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Q7771816 The Urban Folk Quartet (commonly known as The UFQ or simply UFQ) are a four-piece contemporary folk band launched in June 2009. The band is composed of Joe Broughton (Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin), Paloma Trigás (Fiddle, Vocals), Tom Chapman (Cajón, Percussion, Vocals) and Dan Walsh (Banjo, Guitar, Vocals). To dat... |
Q2755171 Lawrence Joseph Giacoletto (November 14, 1916, in Clinton, Indiana – October 4, 2004, in Okemos, Michigan) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He was known among others for his work in the field of semiconductor circuit technology, in particular by the eponymous Giacoletto equivalent circuit for ... |
Q6767204 Mark Crossan is a former Gaelic footballer. He played his club football for Naomh Adhamhnáin and inter-county football for Donegal. He also captained his county. |
Q7588935 St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School is a historic church in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1891 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. |
Q15996317 Gerald O'Donovan (born Jeremiah Donovan; 15 July 1871 – 26 July 1942) was an Irish priest and writer. |
Q19571564 Pete Allison is a radio presenter, most recently hosting Drivetime on Capital Yorkshire.He also covered Capital Breakfast for Adam and Jojo whilst they were away. |
Q6336024 The KPXM Tower (formerly KXLI Tower) is the tallest structure in Minnesota, a guyed aerial mast rising 1505 feet (458.72 meters). It transmits the signal for KPXM virtual channel 41 (40 digital), which is an ION Television network affiliate licensed to serve St. Cloud, Minnesota. However, the tower is locate... |
Q7872961 USS Plymouth (PG-57), a patrol gunboat, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 on Plymouth Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Boston. |
Q1864466 This is a list of notable people from Brussels. |
Q7689021 Tavanur (Thavanur, Thavanoor, Tavanoor) is a village located on the southern bank of Bharathapuzha, the longest river of Kerala in the Malappuram District of Kerala state in India. |
Q4752997 Sister Ancilla Dent, OSB (born 3 June 1933) is an English Roman Catholic nun, ecological activist, and writer.Born as Rosamond Mary Dent, she took the religious name of Sister Ancilla upon becoming a Benedictine nun. She was a nun at St Mildred's Abbey, Kent, England. The elder daughter of William Dent and his... |
Q3006709 Eirenis levantinus is a species of snake in the family Colubridae .It is found in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, plantations, and rural gardens.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q7090351 Omnia Township is a township in Cowley County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 357. |
Q5324277 ESPN SpeedWorld (formerly Auto Racing '79–'86) is the name of a former television series broadcast on ESPN from 1979–2006. The program that was based primarily based around NASCAR, CART, IMSA, Formula One, NHRA, and IHRA. The theme music is a based on the piano interlude from "18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmar... |
Q1038624 Barilius caudiocellatus is a fish in genus Barilius of the family Cyprinidae. It is found in China. |
Q637031 Annepona mariae is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. |
Q16871329 Kellogg is a surname that applies to:Albert Kellogg, American physician and botanistAlice De Wolf Kellogg, American artistBrainerd Kellogg, American educationalist and writerCharles Kellogg (congressman) (1773–1842), U.S. Representative from New YorkCharles Kellogg (state senator) (1839–1903), New York state ... |
Q5438955 Fayazi (Persian: فياضي, also Romanized as Fayāzī, Fayyāzī, and Fayyāẕī; also known as Faiyeh) is a village in Bahmanshir-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,893, in 305 families. |
Q5286000 Do Dong-hyun (Hangul: 도동현; Hanja: 东铉; [do.doːŋ.hjuːn]; born 19 November 1993) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays mainly as left winger but can also play as an attacking midfielder for Gyeongnam. |
Q4737244 Alucita ordubadi is a moth of the family Alucitidae. It is found in Azerbaijan. |
Q16951646 Corilair is a chartered and scheduled floatplane airline based in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. The airline primarily flies to smaller islands within British Columbia, Canada from Campbell River and Vancouver International Airport. |
Q20647418 Holocacista capensis is a moth of the family Heliozelidae. It was described by van Nieukerken and Geertsema in 2015. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng).The wingspan is 3.9–4.9 mm for males and 4–4.6 mm for females. The forewings of the males are grey brown, slightly irrorate... |
Q21622590 Leandro Romiglio, (born February 11, 1991 in Mar Del Plata) is an Argentinian professional squash player. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 103 in April 2010. Romiglio won the bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. |
Q24525368 Chad London (born September 27, 1988) is a professional rugby union player who plays center for the Glendale Raptors in Major League Rugby and previously the Denver Stampede. He also plays for the United States national rugby union team.London went to school at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa, where he... |
Q27958347 Knucklehead is a 2015 American drama film directed by Ben Bowman. It premiered at the 2015 BAMCinématek New Voices in Black Cinema festival. |
Q651882 Hermival-les-Vaux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. |
