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Q7952263 WLIQ (1530 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country format. Licensed to Quincy, Illinois, the station is owned by Townsquare Media Group. |
Q16233332 Michael Le Bourgeois (born 29 July 1990) is a Jerseyman professional rugby union player who plays for Premiership side, Wasps as a fullback and can also play as a centre or as a fly-half. |
Q16094025 Perlita Neilson (born Margaret Phillipa Sowden; 11 June 1933 – 7 April 2014) was an English film, stage and television actress. She was educated at the Aida Foster Theatre School. One of her most notable roles was in 1957 as Anne Frank in the London production of The Diary of Anne Frank. |
Q13648325 Grouvellina ranavalona is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Rhysodinae. It was described by R.T. & J.R. Bell in 1979. |
Q19818533 John B. Sheffer II (born March 25, 1948) is an American lawyer, university professor and politician from New York. |
Q1207544 According to Japanese folklore, Kiyohime (清姫) (or just Kiyo) was the daughter (or in some versions, the widow) of a village headman or landlord named Shōji, on the Hidaka riverbank. The family was wealthy enough to entertain and provide lodging for traveling priests, who often passed by on their way to a shrin... |
Q4411568 Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad (also called Dunichad, Duncad, and Donatus) (died 717) was the eleventh abbot of Iona (707–717). He was the son of Cenn Fáelad, and grandson of Máel Coba, of the Cenél Conaill. While most early abbots of Iona were members of Cenél Conaill they came from minor branches of the kindred, bu... |
Q749218 Darryl Tyger Blackstock (born May 30, 1983) is a former American football linebacker. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia.He also played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Oakland Raiders and Virginia Destroyers. |
Q1066957 Kagoshima Castle (鹿児島城, kagoshima jō), also known as Tsurumaru Castle, is a Japanese castle in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. |
Q7910785 Valentin Markin (aka "Arthur Walter") (1903 – 1934) was the chief illegal rezident and director of the espionage operations of the Soviet Union in the United States from 1933 to 1934. Markin headed the activities of both Soviet military intelligence and that of the Soviet secret police during this period. |
Q5427639 Fabian Deluca (born 27 January 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited from the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup.He made his AFL debut in round 5, 2006 against Collingwood as a ruckman. Delu... |
Q7793476 Thomas Rennell (1787–1824) was an English theologian and author. |
Q2036703 VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional applications so that they become portable applications. According to VMware, the product has a success rate of about 90–95 % in packaging applications. |
Q15442790 For the author on Hungary and Transylvania, see John Paget (author).John Paget (c.1574—August 18, 1638) was an English nonconforming clergyman, who became pastor at the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. He was a steadfast defender of Presbyterianism and orthodox Calvinism in numerous controversies with Engl... |
Q5002473 The Bute Building (Welsh: Adeilad Bute) is a Cardiff University building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales. It houses the Welsh School of Architecture and the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. It is a Grade II listed building.The neoclassical building was designed by architects Percy Thom... |
Q4560774 Erling Størmer (born 2 November 1937) is a Norwegian mathematician, who has mostly worked with operator algebras.He was born in Oslo as a son of Leif Størmer. He was a grandson of Carl Størmer and nephew of Per Størmer. He took his doctorate at Columbia University in 1963 with thesis advisor Richard Kadison, a... |
Q6895381 Mokolo Dam (previously known as the Hans Strijdom Dam) is a rock-fill type dam located on the Mokolo River, near Lephalale, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established in 1980. The Malmanies River and the Bulspruit River, two tributaries of the Mokolo, also enter the dam from its left side. The dam supplies wate... |
Q4551171 An incomplete series of events, births and deaths which happened in Italy in 1610:10 April - Treaty of Brussol |
Q15998730 Joseph John Pullman (19 June 1876 – July 1955) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath and the Glamorgan Constabulary. He won a single cap for Wales in the 1910 Five Nations Championship against France. |
