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Q159304 Turrón (Spanish: [tuˈron]), or torrone (Italian: [torˈroːne]), is a southern European nougat confection, typically made of honey, sugar, and egg white, with toasted almonds or other nuts, and usually shaped into either a rectangular tablet or a round cake. It is frequently consumed as a traditional Christmas de... |
Q2228389 Not to be confused with Agnes of BrandenburgAgnes of Babenberg (German: Agnes von Babenberg, Polish: Agnieszka Babenberg; b. ca. 1108/13 – d. 24/25 January 1163), was a German noblewoman, a scion of the Franconian House of Babenberg and by marriage High Duchess of Poland and Duchess of Silesia.She was a daught... |
Q7723277 The Clark Sisters are an American gospel vocal group consisting of five sisters: Jacky Clark Chisholm (b. 1948), Denise “Neicy” Clark Bradford (b. 1953), Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark-Terrell (b. 1954), Dorinda Clark-Cole (b. 1957), and Karen Clark Sheard (b. 1960). The Clark Sisters are the daughters of gospel m... |
Q6842008 Middleton Grange is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Middleton Grange is located 40 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.Middleton Grange consists of approx ... |
Q3274650 Angelonia is a genus of about 30 species which occur from Mexico to Argentina and is classified in the Plantaginaceae. They are herbaceous plants occurring mainly in arid and semi-arid habitats. Most Angelonia species can be found in Northeastern Brazil in the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest namely Caatinga. Th... |
Q3028809 Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem is a fictional character in the television series Skins, played by Kaya Scodelario. She appears in all of the first four series, as well as the seventh series, and appears in the most episodes (27). Kaya Scodelario was included in Entertainment Weekly's 2009 "Summer Must List", being na... |
Q1094045 The Hino Profia (Japanese: 日野プロフィア) is a heavy duty cab-over truck produced by Hino Motors, a 50.1% subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. It was introduced in 2003. In most export markets, it is also known as the Hino 700. The name Profia is officially used in Japan, and was previously known as the Super Dol... |
Q7180400 Phan Nguyên Hồng (Đức Thọ, 1935) is a Vietnamese academic who is a leading authority on the mangrove ecosystem in Asia, and was awarded the 2008 International Cosmos Prize in recognition of his work.Hồng has been involved in comprehensive scientific research in Vietnam, where war and overdevelopment have had a... |
Q970090 List of films produced in the Cinema of Poland in the 1960s. |
Q149153 Sphinx canadensis, the Canadian sphinx, is a member of the family Sphingidae that is found the northeastern United States and as north as Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875.The adult's wingspan is between 70 and 85 mm. It is often confused with ... |
Q4746319 Amin Manouchehri (born February 6, 1986) is an Iranian footballer who last played for Saipa in the Persian Gulf Pro League. |
Q4851844 A balloon-borne telescope is a sub-orbital astronomical telescope that is suspended below one or more stratospheric balloons, allowing it to be lifted above the lower, dense part of the Earth's atmosphere. This has the advantage of improving the resolution limit of the telescope at a much lower cost than for a... |
Q10519256 Sergei Konstantinovich Grigoryev (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Григорьев; born November 22, 1956) is a Russian professional football coach Currently, he manages FC Biolog-Novokubansk Progress. |
Q1152387 The 1969-70 DDR-Oberliga season was the 22nd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in East Germany. Seven teams participated in the league, and SG Dynamo Weißwasser won the championship. |
Q6379683 Marcus Kristoffersson (born January 22, 1979) is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for HC ’05 Banská Bystrica in the Slovak Extraliga. He played in the Elitserien for HV71, Djurgårdens IF and Skellefteå AIK and has also played in the Finnish SM-liiga for Blues and Ässät, the Amer... |
Q12072935 William Markwick (1739 – 6 April 1812), who took the name of William Eversfield, was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and a keen naturalist, known for his pioneering phenological observations recorded in Gilbert White's 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.Many of his scientific writings ... |
Q16977762 Seductio is a 1987 art house film written, produced, and directed by Bashar Shbib. It stars Jim Bell, Attila Bertalan,and Jean-R. Bisaillon. |
Q21604072 Charles Beetham (April 30, 1914 – January 28, 1997) was an American middle-distance runner. He was United States champion in the 800-meter run in 1936, 1939, 1940 and 1941 and NCAA champion in 1936; he entered the 1936 United States Olympic Trials as one of the favorites, but fell in the final and failed to q... |
