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Q1263554 San Marcos is an island located in the northern portion of Baja California Sur, México. It faces the town of Santa Rosalía on the Gulf of California near Isla Tortuga. The only town on the island is also named San Marcos. The island has a land area of 28.748 km² (11.100 sq mi), the 18th-largest island in Mexico. Its population as of the 2005 census was 425 inhabitants. It is part of the Mulegé Municipality. |
Q7492046 "She Runs Away" is the second of three singles released on the debut album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik. |
Q6420039 Kleber Janke or simply Kleber Lapa (born April 12, 1988 in Lapa), is a Brazilian defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Paraná. |
Q4870228 The Battle of Aguioncha or Aguiuncias, the culmination of a Galician–Portuguese civil war in the Kingdom of León, was fought at the hill called Aguioncha on the river Salas in the province of Ourense between two aristocratic factions. The leader of the victorious faction was the Portuguese count Gonzalo Menéndez, that of the defeated one was the Galician count Rodrigo Velázquez.Rodrigo is usually credited as one of the leaders of the party that supported Sancho I and his son Ramiro III in the wars over the Leonese succession that began in the late 950s and continued into the 980s. The chief rival clan was led by Gonzalo, and supported first Ordoño III and later his son Vermudo II. The absence of Rodrigo from court for a total of six years during the reigns of Sancho I and Ramiro III, and his comparatively frequent recurrence in the diplomas of Ordoño III, does not support the hypothesis that he was a creature of the former, as M. R. García Álvarez believed. The rivalry between the two families had more to do with a dispute between Gonzalo's mother, Mummadomna, abbess of Guimarães, and a relative of Rodrigo's, Guntroda, abbess of Pazóo. Guntroda had appropriated the monastery of Santa Comba, which belonged to a monk name Odoino, who appealed to Mummadomna for support. She sent her sons Gonzalo and Ramiro to force Guntroda to return it volens nolens (willing or not).The date of the battle is disputed. It may have taken place in 966 or 967, during the regency of Elvira Ramírez. If so, the two counts were reconciled by 968. Justo Pérez de Urbel argued that the absence of Rodrigo and Gonzalo from court during the regency of Elvira was evidence that during this period they were de facto independent, but they were in León on 20 September 968 for the confirmation of a noble gift to the abbey of Sobrado. On the other hand, it may have occurred between 970 and 974. Gonzalo fell out with Ramiro III in 968 after the latter refused action against the Vikings then ravaging Galicia and Portugal. The resulting bad blood between the families is alluded to as late as 1 October 982 in a document that reads in part:Defuncto autem Santio principe accepit regnum eius germana sua domna Gilvira et perunctus es in regno filius ipsius Sanctionis nomine Ranemirus. . . Tunc in illis diebus excitaverunt gallecos inter se sedicionem comites duo, unum Rudericum Velasconiz et alterum Gundisalvum Menendiz. . .Prince Sancho dead, his sister the lady Elvira received the realm and anointed in the kingdom was the son of this Sancho, Ramiro by name. . . Then in those days two counts in dissension among the Galicians raised armies between themselves, one Rodrigo Velázquez and the other Gonzalo Menéndez. . . |
Q6052862 The International School of the Basel Region AG (ISBR AG) is an English-speaking school for students from ages 3–19 (PYP1-DP2). ISB is an authorised International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, and offers the following programmes:IB Diploma Programme (DP)IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)IB Primary Years Programme (PYP)It is headquartered in Reinach, Basel-Landschaft, in the Reinach Campus. There is also the Fiechten Campus in Reinach, and the Aesch campus in Aesch. |
Q5651769 Matías Omar Pérez (born 20 July 1985) is a Uruguayan football left-back who plays for Danubio FC. |
Q3710886 El Hamadia District is a district of Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. |
Q7410501 The Samsung SPH-M910 (marketed as the Samsung Intercept) is an Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung. It was released on July 11, 2010, for Sprint in the United States, and was also released on Sprint Nextel-owned prepaid cell phone company Virgin Mobile on October 4, 2010.It was marketed as an updated version of the very similar Samsung Moment, though in several respects its features are inferior: its screen resolution of 240×400 is less than the 320×480 resolution of the Moment, it does not have a camera flash, and the Sprint version (but not the Virgin Mobile version) of the Intercept supports only EVDO Rev. 0 rather than the faster Rev. A standard supported by the Moment. Unlike the Moment, its touch screen does support multi-touch.Android enthusiasts have created unofficial ports of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to run on the SPH-M910.A Micro-USB port is provided for charging the battery and data connectivity. |
Q2606460 Gornja Obrijež is a village in Croatia. |
