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Q1066951 Musa Ag Amastan (1867–1920) was the Chief (Amenokal) of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg from 1905 to 1920. Based in the Ahaggar, it formed part of the Kel Ghela. |
Q5506350 FruiTart Chews were a bulk candy sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. They came in a variety of fruit flavors.Recently, FruiTart Chews have been replaced by Chewy SweeTarts.A former taffy, Tangy-Taffy is also now discontinued and has been replaced totally by Laffy-Taffy. |
Q1074804 Murong Wei (Chinese: 慕容暐; 350–385), courtesy name Jingmao (景茂), formally Emperor You of (Former) Yan ((前)燕幽帝, posthumous name given by his uncle Murong De, emperor of Southern Yan) was the last emperor of the Xianbei state Former Yan. He became emperor at age 10 and, late in his reign, with powers in the hands of his mother Empress Dowager Kezuhun and his incompetent and corrupt granduncle Murong Ping, was captured by Former Qin's prime minister Wang Meng in 370, ending Former Yan. Later, during the middle of Former Qin's collapse after its defeat at the Battle of Fei River in 383, he tried to join his brother Murong Chong in rebellion and was executed by Former Qin's emperor Fu Jiān in early 385. |
Q1641055 Luxembourg Rugby Federation (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise de rugby) is the governing body for rugby union in Luxembourg. It was founded in 1974 and became affiliated to the International Rugby Board in 1991. Luxembourg Rugby team plays its matches at the Stade Josy Barthel in Luxembourg-City. Luxembourg are ranked 65th (on September 26th, 2015) in the world according to the International Rugby Board. |
Q490201 Schierling is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany. |
Q6534785 Lev Grigorievich Toitman (Russian: Лев Григорьевич Тойтман; 1925 – September 11, 2007) was a soldier in World War II. Toitman is known for the "foundation and revival of the local Jewish community" in Birobidzhan. |
Q7675841 Ramabai Telin, also known as Tai Telin, was the wife of Pant Pratinidhi, the Raja Magadhoji Teli of Aundh. In 1806, Pant Pratinidhi was imprisoned by Peshwa Baji Rao II at Masur. During his absence, Tai Telin obtained the possession of Vasota and had the dash and courage to release her paramour. Pratinidhi declared himself the servant of the Raja of Satara, and broke off relations with the Peshva. He was, however, soon overpowered at Vasantgad by Bapu Gokhale, the former General of Peshwa. Tai Telin, however, continued to fight the Gokhale for over eight months at Vasota; but had to surrender in consequence of a fire which destroyed her granary.A Marathi limerick about this incident:श्रीमंत पंतप्रतिनिधींचा किल्ला अजिंक्य वासोटा;ताई तेलीण मारील सोटा बापू गोखल्या सांभाळ कासोटा. |
Q4860920 Barkeater Lake is a webcomic by cartoonist Corey Pandolph, originally published by United Media as part of its Comics.com website from early 2004 through January 5, 2007. Pandolph began publishing the online strip independently on January 22, 2007.Pandolph has published two trade paperback collections: Welcome to Barkeater Lake and Escape from Barkeater Lake.On September 4, 2009, shortly after the strip returned to GoComics.com, Pandolph announced the strip would end its run October 31, 2009. |
Q4732173 Allesley Green is a modern suburb of Coventry in the West Midlands, England, within the civil parish of Allesley.The suburb lies west of the A45 road and is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Coventry city centre. Most of the housing dates from the late-1980s. |
Q7891481 The 1980 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 4, 1980. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator and former Governor of Georgia Herman Talmadge decided to run for re-election to a fifth term, he lost a close race to Mack Mattingly, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. This race was part of a landslide national election for Republicans that would come to be known as the Reagan Revolution. |
Q7021998 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu (born 15 February 1980) is an Indian Woman Weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the Women's 48 kg category at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.She is from Imphal West district of Manipur state of India. |
Q7106360 Osceola Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-35, NORAD ID: Z-35) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 5.6 miles (9.0 km) south-southeast of Osceola, Wisconsin. It was closed in 1975. |
Q7345192 Robert Sherman "Bob" Halperin (January 26, 1908 – May 8, 1985), nicknamed "Buck", was an American competitive Star class sailor, and Olympic bronze medalist and Pan American Games gold medalist.He was also a college and NFL football quarterback, one of Chicago's most-decorated World War II heroes, co-founder of Lands' End, and chairman of Commercial Light Company. |
Q15863911 Supreme Court Debates, published by Congressional Digest Corp., is a 36-page monthly publication spotlighting current cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The publication follows, analyzes, and reports on activities in the highest U.S. court, using a pro and con format that gives equal weight to both sides of the issues covered.Supreme Court Debates, started in 1997, and International Debates, started in 2003, complement the company's flagship publication, Congressional Digest.Supreme Court Debates’ readership includes students, legal scholars, lawyers, educators, libraries, and policymakers. |
Q4707492 Alan Patrick Monegat (born 27 March 1983) is a Brazilian football player currently playing for Sapucaiense in Brazil. |
Q4147787 The Garnet Bracelet (Russian: Гранатовый браслет, romanized: Granatovyi braslet) is a short novel by Alexander Kuprin, first published in Zemlya (Land) almanac, Vol. 6, 1911. Maxim Gorky, who among others praised the novel, saw it as "the sign of a new literature coming." |
Q30588498 James D. Heiple (born September 13, 1933) was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1990 to 2000. |
Q25022215 Colegio Ciudad de México is a private school network in Mexico City, Mexico. It has two campuses: Plantel Contadero in Cuajimalpa, and Plantel Polanco.Plantel Polanco serves all levels (preschool through bachillerato (senior high school)), while Plantel Contadero serves up to secundaria.The two campuses received a unified name in 1995. |
Q33321248 John Bonomy (11 March 1918 – 27 June 1980) was a Scottish amateur football right back who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park. He was capped by Scotland at amateur level. |