Q29586960 Elections for East Lothian Council took place in May 1977, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. |
Q42582830 BC Tsmoki Minsk II (Belarusian: Цмокі-Мінск) is the reserve team of BC Tsmoki-Minsk, a professional basketball club that is based in Minsk, Belarus. The team plays in the Belarus Premier League. |
Q595598 The 1965 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 3, 1965, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 9 of 10 in both the 1965 World Championship of Drivers and the 1965 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 110-lap race was won ... |
Q6278634 Jorge (pronounced "George") Sedano is an American sports broadcaster and talk show host. He began his career in 1999 and is currently a radio and television personality at ESPN. |
Q6153496 Janet McDonald (August 10, 1953 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer of young adult novels as well as the author of Project Girl, a memoir about her early life in Brooklyn's Farragut Houses and struggle to achieve an Ivy League education. Her best known children's book is Spellbound, which tells the story ... |
Q7260352 Punjabi folklore, more particularly its folksongs, is said to be the autobiography of its people.Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (in... |
Q7874460 USS Sumter was a 525-ton sidewheel paddle steamer captured by the Union Navy during the Union blockade of the American Civil War.Sumter originally was the Confederate cottonclad ram CSS General Sumter. She was placed into Confederate service and then United States Navy service, each for a short period of time,... |
Q88119 Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola (; 1672–1738) was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg.He studied at Regensburg, and graduated from University of Halle-Wittenberg, as a doctor of medicine. He practised medicine at Regensburg.Agricola, w... |
Q7637429 Summer Session is a dating simulation video game for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The game was developed and published by Hanako Games and Italian studio Tycoon Games. It uses anime-style graphics and is written in English. It was released on July 2, 2008. |
Q4348508 Lovers is the third studio album by Finnish singer Hanna Pakarinen, released in Finland by RCA on February 14, 2007. It was preceded by the lead single "Go Go" and also includes the singles "Leave Me Alone" and "Hard Luck Woman". "Leave Me Alone" served as Pakarinen's entry song in the 2007 Eurovision Song Con... |
Q5227991 Drillia bruchia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. |
Q7317713 Reva Rose (born July 30, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress of stage and screen, best known for her award-winning performance as Lucy van Pelt in the 1967 Off-Broadway production of Clark Gesner's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. |
Q8050687 YbGaGe is an alloy of Ytterbium, Gallium and Germanium. It sparked interest because one group of researchers reported that it exhibits zero thermal expansion, while being conductive. Such materials have applications in space and other environments where low thermal expansion materials are required. However, su... |
Q4737294 Alucita walmakensis is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It was described by Cees Gielis in 2009. It is found in Papua New Guinea. |
Q17112910 The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which places a limit on a range of Welfare benefits in the United Kingdom. It introduces a cap on most working-age benefits, limiting rises to 1% for three years from April 2014, unaffected by inflation. It was enacted by th... |
Q16216049 Bayeté Ross Smith (born 1976) is a contemporary African American multi-media artist, film maker and educator. He currently lives and works in Harlem. He is represented by Guido Maus, beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL. |
Q15633676 Rigmor Dam (born 18 December 1971) is a Faroese politician and teacher, she has also been working as a journalist for the Faroese paper Sosialurin before she was elected to the Faroese parliament, the Løgting. She is the current Minister of Education, Research and Culture of the Faroe Islands. |
Q25183318 The Court of Appeal is a court in Ireland that sits between the High Court and Supreme Court and took over the existing appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in 2014. It was established by the Courts of Justice Act 1924. |
Q25212400 Ulu Padas was a federal constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.The federal constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. |
Q27988891 Bay City is an unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, in the U.S. state of Washington. |
Q30709117 Russell Harrison may refer to:Russell Harrison (broadcaster), New Zealand television presenterRussell Harrison (inventor) (born 1961), British inventor, property developer and entrepreneurRussell Benjamin Harrison (1854–1936), American businessman, lawyer, diplomat, and politician |