Q3656083 Dindica polyphaenaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in Taiwan, the Himalayas, south-east Asia and Sundaland.The wingspan is 45–52 mm.The larvae feed on the young foliage of Litsea species. They are leaf green with subdorsal yellow-white and lateral white lines over the abdominal segments and with obscure, oblique white lines between them. There is also a narrowish yellow ventral stripe with similar oblique yellow lines between it and the lateral line. Pupation takes place in a folded and spun together leaf. |
Q4673244 Acetabularia caliculus, the umbrella alga, is a species of green alga found in shallow temperate and tropical seas. |
Q19876203 Gladys Eileen Marley (née Pidgeon, 21 March 1906 − 19 November 2002) was a New Zealand swimmer, who represented her country at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario.Born in Dunedin in 1906, Marley was the daughter of Arthur Pidgeon and his wife Jane Dickenson Ross. She grew up in Sawyers Bay, Whanganui, Palmerston North and Auckland; her father worked with the railways and consequently the family moved around the country. After leaving Palmerston North Girls' High School, Marley began working as a clerk at Milne & Choyce department store in Auckland, aged 14.She was the New Zealand 220 yards breaststroke champion every year from 1925 and 1931, except in 1929 when she was second to Lily Copplestone. Marley was the only female member of the New Zealand team that travelled to the first British Empire Games in Canada in 1930, and was only allowed to go after her mother agreed to pay her own way to chaperone her daughter. Although recording a personal best, she finished sixth in the final of the 200 yards breaststroke, which was won by Cecelia Wolstenholme of England in world-record time.She retired from swimming after the 1931 national championships, and married Ken Marley, a police constable, at St David's Presbyterian church in Khyber Pass, Auckland, the following year. The couple went on to have two children.Marley died in Wellington in 2002, and her ashes were buried in Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North. |
Q3805434 JVN may refer to:Javanese languageJoan van Nuys (1929–2000), American authorJohn von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-American polymathJonathan Van Ness (born 1987), American grooming expertJapan Vulnerability Notes, Japan's national computer security vulnerability database |
Q22285215 Allomyces strangulata is a species of fungus. |
Q22056331 Bathing Boys (Latvian: Peldētāji zēni) is a painting by the artist Jānis Valters (later Johann Walter-Kurau) from 1900. |
Q28209203 Jamaica State Park is a 772-acre state park in Jamaica, Vermont, on the shore of the West River.Activities includes camping, swimming, boating, river fishing, hiking, picnicking, mountain biking, wildlife watching, and winter sports.Facilities include a picnic shelter, 43 tent/trailer sites, 18 lean-to shelters, two rest rooms with hot showers, and firewood and ice available for purchase.There is a nature center, and park rangers offer interpretive programs including night hikes, campfire programs, amphibian explorations, and nature crafts and games.The 51-acre Hamilton Falls Natural Area is located in the park. Cobb Brook includes several waterfalls, and Hamilton Falls drops 40 to 50 feet into a large pool. There is a trail to the top and bottom of the falls.The park includes a 2-mile section of the 16-mile West River Trail, a universally-accessible trail along the old railbed for the West River Railroad. The trail leads up to Ball Mountain Dam. |
Q3237116 Leung Sheung (Chinese: 梁相; born 1918 - 1978) was a Chinese martial artist who studied Wing Chun, and is known as the first and senior-most student of Ip Man in Hong Kong.Leung Sheung, along with Lok Yiu and Chu Shong Tin are considered to be the three, first generation closed-door students of Ip Man. |
Q7488996 Shannonville Motorsport Park is a motorsport road course circuit in Canada. It is located 15 km east of Belleville, Ontario, roughly midway between Toronto and Montreal, Quebec, near Highway 401 and along the former Provincial Highway 2.It has many configurations, and its tight layout with lots of run-off space makes it a very good venue for race testing. Many race teams from Toronto and Montreal test at Shannonville in preparation for events held on street circuits, as the Shannonville raceway shares a lot of the same characteristics.The raceway first started off as a dirt oval, with bedrock for a front straight. Much later, the 1.8 km "Nelson" circuit was built, named after the late John Nelson, owner of the circuit at the time. From there, the 2.23 km "Fabi" circuit was built north of the Nelson, and the two were linked to form the 4.03 km, 14-corner "Long Track". The Fabi circuit was named after Bertrand Fabi, a young Canadian driver who died while testing a Formula 3 car in England. The Fabi circuit has a long backstraight that now doubles as a drag strip. A link was then made after the first corner on the Nelson circuit to the seventh corner of the Long Circuit, creating the 2.47 km "Pro Circuit" layout.Currently, the Canadian Touring Car Championship makes an annual visit to the facility, as well as auto-racing body CASC (Regional Road Races). Drag racing is also heavily featured there. |
Q5053376 Catherine "Cathy" Alessi is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Elspeth Ballantyne. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 29 July 1992 and remained until her departure on 4 August 1993. |
