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Q3144285 L'Hypogée des Dunes is an underground chapel (Hypogeum) in Poitiers, France. |
Q7959632 Wagners is a former settlement in Butte County, California. It was located 9 miles (14 km) north-northwest of Clipper Mills, at an elevation of 4101 feet (1250 m). It appears on maps as of 1897. |
Q334865 Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli (861–946) was an important Sufi of Persian descent, and a disciple of Junayd Baghdadi. He followed the Maliki school of law. |
Q4819993 Auditorio Benito Juarez is a 1,800-seat indoor arena located in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.It is used primarily for basketball, boxing, lucha libre, concerts, and other events. With 2,500 square meters (26,900 square feet) of exhibit space it is also Los Mochis' largest indoor convention center, allowing it to also be used for trade shows, conventions and banquets. |
Q4842056 Bago District (Burmese: ပဲခူးခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar). The capital lies at Bago. |
Q3563800 Vukovići (Serbian Cyrillic: Вуковићи) is a village in the municipality of Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was formerly part of Trebinje, which is now in the Republika Srpska entity. |
Q3524744 This Is Where It Ends is the fourth studio album by American deathcore band All Shall Perish. It was released on July 26, 2011, through Nuclear Blast. The majority of the follow-up to the previous record, Awaken the Dreamers, was recorded and mixed once again at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland with producer Zack Ohren. It is the final album to feature bassist Mike Tiner, guitarist Francesco Artusato, and drummer Adam Pierce.The songs "There Is Nothing Left", "A Pure Evil", "Embrace the Curse", "Spineless", "My Retaliation", "Rebirth", "The Death Plague", and "In This Life of Pain" are all featured and available as downloadable content in Rock Band 3 via the Rock Band Network |
Q16104925 Thomas Joseph "Red" Martin (July 5, 1938 – July 27, 2017) was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics. In 1964 he participated with the American ice hockey team in the Winter Olympics tournament. Martin later founded Cramer, a brand experience agency. |
Q17496539 Daniel Holman (born 5 June 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kettering Town. He began his career with a number of Northampton-based youth clubs, including Northampton ON Chenecks and Long Buckby. He featured for the first-team for Cogenhoe United, two spells with Long Buckby and briefly for Oxford City before joining Conference North side Histon in 2011. Holman earned a move to Conference Premier club Braintree Town in 2012, and his goalscoring form brought him to the attention of Football League teams, as he signed for Colchester United in 2014. He appeared for Wrexham, Aldershot Town, Dover Athletic and Woking on loan after failing to secure a place in Colchester's first-team. Following his successful loan spell with Woking, Holman joined Cheltenham Town. Holman re-joined former club Aldershot Town at the start of the 2018-19 season before making the switch to Kettering Town in November. |
Q3018165 The Early Bedroom Sessions is a compilation album of Electronic music that was recorded by Swedish musician Basshunter. The album is composed of 23 tracks in Swedish and English taken from his earlier releases. It was first released digitally on the Rush Hour label from 3 December 2012 and was later released as a double CD album on Ultra Records on 29 January 2013. |
Q28971141 Stanner railway station was a station in Stanner, Powys, Wales. The station was opened by the Kington and Eardisley Railway in 1875. |
Q2078719 Peter Trunk (May 17, 1936, Frankfurt - December 31, 1973, New York) was a German jazz double-bassist.Trunk played late in the 1950s in concert and on radio with Kenny Clarke, Stan Getz, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Zoot Sims. During this time he also recorded with Hans Koller. In the 1960s he worked with Benny Bailey, Don Byas, Klaus Doldinger, Dusko Goykovich, Volker Kriegel, Tete Montoliu, Manfred Schoof, and Ben Webster. In 1972 he recorded with Kurt Edelhagen. On New Year's Eve, 1973, he was killed in a car crash. |
Q40166498 Robert Mutzers (born 6 April 1993) is a Dutch football player who plays for Kozakken Boys in the Dutch Tweede Divisie. |
