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Q937591 The Caccioppoli Prize is awarded by the Italian Mathematical Union to an Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 38 who established a wide international reputation. The prize is entitled to the memory of the Italian mathematician Renato Caccioppoli and is awarded on the occasion of the Italian Mathematical Union conference every four years. In its early stages the prize was awarded every two years. The recipient currently receives 10,000 euros.Further prizes of the Italian Mathematical Union are the Bartolozzi Prize, the Stampacchia Medal and the Vinti Prize. |
Q873582 The Pyramidenspitze is a mountain, 1,998 metres high, of the Kaisergebirge in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The Pyramidenspitze is only the second highest summit in the Zahmer Kaiser after the largely unknown, 2,002-metre-high (6,568 ft) Vordere Kesselschneid, but is the most well-known and most frequently climbed.To the south and west of the Pyramidenspitze is a high, karstified plateau, covered with mountain pine, which falls steeply into the valley of the Kaisertal and has a long arête with several summits extending towards Kufstein. To the north it is separated by a wind gap from the Jovenspitze. To the northwest the Pyramidenspitze drops steeply over the Eggersgrinn and to the northeast it drops down rock precipices into the Winkel cirque (Winkelkar). |
Q2211183 The 42nd New York City Marathon took place on Sunday November 6, 2011. Sponsored by ING, it was the final race of the 2010/2011 World Marathon Majors series and an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. A then-record high of 47,107 runners entered the competition. Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the men's elite race in a course record time of 2:05:05 hours while Ethiopia's Firehiwot Dado won the women's section in a time of 2:23:15 hours. At this race Joy Johnson became the oldest female finisher. |
Q6945789 My Lady's Garter is a lost 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Wyndham Standing, Sylvia Breamer and Holmes Herbert. It was based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle, a writer who perished with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. |
Q2163249 Châtillon (Tchekion in Gaume) is a section of the Belgian town of Saint-Léger, located in Wallonia municipality in the province of Luxembourg in Belgium. It was a separate municipality before the merger of Commons in 1977.The village is crossed by the National Road 82 between Arlon and Virton. |
Q16875761 Zebil Island (Bulgarian: остров Зебил, ‘Ostrov Zebil’ \'os-trov 'ze-bil\) is the rocky island off the northwest coast of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 510 m in east-southeast to west-northwest direction and 340 m wide.The feature is named after the settlement of Zebil in Northeastern Bulgaria. |
Q12975145 Unnaipol Oruvan (English: A Man Like You) is a 1965 Indian Tamil-language drama film written, co-produced and directed by Jayakanthan. Based on a novel of the same name by Jayakanthan himself, the film was his directorial debut. The film won the Third Best Feature Film at the 12th National Film Awards in 1965. The film had no songs with the background score composed by Chitti Babu. |
Q16221930 John Murante (born February 6, 1982 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American politician from Gretna, Nebraska who has been serving as the Nebraska state treasurer since January 2019. He previously served as a Nebraska state senator in the unicameral Nebraska Legislature representing District 49; the legislature itself is non-partisan. |
Q24913144 The 2009 Selangor FA Season is Selangor FA's 4th season playing soccer in the Malaysia Super League Since its inception in 2004.Selangor FA began the season on 10 January 2009. They will also compete in two domestic cups; The FA Cup Malaysia and Malaysia Cup. |
Q23883983 Giovanni Pelliccioli is an Italian surrealist painter. He was born in 1947 at San Pellegrino, Terme, Italy. When he was eight he discovered art and started drawing. At 18 he began art studies at Carrara Academy of Bergame. At this time he painted realist and impressionist style paintings, but when he discovered surrealism he knew it would permit him to give the best of his artistic expression. Since then he has worked as a professional surrealist painter. In 40 years he has painted more than 4200 paintings.In 1993, Pelliccioli created an absolutely new form in the world of the artistic painting - the "triangle". It is a picture cut in a diagonal with a three-dimensional definition. This exclusive idea is patented by the artist.Pelliccioli's work is presented in more than 100 exhibitions in Italy and abroad.He is listed in the World Cultural Union at: The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Gallery (London), Galerie des 20 Jahrhunderts (Berlin), the Tokio Kukuritisu Kindai Bkjutsukan (Tokia), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Musee d’Art Moderne (Paris), the Kunsthaus (Zurich), the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), the National Museum (Stockholm), the Galleria Nacional de Arte Moderna (Buenos Aires), the National Gallery of Art (Hilton of Athens), the Country Museum of Art (Los Angeles) and many others.Pelliccioli left Italy in 1993 and established himself in France at Antibes (French Riviera).He got his own workplace there. More information about the artist and his artwork can be found on youtube, facebook, instagram and pinterest. |
