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Q4785496 Archaeology of Lebanon reveals thousands of years of history ranging from the Lower Palaeolithic, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Muslim, Christian, Ottoman, and Crusades history. |
Q6934254 Mulline is an abandoned town located in the Goldfields-Esperance region in Western Australia. It is found between Kalgoorlie and Leonora.Gold was discovered in the area in the 1890s and following a gold rush to the area the number of miners in the area resulted in the townsite being gazetted in 1897. The name ... |
Q5158076 Conal McNamara is a paralympic athlete from Ireland competing mainly in category T13 sprint events.Conal competed in the 200m and 400m for class T13 athletes in the 2004 Summer Paralympics winning the silver in the longer sprint. |
Q7750631 The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol. III: Jupiter Variation is a compilation album by American saxophonist John Coltrane, which features pieces recorded in 1966 and 1967, but not released until 1978 on Impulse! Records as IA 9360. All tracks were previously unreleased, at the time of release. "Number One" may al... |
Q4977300 Cecilia Schelin Seidegård (born 18 May 1954, in Stockholm as Irene Cecilia Schelin), is a Swedish biochemist and since 1 January 2010, Governor of Gotland County.Seidegård grew up in Visby. In her youth she was active in the Free Students, a political party of a student's union. For 1981–82, she was vice-chair... |
Q5456546 Orienthella fogata is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae. |
Q16826770 The 1977 Crispa Redmanizers season was the third season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). |
Q3996322 The 2000 South Africa rugby union tour of Argentina, Britain and Ireland was a series of matches played in November–December 2000 in Argentina, Britain and Ireland by South Africa national rugby union team.In the mean time the "Under-23" South African selection made another tour playing with second tier countr... |
Q16386686 "Light of Other Days" is a science fiction short story by Irish writer Bob Shaw. It was originally published in August 1966 in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The story uses the idea of "slow glass": glass through which light takes years to pass. Bob Shaw used this idea again in later stories. |
Q1876469 Lluís Guillermo Mas Bonet (born 15 January 1989) is a Spanish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.He has rode in the Vuelta a España every year since 2014. On 3 May 2015, he won the final stage of the Tour of Turkey; he attacked the peloton on a cobbled section a few kilometers ... |
Q18808873 Herminio Portell Vilá (1901-1992) was a Cuban writer and scholar. |
Q3796182 Dubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian - Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin. |
Q27904028 Hexagon Tower is a specialist science and technology facility located in Blackley, North Manchester, United Kingdom.The site is a former Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) research, development and production centre. Facilities at Blackley have played host to enterprises since 1785, before becoming an integr... |
Q21516801 AKM Nurul Islam (October 27, 1928 – July 1, 2006) was a Bangladeshi botanist and academician. He was selected as the National Professor of Bangladesh in 2006. He was a Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences since 1980 and Bangladesh Botanical Society since 1997. |
Q212452 Popery (adjective papist) is a pejorative term used to label the Roman Catholic Church, its teachings, practices and adherents. However, in early use it was not always considered offensive, as the term could refer to a partisan backing the side of the pope on a particular issue. In English the word gained curre... |
Q16201581 Media in Seattle includes long-established newspapers, television and radio stations, and an evolving panoply of smaller, local art, culture, neighborhood and political publications, filmmaking and, most recently, Internet media. As of the fall of 2009, Seattle has the 20th largest newspaper and the 13th larg... |
Q881501 Blandville may refer to several places in the United States:Blandville, Kentucky, city in Ballard County, KentuckyBlandville, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia |
Q5267643 Devoid of Faith was an American Hardcore punk band from Albany, NY in the mid 90's (formed in 1992 out of the ashes of Affirmative Action, and Intent). Playing hardcore punk, the band shared members from Monster X, Hail Mary, Limp Wrist, John Brown's Army, and Das Oath. Devoid of Faith had several releases inc... |
Q3719092 Meloidogyne acronea (African cotton root-knot nematode, African cotton root nematode) is a plant pathogenic nematode affecting pigeonpeas. It is also an invasive species. |
