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The 2014 Belgian Super Cup is a football match that was played on 20 July 2014, between 2013–14 Belgian Pro League winners Anderlecht and 2013–14 Belgian Cup winners Lokeren, won by Anderlecht, winning their twelfth super cup. Anderlecht had played in eighteen previous editions of the Belgian Super Cup, winning in 1985, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012 and their most recent appearance in 2013. Lokeren had played in a Belgian Super Cup once before, two years previous in 2012, also facing Anderlecht and losing 3-2. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
James Ferdinand Douglas Paxton (born c. 1841) was a Scottish professional golfer who played in the mid-19th century. Paxton placed tenth in the 1863 Open Championship. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
Frank White Burr (January 7, 1906 – May 4, 1992) was the Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 1970-1974. He was a Methodist and an advocate for the Glenpointe development at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike (a portion of Interstate 95) and Interstate 80. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
James Gordon MacKinnon (born January 4, 1951) is Head and Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has spent his entire academic career. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 from Glendon College (York University), a Master of Arts degree in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1975, both from Princeton University. James MacKinnon has co-written (with Russell Davidson of McGill University) two econometrics textbooks, Estimation and Inference in Econometrics and Econometric Theory and Methods. For his contributions to scholarship, MacKinnon has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and of the Royal Society of Canada. MacKinnon's career is marked by a commitment to service as well as to rigorous scholarship. He has served on numerous editorial boards and professional committees, as well as fundraising for the David Smith Chair of Economics, a fund established for the purpose of hiring a new economics professor. In 2001-2, MacKinnon served as President of the Canadian Economics Association. | Agent | Person | Economist |
HD 170469 b is a gas giant exoplanet located approximately 212 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, orbiting the star HD 170469. This planet was discovered in April 2007. The star is 1.1 solar mass and the planet is at least 67% the mass of Jupiter, orbiting about half the distance of Jupiter from the Sun. The mass value is only minimum since the inclination is unknown. The orbital distance is more than twice the distance from Earth to the Sun, although taking over three Earth years to orbit the star. The combined distance and period would make orbital velocity of 19.8 km/s, slower than Earth's 29.8 km/s. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Great Russia (Russian: Великая Россия) is a Russian far-right ultra-nationalist political party that has been associated with neo-Nazism. It was established in April 2007 by former Rodina leader and legislator Dmitry Rogozin in conjunction with the prohibited nationalist Movement Against Illegal Immigration, the Congress of Russian Communities and former members of the Rodina party which won 9% of the vote at the 2003 Russian Parliamentary elections. The current Chairman of the party is Andrei Saveliyev. The colours of the party are the orange and yellow of the Amur tiger. According to Dmitry Rogozin, he came up with the idea of using the tiger as the party's logo upon learning that the animal's population had increased in 2006 for the first time in recorded history. Rogozin has stated \"I believe that the Amur tiger will become a competitor to the blue bear\", referring to the symbol of United Russia, a white bear on a blue background. Great Russia has initially stated it supports Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's candidacy for President of Russia in 2008, a candidacy which is impossible as Lukashenko is not a Russian citizen. Rogozin has also stated that the party will contest seats in the December elections to the State Duma. Rogozin estimated that the party would obtain twenty five percent of the vote in the election, and opinion polls suggested the party had a good chance of crossing the seven percent threshold for representation in the Duma. On 24 July 2007 Great Russia was denied registration by the Federal Registration Service. The Secretary of the party's ruling council, Sergei Pykhtin, said the party would either appeal the decision or submit new paperwork in an attempt to be registered. However, the party was unsuccessful and so did not contest the Russian legislative election, 2007. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
The 1997 Open Championship was the 126th Open Championship, held from 17–20 July at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Justin Leonard won his first major championship, the fifth consecutive American to win The Open at Royal Troon. Five strokes back after a 72 in the third round, he shot a final round 65 (–6) to win by three strokes over runners-up Jesper Parnevik and Darren Clarke. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