Q3993839 The Princes Torlonia are an Italian noble family from Rome, who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. The first influential member of the Torlonia family was Marino Torlonia (Tourlonias; 1725 – 21 March 1785), who rose from humble origins in the Auvergne region of France to become a very rich businessman and banker in Rome.Marino was born with the French name of Marin Torlonias, the son of Antoine Torlonias, a merchant and laborer. Marin's great-uncle was the parish priest of Augerolles, who procured for him a position as aide to an influential abbot. Marin eventually settled in Rome, where he became a cloth merchant and money lender near the Piazza Trinità dei Monti. This became the foundation of the family bank established by his son, Giovanni Torlonia.Giovanni, in return for his able administration of the Vatican finances, was created duke of Bracciano and count of Pisciarelli by Pope Pius VI in 1794. In 1803, Pius VII made him marquess of Romavecchia e Turrita and the first prince of Civitella Cesi. He was made, among other titles, a Roman Patrician in 1809, with confirmation from the Pope on 19 January 1813, and the duke of Poli e Guadagnolo in 1820. He was the builder of the Villa Torlonia in Rome, among other Palazzo Torlonia villas. He married Anna Maria Chiaveri née Schulteiss, a widow who came from a family of southern German merchants from the city of Donaueschingen.Leopoldo Torlonia, a grandson of Giovanni, was the Mayor of Rome from May 1882 to May 1887.His great-grandson, Marino Torlonia succeeded to the title as 4th prínce of Civitella-Cesi, a title he inherited from Augusto, his older brother, in 1926. The title had been passed to Augusto from their paternal great-uncle, Alessandro, younger brother of Augusto's and Marino's grandfather, Giulio. Marino married the rich American heiress Mary Elsie Moore; they were the parents of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married the Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the daughter of King Alfonso XIII - one of their grandchildren is Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg; and of Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the wife of American tennis player Francis Xavier Shields and grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields.In Rome, the Torlonia properties comprise: Palazzo Torlonia-Giraud in Via della Conciliazione (rione of Borgo), Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia in Via Condotti, near the Spanish Steps, Palazzo Torlonia in Via della Lungara (rione of Trastevere) and Villa Torlonia (Villa Albani) outside Porta Salaria. They also owned the now demolished Palazzo Torlonia-Bolognetti near Piazza Venezia.The Torlonia family is one of the few Italian aristocratic families to have survived the reconstruction of the Papal Court in 1969 by the motu proprio Pontificalis Domus. Today the only hereditary honours still in use at the Vatican are that of hereditary Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne. This honour is today held by Alessandro Torlonia and Marcantonio Colonna, Prince and Duke of Paliano. The Torlonia family was appointed in 1958 (its title dates from 1854 also), in succession to the Prince Orsini, whose family had held the principality from 1735.A popular poem at the height of their power translates as:The head of everything is God, the Lord of heavenAfter Him comes Prince Torlonia, lord of the earthThen comes Prince Torlonia's armed guardsThen comes Prince Torlonia's armed guards dogsThen comes nothing at all. Then comes nothing at all.Then comes nothing at all.Then come the peasants. And that's all. |
Q583636 Bernhard Severin Ingemann (28 May 1789 – 24 February 1862) was a Danish novelist and poet. |
Q1967211 The National Film Award for Best Costume Design is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. |
Q59591 Edy Reinalter (24 December 1920 – 19 November 1962) was an Alpine skier and 1948 Olympic champion in Slalom. He is the first Swiss athlete to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Switzerland. |
Q6985975 Ned Doyle may refer to:Dan Doyle (footballer) (1864–1918), known as Ned, Scottish footballerJames Edwin Doyle (1902–1989), known as Ned, American advertising executiveNed Doyle (hurler), Irish hurler |
Q5393072 Albert Ernest Alsor Clair Ford (17 February 1858 – 2 June 1919) was an English composer of operas and ballet music and a conductor. |
Q1762709 The Roraima mouse (Podoxymys roraimae) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus Podoxymys.It is found only in Guyana. |
Q8008240 William E. Gardner Jr. (March 13, 1939 – April 15, 1991) served as president of Savannah State College from 1989 until 1991. |
Q5182173 Crank House, also known as Fair Oaks Ranch, is an 1882 Victorian style residence in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 for its association with the early settlement of Altadena. (site #97000751). The house has notably featured in films such as Matilda (Trunchbull's House), Hocus Pocus (Allison's house interior shots), Scream 2 (Omega Beta Zeta Sorority House) and Catch Me If You Can (Roger Strong's House). |
Q545572 Écollemont is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. |
Q4735331 Alphitonia excelsa, commonly known as the red ash or soap tree, is a species of tree in the Rhamnaceae family. It is endemic to Australia, being found in New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and the northeastern tip of Western Australia. It is used in bush regeneration as a pioneer species and for amenity planting. |
