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Q607914 Tetramorium inquilinum is an ectoparasitic ant found in Europe. It was discovered by Swiss myrmecologist Heinrich Kutter. The species is unusual for lacking a worker caste, the queens and males living entirely off the care of the pavement ant. |
Q6839456 Microdiplatys campodeiformis is an extinct species of earwigin the family Protodiplatyidae. It is one of only two species in the genus Microdiplatys, the other being Microdiplatys oculatus. |
Q5258363 Dennis Dutko (1943–1990) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1974-1989. He was arrested on drunk driving charges four times while in office, the first time was in 1979. In 1989, he was sent to jail for seven months and resigned from the state House. In January 1990, he was arrested in ... |
Q6819199 Merica marisca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. |
Q4781348 Ernest Owens (born October 3, 1982 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) better known as Applejaxx, is a Christian hip hop artist from North Carolina. |
Q7792396 Sir Thomas Meres (1634 – 9 July 1715) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1710.Meres was the eldest son of Robert Meres, DD, of Kirton, Lincolnshire, chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and his first wife Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Hugh Williams of Wegg. Caernarvonshir... |
Q5410481 Plocama tinctoria is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to northern Somalia and the Socotra archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. |
Q4864775 Ian Barry Connell Steers (January 15, 1927 – November 20, 2011) was a Canadian diplomat and business consultant. Steers served as the Canadian Ambassador to Japan from 1981 to 1989, Ambassador to Brazil from 1971 to 1976, as well as Canada's first Commissioner to Bermuda from 1976 to 1979. He later became the... |
Q572376 Heijiro Nakayama (中山 平次郎, Nakayama Heijirō, June 3, 1871 – April 29, 1956) was a Japanese pathologist and archaeologist living in Fukuoka. |
Q16932457 The Lehr Infantry Regiment (German: Lehr-Infanterie-Regiment) was an infantry regiment of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was formed on mobilisation of the German Army in August 1914 and served with the 3rd Guards Division through to the end of the war. |
Q11767775 Marcin Rekowski (born 10 January 1978, in Kościerzyna, Poland) is a Polish professional boxer, fighting in the Heavyweight division. |
Q15078658 Cosmosoma scita is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in the Amazon region. |
Q18125216 The 2014 FC Astana season was the sixth successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Astana were crowned Kazakhstan Premier League Champions for the first time, reached the Semi-finals of the Kazakhstan Cup and the Play-off R... |
Q3081016 Francesco Melanzio (1460–1526) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period in Montefalco, Umbria.He was born in Montefalco, and said to have been, along with Bernardino di Mariotto, a pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. He painted extensive frescoes in the Monastery of San Francesco in Montefalco. |
Q5560 Year 1295 (MCCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. |
Q955526 EZ Aquarii is a triple star system approximately 11.3 ly (3.5 pc) from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius. It is also known as Luyten 789-6 and Gliese 866 and all three components are M-type red dwarfs. The pair EZ Aquarii AC form a spectroscopic binary with a 3.8-day orbit and a 0.03 AU separation. This pai... |
Q1017396 Bushmanland (Afrikaans: Boesmanland) was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the San people (the Bushmen). Despite this, a government was not established in the region.Bushmanland, like other homelands in South West A... |
Q429727 The NSV (Russian НСВ Никитина-Соколова-Волкова), also known as the «Utyos» (Project: Lonely Cliff), is a 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun of Soviet origin, named after the designers, G. I. Nikitin (Г. И. Никитин), Y. S. Sokolov (Ю. М. Соколов) and V. I. Volkov (В. И. Волков). It was designed to replace the DShK... |
Q847938 Ernest Thomas Bethell (3 November 1872 – 1 May 1909), who is also known by his Korean name Bae Seol (배설, 裵說), was a British journalist who founded a newspaper, The Korea Daily News, antagonistic to Japanese rule. |
Q1353104 The critical and popular success of the Fox television series 24 has led to the series being extended into other arenas, primarily media specifically created for mobile devices and the internet. In addition, the series has spawned video and board games, toys, soundtracks from both the series and the video gam... |