Q30593591 VPL Limited (Urdu: وولوو پاکستان), previously known as Volvo Pakistan Limited, is a Pakistani bus and truck manufacturer, based in Lahore, Pakistan since 2014. The company is a joint venture between the Panasian Group and Volvo. VPL used to be the authorized assembler and manufacturer of Volvo Trucks and Vol... |
Q203647 Harald Sigurdsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Sigurðarson; c. 1015 – 25 September 1066), given the epithet Hardrada (Old Norse: harðráði, modern Norwegian: Hardråde, roughly translated as "stern counsel" or "hard ruler") in the sagas, was King of Norway (as Harald III) from 1046 to 1066. In addition, he unsuccessfully ... |
Q6608810 The areas in this list of car-free places make up a sizeable fraction of a city, town, or island; public transport connections do not in themselves constitute a car free area.Color-coding is used as follows: |
Q5338120 Edinboro University is a public university in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. It is one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The town is named after Edinburgh in Scotland. Edinboro University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. It has more tha... |
Q458069 Fyodor Vasilievich Polischuk (Фёдор Васильевич Полищук; born July 4, 1979) is a Kazakhstani professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.Polischuk previously played for Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Vysshaya Liga between 1998 and 2004 before ... |
Q2663586 Ze'ev Binyamin "Benny" Begin, (Hebrew: זֶאֵב בִּנְיָמִין "בֶּנִי" בֶּגִין, born 1 March 1943) is an Israeli geologist and politician. He is a member of the Knesset for Likud, and is the son of former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin. |
Q4399498 Semyon Vasilyevich Rudniev (Russian: Семëн Васильевич Руднев; Ukrainian: Семeн Васильович Руднєв) (February 27, 1899 – August 4, 1943) was one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement during World War II and People's Commissar in the partisan group operating in Ukraine and led by Sydir Kovpak. |
Q825070 Fort Abercrombie, in North Dakota, was an American fort established by authority of an act of Congress, March 3, 1857. The act allocated twenty-five square miles of land on the Red River of the North in Dakota Territory to be used for a military outpost, but the exact location was left to the discretion of Lie... |
Q3565933 Millville Executive Airport (IATA: MIV, ICAO: KMIV, FAA LID: MIV) is four miles southwest of Millville, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. It is owned by the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) and the City of Millville.It was dubbed "America's First Defense Airport" because of the nearly 1,500 pilots who t... |
Q7055648 The North Hobart Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Tasmanian State League. The club returned to the state league in 2018 after its position was effectively filled by a new club, the Hobart City Football Club after the 2013 season. The club (i.e. North ... |
Q4941016 Bon Tempe Lake is a reservoir in Marin County, California. It is the widest lake in the watershed, and on Lagunitas Creek. Beneath its dam is Alpine Lake. Lake Lagunitas is immediately to its east. Fishing and hiking are activities around the lake. Rainbow trout and both largemouth and smallmouth bass are caug... |
Q5341730 Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer, a university instructor and the author of five books of non-fiction, including Slaves in the Family (1998) and The Inventor and the Tycoon (2013).The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures (Doubleday) tells the sto... |
Q4770017 The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski. Propelled by their rejection of the cult of the ego and automatic style of the Abstract Expressionists, the artists worked collaboratively on grid-based, spatially fluct... |
Q5034426 Alfred Henry "Cap" Fear (June 11, 1901 – February 12, 1978) was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for seven seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1967 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. |
Q4921605 Black River is a small community just outside Saint John on Route 825 in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. There are 2 other communities in New Brunswick with the same name. |
Q28474619 Simon Hattenstone (born 29 December 1962 in Salford, England) is a British journalist and writer. He is a features writer and interviewer for The Guardian newspaper, and has written or ghost-written a number of biographical books. |
Q2999869 The Croatian Women's Cup is the national women's football cup competition in Croatia. It is run by the Croatian Football Federation. The competition was established in 1992, following the breakup of Yugoslavia and Croatia's independence. Before 1992 Croatian clubs took part in the Yugoslav Women's Football Cup... |