Q7914099 Vancouver-Hastings is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. |
Q3326552 "Sasayaka na Inori" (ささやかな祈り) was the 22nd single by the Japanese J-pop group Every Little Thing, released on August 16, 2002. |
Q6312216 June Bland (born 2 June 1931) is a British actress.Bland played a leading role in the 1960s British soap, The Newcomers. She also appeared in two Doctor Who serials - Earthshock and Battlefield. She has now become a Principal of her local Stage-Coach performing arts school. |
Q7790631 Thomas Hepburn (c. 1795 – 9 December 1864) was an English coal miner and trade union leader. |
Q4391584 "Dreamin' of You" is a promotional single from Celine Dion's album Falling into You (1996). It was released in 1997 in Mexico and in Germany. The song was written by Aldo Nova and Peter Barberau, and produced by Nova. |
Q6180180 Jeon Sang-Dae (Korean: 전상대; born April 10, 1982) is a South Korean football player who has played as a forward. His previous club is Gyeongnam FC and Daegu FC. |
Q2106296 Easy Pieces is the second album by the British band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. It was released on Polydor Records in the UK on 22 November 1985 and included the hit singles "Brand New Friend" (#19 in UK), "Lost Weekend" (#17 in UK) and "Cut Me Down" (#38 in UK). The title of the album derives from the film Five Easy Pieces, which Cole described as "one of my very favourite films", saying, "I want to write at least five songs out of that film".Following the praise and healthy sales of their debut album Rattlesnakes the previous year, Easy Pieces became the band's fastest-selling album, selling more in its first two weeks than Rattlesnakes had managed in a whole year. It was also their highest charting album in the UK, peaking at number 5, aided by three top 40 singles. However, despite Easy Pieces' commercial success, the reception from critics was lukewarm and the band themselves were unhappy with the end result. Cole would later say, "It strikes me that there's something really fresh on the first album which has been dragged onto the second album, and the freshness is not there and something to replace the freshness is not there either". Bass player Lawrence Donegan was more succinct, describing the album as "terrible". |
Q5561431 Gilberts is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4249 feet (1295 m). |
Q794962 Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen (3 October 1868 – 19 December 1939), was a Norwegian military officer and polar scientist. From 1923, he was the first president of the Norwegian Maritime Museum. |
Q5428264 The Fabulous Five was the nickname applied to the 1947–1948 University of Kentucky men's basketball team that won 36 of 39 games and were national collegiate champions. In the summer of 1948, all five starters along with their coach, Adolph Rupp, were part of the gold medal winning United States team at the Summer Olympics.Those five players were Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, Wallace 'Wah Wah' Jones, Cliff Barker and Kenny Rollins. All but Rollins were also members of the 1948-1949 University of Kentucky men's basketball team, which also won the national championship. |
Q6925874 Mourad N'Zif (born 1 January 1984) is a French–Moroccan footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for FC Red Star Saint-Ouen.He started his career with Le Mans, but did not make a first-team appearance for the club. In the summer of 2004, he signed for Championnat National side Pau FC on a free transfer. He spent three seasons with Pau and scored a total of nine goals in 93 league games. N'Zif joined Stade Lavallois in 2007 and scored his first goal for the club in the 4–0 win away at FC Istres in the first round of the Coupe de la Ligue. He played for AS Beauvais Oise during the 2008–09 season, making 35 league appearances for the side. He left Beauvais in the summer of 2009, and later had a spell in the Belgian Second Division with A.F.C. Tubize. He scored one goal in 12 matches for Tubize, but was released in December 2009, and returned to Pau on 9 July 2010. |
Q1615709 Nematoctonus (the name of which means 'nematode murderer') was a genus of fungi in the Pleurotaceae family, which is now considered a synonym of Hohenbuehelia. Originally the generic name —an anamorphic form of Hohenbuehelia—has a widespread distribution and contains 16 species. Under the one fungus - one name convention, the correct name for the group is Hohenbuehelia and species where the fruitbodies have not been discovered or that are older names for those described as fruitbodies have all been transferred to Hohenbuehelia. |
Q7614850 Steven Izenour (July 16, 1940 in New Haven – August 21, 2001 in Vermont) was an American architect, urbanist and theorist. He is best known as co-author, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas, one of the most influential architectural theory books of the twentieth century. He was also principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was theatre stage and lighting designer George Izenour. He was married, in 1964, to Elisabeth Margit Gemmill. |
Q7083806 The Old Custom House is a historic customs house located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It was built in 1721, and is a 2 1/2-story brick Colonial building with a hipped roof. It has a corbeled brick interior end chimney. An extensive restoration project was undertaken by Richmond architect W. Duncan Lee in 1929. Also on the property are a contributing kitchen, necessary, and brick wall, all added during the restoration.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.The Custom House is now a museum operated by the Comte de Grasse Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. It is open on Sundays from June to October. |
Q1001386 The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa and the coordinating body of the Catholic dioceses. The AMECEA was established in 1961. Was the founding president of the Cardinal Archbishop of Lusaka Adam Kozlowiecki, SJ. It is one of ten members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar(SECAM).Members of the AMECEA episcopal conferences of countries of Ethiopia (1979), Eritrea (1993), Kenya (1961), Malawi (1961), Tanzania (1961), Zambia (1961), Sudan (1979), Uganda (1961). Somalia (1995) and Djibouti (2002) have observer status.The current chairman is Most Rev Berhaneyesus Demerew SOURAPHIEL, C.M. Archbishop of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia),.His deputy Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi and Chairman of the Kenya Episcopal Conference. |