Q6494361 Last Flight is a book published in 1937 consisting of diary entries and other notes compiled by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart during her failed attempt that year at flying solo across the Pacific Ocean. Her husband, publisher George Palmer Putnam, edited the collection which was published posthumously as a tribute to his wife.Consisting of hand-written diary entries, Earhart's writings cover the period from March 1937 up until her final entry on July 1, the day before her plane was reported missing en route to Howland Island in the South Pacific. The work is augmented by additional material written by Putnam, as well as a poem, "Courage", which Earhart had herself written.Although credited to Earhart, historians have cast doubt as to how much of this book was actually written by Earhart and how much had been rewritten or embellished by Putnam. |
Q3745947 Fire Up the Blades is the third studio album by Canadian heavy metal band 3 Inches of Blood. It was released on 26 June 2007 by Roadrunner Records and is the band's final release through the label. The band confirmed in February 2006 that they had begun to write new material, and by then had about four songs prepared to appear on the forthcoming album. A demo of "The Goatriders Horde" which was recorded in Seattle in spring 2006 was later made available for streaming on Roadrunner's official website.Fire Up the Blades marks the first major role of Joey Jordison of Slipknot and Murderdolls, as a producer, who revealed that he'd been a fan of the band since their first studio album, Battlecry Under a Wintersun. This was not his first feat as producer overall however, as he produced several tracks on the 2005 Roadrunner Records artists collaboration album, Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions. It is also the first release by the band to feature lead guitarist Justin Hagberg, rhythm guitarist Shane Clark, bassist Nick Cates and drummer Alexei Rodriguez, the latter of whom was kicked out of the band six months later. |
Q6955573 Nuclep is Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados SA, and Nuclebrás is Empresas Nucleares Brasileiras SA, part of Nuclep.Nuclep (Brazil) was founded in December 1975 to design and fabricate heavy components for nuclear power plants. |
Q142329 1684 Iguassú, provisional designation 1951 QE, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 30.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 23 August 1951, by Argentine astronomer Miguel Itzigsohn at the La Plata Astronomical Observatory, located in the city of La Plata, Argentina. It was named after the Iguazu Falls in South America. |
Q7231850 Portland is a locality on the western side of Whangarei Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. Whangarei is about 10 km to the north. Tikorangi is a hill to the west with a summit 161 m above sea level.The population of the Otaika-Portland area was 993 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 18 from 2001.The major industry is Portland Cement, which is New Zealand's largest cement manufacturer. It has a specialised loading dock on the harbour, and quarries Tikorangi for lime. |
Q1812779 Michel Hemmerling (January 9, 1889 – September 22, 1962) was a Luxembourgian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Luxembourg City.In 1912 he was a member of the Luxembourgian team which finished fourth in the team, European system competition and fifth in the team, free system event. |
Q4944898 Borek Miński [ˈbɔrɛk ˈmiɲski] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mińsk Mazowiecki, within Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Mińsk Mazowiecki and 39 km (24 mi) east of Warsaw. |
Q2753352 Żmijówek Włościański (Polish pronunciation: [ʐmiˈjuvɛk fwɔɕˈtɕaj̃skʲi]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Troszyn, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Troszyn, 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Ostrołęka, and 102 km (63 mi) north-east of Warsaw. |
Q4784894 The Arboretum du parc de Rouelles, also known as the Arboretum des Ardennes, is an arboretum located within the Parc de Rouelles (over 150 hectares) on the Chemin Vicinal 3, south of Montivilliers, north of Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France.Long ago, the park was a medieval property of Pays de Caux with castle, park, farm, and forest. Most buildings were destroyed by bombardment in 1944, but a fine dovecote remains (dating to 1631). Today's park was created from 1980-1993.The Arboretum des Ardennes proper contains 200 tree species, organized as 25 botanical families, all planted in the early 1980s. Specimens include local species such as beech, hornbeam, and chestnut, as well as exotics including American elm, eucalyptus, and Ginkgo biloba. A second arboretum is dedicated exclusively to conifers. |
Q8046593 Yadravi is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India. |
Q5131383 Clement Park is located in Unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. It is part of the Foothills Park and Recreation District. It is the location of the Columbine Memorial, a memorial in honor of the victims of the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. Within the park is Johnston Reservoir, a skate park, three playgrounds, a concessions stand, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, a basketball court, batting cages, and baseball fields. Fishing is allowed in the reservoir with a valid fishing license. It is also the site of the annual Summerset Festival which takes place in September. This festival is held at the small amphitheater located next to the reservoir. There is also a path that wraps around the entire reservoir and leads to the different shops and restaurants that look out onto the reservoir. |