Q137404 1262 Sniadeckia, provisional designation 1933 FE, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 54 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 23 March 1933, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. The asteroid was nam... |
Q3986383 The Complete Collection is a six-CD box set by British recording artist Lisa Stansfield. It was released by Arista Records in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2003 and includes five of Stansfield's studio albums with bonus tracks and a sixth disc with remixes, rarities and one previously unreleased song. The Compl... |
Q13646628 Maoye International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 848), or Maoye International, Maoye, is the top-rank leading department store in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and is engaged in department store and retailing business in Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing and Jiangsu.Maoye postponed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for two... |
Q5355629 Manly was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1986 to 1992.The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Manly. |
Q4676293 Acronicta increta (raspberry bud dagger moth, raspberry bud moth or peach sword stripe night moth) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout the south of Canada and the United States down to Florida and Texas. The status of this species is disputed. Some authors regard Acronicta increta a... |
Q7080242 The Ogress (Diane Davids) is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. |
Q6209760 Joseph William Fall (16 January 1872 – unknown) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a goalkeeper. He was born in Manchester. He played for Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Manchester United, and Small Heath. |
Q5428872 Faculty Higher Secondary School is a private school in Guwahati, Assam, India part of Osom Educational Trust. The school is affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education since 1989. It has classes from LKG to XII. The Senior Secondary section has three streams – Arts, Science & Commerce. It is a Day sch... |
Q2952690 The 1998 Campeonato Nacional, known as Campeonato Nacional Copa Banco del Estado 1998 for sponsorship purposes, was the 67th season of top-flight football in Chile. Colo-Colo won their 22nd title following a 2–1 home win against Deportes Iquique on 13 December. Universidad Católica also qualified for the next ... |
Q7577613 Spinning Around the Sun is the fourth full-length album by country music singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore. It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records, and was his second record for the label.The album includes a duet with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, called "Reunion".Robert Christgau gave the albu... |
Q7529604 Sir William Geary, 2nd Baronet (23 September 1756 – 6 August 1825) was an English Tory politician from West Peckham in Kent. He sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1818.He was the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet of Polesden, Surrey and was educated at C... |
Q8079858 Đorđe Gerum (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Герум) is a football manager and former player who played for FK Partizan and has managed FK Sloboda Tuzla and Eskişehirspor. |
Q4886103 Ben Madgen (born 7 February 1985) is an Australian professional basketball player for the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League (NBL). |
Q18110589 Smooth Talker (Chinese: 以和為貴; Jyutping: Ji5 Wo4 Wai4 Gwai3; Cantonese Yale: Yíh Wòh Wàih Gwai; literally "Harmony Is Precious") is a 2015 Hong Kong romantic comedy television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Joe Ma and Kate Tsui as the main leads, with Johnson Lee, Elena Kong, Tommy Wong and Tracy... |
Q27627948 The Battle of Lake Kastoria (Greek: Μάχη λίμνης Καστοριάς) consisted of two parallel engagements north and south of Lake Kastoria (individually known in Greek as the battles of Argos Orestiko and of Foteini Pass) between Greek and German forces on 15 April 1941. Following the Greek failure to hold the Pass of... |
Q3586397 The Quebec general election of 1878 was held on May 1, 1878 to elect members of the 4th Legislative Assembly for the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Conservative Party, led by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, narrowly won the election, winning one seat more than the Quebec Liberal Party; however, in the immedia... |
Q1764613 Ghusl (Arabic: غسل Ġusl , IPA: [ˈɣʊsl]) is an Arabic term referring to the full-body ritual purification mandatory before the performance of various rituals and prayers, for any adult Muslim after having sexual intercourse, ejaculation or completion of the menstrual cycle, although wudu or just sleep, without... |
Q2869405 Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway non-profit theater, whose mission is to produce great plays "simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble." The company was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University, inspired by the historical e... |