Q16195603 Garry Johns (born 28 October 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Johns, originally a Barwon player, represented Geelong in Under 19s football before breaking into the senior side in the 1984 VFL season. He debuted in Geelong's round five win over St Kilda at Moorabbin Oval and made his only other league appearance the following week, against Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. |
Q24432534 Nkosinathi Mankayi (born 23 December 1982), professionally known as Nathi, is a South African singer-songwriter and artist. He shot to limelight upon the release of his critically acclaimed song titled "Nomvula" off his triple-platinum debut studio album Buyelekhaya. He later released his second album titled Umbulelo Wam on 28 October 2016. He is presently signed under Ghetto Ruff/Muthaland Entertainment, a South African independent record label. |
Q27830617 George Warwick Bampfylde Daniell (1864 - 1937) was medical practitioner and anaesthesiologist who practised in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.Daniell was the son of George Daniell, also a physician, and his wife Harriet, daughter of Richard Bampfylde. He received his medical training at St. George's Hospital, London, qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1888. The year following his graduation, he travelled to the Cape Colony, where he was licensed to practice on 8 June 1889. He began working as a general practitioner in Caledon. He practised there for most of the next eight years (though in 1893 he was listed as living in nearby Napier). Daniell took a special interest in the local warm baths. He was appointed medical superintendent of the Caledon Mineral Baths Sanatorium and medical officer of health to the Caledon Municipality. Daniell wrote a number of papers on the health benefits of the mineral waters there: He recommended both drinking and bathing in the hot mineral water, which he considered beneficial for anemia, rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, chronic diarrhoea, skin diseases, and many other complaints.After the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) he returned to England to specialise in anaesthetics, working as anaesthetist in several London hospitals to the middle of 1903 and then practising as an anaesthetist in Edinburgh until the end of 1904. During this time he was also an instructor in anaesthetics in London and Edinburgh. He used several agents in addition to ether and chloroform, such as ethyl chloride and a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen. Daniell developed and modified equipment to make administration of the new agents safer and simpler.Some of his early modifications of apparatus and original designs were displayed in the anaesthetics Museum of the British Medical Association in 1910. Parbhoo (1987, p. 714) described Daniell as "an insatiable gadgeteer".In January 1906 he returned to South Africa and started to practise as an anaesthetist in Cape Town. The next year he became the first person to be appointed as a specialist anaesthetist to a South African hospital (the Johannesburg General Hospital). in 1908 he returned to Cape Town as a general practitioner while continuing to work in anaesthetics. Daniell advocated the use of ethyl chloride as a general anaesthetic for short operations.In 1919 Daniell was appointed as a specialist anaesthetist at the Somerset Hospital, and two years later also as lecturer in anaesthetics at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town. He retired from Somerset Hospital in 1923. That year, and again in 1932, he visited Britain to attend meetings of the British Medical Association. He retired from the university in 1927 and settled in Grahamstown in about 1935. In his time he was regarded as the highest South African authority in anaesthesia. |
Q28727473 Kaushalya Gajasinghe (born 19 November 1991) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Lankan Cricket Club in the 2011–12 Premier Trophy on 10 February 2012. |
Q941094 The pedosphere (from Greek πέδον pedon "soil" or "earth" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") is the outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes. It exists at the interface of the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The pedosphere is the skin of the Earth and only develops when there is a dynamic interaction between the atmosphere (air in and above the soil), biosphere (living organisms), lithosphere (unconsolidated regolith and consolidated bedrock) and the hydrosphere (water in, on and below the soil). The pedosphere is the foundation of terrestrial life on Earth. The pedosphere acts as the mediator of chemical and biogeochemical flux into and out of these respective systems and is made up of gaseous, mineralic, fluid and biologic components. The pedosphere lies within the Critical Zone, a broader interface that includes vegetation, pedosphere, groundwater aquifer systems, regolith and finally ends at some depth in the bedrock where the biosphere and hydrosphere cease to make significant changes to the chemistry at depth. As part of the larger global system, any particular environment in which soil forms is influenced solely by its geographic position on the globe as climatic, geologic, biologic and anthropogenic changes occur with changes in longitude and latitude.The pedosphere lies below the vegetative cover of the biosphere and above the hydrosphere and lithosphere. The soil forming process (pedogenesis) can begin without the aid of biology but is significantly quickened in the presence of biologic reactions. Soil formation begins with the chemical and/or physical breakdown of minerals to form the initial material that overlies the bedrock substrate. Biology quickens this by secreting acidic compounds (dominantly fulvic acids) that help break rock apart. Particular biologic pioneers are lichen, mosses and seed bearing plants, but many other inorganic reactions take place that diversify the chemical makeup of the early soil layer. Once weathering and decomposition products accumulate, a coherent soil body allows the migration of fluids both vertically and laterally through the soil profile, causing ion exchange between solid, fluid and gaseous phases. As time progresses, the bulk geochemistry of the soil layer will deviate away from the initial composition of the bedrock and will evolve to a chemistry that reflects the type of reactions that take place in the soil. |