Q11335257 Gregory De Wayne "Boomer" Wells (born April 25, 1954 in McIntosh, Alabama) is a former professional baseball player. Wells played Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1981 and for the Minnesota Twins in 1982. Wells also played Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hankyu/Orix Braves/BlueWave and Fukuoka Daiei Hawks between 1983–1992.He played 47 career Major League games in two seasons, batting .228, with 28 hits in 127 at-bats.In contrast, over ten NPB seasons he compiled a .317 batting average and a .555 slugging percentage, with 277 home runs and 901 RBI. In 1984, while playing for the Hankyu Braves, Wells won the NPB Triple Crown, with a batting average of .355, 37 home runs, and 130 runs batted in, also winning the Most Valuable Player award in the process. He was the first non-Japanese winner of the Triple Crown. |
Q5942041 Hunan University of Science and Technology (simplified Chinese: 湖南科技大学; traditional Chinese: 湖南科技大學; pinyin: Húnán Kējì Dàxué) is an institution of higher learning in Xiangtan, Hunan Province of the People's Republic of China. It is under the jointly jurisdiction of central government and provincial government, and is mainly administered by Hunan Province. Hunan University of Science and Technology was formed by the merger of two earlier universities. |
Q16254762 IRIS is an image processing software for astrophotography. IRIS is free for non-commercial usage. |
Q6784349 Terebra jacksoniana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. |
Q5631917 HMS Colibri was the French naval Curieux-class brig Colibri, launched in 1808, that the British captured in 1809 and took into the Royal Navy under her existing name. She spent her time in British service on the North American station based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the War of 1812, Colibri served mostly in blockading the American coast and capturing privateers and merchant ships. She foundered in 1813 in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, but without loss of life. |
Q3470119 Kallivere is a village in Mustvee Parish, Jõgeva County in Estonia. It's located about 8 km (5 mi) northeast of Palamuse, just before Voore, west of the Kullavere River. Kallivere has a population of 26. |
Q16412466 A sacred natural site is a natural feature or a large area of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities. Sacred natural sites consist of all types of natural features including mountains, hills, forests, groves, trees, rivers, lakes, lagoons, caves, islands and springs. The interest in sacred natural sites, from the perspective of nature conservation, lies in the component of biological diversity that they harbor. |
Q13225540 Acleris submaccana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia and Central Asia.The wingspan is about 22 mm. Adults are on wing in early August in China.The larvae feed on Betula platyphylla, Alnus maximowiczii, Alnus japonica, Duchesnea indica, Salix koreensis, Rhododendron simsii, Ribes species, Vaccinium vitis-idaea and Viburnum dilatatum. Larvae can be found in mid-June. |
Q7255751 Gene Lau (Chinese: 劉卓輝) is a Cantopop lyricist. Beginning in the late 1980s, he has written lyrics for over 300 songs. He has written more than ten hit songs for Beyond, contributing much to the rock band's reputation, with Lovers《情人》, The Great Wall 《長城》, The Earth 《大地》being some of the classics of the band. Thus, he was known as the Queen lyricist of Beyond, for writing 23 songs for the group. He has also collaborated with other artists such as Jacky Cheung, Eason Chan, Leon Lai and Danny Summer. |
Q275491 The Rif or Riff (Berber: ⴰⵔⵔⵉⴼ Arrif, Arabic: الريف Al-Rif) is a mainly mountainous cultural region in the northern part of the Kingdom of Morocco.The Rif has some fertile plains and stretches from Cape Spartel and Tangier in the west to Berkane and the Melwiyya River in the east and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Ouergha River in the south.It is separated into Eastern Rif (Al Hoceima, Driouch, Nador, Berkane) and Western Rif (Tanger, Tetouan, Chefchaouen, Taounate). |
Q3525418 The baselard (also basilard, baslard, in Middle French also badelare, bazelaire and variants, latininzed baselardus, basolardus etc., in Middle High German beseler, baseler, basler, pasler; baslermesser) is a historical type of dagger or short sword of the Late Middle Ages. |
Q4967960 Brihthelm or Beorhthelm was a Bishop of Selsey.According to a South Saxon charter, supposedly from 956, Brihthelm received a grant of land from a King Eadwig; however, the charter (S.616) is likely to have been a later forgery, although probably based on a genuine contemporary document.A charter (S.1291) issued by Brihthelm in 957, pertaining to the restoration of lands seized around Selsey by a certain Ælfsige, is also thought to be suspicious, but again it is probable that a genuine contemporary document lies behind it.Brihthelm died between 956 and 963, or he may have been transferred to Winchester around then. |
Q6562938 This is a list of clubs that play Australian rules football in Australia at the senior level.Guide to abbreviations:FC = Football ClubAFC = Australian Football Club (mainly used if in Queensland or NSW or outside Australia) / Amateur Football Club (mainly used in the other Australian States)ARFC = Australian Rules Football Club |
