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Q1941810 Cheliferoides is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Guatemala, Panama, and the United States: C. longimanus, C. planus, and C. segmentatus. |
Q553448 Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College. From 1947-1948 he was president of the Geological Society. |
Q7772542 The Victoria Cross: For Valour is a 2003 BBC television historical documentary presented by Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson examines the history of the Victoria Cross, and follows the story of one of the 1,354 men who were awarded it - Major Robert Henry Cain. The main part of the programme was to describe how in September 1944, Major Cain won what was described as the "finest Victoria Cross of the whole war" by his commanding officer Lt Col Derek McNally. At the end of the programme it is revealed that Clarkson was married to Cain's daughter at the time of production (div 2014), who had no idea that her father was a VC recipient until after his death in 1974.Clarkson also reveals the history of the medal itself and how it is, and always has been, manufactured by the small London jeweller Hancocks & Co. The bronze itself is from the melted-down breeches of a Chinese-made cannon captured from the Russians during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. The remaining lump contains only enough metal to create around 80 additional VCs. It is locked away in a safe in a military storage depot in MoD Donnington near Telford. |
Q365001 Adolfo Barán Flis (born 22 November 1961 in Montevideo) is a former Uruguayan footballer. |
Q6356359 The following are the national records in athletics in Romania maintained by its national athletics federation: Federatia Romana de Atletism (FRA). |
Q5495958 Fredrick Leatherbarrow Molyneux (born 1873) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke. |
Q499967 The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey, as well as the planning and construction of new lines. TCDD was formed on 4 June 1929 as part of the nationalisation of railways in Turkey.The Turkish State Railways own and maintain all public railways in Turkey. This includes railway stations, ports, bridges and tunnels, yards and maintenance facilities. In 2016, TCDD controlled an active network of 12,532 km (7,787 mi) of railways, making it the 22nd-largest railway system in the world. Apart from railway infrastructure, TCDD also owns several rail transport companies within Turkey as well as a 50% share of the İzmir-area commuter rail system, İZBAN.Prior to 2017, TCDD also operated all railways in Turkey. However, with the government taking steps to privatise some of the Turkish railway network, TCDD Taşımacılık was formed on 14 June 2016 to take over all railway operations. Handover of rolling stock was signed on 28 December of the same year and TCDD formally ceased all railway operations on 31 December 2016. |
Q4606334 2006 HKFC International Soccer Sevens, officially known as The 2006 HKFC Philips Lighting International Soccer Sevens due to sponsorship reason, is the 7th staging of this competition. It was held on 19–21 May 2006.Urawa Red Diamonds, beating Aston Villa by 1-0 in the final, was the Cup winner of the Main Tournament. Lorenz All Stars was the Cup winner of the Masters Tournament. Gabriel Agbonlahor of Aston Villa was awarded the Player of the tournament.Some of the participating teams include Happy Valley, Sun Hei, Kitchee, Aston Villa F.C., Kaizer Chiefs, Manchester United F.C., Rangers, Glasgow Celtic, Urawa Red Diamonds and PSV Eindhoven. |
Q12713041 Asa Lansford Foster (August 19, 1798 – January 9, 1868) was a Pennsylvanian geologist, merchant, and coal mine owner. He was also a geologist, mining engineer, and publisher and was one of the pioneers of the anthracite industry. He was a native of Massachusetts but immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1818. Foster married Louisa Trott Chapman. |
Q22059157 The Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn located in LaPorte County on the southern edge of LaPorte, Indiana, is a multi-sided barn. Built in 1878 by Marion Ridgeway and called the Door Prairie Barn. The barn sits east of highway 35 surrounded by woods and cultivated fields. The nine-sided barn is south of a rectangular barn. The barn has nine sides and is two stories tall. The roof is capped with a sectional cone roof with a nine-sided cupola in the Gothic Revival/Italianate style. Within the louvered panels trim pieces resemble a lancet arch. The post and beam frame sits on wooden sill propped on stone. |
Q23409660 Leanne Trimboli (born (1975-11-10)10 November 1975) is an Australian former soccer goalkeeper who played three matches for the Australia women's national soccer team. She was a member of the Australian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but did not play. |
Q28858774 Eric Enge is a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, businessman, author, and public speaker. He is the founder of Stone Temple Consulting. |
Q764268 The Association of Polish Architects (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich, SARP) is a Polish professional architecture organisation. Since 1948 it has been a member of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). It also acts as a publishing institution of architectural journals, books and magazines.The organisation's headquarters are located at the Konstanty Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, but it also has 25 local branches across Poland, amongst them in Katowice, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan and Opole. |
Q14934239 Metachroma pellucidum is a species of leaf beetle. It is mostly found in coastal states of the United States, ranging from Texas to Florida to New York, but is also found inland to Indiana. Its length is between 3.4 and 3.8 mm. |
Q1706292 The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago, Illinois, from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town red-light districts, got its name from its proximity to wharves in the city. The Levee district encompassed four blocks in Chicago's South Loop area, between 18th and 22nd streets. It was home to many brothels, saloons, dance halls, and the famed Everleigh Club. Prostitution boomed in the Levee District, and it was not until the Chicago Vice Commission submitted a report on the city's vice districts that it was shut down. |