Q727307 The Naiman (Mongolian: Найман/Naiman, "eight"; Kazakh: Найман; Uzbek: Nayman) is a tribe originating in Mongolia (Eastern Turkic Khaganate), one of the tribes in middle juz of Kazakh nation. |
Q7719506 The Boulevard Connection are Typhoon, Sek and Marak - hip hop producers and musicians from Copenhagen, Denmark. |
Q4792571 Armageddon Summer is a 1998 young adult novel by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville. |
Q1133784 Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez (born July 1, 1980) is a Dominican-American professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, and Seattle Mariners. Cruz played 881 games in right field, 119 in left, 2 in center and 582 at DH through 2018. Cruz is a six-time MLB All-Star. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2011 American League Championship Series, in which he hit six home runs and recorded 13 runs batted in, both MLB records for a single postseason series. On August 5, 2013, Cruz was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball for his involvement in the Biogenesis baseball scandal. In 2014, he led the American League in home runs as a member of the Orioles. |
Q3037983 Dougie Hall (born 24 September 1980) is a former Scottish international rugby union player, who played 151 games for the Glasgow Warriors and won 42 caps for Scotland. |
Q269308 Nazarene Publishing House (NPH), the publishing arm of the Church of the Nazarene, is the world's largest publisher of Wesleyan-Holiness literature. NPH was located on Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1912 until its move in February 2016. At the peak of its printing capabilities, NPH printed more than 25 million pieces of literature each year, and processed more than 250,000 orders each year from more than 11,000 churches from many denominations. As the publishing industry began to change with the onset of digital distribution, NPH began to scale itself accordingly. In early 2016, NPH moved its administrative offices from the Troost facility to a location a short distance away, while maintaining ownership of the printing facility at its original location on Troost. They also obtained a new President Mark Brown.In February 2018, The Nazarene Publishing House changed its DBA name to The Foundry Publishing, maintaining its use of NPH for non-North American entities. |
Q1165293 Thiocolchicoside (Muscoril, Myoril, Neoflax) is a muscle relaxant with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. It acts as a competitive GABAA receptor antagonist and also glycine receptor antagonist with similar potency and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to a much lesser extent. It has powerful convulsant activity and should not be used in seizure-prone individuals. |
Q6234637 John Griswold White (10 August 1845 – 27 August 1928) was a prominent Cleveland attorney, a chess connoisseur, and a bibliophile. |
Q2326184 Stadionbuurt is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
Q4728237 The 1976 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.Kilkenny were the defending champions.On 19 September 1976, Cork won the championship following a 2-17 to 1-8 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their 7th All-Ireland title in the under-21 grade and their first in three championship seasons. |
Q7188980 Phyllonorycter epispila is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Ecuador. |
Q6524642 Leon Gardikiotis (Greek: Λεωνίδας Γαρδικιώτης, born 27 February 1964) is a Greek-Australian soccer coach and retired player. He was head coach of the Tahiti national team at the 2000 OFC Nations Cup. He was head coach of Springvale White Eagles for a brief period in 2007. |
Q7689279 Dato' Sri Penghulu Tawi Sli (12 June 1912 – 1987) was the second chief minister of Sarawak. |
Q5854777 Kahrar-e Sofla (Persian: كهرارسفلي, also Romanized as Kahrār-e Soflá; also known as Kahrār and Qahrār-e Pā’īn) is a village in Qarah Su Rural District, in the Central District of Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 350, in 75 families. |
Q16890108 Cardinal Hill Reservoir is a historic site in Jefferson County, Kentucky. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by Chicago architect Victor Andre Matteson. A one-story structure of stone (ashler), it includes Doric pilasters, full entablature, parapet wall, shouldered architraves, quoins, and balustraded stairs. Lights along front bank of old reservoir set on pedestal bases "with tomb-like structures" holding lights at corners. |
Q18170317 Ramdhanu (English: The Rainbow) is a 2014 Bengali family drama film, written and directed by Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee, the directors of Icche, Muktodhara, Accident and Alik Sukh, and produced by Windows and Jalan International Films. The film is presented by Atanu Raychaudhuri. The film was released on 6 June 2014. The film has done well at the box office. The film has been cinematographed by Sirsha Ray and edited by Moloy Laha. The movie was remade in Malayalam as Salt Mango Tree. |
Q28976442 Matthias Solerio (born 1 November 1992) is an Italian football player. He plays for Giana Erminio. |
Q41663592 The Cuban Affair is Nelson DeMille's 20th novel. DeMille had earlier novels win a place on the New York Times bestseller list. According to Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster had scheduled its release for September 17, 2017.On June 2, 2017, Publishers Weekly published a profile of DeMille, focused around The Cuban Affair. In that profile, DeMille traced his interest in Cuba to neighbors who were Cuban refugees he knew from his childhood. DeMille was finally able to visit Cuba in October 2015, where he was able to scout locations for the Cuban portion of the novel.On September 5, 2017, DeMille and Alan P. Gross, who had been imprisoned in Cuba, appeared on a panel together, to discuss conditions in Cuba.Another author, Jim Hughes, published a novel also named The Cuban Affair in 2010. |
Q42265860 St Mary's and All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in the village of Checkley, Staffordshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The oldest parts of the building are 12th-century, with later medieval and 17th-century work. |