Q13559818 Honey Ryder is a male/female British music trio, consisting of Lindsay O'Mahony on vocals, Matt Bishop on rhythm guitar and Jason Huxley on lead guitar. The band's style of music varies from rock to folk and indie. Originally a duo, they scored two UK top 40 hits in the late 2000s. |
Q7346560 Robert Lawrence Gernon (July 29, 1943 – March 30, 2005) was a district judge in Kansas 22nd District, from 1979 to 1988, born in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas.He was a 1966 KU B-School major who studied law at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas graduating in 1969.Justice Gernon was also trial advocacy instructor at University of Kansas School of Law, a judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals, 1988–2003; and Kansas Supreme Court Justice, 2003–2005.He also served as a coach, mentor and tutor to Sigma Nu fraternity chapter members in Lawrence, Kansas, and championed the LEAD program, which served as a framework for ongoing Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center (ETWRC) peer mentoring programs.During 1990, Judge Gernon and Sharon Winslow Gernon were jointly awarded the Kansas University Alumni Association's (KUAA) Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award for "sustained volunteer service to the University at the local level." |
Q5074153 Charbonneau is a ghost town in northwestern McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. It was abandoned when the post office was closed in the 1960s. |
Q7398880 Saga is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game. Saga is touted as the world's first collectible online real-time strategy game. Saga was released on March 4, 2008 after a brief open Beta which began February 26, 2008.Developed by American studios Wahoo Studios and Silverlode Interactive, the game ran a closed Beta starting July 5, 2007. The title has no subscription fees, instead being supported by the release of booster or expansion packs. It is possible to play a free version of the game, with certain features locked, at the Saga official site.Saga launched into hobby stores around the United States and Canada following GAMA 2008. SAGA has partnered with Alliance Game Distributors, GTS Distribution, Diamond Comics and ACD Distribution, with an emphasis to focus on game and card stores to sell the booster packs. |
Q5133919 Clint Bickham is an American voice actor and ADR script writer working with Funimation and Sentai Filmworks/Seraphim Digital. After collaborating with illustrator Priscilla Hamby on Devil's Candy, which was featured in the first volume of Rising Stars of Manga, he also worked for the former manga publisher Tokyopop, writing the English adaptations of manga such as Domo and Jyu-Oh-Sei. Bickham is best known for his roles of Akihito Kanbara in Beyond the Boundary, Finland in Hetalia: Axis Powers, Renji Aso in Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two, Mochizo Oji in Tamako Market, Teichi Niya in Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Haru in Tsuritama, Luca in La storia della Arcana Famiglia, and Ikki Kurogane in Chivalry of a Failed Knight. |
Q6196893 James Willard McMillen (October 23, 1902 – January 27, 1984) was a professional American football player who played guard for seven seasons for the Chicago Bears beginning in 1924. He was born in Grayslake, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity and an All-American in 1922. |
Q7348886 Robert Phillips (born 1938) is an American poet and professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of more than 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, poetry criticism and other works. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moores Scholar at the university. |
Q6940324 A muscle tissue neoplasm is a neoplasm derived from muscle.An example is myoma. |
Q6231624 John Elliot (1725 – 1782) was an English lawyer and antiquary. |
Q1763587 Schlossauer Ohe is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Schwarzer Regen, the upper course of the Regen, near the town Regen. |
Q4726332 Alicja Pawlak is a Polish football defender currently playing for Unia Racibórz in the Ekstraliga. She has played the Champions League with AZS Wrocław, where she played for a decade, and Unia.She is a member of the Polish national team since 2005. |
Q6003966 Şehzade Abdullah (1522–1525) was an Ottoman prince (şehzade), as the son of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.He is generally understood to be the son of Hürrem Sultan, as Suleiman and Hürrem were in a monogamous relationship by the time of his birth. He was born in 1522 in Topkapi Palace, the Ottoman Empire, and died at the age of three due to a disease in 1525 in Istanbul. As his mother was Hürrem Sultan, he would likely have been Mihrimah Sultan's twin given that their births occurred in the same year. |
Q20721731 Hymenobacter elongatus is a species of bacteria first isolated from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica on basal ice. It is a psychrotolerant, heterotrophic aerobe. It is notable for the prevalence of horizontal gene transfers in its evolution, possibly due to dormancy because of its habitat. |