Q619072 Prenton Park is an association football stadium in Birkenhead, England. It is the home ground of Tranmere Rovers F.C., Liverpool F.C. Women and Liverpool F.C. Reserves. Owned by Tranmere Rovers F.C. who moved here in 1912. The ground has had several rebuilds, with the most recent occurring in 1995 in response to the requirement of the Taylor Report to become all-seater. Today's stadium holds 15,573 in four stands: the Kop, the Johnny King Stand, the Main Stand and the Cowshed (for away supporters).Attendances at the ground have fluctuated over its hundred-year history. Its largest-ever crowd was 24,424 for a 1972 FA Cup match between Tranmere and Stoke City. In 2010, an average of 5,000 fans attended each home game. |
Q14874634 James Chabot Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Formerly Athalmer Beach Provincial Park, it is located in Invermere at the northeast end of Windermere Lake in the Columbia Valley region of the East Kootenay. Windermere Lake Provincial Park is located at the lake's southwestern end.It is named for James Chabot, aka Jim Chabot, MLA for Columbia-Revelstoke from 1963 to 1986 and former Minister of Lands, Parks and Housing in the regime of Social Credit Premier W.A.C. Bennett. |
Q7767717 "The Switch" is the 97th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 11th episode for the sixth season. It aired on January 5, 1995. This episode is particularly notable for revealing Kramer's first name. |
Q15946915 NNLS may refer toIn mathematics, the non-negative least squares optimization problemNew North London Synagogue, see Sternberg CentreNever Not Looking Sexy, a small Australian cover band. |
Q7221713 Walter Edgar Hergesheimer (January 8, 1927 – September 27, 2014) was a Canadian ice hockey forward.Hergesheimer started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. He would also play with the Chicago Black Hawks. His career lasted from 1952 to 1959. His older brother was Phil Hergesheimer (1914–2004), also a professional hockey player. He died of congestive heart failure at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg on September 27, 2014 at the age of 87. |
Q17479687 The Crosby by-election, 1981 was a by-election held in England on 26 November 1981 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Crosby on Merseyside. It followed the death of Crosby's MP Sir Graham Page, of the Conservative Party. |
Q8023051 Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, (known as Wilson Elser), is a law firm with over 800 attorneys in 37 offices throughout the United States and one in London. |
Q16244599 Booth and the Bad Angel is a studio album by Booth and the Bad Angel, a collaborative project between Angelo Badalamenti and Tim Booth. It was released in 1996. It peaked at number 35 on the UK Albums Chart. |
Q14956796 Trichur Heart Hospital is a 500-bed speciality hospital situated in Thrissur, Kerala, India. The hospital is equipped with most modern cardiac catheterisation lab ensuring detailed study of chambers, valves, coronary arteries, and blood flow details. The hospital specializes in neurology, general medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, anaesthesiology, neonatology, pathology and histopathology, dermatology and physiotherapy. |
Q56818471 Kim Dong-woo (born February 5, 1988) is a South Korean football player who plays for FC Seoul. |
Q492357 My Husband Got a Family (Korean: 넝쿨째 굴러온 당신; RR: Neongkuljjae Gulleoon Danshin; lit. You Who Rolled in Unexpectedly, also known as Unexpected You) is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Kim Nam-joo, Yoo Jun-sang, and Youn Yuh-jung. It aired on KBS2 from February 25 to September 9, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 19:55 for 58 episodes.The weekend family drama centers on a working woman named Cha Yoon-hee (played by Kim Nam-joo) as her husband, who was put up for international adoption, reunites with his biological parents. Yoon-hee faces the unexpected burden of having to build a relationship with her new-found in-laws.During its more than five-month run, it topped the weekly ratings chart for 25 consecutive weeks and reached a ratings peak of 45.8 percent (TNmS) and 52.3 percent (AGB Nielsen). The series ranked number one overall on the 2012 yearly TV ratings chart. |
Q5225865 Darvishan (Persian: درويشان, also Romanized as Darvīshān; also known as Imām-i-Darvīshān) is a village in Khenejin Rural District, in the Central District of Komijan County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 384, in 96 families. |
Q13421967 Ivo Baldasar (born 5 August 1958) is a Croatian politician and former Mayor of Split. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) until he was thrown out of the party in 2016. After that, he joined forces with the Milan Bandić 365 party. In 2017, he formed his own party called The Split Party. |
Q16223785 Aleksei Viktorovich Matsyura (Russian: Алексей Викторович Мацюра; born 14 July 1985) is a Russian football player. |
Q19668745 Benjamin David Penny (born 27 October 1959) is an Australian academic specialising in religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China. He is a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia.His area of speciality is Falun Gong as well as the interpretation of Chinese religions by westerners and the history of the religions of Chinese Australians. The Times Literary Supplement states that in 'The Religion of the Falun Gong' Penny "makes a good case for defining Falun Gong as a modern Chinese religion. . . . [He] provides an admirable guide to the short history of Falun Gong and the eclectic complexities of its doctrine, which he sets within the framework of indigenous religious belief over the centuries." |
Q22285606 Paraivongius rufipes is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, observed by Weise in 1883. |
Q10812340 Salt River Township is an inactive township in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.Salt River Township was established in 1845, taking its name from the North Fork Salt River. |
Q2373087 The Rosiers-Joseph Migneret Garden is a green space located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. |
Q5748116 Jon Fält (born 28 August 1979 in Gävle, Sweden) is a Swedish drummer in modern jazz. |