Q1355642 Ribeira Grande is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde. Situated in the northern part of the island of Santo Antão, it covers one fifth of the island area (166.5 km2), and is home to nearly half of its population (18,890 at the 2010 census). Its seat is the city Ponta do Sol. |
Q6758599 Mard (English: Male or Man) is a 1985 Hindi action film, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Amrita Singh and directed by Manmohan Desai. The movie is remade in Tamil as Maaveeran. Amitabh Bachchan was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actor category. |
Q4884409 Belmont Provincial Park is a provincial park in Prince Edward Island, Canada. |
Q550275 Ranis is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 15 km east of Saalfeld, and 30 km south of Jena. |
Q11680318 The Type 082 class minesweeper is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy ship class. It is also known as Wosao class in the west, but the Chinese name is Wusao, short for armed (Wu-zhuang, 武裝) mine sweeping boat (Sao-lei-ting, 掃雷). |
Q6942306 Music of True Romance for Hyper Meat Performance is the only album by True Romance, a performance art side project of Merzbow. It contains extracts from the backing music made for two performances. |
Q4551362 The decade of the 1630s in archaeology involved some significant events. |
Q3446037 Royal South Sydney Hospital was a hospital in the southern Sydney suburb of Zetland, New South Wales, Australia.Initial efforts to open a hospital in South Sydney began in 1908 when fundraising efforts by local residents saw James Joynton Smith, local businessman and racecourse owner, elected as provisional pr... |
Q7509643 Siedlec-Kolonia [ˈɕɛdlɛt͡s kɔˈlɔɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łęczyca, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. |
Q101892 Uwe Meierhenrich (born 23 October 1967 in Detmold) is a German Physico-Chemist. He is professor of Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. |
Q4712764 Album is the debut album by American band Girls. It was released September 22, 2009 on True Panther Sounds. |
Q4775474 Antoine François Gilis (1702–1781) was an 18th-century French musician and composer who composed mainly for the piano and violin. He believed that "above all, the student who starts out learning the piano, should have fun.". To accomplish this, his study pieces are very melodic and increase slowly in difficult... |
Q8564853 Fortín Lavalle is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina. |
Q4431847 These are the Canadian number-one albums of 2007. The chart is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and published by Jam! Canoe, issued every Sunday. The chart also appears in Billboard magazine as Top Canadian Albums. identifies Canadian musical acts. |
Q7293408 Rannveig Aamodt (born 3 January 1984 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian rock climber. |
Q5154664 The Community Center and War Memorial Building is a building located in Everett, Washington listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Q21070284 Henry William Ford (11 June 1884 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). |
Q4478718 Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev (Russian and Kyrgyz: Турдакун Усубалиевич Усубалиев; 6 November 1919 – 7 September 2015) was a Soviet Union-era Kyrgyz politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan in the period 1961–1985.He was born in a peasant family in Kochkor.... |
Q3485982 The siege of Paris was an assault undertaken in September 1429 during the Hundred Years' War by the troops of the recently crowned King Charles VII of France, with the notable presence of Joan of Arc, to take the city held by the English and their Burgundian partisans. King Charles's French troops failed to en... |
Q2165679 The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles area, and nationally by May 1963: "Surfer Joe" and "Wipe Out", which were the A-side and B-side of the same 45 rpm single. |
Q1333849 Roland Dyens (October 19, 1955 – October 29, 2016) was a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger. |
Q5407346 Eugene "Cyclone" Hart (born June 16, 1951) was a terrific punching American middleweight boxer who fought from 1969 to 1982. Hart never fought for the title and could not get a victory against the upper echelon fighters he faced. His best showing against a top notch fighter was when he fought "Bad" Bennie Br... |
Q7488465 Shanghai International Music Fireworks Festival started in 2000. The fireworks are fired from 7 barges and the other side of a lake in ShangHai Century Park. All fireworks are produced in China and they are designed by invited companies/designers. |
Q5183974 Cregg Mill is a converted 18th-century watermill near Corrandulla village in County Galway, Ireland, approximately 9 miles (14 km) from Galway City. The mill serviced the local area, including neighbouring Cregg Castle, and served as a feeding centre for the poor of Corrandulla during the Great Famine. An adve... |
Q1440837 Villeta is a municipality and town in Cundinamarca (Colombia), located in Gualivá Province, approximately 84 kilometres (52 mi) northwest of Bogota, considered the capital of the province. Its name means "Little Village". The municipality borders Quebradanegra and Nimaima in the north, Nocaima and Sasaima in t... |
Q6774598 Martha Wash is the debut self-titled solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Martha Wash. It was released on February 23, 1993 through RCA Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in 1992 at several studios, after leaving her then-group The Weather Girls. The tracks in the album are a m... |
Q7448982 Sema vs. COMELEC (G.R. No. 177597, 2008) is a court case that was heard before the Supreme Court of the Philippines. It was consolidated with Marquez v. COMELEC (G.R. No. 178628, 2008). It held that the Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao does not have the power to create provinces an... |