Heron Lake is a reservoir in Rio Arriba County, in northern New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The lake is part of the San Juan-Chama Project, which transfers water from the upper reaches of the San Juan River through the 12.8-mile (20.6 km) Azotea Tunnel (and under the Continental Divide), into Willow Creek and the Rio Chama (and ultimately into the Rio Grande). Water is impounded in Heron Lake by the 1,250-foot (380 m) long, 263-foot (80 m) high Heron Dam, which was completed in 1971. The 5,900-acre (24 km2) lake is approximately 4 miles (6 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, and lies at an elevation of up to 7,186 feet (2,190 m). Heron Dam is owned and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The southern shore is the location of Heron Lake State Park, featuring over 200 camping and picnic sites, and two improved boat ramps. The lake is a destination for salmon and trout fishing, as well as for small boat sailing. Boat speeds are restricted by a 'no-wake' policy. A 5.5-mile (8.9 km) hiking trail crosses the Rio Chama Gorge via a pedestrian suspension bridge, and then runs southwest through wooded terrain to the grounds of El Vado Lake State Park. The lake, dam, and state park are named after Kenneth A. Heron, an engineer in the early 1900s who realized that water could be diverted from wetter areas to the north, to the benefit of more arid regions to the south. | Place | BodyOfWater | Lake |
The Rio Brazos is a 42-mile (68 km) long river flowing through northern New Mexico in the United States. It rises in the Tusas Mountains, a subrange of the San Juan Mountains, and runs generally southwest to a confluence with the Rio Chama, part of the larger Rio Grande system. The river is formed by two streams, the 8.74-mile (14.07 km) West Fork and the 8.44-mile (13.58 km) East Fork, which converge at Brazos Meadows, just outside the western boundary of the Carson National Forest. For its first few miles, it flows south as a slow-moving, meandering mountain stream. East of Brazos Peak, it swings abruptly west into the Brazos Box, one of the largest canyons in New Mexico with a maximum depth of more than 1,400 feet (430 m). Here, it passes the Brazos Cliffs, receives Gavilan and Encinado Creeks, and picks up an unnamed tributary which feeds Brazos Falls, reputedly New Mexico's highest waterfall with a total drop of 2,400 feet (730 m). Northeast of Tierra Amarilla, the river emits from the mountains, receiving Chavez Creek from the right. It passes the settlements of Ensenada, Brazos and Los Ojos before flowing into the Rio Chama about 90 miles (140 km) northwest of Santa Fe. The Brazos is a perennial stream, reaching its highest flows in April and early May from snowmelt in the mountains, and is subject to occasional flash floods caused by summer thunderstorms. Although most of the river's length provides good fishing for brown and rainbow trout, especially the upper section which is one of the largest high-meadow streams in New Mexico, most of the drainage is private property making it largely inaccessible for recreation. Although most of the Brazos flows through wild lands, the river is heavily used for irrigation in the last 5 miles (8.0 km), with multiple acequias (irrigation ditches) drawing off water. As a result, this section of the river often shrinks to a trickle during the dry season. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists the water quality for the last 3.52 miles (5.66 km) of the river as \"impaired\", owing mainly to agricultural runoff and heavy summer water diversions. | Place | Stream | River |
The Vysshaya Liga (Вышэйшая ліга) is the second level ice hockey league in Belarus. It lies below the Belarusian Extraliga. | Agent | SportsLeague | IceHockeyLeague |
The State Great Khural (Mongolian: Улсын Их Хурал, Ulsyn Ikh Hural, also State Great Hural; English: State Great Assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Mongolia. It is located in the Government Palace. | Agent | Organisation | Legislature |
Fanny Cagnard (born 17 March 1981) is a French former competitive figure skater. She finished in the top ten at two World Junior Championships – 1997 and 1998 – and competed at three Champions Series events. After retiring from competition, she began coaching in Amiens. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
Anton Vladimirovich Sereda (Russian: Антон Владимирович Середа; born 18 January 1980) is a Russian professional football player. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Elgin v. Department of Treasury, 567 U.S. ___ (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case where the court ruled that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) gives exclusive jurisdiction for claims under the Act to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Additionally, the Court held that the Act bars federal district courts from ruling on matters related to the act including adverse employment actions of the federal departments, and allows the Merit Systems Protection Board to hear constitutional arguments for wrongful employee severance and adverse employment actions. It was a 6-3 decision, with the majority opinion delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas. The case greatly limited the recourse of federal employees to the courts for adverse employment practices, allowing such recourse only to a few, specific courts as aforementioned. | UnitOfWork | LegalCase | SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase |
(For people with the given name Conal, see Conal (given name).) Saint Conal (or Conall) was an Irish bishop who flourished in the second half of the fifth century and ruled over the church of Drum, County Roscommon, the place being subsequently named Drumconnell, after St. Conal. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Niki Wories (born 18 June 1996) is a Dutch figure skater. The 2015 Dutch national senior champion, she has won two senior international medals and qualified for the free skate at three ISU Championships. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
