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Q5319108 The Dynamo 7.0 is the seventh generation car run by DTU Roadrunners to compete in the Urban Concept class in the Shell Eco-marathon Europe. The car is developed by students at the Technical University of Denmark with the single purpose of achieving the best fuel economy as possible.The Dynamo 7.0 features a 49... |
Q22909081 William Hunt was Governor of the Bank of England from 1749 to 1752. He had been Deputy Governor from 1747 to 1749. He replaced Benjamin Longuet as Governor and was succeeded by Alexander Sheafe. |
Q28153895 Blue Lightning is the first solo album of guitar virtuoso Evan K, released 2016 by FC Metal Recordings in Europe and King Records in Japan. It consists of 6 instrumental titles and 3 songs (the Japanese version includes two additional bonus tracks) and features some famous guests from the Power-Progressive Me... |
Q1626201 Since succeeding her father on 6 February 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has been head of state of 32 different independent states; currently, there are 16 states, called Commonwealth realms. Within the Westminster system in each realm, the Queen's government is headed by a prime minister. Appointment and dismissal ... |
Q3399299 Fort Belan (alternative: Belan Fort; pronounced: Bell-ann) is a coastal fortress in North Wales. It is located opposite Abermenai Point, at the south-western end of the Menai Strait, on the coast of Gwynedd, in the parish of Llanwnda. Situated at the tip of the Dinlle Peninsula, the windblown, north-westernm... |
Q4422507 Screeb (Irish: An Scríob, meaning "the furrowed land") is a small village in south-west Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the R336 regional road, north of Casla and southwest of Oughterard. It was the location of one of Ireland's few peat-burning power stations. This was uneconomic but it w... |
Q4962515 Brevard College is a small, private, experiential liberal arts college in Brevard, North Carolina, United States. The college grants the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Current enrollment is about 703 students. |
Q7432479 The School of International Relations (or SIR) (Persian: دانشکده روابط بینالملل وزارت امور خارجه) is an institute of higher education in Iran. The school trains an international student body, and is run by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the supervision of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Rese... |
Q7908939 Vajra Enterprises, founded in 2001, is a publishing company which produces tabletop role-playing games. Vajra's games have a reputation for taking the conventions of more traditional genres and turning them around, into something familiar yet different. For example, at the beginning of Fates Worse than Death, ... |
Q5270341 Diagnostic Health Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the nation's largest independent diagnostic imaging companies. The company is the former diagnostic division of HealthSouth Corporation. The company has network of 53 free standing diagnostic imaging centers located in 19 states and the Dis... |
Q278908 The Margravial Opera House (German: Markgräfliches Opernhaus) is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany, built between 1745 and 1750. It is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored. On 30 June 2012, the opera house was inscribed in the UNESCO World H... |
Q5632212 HMS Duckworth (K351) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War as a convoy escort and anti-submarine warfare vessel in the Battle of the Atlantic and was an effective U-boat killer, being credited with the destruction of five U-boats during the conflict. |
Q6069420 Global Research & Analytics - Irevna is an offshoring company based in India operating in the Financial Research & Analytics segment of the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) industry. It is known for its equity, credit, derivatives research for investment banking clients, actuarial support for the insurance ... |
Q2954787 The 87th edition of the KNVB Cup (at the time called Amstel Cup) started on August 7, 2004. The final was played on May 29, 2005: PSV beat Willem II 4–0 and won the trophy for the eighth time. |
Q7395926 Sabaszczewo [sabaʂˈt͡ʂɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dominowo, within Środa Wielkopolska County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. |
Q4603563 The following are the events in professional sumo during 2004. |
Q6193672 John Wilkinson Birch (1878 – 10 October 1953) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Leeds Parish Church and Leeds (Heritage № 130), as a prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the ... |
Q87352 Karl-Josef Laumann (born 11 July 1957 in Birgte, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician of the German Christian Democratic Union. Since 2017, he has been the State Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia, an office he previously held between 2005 and 2010. |