Q14721901 Serixia curta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1950. It is known from Borneo. |
Q32491546 Mary Alice Fonda (pen name, Octavia Hensel; October 21, 1837 – May 12, 1897) was an American musician, linguist, author, and critic. Referred to as "Octavia Hensel" in the music world, she was an internationally known music critic. |
Q27896994 Xinzhan may refer to:Xinzhan, Jiaohe, a town in Jiaohe, Jilin, ChinaXinzhan, Heilongjiang, a town in Zhaoyuan, Heilongjiang, ChinaXinzhan, Henan, a town in Huaiyang County, Henan, ChinaXinzhan, Guizhou, a town in Tongzi County, Guizhou, ChinaXinzhan Township, a township in Fuyu, Jilin, ChinaXinzhan Subdistrict, a subdistrict in Dongchang District, Tonghua, Jilin, China |
Q551136 Charles Lewis Haley (born January 6, 1964) is a former American football linebacker and defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers (1986–1991, 1998–1999) and the Dallas Cowboys (1992–1996).A versatile defensive player, Haley began his career as a specialty outside linebacker, eventually progressing to pass-rusher and finally full-fledged defensive end. He is the first five-time Super Bowl champion and is second only to Tom Brady who has six Super Bowl titles. He won two Super Bowls with the 49ers (XXIII, XXIV) and three with the Cowboys (XXVII, XXVIII, XXX); he was a starter in all five championship games. Haley was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011 and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015. |
Q1591051 Houseboat is a 1958 American Technicolor romantic comedy VistaVision film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, and Harry Guardino. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original version of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). The love theme "Almost In Your Arms", sung by Sam Cooke and "Bing! Bang! Bong!", sung by Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. |
Q2460818 Ampelakia (Greek: Αμπελάκια) is a former community in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tempi, of which it is a municipal unit and a municipal community. Ampelakia is also regarded as the historical seat of the municipality. |
Q1801278 Lamar Jeffers (April 16, 1888 – June 1, 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Anniston, Alabama, Jeffers attended public schools and Alabama Presbyterian College at Anniston.He served with the Alabama National Guard from 1904 to 1914. He served as clerk of the circuit court of Calhoun County, taking office in January 1917. Jeffers resigned that office in May 1917 and entered the U.S. Army, serving with the Eighty-second Division in France.He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States Government.He was promoted to rank of major of infantry.Jeffers was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred L. Blackmon.He was reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from June 7, 1921, to January 3, 1935.He served as chairman of the Committee on Civil Service (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934.Resided in Daytona Beach, Florida, until his death there on June 1, 1983.He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. |
Q5041007 Carl "Fuzzy" Van Horn was a Modified driver from Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He drove several cars including his own 71E and later the 2A. |
Q7563972 The Sotha Vilaibeach is among the most important beaches in the district of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. The beach here stretches over 4 km which makes it one of the longest beaches in Tamil Nadu. It was also one among the most seriously affected areas of the district during the 2004 Tsunami. |
Q1867491 Ganarjiis Mukhuri (Georgian: განარჯიის მუხური;Also known as contracted form: ganmukhuri) is a village in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia. It is situated near the border with Abkhazia (a breakaway region of Georgia) and the city of Zugdidi. In 2006, a patriot camp in Ganmukhuri was opened. On August 18, 2008, after the Russian-Georgian War, the village was occupied by Abkhazian separatists and Russian military forces. They burnt the patriot camp in Ganmukhuri. On September 9, 2008, Abkhaz separatists and the Russian military left Ganmukhuri. The village is currently controlled by the Georgian Police. |
Q4671919 Acanthoclita is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Olethreutinae of the family Tortricidae. |
Q3245900 Motonobu Tako (田光 仁重, Tako Motonobu, born April 22, 1972) is a former Japanese football player. |
Q3883807 Steffi Graf was the defending champion but did not compete that year.Pam Shriver won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Manuela Maleeva. |
Q16966446 Viola braguesa is a stringed instrument from Braga, north-western Portugal. It has 10 strings in 5 courses. The strings are made of steel. It is tuned C4/C3–G4/G3–A4/A3–D4/D4–G4/G4. The scale length is about 500 mm (20 inches). |