Redmond Barry is a dual player from County Wexford. He played with both the Wexford football & hurling teams in the 2000s. This time has been a successful one for the football team. In 2005 he helped them to a Div 1 National Football League final for the first time in over 50 years but lost out to Armagh on the day. In 2008 Wexford were back in the National League final this time in Div 3 which they won, they later made it to the Leinster Final for the first time since the 1950s and the All Ireland Semi Final for the first time since the 40's. He plays at club level with the St. Anne's club and has won County Championships in both football and hurling. He has also played with UCD and won a Dublin Hurling Championship with them. In November 2013, Barry announced his retirement from inter-county football. In 2014 he joined the Wexford Intermediate hurling team, where scored the winning goal against Kilkenny in the Leinster final. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
Dick Robertson (10 January 1878 – 9 May 1936) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Eleftherotypia (Greek: Ελευθεροτυπία, lit. 'freedom of the press') was a daily national newspaper published in Athens, Greece. Published since 21 July 1975, it was the first newspaper to appear after the fall of the Regime of the Colonels, and for most of its time it has been one of the two most widely circulated newspaper in the country. Generally taking a center-left, socialist stance, it was highly respected for its independence and impartiality. Following the economic downturn in Greece, the newspaper had to file for bankruptcy in 2011. Briefly taken over by a new publisher, it was finally shut down in November 2014. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
The Mexican Open, (currently sponsored by Telcel and HSBC and called the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presented by HSBC), is a joint professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, and held annually in late February at the Fairmont Acapulco Princess in Acapulco, Mexico. It was played on outdoor red clay courts until 2013. The change to hard courts was introduced in 2014. The Mexican Open is part of the ATP World Tour 500 series on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The 2015 edition took place from 21 February to 28 February 2015. The tournament was introduced on the ATP Tour in 1993, and began on the WTA Tour in 2001. It was held in Mexico City from 1993 to 1998, and once more in 2000, before being relocated to Acapulco in 2001. It's the closing leg of the four-ATP tournament Golden Swing. Starting in 2014, the Mexican Open's surface changed from clay to hard courts, serving as a lead-up to the first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season in Indian Wells, United States. | Event | Tournament | WomensTennisAssociationTournament |
Centrolene quindianum is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family.It is endemic to Colombia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers.It is threatened by habitat loss. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
The 2006 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final (sponsored by Guinness) was a hurling match played on Sunday 25 June 2006 at Semple Stadium, Thurles, County Tipperary,. It was contested by Cork and Tipperary. Cork captained by Pat Mulcahy claimed the title beating Tipperary on a scoreline of 2-14 to 1-14.The match was shown live in Ireland as part of the Sunday Game live on RTÉ Two. Tipperary forward Lar Corbett got the opening goal of the game when he shot low to beat Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack in the fourth minute. Cusack went on to make two saves in the first half as the teams were level at half time. | Event | SportsEvent | FootballMatch |
The Sir Edmund Hillary Library (also known as Papakura Library) is a suburban library in Auckland, New Zealand. Papakura’s first municipal library was established in 1914 when the Papakura Town Board took over a small subscription library run by the Papakura Literary Association since 1871. One of the library’s first homes was a former toll-house beside the Great South Road, but over the years the library service was moved several times until (by now known as the Sir Edmund Hillary Library) it finally moved into its present home in the Accent Point building in 2010. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | Library |
Eudonia oenopis is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is endemic to Molokai, Maui and Hawaii. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Luna E-1 No.1, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1958A, was a Soviet Luna E-1 spacecraft which was intended to impact the Moon. It did not accomplish this objective as it was lost in a launch failure. It was the first of four E-1 missions to be launched. Luna E-1 No.1 was a 361-kilogram (796 lb) spacecraft which marked the first Soviet attempt to send a spacecraft to the Moon. It was also the first mission of the Luna programme. The spacecraft was intended to release 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of sodium, in order to create a \"comet\" of the metal which could be observed from Earth, allowing the spacecraft to be tracked. Prior to the release of information about its mission, NASA correctly identified that it had been an attempted lunar impact mission. Chief Designer Sergei Korolev's ambitious space plans were being continually frustrated by design changes to the R-7 missile, launch failures, and the fact that the ICBM program took priority. On 10 July 1958, a test version of the Luna booster was flown which had a dummy upper stage (live avionics, but no engine) in order to try out the modifications to the R-7, which included a stronger airframe to support the added weight of the upper stage and more powerful engines (these engines had first been tested on Sputnik 3's booster a few months earlier). At liftoff, the Blok D strap-on suffered an engine malfunction and broke off of the booster, impacting on the pad and