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Q25217632 The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. |
Q11838259 Yoshio Morikawa (born 23 December 1945) is a Japanese racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
Q3323858 Morden is a district and town in the London Borough of Merton, England, located around 8 miles (13 km) south-southwest of central London. Historically part of Surrey, it was absorbed into Greater London in 1965. Morden adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton to the south and... |
Q1225199 Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 – 4 June 1906) was an English railway engineer, responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Webb was born in Tixall Rectory, near Stafford, the second son of William Webb, Rector of Tixall. |
Q283427 Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides, others being PCl3 and POCl3. PCl5 finds use as a chlorinating reagent. It is a colourless, water-sensitive and moisture-sensitive solid, although commercial samples can be yellowish an... |
Q887901 Robert Eberly (born Robert Eberle, July 24, 1916 – November 17, 1981) was a big band vocalist best known for his association with Jimmy Dorsey and his duets with Helen O'Connell. His younger brother Ray was also a big-band singer, making his name with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. |
Q6291802 José Cardó Guarderas is a Peruvian and was Reconstrucción Democrática's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election. He formally withdrew his candidacy two days before the election, publicly supporting Lourdes Flores' one instead, but the ballot was not changed and his votes were still counted offici... |
Q5129935 Clay King Smith (July 25, 1970 – May 8, 2001) was executed by the State of Arkansas for the March 25, 1998 murders of Misty Erwin (age 20), Shelley Sorg (24), Sean Sorg (5), Taylor Sorg (3), and Samantha Rhodes (12) at his home near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. |
Q7330724 The Richmond, California 2006 city election decided the mayor, four council members, and one measure submitted to the voters of Richmond, California on November 7, 2007. The election also elected the first Green Party mayor of this city, and made Richmond the largest city in the United States to have a Green m... |
Q3867830 The Museo Civico di Zoologia is a natural history museum in Rome, central Italy. It is situated next to the Bioparc (Zoo) and can be entered by the Zoo or through the entrance on via Ulisse Aldrovandi. Founded in 1932, it is said to continue the natural history tradition of the Gabinetto di Zoologia dell'Unive... |
Q5638841 Hagurazaki Station (羽倉崎駅, Hagurazaki-eki) is a train station in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway. |
Q3428974 Phulbari is a village in Dhangadhi sub-metropolitan city and former village development committee in Kailali District in the Province No. 7 of Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 20,508 living in 3,844 individual households. |
Q4665529 Abdul Majid Mahmoud was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 624.Majid Mehmood was transferred to Pakistan on November 18, 2003. |
Q4545364 The .45 Mars Long is an experimental centerfire pistol cartridge developed in the late 19th century. The similar .45 Mars Short used the same cupro-nickel-jacketed bullet in a case shortened to 0.66 inch. The bullet has two deep cannelures, and the case is crimped into both. The case mouth is chamfered on t... |
Q6846756 Michael "Mike" Farrell (born 20 April 1955) is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider who rode for the Exeter Falcons and Leicester Lions.Farrell rode in short-track and scrambling competition in the late 1960s and early 1970s before taking up speedway, while also working as a motorcycle mechanic. He w... |
Q7902057 Usman Pribadi (born September 19, 1983) is an Indonesian footballer that currently plays for Madura in the Liga 2. |
Q16067102 Arthur Gibbon (born 1884, date of death unknown) was a British cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1912 Summer Olympics. |
Q19864100 Sadie American (March 3, 1862 – May 3, 1944) was a Jewish-American activist, social worker, activist, and "Chicago's pioneer of visual sociology". |
Q11898904 Tuulikki is a female given name common in Finland and Estonia. The nameday is the 22nd of February. As of May 2015 there were close to 74,300 people with this name in Finland. In Finnish mythology, Tuulikki was the name of a Finnish forest goddess, the daughter of Tapio and Mielikki. |
Q21622416 Ekanit Panya (Thai: เอกนิษฐ์ ปัญญา, born 21 October 1999), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a Attacking midfielder or Winger for Thai League 1 club Chiangrai United. |
Q1670030 The Renault R-series was a range of heavy-duty trucks built by Renault Véhicles Industrielles (RVI) from 1980 until 1996. The cabin was Berliet's KB 2400 model, originally introduced in 1977. The fusion of Saviem and Berliet into RVI brought with it a consolidation of the lineups, although the Saviem and Berli... |
