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Q4680434 The Ghițălăria River is a tributary of the Jijia River in Romania. |
Q3487044 Symphony Towers is a 1.2-million-square-foot late modernist two-tower hotel and office complex located in the historic Financial District in downtown San Diego, California, on B Street. The mixed-use, high-rise building includes a 34-story office building with 530,000 square feet of rentable space, the 264-roo... |
Q5700287 Heinrich Pahner (born December 16, 1891, date of death unknown) was a German gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leipzig. In 1912 he was a member of the German team which finished fourth in the team, free system competition and fifth in the team, European system event. |
Q6262637 John Wagner has worked on a wide range of British comics most notably working on Judge Dredd and the various spin-offs.Wagner often writes under a number of pseudonyms. |
Q15253450 Minh Hoá is a commune (xã) and village in Minh Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province, in Vietnam. |
Q16018577 Frank Sotonoma "Grey Wolf" Salsedo (May 20, 1929 – July 3, 2009) was a Native American actor. He was often cast in smaller parts centered on his Native American heritage.As an actor, Salsedo has performed in movies such as The Ghost Dance, released in 1980 in which he played Ocacio, Magic in the Water (1995)... |
Q2351879 Vrelo is a village in the municipality of Ub, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,503 people. |
Q18702446 The 2014 Congressional election in the Northern Mariana Islands was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the territory's sole Delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Representatives and non-voting Delegates are elected for two-year terms. Incumbent Delegate Gregorio Sablan, who has held the seat... |
Q9187396 The Church of the Holy Trinity in Podwale is the oldest historic Orthodox church in Warsaw, located in a building at 5 Podwale Street. Currently, the church parish is part of the Warsaw deanery in the Warsaw-Bielsko diocese of the Polish Orthodox Church and it has a religious center for the Coptic Orthodox Chu... |
Q18643766 SoundayMusic (Formerly known as Soundtracker) is a geosocial networking mobile music streaming app that enables users to listen to and track the music their friends and neighbors are playing in real time. The service provides over 32 million tracks and allows users to create "music stations" choosing between ... |
Q19871155 The 549th Engineers Light Ponton Company was a combat engineer company of the United States Army during World War II. Operationally attached to the 1150th Engineer Combat Group, it served under XXI Corps of the Seventh Army in action in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945.The 549th was primarily a highly m... |
Q2900390 Beverly Mould (born 10 March 1962) is a South African former tennis player who was active in the first half of the 1980s. |
Q30068185 Ankit Babu Adhikari (Nepali: अंकित बाबु अधिकारी) is a musician, singer and lyricist from Kathmandu, known from his appearance as top-8 finalist in Nepali Tara season 3. |
Q43288637 Octavian De SpinellisDCL (died June 1513) was Archbishop of Armagh from 1478 until 1513.During his time as Archbishop he had to adjudicate in a dispute within the Diocese of Kilmore. When he held his first Provincial Council at Drogheda in July 1480, an objection was raised to the appointment of Cormac Mág... |
Q960696 Florencio Molina Campos (birth name, Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos, August 21, 1891 – November 16, 1959) was an Argentine illustrator and a painter known by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa. His work represents gauchesco scenes with a bit of humor. |
Q3388264 Pensarn railway station serves the village of Pensarn in Gwynedd, Wales. The station is an unstaffed halt on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Porthmadog, Pwllheli, Barmouth, Machynlleth and Shrewsbury. The station opened as Pensarn but on 1 April 1885 it was renamed Llanbedr and Pensarn (W... |
Q3889769 Leon Larson (1883—1922), sometimes written Larsson, was a Swedish anarchist and political poet, born in Skutskär.Leon Larson’s fascination with fire is very prominent in all of his writings. As a 15-year-old, he was even sentenced to penal labor for arson after burning down the blacksmith where he worked in Mi... |
Q5688703 He Cooked His Goose is the 140th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1952 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. |
Q7951857 WCWB (104.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Country music format. Licensed to Marathon, Wisconsin, United States, the station serves the Wausau-Stevens Point area. |