Q3545248 Aristotle Pollisco (born October 18, 1977), known by his stage name Gloc-9, is an Awit Award-winning Filipino rapper and songwriter. His fast-flowing vocal style has made him one of the most successful hip-hop artists in the Philippines. He was described by fellow Filipino rapper Francis Magalona as "a blacksm... |
Q3930619 Raymond Edward Epps, Jr. (born August 20, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'6" forward born in Amelia, Virginia and from Norfolk State University, Epps was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the fifth round of the 1977 NBA Draft. He played 13 games for the Warriors during the... |
Q6178811 Jennifer Sciole (born April 28, 1979) is an American actress. |
Q512502 Virginie Cueff (born 18 June 1988 in Gouesnou) is a French professional racing cyclist. |
Q3070654 The Miami Film Festival (formerly Miami International Film Festival) is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases independent American and international films with a special focus on Ibero-American films. The competitive film festival draws international and local attention, with films being sh... |
Q7325782 Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell (September 1831 – 27 May 1888) was a British army officer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1888.Campbell was the son of James Campbell of Craigie, Ayrshire and his wife Grace Elizabeth Hay, daughter of General Archibald Hay, K.C... |
Q4893364 Bernard Lens II (1659–1725) was an English engraver, pioneer of mezzotint technique, and publisher.Bernard Lens II was the son of Bernard Lens I, "an obscure painter" of Dutch origin. Bernard Lens I practiced enamel technique and also authored religious treatises.The art of Bernard Lens II, largely confined to... |
Q7987474 The Western Association of Architects (WAA) was an American professional body founded in Chicago in 1884 separately from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Dankmar Adler, and Louis Sullivan, because they felt slighted by East Coast architects of the AIA. "Members ... |
Q4116370 Juan Pablo Espinosa (born 28 October 1980 in Bogotá) is a Colombian actor. |
Q4815608 The Central District of Bonab County (Persian: بخش مرکزی شهرستان بناب) is a district (bakhsh) in Bonab County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 125,209, in 31,921 families. The District has one city: Bonab. The District has three rural districts (dehestan): Benajuy-ye Gh... |
Q5043777 Carnal Knowledge was a short-lived 1996 British television game show relating to sex.It was hosted by Maria McErlane and Graham Norton.It was shown very late at night, appropriate to its explicit subject matter. |
Q17403089 Daniel Smith (born October 7, 1977) is an American journalist and author of the 2012 memoir Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. He has written articles and essays for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, n+1, Harper's Magazine, New York, and others. |
Q25101482 Beihuan Boulevard (Chinese:北环大道) is a major expressway in Shenzhen, China. It runs from Yueliangwan Boulevard in Nanshan and ends at Shangbu, Futian. Spanning 19.5 kilometers, it is among the longest roads in the city. |
Q30687598 Ashok Kumar Rana is a veteran Indian politician from Western Uttar Pradesh, associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing the Dhampur assembly constituency.He is a two time M.L.A from Dhampur and one time MLA from Seohara. |
Q378722 This page displays the results of the Danish 1st Division's 2003–04 season.The division-champion and runner-up promoted to the Danish Superliga 2004-05. The teams in the 14th, 15th and 16th relegated to the Danish 2nd Division 2004-05. |
Q921560 Jurançon is a wine region in South West France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, around the commune of Jurançon. It produces a dry white wine and a more sought after sweet white wine. The grape varieties used are Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng and Courbu. The sweet wines develop aromas of tropical fruit such as pi... |
Q6337559 KSCZ-LD is a low-power television station licensed to San Jose and San Francisco, California, United States. It broadcasts mostly Vietnamese-language programming from atop Mount Allison in unincorporated Alameda County on UHF digital channel 23 (virtual channel 16). The station is owned by Venture Technologies... |