Q6133149 Rick Jason (born Richard Jacobson; May 21, 1923 – October 16, 2000) was an American actor, born in New York City, and most remembered for starring in the ABC television drama Combat! (1962–1967). |
Q14915060 Joan Elliott Pickart is a popular United States writer of over 100 romance novels since 1984. She also writes under the pen name Robin Elliott. She is the co-founder of the Professional Writers of Prescott, a member of the national Romance Writers of America, the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter of Romance Writers... |
Q3909097 The 1989–90 NBA season was the 20th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers acquired All-Star forward Buck Williams from the New Jersey Nets. The Blazers finished with a franchise-high 59–23 record and returned to the NBA Finals for the fi... |
Q4642367 The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 690 kHz: 690 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear-channel frequency. CKGM and XEWW-AM share Class A status of 690 kHz. |
Q5612384 The Grwyne Fawr is a river in the Brecon Beacons National Park in south Wales. A section of it forms the administrative border between Powys and Monmouthshire and also of the historic counties of Brecon and Monmouth. The river and its major tributary the Grwyne Fechan flow into the River Usk at Glangrwyney.Th... |
Q7911197 Valeria Lieszkowszky is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1950s. She won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon. |
Q2377510 Francis Edwin Dorn (April 8, 1911 – September 17, 1987) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. |
Q6770154 Mark Canice Vitalis (born 22 October 1968) is a former West Indian cricketer. Vitalis was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.In February 2006, Vitalis played for the United States Virgin Islands in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status. He made two appearances ... |
Q13540098 Eupithecia dubiosa is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found on Cyprus and in the Levant.The wingspan is about 17–19 mm. |
Q16002317 The Aktas Oil Field is an oil field located in Mangystau Province. It was discovered in 1997 and developed by Petrom. The oil field is operated and owned by Petrom. The total proven reserves of the Aktas oil field are around 42 million barrels (5.7×106tonnes), and production is centered on 1,000 barrels per d... |
Q16755975 Roopal Tyagi, (born 6 October 1989 in Mumbai), is an Indian choreographer and television actor. She is known for playing Gunjan in the popular Zee TV show Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke. She later participated in dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8 and Bigg Boss 9 in 2015. |
Q19427389 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi is a 2014 historical book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff that depicts the terrorist attack by Islamist militants at the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The book is an account from the point of view of ... |
Q21285505 Tatiana Soledad Rizzo (born 30 December 1986) is an Argentine volleyball player who participated with the Argentina national team at the Pan-American Volleyball Cup (in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), the FIVB Volle... |
Q27178479 William Albert St John Harmsworth (May 1876 – 1933) was an English businessman who bought and established the fledgling Perrier brand of sparkling mineral water in France, designed its distinctive bulbous green bottle, and made it a huge success in the British Empire. |
Q17546416 Buxlow Manor is a grade II* listed house in Knodishall, Suffolk, England. It is built of red brick and has been dated to 1678 from the markings on the iron ties in the main gables. It has also been known as Ghost House, Ghost Hole, and Red House Farm. The land and former house were once owned by John Cordebou... |
Q39072819 Richard Bentley is a Guamanian Olympic hurdler. He represented his country in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His time was a 57.04 in the hurdles. |
Q1352493 Erich Isselhorst (5 February 1906 in Saint-Avold – 23 February 1948 in Strasbourg) was a German lawyer and Schutzstaffel (SS) member before and during World War II.Between 1942 and 1943, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Isselhorst was an Einsatzkommando leader, tasked with the murdering of Jews ... |
Q822416 Route 33 is a state highway in the US state of New Jersey. The highway extends 42.03 miles (67.64 km), from Trenton at an intersection with U.S. Route 1 and Route 129 to an intersection with Route 71 in Neptune Township. There are several intersections on Route 33 with future developments.Route 33 begins in Tre... |