Q1467594 Panagiotis "Panos" Kammenos (Greek: Παναγιώτης (Πάνος) Καμμένος, Greek pronunciation: [panaˌʝotis ˌpanos kaˈmenos]; born 12 May 1965) is a Greek politician and the founder of the right-wing party "Independent Greeks", which formed the governing coalition of the Hellenic Parliament with the Syriza Party after Kammenos met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, on 26 January 2015.He was named Greece's Minister of National Defence on 27 January 2015. He served until 20 August 2015, when the Syriza-ANEL coalition resigned, and continued as a lame duck until 28 August, when he was succeeded by the interim Minister, Ioannis Giangos. He again became Minister of National Defence on 23 September 2015 when the Syriza-ANEL coalition was re-created following the election of 20 September 2015. |
Q12231063 Heyran Rural District (Persian: دهستان حيران) is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Astara County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,061, in 678 families. The rural district has 20 villages. |
Q16880764 Orange Express may refer to:the Ferrocarril de Sóller, an interurban railway on the Spanish island of Mallorcathe Orange Blossom Express, a proposed commuter rail system in the US state of Floridathe 1980-1981 side of the Oregon State University men's basketball teama track on the album Eyes of Innocence by the Miami Sound Machine |
Q16757902 Pseudosphex consobrina is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in the Amazon region. |
Q18475735 Mis tres amores (English title:My three loves) is a Mexican telenovela by Televisa produced by Ernesto Alonso and directed by Antulio Jiménez Pons. |
Q620241 The Apostolic Vicariate of the Comoros Archipelago is a tiny Latin apostolic vicariate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Roman Catholic Church in the Indian Ocean between insular Madagascar and continental Africa, comprising the Comoros and Mayotte, with a church in each.The see is at Moroni, Comoros on Grande Comore island. It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. |
Q23034407 The Sarajevo Open is an international figure skating competition held annually, usually in February, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, and pairs on the senior, junior, novice, and other levels. |
Q4054205 Alexander Abaza (1934–2011) was a Soviet photographer. His photographs were exhibited at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow in 2005. |
Q1977882 Neptunium(IV) fluoride or neptunium tetrafluoride is a chemical compound of neptunium and fluorine with the formula NpF4. |
Q6971415 The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) (Hindi:राष्ट्रीय रेडियो खगोल भौतिकी केन्द्र) of India is a premier research institution in India in the field of radio astronomy is located in the Pune University Campus (just beside IUCAA), is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. NCRA has an active research program in many areas of Astronomy and Astrophysics, which includes studies of the Sun, Interplanetary scintillations, pulsars, the Interstellar medium, Active galaxies and cosmology and particularly in the specialized field of Radio Astronomy and Radio instrumentation. NCRA also provides exciting opportunities and challenges in engineering fields such as Analog and Digital Electronics, Signal Processing, Antenna Design, Communication and Software Development. NCRA has set up the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world's largest telescope operating at meter wavelengths located at Khodad, 80 km from Pune. NCRA also operates the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT), which is a large Cylindrical Telescope located near Udhagamandalam, India. |
Q2257409 A fraternal party is a political party officially affiliated with another, often larger or international, political party or governmental party, or several of them, notably when these share a political ideology.They may express this 'fraternity' by exchanging fraternal delegates to each-other's party congresses.In 1960s, Communist parties in charge of states often had fraternal parties in other countries than the one(s) in which they were organized. A major example was the Communist Party of China, which exercised enormous influence over the New Left and New Communist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In The Modern History Sourcebook, there is a 1964 statement by the Romanian Workers' Party in which they caution, "In discussing and confronting different points of view on problems concerning the revolutionary struggle or socialist construction, no party must label as anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist the fraternal party whose opinions it does not share." [1] |
Q272705 Olga Scartezzini-Pall (born 3 December 1947) is a former alpine skier from Austria. At the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble she won the downhill event. In addition to the Olympic gold, Pall had two World Cup victories during her career, both in the downhill discipline.Pall retired from competitions at the end of the 1969–70 season and later worked as a physiotherapist with the Austrian Olympic ski team at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1990 and 2002 she acted as Vice-President of the Austrian Ski Federation and then became its Honorary President. Pall was selected as the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 1968, and in 1996 was awarded a gold medal for services to the country. She married Ernst Scartezzini, also an alpine skier and prominent skiing administrator. |