Q958724 Juan José Mosalini (born November 29, 1943) is an Argentinian bandoneon player. He specializes in tango nuevo and currently resides in France. |
Q21154412 Ratan Devi Coomaraswamy (born Alice Ethel Richardson; 1889 – July 15, 1958) worked under the stage name of Ratan Devī. She recorded Indian music and was a performer of Hindu songs and poems, and went on concert tours in Britain and America. Martin Clayton identifies Alice as one of the significant women overlooked with regard to music in the British Empire. |
Q21285518 Alok Chandra Sahoo (born 5 November 1989) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Odisha. |
Q23019580 The 2015–16 NBL season is the 38th season for the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL. Following two seasons without making the playoffs, the Hawks enlisted the services of championship winning coach Rob Beveridge in an attempt to win the championship. |
Q28431134 Lochriea is an extinct genus of conodonts. |
Q3509114 Systena is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 20 described species in Systena. |
Q13130386 Newbiggin is a village in County Durham, in England. Its population at the 2011 census was 146. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale, opposite Holwick. An influx of Derbyshire lead miners into the area in the late 18th century may have brought the name from Biggin. |
Q4970547 British Naturism (until 2009, Central Council for British Naturism) is a members organisation with both individual and organisation members. It promotes Naturism in the United Kingdom, and it is recognised by the International Naturist Federation as the official national naturist organisation in that country. |
Q6651222 "Little One" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby.Sol C. Siegel, the producer of the film High Society, paid Cole Porter $250,000 for his first original film score in eight years. Besides Louis Armstrong, the cast included Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Celeste Holm.In the film, Crosby (playing a songwriter) is asked by the young sister of the Grace Kelly character to write a song for her and "Little One" is made up on the spot and sung by Crosby. |
Q6833768 Michael Reardon is an English architect, historic building consultant, and interior designer. He worked on the Swan Theatre (1986) in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as being the inspecting architect for Birmingham's St. Philip's Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral.His most notable project, the Swan Theatre, was aided by Tim Furby. The theatre was designed for The Royal Shakespeare Company within the red-brick gothic shell of the original (1879) Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The Swan is considered by many to be the most influential theatre of the 20th century.Other projects include The Other Place (1974), also in Stratford, Riverside Studios (1975-6), and many properties for the National Trust. |
Q465142 Sheila Herrero Lapuente (born 28 June 1976, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain) is an inline speed skater.She won 15 gold medals on World Championships, 36 on European, 88 on Spanish and 4 world records on several distances. She began on Zaragoza's Domingo Miral club. During 1999 and 2000 moved to Roces (Italy) and in 2001 and 2002 to Verducci (USA). She retired in 2003. |
Q4793746 Ələkçi (also, Alakchi and Alyakchi) is a village in the Lachin Rayon of Azerbaijan. |
Q6764393 The Marinette Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – one in Wisconsin and one in Michigan – anchored by the city of Marinette, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 68,710 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 65,937). |
Q6591008 Below is a list of principal owners of National Basketball Association teams: |
Q4634564 The 30mm DS30M Mark 2 is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives. It replaced in this role the 30mm Oerlikon KCB gun on the DS30B, a similar powered mounting. The DS30M has also been added to patrol boats and corvettes for the Iraqi and Omani navies respectively. |
Q4569290 Arnarsaq (ca. 1716 – fl. 1778), was an Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary, assistant to Paul Egede, Hans Glahn, and J. Sverdrup from Greenland. She and Hans Punngujooq translated the Bible into the Inuit language. She had an important position in the Danish missions among the Inuit on Greenland in the 18th century, and has also been portrayed in fiction. |
Q4978320 The bibliography of American science fiction author Bruce Sterling comprises novels, short stories and non-fiction. |
Q7797541 Three Inches is an American action with science fiction made-for-television film, intended to serve as the pilot episode for a new series. Created by writer-producer Harley Peyton and directed by Jace Alexander it aired on Syfy on December 29, 2011. The show follows a group of people with superhuman abilities, focusing on Walter Spackman, played by Noah Reid, an underachiever who develops a telekinetic ability after being struck by lightning.The movie received favorable reviews, but failed to spawn into the TV series. |