Q6709990 The Lyric Theatre is a performing arts theatre located in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. The building was declared a municipal heritage property in 2007.The theatre was originally built as a Vaudeville and silent film theatre with 400 seats. It operated as a movie house until 1980, when it was converted ... |
Q7096408 Sucrose:1,6-, 1,3-α-D-glucan 3-α- and 6-α-D-glucosyltransferase may refer to:-Sucrose—1,6-alpha-glucan 3(6)-alpha-glucosyltransferase, an enzymeAlternansucrase, an enzyme |
Q15880767 Abul Barkat (born September 27, 1954) is a Bangladeshi economist and a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. In addition to his teaching, from 2009 to 2014 he was the former Chairman of Janata Bank Ltd.. He is the Present elected president of Bangladesh Economic Association. He is a f... |
Q24882890 Queensland National Bank is a heritage-listed former bank building at Jessie Street, Irvinebank, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1905. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. |
Q1447152 Adriano Zamboni (22 June 1933 – 13 May 2005) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 16 of the 1961 Giro d'Italia. |
Q3057326 Ernst Bernhard (1896-1965) was a German Jungian psychoanalyst, pediatrician and astrologer. Refused asylum by Britain in 1935, he lived in Rome, Italy from 1936 onwards. |
Q883334 This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1760. |
Q1349215 Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born August 18, 1970) is an American actor, director, producer, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles as Theo Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show and as Malcolm McGee on the UPN sitcom Malcolm & Eddie. He also starred as Dr. Alex Reed in the sitcom Reed Between the Li... |
Q647507 Xenacanthus is a genus of prehistoric sharks. The first species of the genus lived in the later Devonian period, and they survived until the end of the Triassic, 202 million years ago. Fossils of various species have been found worldwide. |
Q7669320 Texas Association of Magicians (also known simply as TAOM) is an American organization which hosts magic conventions each year, in different locations around Texas each Labor Day weekend.It started in 1944, with picnics hosted by an Austin magician named Herman Yerger, and then the formal TAOM organization was... |
Q7345109 Robert Holmes Smith (8 August 1898 – 21 January 1943) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II.Born in Harrellsville, North Carolina, Smith graduated from the Naval Academy on 6 June 1919. After duty in various surface ships, he served with the Submarine Service for 17 years. He commanded U... |
Q862719 Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty. Each set shot has a maximum point value assigned for perfect execution, ranging from a four-point maximum for lowest level ... |
Q7697236 Telia Digital TV is an IPTV distribution platform in Sweden owned by Telia Company. It was launched in January 2005 from a few locations.In September 2007, Telia announced that the platform had 200,000 subscribersPreviously, Telia owned Com Hem, the largest Cable Television operator in Sweden, but had to sell ... |
Q8414 The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their ... |
Q4610157 The 2007–08 is the 40th season for the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and the first season for the Northern Premier League Division One North and South.Created as part of non-league restructuring, the Division One leagues temporarily have 18 teams each, with a targeted number of 22 teams. To help in... |
Q1349755 The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1975–76 season was contested by 18 teams. PSV won the championship. |
Q12981197 Uthiyan Cheralathan ("Perum Chorru Uthiya") is earliest known ruler Chera of early historic south India (c. 1st - 4th century CE) from available literary sources. He had his headquarters at a place called Kuzhumur in Kuttanad (central Kerala). His lifetime is broadly determined to be between first and third c... |
Q5274789 The Diego Rivera Gallery is a student-directed exhibition space for work by San Francisco Art Institute students. The gallery provides an opportunity for BFA, MFA and Post-Baccalaureate students to present their work in a gallery setting, to use the space for large-scale installations, or to experiment with ar... |
Q21494315 Littauer and Litauer are German language surnames. The word means "a Lithuanian". The surnames may refer to:Florence Littauer, Christian writer and motivational speakerLucius Littauer (1859–1944), politician, businessman, and college football coachMary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005), equestrianRudolf Max Littaue... |
