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Q2966602 Christopher John Turner, CBE (17 August 1933 – 30 October 2014) was a British diplomat.
Q16254591 Swimming Pool is a 1976 Malayalam-language Indian feature film, directed by J. Sasikumar, starring Kamal Haasan, M. G. Soman, Sumithra, Rani Chandra and Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair in the lead roles.
Q1477042 The Sachsenliga, formerly referred to as Landesliga Sachsen, is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony (German: Sachsen). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Reg...
Q977060 Saint-Martin-Lars-en-Sainte-Hermine is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Q4914680 Narlıq (also, Narlyk and Narlykh) is a village and municipality in the Sabirabad Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,509.
Q470665 Secretariat is a 2010 American biographical sports drama film produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, written by Mike Rich and Sheldon Turner with music by Nick Glennie-Smith and directed by Randall Wallace. The film chronicles the life of Thoroughbred race horse Secretariat, winner of the Triple Crown i...
Q4854128 Banco de Ponce was the Puerto Rican bank with the largest number of branches in the United States and second largest bank in deposits and number of branches in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century. Founded in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the early part of the century, it headquartered in San Juan in 1970 and, 20...
Q7148606 Pattiyude Divasam ((Malayalam: പട്ടിയുടെ ദിവസം), (alternate title - A Dog's Day)) is a 2001 Indian political satire film directed by Murali Nair.
Q7341174 Robert 'Iain' Higgins (born 14 September 1976) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Scotland, and at club level for London Broncos (Heritage № 329) and Hunslet Hawks, as a centre, or second-row.
Q5578153 Gol-e Zard-e Abdi (Persian: گل زردعبدي‎, also Romanized as Gol-e Zard-e ‘Abdī and Golzard-e ‘Abdī; also known as Gol-e Zard and Qol-e Zard) is a village in Malmir Rural District, Sarband District, Shazand County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 427, in 117 families.
Q16754818 Manoba greenwoodi is a moth in the family Nolidae. It was described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2003. It is found on Borneo. The habitat consists of hill dipterocarp forests.The length of the forewings is about 7 mm.
Q12880567 Mary Chronopoulou (Greek: Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου; 16 July 1933) is a Greek actress. She was one of the most popular actresses of the 1960s. She starred in many films, 16 of which were produced by Finos Film. She is one of the main protagonists of Greek theatre.
Q27988878 Ravinamy is an unincorporated community in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.Located within the city limits of West Lafayette, the community is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Q28403756 The Robert Lang filmography lists the film and television appearances of English actor Robert Lang.
Q508296 Thorwald Nicolaus Tideman (, not ; born August 11, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Georgist economist and professor at Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969. Tideman was an Assistant ...
Q208180 Lake Bolsena (Italian: Lago di Bolsena) of central Italy, is a lake of volcanic and tectonic origin. Roman historic records indicate activity of the Vulsini volcano occurred as recently as 104 BC; it has been dormant since then. The two islands in the southern part of the lake were formed by underwater eruption...
Q1436381 Mike Rumbles (born 10 June 1956) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, reelected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2016 election (having previously represented West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine before being defeated at the 2011 election in the successor constituency of Aberdeenshire West)...
Q7980998 Weli Point is a jutting headland overlooking Wahiawa bay on the south coast of the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.
Q4341299 Pavese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in province of Pavia (Lombardy). In Pavese, differently from most of Western Lombard dialects, the "z" (ts or dz) is transformed into "s".In the past, before the influence of Milanese, Pavese was more similar to Emiliano-Romagnolo language. In Lomellina a ...
Q2174156 State Highway 123 (abbreviated SH-123) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It runs a general southwest–northeast course for 22.7 miles (36.5 km) in northern Oklahoma. SH-123 has no lettered spur routes.
Q3161994 Janine Darcey (14 January 1917 – 1 October 1993) was a French film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1936 and 1993.
Q732044 IMATEM is a musical project initially created in 2007 by Peter Spilles (frontman and mastermind of the German industrial/gothic/darkwave band Project Pitchfork).This project combines the experiences and the energy of some of the most inspiring musicians and vocal artists of the contemporary gothic/electro scene...