Q1737122 René Bertschy (January 11, 1912, Bern - November 28, 1999, Zurich) was a Swiss jazz double-bassist and vocalist.Bertschy played with the Harlem Kiddies from 1935 to 1939, during which time the group toured throughout Europe, and recorded with Coleman Hawkins in 1937. He enlisted in the Swiss military during World War II, and concomitantly worked with Teddy Stauffer and Lanigiros. Following the war he formed an ensemble called the Continentals, which played throughout Europe and was active into the 1960s.Bertschy was married to Kitty Ramon, a vocalist who performed with Bertschy in an ensemble called the Swing Kiddies. |
Q14933264 Pachybrachis spumarius is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America. |
Q1400580 Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is a former Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 2013, representing the Labor Party, and served as a minister in the Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard Governments. He was the leader of the Labor Party from November 2001 to December 2003.Crean was born in Melbourne and attended Melbourne High School. His father Frank Crean was also a Labor Party politician. After studying law and economics at Monash University, Crean joined the labour movement, becoming general secretary of the Storemen and Packers' Union in 1979. He became vice-president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 1981, and in 1985 was elected as the organisation's president, succeeding Cliff Dolan. Crean was elected to parliament at the 1990 federal election, and almost immediately entered the ministry. He was promoted to cabinet the following year, serving until the Labor government's defeat at the 1996 election.Following the 1998 election, Crean replaced Gareth Evans as deputy leader to Kim Beazley. He was elected unopposed as Beazley's successor after the party's defeat at the 2001 election, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. Crean struggled in opinion polling, and in June 2003 Beazley challenged him for the leadership. He won a comfortable victory, but speculation about his position continued and in November 2003 he announced his resignation. He was replaced by Mark Latham. Crean remained a senior figure in the Labor Party after losing the leadership, and returned to cabinet as Minister for Trade when the party won the 2007 election.Crean supported Julia Gillard's ascension to the prime ministership in 2010, and also voted for her at the 2012 leadership spill. However, in March 2013 he announced that he was switching his support to Kevin Rudd, sparking another leadership spill. Gillard removed him from cabinet in response. Rudd eventually returned as prime minister in June 2013. Crean was an unsuccessful candidate for the deputy leadership, and subsequently announced his intention to retire from politics at the 2013 election. |
Q240547 Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide and is translated into over 40 languages. |
Q2157985 Slovenia competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Slovenia won their first two summer Olympic gold medals at these games. |
Q7143781 Patrick Shawn McQuistan (born April 30, 1983) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Weber State University. |
Q70766 Princess Frederica of Hanover, (9 January 1848 – 16 October 1926) was a member of the House of Hanover. After her marriage, she lived mostly in England, where she was a prominent member of society. |
Q679477 Heinrich Albert (also Heinrich Alberti) (28 June 1604 – 6 October 1651) was a German composer and poet of the 17th century. He was a member of the Königsberg Poetic Society (Königsberger Dichterkreis). As a song composer, he was strongly influenced by Heinrich Schütz. |
Q6557648 Liril is a popular soap brand sold, to a large degree, in India, and Asia, as well as a few places in Europe. The soap is currently manufactured by Hindustan UniLever Limited in India. Liril launched a blue variant called Icy Cool Mint in 2002. It also tried launching an Orange variant, called Liril Orange Splash in India in 2004. Neither of these variants created much splash in the market. The company even changed agencies handling the brand, from Lowe to McCann Erickson before going back to Lowe. |
Q84838 Gustav L. Mayr (12 October 1830 in Vienna – 14 July 1908 in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of Formicidae.In 1868, he was the first to describe the Argentine ant. He is credited with naming the harvesting ant species, Aphaenogaster treatae, for naturalist Mary Davis Treat in honor of her research on the species. |
Q869776 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Iringa (Latin: Dioecesis Iringaënsis) is a diocese located in Iringa in the Ecclesiastical province of Mbeya in Tanzania. |
Q8034566 Work in Progress is a 2000 computer animated short film produced by visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic and directed by Tom Bertino |
Q7413607 The San Diego Children's Choir is a nonprofit organization committed to providing high quality music education and performance experiences to a diverse range of youth from the San Diego, California area . Founded in 1990, the San Diego Children's Choir is the area's oldest and largest choral training program serving more than 500 children ages four–18 at locations throughout San Diego County. It was incorporated as a non-profit public benefit corporation in 1990. Rehearsals and performances of fine music literature form the foundation of instruction and provide the youth of San Diego opportunities for artistic and personal growth through choral music performance. |
Q1239250 The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him. |