Q745733 Grunwald Bridge (Polish: Most Grunwaldzki) is a suspension bridge over the river Oder in Wrocław, Poland, built between 1908 and 1910. Initially the bridge was called the Imperial Bridge (Kaiserbrücke), then the Bridge of Freedom (Freiheitsbrücke). Architectural designer of the bridge was a city councilor, Rich... |
Q5379850 Carlos Enrique Vázquez del Mercado (31 July 1950 – 16 June 2011) was a Mexican footballer who played as a goalkeeper. |
Q4684944 Adrian Covic (born May 6, 1967) is a Romanian physician and specialist in nephrology.A native of Iași, his father Mircea is a geneticist, while his mother Maria is a nephrologist. He attended the local Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he later joined the faculty. In 1999, he became he... |
Q7641545 "Sunshine Playroom" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Julian Cope. It is his debut single released in support of his first solo album World Shut Your Mouth. |
Q3157035 Jablanovo is a village in Bijelo Polje Municipality, in northern Montenegro. According to the 2003 census, the village had a population of 58 people. |
Q1712923 Julius Amatus Roeting (13 September 1822, Dresden - 21 May 1896, Düsseldorf) was a German painter. |
Q33479495 The 2017–18 curling season began in May 2017 and ended in May 2018.Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners. |
Q536478 Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Al Murr Al Falasi (born 1955 in Dubai) is a short-story writer from the United Arab Emirates. He has published over 15 volumes of short stories and has had two collections translated into English: Dubai Tales and The Wink of the Mona Lisa.Al Murr graduated from Syracuse University in the... |
Q577756 Antimachus II Nikephoros (Greek: Ἀντίμαχος Β΄ ὁ Νικηφόρος; the epithet means "the Victorious") was an Indo-Greek king. He ruled a vast territory from the Hindu-Kush to the Punjab around 170 BCE. He was almost certainly the eponymous son of Antimachus I, who is known from a unique preserved tax receipt. Bopearac... |
Q5132384 Cliburn railway station was a station situated on the Eden Valley Railway in Cumbria, England. It served the village of Cliburn to the south. The station opened to passenger traffic on 9 June 1862, and closed on 17 September 1956. |
Q306255 Epigomphus crepidus is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Q3602719 A Salt With A Deadly Pepa is the second album by female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa, released on Next Plateau Records. The album was certified gold in America, reaching #38 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts. The album spawned three singles, the top ten R&B hit and moderate popular hit "Shake... |
Q7564603 David Bowie's 1990 Sound+Vision Tour was billed as a greatest hits tour in which Bowie would retire his back catalogue of hit songs from live performance. The tour opened at the Colisée de Québec in Quebec City, Canada on 4 March 1990 before reaching its conclusion at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, A... |
Q837658 Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.The commune is primarily known for the picturesque ruins of the Abbey of Saint-Evroul. |
Q7386860 Răzvan Riviș (born 17 January 1989 in Arad) is a Romanian football player, currently under contract with UTA Arad. |
Q7359755 Rohit or Rohitas, also called Bambhi, are a chamar caste of Gujarat, India.Rohit (or Rohitas) consider themselves to be followers or descendants of the famous saint Rohidas. Traditionally, they did leather or hide work and were identified as Khalpa. But in 1947, a group of Khalpa organized and decided to call ... |
Q7652608 Svetoslav Sakadzhiyski (Bulgarian: Светослав Сакаджийски) (born 1 April 1987) is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for Malesh Mikrevo as a forward. |
Q5174345 COSMONAUT is the sixth studio album by Bump of Chicken, released on December 15, 2010. The album features the singles "R.I.P./Merry Christmas" (without "Merry Christmas"), "HAPPY", "Mahō no Ryōri ~Kimi Kara Kimi e~", and "Uchūhikōshi e no Tegami/Motorcycle". |
Q3564989 In Greek mythology, Nerites (Greek: Νηρίτης) was a minor sea deity, son of Nereus and Doris (apparently their only male offspring) and brother of the fifty Nereids. He is described as a young boy of stunning beauty.According to Claudius Aelianus (Aelian), Nerites was never mentioned by epic poets such as Homer... |
Q8009340 William Frankland (c. 1573 – 10 December 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629 and in 1640.Frankland was the son of Ralph Frankland of Carlton, near Thirsk, and his wife Margaret and educated at Barnard’s Inn and Gray's Inn (1596). He inherited the manor of Great Thi... |
Q4820331 Gökçek is a village in the District of Evciler, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. |
Q1849221 This is a list of the Swiss Hitparade number ones of 2013. |