Q2603898 Pegmatite Point (85°1′S 165°20′W) is a distinctively banded point which juts into the head of Ross Ice Shelf from the Duncan Mountains. The point is 7 nautical miles (13 km) east-northeast of Mount Fairweather. It was first roughly plotted from ground surveys and aerial photographs by the Byrd Antarctic Expedi...
Q6738085 Major L. Goodsell (1 July 1900 – 31 March 1988) was an Australian who five times won the professional World Sculling Championship. ("Major" was his given name, and not a military rank.)He was born at Hunters Hill in New South Wales. His parents were Charles James Goodsell, born 1874 Sydney, and Ada née Lang. ...
Q5019521 Calenick (Cornish: Klunyek) is a hamlet about a mile south of Truro in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated at the end of Calenick Creek, which opens into the River Truro near Sunny Corner. According to the Post Office the population at the census 2011 was included in the civil parish of Kea.
Q3600645 The 2012 Aegon Nottingham Challenge was a professional tennis tournament played on grass courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2012 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Nottingham, Great Britain between 11 and 17 June 2012.
Q3024819 A deula is an element in a Hindu temple in the local style of Odisha temple in Eastern India.Sometimes the whole temple is called Deula. The word "deula" in Oriya language means a building structure built with a particular style that is seen in most of the temples from Odisha. "Deul" is often used in English, ...
Q4136391 The coat of arms of Kaliningrad is the official heraldic achievement of Kaliningrad in Russia.
Q4385082 Thijs Hendriks (born 5 February 1985) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for SV DFS mainly as a forward.
Q21099678 3-Methylfuran is an organic compound with the formula C5H6O. It is formed from the gas-phase reaction of hydroxyl radical with isoprene.In mice, it is toxic by inhalation.
Q22314319 Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Navratilova were the defending champions, but Kuznetsova decided not to compete this year. Navratilova teamed up with Lisa Raymond and lost in second round to Elena Likhovtseva and Anastasia Myskina.Nadia Petrova and Meghann Shaughnessy won the title, defeating Virginia Ruano P...
Q11111403 The Forså Hydroelectric Power Station (Norwegian: Forså kraftverk or Forså kraftstasjon) is a hydroelectric power station in the municipality of Gildeskål in Nordland county, Norway. Part of the plant's catchment area also lies in the municipality of Beiarn.The plant utilizes a drop of 266 meters (873 ft) bet...
Q1609266 Herbert Waniek (17 October 1897 - 11 May 1949) was a Vienna stage actor, theatrical producer and impresario. After 1943 he also began to build a parallel reputation as an opera director.As a young man he dabbled in journalism, as a commentator on developments in drama.
Q18093344 Lamaika is a monotypic genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the Phyxelididae family containing the single species, Lamaika distincta. It was first described by C. E. Griswold in 1990, and is only found in South Africa.
Q7419798 The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1980 and dedicated to the acquisition of land for preservation as open space, for wildlife and California native plants habitat Nature Preserves, and for public recreation activities.The Santa Monica ...
Q508268 The Tour du Faso is a 10-day road bicycle racing stage race held in Burkina Faso in the late fall. Since 2005, the race has been part of the UCI Africa Tour. The race covered 811 miles (1306 km) in 2006 and is televised on the Versus cable channel.The race was first held in 1987.The race is operated by the Ama...
Q700092 Hohentwiel is an extinct volcano in the Hegau region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany The mountain is west of the city of Singen and 20 miles (30 km) from Lake Constance.Hohentwiel began forming, along with the chain of volcanoes in the Hegau region, about 7–8 million years ago, when a layer of volcanic...
Q7712659 The Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The 34 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The New Adventures of Superman and other ...
Q2393638 Íngrid Rubio Ruiz (born 2 August 1975 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She won the Special Mention Award at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film Taxi.She has appeared in over 20 films since 1995 and was named in 1998 as one of European films 'Shooting Sta...
Q5282904 Distant Sense of Random Menace is the debut album from Australian hip-hop artist Urthboy. It was released on 9 August 2004.The album was features the production of Elgusto (Hermitude), Count Bounce (TZU) and The Herd. An extended 12” vinyl was also released featuring an exclusive remix by Hermitude. The album...