Q4971755 Brizzly was a third-party Twitter and Facebook interface. It was unveiled at one of TechCrunch's events in 2009 and was acquired by AOL in 2010.Its features included allowing users to create lists to organize followers, showing user the full in-line links from URL shortening services and showing photos from ph... |
Q5627955 H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports is located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports is a library, archive and museum dedicated to the study and preservation of the world of physical culture. Through the donatio... |
Q17013036 "If You Can't Be Good (Be Good at It)" is a song written by Troy Seals and Blue Miller, and recorded by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released in October 1997 as the first single from the album Be Good at It. The song reached #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. |
Q17053898 Ryukyuan music (琉球音楽, Ryūkyū ongaku), sometimes called Nanto music (南島歌謡, Nantō kayō), is an umbrella term that encompasses diverse musical traditions of the Ryukyu Islands The term "Southern Islands" (南島, Nantō) is preferred by Japanese scholars in this field. Unlike in the West, the Japanese notion of "Ryuk... |
Q20090685 Albert Vyacheslavovich Fedosov (Russian: Альберт Вячеславович Федосов; born 4 September 1970) is a former Russian football player. |
Q2857348 Antonio Maria Costa (born 16 June 1941) is an Italian economist. He currently lives in Vienna and Brussels.From May 2002 to August 2010 Costa served as an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations to the positions of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-Ge... |
Q7391961 In particle physics, SO(10) refers to a grand unified theory (GUT) based on the spin group Spin(10). The name SO(10) is conventional among physicists, and derives from the Lie group SO(10), which is a special orthogonal group that is double covered by Spin(10). |
Q48051 Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Куликов; 5 July 1921 – 28 May 2013) was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989. He was awarded the rank of the Marshal of the Soviet Union on 14 January 1977.Kulikov was born into a peasant family and joined the Red Army in 1940. He saw servic... |
Q3161243 The James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. The building was constructed from 1971 to 1976, and serves as the official memorial to President James Madison. It is located between First and Second Streets SE on Independence Aven... |
Q7688965 Tautomycin is a chemical that occurs naturally in shellfish and is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces spiroverticillatus. It is a polyketide-based structure characterized by a three hydroxyl groups, two ketones, a dialkylmaleic anhydride, an ester linkage (connecting anhydride unit to polyketide chain), a ... |
Q7174610 Peter Heenan, (February 19, 1875 – May 12, 1948) was a Canadian union leader and politician, and also served as a cabinet minister at the federal and provincial levels. |
Q40109 Solbiate Olona is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km south of Varese. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,667 and an area of 4.9 km².Solbiate Olona borders the following municipalities: Fagnano Olon... |
Q7642159 Super Balita sa Umaga Nationwide (lit. Super Morning News Nationwide) is the flagship morning newscast of AM station DZBB in the Philippines anchored by Mike Enriquez and Joel Reyes Zobel. The radio program is also simulcast nationwide via all GMA Super Radyo stations and also on GMA News TV through the progra... |
Q7502799 "Shout and Shimmy" is an R&B song written by James Brown, and recorded by him and The Famous Flames. It rose to #16 on the R&B chart and #61 on the Billboard Hot 100.The critic Douglas Wolk described the song as "a truly shameless ripoff of The Isley Brothers' 1959 hit "Shout"... basically the fast parts of "S... |
Q3565587 Mid-Columbia Medical Center Heliport (FAA LID: 09OR) is a private heliport located one mile northwest of The Dalles in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. |
Q6521076 Lwów Land (Polish: ziemia lwowska, Latin: Terra Leopoliensis) was an administrative unit (ziemia) of the Kingdom of Poland the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. With capital in the city of Lwów (today Lviv), it existed between 1340 and 1772. Regional Sejmiks for Lwow Land, Sanok Land and Przemysl Land took place... |
Q3300518 Daisuke Aono (青野 大介, Aono Daisuke, born September 19, 1979) is a former Japanese football player. |
Q3258998 Lonely Revolutions is a compilation album by the Scottish band Biffy Clyro, originally released on 23 August 2010 and only available on 12" vinyl (limited to 300 pressings). The album features B-sides from the band's 5th album, Only Revolutions. The album was subsequently released on CD (limited to 1000 copies... |
Q7995362 White Saint Helenians or Saint Helenians of European descent are Saint Helenians whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably the United Kingdom.Currently, Whites are a minority ethnic group in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, accounting for 25% of the country's population. |