Q902988 The Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy is a Canadian Hockey League (CHL) trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the annual Memorial Cup Tournament. The trophy was first awarded in 1972 and won by Richard Brodeur of the QMJHL's Cornwall Royals. Taylor Hall won the award in 2009 and 2010 with the Windsor Spitfires making him the first repeat winner in the trophy's history. Through the 2011 season, it has been won 17 times by players on a team representing the Western Hockey League, 13 by those from the OHL and 9 by players from the QMJHL.The Kamloops Blazers franchise has had the most MVPs at six: three as members of the Blazers, and three when the franchise was known as the New Westminster Bruins. The Cornwall Royals had three MVPs. Eight players have won the Smythe Trophy despite their team failing to win the Memorial Cup: Sam Steel (2018), Leon Draisaitl (2015), Danny Groulx (2002), Chris Madden (1998), Cameron Mann (1996), Sean McKenna (1982), Bart Hunter (1979) and Barry Smith (1975).The trophy is named in honour of Stafford Smythe, the son of Conn Smythe. Stafford was part of a group that purchased controlling interest in the National Hockey League's (NHL) Toronto Maple Leafs in 1961, and served as the president of the Toronto franchise and Maple Leaf Gardens for many years. The Smythe family donated the trophy to the CHL in 1972, shortly after his death. |
Q3538279 Treasures of the Savage Frontier (1992) is a Gold Box Dungeons and Dragons role-playing video game. It was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by SSI for the Amiga and DOS. |
Q5088193 Chaun Thompson (born May 22, 1980 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas) is a former American football linebacker. He was originally drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Texas A&M. |
Q4375520 Honorary titles of the Russian Federation (Russian: Почётные звания Российской Федерации) are titles given to citizens of the Russian Federation for professional and/or social achievements, but can be revoked by a vote in the State Duma. Rejection of honorary titles cannot be veto'd by the President. The word Russian: "Заслуженный" translates as "Merited".During the period of the Soviet Union, a system of professional honorary titles was created to be used across the USSR to recognize outstanding personal professional achievements. The awards were also used in some other Eastern bloc states and communist countries. Post-Soviet states modelled some of their awards on the Soviet award system.On 30 December 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Presidential Decree № 1341 on the establishment of the system of honorary titles of the Russian Federation. Prior to that, the legal acts referred to honorary titles of the RSFSR. Most of the Soviet awards have been retained in the Russian Federation. |
Q6551632 Linda Hart (born July 5, 1950) is an American singer, musician, and actress, mainly appearing in musical theatre. |
Q1645211 Huerta de Rey is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,208 inhabitants. |
Q221408 Plougonver (Breton: Plougonveur) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.On Sunday 13 September 1942 a British Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheim bomber sustained damage from German flak during an air raid on Morlaix, Brittany. The bomber crashed in flames near the village of Kergus, 1 km south of Plougonver.Yvonne Coantiec, wife of Jean Coantiec the Mayor of Plougonver was told of the crash, attended the scene and assisted the crew, providing civilian clothes and shelter. The crew members eventually made good their escape to England via Nantes.Yvonne Coantiec was questioned on several occasions by the Germans and was subsequently detained in St. Brieuc prison in March 1943 for assisting the airmen. She was transferred to Fresnes Prison south of Paris, then to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Northern Germany, and later to Mauthausen Labour Camp,Austria, infamous for its overcrowding and harsh regime. She died there in 1945, aged 45.The Coantiec name lives on in Plougonver today. The Community Centre is named ‘Jean Coantiec,’ . |
Q4760648 David Andrew "Andy" Evans (born 25 November 1975) is Welsh a former professional footballer. He currently plays for and manages Welsh Lower League side Penparcau FC Penparcau F.CA trainee with Cardiff City, where he won a Welsh Under-21 cap, before drifting through Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale to Aberystwyth and a job as a postman. At Park Avenue he immediately attracted the interest of First Division Barnsley and a £15,000 transfer fee. But, after just two appearances, he was loaned out to Mansfield Town and Chester City before being allowed to join Stalybridge Celtic, then on to Frickley Athletic, Belper Town and Ossett Town. Rejoined the Seasiders in summer 2006 from Frickley. |
Q796279 The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch guns of 46.7 calibre, in service from 1899 to the 1950s as naval and coast defence guns. They had possibly the longest, most varied and successful service history of any British heavy ordnance. |
Q7867616 The second USS Bath (PF-55) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 which later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-29 and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, with her Japanese name reported by various sources (see below) as JDS Maki (PF-18) and JDS Maki (PF-298), and later as YTE-9. |
Q4395376 Rohan (Ukrainian: Рогань) is an urban-type settlement located in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine near the oblast capital of Kharkiv. |
Q1367892 Massimiliano Lelli (born 2 December 1967) was an Italian professional cyclist. He most known for winning the Young rider Classification in the 1991 Giro d'Italia. His highest finishing in the Giro d'Italia was the year he won the Young rider classification, with a third place. He retired from cycling in 2004. |
Q5049890 Castilleja aquariensis is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family known by the common name Aquarius Plateau Indian paintbrush. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it occurs on the Aquarius Plateau, including Boulder Mountain. All occurrences are within the bounds of Dixie National Forest.This perennial herb grows 15 to 30 centimeters tall and blooms in inflorescences with small flowers and large light yellow bracts. It is probably "somewhat parasitic."This plant grows in sagebrush-grass meadows in subalpine climates and openings in stands of spruce. The soils are rocky.There are approximately 75,000 individuals in a peak year. Its range is about 270 square miles. The species was once on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's list of candidates for federal protection. It was removed in 2006. The main threat is grazing, as its habitat has been impacted by the presence of livestock, especially sheep. The Aquarius Plateau in general has been overgrazed. Gophers cause localized damage to populations by burying plants. Plants are also infested with grasshoppers and crickets; these insects cause greater impacts during drought years. |