Q13523331 Symphlebia venusta is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Paul Dognin in 1921. It is found in Peru and Bolivia. |
Q18585140 Riera de Carme (Carme river's) (27 km) is between the towns of Santa Heraklion, Orpí, Carme and La Pobla de Claramunt the Anoia region, in the Valley of Carmen, between the mountains of Orpinell (751 m) and Collbàs (544 m). Carme Riera is the main tributary of the river Anoia (62 km), along with other smaller... |
Q25025307 Paddy Knob is a summit in Virginia and West Virginia, in the United States. With an elevation of 4,478 feet (1,365 m), Paddy Knob is the 29th highest summit in the state of West Virginia, and the 14th highest in Virginia.Paddy Knob derives its name from "paddy", which meant "bear" in African American Vernacul... |
Q28429907 "After the Rain" is the sixth single by Australian hard rock group the Angels, released in 1978 off the album Face to Face. "After the Rain" first charted on the ARIA Charts on November 27, 1978, peaked at number 52 during a 21-week run. |
Q12276036 Gaius Sabucius Maior Caecilianus was a Roman senator who held a series of positions in the imperial service. His service was capped with the suffect consulship in 186 with Valerius Senecio as his colleague.From the name of his grandson C. Sabucius Maior Plotinus Faustinus, who set up an inscription in his mem... |
Q7822540 Tony Hatzis (born 21 August 1986 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian footballer who plays for West Adelaide SC in the National Premier Leagues South Australia. |
Q1098159 Cláudio Roditi (born May 28, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian jazz trumpeter.He came to America in 1970 to study at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. In 1976 he moved to New York City, where he played with Herbie Mann and Charlie Rouse. In the 1980s he worked with Paquito D'Rivera. He is a member of... |
Q4909556 William Austin Ingram (June 14, 1898 – June 2, 1943) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary (1922), Indiana University (1923–1925), the United States Naval Academy (1926–1930), and the University of California, Berkeley (1931–1934), com... |
Q5422102 Extra! was a short-lived American comic book magazine published by EC Comics in 1955 as the third title in its New Direction line. The bi-monthly comic was published by Bill Gaines and edited by Johnny Craig. It lasted a total of five issues before being cancelled, along with EC's other New Direction comics. E... |
Q1970032 The FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1970 took place in Kapfenberg, Austria. |
Q28057406 Platymantis cryptotis is a species of frog in the Ceratobatrachidae family.It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. |
Q6435717 Kpasside is a village in the Kara Region of northern Togo. Nearby towns and villages include Soute (4.1 nm), Wihote (3.6 nm), Pesside (3.6 nm), Baredjian (1.0 nm), Kandé (5.1 nm), Koupagou (7.2 nm) and Tantanierta (4.0 nm). |
Q1628512 Milan Zver (born 25 May 1962) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party. He is the Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education and Sports fro... |
Q3745298 Filippo Porcari (born 28 April 1984) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Piacenza in Serie C.Porcari has played over 100 matches at the Italian third highest level. He followed Novara promoted from the third division to the first in 2 successive season. |
Q4896484 Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan. She illustrated for Century, Phoenix, Collier's, and St. Nicholas magazines.She exh... |
Q5199039 Cyclostrema exiguum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae. |
Q19919104 ADST may refer to:Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, an American nonprofit organizationAustralian Daylight Saving TimeAsymmetric discrete sine transform |
Q545925 Tone Åse (born 24 February 1965 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, known from Norwegian choirs and jazz scenes. She is married to, and musically cooperating with jazz keyboardist Ståle Storløkken. |
Q1645501 The Armenian Quarter (Arabic: حارة الأرمن, Harat al-Arman; Hebrew: הרובע הארמני, Ha-Rova ha-Armeni; Armenian: Հայոց թաղ, Hayots t'agh) is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. Located in the southwestern corner of the Old City, it can be accessed through the Zion Gate and Jaffa Gate. I... |
Q17626558 Hamilton Forbush "Ham" Corbett (December 13, 1888 – May 7, 1966) was a prominent Portland, Oregon businessman and in his younger years was a leading amateur American football player. He played college football for Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-Am... |