Q4914965 The Biological Resources Discipline (BRD) is a program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Its stated task is to work with other stakeholders to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the sound management and conservation of the United States' biological resources.The following are "general principles" the BRD states guide the implementation of its mission and form the basis of its strategic planning:- BRD develops scientific and statistically reliable methods and protocols to assess the status and trends of the United States's biological resources.- BRD utilizes tools from the biological, physical, and social sciences to understand the causes of biological and ecological trends and to predict the ecological consequences of management practices.- BRD leads in the development and use of the technologies needed to synthesize, analyze, and disseminate biological and ecological information.- BRD strives for quality, integrity, and credibility of its research and technology by constantly improving its scientific programs through internal quality control, external peer review, and competitive funding.- BRD enters into partnerships with scientific collaborators to produce high-quality scientific information and partnerships with the users of scientific information to ensure this information's relevance and application to real problems.- BRD provides reliable scientific information to all American citizens while recognizing a special obligation to serve the biological information needs of Department of the Interior bureaus. |
Q16979720 The Yin River (Yin Chaung) is a river in Magway Region, in central Burma (Myanmar), a tributary of the Irrawaddy.Arising off the southwestern slopes of Mount Natsim (1289 ft.) and the eastern slopes of Mount Okshitkon (1104 ft.) and Mount Setkya (1232 ft.), the Yin River flows south past the town of Natmauk and various other villages, turning west at about latitude 20.07° N. Twisting and turning through the mountains it enters the Irrawaddy just below the city of Magway, at 20°01′03″N 95°00′54″E. |
Q6243697 John L. Sloane (March 28, 1847 – January 12, 1897) was an express agent, clerk of district court, chief clerk of the U.S. Land Office, deputy clerk assessor, lawyer, and the 7th mayor of Missoula, Montana. He was born in New York City, New York, and in 1864 he enlisted in the Fifth New York Veteran Volunteers, Duryea Zouaves, and served in the Civil War until its completion. He would later serve as a second lieutenant in the Second California Volunteer Cavalry before moving to Fort Missoula soon after the fort was opened in 1877. He left the army in 1881 and in 1883 was elected the first police magistrate of Missoula, Montana. He served in this capacity until May 6, 1889, when he was elected both clerk of the district court and the seventh mayor of Missoula. After holding multiple elected positions, he retired from active work in 1901. He died at his daughter's home in Seattle, Washington, in 1914, and was buried in Missoula Cemetery. |
Q17625797 Trivia Crack (original Spanish name: Preguntados) is a mobile app that allows users to compete against friends and people around the world. Modeled after popular games such as Trivial Pursuit, it became the most downloaded game in December 2014 from the Apple App Storeas well as most viewed advertisement on all of mobile phone services worldwide, mostly IOS. The surge in popularity has been attributed to the addition of The Question Factory which allowed users to submit their own questions. The game initially launched on October 26, 2013, specifically to Latin America and was later translated into English.The game is developed by the company Etermax, whose offices are located in Argentina. It is available as an app on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Facebook, and the Amazon App Store, and is available in more than 15 languages. |
Q10352227 Povo Brasileiro is the second studio album by the Brazilian Reggae band Natiruts. The album was produced by Liminha. Povo Brasileiro has been certified gold by the Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD), for selling 100,000 copies. |
Q29048237 Charry Ada Onwu-Otuyelu is a Nigerian literature writer and the first female Director of Imo State Council for Arts and Culture. She is an ex-soldier that worked with the Armed Forces medical service during the Biafran war. She is from Amaigbo in Imo State. She is a fiction writer of children's literature. Her themes include folktales and history. |
Q27997472 Cucullia eulepis is a species of owlet moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.The MONA or Hodges number for Cucullia eulepis is 10209. |
Q2315887 Floridocassis is a genus of tortoise beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There is at least one described species in Floridocassis, F. repudiata. |
Q6658031 Live on Brighton Beach is a live album by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 7 July 2002. It is a recording of a performance on Brighton Beach, England.It reached number 19 in the UK Compilation Chart. |
Q3565608 The high and tight is a military variant of the crew cut. It is a very short hairstyle most commonly worn by men in the armed forces of the United States. It is also popular with law enforcement officers and other public safety personnel. Although "high and tight" is a term commonly used within the military and law enforcement communities, the same haircut is sometimes referred to by civilians as a "Walker", meaning that the back and sides are shaved to the skin and the top is blended or faded into slightly longer hair. |
Q2007819 Op:l Bastards was formed by Timo Kaukolampi (born 1971), Vilunki 3000 (real name: Mikko Viljakainen, b. 1973) and Tuomo Puranen from Helsinki, Finland. Kaukolampi and Vilunki had earlier on played in the garage rock band Larry and the Lefthanded. Their original name was Opel Bastards, but they had to change it due to the pressure from Opel company. Their music is categorised as electronic music. They are described as having "specializ[ed] in Kraut-baiting impenetrability." [1]In 2007 Op:l Bastards had their first gig in five years on the 18th of August at Flow festival of Helsinki. The Job album was re-released on Op:l's record label Lefta Records in Finland, with liner notes written by Philip Oakey (of The Human League fame).The group released their second album in 2009. |