Q7149134 Paul Augustus Bridle (October 1914 – February 1988) was a Canadian diplomat. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Augustus Bridle, a journalist and novelist. He studied at Parkdale Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, receiving his BA in 1937. He then taught briefly at Upper Canada Colleg...
Q4967861 Brigidine College is an independent Roman Catholic secondary day school for girls, located in the suburb of Indooroopilly less than 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the centre of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was established in 1929 by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Brigid and continues in their trad...
Q5134937 Clonaghadoo is a village in County Laois, Ireland, located 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Mountmellick just off the N80 national secondary road. The Slieve Bloom Mountains lie southwest of the village.
Q1325702 Eleanor Alberga (born 1949) is a Jamaican contemporary music composer.
Q6107299 Jagannath Venkanna Shetty was an Indian banker. He was Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank, Chairman of Indian Banks' Association from January 1993 - August 1994. He also headed the J. V. Shetty Banking Committee of India which decided on the crucial issue of consortium lending by Indian Banks.Shetty...
Q5520886 Ganeshwar is a metropolitanin Neem-Ka-Thana Tehsil (Mandal) in the Sikar District of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Ganeshwar is 7.9 kilometres (4.9 mi) distance from Neem-Ka- Thana town, 66.4 kilometres (41.3 mi) from Sikar city and 83 kilometres (52 mi) from Jaipur. Excavations in the area revealed the remai...
Q14302160 The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2013 Summer Universiade was held on 7 July.
Q18345140 Gods Without Men is Hari Kunzru's fourth novel, first published in 2011. The title is taken from a quote by Honoré de Balzac. The novel is set in the American southwest, and contains elements of magical realism.
Q1056766 Cesare Cipollini (born 16 December 1958) is an Italian former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Mario Cipollini.
Q21622653 Lukáš Sadílek (born 23 May 1996) is a professional Czech football midfielder currently playing for Baník Sokolov in the Czech National Football League on loan from Slovácko.He made his career league debut for 1. FC Slovácko on 30 August 2014 in a Czech First League 4–1 home win against Sigma Olomouc. He went ...
Q23709383 Imogene is an unincorporated community in Perkins County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
Q6185005 Count Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746–1794) was a Swedish art collector.Sparre was born in Gothenburg and travelled widely through Europe, collecting mostly Flemish and Dutch cabinet paintings. His collection of over 100 paintings is unusual because it remained largely intact for over two centuries.He was the wealth...
Q10607215 Oecanthus nigricornis is a cricket in the genus Oecanthus ("common tree crickets"), in the subfamily Oecanthinae ("tree crickets"). A common name for Oecanthus nigricornis is "black-horned tree cricket".Oecanthus nigricornis is found in North America.
Q3933054 Renzo Ranuzzi (14 July 1924 – 16 March 2014) was an Italian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Q60586 Barthold Georg Niebuhr (27 August 1776 – 2 January 1831) was a Danish-German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. Classical Rome (rather than Greece) caught the admiration of German thinkers. By 1810 Nie...
Q948868 Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter.Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while a studen...
Q1507810 George Seymour Lyon (July 27, 1858 – May 11, 1938) was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medalist in golf, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
Q2043380 Simon Pierre Mvondo Atangana (born 10 July 1979) is a Cameroonian former footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs across multiple countries. His career began in native Cameroon, playing for Olympic Mvolyé and Tonnerre Yaoundé with a spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Fateh separating the two stints....
Q813444 "Beautiful" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg featuring vocals by Pharrell Williams and Charlie Wilson. It was released in January 21, 2003 as the second single from his sixth studio album. The song was produced by the duo The Neptunes. The music video was filmed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The song was a ...
Q1041979 Carlo Carafa (29 March 1517 - 6 March 1561) of a distinguished family of Naples, vicious and talented was successively condottiero in the service of France and of Spain, vying for their protectorates in Italy until 1555, when he was made a cardinal, to 1559 the all-powerful favourite and Cardinal Nephew of P...
Q803683 The Bay of Jorge Cárdenas (Spanish: Bahía de Cárdenas) is a shallow bay on Cuba's northern shore, in the province of Matanzas.
Q5539019 The Blessed George Errington of Hurst Castle - from the minor gentry branch of Bingfield, St John Lee, Northumberland - was an English Roman Catholic layman who is honored as a martyr by the Catholic Church.Errington was convicted of attempted conversion to the Catholic Church, in a plot by an Anglican ministe...