Q29043373 Nerine Desmond (1908-1993) was a South African artist known particularly for her watercolour and oil paintings, especially landscapes, seascapes, Basuto horsemen, and pastoral scenes showing cattle herders and shepherds with their animals. |
Q2668523 "5 Colours in Her Hair" is the debut single by English pop rock band McFly. It was also the band's first UK number one. It stayed at the top for two weeks. The song was written by Tom Fletcher. The track is especially well known for its "Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo!" lyrics, played at the beginning and at th... |
Q7951403 WJTC, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 45), is an independent television station licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States and also serving Mobile, Alabama. The station is owned by Deerfield Media, as part of a duopoly with Mobile-licensed NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15); the Sinclair Broadcast G... |
Q7947715 WCEE may refer to:WCEE-LP, a low-power television station (channel 16) licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina, United StatesWPXS, formerly known as WCEE, an affiliate of RTV serving the St. Louis designated market areaWIFR, formerly known as WCEE, a CBS television affiliate based in Rockford, Illinois and... |
Q6245951 John Mortimer Schiff (August 26, 1904 - May 9, 1987) was an American investment banker and philanthropist. He was a partner in the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as well as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a breeder of championship thoroughbred racehorses, and the national president of the B... |
Q16194395 David John White (born 26 June 1961) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 3 ODIs in 1990.Domestically he played 99 first-class matches for Northern Districts. White also played for Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty in the Hawke Cup.A former leading rugby administrator, David White has a... |
Q6975178 The US National Railroad Hall of Fame was established in 2003 and recognized by Congressional resolutions in 2003 and 2004. The main offices of the hall of fame are in Galesburg, Illinois.The National Railroad Hall of Fame has three categories for inductees: 1) 1800-1865: Birth and Development2) 1866-1945: Gol... |
Q6628990 The following is a list of monastic houses in the West Midlands, England.Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitaller). Th... |
Q18030427 Pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 component subunit alpha, somatic form, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PDHA1 gene.The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial matrix multienzyme complex that provides the primary link between glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid ... |
Q9293647 Muñiz is a town located in San Miguel Partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires. |
Q5163199 Considering Lily (formerly Serene & Pearl) was an American CCM group that was popular in the late 1990s.The group was founded by Serene Campbell and Pearl Barrett, who are sisters, in the United States in 1991, though both were born in New Zealand. Their first album (as Serene & Pearl) was 1995's Crazy Stories... |
Q1145079 This is an incomplete list of rivers that are at least partially in Spain. The rivers are grouped by sea or ocean. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. The rivers that have their mouths in Portugal are given in ita... |
Q5087492 Chattan is a village the Mirpur Tehsil of Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir. |
Q24189356 Ireland–New Zealand relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Ireland and New Zealand. Both nations are English speaking nations. As a result of famine and poverty, several thousand Irish people migrated to New Zealand where today approximately 18% of the population can claim Irish heritage. Both n... |
Q5096013 Chichester South is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. |
Q3333720 Methysticin is one of the six major kavalactones found in the kava plant. Research suggests that methysticin and the related compound dihydromethysticin have CYP1A1 inducing effects which may be responsible for their toxicity. |
Q7907267 The VMI Keydets wrestling team began in 1921 and represents the Virginia Military Institute of Lexington, Virginia (VMI) as a Member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) of NCAA Division I wrestling.. The squad is coached by Jim Gibson.The VMI wrestling team has had two wrestlers reach All-American status. Charl... |
Q5529318 Gbefi is a village in Kpando Municipal district, a district in the Volta Region of Ghana. |
Q5040407 Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff (26 March 1809 in Klein Watkowitz in Kreis Stuhm – 1879) was a German botanist. He was an older brother to bryologist Hugo Erich Meyer von Klinggräff (1820–1902, H.Klinggr.).From 1828 to 1832, he studied medicine and botany at the University of Königsberg, where he was influenc... |