Q14954548 The Samburgskoye gas field is a natural gas field located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. It was discovered in 2006 and developed by and Novatek. It began production in 2012 and produces natural gas and condensates. The total proven reserves of the Samburgskoye gas field are around 3.47 trillion cubic feet (97.8×109m³), and production is slated to be around 92.2 million cubic feet/day (2.6×105m³) in 2010. |
Q601942 La locandiera (also known as Mirandolina) is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Cavara, based on the Carlo Goldoni's three-act comedy The Mistress of the Inn. |
Q14701365 Sybra paralongicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1968. |
Q19831481 Alice Mae Lee Jemison (1901–1964) was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. She was supported by the Seneca Tribal Council, and also lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and Sioux Indians during her career. Her work was condemned by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and she was described harshly in press conferences and before Congressional committees. For a time she was put under FBI surveillance. |
Q5880882 Gliese 318 is a white dwarf in the constellation Pyxis. Its spectral type is DA5.5 and it has a visual magnitude of 11.85, which lies 26 light years away. The star was too faint to have had its parallax measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Earth-based measurement gives its parallax as 113.63 ± 1.97 milliarcseconds, yielding a distance of 28.7 ± 0.5 light-years. It is around 45% as massive as the Sun but has only 0.15% its luminosity. |
Q4441111 The Old New Year (Russian: Cтаpый Нoвый гoд, romanized: Stariy noviy god) is a 1981 Soviet comedy film directed by Naum Ardashnikov and Oleg Yefremov. After the successful staging at the Moscow Art Theatre (directed by Oleg Yefremov), based on Mikhail Roshchin's play of the same name, it was filmed at Mosfilm with almost the same set of actors. It is considered to be one of the most significant works by Naum Ardashnikov. |
Q27973766 Daniel J. Cosgrove (born 1952) is an American biologist and author, currently the Eberly Family Chair of Biology at the Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University. As an author and scientist, he is widely cited by his peers and also held in libraries worldwide. |
Q499397 Fjaler is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Dale. Other places in Fjaler include Espedal, Flekke, Folkestad, Guddal, and Hellevika.Fjaler was the birthplace of famous Norwegian poet Jakob Sande. The Red Cross Nordic United World College at Haugland, one of the seventeen United World Colleges of the world is also located here, as well as the Nordic Art Centre at Dalsåsen. There is a bridge connecting Dale to Eikenes in Askvoll municipality, and buses depart from Dale to Førde, Rysjedalsvika, Hyllestad, and the western part of Fjaler. Førde Airport, Bringeland is located about 28 kilometres (17 mi) to the east, with flights to Oslo and Bergen.The 417-square-kilometre (161 sq mi) municipality is the 235th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Fjaler is the 275th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,862. The municipality's population density is 7.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (19/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.3% over the last decade. |
Q16016294 James Anthony Tapp (April 18, 1918 – November 20, 2004) was a Canadian broadcaster.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he began his career with closed-circuit radio broadcasts aboard HMCS Wasaga in World War II. He later became a radio announcer in Montreal. He went on to host a number of early CBC television shows, including Flashback and The Tapp Room. During the 1960s, he was host of CTV's game show A Kin to Win and the voice for Hercules in the animated series The Mighty Hercules.He was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on November 29, 2004.He died on November 20, 2004 of pneumonia in Oakville, Ontario at the age of 86. |
Q4413462 Patrick McCarthy is a record producer from Dublin, Ireland who has worked for several rock and alternative rock artists, including The Waterboys, Counting Crows, R.E.M., and U2. In 1998, he replaced Scott Litt as R.E.M.'s in-house producer, co-producing three of their albums Up, Reveal and Around the Sun as well as the Man on the Moon soundtrack. In 2007 it was announced that R.E.M.'s fourteenth studio album, Accelerate, would be produced by Jacknife Lee rather than McCarthy. McCarthy also mixed Madonna's successful 1998 album Ray of Light. He has also written his own personal lyrics for the popular YouTube song "Bad Apple". |
Q7889809 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).The District was established on February 21, 1857, with the division of the state into an Eastern and Western District. |
Q4670154 Abu Dhabi TV is a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is wholly owned by Ethnic Channels Group. The channel name is used under license from Abu Dhabi Media, the owners of the Emirati-based channel, Abu Dhabi TV.Abu Dhabi TV broadcasts programming primarily from Abu Dhabi TV, in addition to Canadian content. It features a wide variety of programming including news, current affairs, sports, films, and more. |