Q5549272 Cecilio Pablo Fernando Podestá (22 November 1875 in Montevideo – 26 April 1923 in Buenos Aires) was a Uruguayan-Argentine stage actor, singer, acrobat, sculptor and painter. He is considered to be one of the most prominent actors of classical Argentina theatre, and along with his brothers, was one of the found... |
Q41695929 Sir Jonathan Frederic Parker (born 8 December 1937) is a retired British Lord Justice of Appeal. He now works as a mediator. |
Q3353759 The 2000 EuroTel Slovak Indoor was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sibamac Arena in Bratislava, Slovakia that was part of the Tier IV category of the 2000 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 23 October until 29 October 2000. Wildcard Dája Bedá... |
Q18668064 Ansis Alberts Kaupēns (born 2 November 1895 in Jelgava Municipality – 6 May 1927 in Vircava Parish) was a Latvian robber and serial killer; perhaps, the most famous Latvian criminal of the interwar period.Kaupēns was born in 1895 and baptized near Platone Parish. In 1916 he began serving in the Imperial Russi... |
Q610998 (1837–1935)Steyning ( STEN-ing) is a small rural town and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea. The smaller villages of Bramber and Upper Beeding constitute, with Steyni... |
Q267786 Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour, and include photography, collage and found objects. |
Q7867162 USS Albemarle (AV-5) was one of only two Curtiss-class seaplane tenders built for the United States Navy just prior to the United States' entry into World War II. Named for Albemarle Sound on the North Carolina coast, she was the third U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.Albemarle was laid down on 12 June 1939 ... |
Q4849654 Bala is a 2002 Indian Tamil film written and directed by Deepak, starring Shaam as the titular character along with Meera Jasmine in the lead roles. The music by Yuvan Shankar Raja became popular upon release and was a major highlight of the film. The film was released on 13 December 2002 and is considered an ... |
Q15458984 Lucjan Dobroszycki (1925 – October 24, 1995 in New York City) was a Polish scientist and historian specializing in modern Polish and Polish-Jewish history. A survivor of the Łódź Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, Dobroszycki lived in Poland after World War II where he obtained his educa... |
Q4590079 The 1994–95 Scottish Cup was the 110th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic after defeating Airdrieonians in the final. |
Q3047688 Edme-Samuel Castaing (1796 – 6 December 1823) was a French physician and is thought to have been the first person to use morphine to commit murder. |
Q34000 QIP (; an acronym for Quiet Internet Pager) is a multiprotocol instant messaging client. It is a closed source freeware program originally developed by Ilgam Zyulkorneev. In 2008 it was bought by RosBusinessConsulting media group and named most popular RBC service in 2009. |
Q6417273 The Kissinger Institute on China and the United States is a non-profit research organization dedicated to promoting greater understanding of issues in the relationship between the People's Republic of China and the United States and its impact on both countries and the world. It was inaugurated in 2008 and is ... |
Q7853534 Tupi National High School is a public national high school established in 1966. |
Q3748838 Fortunato Misiano (October 11, 1899 – February 11, 1976) was an Italian film producer. In 1946 he founded the Rome-based Romana Film which continued producing films until 1969. The company specialised in turning out films in popular genres during the post-war boom years of Italian cinema. |
Q18346058 The Puzzle Lovers Club was an American company which ran word game contests by mail.The company was founded in 1963 by direct marketer René Gnam. Rather than following a conventional publishing or sweepstakes business model, he hit on the idea of presenting his enterprise as an exclusive "club" with a dedica... |
Q27469905 Gareth Broderick Morgan (born April 12, 1996) is a Canadian professional baseball outfielder who signed with the Los Angeles Angels. |
Q20020532 Sakdiyah Ma'ruf is an Indonesian stand-up comedian. She is known for addressing Islamic extremism in Indonesia within her comedic routines. |
Q20858218 "Problems" is a song released in 1958 by The Everly Brothers. The song spent 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 2, "Problems" was kept out of No.1 spot by To Know Him Is to Love Him by The Teddy Bears. |
Q24807292 Fallout 4: Far Harbor is an expansion pack for the 2015 video game Fallout 4, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Far Harbor was released on May 19, 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as downloadable content (DLC). The game is set in the year 2287, in t... |
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