Q7540028 Sleightholme is a secluded hamlet on a dead end road in County Durham, England. It lies beside Sleightholme Beck, a tributary of the River Greta. The nearest town is Bowes, 4 miles away.The name, first recorded in 1254, is believed to come from the Old Norse sletta holmr, meaning "flat ground near water". The place was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and was transferred to County Durham in 1974.The Pennine Way passes through Sleightholme. Below the hamlet Sleightholme Beck passes through a narrow valley, known as The Troughs, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. |
Q2119240 A puteal (Latin: from puteus (well) — plural: putealia) is a classical water well wellhead built around a well's access opening. |
Q6034536 Inkaar (lit. Refusal) is a 1977 Hindi movie produced by Romu N. Sippy and directed by Raj N. Sippy. the film stars Vinod Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Shreeram Lagoo, Amjad Khan. The music is by Rajesh Roshan.This is a remake of the Japanese movie High and Low (1963), directed by Akira Kurosawa, which itself was based on the American novel King's Ransom (1959), by Ed McBain.This was later remade into the Telugu film Dongala Veta (1979). |
Q4586161 The 1990 New York Jets season was the 31st season for the team and the 21st in the National Football League. It began with the team, under new head coach Bruce Coslet, trying to improve from winning only four games in 1989 under Joe Walton. The Jets finished the season at 6–10. |
Q3132713 Stanford is a village in Kent, England, close to Folkestone, and within the Parish of Stanford. It is part of the Folkestone and Hythe parliamentary constituency, and administratively part of the District of Folkestone and Hythe, whose council headquarters are in Folkestone.It has been divided by the M20 into Stanford North and Stanford South. The Stanford Windmill is to the north of the M20 and west of the ancient Roman Stone Street. The parish church is All Saints. The 2011 Census population includes the village of Westenhanger. |
Q3974881 Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from æþele, for "noble", and ræd, for "counsel".However, there are also from an early time names which seem to be monothematic, consisting only of a single element. These are sometimes explained as hypocorisms, short forms of originally dithematic names, but in many cases the etymology of the supposed original name cannot be recovered.The oldest known Germanic names date to the Roman Empire period, Arminius and his wife Thusnelda in the 1st century, and in greater frequency, especially Gothic names, in the late Roman Empire, in the 4th to 5th centuries (the Germanic Heroic Age).A great variety of names are attested from the medieval period, falling into the rough categories of Scandinavian (Old Norse), Anglo-Saxon (Old English), continental (Frankish, Old High German and Low German), and East Germanic (see Gothic names) forms.By the High Middle Ages, many of these names had undergone numerous sound changes and/or were abbreviated, so that their etymology is not always clear.Of the large number of medieval Germanic names, a comparatively small set remains in common use today. The most frequent name of Germanic origin in English has traditionally been William (Bill; from an Old High German Willahelm), followed by Robert and Charles (Carl, after Charlemagne).Very few names of native English (Anglo-Saxon) origin survive into current use, the most common of these being Edward, Edmund, Edgar, Alfred and Harold for males; the female name Audrey continues the Anglo-Norman (French) form of the Anglo-Saxon Æðelþryð. |
Q1997229 Chrapów [ˈxrapuf] (German: Grapow) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobiegniew, within Strzelce-Drezdenko County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of Dobiegniew, 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Strzelce Krajeńskie, and 47 km (29 mi) north-east of Gorzów Wielkopolski.Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).The village has a population of 30. |
Q882696 Terana caerulea (or Terana coerulea), commonly known as the cobalt crust fungus or velvet blue spread, is a saprobic crust fungus in the family Phanerochaetaceae. Usually found in warm, damp hardwood forests on the undersides of fallen logs and branches of deciduous trees, this unique fungus has been described as "blue velvet on a stick". This species was chosen as fungus of the year for 2009 by the German Mycological Society. |
Q872476 Ortenburg Castle is a ruined mediaeval castle located in Baldramsdorf, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is located on the northern slope of Mt. Goldeck, part of the Gailtal Alps, above the Drava valley at a height of 740 m (2,430 ft). |
Q6268797 The Johnstown Novice Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle horse race in Ireland. It is run at Naas in February over a distance of about 2 miles and during the race there are eight hurdles to be jumped. The race was first run in 1984 as a Listed race and it was upgraded to Grade 2 in 2003. The race is currently sponsored by Paddy Power bookmakers and has been run under sponsored titles since 2011. |
Q7293760 Raoul Palmgren (12 January 1912, Karis — 10 March 1995, Tampere) was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1972. He was also a literature scholar and a professor at University of Oulu in 1968–1976. |
Q7277784 Real Succes Chișinău is a football club based in Chişinău, Moldova. They play in the Divizia A, the second tier of Moldovan football. |