exploding. The rest of the R-7 crashed a few hundred feet away. This accident, which caused considerable damage to LC-1, was traced to high-frequency vibrations in the Blok D's combustion chamber, something that would become a persistent problem on R-7 launches over the next two years. Since the first Luna probe was scheduled for launch in a month, repairs on the pad were done at breakneck speed. As Korolev knew that the United States was planning to launch a lunar probe on 17 August, he faced considerable pressure getting the Luna and its booster ready for launch. Despite a number of technical issues, the pad crews managed to get the booster ready on the 17th, but Korolev instead decided to let the US flight go first on the reasoning that the Luna probe had a shorter trajectory to travel and would reach the Moon first. After that launch ended in a booster explosion, he decided to postpone the flight until the glitches with the 8K72 and Luna could be worked out. Luna E-1 No.1 was launched on 23 September 1958 atop a Luna 8K72 carrier rocket, flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Ninety two seconds after launch, longitudinal resonance within the rocket's strap-on booster rockets caused the vehicle to disintegrate. | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
King of the Ring (1999) was the seventh annual King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was presented by Super Soaker and took place on June 27, 1999, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The main show included ten matches in total with several matches preceding the Pay Per View (PPV) portion of the show, broadcast on live television as part of the WWF's Sunday Night Heat show. The main event was a Ladder match featuring Shane McMahon and Vince McMahon defeating Stone Cold Steve Austin for the control of the WWF. The other main match was a WWF Championship match where The Undertaker defeated The Rock to retain the title. Additional featured matches on the undercard included the KOTR tournament final between Billy Gunn and X-Pac, which Billy Gunn won to win the overall tournament and a Tag team match between The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) defeating The Brood (Edge and Christian). | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
The Farol da Ribeira Brava is a small lighthouse on the south coast of the island of Madeira, Portugal. The lighthouse was built in 1930 on top of a promontory at a focal height of 34 metres, located 16 km west of the city of Funchal. | Place | Tower | Lighthouse |
\"Black Coffee\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Lacy J. Dalton. Released in 1990, it was the first single from her album Lacy J. The song reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in June 1990. As of 2014, it is the last song of Dalton's to reach the country charts; like many other country singers, she fell out of favor in the early 1990s as a new generation of country music rose to mainstream prominence. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Henk van Brussel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛŋk fɑmˈbrɵsəl]; 12 June 1936 – 7 October 2007) was a football player and manager from the Netherlands who worked for Go Ahead Eagles, Rohda Raalte (amateurs), SC Heerenveen, De Graafschap, FC Groningen and SC Heracles. Van Brussel died from heart failure during a vacation stay in Turkey. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Zhi Wei Chang (born 17 February 1986) is a Malaysian female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, United States. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Tiantong Temple (Chinese: 天童寺; pinyin: Tiāntóngsì) is a Buddhist temple located in Taibai Mountain of Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, in the People's Republic of China. The temple covers a total area of 76,400 square metres (822,000 sq ft), with more than 38,800 square metres (418,000 sq ft) of floor space. Tiantong Temple is listed as one of the \"Five Chan Buddhism Temples\". Tiantong Temple is the cradle of Japanese Buddhism Sōtō. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
The Diocese of Meath (Irish: Deoise na Mí) is a Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses which belong to the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. The incumbent ordinary is the Most Reverend Michael Smith, who succeeded to the title on 16 May 1990. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
Henry Franklin House (February 18, 1930 – March 13, 2005), nicknamed \"Pig\", was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Detroit Tigers (1950–51, 1954–57, 1961), Kansas City Athletics (1958–59) and Cincinnati Reds (1961). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. In a 10-season career, House posted a .248 batting average with 47 home runs and 235 RBI in 653 games. As a catcher, in 580 games he compiled a .988 fielding percentage with 2934 putouts, 258 assists, and 34 errors in 2934 total chances. A native of Bessemer, Alabama, House signed out of high school with the Tigers in 1948 for one of the biggest bonuses of the time – $75,000 and two automobiles, according to news reports. House made his debut in 1950 at 20 years of age. He earned his nickname as a baby, when his family used to say he was \"big as a house\" and he twisted \"big\" into \"pig\". As a player, he stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). His mother-in-law said the nickname came about when he came in very dirty from playing outside and his mother told him \"you're dirty as a little pig, Frank.\" House was known as a solid defensive catcher with a fast release and a strong arm. He also called a good game and was great at blocking the plate. His most productive season came in 1955 when he hit .259 with 15 home runs and 53 RBI in 102 games. On April 21, 1958, House scored two runs as a pinch-hitter in an eight-run eighth inning, in a 9-4 Athletics victory over the Cleveland Indians. House's feat was only the sixth such occurrence in major league history. House later served in the Alabama Legislature, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1967. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1975 and was honored in 2004 when the Hall instituted the Frank \"Pig\" House Award to recognize contributors to state sports. A municipal golf course in his home town of Bessemer, Alabama, bears his name. House died in Birmingham, Alabama, at age 75. His interment was in Bessemer's Cedar Hill Cemetery. | Agent | Athlete | BaseballPlayer |