Q49704 Sergio Busquets Burgos (Catalan: [busˈkɛts], Spanish: [ˈseɾxjo βusˈkets]; born 16 July 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Barcelona, for which he is the vice-captain of and the Spain national team. A one-club man, he arrived in Barcelona's first team in July 2008, ... |
Q4709925 Albert Chong (born 1958) is an artist of African and Chinese descent. Chong works across medias and has produced series of photographs as well as installations and sculptures. He states that the purpose of much of his art is to "represent and reanimate his family history." He has said that he uses his family h... |
Q7920344 Ventsislav Bengyuzov (Bulgarian: Венцислав Бенгюзов; born on 22 January 1991) is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Arda Kardzhali. He previously played for Litex Lovech, Brestnik 1948, Pirin Blagoevgrad, Vidima-Rakovski, Bansko and Vereya. |
Q7684958 The Taquari-Mirim River is a river of Mato Grosso do Sul state in southwestern Brazil. |
Q4637725 The 425th Maryland General Assembly convened in a regular session on January 9, 2008 and adjourned sine die on April 7, 2008. |
Q3646600 Aleksander Słuszka (1580–1647) of Ostoja coat of arms was a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble and politician. Starost of Rzeczyca (Rechytsa), Homel (Gomel), Mazyr (Mozyr) and Łojów (Loyew). Castellan of Minsk (1626). Voivode of Minsk (1635), Voivode of Nowogródek (Navahrudak) (1636), Voivode of Troki (Traka... |
Q2313724 Andrea Di Giovanni y Centellés (Messina, 3 February 1742 – Catania, 10 June 1821) was an Italian nobleman and lieutenant of the Order of Saint John from 1814 until his death. |
Q6776505 Martin Rýgl (born 14 May 1986 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays with HC Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech Extraliga.Rýgl previously played for HC Dukla Jihlava, HC Berounští Medvědi, BK Mladá Boleslav, HC Znojemští Orli, HC Olomouc and HC Benátky nad Jizerou... |
Q8026030 Winston (1937–1957) was a chestnut gelding ridden by both King George VI in 1947 and Queen Elizabeth II in the Trooping the Colour ceremony from 1949 to 1956. |
Q5782209 Zolfabad (Persian: زلف اباد, also Romanized as Zolfābād) is a village in Koleyn Rural District, Fashapuyeh District, Ray County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 38, in 12 families. |
Q16917025 Torta de nata is a traditional Colombian cuisine dessert. It is a cake made with natas, a type of cooked milk, which gives the cake a thick and creamy texture. It can be topped with various fruit toppings or creams. |
Q21932202 John Anderson (31 May 1888 – 3 August 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q26996198 Nahuel Hernán Losada (born 17 April 1993) is an Argentinian professional association football player who is playing as a goalkeeper for the Argentine Primera División club All Boys. |
Q17352704 Facundo Nicolás Boné Vale (born 16 November 1995) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays for Vila Nova on loan from River Plate. |
Q11502669 The Shingashi River (新河岸川, Shingashi-gawa) is a 34.6-kilometre (21.5 mi) long river that flows through Saitama and Tokyo, Japan. It flows from the Musashino Plateau into the Sumida River at Iwabuchi in Kita, Tokyo. |
Q7996285 Calumet Charter Township ( KAL-yuu-MET) is a charter township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 6,489 at the 2010 census, down from 6,997 at the 2000 census. Even with a decreasing population, the township remains the largest township by population in Houghton County. |
Q302896 The fibula or calf bone is a leg bone located on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones and in proportion to its length, the slenderest of all the long bones. Its upper extremity is small, placed toward the back of the head of the tibia, bel... |
Q6221877 John Robert Biggs (born 19 November 1957) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has been Mayor of Tower Hamlets since 2015. |
Q20850 ISO 3166-2:CU is the entry for Cuba in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Cuba, ISO 3166-2 c... |
Q4680452 Adams Township is one of eleven townships in Ripley County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,119 and it contained 2,045 housing units. |
Q5728374 Henry Slade (1835–1905) was a famous fraudulent medium who lived and practiced in both Europe and North America. |
Q7706846 Tetsu Komai (駒井哲, Komai Tetsu) (April 23, 1894 – August 10, 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. |
Q7309260 The Regionalliga Südwest was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974. It covered the states of Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz. |
Q5626593 Gömmaren Nature Reserve (Swedish: Gömmarens naturreservat) is a nature reserve centred on Lake Gömmaren in the north of Huddinge Municipality south of central Stockholm, Sweden. The reserve was created in 1995.Encompassing some 660 ha of land and 20 ha of water, the Gömmaren area is a large forest separating ... |