Q1110216 Project-X is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the Amiga released in 1992. It was developed and published by Team 17. The game resembles Konami's side-scrolling shooter games such as Gradius, Salamander and Parodius. It was ported to MS-DOS. |
Q589867 Finedon is a small town in the Borough of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, with a population at the 2011 census of 4,309 people. In 1086 when the Domesday Book was completed, Finedon (then known as Tingdene) was a large royal manor, previously held by Queen Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor. From the 1860s t... |
Q1197853 Der Vogelhändler (The Bird Seller) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller with a libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held based on Victor Varin's and de Biéville's Ce que deviennent les roses (1857). |
Q60947 Werner Kohlmeyer (19 April 1924 in Kaiserslautern – 26 March 1974, in Mainz-Mombach) was a German footballer.He was part of the West German team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned 22 caps for West Germany. He also played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1941 to 1957.His position was that of a left... |
Q7413168 Samy A. Mahmoud was the 5th chancellor of University of Sharjah (2008-2013), and formerly the acting president of Carleton University (2006-2008). |
Q16935387 Malmö KK, Malmö Kappsimningsklubb, is a Swedish swim team from Malmö founded 1982 as competitive team for Malmö SS and Limhamns SS. |
Q3161414 James Sloss Ackerman (November 8, 1919 – December 31, 2016) was an American architectural historian, a major scholar of Michelangelo's architecture, of Palladio and of Italian Renaissance architectural theory.In 2017, Ackerman was awarded the Henry Hope Reed Award. |
Q6805319 The Medford Pipe Bridge is a historic plate girder pipeline bridge over the Mystic River, between S. Court St. and the Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford, Massachusetts. It was built in 1897 as part of the Metropolitan Water Board's northern high and low service.The bridge carries a 20" high-service pipe and a 4... |
Q4062860 Alpan is a village and municipality in the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,070. |
Q4720892 Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva (born 12 November 1980) is a Brazilian handball player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
Q15983230 The Board of Secondary Education, Karachi (BSEK) is a government board in Karachi for secondary education examination. It was established in 1974 by the Government of Sindh through the Sindh Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education amendment act No. 20 of 1973 along with Board of Intermediate Education,... |
Q15052472 Igloo is a 1932 Pre-Code documentary film released by Universal Studios. |
Q17403500 Francesco Urso (born 9 June 1994) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Catanzaro. |
Q19850835 The Tauberbischofsheim Fencing Club (in German Fecht-Club Tauberbischofsheim eingetragener Verein; commonly known as FC Tauberbischofsheim e. V.) is a fencing club based in Tauberbischofsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Tauberbischofsheim fencers have earned more than 300 medals in international sporting eve... |
Q20090140 Frankie Archuleta (born November 26, 1975) is a retired professional boxer who fought in the featherweight division. |
Q25204916 Janq'u Jaqhi (Aymara janq'u white, jaqhi precipice, cliff, "white cliff", also spelled Jankho Jakke) is a 4,163-metre-high (13,658 ft) mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the La Paz Department, Aroma Province, Sica Sica Municipality. |
Q15068041 Ivan Ivanovich Kabitsin (Russian: Иван Иванович Кабицин; 14 September 1902 – 10 June 1968) was a Soviet Army colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union.Kabitsin fought in the Russian Civil War on the Eastern Front. He commanded a machine-gun platoon. By Operation Barbarossa, Kabitsin was a political officer of a ri... |
Q28446947 The 1976 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Jim Young, the Wildcats compiled a 5–6 record (3–4 against WAC opponents), finished in a ti... |
Q1672965 Irma Schwager (31 May 1920 - 22 June 2015) was an Austrian-Jewish anti-fascist resistance fighter and politician.Schwager was born on 31 May 1920 in Vienna, Austria. Schwager was forced to flee Austria in 1938 to Belgium and again to France in May 1940. After arriving in France, she was sent to Gurs internment... |
Q162528 The thaler was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in the many currencies called dollar and the Samoan tālā, and, until 2007, also in the Slovenian tolar. |
Q203705 Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween, returned as producers. The film tells the stor... |
Q7966402 Walter Whipple (born 1943) is a Teaching Professor Emeritus of Polish in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. From 1990 to 1993, Whipple served as the president of the Poland Warsaw Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Chur... |