Q4792205 Arleston is a hamlet in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the centre of Derby. It is located 1.2 miles (1.9 km) northwest of Barrow upon Trent and is part of that village's civil parish. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through Arleston. |
Q243199 Riofreddo is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Rome.Riofreddo borders the following municipalities: Arsoli, Cineto Romano, Oricola, Roviano, Vallinfreda. |
Q4849278 Bakersfield is an unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the dispersed community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000. |
Q3011024 1D-chiro-Inositol (formerly D-chiro-Inositol, commonly abbreviated DCI) is a member of a family of related substances often referred to collectively as "inositol," although that term encompasses several isomers of questionable biological relevance, including 1L-chiro-Inositol. Myo-Inositol is converted into DCI by an insulin dependent NAD/NADH epimerase enzyme. It is known to be an important secondary messenger in insulin signal transduction. DCI accelerates the dephosphorylation of glycogen synthase and pyruvate dehydrogenase, rate limiting enzymes of non-oxidative and oxidative glucose disposal. DCI may act to bypass defective normal epimerization of myo-inositol to DCI associated with insulin resistance and at least partially restore insulin sensitivity and glucose disposal. |
Q5023236 Calophyllum rufinerve is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It is found only living in the wild in West Papua in Indonesia. |
Q7998165 Founded in 1944, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra (WSO) is the oldest professional Symphony Orchestra in Kansas, performing out of Century II Concert Hall in downtown Wichita.Throughout its 75 years of existence, the orchestra’s mission has been to provide the state with the highest quality musical presentations for as many different audiences as possible. Over the years, the Orchestra has gone through artistic growth to become a highly respected and acclaimed ensemble. The Orchestra’s annual activities include an 8-concert Masterworks series, Pops concerts and free, citywide presentations. |
Q7734635 Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild, also known as The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, is the earliest surviving example of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry. The genre takes the form of a contest, or "war of words", between two poets, each trying to outclass the other in vituperation and verbal pyrotechnics. It is not certain how the work was composed, but it is likely to have been publicly performed, probably in the style of a poetic joust by the two combatants, William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy, before the Court of James IV of Scotland.There are clues in the poem that suggest some of the features that the show must have contained. Each of the combatants had a commissar, both of whom are named in the work and sometimes directly addressed by the performers. These are (respectively) Sir John the Ross for Dunbar and Quentin Shaw for Kennedy, both of whom were actual persons. Shaw (certainly) and Ross (probably) were also poets, and it seems possible that they played some material part in the performance.Ross, Shaw, and Kennedy are all three named as a group in the closing stanzas of Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris. |
Q4163416 Unity Presbyterian Church is a presbyterian church in Belize City, Belize. It was built by the Presbyterian Church of Belize to establish a church in a poor area of Belize City that was struck hard by a hurricane in 2000 which caused severe flooding in the area. The church also received assistance from charitable organisations. |
Q5084488 Charles Bannister (1879 – August 1952) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Manchester City and Lincoln City and in the Southern League for Swindon Town and Reading. A centre half, he was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and emigrated to Australia after his retirement from professional football. |
Q7372571 Roy Benson (January 17, 1914 – December 6, 1977) was a stage magician born in Courbevoie in France. He was an accomplished musician. He is credited for Special Effects, having created the monster for the film The Flesh Eaters (1964) directed by his first cousin, Jack Curtis. He died of emphysema. |
Q17024748 "You Know My Name" is a song by the American alternative rock musician Courtney Love. It was released on May 4, 2014 on Cherry Forever Records, packaged as a double A-side single with the song "Wedding Day".Featuring themes of public fame and notoriety, "You Know My Name" was written by Love, guitarist Micko Larkin and bassist Shawn Dailey. It was recorded alongside "Wedding Day" at Atrium Studios in Calabasas, California in early 2014 with producer Michael Beinhorn. The single was released on Love's own independent record label Cherry Forever, under license to Kobalt Label Services, and was supported by a well received eight-date tour of the United Kingdom.Critical reception to "You Know My Name" was largely positive and the single placed in the UK Independent Singles Chart upon its release. An accompanying music video, directed by Maximilla Lukacs, features Love performing "You Know My Name" as a character abandoned on her wedding day inspired by Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. |