Q1059740 A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged (not to be confused with geographic north and geographic south). The Earth's field has alternated between periods of normal polarity, in which the predominant direction of the field was the same as the present direction, and reverse polarity, in which it was the opposite. These periods are called chrons.Reversal occurrences are statistically random. There have been 183 reversals over the last 83 million years. The latest, the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, occurred 780,000 years ago, and has been argued to have happened very quickly, within a human lifetime. Other sources estimate that the time that it takes for a reversal to complete is on average around 7000 years for the four most recent reversals. Clement (2004) suggests that this duration is dependent on latitude, with shorter durations at low latitudes, and longer durations at mid and high latitudes. Although variable, the duration of a full reversal is typically between 2000 and 12000 years, which is one to two orders of magnitude less than the duration of magnetic chrons.Although there have been periods in which the field reversed globally (such as the Laschamp excursion) for several hundred years, these events are classified as excursions rather than full geomagnetic reversals. Stable polarity chrons often show large, rapid directional excursions, which occur more often than reversals, and could be seen as failed reversals. During such an excursion, the field reverses in the liquid outer core, but not in the solid inner core. Diffusion in the liquid outer core is on timescales of 500 years or less, while that of the solid inner core is much longer, around 3000 years. |
Q1235720 The Republic of Lucca was a historic state of Italy, which lasted from 1160 to 1805 on the central Italian peninsula. |
Q7150100 Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School (commonly Paul D. Schreiber High School or Schreiber High School) is a four-year public high school located in Port Washington, New York at 101 Campus Drive, in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. The school was originally constructed in 1953 and is named after a former superintendent. Schreiber is one of the top public high schools on Long Island. U.S. News and World Report awarded Schreiber a gold medal in its 2014 rankings. In 2015, it was ranked as the 283rd best high school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, with a student/teacher ratio of 13:1.As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,545 students and 111.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1. There were 238 students (15.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 68 (4.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. |
Q7083336 The Old-Age Pensions Act 1908 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in 1908. The Act is often regarded as one of the foundations of modern social welfare in the United Kingdom and forms part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal Government of 1906–1914. Individuals over the age of 70 years got a total of 5 Shillings per week and couples over the age of 70 years got a total of 7 Shillings 5 Pence per week. |
Q4784725 The Arbitration Rock was set in 1769 as the boundary marker between the two Long Island townships of Newtown and Bushwick. Since Newtown was in Queens County and Bushwick in Kings County, this rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle also served to mark the dividing line between these two colonial New York counties. |
Q1070700 Kamenec pod Vtáčnikom (Hungarian: Kemenec) is a village and municipality in Prievidza District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. It includes the former separate villages Horny Kamenec and Dolny Kamenec. |
Q2699664 Dendropsophus rossalleni is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Bolivia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes. |
Q7895388 The University of Fairfax is an institution of higher education headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. It offers online cybersecurity graduate degrees (Master of Science, Doctor of Science, and Doctor of Information Assurance), as well as graduate certificates in Information Systems. The entire program is provided via instructor led conference calls and online instruction.The Certification Training Center for Continuing Professional Education was established to support the continuing professional education needs of students and alumni. Through this center, the University provides support by co-sponsoring information security certification training and provides complimentary online tools to aid in preparing for the CISSP and CISM certification exam. Partnership with Cyber Security Forum Initiative in 2014 enabled professionals to receive graduate credit towards a Master of Science in Information Assurance or doctoral degree in cybersecurity.University of Fairfax is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), an accrediting commission recognized by the United States Department of Education. |
Q166532 Christian Pander (born 28 August 1983 in Münster) is a German footballer who plays as a left back. He is currently a free agent, having most recently served Hannover 96 of the Bundesliga. He is known for his powerful left-foot free-kicks and willingness to burst up the left wing. |
Q7364763 Ronald Eugene Cranford (1941 – May 31, 2006) was a neurologist and expert on comas and unconsciousness. He is best known for his work with families on public cases involving persons in a persistent vegetative state. He and three other doctors were responsible for introducing the "do not resuscitate" order. He worked with the families of such notable cases as the Karen Ann Quinlan case, Paul Brophy, Nancy Cruzan case and Terri Schiavo case. |
Q5421249 An explanation of benefits (commonly referred to as an EOB form) is a statement sent by a health insurance company to covered individuals explaining what medical treatments and/or services were paid for on their behalf.The EOB is commonly attached to a check or statement of electronic payment.An EOB typically describes:the payee, the payer and the patientthe service performed—the date of the service, the description and/or insurer's code for the service, the name of the person or place that provided the service, and the name of the patientthe doctor's fee, and what the insurer allows—the amount initially claimed by the doctor or hospital, minus any reductions applied by the insurerthe amount the patient is responsible foradjustment reasons, adjustment codesEOB documents are protected health information.Electronic EOB documents are called edi 835 5010 files.There normally also will be at least a brief explanation of any claims that were denied, along with a point to start an appeal.A member with secondary insurance gives such information to the provider for the next bill to go out to that insurance company. Generally, secondary insurance pays only the amount the EOB says the member is responsible for. Secondary EOBs show if the patient still has any responsibility to the provider. After the member's insurances have processed the claim, the provider bills the member for the remaining balance, if any. |