Q767436 FIFA Street (also known as FIFA Street 2012 and FIFA Street 4) is a sports video game by EA Sports' FIFA Street franchise based on street football. It is the first such game in almost four years, and a reboot for the series. FIFA Street was developed by some of the same team behind FIFA 12, including creative d... |
Q8031692 Won by a Head is a 1920 British silent sports film directed by Percy Nash and starring Rex Davis, Frank Tennant and Vera Cornish. It was set in the horseracing world. |
Q5403870 Ethmia hieroglyphica is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It is found in Bolivia.The length of the forewings is about 13 mm. The ground color of the forewings is white, with black markings. The ground color of the hindwings is subhyaline (partially glassy) white, becoming pale brownish in the apical area. |
Q28055511 Michael P. "Mike" Goggin is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represents District 21 in southeastern Minnesota. |
Q4852528 Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has a diverse cultural mix of people and is the location of the Balti Triangle. |
Q2483637 Calhoun Falls is a town in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,004 at the 2010 census. |
Q1255291 The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a moderate conservative political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The party is led by Godwin Friday, and is currently the official opposition in the House of Assembly. |
Q4696509 "Ai no Kotoba" is a single by Hitomi and her last single released from her album Love Concent. Overall, this is Hitomi's 32nd single released throughout her career. |
Q2042906 "Manhattan Skyline" is a song by the Norwegian pop band A-ha. It was the third single from their Scoundrel Days album, and reached #13 in the UK Singles Chart.The song was co-written by keyboardist Magne Furuholmen and guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy. The song starts with Furuholmen playing a Roland Juno-60 with... |
Q9058566 These are all the publications printed in Guayaquil which report national and international news.Diario Expreso de GuayaquilComunidad En GuayaquilDel Diario ExtraDiario El MeridianoDiario El Metro de GuayaquilDiario SuperDiario El TelegrafoEl FinancieroLa Segunda del MeridianoEl Universo |
Q15946965 Lake Mercer may refer to:Grand Lake in Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, Mercer countyMercer Lake in Mercer County Park, New JerseyMercer Lake (Antarctica), a subglacial lake in Antarctica |
Q7100983 "Ore wa Tokoton Tomaranai!!" (俺はとことん止まらない!!, I Won't Stop Till The End!!) is the opening theme to the PS2 video game Dragon Ball Z 3 (Known outside Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3.) and is the 36th single by Japanese singer Hironobu Kageyama. It was released on February 23, 2005 in Japan only. The single pea... |
Q4667853 Abingdon railway station was a station which until 1963 served the town of Abingdon, then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire, in England. |
Q705381 Wolgwa-chae (월과채; 越瓜菜) is a variety of japchae (stir-fried vegetable dish) made with Oriental pickling melon, called wolgwa in Korean. This summer dish was a part of the Korean royal court cuisine. |
Q3422707 Samundratar is a village development committee in Nuwakot District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1859 people living in 364 individual households. |
Q2488099 U.S. Route 62 (US 62) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from the United States–Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York. In the U.S. state of New York, US 62 extends 102.77 miles (165.39 km) from the New York–Pennsylvania border south of Jamestown to an intersection with New ... |
Q3334327 NDepend is a static analysis tool for .NET managed code. The tool supports a large number of code metrics, allowing to visualize dependencies using directed graphs and dependency matrix. The tool also performs code base snapshots comparisons, and validation of architectural and quality rules. User-defined rule... |
Q6483901 Land Gold Women is a 2011 English-language film written and directed by Avantika Hari, a graduate of the London Film School. The film is produced by Mumbai-based Vivek Agrawal. It is the first film in English that deals with the issue of honor killings. The film won India’s National Film Award for Best Feature... |
Q2603017 André Gaboriaud (1 May 1895 – 23 November 1969) was a French fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1928 Summer Olympics. |
Q6369103 Kardam, Prince of Tarnovo, Duke of Saxony (2 December 1962 – 7 April 2015) was the eldest son of King Simeon II of Bulgaria and his wife Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela. Kardam was born after the abolition of the Bulgarian monarchy. As such, it was only by courtesy that he was sometimes styled as if being... |
Q5956501 Mogh Ahmad or Mugh Ahmad (Persian: مغ احمد) may refer to:Mogh Ahmad-e BalaMogh Ahmad-e Pain |
Q3279315 The House of Châteaudun is a medieval lineage that once possessed the Viscounty of Châteaudun, the County of Perche, and the County of Anjou. |