Q5128499 Fenimorea chaaci is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. |
Q15939798 China Media Capital (Chinese: 华人影业, abbreviated CMC Pictures) is a public equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, corporate restructuring, management buyouts, and mergers & acquisitions. The firm prefers to invest in the cultural, technology,... |
Q5444313 Feridun Hamdullahpur (born 1953 or 1954) is the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Hamdullahpur was named the seventh president of the University of Waterloo in March 2011. |
Q5236584 David Liberman (2 October 1920, Buenos Aires–30 October 1983, Buenos Aires) was a relevant Argentinian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. |
Q35063 Bomitaba (Mbomitaba) is a Bantu language of the Republic of Congo, with a couple hundred speakers in the Central African Republic.Maho (2009) lists the C141 Enyele (Inyele), C142 Bondongo, and C142 Mbonzo (Impfondo) languages, which do not have ISO codes, as being closest to Bomitaba. |
Q117441 The Letov Š-14 was a single-seat, single-engine aircraft, designed and built in Czechoslovakia in the early 1920s. Originally intended as a biplane fighter, it was later modified into a monoplane and entered as a contestant in a speed competition. |
Q16062675 Tommaso Solari (Naples, September 4, 1820 - 1889) was an Italian sculptor active in a Romantic-style. |
Q12503427 Pasar Kliwon is one of the villages in the Pasar Kliwon District, Surakarta in Indonesia.It is in the heart of Pasar Kliwon district and is known as the Arab quarter of Surakarta. Many of the mosques in this village have different architecture than those located elsewhere in Surakarta.In earlier times, Pasar ... |
Q20088943 Junction Mall is a shopping centre located at Nungua in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana |
Q638525 The Roman fort at Weissenburg (German: Kastell Weißenburg), called Biriciana in ancient times, is a former Roman Ala castellum, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes. It lies in the borough of Weißenburg in the Middle Franconian county of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in... |
Q28232325 Adam Frost (born September 1969) is a British garden designer known for his successes at the Chelsea Flower Show and as a presenter on the BBC's Gardeners' World.He started his career working for North Devon Parks Department and then he moved to London, to work as a landscaper. His big break came when he work... |
Q4690216 Afro Jetz is the band of Dennis Lxyzén before Refused, Step Forward, The (International) Noise Conspiracy and other hardcore punk bands. The song, D.R.S.S. (Dirty Rotten Skate Society), was covered by Refused. |
Q1376009 Geoffrey Andrew Huegill (born 4 March 1979) is an Australian former butterfly swimmer who won silver in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay and bronze in the 100 metre butterfly at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He held the long course world record in the 50 metre butterfly from 2000 to 2003. |
Q7811623 Tobias Enhus is a Swedish music composer living in the US. His work has appeared in films, such as Black Hawk Down. He has also created music for television commercials, including the haunting score (featuring female operatic singing) heard in a 2006 commercial for Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles (shown during ... |
Q1132617 Corey Allen (June 29, 1934 – June 27, 2010) was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). |
Q4797609 Arther Ferrill (born 1938), now a professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington at Seattle, is a respected expert on Ancient Rome and military history. He has written four books and is a regular contributor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (ISSN 1040-5992) and other periodical... |
Q928107 Gmina Mirsk is an urban rural gmina (administrative district) in Lwówek Śląski County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the town of Mirsk, which lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) south-west of Lwówek Śląski, and 118 kilometres (73 mi) west of the regio... |
Q7824705 "Top of the World" is a rock song written by the group Van Halen for their 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. It is one of six singles issued for the album, and spent four non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in the U.S., becoming their eighth number one on this char... |
Q1252915 The Siege of Jerusalem was a military campaign carried out by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon in 597 BC. In 605 BC, he defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah. According to the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle, King Jehoiakim of Judah rebelled against Babylonian rule, but ... |
Q7488364 Shang archaeology is concerned with the archaeological evidence for the Shang dynasty. Choice of excavation sites and interpretation of finds have been heavily influenced by the textual historical record. |