Q16926701 The Z16 class (formally D.261 class) was a class of steam locomotives built for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. |
Q16866614 Lindsay Gordon Riches, CMG (18 February 1904 – 7 June 1972) was a South Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1933 to 1970, representing the electorates of Newcastle (1933-1938) and Stuart (1938-1970). He was Speaker of the South Australian House of... |
Q19460876 The Carter–Jones House is a historic house located at 30 Carter Street in Yellville, Arkansas. |
Q20671217 Zakharin Mihailov Grivev (Bulgarian: Захарин Михайлов Гривев) is a Bulgarian cross-country skier, who participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. |
Q22019417 Richard Scott Blackburn Smith (December 9, 1871 – July 11, 1928) was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 12th district. |
Q23822856 The Brumbaugh Bridge was a covered bridge in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1948, the structure originally carried Row River Road over Mosby Creek near Cottage Grove. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was subsequently delisted.The bridge was demolished in ... |
Q43624 Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and constitute the biological family Trochilidae. They are the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length. The smallest extant bird species is the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummingbird, which weighs less than 2.0 g (0.07 oz).They are known as humm... |
Q7965368 Walter Marvin Knott (December 11, 1889 – December 3, 1981) was an American farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in California, introduced the Boysenberry, and made Knott's Berry Farm boysenberry preserves. |
Q7671122 TPC Sugarloaf is a 27-hole private golf club in the southeastern United States, located within the gated community at Sugarloaf Country Club outside the official city limits of Duluth, Georgia, a suburb northeast of Atlanta.The facility consists of three 9-hole courses designed by Greg Norman, and is a member ... |
Q922478 Matija Antun Relković (also Reljković; 6 January 1732 – 22 January 1798) was Habsburg military officer and a Croatian writer. |
Q5530377 The Stukeleys is a civil parish in the district of Huntingdonshire, in Cambridgeshire, England, consisting of the villages of Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley. The two villages are just north-west of Huntingdon. As well as the two villages, the parish also includes Huntingdon racecourse and Alconbury Airfi... |
Q4770971 Antara Dev Sen (born 1963) is a British–Indian journalist. |
Q7717151 The Best of Nik Kershaw (1993) is an album by Nik Kershaw. It contains selected 12 inch mixes, B-sides, album tracks and his hits. It is released under the Music Club International label. |
Q771859 Clemence of Austria (1262 – February 1293, or 1295) was a daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg. |
Q6123640 Jaime Acuña is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002) and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2003, K-4 500 m: 2002). |
Q4658088 A Man and the Blues is the second studio album by blues guitarist Buddy Guy. It was recorded and released in 1968 on Vanguard Records. It features four Guy originals, a cover of Barrett Strong's Tamla Motown hit "Money", and a playful adaptation of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb", covered in a simil... |
Q4636787 3rd Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
Q5854846 Kariz-e Now (Persian: كاريزنو, also Romanized as Kārīz-e Now) is a village in Balaband Rural District, in the Central District of Fariman County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 112, in 25 families. |
Q14503101 Trechus stratiotes is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Trechinae. It was described by Schmidt in 2009. |
Q16954706 "Buzzkill" is a song co-written and recorded by American country artist Luke Bryan for his compilation album, Spring Break...Here to Party (2013). It is one of two new songs featured on the compilation, along with "Just a Sip", the rest of the album being composed of songs from Bryan's four spring break-theme... |
Q19560546 Sebastian Garro y Sidrac (14–15?) was a Basque nobleman, Viscount of Zolina, Lord of Rocafort and Sidrac. |
Q3873414 Hessen was a Kriegsmarine weather ship that was built in 1939 as the sealer Sachsen. She was requisitioned in 1939 and served until 1945. Returned to her owners post-war, she regained her former name. In 1950, she was sold to Norway and renamed Arild. She later served under the names Foynøy, Munkøy and Kitak. ... |
Q3258783 Lolenga Mock (born 22 April 1972) is a Danish professional boxer who held the European Union super-middleweight title three times between 2006 and 2011. A veteran of the sport for more than 25 years, Mock is known for his toughness and has only ever been stopped once in his career. |
Q27804536 Joseph Albert "Trey" Hollingsworth III (born September 12, 1983) is an American businessman and politician who is the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district, serving since 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. |