Q4822206 Aurel “Dutch” Vaszin (1885–1979) was a carpenter, engineer and roller coaster designer, best known for heading the National Amusement Device company and designing some of the largest roller coasters of his day. |
Q123894 Jules Gilliéron (December 21, 1854 – April 26, 1926) was a Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the Revue des patois gallo-romans (Journal of Gallo-Romance dialects), which was publish... |
Q947895 Bubulcus is a genus of heron in the family Ardeidae. Most taxonomic authorities lump both of the following together, calling it cattle egret, and making the genus monotypic. It contains the following species: |
Q2370739 Fochville is a farming and mining town located in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is part of the Merafong City Local Municipality, which also includes Kokosi, Carletonville and Khutsong.The area surrounding Fochville contains Sotho or Tswana ruins. Tlokwe Ruins are the remains of Sotho-Tswana settleme... |
Q2370188 The autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1794. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East and has a much wider distribution than its two close relatives (see below). In Sápmi (Lapland), in s... |
Q8035642 Global Justice Now, formerly known as the World Development Movement (WDM), is a membership organisation based in the United Kingdom which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in the Global South.The organisation produces research on topics on the developing world and free trade. Examples incl... |
Q7681169 Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust runs Tameside General Hospital situated in Ashton-under-Lyne. It serves the surrounding area of Tameside in Greater Manchester, and the town of Glossop and other smaller towns and villages in the north western part of the High Peak district of Derbyshi... |
Q6643669 This is a list of towns and cities in the world believed to have 100,000 or more inhabitants, beginning with the letter F and sorted alphabetically. Unless otherwise noted, populations are based on United Nations estimates from 2016. |
Q7341872 Admiral Sir Robert Barlow GCB (25 December 1757 – 11 May 1843) was a senior and distinguished officer of the British Royal Navy who saw extensive service in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He made his name in small ship actions, especially fighting French ... |
Q4784580 Dario Guarita–Araçatuba State Airport (IATA: ARU, ICAO: SBAU) is the airport serving Araçatuba, Brazil.It is operated by DAESP. |
Q4648180 The A. Mendelson and Son Company Building is located on Broadway in Albany, New York, United States. It is a brick industrial building erected in the early 20th century. In 2003 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the few intact examples of the early 20th century industrial... |
Q6622180 This is a list of heritage places in the City of Fremantle that are listed on the State Register of Heritage Places. In 2017, there are 252 such places, including buildings and monuments. This list includes many places which are included within the Fremantle West End Heritage area, a historic district which ... |
Q658417 Lenvik Church (Norwegian: Lenvik kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Dyrøy Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bjorelvnes, along the Gisundet strait. It is one of the churches in the Lenvik parish which is part of the Senja prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of ... |
Q1823243 The southern big-eared brown bat (Histiotus magellanicus) is a species of bat from the family Vespertilionidae. Although current taxonomy treats the southern big-eared brown bat as a separate species, it is often treated as a subspecies of the small big-eared brown bat. It lives in the forests of southern Arge... |
Q16203389 Edward H. Ives was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. |
Q15640912 Acarolella stereopis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Argentina. |
Q12792800 Jože Brilej (nom de guerre "Bolko," 1 January 1910 – 8 May 1981) was a diplomat, politician, ambassador, colonel, Partisan, war hero, revolutionary, lawyer, judge, and close associate of Josip Broz Tito. |
Q19872116 Ramón Altarriba y Villanueva, 1st Count of Altarriba, 24th Baron of Sangarrén (1841 – 1906), was a Spanish Carlist politician, landowner, publisher, and soldier. During the Third Carlist War he commanded battalion-size legitimist units. He represented the party in the lower chamber of the Cortes during 2 term... |
Q21344575 Mérouane Debbah is a researcher and tech entrepreneur. Since 2007, he is a full professor at CentraleSupélec. He has co-founded several start-ups and is now director of the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab in Paris. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algor... |
Q21290340 Lucas de Souza Bitencourt (born (1994-03-12)12 March 1994) is a Brazilian male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow. |