Q2999439 The 2006 Africa Cup was the seventh edition of highest level rugby union tournament in Africa. In this edition, the tournament expanded from nine nations to twelve leading to a change in the format of the tournament which now includes four pools of three teams. Results from Pool 1 & 2 also counted for the 2007... |
Q764656 Geoffrey Jourdren (born 4 February 1986) is a French footballer who plays for as a goalkeeper. He has made one appearance for the France U21 squad but is yet to play for the senior team. He has come through the ranks of Montpellier where he remained first choice for many years. |
Q234051 Houssay may refer to:Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Argentine physiologist and Nobel Prize winnerHoussay, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, FranceHoussay, Mayenne, a commune in the Mayenne department, FranceHoussay (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the north... |
Q7123379 Paddy's Market was a historic market in Glasgow, Scotland. It had been in existence at a variety of locations throughout the city for almost 200 years.The market's name originated with the large numbers of Irish immigrants who came to Scotland in the early 19th century.In its final years, the market had been c... |
Q2362521 Burnett Hillman Streeter (17 November 1874 – 10 September 1937) was a British biblical scholar and textual critic. |
Q9364071 USS Beacon may refer to:USS Beacon (PG-88) was a Flower-class corvette built in Canada initially for the US but which served in the Royal Navy as HMS DittanyUSS Beacon (PG-99) was an Asheville-class gunboat during the Vietnam War |
Q5221579 Spathoglottis pubescens is a species of terrestrial orchid found from Arunachal Pradesh in India to southern China and Indochina.Bright golden yellow flowers, 1.5 cm in diameter, with base and side-lobes of the lip with dark red markings. |
Q570941 RC Olomouc is a Czech rugby club based in Olomouc. They currently play in the KB První Liga. |
Q7918198 Veerasekaran is a 2010 Tamil film directed by Sathish Kumar. The film features Amala Paul and Veerasamar in the lead roles. |
Q6684752 Lotherton cum Aberford is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Parlington) at the 2011 Census was 323. Until 1974 it was in the Tadcaster Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire.The parish contains the southeastern... |
Q3179081 Jimmy Martinetti (born 5 July 1946) is a Swiss former wrestler who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. |
Q4711873 Alberteae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 18 species in 3 genera. Its representatives are found in tropical and southern Africa and in Madagascar. |
Q14954354 Peter Fleming and John McEnroe were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald.Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy defeated Cash and Fitzgerald in the final, 6–4, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships. |
Q16873318 Jeremiah Powell was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member, and the second President of, the Massachusetts Senate. |
Q16745346 Godelieve Jansens (born 26 March 1964) is a former Belgian racing cyclist. She won the Belgian national road race title in 1992. |
Q6098733 Butterfly Valley (Turkish: Kelebekler Vadisi) is a valley in Fethiye district of Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, which is home to diverse butterfly species. |
Q18668013 Phragmophora is an order of sagittoideans in the phylum Chaetognatha. |
Q386846 Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as... |
Q542511 Hoechst AG (German pronunciation: [ˈhøːkst]) was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S.A. in 1999. With the new company's 2004 merger with Sanofi-Synthélabo, it became a subsidiary of the resulting Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutic... |
Q93535 Princess Michael of Kent (born Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz; 15 January 1945) is a member of the British royal family of German, Austrian and Hungarian descent. She is married to Prince Michael of Kent, a grandson of King George V. Princess Michael was an interior designer before becoming an author; she... |
Q1637611 Palacký University Olomouc is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy. At first it taught only theology, but s... |
Q130233 Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt (Russian: Пётр Петрович Шмидт; February 17 [O.S. February 5] 1867 – March 19 [O.S. March 6] 1906) was one of the leaders of the Sevastopol Uprising during the Russian Revolution of 1905. |
Q2537278 WIBW (580 AM) is a Topeka, Kansas-area news, talk, and sports radio station. It is currently owned by Alpha Media, which began September 1, 2015, and was previously owned by Morris Communications.WIBW transmits 5,000 watts around the clock. The signal is non-directional during daylight hours, and directional a... |
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