Q16824570 Al Ferof (30 March 2005) is a retired French-bred British-based National Hunt horse owned by John Hales. He was initially trained by Barry Murphy in wexford for Martin Timothy Murphy. He was then trained by Paul Nicholls and won the 2011 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival before progressing to chasing the following season, where he won several top races including the Paddy Power Gold Cup. He moved to the stable of Dan Skelton in 2015 and won the Peterborough Chase for his new trainer. Al Ferof was retired from racing in October 2016. |
Q1585253 Haremakhet, also Horemakhet or Harmakhis, was an ancient Egyptian prince and High Priest of Amun during the 25th Dynasty.A son of pharaoh Shabaka and possibly of his queen Tabaktenamun, he was appointed by his father as the High Priest of Amun in Thebes and he officiated during the reigns of Taharqa and Tanutamani. Haremakhet's immediate predecessors are unknown and it is possible that the charge of High Priest of Amun was vacant since decades. In any case, this once powerful and influential title had long lost its power and influence in favor of the God's Wife of Amun, a position which at the time of Haremakhet was held by Shepenupet II and then Amenirdis I.Haremakhet is mainly known from a statue discovered in the Great Temple cachette at Karnak, formerly exhibited at the Cairo Egyptian Museum (CG 42204 / JE 38580) and now at the Nubian Museum of Aswan. On the statue, he is referred as“King’s son of Shabaka, justified, who loves him, Sole Confidant of king Taharqa, justified, Director of the palace of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Tanutamani, may he live for ever.”Noticeably, in this inscription king Shebitku – who was commonly assumed to have ruled between Shabaka and Taharqa – is completely absent. Indeed, the inscription was among the seminal evidence supporting the recent chronological switch between the reigns of Shabaka and Shebitku with Shebitku reigning first and Shabaka succeeding him.After his death, Haremakhet was succeeded by his son Harkhebi, who is known to have been in charge as High Priest of Amun at the time of Nitocris I's adoption and later, thus during the reign of the founder of the 26th Dynasty, pharaoh Psamtik I. |
Q24705683 Brandi Ahzionae is an activist and advocate for transgender rights in Washington, DC. She started the blog DMV Trans Circulator, which aims to build a community of positive transgender people. Professionally, Ahzionae also works as a hair stylist. |
Q28911801 Mohd Nasharizam Bin Abd Rashid (born 4 January 1995) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a centre back. |
Q42887486 Michael John Cooper (born 8 October 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays for Plymouth Argyle as a goalkeeper. |
Q919318 Gosses Bluff (or Gosse's Bluff) is thought to be the eroded remnant of an impact crater. Known as Tnorala to the Western Arrente people of the surrounding region, it is located in the southern Northern Territory, near the centre of Australia, about 175 km (109 mi) west of Alice Springs and about 212 km (132 mi) to the northeast of Uluru (Ayers Rock). It was named by Ernest Giles in 1872 after Australian explorer William Gosse's brother Henry, who was a member of William's expedition. |
Q5152900 Commitment Hour is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer James Alan Gardner, published in 1998. The novel is set in Gardner's "League of Peoples's" futuristic universe, and plays out in the small, isolated village of Tober Cove. Set on post-apocalyptic Earth, Tober Cove most resembles a rural, seventeenth century fishing village, with one exception: every year, everyone below the age of 21 changes gender. At the age of twenty-one, the people of the village must "commit" to being male, female or both in the form of a Hermaphrodite (a 'Neut'), forever. Commitment Hour follows the day leading up to the main character's hour of commitment.Tober Cove's society revolves around gender. Dualistic in structure, there is a matriarch and a patriarch, both of whom command equal - but different - power within the community. The patriarch is the head of the city council and the military, which also serves as the town's police force. The matriarch runs the town's health services, a vital role in a society without modern medicine. Tasks within the community are largely gender determined: men are warriors, fishermen, carpenters etc. and women are seamstresses, craft-makers, food preparers etc. Thus, in Tober Cove, choosing a gender is akin to choosing a life.Throughout the book, the main character addresses some of the more obvious questions, and to him more silly questions people from outside the Cove ask. When asked 'which sex is better,' the main character explains that the answer varies from person to person. Of course, if being male was better, or vice versa, the population of Tober Cove would be overwhelmingly one sided. Since it wasn't, you could say that both sexes had equal advantages and disadvantages. Of course, making love to someone from Tober Cove was always better, since they knew what felt good for both sexes.Tober Cove's religion also revolves around gender. The residents believe that the gods granted the people of their town the special privilege of choosing their sex, and that every year the gods come to collect their children and change their genders. The fact that the "gods" that descended into the town's harbor every year are stylized planes doesn't bother the residents. They simply believed that the gods used many devices as their instruments.Tober Cove exists in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Earth is post apocalyptic in the sense that, when the "League of Peoples" offered humanity technological advance in exchange for the promise never to kill other sentient creatures, most of the population of Earth accepted and left the planet. Those who remained were those who wouldn't, or couldn't accept the League's offer. As Earth's population departed, the planet descended into chaos. The book takes place about 400 years after this great exodus, and while some technology still exists, most has fallen in ruin. Tober Cove is a small, rural, technologically undeveloped town that is unique in the galaxy.Spark Lords rule Earth with super-advanced technology. Clad in indestructible armor, with access to the galaxy's latest gadgetry, Spark Lords maintain absolute control over Earth. Charged by the League with maintaining law and order on Earth, they content themselves with preventing major conflicts. They generally stay out of local affairs, and, to the knowledge of Cove residents, no Spark Lord has ever visited Tober Cove. Much of the plot of the novel is driven by the arrival in Tober Cove of the Science Spark Lord to observe the gender-changing ceremony. |