Q19607415 Cnemaspis sundainsula is a species of gecko from Pulau Natuna Besar, Indonesia. |
Q6961396 9 is a 2002 Turkish crime film directed by Ümit Ünal. |
Q252051 Howard Hayes Scullard (February 9, 1903 – March 31, 1983) FBA, FSA was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books.Scullard's father was Herbert Hayes Scullard, a minister, and his mother Barbara Louisa Dodds.Born in Bedford, En... |
Q327594 Final Fantasy XII is a fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 home video console. A part of the Final Fantasy series, the game was released in 2006. It introduced several innovations to the series: an open world; a seamless battle system; a controllable came... |
Q5622744 Guyana Punch Line was an American hardcore punk band from Columbia, South Carolina that existed from 1998 until 2003. |
Q1393104 A microbalance is an instrument capable of making precise measurements of weight of objects of relatively small mass: of the order of a million parts of a gram. In comparison, a standard analytical balance is 100 times less sensitive; i.e. it is limited in precision to 0.1 milligrams. Microbalances are general... |
Q7210125 The Politburo of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Afghan Politburo, was the policy-making organ and institution within the Afghanistan's political structure when the PDPA Central Committee and the PDPA Congress were not in session. Only one politburos was formally e... |
Q7895160 The University of California, Berkeley's 32 constituent and affiliated libraries together make it the fourth largest university library by number of volumes in the United States, surpassed only by the libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As of 2006, Berkeley's library... |
Q6192964 Jill Mills (born March 2, 1972) is an American world champion powerlifter and world champion strongwoman. |
Q3704321 Death By a Thousand Cuts is the full-length debut album from Leng Tch'e. As a result of legal problems, the fifth song "FUCK Eddy De Dapper" was changed to "FUCK Censorship" on the 2nd edition onwards. |
Q16240901 Bill Canary, also William Canary, is a Republican campaign consultant in Alabama. His wife, Leura Canary, was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.Canary is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of Alabama. H... |
Q7784113 Thieves of Blood is a novel, written by author Tim Waggoner and published in 2006. It is the first novel in the Blade of the Flame series. |
Q4593965 This is a round-up of the 1998 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Eastern Harps atoned for the previous year's heavy defeat to Tourlestrane, reversing the result to win their fourth title. This was the last Championship to date to be played under the knockout system., as the round-robin section would be intro... |
Q3442414 Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (Ukrainian: Василь Григорович Кричевський; January 12, 1873 in Vorozhba, now Lebedyn Raion – November 15, 1952 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, film art consultant, pedagogue and master of applied art and decorative art. He is ... |
Q2727526 Skrobnica is a village in the municipality of Knjaževac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 178 people. |
Q6247971 John W. McKecknie (1862–1934) was an American architect working in Kansas City, Missouri, who applied the principles of reinforced concrete in the construction of commercial structures clad in a repertory of classical motifs. He produced designs for some 120 commercial buildings, residences and apartment block... |
Q4775524 Antoine Philippe is a combination of two French personal names. It is sometimes hyphenated.Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier (1775-1807)Antoine Philippe de La Trémoïlle (1765-1794) French noble and royalistAntoine Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1722-1779) New Orléans explorer |
Q6970039 Nation Awakes is an 2016 Pakistani science fiction superhero film directed by Umair Nasir Ali, written and produced by Aamir Sajjad under production banner Aamir Sajjad Ventures. Aamir Sajjad is playing the lead role in the film. |
Q16977119 The Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama is a state-recognized tribe of people claiming Cherokee heritage, based in northern Alabama. It was among the first seven organizations to be granted state recognition under the laws of the state of Alabama in 1984.Recognition by an American state government is not the sa... |
Q16062726 Lauchlan Mackinnon (26 February 1817 – 21 March 1888) was a pastoralist, politician and newspaper proprietor in colonial Australia. Mackinnon one of the most enterprising of the pioneer colonists of Victoria (Australia) and one of the proprietors of the Melbourne Argus from 1852 until his death.Mackinnon was ... |
Q21228600 Kim Davidson is a Canadian computer scientist, and founder and CEO of Side Effects software. He founded the firm in 1987.In 1998 the Academy of Motion Pictures awarded Davidson a technical Oscar, the Academy Award for Technical Achievement. Davidson would later win a second Oscar.In 1999, for a profile in P... |