Q11864559 Ilkka Suvanto (born 13 August 1943) is a Finnish former swimmer. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. |
Q28806378 Sharifa Khatun is a Bangladeshi academic. She served as the director of Institute of Education and Research at the University of Dhaka during May 1993 to May 1996. She was a language movement activist in 1952. In 2017, she was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh for her contribution to the l... |
Q6780546 The Mary Prentiss Inn has historic roots that reach as far back as 1843 and has transformed from a home on Prentiss Street to a Cambridge, Massachusetts inn. In 1843 the home was built by architect William A. Saunders as a wedding gift to his son, William, and his wife, Mary Prentiss. The home was built in the... |
Q7145668 Patricia Kempthorne (born June 3, 1950) was the First Lady of Idaho and the wife of Gov. Dirk Kempthorne. Mrs. Kempthorne was Idaho's first lady from 1999 until 2006. As first lady she was active in issues affecting children and families in Idaho and took the lead in assisting state government with children's... |
Q5215363 The Dancehouse is a dance centre at 10 Oxford Road, Manchester, England. |
Q4925609 Blaze X (1979–1981) were an Irish New wave band. The band was formed in Tuam, County Galway by two best mates, Paul Cunniffe and Paul Ralph.They released a successful single in 1980, Some Hope which became Larry Gogan's Hit song of the week on 2FM. Its B-side, Rippy, about serial killer The Yorkshire Ripper wa... |
Q3964488 Som Livre (Portuguese for "Free Sound") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 by Rede Globo to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks, later expanding to record studio albums.Today it is one of the largest Brazilian music record labels and is still a part of Grupo Globo. |
Q6109476 Jamie Louise "Ja'mie" King ( jə-MAY) is a fictional character from Australian comedy series We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year, Summer Heights High and Ja'mie: Private School Girl, portrayed by actor Chris Lilley. Ja'mie is aged 17 and lives in Kirribilli in the upper class North Shore region... |
Q4703558 Al bashawil is a village in west-central Yemen. It is located in the San‘a’ Governorate. |
Q4967028 "Brief and Beautiful" is the third single by Norwegian pop singer Maria Arredondo, released from her 4th album For a Moment. The single spent six weeks on the charts, peak at No.4. |
Q3498080 Stephen Gilbert (1912–2010) was a Northern Irish novelist. |
Q7372213 Snow Moon Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. The lake is in a cirque to the north of Allen Mountain and adjacent to Falling Leaf Lake. |
Q7614518 Steven Ian Brower (born 1952) is an American graphic designer, and writer. His work appears regularly in international and national design annuals and books on design, and he writes for several publications. |
Q7092157 Ondati Girls Secondary School is a community run girls' secondary school in Ondati village, Nyanza, in western Kenya. It is located 18 km from Rongo. Established in 2009 the school caters to 100 girls, both day students and boarders. The school receives no government subsidy and is financed through a combinati... |
Q5650429 Hans Madsen Ries (5 December 1860 – 14 April 1926) was a New Zealand Lutheran pastor, farmer, businessman and local politician. He was born in Stenderup, Denmark in 1860. He was first elected as Mayor of Dannevirke in 1903, narrowly beating Alfred Ransom. He did not stand again in 1905, but was incensed by cri... |
Q14949443 Nicholas Kasirer (born February 20, 1960) is a justice with the Quebec Court of Appeal, having been appointed in 2009. He is a graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he served as an editor for the McGill Law Journal, and where he later served as a Professor from 1989 to 2009 and Dean of the F... |
Q90828 The Blessed Hermann Lange (16 April 1912 – 10 November 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs. Lange was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.Lange alo... |
Q13554549 Narthecusa perplexata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1862. This species is found from Guinea to Uganda. |
Q21621359 Robert Gilchrist (born 14 October 1990) is a professional basketball player for Luleå of the Basketligan. Gilchrist was born in England and played his college career in the United States. |
Q24191588 Ringgold is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. |
Q27908080 The St. Francis Xavier Cathedral also called Agartala Cathedral Is a temple of the Catholic Church that serves as the episcopal seat of the diocese of Agartala which is located in the city of Agartala in the state of Tripura in the north part of the Asian country of India.Initiated in October 2010, with a pl... |
Q3009465 The rosy-tailed sandstone gecko (Cyrtopodion rhodocauda) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Balochistan, Pakistan. |
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