Q7327017 Richard Sanderson Keen, Baron Keen of Elie QC PC (born 29 March 1954 in Sussex) is a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He has been Advocate General for Scotland since May 2015. |
Q6604367 The following is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in 1929. |
Q7083446 Old Beach is a suburb of Hobart based in the municipality of Brighton, Tasmania, Australia. At the 2016 census, Old Beach had a population of 3,779. It is approximately 7km from the Baskerville Raceway. |
Q6784977 Master is a 1997 Telugu action film directed by Suresh Krissna and produced by Allu Aravind. Chiranjeevi played the lead role as Sakshi Sivanand, Puneet Issar and Satya Prakash played supporting roles. Music was composed by Deva while cinematography was handled by Chota K. Naidu. Chiranjeevi for the first time in his career sang a song in the film. This is first movie in the Telugu film industry to have been recorded in dts. Upon the release, initially the film got negative reviews, but in spite of that the movie became a Super Hit at the box office by word of mouth. |
Q3345221 Muksudpur (Bengali: মুকসুদপুর) is an Upazila of Gopalganj District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.Muksudpur is located at 23.3167°N 89.8667°E / 23.3167; 89.8667. It has 49,965 households and a total area of 309.63 km². |
Q7075186 Obliteration Pie is an album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in Japan in 2005.Not released in the UK or America, the set nonetheless contains six otherwise unavailable titles, and re-makes of several tracks from Hitchcock's catalogue such as "Madonna Of The Wasps" and "My Wife And My Dead Wife", the latter song introduced with one of his live spoken monologues.The album includes a cover of the Lipps Inc. disco classic "Funkytown", the result of his latter-day interest in remaking unlikely 1970s tracks for live audiences. This is the first Hitchcock release to include video footage on the disc, in this case promo clips for "I Often Dream Of Trains" and "The Man With The Lightbulb Head", both of which date to the mid-1980s, and originally appeared on the video release of Gotta Let This Hen Out.The booklet contains lyrics in English and Japanese. |
Q4742902 The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) is an orthopedic organization. Founded at Northwestern University in 1933, as of 2015 AAOS had grown to include about 39,000 members. The group provides education and practice management services for orthopedic surgeons and allied health professionals. The AAOS also lobbies and works on public education. The AAOS describes itself as "the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists." The Academy is a provider of musculoskeletal education to orthopaedic surgeons and others. Its continuing medical education activities include an Annual Meeting, multiple CME courses held around the country and at the Orthopaedic Learning Center, and various medical and scientific publications and electronic media materials. |
Q1210578 Didier Sornette (born June 25, 1957 in Paris) has been Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) since March 2006. He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, and a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department ofEarth Sciences at ETH Zurich. He was previously jointly a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California (1996–2006) and a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (1981–2006), working on the theory and prediction of complex systems. Pioneer in econophysics, in 1994, he co-founded with Jean-Philippe Bouchaud the company Science et Finance, which later merged with Capital Fund Management (CFM) in 2000. He left however Science et Finance in 1997 to focus on his shared position as Research Professor at the CNRS in France (1990-2006) and Professor at UCLA (1996-2006). |
Q5350460 Ekkattuthangal, also known as Ekkaduthangal or Ekkatuthangal, is a neighborhood in Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, India. It is surrounded by Jafferkhanpet, Guindy and Ramapuram. Area pincode is 600032, and previously it was 600097. The neighborhood is known for factories involved in Lathes,Milling & Welding. The neighborhood is located close to Kathipara Junction, which is the center point of the city, connecting to CMBT, Chennai International Airport, Chennai Central railway station and Sriperumbudur. Abutting the Guindy Industrial Estate, the region is experiencing rapid growth including technology parks like Olympia Tech Park, Thamarai Tech Park and Virtusa and five-star luxury hotels such as the Hilton Chennai.The Chennai Metro railway station at Ekkattuthangal became operational on 29 June 2015. |
Q5217209 Daniel Fuss is the vice chairman of Loomis, Sayles & Company and manager of the $18.5 billion Loomis Sayles Bond Fund. SmartMoney magazine in July 2008 called him one of the world's best investors.He earned his bachelor's and MBA degrees at Marquette University. He is a former U.S. Navy lieutenant. He formerly managed the Yale University endowment.He manages the Bond Fund with Matthew James Eagan. |
Q7053460 Norsk historie is a six-volume work about the general history of Norway. It was released in 1999 by Det Norske Samlaget.The books which became volumes four, five and six in the series had been published before, but the time spans covered in those books were modified slightly. Some of the books have also been reissued after 2000. A Samlaget release, all the books are written in Nynorsk.The first volume, Norsk historie 800–1300: frå høvdingmakt til konge- og kyrkjemakt. 1850–1900 was written by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. The second volume, Norsk historie 1300–1625: eit rike tek form was written by Geir Atle Ersland and Hilde Sandvik. The third volume, Norsk historie 1625–1814: vegar til sjølvstende was written by Ståle Dyrvik. The fourth volume, Norsk historie 1814–1860: frå standssamfunn mot klassesamfunn was written by Tore Pryser. The fifth volume, Norsk historie 1860–1914: eit bondesamfunn i oppbrot was written by Trond Bergh. The sixth volume, Norsk historie 1914–2000: industrisamfunnet – frå vokstervisse til framtidstvil was written by Berge Furre.The six volumes span about 2000 pages. |