Q19876025 The Dean Delt-Air 250 was an American twin-seat amateur-built, delta wing light aircraft. Designed and built by Herbert Dean of Flint, Michigan, the aircraft was destroyed on its first flight and Dean was killed. |
Q10491450 The European Agreement on Au Pair Placement is an international agreement within the Council of Europe, originally signed in Strasbourg, France on 24 November 1969. It came into force on 30 May 1971, and regulates au pair placements. It states that the placed person shall neither be seen as a traditional employed domestic worker nor as a traditional student. |
Q20630524 Maria Astashkina (Russian: Мария Асташкина), (born 5 April 1999 in Penza, Russia) is a Russian swimmer.She won 4 gold medals in (200 m, 100 m, 50m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley) at the 2015 European Games. |
Q2628151 Yardiella is a monotypic genus of Australian crevice weavers containing the single species, Yardiella humphreysi. It was first described by Michael R. Gray in 1994, and has only been found in Australia. |
Q510455 Ulysses (pronounced ) is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Kansas, United States. It is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,161. |
Q7419209 The Santa Barbara Biltmore (also known as the Biltmore) is a luxury hotel located in Santa Barbara, California. Opened in 1927 as part of the Biltmore Hotels chain, it is known for its landmark Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and gardens and operates today as the Four Seasons Resort—The Biltmore Santa Barbara. |
Q2232182 Pierre Carniti (25 September 1936 – 5 June 2018) was an Italian politician and trade unionist.Carniti was born in Castelleone, in the province of Cremona, Lombardy. He was general secretary of CISL, a major trade union federation, between 1979 and 1985.Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on Poverty from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, associated with the Party of European Socialists. In 1993, with Ermanno Gorrieri, he co-founded the socialist party Social Christians. |
Q3022730 Denis Jean Hamel (born May 10, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who last played semi-professionally in the LNAH. A former star in junior, Hamel was not able to translate his scoring success in junior to the National Hockey League (NHL), although he had success at the AHL level, being named an AHL All-Star 3 times. After a serious knee injury in 2000, Hamel's skating speed was diminished and has limited his ability to contribute in the NHL. He was known as a fan favorite with the Binghamton Senators, and is known for his contributions to the community, for which he won the 2008 AHL Man of the Year award. |
Q513881 Osvaldo José Piazza (born 6 April 1947 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football defender, now a manager. |
Q5307536 Drill are a band from North East England. They were formed in early 1989 and released albums on the Abstract Sounds, Retribution Records and Muza Muza labels. After splitting in 1994 they reformed in 2005 releasing a new album in 2008. The Drill project was shelved late 2009.Drill are notable for not using a drummer and for writing industrial rock music with time signature and tempo changes within each song and for writing songs that do not follow the typical verse, chorus, bridge etc. song structures. |
Q5554690 Getting to This was the second album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1970. The album was the band's last until a brief reunion in the 1990s. Peter Banks joined from Yes after the recording of Getting to This, but the band split up at the end of 1970. The album reached 8 on the UK album chart. |
Q5386136 Eric Biefeld is a former U.S. soccer defender. He played three seasons in the Western Soccer Alliance and one season in the American Professional Soccer League. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1986. |
Q572335 The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, screened out of competition. Costa-Gavras's immigrant drama Eden Is West served as the closing night film at the festival. The festival's jury president was actress Tilda Swinton of the United Kingdom.The Golden Bear was awarded to Peruvian film La Teta Asustada directed by Claudia Llosa. The retrospective dedicated to the Golden Age of 70mm filmmaking from 1955 to 1970, titled 70 mm - Bigger than Life was shown at the festival.Admission for the festival was reported to be among the highest in years, and it also set a record for ticket sales, with some 270,000 tickets sold by the halfway mark, compared to 240,000 sold for the entire run of the festival the previous year. The final ticket tally was the largest in the festival’s 59-year history. |
Q3131517 Henri Louis de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné (Henri Louis Marie; 30 August 1745 – 24 April 1809), was a French courtier and the penultimate Grand Chamberlain of France. |
Q624006 Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 November 1963. The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 110 of the 175 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 72.1%. |
Q7958572 Waaksamheyd was a Dutch 300 ton burthen snow that was hired to transport supplies to the colony of New South Wales. Under the command of Deter Smit, the vessel transported supplies to Port Jackson in 1790 from Batavia (Jakarta). Captain John Hunter was transported back to England in 1792 on board the Waaksamheyd. |