Q1546246 The Gribovsky G-11 (Russian: Грибовский Г-11) was a Soviet light troop/cargo military glider of World War II. |
Q2056710 Donald Spoto (born June 28, 1941) is an American biographer and theologian. He is known for his best-selling biographies of people in the worlds of film and theater, and more recently for his books on theology and spirituality.Spoto has written 29 books, including biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates. The BBC/HBO television film The Girl (2012), about Tippi Hedren's experience during the filming of The Birds (1963), was based in part on Spoto's work on Hitchcock.Spoto has also written biographical accounts of the House of Windsor from the Victorian era to Diana, Princess of Wales, and of religious figures such as Jesus, Saint Joan of Arc, and Saint Francis of Assisi; the latter was made into a television program by Faith & Values Media. |
Q6417025 Kiss TV is a music television station located in Bucharest owned by Antenna Group . |
Q2863368 Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf is a golf video game for the Sega "Genesis" or "MegaDrive".It was known as Naomichi Ozaki Super Masters (尾崎直道スーパーマスターズ, Ozaki Naomichi Super Masters) in Japan. It is one of the early Sega sports games where a celebrity athlete's name was added to the title when it was localized from Japan (the other two games being Tommy Lasorda Baseball and Pat Riley Basketball). Although Arnold Palmer is shown on the box cover and at the title screen, the game makes no reference to him during the actual golf game play. |
Q649149 Ville-sur-Lumes is a commune in the Ardennes department, and Grand Est in northern France. |
Q678564 Norman Demuth (15 July 1898 – 21 April 1968) was an English composer and musicologist, currently remembered largely for his biographies of French composers. |
Q7233657 The Post Mills Church is a historic church at 449 Vermont Route 244 in the Post Mills village of Thetford, Vermont. Built in 1818 and remodeled in 1855, it is an excellent example of Greek Revival architecture, with extremely rare late 19th century stencilwork on its interior walls and ceiling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. |
Q5617705 Gull Island is a small island in the Churchill river in Labrador, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Lower Churchill Project will create a major dam in the area.52°57′54.21″N 61°22′23.77″W |
Q3887213 The Silesian horse, Polish: Koń śląski, Silesian: Ślůnski kůń, is a breed of warmblood horse from the area of historic Silesia, which lies mostly within modern Poland. It is the heaviest of the Polish warmblood breeds, and has been influenced mainly by the Thoroughbred and Oldenburg, and partly by the East Friesian and German halfbred. The Oldenburg influence was particularly pronounced after World War II, when imported stallions were used to keep the breed from becoming extinct. Two types are recognised in the breed standard, an old and a new. At 3 years old, stallions of the old type stand 160–170 centimetres (15.3–16.3 hands) at the withers, mares about 2 cm less; the girth is 190–210 cm (75–83 in), and the cannon-bone circumference about 23–24 cm. The new or racing type is taller and lighter, stallions standing 164–170 cm (16.1–16.3 hands) at the withers and mares about 2 cm less; the girth measures 185–200 cm and the cannon-bone 21.5–23 cm. Stallions average 650 kg (1,430 lb), mares 600 kg. The current stud-book dates from 1961; registers for this type of horse have been kept since the late 19th century. In 2008 the breed numbered about 5000. |
Q7516993 Silvia Cristina Gustavo Rocha (born 1982) is a Brazilian female basketball player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Brazil women's national basketball team in the women's event. She is 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall. |
Q277194 Montebenedetto Charterhouse (Italian: Certosa di Montebenedetto) is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in the Val di Susa in Piedmont, Northern Italy. |
Q1314535 Not to be confused with a "Border wall." For the US–Mexico barrier, see Mexico–United States barrier.A border barrier is a separation barrier that runs along an international border. Such barriers are typically constructed for border control purposes such as curbing illegal immigration, human trafficking, and smuggling. In cases of a disputed or unclear border, erecting a barrier can serve as a de facto unilateral consolidation of a territorial claim that can supersede formal delimitation.Examples of border walls include the ancient Great Wall of China, a series of walls separating China from nomadic empires to the north. The construction of border barriers increased in the early 2000s; half of all the border barriers built since World War II ended in 1945 were built after 2000. |