Q6142204 Sir James Robert Gowan, (December 22, 1815 – March 18, 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and senator.Born in Cahore, County Wexford, Ireland, the son of Henry Hatton Gowan and Elizabeth Burkitt, he was educated privately in Dublin. In 1832, he emigrated to Canada and settled outside of Toronto. In 1833, he ... |
Q6239926 John Horton is an American film, television, and stage actor. |
Q5632011 HMS Crocodile was a Euphrates-class troopship launched into the Thames from the Blackwall Yard of Money Wigram & Sons on 7 January 1867. She was the fourth and last vessel of the Royal Navy to carry the name. |
Q4940952 Bon Bon Buddy (The Chocolate Drop) is a popular song, first published in 1907, with lyrics by Alex Rogers and music by Will Marion Cook. It was introduced in the 1908 musical Bandanna Land. Today the best-known versions of the largely forgotten song are by Billy Murray, who recorded versions in 1908 on both Vi... |
Q9021016 Leandro Sebastián Zárate (born 31 March 1984 in Córdoba) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Gimnasia y Tiro. |
Q6848838 Mike Slattery is a Democratic former member of the Kansas House of Representatives. While in the legislature Mike represented the 24th district. He served from 2009-2013, and is the son of Jim Slattery, who served the 2nd District of Kansas from 1983-1995. Mike was the youngest elected member of the Kansas ... |
Q5048169 Cascade Senior High School is a public high school in Turner, Oregon, United States. |
Q7959682 Wagu is a settlement in Kenya's Tana River County. |
Q6636164 The Capital City Service (CCS) is a Scottish football hooligan firm associated with Hibernian and active from 1984 when the casual hooligan subculture took off in Scotland. Their roots were in the previous incarnations of hooligans attached to the club and also the wider Edinburgh and surrounding areas gang cu... |
Q6620802 This is a list of football clubs in Sweden, for women's football clubs, see the list of women's football clubs in Sweden. |
Q7721022 "The Callback" is the second episode of the American television series Smash. The episode aired on February 13, 2012. It was written by series creator Theresa Rebeck and directed by Michael Mayer, who also directed the pilot. |
Q558525 Dovenir Domingues Neto, commonly known as Neto (born 5 September 1981), is a Brazilian futsal player who plays for Kairat Almaty and the Brazilian national futsal team. |
Q15632387 Taveta or 'Tubeta' is a Northeast Coast Bantu of Kenya, closely related to Pare (called Chasu by speakers), that is spoken by the Taveta people.Taveta was confused with Dawida by Jouni Maho in his (2009) classification. |
Q18677015 The American Film Institute (AFI) Awards 2014 honored the Top 11 Films and Top 10 Television Programs of the year. |
Q1222628 Dieter Pohl (Wolfgang Dieter Pohl, born 1938) is a German–Swiss physicist. He became known especially for his pioneering works in nano-optics, near field optics (NFO), and plasmonics.Pohl studied at the University of Stuttgart and the Technische Universität München (TUM) where he did his doctorate with Wolfgan... |
Q11062049 The Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Old Brno Abbey is a high Gothic, monumental convent temple. It was founded in 980-1020 by the unknown lord or monarch in Moravia. It was built on the site of an ancient sanctuary from the late 10th century in a short time in the years 1323 to 1334 at the instigati... |
Q37320547 Koutsis is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:Giorgos Koutsis (born 1973), Greek footballerIoannis Koutsis (1860−1953), Greek painterIoannis Koutsis (1908−unknown), Greek Olympic sports shooter |
Q694317 Chōshi (銚子市, Chōshi-shi) is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 64,097, and a population density of 813 persons per km². The total area is 84.19 km2 (32.5 sq mi). |
Q283168 Son of Beast was a record-breaking wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built and designed by the now defunct Roller Coaster Corporation of America, it opened to the public on May 26, 2000, and was themed as a sequel to one of the park's other signature attractions, The Beast. In additi... |
Q4787279 The Archives Hub is a Jisc service, and is freely available to all. It provides a cross-search of descriptions of archives held across the UK, in over 320 institutions, including universities, colleges, specialist repositories, charities, businesses and other institutions. It includes over 1,000,000 descriptio... |
Q2200686 Euchromius ocellea, the necklace veneer, is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811. It is a widespread species, found in tropical and subtropical regions, but migrates to Europe.The wingspan is 16–27 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is creamy white, densely suffused with... |