Q7406556 Salvage Code Red is a National Geographic Channel TV series that charts the work of rival groups of marine salvage experts. |
Q7661994 Synaphe amuralis is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1900. It is found in Russia. |
Q430417 The Cégep de Jonquière is a public French-language college located in the Jonquière borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It is one of four pre-university colleges in the Saguenay – Lac-St-Jean region.It was formed through the 1967 merger of the Collège classique de Jonquière (founded 1955 by the Oblat community... |
Q16199101 Count Lemmo Cesare Rossi-Scotti (24 February 1848, Perugia - 23 December 1926, Rome) was an Italian painter, mainly of battle scenes, in a late-Romantic style. |
Q17144676 The Doctor and the Soul is a book by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, the Vienesse psychiatrist and founder of logotherapy.The book explores topics on the meaning of life in general as well as the meaning of specific areas of one's life, such as work and personal relationships.Frankl took the original manuscript of the ... |
Q16297568 Oswaldo Raúl Baca Carbo (June 29, 1931 – May 7, 2014) was an Ecuadorian engineer and politician. He is thought to be a historic leader of the Democratic Party of Ecuador. He was one of the most influential figures in Ecuadorian politics.He was President of the National Congress on three separate occasions, in... |
Q19881134 The 2015 Indy Eleven season will be the club's second season of existence. The club will play in North American Soccer League, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. |
Q19957518 Kevin Doherty is an independent filmmaker, playwright and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
Q14698906 Sybrinus grossepunctipennis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1950. |
Q27630504 The T54 category is for wheelchair athletes with no leg function, but near full arm function and reasonable to normal trunk function. Typically this may be caused by a lower spinal cord injury or spinal cord birth defect.The Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 1500 metres T54 event at the 2016 ... |
Q30230426 William Aloysius Dwyer Jr. (November 1, 1914 – December 12, 1982) was an American lawyer, judge, and Democratic politician from Philadelphia. He served on the Philadelphia City Council from 1960 to 1963 and on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas from 1967 until his death in 1982. |
Q2453763 Blue Comet SPT Layzner (蒼き流星SPTレイズナー, Aoki Ryūsei Esu Pī Tī Reizunā), sometimes translated as Blue Meteor SPT Layzner, is an anime series produced by Sunrise between 1985 and 1986. Its original creator was Ryōsuke Takahashi who served as the director. |
Q8035423 World Bowl '91 (also referred to as World Bowl I) was the first annual championship game of the World League of American Football. It took place on June 9, 1991 at London's Wembley Stadium. The game featured a matchup between the Barcelona Dragons and the London Monarchs. The Monarchs would win 21–0 in front o... |
Q970575 The Peugeot 908 HDi FAP is a sports prototype racing car built by the French automobile manufacturer Peugeot to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, starting in 2007 and eventually winning in 2009. This effort, in development since 2005, was publicly unveiled on 15 June 2005. It first competed aga... |
Q5473298 In the United States Army, Medical Detachments (Forward Surgical), popularly known as Forward Surgical Teams (FST), are small, mobile surgical units first fielded during Operation Just Cause in December 1989. FSTs are utilized in a variety of ways, and can be fielded with support elements, including a Forward ... |
Q4149584 Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Great Courses. |
Q1968980 Linn's World Stamp Almanac defines a provisional stamp as "a postage stamp issued for temporary use to meet postal demands until new or regular stocks of stamps can be obtained."The issuance of provisional stamps might be occasioned by a change in name or government, by occupation of foreign territory, by a ch... |
Q5233678 Tephrosia pondoensis (Pondo Poison Pea, Afrikaans: Pondo-Gifertjie) is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family. It is found only in South Africa, where it is protected under the National Forest Act (Act 84) of 1998. The Pondo Poison Pea is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q7251024 Prostitution in Colombia is legal, regulated and limited to brothels in designated "tolerance zones". Sex workers are required to regular health checks. However, the laws are rarely applied and prostitution is widespread, partly due to poverty and internal displacement.Domestically, organized crime networks, s... |