Q8065601 Zamana (Time) is a 1985 Indian Bollywood film, written by Salim-Javed, directed by Ramesh Talwar, and starring Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Ranjeeta. Kulbhushan Karbanda, Girish Karnad, Avataar Gill, Mac Mohan, Satyen Kapu, Om Puri and Pillo Wadia form the supporting cast. The film was successful at the box office with collection of 4.5 crores in 1985. |
Q2789992 The whiptail cusk (Hypopleuron caninum) is a species of cusk-eel found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans where it occurs at depths of from 300 to 575 metres (984 to 1,886 ft). This species grows to a length of 57 centimetres (22 in) SL. It is the only known member of its genus. |
Q15196784 Barloni is a village in Madha tehsil of Solapur district in state of Maharashtra. |
Q23540859 Joseph Parry's Cottage, also known as 4 Chapel Row, is a cottage located in Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. Built in the early 19th century for ironworkers, the cottage is best known as the birthplace of the famous Welsh composer Joseph Parry (1841–1903). It is now open to the public as a museum. |
Q43374930 Edward McWilliam Patterson, FRSE (30 July 1926 – 5 April 2013) was an English mathematician.He was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, the son of parents from Northern Ireland, and educated at the local Lady Lumley's school and Leeds University, where he graduated B.Sc in mathematics and was awarded a Ph.D. on the subject of differential geometry.From 1959 to 1951 he was a demonstrator at Sheffield University before moving to St Andrews in to take up a post as lecturer for five years. After three further years as a lecturer in Leeds, he returned to Scotland in 1959 as a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. The same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1965 he was made professor of mathematics at Aberdeen and in 1974 became head of department, a position he held alternately with Professor John Hubbuck until his retirement in 1989. From 1981 to 1984 he also served as dean of science.His mathematical work was originally geometry-based, and he published a textbook entitled Topology in 1956. He later switched to algebra, especially ring theory and Lie algebra, and published two textbooks, Elementary Abstract Algebra in 1965, in collaboration with Professor Dan Rutherford, and Vector Algebra in 1968.He was awarded the Makdougall Brisbane Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1960–1962. He was president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 1964 to 1965 and served as a councillor for The Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1968. He also served on the council of The London Mathematical Society.He died in Aberdeen in 2013. He had married twice: firstly Joan Maddick, with whom he had a daughter, Christine and secondly, after her death, Elizabeth Hunter. |
Q943292 The Frankopan family (Croatian: Frankopani, Frankapani, Italian: Frangipani, Hungarian: Frangepán, Latin: Frangepanus/Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croatia in union with Hungary. |
Q55072783 George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist. |
Q6483512 John Lancelot Blades Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), known as Lance Percival, was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in satirical comedy television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise comic calypsos about current news stories. He later became successful as an after-dinner speaker. |
Q667628 Chaveyriat is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. |
Q7285577 Rajab Wazir Ali (born 19 November 1965, in Nairobi, Kenya) is a former Kenyan cricketer. He has played nine One Day International for Kenya. He is the first ODI cap for Kenya. |
Q6813510 Meloidogyne brevicauda is a plant-parasitic nematode. It is also called Tea root-knot nematode, Mature tea nematode or Indian root-knot nematode. It is a member of the root-knot nematodes, which was identified by C. A. Loos in 1953 in Sri Lanka. |
Q6755038 Marathonitinae is one of four subfamilies in the family Marathonitidae. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids. |
Q1073258 Houetteville is a commune in the Eure department in northern France. |
Q6425830 Kogushi Station (小串駅, Kogushi-eki) is a JR West railway station located in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.The station is served by the San'in Main Line. |
Q7270989 The 1300 class were a class of diesel locomotive built by English Electric, Rocklea for Queensland Rail between 1967 and 1972. They were later sold to AN Tasrail. |
Q3825145 Abū ‘Azīz Qatādah ibn Idrīs al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī al-Yanbu‘ī al-Makkī (Arabic: أبو عزيز قتادة بن إدريس الحسني العلوي الينبعى المكي; d. 1220/1221) was the Sharif of Mecca, reigning from 1201 to 1220/1221. He also founded the Banu Qatadah dynasty and established a tradition of sharifs descended from him to rule Mecca which lasted until the office was abolished in 1925. Regarding his sectarian denomination, Qatadah ibn Idris was a Shi'ite. |
Q17026128 Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Jimmy Van Heusen is a 1986 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs composed by Jimmy Van Heusen. (Sammy Cahn), who provided lyrics for 5 of the 10 selections on the album, contributed liner notes for the album. Clooney performs two of the selections ("The Second Time Around" and "Call Me Irresponsible") as duets with guitarist Ed Bickert. |
Q3082906 Yusuke Minoguchi (簔口 祐介, Minoguchi Yūsuke, born August 23, 1965) is a former Japanese football player. |
Q4776505 Antonio Carlos Silva (born August 24, 1952) is a former Brazilian football manager. |