Q6424843 Kochera is a village in Idukki district, in the state of Kerala in India. Kochera is also known as Nettithozhu. It is located 18kms east of Kattappana |
Q5633218 HMS M16 was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. |
Q5633864 HMS Prince Charles was a ship taken up from trade in the Second World War. Built as the Belgian cross-channel ferry Prince Charles, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and used as a Landing Ship, Infantry, before being returned in early 1945. |
Q6808857 Megasis is a genus of snout moths described by Achille Guenée in 1845. |
Q5651726 Haplocolpodes is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:Haplocolpodes alluaudianus (Basilewsky, 1946)Haplocolpodes basilewskyanus (Jeannel, 1948)Haplocolpodes brachyderus (Jeannel, 1951)Haplocolpodes descarpentriesi (Alluaud, 1932)Haplocolpodes lithopius (Basilewsky, 1970)... |
Q6625852 This is a list of listed buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
Q6207696 Joculator lozoueti is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiopsidae. The species was described by Jay and Drivas in 2002. |
Q5852795 Esfand (Persian: اسفند) is a village in Nargesan Rural District, Jebalbarez-e Jonubi District, Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 240, in 45 families. |
Q13465379 Chloroclystis palaearctica is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to the United Arab Emirates. |
Q16013014 Ian Donaldson Johnstone (2 March 1939 – 1993) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Colchester United. |
Q817074 Benedict D. Coscia, O.F.M. Portuguese: Benedito Domingos Coscia, (10 August 1922 − 30 April 2008) was an American Capuchin friar and a Roman Catholic bishop. |
Q18215894 God of Blades is a side-scroller game developed by American studio White Whale Games and released on September 27, 2012. |
Q1646683 Jizzakh is a raion (district) of Jizzakh Region in Uzbekistan. The capital lies at Uchtepa. |
Q26816845 Erythrobacter jejuensis is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacteria from the genus of Erythrobacter which has been isolated from seawater from the coast of Jeju Island in Korea. |
Q19361976 Asleep Versions is the fourth EP by English musician and producer Jon Hopkins, released on 11 November 2014. It is a reworking of four tracks from his 2013 album, Immunity. |
Q28496439 Jocelyne Taillon (19 May 1941 in Doudeville – 10 June 2004 in Rouen) was a French lyrical singer. |
Q2668788 Elmwood Place is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,188 at the 2010 census. Except for a small portion which touches neighboring St. Bernard, Elmwood Place is nearly surrounded by the city of Cincinnati. |
Q17086922 Humboldt—Melfort (also known as Humboldt—Melfort—Tisdale) was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1952 to 1968. This riding was created in 1952 from parts of Humboldt, Melfort and Yorkton ridings. In 1961, the riding was renamed "Hu... |
Q631275 Arcade Game Construction Kit is a 1988 game creation system that allows users to design arcade-style games. It was developed by Mike Livesay and published by Brøderbund for the Commodore 64. AGCK contained four floppy disks. The program features a joystick-driven menu system and a few pre-made games to play. |
Q8031751 Wonder Lake State Park is a 1,145-acre (4.6 km2) state park in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of New York, in the Town of Patterson. |
Q5634133 HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 March 1809 at Dudman's yard at Deptford Wharf. Her first commanding officer was Captain Pulteney Malcolm. |
Q6820054 Merriam Modell (19 May 1908 – 1 July 1994) (born Miriam Levant in Manhattan, New York ) was an American author of short stories, suspense and pulp fiction, who wrote primarily under the pen name Evelyn Piper. Many had a common theme: the domestic conflicts faced by American families.A graduate of Cornell Unive... |
Q30478 A constitutional referendum was held in Senegal on 7 January 2001. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution. It was approved by 94% of voters, leading to early parliamentary elections taking place in April 2001. |
Q2084164 Tullaroan (Irish: Tulach Ruáin, meaning "Rowan's hill") is a village in the westen part of County Kilkenny in the Slieveardagh Hills near the Tipperary border. Tullaroan is also the name of the local civil parish. |
Q2579457 William J. Murphy (born 17 May 1928) is a former Irish Labour Party politician.He was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork West constituency at the 1949 by-election on 15 June. His father, Timothy J. Murphy, the sitting TD, had died on 29 April 1949. Aged 21 years and 29 days at the time, h... |