Q2024681 Camilla Thomsen (born November 1, 1974) is a Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. |
Q5952552 Hyalochlora is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. |
Q6720056 The MV Solo was a Greenpeace ship from 1990 to 1995, originally built in 1977 as an ocean tug called the Smit Houston. Greenpeace updated the ship with a helipad as well as veterinary and laboratory facilities. In 1995 she was chartered by a company working with the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works an... |
Q10499962 Goran Dasović (born 31 August 1975) is a Croatian retired football player.Born in Brčko, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, he started his career playing in Serbia in the youth team of FK Vojvodina, and in 1996 moved to Croatia where he became senior and represented a number of clubs, namely NK Vartek... |
Q6195736 Jim Hopson was the president and chief executive officer for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Hopson served in this role from 2005 until 2014. Under his stewardship, the Roughriders captured the Grey Cup in 2007 and 2013, and the team has recorded record profits.Hopson has ... |
Q4677675 The old Acton High School, also known as the McCarthy-Towne Elementary School, is a historic school building at 3 Charter Road in Acton, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, this Renaissance Revival building served as the town's high school for 30 years, and then as an elementary school for 45. It was the town's fi... |
Q4627631 The 2012–13 season of the 3. Liga (also known as the Keno 10 3. liga for sponsorship reasons) was the twentieth season of the third-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993.The league is composed of 32 teams divided into two groups of 16 teams each, whose teams will be divided geograph... |
Q7908085 Vad (Russian: Вад) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:Vad, Komi Republic, a settlement in Yugydyag Rural-Type Settlement Administrative Territory of Ust-Kulomsky District of the Komi RepublicVad, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a selo in Vadsky Selsoviet of Vadsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
Q5630361 HMAS Gunbar (GN) was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.Gunbar was built by Ardrossan Drydock & Shipbuilding Company, Glasgow for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company and launched on 9 December 1911. She was sold in 1926 to the Gunbar Shipping Company> ... |
Q1011496 Dudeldorf Castle (German: Burg Dudeldorf) is the most important monument in the parish of Dudeldorf in the district of Bitburg-Prüm in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle is in the northwest corner of the former village walls of Dudeldorf. It was built in 1345 and restored 1451–53. |
Q6860176 Adina Bar-Shalom (Hebrew: עדינה בר-שלום; born 1945) is an Israeli educator, columnist, and social activist. She is the founder of the first college for Haredi students in Jerusalem, and has spent years working to overcome gender discriminationin the Orthodox Jewish community. She was awarded the Israel Prize f... |
Q21092650 The 1981 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1981 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 April 1981 at the Salzburgring. |
Q7567221 The South Ferry Basin is a tidal basin on the River Mersey, in England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. Situated near the southern dock system, it is only connected directly to the river. |
Q1355464 Kuromatsunai (黒松内町, Kuromatsunai-chō) is a town located in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido, Japan.As of 30 September 2016 the town had an estimated population of 2,983, and a density of 8.6 persons per km². The total area of the town is 345.65 km². |
Q2597763 The square-spot rustic (Xestia xanthographa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Africa, Europe, northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.The species is quite variable in appearance, the forewings occurring in various shades of grey or brown, with melanic forms common in parts of its ran... |
Q12729507 Greendale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. |
Q1542634 The Grand National is a wooden roller coaster located at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, Lancashire in the United Kingdom. It was designed and constructed by Charles Paige in 1935 and is now one of only three surviving wooden Möbius Loop roller coasters in the world and the only one in Eurasia. It is th... |
Q7648780 Susanne Latimore is an Australian television journalist.Latimore began her career at 19 years of age as a cadet journalist with the Blacktown Guardian newspaper and later The Hills News in Sydney after which she moved to Sydney radio station 2WS as a general duties reporter.With the launch of Sky News Australi... |
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