Q7057934 Northeast Manual Training School, also known as Edison High School, was a historic school building located in the Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903-1905 as a 31⁄2-story, random-coursed granite building in the Romanesque style. It featured a center turret, flanked by projecting gable ends.A fire on August 3, 2011 destroyed most of the interior, but the structural walls remained in good condition. The school, which had been closed in 2009 and then inhabited by squatters, was demolished in late 2011.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. |
Q7608668 Stephen Barretto (born 2 March 1989 in Goa) is an Indian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sporting Clube de Goa in the I-League. |
Q16224138 Essex Ferry was a 3,242 GRT train ferry built in 1956 by John Brown and Company for British Railways. She served until 1981 when she was laid up. In 1983, she was reduced to a floating pontoon and used in the salvage of the semi-submersible drilling rig Alexander L. Kielland before being scrapped later that year. |
Q16980039 Thomas Lorenz is an Austrian make-up artist and hair stylist living and working in Vienna and Paris. |
Q18111773 Dhari assembly constituency (ધારી વિધાનસભા બેઠક) is one of the 182 assembly constituency of Gujarat. It is located in Amreli District. |
Q14819034 Oxathres erotyloides is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1864. |
Q23035217 The Nan'yō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha Sugar Mill is a former industrial facility in the village of Songsong on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands. Its ruins are a significant reminder of the South Pacific Mandate period, when Imperial Japan engaged in large-scale sugar cane farming in the Northern Marianas, and are the only brick structure in the Northern Marianas. The sugar mill on Rota was one of the major installations of the Nan'yō Kōhatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, the Japanese company responsible for economic development of the mandate area. The remnants of this sugar mill, all that survived the Allied capture of Rota during World War II, are located on the north side of the peninsula that projects southwest from Songsong, and consist of fragments of brick and concrete structures. The most impressive single element is a brick and concrete tunnel 42.5 metres (139 ft) long, from which openings lead to the locations of other parts of the once-extensive complex.The mill site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. |
Q1177543 Davide Giordano (22 March 1864 Courmayeur – 1 February 1954 Venezia) was an Italian physician and politician.He came from a Waldensian family originally from Torre Pellice, the son of Giacomo and Susetta Hugon.He was president of Venice's Institute of Science, Literature and Arts. |
Q864106 Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state.As of the 2010 census, the population was 71,993. Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area, having a population of 202,040. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area, with a population of 225,235. The 2010 population of the five-parish area of Southwest Louisiana was 292,619.It is considered a regionally significant center of petrochemical refining, gaming, tourism, and education, being home to McNeese State University and Sowela Technical Community College. Because of the lakes and waterways throughout the city, metropolitan Lake Charles is often referred to as the Lake Area. |
Q254978 A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United Kingdom. Following local government reorganization in 1975 the title of "royal burgh" remains in use in many towns, but now has little more than ceremonial value. |
Q7755606 The Other Women is a 2000 album by The Corn Sisters, a duo consisting of Carolyn Mark and Neko Case.The album was recorded live at Hattie's Hat in Seattle, Washington, in May 1998. The majority of the album consists of Carolyn Mark compositions and cover songs. The song "High On Cruel" had previously appeared on Case's debut solo album The Virginian in 1997. |
Q1009902 Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Edinburgh, 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Haddington, and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Ormiston.The land where the village lies is said to have been granted by William the Lion to Calum Cormack in 1169, who gave the church, with the tithes and other property belonging to it, to the monks of Kelso, in whose possession it remained till a short time prior to the accession of Robert Bruce. The land subsequently became the property of a younger branch of the Maxwell family, who granted the advowson and tithes to the monks of Dryburgh Abbey, who held them until the Reformation.The Tyne Water divides the village into Easter Pencaitland and Wester Pencaitland, crossed by a three-arched bridge dating from the 16th Century. An ancient cross in Wester Pencaitland indicates that there would probably have been a market there. A large industrial maltings, which was built in 1965, is situated just before the entrance to the village at Wester Pencaitland. |
Q7613469 Steven Richard Nicosia (born August 6, 1955) is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays during eight seasons spanning 1978–1985. Listed at 5' 10" and weighing 185 lb., Nicosia batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. |