Q5759374 The Highlands Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by June, Cherry, and Weetamoe Streets, Lincoln, Highland, President, North Main, and Hood Avenues in Fall River, Massachusetts. The district lies just north of the Lower Highlands Historic District.The Highlands Historic District was added ... |
Q575665 Tatun Volcanoes (Chinese: 大屯火山群; pinyin: Dàtún Huǒshān Qún), a volcanic group of volcanoes located in northern Taiwan, is located 15 km north of Taipei, and lies to the west of Keelung. It just adjoins the northern coast of the Taiwan island. The volcano group was a result of episodic volcanism between 2.8 and ... |
Q6538677 Li Chenghong (李承宏), commonly known as the Prince of Guangwu (廣武王), was an imperial prince of the Chinese Tang Dynasty who was briefly declared emperor in 763 by invading Tibetan forces after they had captured the Tang capital Chang'an. |
Q5320898 Dębiany [dɛmˈbjanɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Działoszyce, within Pińczów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Działoszyce, 19 km (12 mi) south of Pińczów, and 58 km (36 mi) south of the regional capital Kielce... |
Q5232187 Vriesea languida is a plant species in the genus Vriesea. This species is endemic to Brazil. |
Q2477560 Shraga Bar (Hebrew: שרגא בר; born March 24, 1948) is a former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972. He was part of the team for the Israel squad in the 1970 World Cup.At club level, Bar played for Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Ramat Gan. |
Q6141686 James R. McCartney (April 7, 1920 in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, USA – February 22, 2011 in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA) was the Secretary of State of West Virginia from 1975 until 1977. He served in the United States Air Force. McCartney graduated from West Virginia University and served on several state com... |
Q7363863 Ronald Haigler (born 1953) is an American former basketball player and current high school basketball coach. He is best known for his collegiate career at the University of Pennsylvania between 1972–73 and 1974–75. A 6'8" power forward, Haigler helped guide the Quakers to several consecutive Ivy League titles ... |
Q16460931 Kord Mahalleh (Persian: كردمحله) may refer to:Kord Mahalleh, Fuman, Gilan ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Lahijan, Gilan ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Sowme'eh Sara, Gilan ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Babol, Mazandaran ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Behshahr, Mazandaran ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Chalus, Mazandaran ProvinceKord Mahalleh, Nur... |
Q15977234 The Jeep Liberty (KK), or Jeep Cherokee (KK) outside North America, is a compact SUV that was produced by Jeep. Introduced for the 2008 model year as a successor for the first generation Liberty. The Liberty featured unibody-construction. It was assembled at the Toledo North Assembly Plant in the United State... |
Q5213690 Velistsikhe (Georgian: ველისციხე) is a village in Georgia. It is located in the Gurjaani Municipality of Kakheti. In 2014, its population was 4,508. It is located 380 metres (1,250 ft) above sea level. |
Q153172 Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (; Greek: Βαγγέλης [vaɲˈɟelis]), is a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire, also composing sco... |
Q532442 Ronald Deryk George Springett (22 July 1935 – 12 September 2015) was a football goalkeeper for Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and England. |
Q5535949 George A. Draper (November 4, 1855 – February 7, 1923) was an American textile industrialist. |
Q1624182 Alpandeire is a Spanish municipality and village located in the Ronda area, near the peak of Jarestepar, (1,421 metres high), and surrounded by rugged scenery. A number of streams run through its territory. The municipality belongs to Málaga province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. |
Q16887233 Gerald B. Zornow graduated from the University of Rochester in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was a three-sport letter winner (football, basketball and baseball) and has been inducted into the University of Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992. |
Q7037497 Nilyah or nealia is a common name for several plants and may refer to:Acacia pendulaAcacia rigens |
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