Q2397234 Capitaine Jean Georges Fernand Matton was a World War I cavalryman and flying ace. He was credited with nine confirmed and two unconfirmed aerial victories. |
Q1309430 The John Brophy Award goes to the ECHL coach adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success as voted by the coaches of each of the ECHL teams. The John Brophy Award has been awarded to teams since 1989. The award is named after John Brophy, who coached in the league for 13 seasons and won 575 regular and postseason games, an ECHL record. The award, founded in 1989 and originally named Coach Of The Year, was renamed in his honor in 2003.Bob Ferguson is the only multiple winner of the award having won it in 1999 and 2000. |
Q630757 The Battle of Douma was a military engagement during the Syrian Civil War. The battle began on 21 January 2012, after Free Syrian Army fighters changed their tactics from attack and retreat guerrilla warfare in the suburbs of Damascus to all-out assault on army units. Earlier in January, the FSA had taken the town of Zabadani, and consequently gained control over large portions of Douma. After a general offensive in the suburbs, Douma was retaken by the Syrian army at the same time as the other rebelling suburbs.In the fall of 2012, the FSA mounted an offensive and took back Douma by late October. |
Q5343409 Sir Edward Henry Busk (10 February 1844 – 4 November 1926) was Vice Chancellor of London University from 1905-1907. |
Q18787630 Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine – called Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine in the United Kingdom – is a 2013 book about alternative medicine by Paul Offit, an American expert of infectious diseases and vaccines. It was published in the United States by HarperCollins (255 pages) and in the UK by Fourth Estate (20 June 2013, 336 pages). |
Q20026642 Phryganistria tamdaoensis is a species of stick insect belonging to the family of giant sticks. It was described in 2014 based on specimens from the Tam Đảo National Park in Vietnam, hence, the specific name tamdaoensis. It was described by Joachim Bresseel and Jérôme Constant, biologists of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS). In the same paper they also reported the discovery of another new subspecies, Phryganistria heusii yentuensis, which – measuring 32 cm long – is the second biggest insect known to date. In contrast, P. tamdaoensis, measuring only 23 cm long, is one of the smallest species under giant sticks.In 2015, the International Institute for Species Exploration names it as one of the "Top 10 New Species" for new species discovered in 2014. They were included in the list because of their body shape and colour, making them "masters of camouflage". |
Q5767446 Anders Grahn is a Swedish songwriter, multi instrumentalist, vocal coach and producer, living in Los Angeles. |
Q175581 Zhongzheng District is a district in Taipei, Republic of China. It is the home of most of the national government buildings of the Republic of China, this includes the Presidential Office, the Executive Yuan, the Control Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, the Judicial Yuan and various government ministries. This district is named after Generalissimo and the late President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek. |
Q21588315 Giannitsochori (Greek: Γιαννιτσοχώρι) is a village in the municipality of Zacharo, southern Elis, Greece. It is situated in the narrow coastal plains along the Ionian Sea, 2 km north of the mouth of the river Neda, at the foot of the western extensions of the mountain Minthi. It is a known beach resort. It is 2 km north of Elaia, 5 km southeast of Neochori and 11 km southeast of Zacharo. The Greek National Road 9/E55 (Pyrgos - Kyparissia) and the railway from Pyrgos to Kalamata pass through the village. |
Q4999775 Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns (born January 18, 1973) is an American writer, actor, producer, comedian, host, and director living in Austin, Texas. He is a co-founder, former chief executive officer, and current chief creative officer of Rooster Teeth. He is noted for his contributions in machinima, a form of film-making that uses video game technology in its production, and also works with animation and live action. Burns is also known for his work in the hosting and podcasting field.In April 2003, Burns, along with several friends and co-workers, created the machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Filmed using the video game Halo, Red vs. Blue was acclaimed for its humor and originality, making Burns an Internet celebrity. His success allowed him to co-found the production company Rooster Teeth. After the immediate popularity of Red vs. Blue, Burns attracted the attention of video game company Electronic Arts, who asked him to create a promotional series using their upcoming game, The Sims 2. The result was The Strangerhood. Burns also premiered P.A.N.I.C.S., a mini-series that utilizes the F.E.A.R. game engine. In 2016, Burns starred in the science fiction comedy film Lazer Team, which he co-wrote.As one of the innovators in the field of machinima, he has made guest appearances at the Penny Arcade Expo, San Diego Comic-Con International, Sundance and The Sydney Film Festival. For his work on Immersion (2010), a live action series that tests video game tropes in the real world, and The Gauntlet (2013), Rooster Teeth's reality game show, he has been nominated for two IAWTV awards in the "Best Host of a Web Series (Pre-Recorded)" category. He was named one of the "Top 25 Digital Stars" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. Alongside longtime-business partner Matt Hullum, he was named one of Variety's top Digital Entertainment Execs to Watch in 2018. |
Q1513501 The Kylling Bridge (Norwegian: Kylling bru) is a railway bridge in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The bridge crosses the Rauma River near the village of Verma in the upper part of the Romsdalen valley. The bridge is part of a double horseshoe curve that allows the railway to pass a narrow and steep section of the valley. It is one of the most photographed railway bridges in Norway. The Kylling Bridge is 76 metres (249 ft) long. The main span is 42 metres (138 ft), and side spans are 10 metres (33 ft) and 8 metres (26 ft). The clearance to the river below is 59.3 metres (195 ft).The construction of the Kylling Bridge started in September 1913. After almost 9 years, the bridge was finally finished in the winter of 1921. The Rauma Line railway opened on 29 November 1924. The Kylling Bridge cost 676,000 kr. |