1751 Herget, provisional designation 1955 OC, is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana on 27 July 1955. The S-type asteroid is a member of the Gefion family. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.3–3.3 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,701 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.18 and is tilted by 8 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. Little is known about the asteroids size, albedo and rotation, despite having a well-observed orbit with the lowest possible uncertainty (i.e. a condition code of 0) and an observation arc that spans over a period of more than 60 years. The minor planet was named in honor of American astronomer Paul Herget (1908–1981), who was director of the Cincinnati Observatory and distinguished service professor in the University of Cincinnati. He was also founder of the Minor Planet Center in 1947, pioneer in the application of high speed computers to astronomical problems, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and past president of IAU's Commission 20 (Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites). | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Johannes \"Hannes\" von Lahnstein II (formerly known as Hannes von Anstetten) is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). He is the son of Tanja von Anstetten and Ansgar von Lahnstein. The character was played by child actors Daniel and Simon Kühn from 20 March 2006 to 24 November 2008. Hannes was recast with child actor Jonas Enderer, who debuted in the role on 28 November 2008. He was last seen in June 2011 and then recast with Melvin-Maxmilian Eisenstein, who debuted on 21 December 2011. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Héctor Velázquez Moreno (born Mexico City, 1922 – died 2006) was a Mexican architect. | Agent | Person | Architect |
Ted W. Lieu (born March 29, 1969) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 33rd congressional district since 2015. He was a California State Senator, who represented the 28th Senate District from February 2011 to November 2014, after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Senator Jenny Oropeza. Lieu was also a California State Assemblyman, who represented the 53rd Assembly District from September 2005 to November 2010, after being elected to fill the seat of deceased Assemblyman Mike Gordon. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
The New South Wales regional leagues are the fifth level of soccer in New South Wales, and the sixth nationally. The league consists of nineteen separate regional senior leagues and is administered by Football New South Wales. The Albury-Wodonga Football Association, which in addition to clubs from southern NSW, includes several clubs based in northern Victoria, is also run by Football NSW. There is no promotion to NSW State League however clubs may apply to join. | Agent | SportsLeague | SoccerLeague |
Face the Music is a musical, the first collaboration between Moss Hart (book) and Irving Berlin (music and lyrics). Face the Music opened on Broadway in 1932, and has had several subsequent regional and New York stagings. The popular song \"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee\" was introduced in the musical. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
East 17 are an English pop boy band group currently consisting of original members John Hendy and Terry Coldwell and newest addition to the line-up Robbie Craig. The original line-up also featured Brian Harvey and Tony Mortimer. The group achieved 18 Top 20 singles and four Top 10 albums, and were one of the UK's most popular boy bands during the early to mid-1990s, aided by strong tabloid interest in their 'bad boy' image compared to the 'clean cut' image of rivals Take That. Their style blended pop and rap in songs such as \"House of Love\" and \"Let It Rain\". The group have currently (based on BPI certifications) sold a minimum of 1.8 million albums and 1.8 million singles in the UK alone. As of April 2012, the group have sold 18 million records worldwide. | Agent | Group | Band |
Peter Leslie Pike (born 26 June 1937) is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Burnley, from 1983 until 2005. During 2002, he announced his intention to retire as an MP at the next election. In December 2002, Labour announced they were preparing to choose a woman as his successor. In January 2003, an All-Women Shortlist was made over his successor. His youngest daughter, Jane, was an firm favourite of becoming the next MP for Burnley, but she did not make the shortlist. In February 2004, Kitty Ussher was chosen as his successor. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