Q5224503 Darreh Qir (Persian: دره قير, also Romanized as Darreh Qīr) is a village in Howmeh-ye Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Ramhormoz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 163, in 32 families. |
Q3011438 Sainte-Marie-Geest is a village situated in the province of Walloon Brabant in the Walloon Region of Belgium. |
Q18164283 The Wassenaar was a Dutch 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic, and the Royal Navy.The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse. The ship was commissioned in 1781.In 1783/1784, the Wassenaar sailed to Batavia under Captain Gerardus Oorthuis.In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy.On 11 October 1797 the Wassenaar took part in the Battle of Camperdown under Captain Adolph Holland. Holland was killed during the battle, and his ship surrendered to HMS Triumph. HMS Triumph then sailed on to the centre of the battle, and when the Wassenaar was fired on by a Dutch brig, the crew raised the Dutch colours again. But in the end they were captured again by the British.As HMS Wassenaar, the ship first served as a troop ship. In February 1789 she was the flagship of Admiral Joseph Peyton in the Downs. In the years 1800-1802 she served in the Mediterranean. In her final years (1802-1815) she lay at Chatham as a powder hulk, until she was finally sold for breaking up in 1818. |
Q19661438 James H. Collins (born c. 1922) is a Canadian former curler. He played as second on the 1954 Brier-winning Team Alberta, skipped by Matt Baldwin. |
Q22058459 Grangeburg, also known as Granger or Grangerburg, is an unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States. Grangeburg is located along Alabama State Route 53, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) east-southeast of Cottonwood. |
Q20860076 The Ceremonial hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society does not serve its original purpose – the last service to the deceased members of the Prague Jewish Community – anymore. It is used as an exhibition space administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. The building is an excellent example of Romanesque Revival Style. |
Q28332495 The Oyster Bay Rear Range Lighthouse is located on the coast of Dar es salaam, Tanzania in Oyster Bay. The lighthouse works in conjunction with the Oyster Bay Range Front Lighthouse to warn ships away from the cliffs at the Msasani peninsula.The tower is a red square stone tower with one red white strip on the range line. The lighthouse has a small red roofed building adjacent to the tower. |
Q9282783 Gustav Adolf Procházka (11 March 1872, Kosmonosy, Mladá Boleslav District, Czechoslovakia – 9 February 1942, Prague) was the second patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became a reformist oriented clergyman, and later co-founder with Karel Farský of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, a spiritual leader of the church, bishop, and eventually patriarch. Procházka (Doctor of Theology, doctor honoris) was also a theologian and professor at the Czechoslovak University Academy of Sciences. Starting 1935 until 1939 he was a professor on the Jan Hus line of theology at Charles University's (in Czech Univerzita Karlova) Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Faculty of Theology (in Czech, Husovy československé evangelické fakulty bohoslovecké - HČEFB) in Prague.He served as Bishop of the diocese of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church in East Bohemia (1923-1928). the church was founded in 1920 separated from the Roman Catholic Church. Karel Farský became the first patriarch of the church ruling from 1923 until his death in 1927.In 1928, Gustav Adolf Procházka succeeded Patriarch Karel Farský as patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church staying in the position until his death in 1942. He concurrently held the position of Bishop of Prague and West Bohemia Diocese of the Church also from 1928 to 1942. |
Q2849077 Andy Byatt is an English wildlife documentary film producer for the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) in Bristol. His expertise is in the creation of underwater wildlife films. He co-directed Deep Blue, a natural history feature film about the oceans narrated by Michael Gambon. This film was largely put together with highlights from the NHU's internationally acclaimed series, The Blue Planet, of which Byatt was one of the producers, along with Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes. His most recent project is Planet Earth an 11-part High-definition TV wildlife series first aired in March 2006. |
Q5467918 Ford Rowan was a television reporter for NBC News and panelist on Meet the Press during the 1970s and early 1980s. During his tenure with the network, he covered mostly military and security-related issues. Rowan also served as an adjunct professor at the Washington bureau of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.After leaving NBC, he hosted a discussion program featuring foreign television journalists stationed in the U.S., International Edition, produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting (now Maryland Public Television) for PBS. In 1984, Rowan left the journalistic field to found, with partner Richard Blewitt, Rowan and Blewitt, a consulting firm that advises companies on public relations crises. Rowan is based out of Annapolis, Maryland. |
Q4659043 "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century, from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War. It won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003.Power observes that American policymakers have been consistently reluctant to condemn mass atrocities as genocide or to take responsibility for leading an international military intervention. She argues that without significant pressure from the American public, policymakers have avoided the term "genocide" altogether, which came into more widespread use after the Holocaust of World War II. Instead, they appeal to the priority of national interests or argue that a U.S. response would be futile and accelerate violence, as a justification for inaction. She thinks such justifications are usually ill-founded. |