Q7586770 St. Albert Transit (StAT) is the public transportation system in the City of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, which is located only about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northwest of downtown Edmonton. Scheduled bus service consists of local circuits within the community and express commuter routes to Edmonton. The city ow... |
Q4195887 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Football Federation (IFFF) is a football governing body in the region of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. The federation is a member of the Regional Council of FFU and the collective member of the FFU itself. |
Q3079749 Foto-Kouamékro is a village in central Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Dibri-Assirikro, Sakassou Department, Gbêkê Region, Vallée du Bandama District.Foto-Kouamékro was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. |
Q7287547 Ralph Gordon Thompson (born 1934) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. |
Q1439355 SS Orbita was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was launched on Tuesday, 7 July 1914, at 11.15 GMT. Her sister ships were SS Orduna and SS Orca.She provided transatlantic passenger transport, measured about 15,500 gross tons, and was 550... |
Q3563978 Vegoia (Etruscan: Vecu) is a nymph and/or sibyl within the Etruscan religious framework who is responsible for writing some parts of their large and complex set of sacred books, of initiating the Etruscan people to the arts, originating the rules and rituals of land marking, and presiding over the observance, ... |
Q3799720 Lan Bale and Brett Steven were the defending champions, but Bale did not participate this year. Steven partnered Tommy Ho, losing in the semifinals.Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won in the final 6–3, 6–1, against Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez. |
Q7784378 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (French: Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde) is a 1978 book by the philosopher of social science René Girard. |
Q18385995 Joyce Bonwick née Brewer (born 22 March 1915 in Cordalba, Queensland - died 26 June 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian cricket player. She played two test matches for the Australia national women's cricket team.Brewer was the twelfth woman to play Test cricket for Australia.Brewer was awarded th... |
Q20996716 Hormazábal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Enrique Hormazábal (1931–1999), Chilean footballerGuillermo Hormazábal (born 1985), Chilean tennis playerLuis Hormazábal (born 1959), Chilean footballer |
Q14819150 Nupserha oxyura is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1867. It is known as a long horn from Sumatra and Borneo. |
Q1853857 Aeginura grimaldii is a species of deep sea hydrozoan of the family Aeginidae. It is found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean. |
Q602593 Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:Ark Royal (1587), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588HMS Ark Royal (1914), planned as freighter, built as seaplane carrier during the First World War, renamed Pegasus in 1934HMS Ark Royal (91), British aircra... |
Q3259002 The Lonesome Dove series refers to a series of four western novels written by Larry McMurtry and the five television miniseries and two television series based upon them. |
Q909119 Caerphilly (; Welsh: Caerffili, Welsh pronunciation: [ˌkɑːɨrˈfɪlɪ]) is a town and community in South Wales, at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, within the historic borders of Glamorgan, on the border with Monmouthshire. At the 2001 Census, the town ha... |
Q1989466 San Pablo is a district of the San Pedro Department, Paraguay. It includes the village of San Pablo or San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú, which has a population of around 680, located around 330 km from the city of Asuncion.On the river Jejui Guazú, is a small district of just over 4,000 inhabitants engaged in agricult... |
Q4830009 Awen Guttenbeil (born 14 March 1976) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. Since retiring after a playing career spanning fifteen years, he went on to work as a broadcaster for Sky Network Television and as a presenter on Maori TV sports show, Hyundai Code. In 201... |
Q623236 The Manghen Pass (Italian: Passo di Manghen) is a 2,047-metre-high (6,716 ft) mountain pass in Trentino in Italy.It connects the Fiemme valley and Valsugana, linking Molina and Castelnuovo in the south. The pass road has a maximum grade of 16%. Commercial traffic is prohibited.The massive road climb from Val Su... |
Q3015536 Inongo Airport (IATA: INO, ICAO: FZBA) is an airstrip serving Inongo, a city on the eastern shore of Lake Mai-Ndombe in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.The Inongo non-directional beacon (Ident: INO) is 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km) west-southwest of the airstrip. |
Q8063018 The ZEN is a portable media player designed and manufactured by Creative Technology. This flash memory-based player is the de facto successor of the ZEN Vision:M and was announced on August 29, 2007, to be available in capacities of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB, as of September 14. A 32 GB model was announced on Decembe... |
Q626299 The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2; abbreviation: psi) is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units. It is the pressure resulting from a force of one pound-force applied to an area of one square inch. In SI units, 1 psi is approximately e... |