Q27947548 Prashant Aryal (Nepali: प्रशान्त अर्याल) is a journalist based in Kathmandu, who has been the Editor-in-Chief of Kantipur Television Network. He was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Nepal Magazine in between 2008-2018. |
Q1104821 The Coburger Hut (German: Coburger Hütte) is an Alpine hut owned by the Coburg Branch of the German Alpine Club. It is located in the Mieming Range in the Austrian state of Tyrol and lies only a few metres in height above the lake of Drachensee. The accommodation is generally open from June to early October an... |
Q743659 The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano or simply Fender Rhodes or Rhodes) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. The instrument generates sound like a conventional piano with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the hammers strike thin metal tine... |
Q6382330 Keating Township is a township in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. |
Q6841970 Middleton, County Durham, may refer to several places in County Durham, England:Middleton, Hartlepool, a town in HartlepoolMiddleton-in-Teesdale, a small market town situated on the north side of TeesdaleMiddleton One Row, a village in the borough of DarlingtonMiddleton St George, a village in the borough of D... |
Q1147147 Cyberia is a science fiction action adventure video game released for MS-DOS in January 1994, and released two years later on the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and 3DO consoles. A sequel, Cyberia 2: Resurrection, was released in 1995 for both DOS and Windows 9x formats. |
Q1064945 If Only It Were True (French: Et si c'etait vrai...) is the first novel by the French author Marc Levy. It was released in 1999 by Éditions Robert Laffont, and was translated into English the following year. The novel has been adapted into an array of motion pictures, including the 2005 American film Just Like... |
Q16881893 Rauschenberg is surname of:Dane Rauschenberg (born 1976), American long-distance runnerFriedrich Wilhelm Rauschenberg (1853–1935), German architectReinhard Rauschenberg (1879–1953), German politicianRobert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract E... |
Q965185 Vyšný Hrabovec is a village and municipality in Stropkov District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia. |
Q7177340 Petr Tomaily (Cyrillic: Петр Томайлы; born 21 October 1965 in Cioc-Maidan, Moldavian SSR) is a free market politician in Transnistria and a member of the Transnistrian parliament for the opposition party Renewal.He was a candidate for President in the 2006 election, standing as an independent, and finished las... |
Q874078 Men… (German: Männer…) is a 1985 West German comedy film directed by Doris Dörrie. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. |
Q14875708 Mader's Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Lunenburg Municipal District in Lunenburg County . Original founders of the cove were of German/Swiss descent. |
Q5627992 H. P. Mendoza (born 13 March 1977, San Francisco, California) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. He is best known for his micro-budget work as screenwriter, composer and lyricist on Colma: The Musical (2006), as well as his follow-up musical and directorial debut, Fruit F... |
Q5026271 Cameron Hugh McArthur is a judge currently serving on the Tax Court of Canada. He took office on April 2, 1993. |
Q3462202 Saint-Félix-de-Valois is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Matawinie Regional County Municipality.Quebec author Réjean Ducharme, recipient of several Governor General's Awards, was born in Saint-Félix-de-Valois in 1942. |
Q5004948 Bård Løken (born 6 February 1964 in Vadsø) is a Norwegian photographer, living in Elverum.He has worked as a photographer since 1985. He has taken pictures for a number of books, and worked with some of Norway's best known authors since the start of the 1990s. Løken mainly deals with nature and landscape photo... |
Q1987575 Mossoró is a microregion in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte. |
Q18128907 Obukhovsky (Russian: Обухо́вский; masculine) or Obukhovskaya (Обухо́вская; feminine) is a Russian last name.There are two theories regarding the origins of this last name. According to the first one, it is simply a variety of the last name Obukhov, which is derived from the nickname "Обух" (Obukh). However, i... |
Q20713949 Felix Vaughan (7 March 1766 – 22 April 1799) was an English barrister, known for his role as defence counsel in the treason trials of the 1790s. |
Q23055032 Lame-O Records is an independent record label based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Eric Osman to release Modern Baseball's Sports, the label has been hailed as one of Philadelphia's best indie labels. |
Q948604 The Ides of March (; Latin: Idus Martiae, Late Latin: Idus Martii) was a day in the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Juliu... |