Q16732635 Stanley Albert Milner (born 1928 or 1930) is a Canadian businessman and former politician.Milner was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Turner Valley, Alberta. He attended schooling there as well as in Saskatoon, Gimli and Winnipeg, and later attended the University of Alberta, from which he attained a Bachelor of Science degree. He also served in the Canadian Officer Training Corps, as a cadet, and in the army reserve. Upon his exit from university, Milner began his career in the oil and petroleum business as an investor at the time of the nearby Leduc No. 1 discovery. He would also briefly help in developing a natural gas service in the interior of British Columbia. Later, Milner, along with his brothers would start the Canadian Chieftain Petroleums Corporation. In 1964, he would also found Chieftain Development Co. Ltd, which he would work for until it was sold to Alberta Energy Company Ltd. in 1988. In 1988, he founded Chieftain International, Inc., which he is currently president and CEO of.Milner also served in directorship positions for Alberta Energy Company Ltd., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canadian Pacific Limited, Banister Continental Ltd., Canadian Surety Company, CP Air Limited, Delhi International Oil Corporation, Guaranty Trust Company of Canada, Pan-Alberta Gas Ltd., Southern Union Company, Supron Energy Corporation, Wardair, Inc., and Woodward Stores Limited.He also served a term on the Edmonton City Council from 1962 to 1963. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Edmonton in the 1963 Edmonton municipal election, narrowly losing to William Hawrelak. After his aldermanic term he served as chair of the Edmonton Public Library Board until 1968. During his time with the library he advocated for a new central downtown branch; the branch was later built and named the Stanley A. Milner Library in 1996. He has also involved himself in many positions in organizations throughout the city of Edmonton, including the Board of Governors of the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the University of Alberta Hospital; the Boards of the Edmonton Community Foundation, Junior Achievement, Edmonton Northlands, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Edmonton Eskimo Football Club; chairman of the Salvation Army Appeal and the Corporate Division of the United Way.An advocate of the military, Milner is an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the South Alberta Light Horse and an Honorary Member of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment.Other positions he has held are President of the Independent Petroleum Association of Canada and the Alberta Chamber of Resources; member of the Listed Company Advisory Committee of the American Stock Exchange, the Board of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Governors of the Olympic Trust of Canada and the Young Presidents’ Organization; Director of the Conference Board of Canada; Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta; and member of the World Business Council.He is a recipient of an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta, the City of Edmonton’s Certificate of Meritorious Service, the Wall Street Transcript Bronze and Gold Awards for the Top Chief Executive Officer in the Canadian Oil Industry; the University of Alberta’s Canadian Business Leader Award; and the 125th Anniversary of Confederation Commemorative Medal. He received the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1995 and the Order of Canada in 2003. |
Q19864372 The 69th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 7, 2015, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2014–15 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and broadcast live by CBS. Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming hosted the ceremony.Of the ceremony's most winning productions, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Fun Home each won five Tony Awards in the play and musical categories, respectively. Both An American in Paris and the Lincoln Center revival of The King and I took home four Tony Awards. |
Q25051799 Yana Chuku (Quechua yana black, chuku hat, "black hat", Hispanicized spelling Yanachuco) is a 5,058-metre-high (16,594 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. It lies in the Huancavelica Region, Angaraes Province, Lircay District, and in the Huancavelica Province, Huachocolpa District. |
Q20984058 Guo Pei (Chinese: 郭培, Mandarin pronunciation: [ku̯ó pʰěɪ̯], born 1967) is a Chinese fashion designer. She is best known for designing dresses for Chinese celebrities, and in America for Rihanna's trailing yellow gown at the 2015 Met Ball. Guo is the second born-and-raised Asian designer to be invited to become a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture after Lebanese designer Elie Saab. In 2016, Time Magazine listed her as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People. |
Q24039352 The 2016 Portsmouth City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Portsmouth City Council. This took place on the same day as other local elections taking place around the UK, including the London Mayoral election and the Scottish and Welsh Parliament elections.14 of 42 seats were contested during these elections within this unitary authority.After this year's local elections, the composition of the council is now (compared to the situation immediately prior to the election):Conservatives: 19 (0)Liberal Democrats: 15 (+1)UKIP: 4 (0)Labour: 3 (0)Independent: 1 (-1) |
Q5923346 Ivonne Aline Bordelois (born 5 November 1934), is an Argentine poet, essayist, and linguist. |
Q389185 The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, syn. Morus papyrifera L.) is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to Asia, where its range includes China, Japan, Korea, Indochina, Burma, and India. It is widely cultivated elsewhere and it grows as an introduced species in parts of Europe, the United States, and Africa. Other common names include tapa cloth tree. |