Q7647873 Susan Gibson was born in Fridley, Minnesota, is a Wimberley, Texas based singer and songwriter who has released four solo albums and tours the nation. Gibson was the lead singer for the alternative country band, The Groobees, and is the writer of the Dixie Chicks hit "Wide Open Spaces".
Q4971913 The Broad River is a 60.0-mile-long (96.6 km) tributary of the Savannah River in northeastern Georgia. The North Fork of the Broad River begins in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Stephens County, then joins the Middle Fork west of Royston in Franklin County to form the main stem. The Broad River...
Q4459474 Nikolay Petrovich Tokarev (Russian: Николай Петрович Токарев; * 20 December 1950 in Karaganda) is a Russian businessman and oligarch. He is the president of the Russian pipeline company Transneft. Tokarev was graduated from Karaganda Polytechnic Institute in 1973.He was a KGB officer in East Germany, where he ...
Q6775912 Martin Kokaldzhiev (Bulgarian: Мартин Кокалджиев) (born 10 May 1985) is a Bulgarian football player, currently playing for PFC Nesebar as a midfielder.
Q7833938 In molecular biology, the transcriptional activator LAG-3 is a transcriptional activator protein. The C. elegans Notch pathway, involved in the control of growth, differentiation and patterning in animal development, relies on either of the receptors GLP-1 or LIN-12. Both these receptors promote signalling by ...
Q17101775 The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2011. The book presents the surprising origin of everyday words used in English, with each definition being thematically linked to the next to provide a flowing narrati...
Q17038518 Steamboat Springs High School, nicknamed "Home of the Sailors," is a high school located at 45 E. Maple Street in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States.In 2014, it had 626 students in grades 9-12, and 41 teachers. The student body was half male and half female, and minority enrollment was 12 percent.The...
Q20806034 The 2008 Oceania Handball Champions Cup was in New Caledonia 2 - 8 November, 2008 with seven teams from five countries competing for the third edition of the Men Oceania Champions Cup.The final saw AS Dumbea from New Caledonia finally winning a Oceania Champions Cup over former champions JS Mont Dore. The th...
Q2537884 Drepanosticta lankanensis (drooping shadowdamsel) is a species of damselfly in the family Platystictidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Q22324054 Katherine Schmidt (February 6, 1899 – April 18, 1978) was an American artist and art activist. Early in her career the figure studies, landscapes, and still lifes she painted drew praise for their "purity and clarity of color," "sound draftsmanship," and "individual choice of subject and its handling." During...
Q25095076 Orophia imbutella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1888. It is found in Georgia.
Q13776543 Lussivolutopsius furukawai is a species of Buccinidae. The species is distributed in the Sea of Okhotsk. The species was first described by Katsura Ōyama in 1951. The species feeds on clams, is found at depths of 4–62 meters, and is generally found in sand.
Q5081164 Charles Francis Murphy (February 9, 1890 – May 22, 1985) was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois.
Q2423059 Adelchis was the son of Radelchis I, Prince of Benevento, and successor of his brother Radelgar in 854.It was given to Adelchis to preserve the ancient principality and its independence in the face of repeated assaults by the Saracens from the south, the Emperor Louis II from the north, and Byzantine Langobard...
Q5349489 The Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture is a claim in algebraic topology. It was formulated by Samuel Eilenberg and Tudor Ganea in 1957, in a short, but influential paper. It states that if a group G has cohomological dimension 2, then it has a 2-dimensional Eilenberg–MacLane space K ( ...
Q1743883 The Volga Hydroelectric Station or Volga GES (Russian: Волжская ГЭС) also known as the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Stalingrad/Volgograd Hydroelectric Power Station (Russian: Сталинградская/Волгоградская ГЭС имени XXII съезда КПСС), is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe, and it is the last of the Volga-K...
Q901629 The coat of arms of the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira consists of a shield azure a pale or charged with a Cross of Christ, with external elements. The shield was established by the Regional Decree 30/78/M of 12 September 1978. The external elements (supporters, crest and motto) were established by Reg...
Q6506397 LeRay Wilson, born at Cove, Oregon, 4 February 1920, enlisted in the United States Navy 8 February 1939.