Q3617971 Annese may refer to:Gennaro Annese (1604-1648), Italian RevolutionaryMaurie Annese (born 1971)John Annese, writer for the Staten Island Advance |
Q7839145 Trevor Fetter is an American businessman, the lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, and the former president, CEO, and chairman of Tenet Healthcare. He is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management unit of Harvard Business School (HBS), teaching Leadership and Corporate Accountab... |
Q6696240 Lucas Murray (born c. 2002), from Poole, Dorset, was born blind, but is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins, called echolocation. By the echo caused by clicking his tongue on the roof of his mouth, Murray can identify how close o... |
Q7093896 Onigam Lake is a lake in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is about 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long and .4 kilometres (0.2 mi) wide, and lies at an elevation of 93 metres (305 ft). The primary outflow is an unnamed river at the west, which flows downs... |
Q6262055 Sir John Voce Moore (5 February 1826 – 11 February 1904) was an English businessman and Lord Mayor of London. |
Q2776947 Semiotus is a genus of beetle belonging to the family Elateridae. It includes about 85 large sized (14 — 48 mm) and colourful click beetles with bright integument. The colouration is usually yellow with longitudinal black, orange or reddish stripes. The Neotropical genus occurs from Mexico to Bolivia. |
Q6684450 Lost in the Bush is a 1973 Australian film based on the true story of three siblings who got lost in the Victorian bush for several days in 1864. They were discovered through the help of some aboriginal trackers including Dick-a-Dick. |
Q3277075 Dương Đông is the main town on Vietnam's largest island Phú Quốc, off the coast of south-west Cambodia. The population in 2003 was 18,880. Võ Thị Sáu Street runs from the town to the beach. |
Q27863526 Maurits de Baar (born 8 October 1997) is a Dutch football player who currently plays as a forward for FC Lienden in the Dutch Tweede Divisie. |
Q30635505 Tom Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning for more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is noteworthy as a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with n... |
Q39073792 Reggie Davis (born November 22, 1995) is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at Georgia, and signed with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He has also played for the Cl... |
Q5130463 The Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization formed in the 1960s to bring together people with an interest in clean air and the study of air pollution. Its focus has since grown to include broader environmental management affairs, but with special e... |
Q542392 Waake is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. |
Q3505055 The Igelsta Bridge (Swedish: Igelstabron) is a railway bridge in Södertälje, Stockholm County in Sweden. The bridge crosses the Södertälje Canal, and the E4 motorway. The length is 2140 m, and the maximum height is 48 m. It was opened in 1995, and is the longest railway-only bridge in Scandinavia. The Oresund ... |
Q4795343 Arnoldiella is a genus of green algae in the family Pithophoraceae. |
Q285569 Collandres is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. |
Q5281420 Discaria pubescens, the hairy anchor plant or Australian anchor plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. |
Q1681261 James W. Payne (November 11, 1929 – August 12, 1992) was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. |
Q4118504 Eburnation describes a degenerative process of bone commonly found in patients with osteoarthritis or non-union of fractures. It is an ivory-like reaction of bone occurring at the site of cartilage erosion. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease of the joints characterized largely by central loss of cartilag... |
Q5154649 Community Boating, Inc. (CBI) is a private not-for-profit corporation run in association with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Organized as a company in 1946, it is the oldest continuously operating community sailing program in the United States. It is located in Boston along the Ch... |
Q2746477 Acanthochitonidae is from the family of chitons. |
Q541930 The Wolkramshausen–Erfurt railway is a 71 kilometre-long single-track main line railway in the German state of Thuringia, which is served only by regional services. |
Q5797631 Shahrak-e Salehabad (Persian: شهرك صالح اباد, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Şāleḩābād; also known as Şāleḩābād) is a village in Kukherd Rural District, Kukherd District, Bastak County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 280, in 59 families. |
Q7928020 Videograf Productions is an underground video magazine series that documents the U.S. graffiti subculture. Videograf was founded in 1989 by two former New York city graffiti writers Carl Weston and Colin "KoolSpin" Turner. The inspiration for the Videograf series came during the summer of 1988, from the graffi... |
Q1888315 Mammillaria morganiana, common name Owl’s eyes or Owl-eye pincushion, is a cactus in the genus Mammillaria of the family Cactaceae. The epithet morganiana honors the U.S. optometrists Meredith WalterMorgan (1887-1957) of Richmond. |
Q4601763 The 2003 Rice Owls baseball team represented Rice University in the 2003 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Owls played their home games at Reckling Park. The team was coached by Wayne Graham in his 12th season at Rice.The Owls won 30 consecutive games to open the season 33-1 and won the Western Athletic Con... |
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