Giuseppe Zanardelli (October 29, 1826 – December 26, 1903) was an Italian jurisconsult, nationalist and political figure. He was the Prime Minister of Italy from February 15, 1901 to November 3, 1903. He was a distinguished jurist and eloquent orator. Zanardelli, representing the bourgeoisie from Lombardy, personified the classical 19th-century left liberalism, committed to suffrage expansion, anticlericalism, civil liberties, free trade and laissez-faire economics. Throughout his long political career he was among the most ardent advocats of freedom of conscience and divorce. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The 1977 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 83rd overall and 44th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 20th year, and played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eleven wins and one loss (11–1 overall, 7–0 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a victory over Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl. \n* Source: Rolltide.com: 1977 Alabama football schedule | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | NCAATeamSeason |
Lee Kyung Eun (born 14 February 1992) is a South Korean group rhythmic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Destination X (2011) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on July 10, 2011 at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida. Destination X was promoted with the tagline \"Forward to the Past\", as an all X Division event to commemorate the division that helped pave the way for the company long-term by bringing in popularity with its extraordinary athletic showcases. It was the seventh event under the Destination X chronology—first to be held in July—and the seventh event of the 2011 TNA PPV schedule. The main event on the card featured two pioneers of the X Division in a battle, where A.J. Styles took on Christopher Daniels, which Styles won after hitting the Spiral Tap, a reference of his victory at the second TNA weekly PPV, where he became the first-ever TNA X Division Champion. The other main match on the card was Abyss defending the X Division Title against Brian Kendrick in a match that Kendrick prevailed in following a roll up. Other matches on the undercard included a Four Way X Division Showcase tournament final match for an exclusive TNA contract as Austin Aries defeated Jack Evans, Low Ki and Zema Ion, Rob Van Dam defeating Jerry Lynn, and an Ultimate X match, where Alex Shelley defeated Amazing Red, Robbie E and Shannon Moore to become contender to the X Division Title. The event was mostly received positively by wrestling critics. It was rated 8 out of 10 by Canadian Online Explorer's pro wrestling section, SLAM! Sports. | Event | SportsEvent | WrestlingEvent |
Col. Ulius Louis Amoss (1895–1961) was a US intelligence officer who wrote the original essay on Leaderless Resistance in the 1950s after he retired and was upset with what he wrote was bad operational practices of the Central Intelligence Agency. According to Amoss, resistance cells with members who made contact with U.S. intelligence agents or émigré ethnic anticommunist organizations were being penetrated by Soviet and Soviet Bloc intelligence agencies, broken up, the members tortured, and sometimes executed. Therefore, Amoss urged U.S. intelligence policy be shifted from an old-fashioned hierarchical model such as that used in WWII with resistance organizations, and refocused on encouraging “Leaderless Resistance to destabilize and subvert Soviet occupation of Eastern European countries such as Poland, the example he cites in detail in his essay. Amoss warned that traditional hierarchical underground cells organized by the CIA in Eastern Europe were being penetrated and liquidated by Soviet and Eastern Bloc counterintelligence operations. Amoss: “we do not need ‘leaders’; we need leading ideas. These ideas would produce leaders. The masses would produce them and the ideas would be their inspiration. Therefore, we must create these ideas and convey them to the restless peoples concerned with them.”In 1961 leaflets were airdropped over Cuba by anti-Castro Cuban exiles and their allies with close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. The leaflets used the concept of Leaderless Resistance and called for the creation of “Phantom Cells” (Celulas Fantasmas). There was no apparent connection between Amoss and the leaflets, according to Michael Paulding, who is writing a book on an early OSS figure and has studied Amoss and his work. Amoss died in November 1961, a few months after the failed CIA-orchestrated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Amoss’s Leaderless Resistance essay is republished posthumously in 1962 in the INFORM newsletter, having been rewritten from the 1953 original by a freelancer, according to Paulding. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
Specavia (or Volgograd-Spetsavia, Russian Волгоград-СпецАвиа)) was a cargo airline based in Volgogrod, Russia. It was established in 1997 and ceased operations due to bankruptcy in 2006. Bankruptcy was blamed on a 50% drop in demand which led to a 20% fall in income in 2005. The airline ceased operations with debts of over 10 million roubles. Before operations ceased, Specavia specialised in crop-spraying but also carried out passenger and cargo charters as well as medical flights and search-and-rescue missions. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Con Kennedy (10 June 1879 – 24 June 1950) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
The Birthday Card Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres, held at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Watch the Birdie! is a 1964 comedy play by Norman Krasna. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
Bertin Ebwellé Ndingué (born 11 September 1962 in Yaoundé) is a retired professional footballer who represented Cameroon at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He also took part in 1992 African Nations Cup. He played club football with Tonnerre Yaoundé, Persisam Putra Samarinda and Olympic Mvolyé. He coached Tonnerre Yaoundé. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