Q7324348 Richard Brittain (born 24 September 1983) is a Scottish former professional footballer now coaching at Ross County fc. He also spent the 2015–16 season as manager of the club. He started his career at Livingston and has also played for Raith Rovers, St Mirren and Ross County.
Q6268870 Johor Bahru City Council (MBJB; Malay: Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru) is a local council which administrates Johor Bahru city centre and other areas of the Iskandar Malaysia area in Johor, Malaysia. This agency is under Johor state government. MBJB are responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal...
Q4046135 "P-Poppin'" is the first single from Ludacris's fourth album Chicken-n-Beer. It features Shawnna and Lil Fate. The song samples "Danger (Been So Long)" by Mystikal, and depicts what goes on in a strip club and a dance that can be done with or without clothes.
Q732435 Lopigna is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
Q6920279 Mount Craig may refer to:Mount Craig (Colorado) in Colorado, USAMount Craig (North Carolina) in North Carolina, USAMount Craig (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
Q6039795 The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) is located at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. ISSSC was established in 2005 to advance the understanding of the role of secular values and the process of secularization in contemporary society and culture. Designed to be multidi...
Q3282544 SmallWorlds was an online virtual world and social network service created by Outsmart Games, a privately owned company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The virtual world used flash and ran inside a web browser and integrated with YouTube, Flickr, and a number of other Web 2.0 services. The game had thousands o...
Q5308807 Heinrich Vogl (January 15, 1845 – April 21, 1900) was a German operatic heldentenor.He played the role of Loge in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold at Munich Court Opera on September 22, 1869, with his wife, Therese Vogl, playing the role of Wellgunde. He also played the role of Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre, ...
Q4777832 Anupam Sinha is an Indian comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the Raj Comics superhero Super Commando Dhruva. The BusinessWorld website said that Sinha revolutionised Indian comics with his work at Raj Comics.Starting his career in 1975 at the age of 13 for a small magazine called Deewana ...
Q1186493 UFC 128: Shogun vs. Jones was a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on March 19, 2011, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Q16882413 Ruza (Russian: Руза) is the name of several inhabited localities in Moscow Oblast, Russia.Urban localitiesRuza, Ruzsky District, Moscow Oblast, a town in Ruzsky DistrictRural localitiesRuza, Volokolamsky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Ostashevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky District
Q11149341 Fuqiushan Township (simplified Chinese: 浮丘山乡; traditional Chinese: 浮丘山鄉; pinyin: Fuqiushan Xiang) is a rural township in Taojiang County, Yiyang, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.
Q18045223 Igor Andreyevich Obukhov (Russian: Игорь Андреевич Обухов; born 29 May 1996) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC SKA-Khabarovsk on loan from FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Q27712364 The 2016–17 Northern Colorado Bears women's basketball team represented the University of Northern Colorado during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bears were led by third year head coach Kamie Ethridge and played their home games at the Bank of Colorado Arena. They finished the seas...
Q733210 Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics was the second appearance of the sport as an official medal event. A total number of 23 nations entered the competition.Olympic basketball returned to indoor competition in Harringay Arena, after the disastrous weather conditions of the final game in the 1936 Summer Olympi...
Q7490946 Shaun Pye is an English actor, comedian, writer, critic, television producer, editor and journalist, known for co-creating the animated sketch comedy Monkey Dust with Harry Thompson, and for his role as Greg Lindley-Jones on Ricky Gervais's sitcom Extras. Pye created and wrote There She Goes.
Q2846182 The Andoma (Russian: Андома) is a river in Vytegorsky District of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It flows out of Lake Groptozero and is a tributary of Lake Onega. It is 156 kilometres (97 mi) long, and the area of its basin 2,570 square kilometres (990 sq mi). The main tributary of the Andoma is the Samina River (r...
Q7303944 The Red Covered Bridge is a historic, wooden covered bridge located in Liverpool Township in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is a 55-foot-long (17 m) King post bridge, constructed in 1886. It crosses Bargers Run.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Q382189 Grand Hotel van Cleef is an independent record label headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.
Q7494577 Shepton Mallet was a rural district in Somerset, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894.In 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 when it became part of the Mendip district.The parishes which were part of the district included Ashwick, Batcom...