Q6782025 María Jesús Rosa Durán (born November 11, 1979 in Madrid) also known as Chus Rosa, is a field hockey goalkeeper from Spain, who represented her native country in two Summer Olympic Games (2004 in Athens, Greece and 2008 in Beijing, China). Rosa grew up and developed her skills in Colegio Valdeluz, a strong quarry of field hockey players in Madrid such as Ignacio Cobos and Rodrigo Garza among others. Rosa was a key member of the Spanish national team that finished fourth at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup in Madrid. She was named in the FIH ALL STAR in 2006,2007 and 2008. |
Q218680 Graziano Pellè (Italian pronunciation: [ɡratˈtsjaːno pelˈlɛ]; born 15 July 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chinese club Shandong Luneng and the Italy national team.Pellè began his career at local Serie A club Lecce, and was loaned to three lower-division sides before moving to the Dutch club AZ in 2007. He won the Eredivisie title in his second of four seasons at the club. After brief spells back in Italy with Parma and Sampdoria, he returned to the Dutch top flight, where his consistent scoring for Feyenoord earned Pellè an £8 million transfer to Southampton in July 2014. In July 2016, after two seasons in the Premier League, Pellè moved to Shandong Luneng for an estimated transfer fee of £12 million.Pellè represented Italy at under-20 and under-21 level. He also played for the nation's Olympic team in 2008, but was not selected for the tournament. He scored on his senior international debut in 2014 and represented Italy at UEFA Euro 2016, where the team reached the quarter-finals. |
Q2886434 The Machu Picchu Scientific Base is a Peruvian polar scientific research facility in Antarctica, established to conduct Antarctic research on geology, climatology and biology. More specifically, its purpose is to study the continent's geological past, potential sea resources, wind strengths, air pollution, and the animal adaptation in a freezing environment. The base is named after the World Heritage site Machu Picchu. |
Q2749932 Trichoderma reesei is a mesophilic and filamentous fungus. It is an anamorph of the fungus Hypocrea jecorina.T. reesei can secrete large amounts of cellulolytic enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases). Microbial cellulases have industrial application in the conversion of cellulose, a major component of plant biomass, into glucose.T. reesei isolate QM6a was originally isolated from the Solomon Islands during World War II because of its degradation of canvas and garments of the US army. All strains currently used in biotechnology and basic research were derived from this isolate.Recent advances in the biochemistry of cellulase enzymology, the mechanism of cellulose hydrolysis (cellulolysis), strain improvement, molecular cloning and process engineering are bringing T. reesei cellulases closer to being a commercially viable route to cellulose hydrolysis. Several industrially useful strains have been developed and characterised, e.g. Rut-C30, RL-P37 and MCG-80. The genome was released in 2008. T. reesei has a mating type-dependent characterised sexual cycle. |
Q1078748 Porúbka is a village and municipality in the Sobrance District in the Košice Region of east Slovakia. |
Q2620174 List of champions of the 1884 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open). The tournament was held from 26 August to 27 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. It was the 4th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. |
Q990784 Brother Phelps was an American country music duo formed by brothers Ricky Lee (guitar, vocals) and Doug Phelps (bass guitar, vocals). Prior to the duo's formation in 1992, both brothers were members of The Kentucky Headhunters, a Southern rock-influenced country rock band. In 1993, Brother Phelps charted with its debut single "Let Go", which reached a peak of No. 6 on the Billboard country music charts. In all, the duo charted six singles between 1993 and 1995 (although only one other single reached Top 40), in addition to recording two albums on Asylum Records. Brother Phelps disbanded in 1995, with Doug rejoining the Kentucky Headhunters as lead singer, and Ricky Lee assuming a solo career. |
Q1859841 Palenque is a city and municipality located in the north of the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The city was named almost 200 years before the famous nearby Mayan ruins were discovered in the 18th century. The area has a significant indigenous population, mostly of the Ch'ol people, a Mayan descendant. The city is the only urban area in a municipality of over 600 communities and it is surrounded by rainforest. However, deforestation has had dramatic effects on the local environment, with howler monkeys occasionally seen in the city itself as they look for food. While most of the municipality’s population is highly marginalized economically, working in agriculture, the Palenque archeological site is one of the most important tourist attractions for both the area and the state of Chiapas. It is the poorest major city in the state of Chiapas. |
Q7190631 Pichet In-bang (Thai พิเชษฐ์ อินทร์บาง) is a Thai retired footballer who plays as a Forward and Attacking Midfielder. Previously he played in the Thai League 1 for several clubs. |
Q7614335 Steve Winn (born 16 November 1977) is a Welsh rugby union player. A centre, he has represented Wales A and currently plays his club rugby for the Cornish Pirates having joined from the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons where he made 29 appearances.Winn previously played for Bridgend RFC, Swansea RFC and Newport RFC. |
Q4716353 Alessandro Gambadori (born January 3, 1981) is an Italian professional football player currently playing for Ghivizzano Borgo a Mozzano.He played 2 games in the Serie A in the 2004/05 season for A.S. Livorno Calcio. |
Q5898364 The Hooper Crags (78°25′S 162°43′E) are a rocky spur 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, lying at the south side of Foster Glacier in the Royal Society Range of Antarctica. The feature was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1963 for Lieutenant Benjamin F. Hooper, a helicopter pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, who wintered at McMurdo Station in 1960. |
Q7508814 Sidi Redouane is a small town and rural commune in Ouezzane Province of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 20,782 people living in 4116 households. |
Q5091799 Cheragh Chin (Persian: چراغ چين, also Romanized as Cherāgh Chīn) is a village in Jolgeh Rural District Rural District, Shahrabad District, Bardaskan County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38, in 8 families. |