Q5893307 Hebgen Lake Estates is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gallatin County, Montana, United States. The population was 70 at the 2010 census. |
Q16935069 Tilen Klemenčič (born 21 August 1995) is a Slovenian football defender who plays for Domžale in the Slovenian PrvaLiga. |
Q19645972 East Timorese Australians are Australian citizens of East Timorese descent or an East Timor-born person who resides in the Commonwealth of Australia.East Timorese people in Australia are one of the largest groups of the East Timorese diaspora. |
Q3225189 The Spider and the Butterfly (French: Papillon fantastique) is a 1909 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. |
Q25208830 Belladonna is a 2015 Croatian drama film written and directed by Dubravka Turić. It was awarded Best Short Film at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. |
Q1267656 The Battle of Lake Benacus was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in 268 or early 269 AD, between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi. |
Q7870405 The second USS Intrepid, was a steam-powered torpedo ram commissioned and built in 1874 that had the distinction of being the world's first U.S. Navy ship armed with self-propelled torpedoes. In concept and design she was roughly comparable to the Royal Navy's HMS Polyphemus, although Intrepid was completed more than half a decade earlier. The Intrepid was commissioned by President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson. |
Q6325524 KAYU-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 28, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Spokane, Washington, United States and also serving Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The station is owned by Mountain Broadcasting, LLC, a subsidiary of Northwest Broadcasting. KAYU's studios are located on South Regal Street in Spokane, and its transmitter is on Krell Hill southeast of Spokane.On cable and satellite, the station can be seen in high definition on Comcast Xfinity channel 103 in the Spokane area, Charter Spectrum channel 1206 in the Coeur d'Alene area and the Palouse, and channel 28 (in both standard and high definition) on Dish Network and DirecTV.The station is also carried on cable systems in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, both of which are double the size of KAYU's American coverage area. One result of this is that stations in Calgary and Edmonton air American shows on Pacific Time, even though Calgary and Edmonton are both on Mountain Time. It is one of five local Spokane area television stations seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite service. It can also been seen on local cable systems in eastern British Columbia. |
Q7756830 The Phantom Empire is a 1935 American Western serial film directed by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason and starring Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, and Betsy King Ross. This 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combined the western, musical, and science fiction genres. The first episode is 30 minutes, the rest about 20 minutes. The serial film is about a singing cowboy who stumbles upon an ancient subterranean civilization living beneath his own ranch that becomes corrupted by unscrupulous greedy speculators from the surface. In 1940, a 70-minute feature film edited from the serial was released under the titles Radio Ranch or Men with Steel Faces. This was Gene Autry's first starring role, playing himself as a singing cowboy. |
Q7831439 Traci Thirteen, also known as Girl 13 and Traci 13, is a fictional character and superheroine featured in comic books published by DC Comics. |
Q7675396 The Tahakopa River flows southeastward through the Catlins, an area of the southern South Island of New Zealand. Its total length is 32 kilometres (20 mi), and it flows into the Pacific Ocean 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Waikawa, close to the settlement of Papatowai.The river's source is to the west of Mt Pye, 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Wyndham. |
Q4746888 Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for publications like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He was a Managing Editor of Cricinfo India and is now a consultant for them.He used to write the weekly column Thinking It Through for the business newspaper Mint. He also writes the popular blog, India Uncut, which won the Best Indiblog Award at the Indibloggies in 2005 and was nominated again in 2006.In October 2007, Varma won the 2007 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, which aims to honour writers "whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society".In 2008, his first novel, My friend, Sancho was one of the novels nominated to the longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.In April 2009, he was named by BusinessWeek magazine in its India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009 list. |