Q710163 Charnett Moffett (born June 10, 1967) is an American jazz musician and composer known as an innovator and virtuoso who plays double bass, and fretless bass guitar and piccolo bass He currently leads and records and performs with his own bands and also tours and records in a duo capacity with singer, songwriter Jana Herzen.Moffett started playing bass in the family band, touring the Far East in 1975 at the age of eight. In the mid-1980s he played with Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. In 1987 he recorded his debut album Netman for Blue Note Records. Since that time he has recorded 13 albums, the five most recent for the multi-Grammy winning Harlem based label, Motema Music. Now focused primarily on his own projects, Moffett is respected as a young jazz legend and has performed and recorded with many top players in jazz including Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis, Pharoah Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellis Marsalis, Sonny Sharrock, Stanley Jordan, Wallace Roney. Arturo Sandoval, Courtney Pine, David Sanborn, David Sánchez, Dianne Reeves, Frank Lowe, Harry Connick, Jr., Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Kenny Kirkland, Kevin Eubanks, Lew Soloff, Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Melody Gardot, Mulgrew Miller and Tony Williams. |
Q6103621 "J'irai où tu iras" (meaning "I'll Go Where You Go") is a French-language duet between Celine Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman from Dion's album, D'eux (1995). It was released as a promotional single in Quebec in May 1996. The track was written and produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman. |
Q6249899 John Henry Murphy (1858 – March 7, 1905) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball in 1884 with Altoona Mountain City and the Wilmington Quicksteps. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
Q5292954 Don Lake (born November 26, 1956) is a Canadian actor, film and television writer, and television producer. He is frequently cast by director Christopher Guest, and is also a close friend and the collaborative partner of Bonnie Hunt.He had a role in The Bonnie Hunt Show, for which he received comedic praise. He also had roles in the comedy films Police Academy, Hot Shots!, Dumb & Dumber To, and Corner Gas: The Movie. He played more serious roles in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Super Mario Bros., along with a voice role in as Stu Hopps in Zootopia. He is also known as Dr. Carl Whitehorn on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. |
Q7565916 South Africans in the United Kingdom include citizens and residents of the United Kingdom with origins in South Africa. |
Q7413319 San Antonio Creek is a northward then eastward-flowing stream in the California, United States, counties of Marin and Sonoma that forms part of the boundary between those counties. It empties into the tidal portion of the Petaluma River. |
Q4911097 Bill Taft is an American rock musician living in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Q6672904 "Long Live Rock" is a single by The Who, written by Pete Townshend during 1971. It was not included on the Who's Next album, as it wasn't recorded until 1972. It was later performed by Billy Fury's character in the film That'll Be the Day featuring Keith Moon. The original Who recording of the song was later released on the rarities album Odds & Sods (1974), as well as being released as a single in 1979. |
Q5222920 Darius Crouter (May 5, 1827 – May 9, 1910) was a Canadian minister, farmer and political figure. He represented Northumberland East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1881 to 1882 as an Independent Liberal member.He was born in Haldimand Township, Upper Canada. Crouter was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who retired to farming later in life. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1881 by-election held following the death of Joseph Keeler. Crouter was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1882. He lived near Brighton. |
Q7962443 Walking Box Ranch, 7 mi (11 km) west of Searchlight, Nevada in the Mojave Desert, was founded in 1931 by Rex Bell and Clara Bow as a working 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) ranch. The ranch covered 160 acres (65 ha) at the time it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2009. The ranch includes four buildings and is owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).Over the years, Rex and Clara Bell entertained many notable Hollywood figures, including Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Errol Flynn, and Lionel Barrymore. |
Q5705848 Helioprosopa aurifodina is a species of tachinid flies in the genus Helioprosopa of the family Tachinidae. |
Q6601177 The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1994, as well as singles which peaked in 1993 and 1995 but were in the top 10 in 1994. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).One-hundred and thirty-two singles were in the top ten in 1994. Nine singles from 1993 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while "Another Day" by Whigfield, "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex, "Love Me for a Reason" by Boyzone, "Them Girls, Them Girls" by Zig and Zag and "Think Twice" by Celine Dion were all released in 1994 but did not reach their peak until 1995. "Twist and Shout" by Chaka Demus & Pliers, "The Perfect Year" by Dina Carroll and "It's Alright" by East 17 were the singles from 1993 to reach its peak in 1994. Twenty-five artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1994. Boyzone, Oasis, R. Kelly, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Toni Braxton were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1994.The 1993 Christmas number-one, "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby remained at number-one for the first week of 1994. The first new number-one single of the year was "Twist and Shout" by Chaka Demus & Pliers featuring Jack Radics and Taxi Gang. Overall, fifteen different singles peaked at number-one in 1994, with Take That (2) having the most singles hit that position. |