Q16198564 The Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 (S. 954), also commonly referred to as "the farm bill," is one of two United States "farm bills" that were introduced in the 113th United States Congress. The Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 is the bill that was introduced into the United States Senate. A second bill, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (H.R. 1947) was introduced into the United States House of Representatives. The two bills cover similar topics and programs, but have significantly different provisions. The Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 passed the Senate on June 10, 2013 and has received the support of the President.However, the Senate bill failed to pass in the House, so the two chambers organized a conference committee. The result is the Agriculture Act of 2014 (H.R. 2642; 113th Congress), which passed the House on January 29, 2014. The Agriculture Act of 2014 includes provisions from both the House and the Senate bills.One of the major provisions of the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 is a $4 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a controversial provision, with some Democrats arguing that the cuts were too large, while some Republicans arguing that the cuts did not do enough to cut the deficit. |
Q17004394 The Department of State Operations and Embassy Security Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2014 (H.R. 2848) is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The bill would authorize $17,573,992,000 to be appropriated to improve the security of U.S. Embassies throughout the world. |
Q17038992 "Stop Your Sobbing" is a song written by Ray Davies for the Kinks' debut album, Kinks. It was later covered by the Pretenders as their first single. |
Q5593327 Graham Virgo is a legal academic and barrister who is currently serving as the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of English Private Law and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a leading academic in the law of restitution.Alongside his academic roles, Virgo is an academic bencher at Lincoln's Inn and an academic door tenant at XXIV Old Buildings. Before assuming his role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, he was the Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. |
Q733004 In graph theory, the Kneser graph KGn,k is the graph whose vertices correspond to the k-element subsets of a set of n elements, and where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the two corresponding sets are disjoint. Kneser graphs are named after Martin Kneser, who first investigated them in 1955. |
Q1103521 The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society movement campaigning against the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions. Cluster munitions are a type of explosive weapon widely stockpiled by more than 80 states. They are documented to have caused significant civilian deaths and injuries and have frequently caused indiscriminate effects both during and after conflicts. Their use is prohibited under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. This convention was formally endorsed on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland, and was signed by 94 countries in Oslo on 3–4 December 2008. The Convention entered into force and became binding international law on 1 August 2010, after 30 countries formally ratified it. As of 4 January 2012, it had been signed by 111 countries, 77 of which have ratified it.The CMC, formed in November 2003, is a network of civil society organizations, including NGOs, faith-based groups and professional organizations. It includes large worldwide organizations, such as Amnesty International, Handicap International and Human Rights Watch, as well as nationally based organizations (such as the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society and Legacies of War) and national campaigns (such as the Philippines Campaign against Cluster Munitions and the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition).All of these organizations share a common goal of preventing the adverse humanitarian and development impacts from cluster munitions and providing assistance to the victims and survivors of cluster munitions, as well as ensuring their inclusion in society. Organizations and individuals that make up the CMC also work directly to address the effects of cluster munitions through the course of their work in conflict zones, providing assistance to victims, clearing areas contaminated by cluster munitions, investigating human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law.Members of the CMC network worked together on an international campaign to ban cluster munitions and successfully brought about the signature by 94 countries of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo on 3–4 December 2008. The CMC is now campaigning for accession and ratification of this comprehensive ban by all states its full and effective implementation by all States Parties; the universalization of its norms; and the rigorous monitoring of states' compliance with it.The CMC is an example of the emerging model of international diplomacy that involves the coordination of global grassroots initiatives to promote a specific goal, engaging in an international diplomatic process in partnership with like-minded states. An important focus for the CMC was to ensure those affected by cluster munitions were able to play a key role in shaping the outcome of the campaign and the international treaty it has brought about. This has been demonstrated by affected states such as Lebanon and Laos, who were at the forefront of the diplomatic negotiations, as well as the active roles played within the CMC by individual survivors of cluster bombs (such as Branislav Kapetanovic and others involved with the Ban Advocates initiative set up by Handicap International).In 2011, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) merged into one unified structure, now known as the ICBL-CMC, in order to realize operational efficiencies and reinforce complementary work. The ICBL and the CMC campaigns remain separate and continue to remind governments of their commitments to implement and promote both treaties. Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor continues its unique civil society monitoring program on the humanitarian and developmental consequences of landmines, cluster munitions, and explosive remnants of war.The activities of the ICBL-CMC are supported by a Governance Board representative of various elements of the ICBL that provides strategic, financial and human resources oversight. An Advisory Committee provides more regular input to staff and the working of the campaign. Four ambassadors serve as campaign representatives at speaking events and other conferences worldwide. They include Jody Williams, Tun Channareth (Cambodian landmine survivor), Song Kosal (Cambodian landmine survivor), and Margaret Arech Orech (Ugandan landmine survivor and founder of Ugandan Landmine Survivors Association). Currently, the ICBL has 14 staff members based in Geneva (the central office), Lyon, Paris, and Ottawa. Additionally, the ICBL-CMC hosts several interns each year.Through their activities, the member organizations that make up the CMC have researched the effects of cluster munitions on civilians. Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is the ICBL-CMC's research and monitoring arm. It is the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It monitors and reports on States Parties' implementation of and compliance with the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and more generally, it assesses the problems caused by landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). The Monitor represents the first time that NGOs have come together in a coordinated, systematic, and sustained way to monitor humanitarian law or disarmament treaties, and to regularly document progress and problems, thereby successfully putting into practice the concept of civil society-based verification. Since its creation in 1998, Monitor research has been carried out by a global network of primarily in-country researchers, most of them ICBL-CMC campaigners, and all content undergoes rigorous editing by the Monitor's Editorial Team prior to publication. |
Q1972394 Navua District is located within Serua Province in the Central Division of Fiji. During colonial times it was a sugar growing area, but the closure of the sugar mill in Navua in 1923 led to a decline in economic activity in the district. The construction of a resort at Pacific Harbour in the 1970s and an influx of tourist related activities has led to increases in economic activity in the area. |
Q1396746 Farish Carter Tate (November 20, 1856 – February 7, 1922) was a Georgia state legislator, U.S. Representative and lawyer.Tate was born in Jasper, Georgia, in 1856. He attended North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega. He studied law, gained admittance to the state bar in 1880 and became a practicing attorney in Jasper.In 1882, Tate was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, and he served in that body until 1897. During that time, he also served on the Democratic State Executive Committee from 1884 through 1887. He served on that same committee again from 1890 to 1892. In addition, he served as a delegate to the 1888 Georgia Democratic Convention.After being elected as Representative in 1892 to server Georgia's 9th congressional district in the 53rd United States Congress, Tate was reelected to five additional terms in that seat until losing his bid for reelection to the 59th Congress in 1904. In total, his federal congressional service spanned from March 4, 1893 through March 3, 1905.After being appointed as a United States district attorney in the northern district of Georgia by United States President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, Tate was reappointed to that position by President Howard Taft and served in that post until 1913. He then returned to Jasper to continue practicing law, died there on February 7, 1922, and was buried in the Tate family cemetery. |
Q3595408 Myristica dactyloides is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Some sources have it as a synonym of Myristica malabarica. |
Q904106 Hokusei Gakuen University (北星学園大学, Hokusei Gakuen daigaku) is a four-year private university in Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The university is run by Hokusei Gakuen School System, whose education philosophy is based on Christianity.Its name Hokusei (北星) means "north (北)" and "star (星)." It is derived from the biblical reference "Shine like stars, in a dark world" (Philippians 2:15). It was recommended by Japanese scholar and politician Inazo Nitobe and praised by the founder of the university Sarah Clara Smith. The university shares its campus with the two-year Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College and Hokusei Gakuen University Graduate School. |
Q801837 The Amberg–Lauterhofen railway, also known in the local dialect as the Lauterhöfer Bockl or Lauterhof Goat, was a 28 kilometre long branch line in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany and primarily linked Amberg with two communities which at that time came under the district council of Neumarkt. The line was opened on 7 December 1903 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways.The route initially ran for a short way parallel to the Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway, crossed the River Vils and turned westwards at Drahthammer station whilst still within the Amberg town limits. Crossing the heathland of the Köferinger Heide it entered the landscape of the Franconian Jura where it climbed up quite steep inclines into the Lauterach valley, which it then followed upstream to Markt Kastl, dominated by an impressive monastery (Klosterburg). At the terminal station of Lauterhofen a quarry provided additional custom on top of the usual freight from an otherwise heavily agricultural region. In spite of that, goods services officially closed on 1 April 1972. The last goods train had already left on 29 March 1972.Passenger services on the line were withdrawn as early as 1 July 1962. Even before the Second World War Kastl and Lauterhofen had established a postal service by road to their district town of Neumarkt, which had later been expanded into the Amberg–Neumarkt bus service. This development could not even be prevented by the use of early railbuses, that had been in service since the 1930s, and which were replaced in the 1950s by the Class VT 98s.The trackbed was eventually dismantled and is nowadays a cycle path. |
Q5221402 Aganope is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. This genus may be synonymous with Ostryocarpus. |
Q199911 Pembroke Athleta Football Club are a Maltese football club from the town of Pembroke, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League.Originally they were founded in 1962 but they were in an amateur level. They competed in the Maltese Third Division in 1994 for the first time.Pembroke Athleta reached the Premier League for the first time in 2015. |
Q4903548 Bicentenary Medal may either refer to:Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean SocietyBicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts |
Q4773361 The Anthony Road (Route B28) is a major B Route in Western Tasmania, running from the Murchison Highway (A10) at Tullah to the Zeehan Highway (A10) north of Queenstown.It is with the Lyell Highway the only two roads that run within or cross the West Coast Range.The name is derived from the Anthony River which is located in the West Coast Range.It is commonly used as a bypass of Rosebery for people travelling south to Queenstown and beyond or for people travelling north to Tullah and beyond.The Anthony Road is the only road from which all major peaks of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair reserve can be seen. It provides access to several classic walks: Mt Murchison, the Dora Plateau and the Tyndall Range.It runs close to natural and man made lakes in the upper reaches of the Murchison River catchment of the Pieman River power scheme. Lakes include Lake Plimsoll, Lake Selina, and Lake Westwood. It also goes close to the base of Mount Murchison.It is also an access road for the Henty Gold Mine.It runs parallel to the Henty River for the last 10 kilometres before the Zeehan Highway. |
Q5582705 "Good Little Girls" is the debut song recorded by American country music duo Blue County. It was released in September 2003 as the first single from their debut album Blue County. The song was written by Troy Seals and Brett Jones. |
Q6282393 J. Joseph Curran (June 28, 1922 – January 28, 2012) was an American college basketball coach. He coached at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York from 1953 to 1959.Curran served in the United States Navy during World War II, then attended Canisius, Cornell and Pennsylvania State University after the war - playing basketball at Penn State during the 1943–44 season.Curran became the coach at Canisius in 1953. He coached for the Golden Griffins for six seasons, leading them to three consecutive NCAA tournaments in 1955, 1956 and 1957. Their 79-77 upset of North Carolina State in four overtimes in 1956 is considered one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. Curran's all-time record at Canisius was 76-66.Joseph Curran died on January 28, 2012. |
Q6745729 "Mamma Knows Best" is a song by British singer-songwriter Jessie J, from her debut studio album Who You Are. It was written and produced by Jessie J (credited Jessica Cornish) and Ashton Thomas, and peaked at number 59 on UK Singles Chart. |
Q6452709 Kyung-ok, also spelled Kyong-ok, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Kyung-ok was the tenth-most popular name for baby girls born in South Korea in 1950.People with this name include:Kang Kyung-ok (born 1965), South Korean manhwa artistKim Kyung-ok (born 1983), South Korean judokaKim Kyong-ok, North Korean politician, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of KoreaRi Kyong-ok, North Korean judoka, represented North Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics |
Q16796582 Mating pattern may refer to:Checkmate pattern, a game-winning arrangement of chess piecesMating system, sexual reproductive behavior within a group of organisms |
Q13858114 Anania inclusalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Honduras and Colombia. |
Q20814752 Sri Rama Pattabhishekam (English: Coronation of Lord Rama) is a 1978 Telugu mythological film, produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao under Ramakrishna Cine Studios banner. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao, Jamuna, Sangeeta in the lead roles and music was composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao. |
Q3821911 Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. |
Q68165 Kloten is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glatttal). |
Q5108784 Christ Church Cathedral, located today at 2919 St. Charles Avenue, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, was the first non-Roman Catholic church founded in the entire Louisiana Purchase territory. It was founded in 1803 as Christ's Church by the Protestant inhabitants of New Orleans, and is today the official seat of the Bishop of Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. |
Q1167583 The Estádio Cidade de Barcelos is a multi-use stadium in Barcelos, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the home of Primeira Liga side Gil Vicente.The stadium is able to hold 12,504 people and was built in 2004. It opened on 30 May 2004. The inaugural game saw Gil Vicente lose 2-1 to Uruguayan side Nacional de Montevideo. It replaced Estadio Adelino Ribeiro Novo which was Gil's home ground from its establishment in the 1920s until 2004. The stadium is a UEFA Category C ground which allows for European and international games to be played there.It held two matches of the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, Serbia & Montenegro 0-1 Germany and Portugal 0-2 Serbia & Montenegro. |
Q5375398 The Enchanted Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui is a botanical garden located in Kula, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The 8 acres (3.2 ha) garden is in the mountains, at 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level. The gardens contain over 2000 species of subtropical and tropical plants from around the world. The collection has an emphasis on fruit trees and flowering plants, including: hibiscus, orchids, and proteas. The Enchanted Floral Gardens are open daily Tuesday through Sunday, 9am to 5pm, with an admission fee. They are located at 2505 Kula Highway, mile marker 10,(Highway 37), in Kula.Formerly known as the Enchanting Floral Gardens, it was closed for four years, reopening in 2017. |
Q987384 Aydie is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. |
Q8038263 The Wright State Raiders men's basketball is the men's college basketball team that represents Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio. The school's team currently competes in the Horizon League at the NCAA Division I level. The Raiders won their only national championship in 1983 as an NCAA Division II school. They have made a total of three NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament appearances. The Raiders play their home games at the Nutter Center, often nicknamed the "Nutt House". The official capacity for basketball games is 10,000. |
Q4650200 News Breakfast is an Australian news breakfast television program. It is broadcast on ABC and ABC News channel from 6:00 am to 9:00 am AEST/AEDT on weekdays and is hosted by Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland. The program is also streamed live on the ABC's website and the Australia Network throughout the Asia-Pacific region. |