Q2590853 Colaxes horton is a species of spider of the genus Colaxes. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. The species was first found from Horton Plains, hence its specific name. |
Q2942997 Catrijp is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 9 km northwest of Alkmaar.In 2001, the town of Catrijp had 323 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.09 km², and contained 132 residences.The name already appears in 1745 as Catryp. T... |
Q7881950 Un Concert pour Mazarin is the title of a music recording released on compact disc in early 2004 by Virgin Classics. It is a performance of 17th century Italian music selected by the conductor, Jean Tubéry to have been influential in French culture at the time of Cardinal Mazarin, a 17th-century chief minister... |
Q4938020 Bohdan Fedorovych Boyko (Ukrainian: Богдан Федорович Бойко; born 29 September 1954) was a candidate in 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. He was nominated by the Movement of Ukrainian Patriots. In 2000 he formed a third Rukh within the Popular Movement of Ukraine aimed at reconciling the differences between... |
Q1057706 Effluent is an outflowing of water or gas to a natural body of water, from a structure such as a wastewater treatment plant, sewer pipe, or industrial outfall. Effluent, in engineering, is the stream exiting a chemical reactor. |
Q13432011 The jizamurai (地侍) were lords of smaller rural domains in feudal Japan. They often used their relatively small plots of land for intensive and diversified forms of agriculture.One of the primary causes for the rise in the number of smaller land holders was a decline in the custom of primogeniture. Towards the... |
Q7723202 The City in Europe and the World (ISBN 0-9547448-1-0) is a 2005 collection of essays examining the relationship between the City of London's financial markets, politics, government, and Europe, edited by Stephen Barber and with a foreword by Peter Mandelson.The book covers topics such as the political economy ... |
Q16890315 Chineke (Russian: Чинеке; Yakut: Чинэкэ) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Chernyshevsky Rural Okrug of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 20 kilometers (12 mi) from Vilyuysk, the administrative center of the district. Its popula... |
Q3785636 Hillend is a small village in Fife, Scotland. It is located roughly to the north-west of Dalgety Bay. It is the location of Heil's manufacturing facilities in the UK. |
Q6131130 James E. Casorio Jr. (born August 23, 1964 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He served as a Representative from 1997 to 2010.He received a B.S. from Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) in 1994 and an M.A. degree from Saint Francis College (Lo... |
Q17103019 Shepperton (foaled 1939 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He was a son of Sun Craig, who was sired by Sun Briar, the 1917 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt who sired such outstanding runners as Firethorn, Pompey, and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sun Beau. Shepperton's dam ... |
Q8034319 Word and Work is a religious journal associated with those Churches of Christ that hold to a premillennial eschatology. It was founded in 1908 by Dr. David Lipscomb Watson. |
Q1762590 Monard's African climbing mouse (Dendromus leucostomus) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is endemic to east-central Angola, but only recorded in the type locality of Caluquembe. The IUCN red list of threatened species lists this as a synonym for the gray climbing mouse. |
Q462027 Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C. (April 21, 1904 – July 19, 1986) was an American cinematographer, best known as director of photography for West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Great Escape (1963). He also was nominated for Academy Awards for his cinematography for D... |
Q7659416 Seymour Kattelson (February 11, 1923 – November 24, 2018), better known as Sy Kattelson, was an American photographer whose earliest work documents working class New Yorkers during the years immediately following World War II. He was an early practitioner of street photography and was associated with the Photo... |
Q1923336 Duga Poljana is a village in the municipality of Sjenica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 594 people. |
Q2052294 Lars Grorud (born 2 July 1983 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian footballer currently signed with Sandefjord.He joined Brann at the start of the 2011 season. |
Q15221065 This is a list of Albanian countries and regions throughout history, sometimes called Albanian lands by historians (Albanian: Trojet shqipëtare). It includes countries, states, provinces, regions and territories that have or had in the past one of the following characteristics:An ethnic Albanian majorityAlban... |
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