Q7889389 The United States Ambassador to Tonga is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Tonga. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu, while resident in Suva, Fiji. |
Q2481846 Rhytidoponera is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. The genus is known from Australia and Melanesia, with New Caledonia as the most eastern limit.Some Rhytidoponera species have both winged alate queens and gamergates. All known queenless species of Rhytidoponera are polygynous. |
Q3250821 This article is a list of historic places in the City of Kingston, Ontario entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal.See also List of historic places in Ontario. |
Q14950092 Kelcie Jerome McCray (born September 21, 1988) is an American football strong safety who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He played college football at Arkansas State.McCray has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Buffalo Bills. |
Q13456506 Caryocolum tischeriella (Zeller, 1839) is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Norway, Finland, the Baltic region and Russia, as well as on Crete and Sicily. Outside of Europe, it is found in southern Siberia, Central Asia and North Africa.The length of the forewings is 5–6 mm. The forewings are blackish brown with distinct white markings. Adults have been recorded on wing from mid-June to late August.The larvae feed on Silene nutans. They feed from between two spun leaves, eating the inner surface of the leaves. Larvae can be found from early May to late June. After overwintering, pupation takes place on the ground. |
Q18713606 Faces is the second studio album by the France-based, Cameroonian singer-songwriter Irma. It was released on 2 June 2014 and has charted in France, Switzerland and Belgium. |
Q31211440 Félix Bécquer (born 1 February 1947) is a Mexican sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics. |
Q943167 Political identity came to the territory now occupied by the Principality of Liechtenstein in 814, with the formation of the subcountry of Lower Rhætia. Liechtenstein's borders have remained unchanged since 1434, when the Rhine established the border between the Holy Roman Empire and the Swiss cantons. |
Q547662 Malakal Island ("Ngemelachel" in Palauan) is an island in the state of Koror, Palau. It is located at 134.45, 7.330278.One of the tribes in Survivor: Micronesia was named Malakal.Malakal Island is the site of Koror's port, as well as the radio station T8AA-AM. |
Q433789 Kuki Gallmann (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkuː.ki ɡaːlˈman]) (born June 1, 1943) is an Italian-born Kenyan national, best-selling author, poet, environmental activist, and conservationist. |
Q3063698 Melanie Jane Roche (born 9 November 1970 in Bankstown, New South Wales) is a softball player from Australia. She has won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics along with a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Participating in 4 Olympic Games and winning 4 Olympic Medals is an Australian Olympic Record. Roche was a two-time First Team All-American at Oklahoma State University, where she played from 1990-1993. While in college, Roche tallied 774 strikeouts in 658-2/3 innings, a ratio that is tied for 28th all-time. She was inducted into the OSU Hall of Honor on September 2, 2011.Roche has played professionally in Japan since 2001 at Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and with her current team Renesas Electronics from Takasaki. In her down time she studies audio engineering, has a keen interest in science (physics) and music.Roche is a softball pitcher best known for her angular velocity and her competitive nature.Mel Roche released her first CD "In Full Flight" on June 5, 2010. Many of the songs have been inspired through her 16-year Olympic Journey. |
Q956259 Julen Kerman Madariaga Agirre (born 1932, in Bilbao) is a Spanish Basque politician and lawyer who co-founded the Basque armed separatist group ETA in 1959.He was a leader of ETA, a prominent member of Herri Batasuna and, later, founder of the political party Aralar and a member of the pacifist organization, Elkarri.Madariaga served long prison sentences and spent years in exile, but severed his links with ETA in 1989 after becoming disillusioned with the group's methods. He left Herri Batasuna in 1995 after the party refused to condemn ETA violence.In June 2006, he was arrested in France on charges of extorting businessmen into making financial contributions to ETA. However, the charges were dropped and he was released within days. |
Q5643563 Halstead High School is a public high school located in Halstead, Kansas, United States, serving students in grades 9-12. The school is part of the Unified School District 440. The school primarily serves the towns of Halstead and Bentley, Kansas. The school colors are royal blue and white with black commonly used as a complementary color. |
Q493721 Andrea Cupi (born 27 January 1976) is an Italian retired professional footballer.Cupi played for Empoli where he spent much of his career and played over 100 games before he signed for Napoli on a free transfer in January 2006. |
Q515234 Cazurra is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2009 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 81 inhabitants. |
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