAdrenal hematomaAgenesis of the corpus callosumAmniotic band syndromeAnal atresiaAnencephalyAqueductal stenosisArachnoid cystArthrogryposisCamptomelic dyspla... |
Q1583739 This is a list of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnes... |
Q6619771 Below is a list of fictional television shows. An early example of the show within a show format was The Jack Benny Program which had been popular on radio and took the same format to the new medium of television. |
Q1267788 Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation (WISCO), is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It started to operate in 1958 in Qingshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China.It was administrated by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), but in 2016 it was merged with fellow SASAC su... |
Q3914339 Russell Airport, (TC LID: CJW5), is located adjacent to Russell, Manitoba, Canada. |
Q21489110 Bergman is a surname of German, Swedish, Dutch, and Yiddish origin meaning 'mountain man' or sometimes 'miner'. |
Q5303381 Burbank Downtown is a passenger rail station near downtown Burbank, California. It is served by Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line to Lancaster and Ventura County Line to East Ventura with both terminating at Los Angeles Union Station. Amtrak trains do not stop at this station; rather, Amtrak trains stop at the ... |
Q1897078 Reginald John Farrer (17 February 1880 – 17 October 1920), was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for My Rock Garden. He travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought back to England and planted near his home village of Clapham... |
Q7642711 Super Roots 6 is the fifth installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1996 by WEA Japan. In the USA, it was numbered and priced as a standard album. |
Q7800981 Tiedia is a village in the Diébougou Department of Bougouriba Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 781. |
Q4841401 Bagag is a village in Bamyan Province in northern-central Afghanistan. |
Q7495945 Shi Zhongci (Chinese: 石钟慈; December, 1933 - ), also known as Zhong-Ci Shi, is a computational mathematician of the People's Republic of China, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). |
Q7806690 Timia libani is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Timia of the family Ulidiidae. |
Q2220774 Acronicta cinerea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from northern Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the Baltic, southern Finland, Belarus, Ukraine, western Russia up to Uralsk and Guberli.Some authors consider Acronicta cinerea a synonym of Acronicta euphorbiae |
Q3544975 Lábrea Airport (IATA: LBR, ICAO: SWLB) is the airport serving Lábrea, Brazil. |
Q706033 Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov (Russian: Пантелеймон Серге́евич Романов; July 24, 1884 – April 8, 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer. |
Q5271977 Diarsia sinuosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Taiwan.The wingspan is 26–30 mm. |
Q3172936 Odostomia pratoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. |
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