Q2123711 Reserve is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 84. |
Q3452617 Turin is a village in Lewis County, New York, United States. The village is within the town of Turin and is north of the city of Rome. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 232. |
Q860583 Spybot – Search & Destroy (S&D) is a spyware and adware removal computer program compatible with Microsoft Windows, which has free and paid versions. Dating back to the first Adwares in 2000, Spybot scans the computer hard disk and/or RAM for malicious software.Spybot-S&D was written by the German software engi... |
Q409102 Nikopol (Bulgarian: Никопол; historically Turkish: Niğbolu, Greek: Νικόπολις, Nikópolis, Hungarian: Nikápoly, Latin: Nicopolis) is a town in northern Bulgaria, the administrative center of Nikopol municipality, part of Pleven Province, on the right bank of the Danube river, 4 kilometres (2 miles) downstream fro... |
Q1748391 International Superstar Soccer Pro (known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven '97 in Japan and Goal Storm '97 in North America) is a football video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It is a slightly improved version of the Japan-exclusive J-League Jikkyō Winning Eleven 97.It features 32 intern... |
Q5086205 Uptown Charlotte is the central business district of Charlotte, North Carolina. The area is split into four neighborhoods (wards) by the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets, and bored by Interstate 277 and Interstate 77. Uptown Charlotte is the largest business district in Charlotte, and the Carolinas.Seve... |
Q5335658 Edakkad is part of the Kannur Municipal Corporation in Kannur District of Kerala state, in southern India. |
Q697991 Mario Reiter (born 5 November 1970 in Rankweil) is a former alpine skier from Austria. He won the gold medal in the combined event at the 1998 Olympics of Nagano. He retired from alpine skiing after the 2000/2001 season. |
Q2256783 Carlos Bruneel is a Belgian flautist. He has played throughout Europe, America and Japan.He studied at the Conservatory of Antwerp with Jan Van Reeth. In 1982 he carried off the Belgium Tenuto Contest. He continued studying in London with Jonathan Snowdon and took master classes from Aurèle Nicolet and William... |
Q4671557 Academy of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic school located in Bloomfield Township, Michigan in Metro Detroit, near Bloomfield Hills.It is the oldest independent school in Michigan. Founded in 1851 in Detroit, the Academy moved to its 28-acre (110,000 m2) campus in Bloomfield Township in 1958. It is a Catho... |
Q4581715 The 1984 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Royals finishing 1st in the American League West with a record of 84 wins and 78 losses. However, they would lose to the Detroit Tigers in 3 Games in the ALCS. The Tigers would go on to the World Series and defeat the San Di... |
Q4148407 The Greybull River is a tributary of the Big Horn River, approximately 90 miles (140 km) long in northern Wyoming in the United States.The river was reportedly named for a white buffalo that had been seen on its banks. Native Americans consider the appearance of a white buffalo a powerful omen.The river rises... |
Q6285997 Joseph Palmer Dyer (January 29, 1827 – July 7, 1891) was an American politician of California, mine superintendent and stockbroker. |
Q3277843 Mahmoud al-Abrash or Mahmoud el-Abrache (Arabic: محمود الأبرش) (born 1944) is a Syrian politician. He was originally an engineer in public works. He then left his job to engage in politics and became a member of the Baath party. He chaired the parliamentary Committee on International Affairs of the Arab peopl... |
Q6530073 Les Vierges du Québec is the twelfth studio album by Canadian Singer/Songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland. |
Q1080276 Idilevo is a village in the municipality of Sevlievo, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria.The current mayor of the village (re-elected 2016) is Hristo PeevIdilevo is the home of the Motocamp which specializes in providing accommodation and assistance to motorcycle travelers. |
Q13424691 Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 June 1936, after a new law on holding elections was issued by presidential decree.Candidates had to be nominated by district or town councils. The number of candidates nominated was equal to the number of seats available, and the number of seats was reduced... |
Q16900617 St. Sophia Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, also known as the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, is a historic Roman Catholic hospital and convent located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The original residence known as "Warsaw" was built in 1832, and subsequently incorporated into the... |
Q17590457 Hedgardo Marín Arroyo (born February 21, 1993) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Liga MX club C.D. Guadalajara. |
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