Frederick Irwin Dretske (December 9, 1932 – July 24, 2013) was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Born to Frederick and Hattie Dretske, he first planned to be an engineer, attending Purdue University. He changed his mind after taking the university's only philosophy course, deciding philosophy was the only thing he wanted to do in his life. After graduating in 1954 with a degree in electrical engineering and serving in the Army, he enrolled in graduate school in philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where he received his PhD in 1960. His dissertation, supervised by May Brodbeck, was on the philosophy of time. Dretske’s first academic appointment was to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1960, where he rose to the rank of full Professor. In 1988 he was recruited to Stanford University, where he was the Bella and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor of Philosophy. He remained at Stanford until his retirement in 1998, after which he was Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Stanford and Senior Research Scholar in Philosophy at Duke University until his death. Dretske held externalist views about the mind, and thus he tried in various writings to show that by means of mere introspection one actually learns about his or her own mind less than might be expected. His later work centered on conscious experience and self-knowledge, and he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2003. Upon his death, he was survived by his second wife Judith Fortson, by his children Kathleen Dretske and Ray Dretske, and by a stepson, Ryan Fortson. | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
The Arlington Sprint Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of July at Arlington Park Racetrack in Arlington Heights, Illinois. A non-graded stakes open to horses age three and older, it is a sprint race contested on turf over a distance of 5 1⁄2 furlongs. Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the 2009 Arlington Sprint automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Inaugurated in 1990 as the Arlington Sprint Championship, the name was changed to the Arlington Breeders' Cup Sprint for the 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, and 2004 through 2006 editions. It was given its present name in 2007. Since inception in 1990, the Arlington Sprint has been contested at various distances on bothg dirt and turf: \n* 7 furlongs on dirt : 1990 \n* 6 furlongs on dirt : 1996-2007 \n* 5.5 furlongs on turf : 2008-present There was no race run from 1991-1995 and 1998-1999. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
John Michael Saint (born 31 January 1969, in Auburn, New South Wales), is an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers from the 1995/96 season, until the 1997/98 season, but failed to hold down a regular berth in the side. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
The 1998 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 30th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Marian Bergeson Aquatic Center in Newport Beach, California during December 1998. USC defeated Stanford in the final, 9–8 (in two overtimes), to win their first national title. The Trojans had previously gone 0–6 in tournament finals appearances. The Trojans (25–3) were coached by John Williams and Jovan Vavic. The Most Outstanding Players of the tournament were Chris Aguilera (Stanford), Ivan Babic (USC), and Marko Pintaric (USC). These three, along with five other players, comprised the All-Tournament Team. The tournament's leading scorer, with 5 goals, was George Csaszar from USC. | Event | Tournament | SoccerTournament |
Craig W. Hartman, FAIA is an architect and the Design Partner of the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill San Francisco, California office. His most prominent work includes the Cathedral of Christ the Light for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland. It is the first cathedral in the world built entirely in the 21st century. He also completed the International Terminal at the San Francisco International Airport, The Harvard University Northwest Science Building, and the new US Embassy in Beijing. | Agent | Person | Architect |
Diario de Manila was a Spanish language newspaper published in the Philippines, founded on October 11, 1848, and closed down by official decree on February 19, 1898, after the colonial authorities discovered that its installations were being used to print revolutionary material. The Diario was edited by Felipe del Pan and published by the Ramirez y Compañia, whose headquarters were based in Intramuros, Manila, and its business and editorial offices in Binondo. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
Aengnam Station is a closed railway station in South Korea. It was on Gyeongjeon Line. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
The McConnell Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located east of Moose Valley and west of McConnell Creek in northern British Columbia, Canada. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Warrigal Road is a major inner urban road in southeastern Melbourne, Australia. On weekdays, it is heavily trafficked as it runs through many major suburbs along its route, traversing Melbourne's inner eastern and south-eastern suburbs. This includes suburbs Chadstone, Oakleigh, and Cheltenham. The Chadstone Shopping Centre can be accessed directly from Warrigal Road at its eastern entrance. It carries Metropolitan Route Number 15 for its entire length, and also contains Route Number 14 between Kingston Road, Heatherton and South Road, Moorabbin East. Warrigal Road begins at a t-intersection with no traffic lights at Beach Road, Mentone, with the road being a dual-lane arterial road and the speed limit at 60 km/h. From here it passes through Nepean Highway, Mentone and becomes a four-lane arterial road. Just before the intersection of Bernard Street, Cheltenham North, the speed limit becomes 70 km/h and the road turns into a six-lane dual carriageway. It continues like this until the intersection of Old Dandenong Road, Oakleigh South, where it returns to a four-lane arterial road again and the speed limit is reduced back to 60 km/h. Between here and Princes Highway, it passes Oakleigh Shopping Centre. At Princes Highway the road once again becomes a six-lane dual carriageway (continuing at 60 km/h) where it travels under the Monash Freeway bridge in Chadstone. At High Street Road, Ashwood, the road returns to a four-lane arterial road. The road continues up and down steep gradients until it reaches its end at Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills. Warrigal Road is aligned with the 1 mile (1.6 km) cadastral survey grid of Melbourne, and is 8 miles (13 km) east of the survey datum at Batman's Hill. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Road |
Hilgard Peak is the tallest mountain in the Madison Range in the U.S. state of Montana. The summit is located in a remote section of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness within the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The peak was first climbed in 1948. The peak was named for E. W. Hilgard, a geology professor who served on the Hayden Expedition during its exploration of the Yellowstone area. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Ecologists and Civic Networks (Italian: Ecologisti e Reti Civiche) was a green coalition of parties in Italy. Modelled on the French Europe Ecology – The Greens, the coalition was launched in November 2011. Its core is composed by the Federation of the Greens. On 4 May 2013, coalition voted to disband. | Agent | Organisation | PoliticalParty |
Jessica Pantieri (born 2 February 1991) is a French group rhythmic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2007 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
Dan Pifer (born c. 1972) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan. Pifer was the head coach for the United Indoor Football league's now-defunct Fort Wayne Freedom. Pifer was an assistant offensive coordinator, running backs coach, and strength and conditioning coach for former Fort Wayne Freedom and current Trine University head coach Matt Land. He has served as quarterbacks coach in the past. He was a 1990 graduate of Celina High School. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
James \"Jimmy\" Smyth (1 January 1931 – 9 February 2013) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward for the Clare senior team. Smyth made his first appearance for the team during the 1948–49 National Hurling League and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1967 championship. During that time he enjoyed little success, winning one Oireachtas medal and one Thomond Feis medal. A Munster final runner-up on two occasions, Smyth is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have won an All-Ireland medal. At club level Smyth was a five-time county club championship medallist with Ruan. In retirement from play Smyth came to be regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time. In 1984 he was named on a special Hurling Team of the Century made up of players never to have won an All-Ireland medal. In 2000 he was named on the Munster Hurling Team of the Millennium. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
James Grattan (born July 28, 1974) is a Canadian curler. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Grattan lives in Oromocto, New Brunswick. He plays out of the Gage Golf & Curling Club. Grattan's best personal result as a skip at the brier is third place (1997). In 2002-2004 he played third for Russ Howard. He skipped again in 2006 (5–6 in Regina) and 2008 (2-9 Winnipeg) and played third for Russ in 2009 (6-5 Calgary). His occupation is an Air Canada customer service agent. Grattan curled with Charlie Sullivan, Steven Howard, and Pete Case in the 2010-2011 curling season. For the 2012-13 Season Grattan will be joining 2005 Canadian junior champion brothers Jason and Darren Roach 2005, as Steve Howard and Charlie Sullivan have moved on to other interests. Grattan qualified for his 10th Brier by winning the 2013 Molson Canadian Men's Provincial Curling Championship. He finished 5-6 at the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier in Edmonton. In 2014-2015 James and company lost the Provincial Final to Jeremy Mallais. Grattan has been very outspoken on the new relegation format brought to the Brier in 2015. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, UCV Television, is the oldest TV channel of Chile. Founded in 1957 (October 5), it currently airs in Santiago on channel 5. Its headquarters are in Viña del Mar, Chile where it broadcasts on channel 4 VHF. Also it owns VHF stations in La Serena (9), Puerto Montt (8) and Cohaique (3). Additionally it covers all of Chile through its satellite signal (Intelsat 1R). | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
Soul Eater (Japanese: ソウルイーター Hepburn: Sōru Ītā) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the \"Death Weapon Meister Academy\", the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and (at least one) weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a \"death scythe\" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster Shinigami, the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise, they will have to start all over again. The manga is published by Square Enix and was first released as three separate one-shots serialized in two Gangan Powered special editions and one Gangan Wing in 2003. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine from May 12, 2004 to August 12, 2013. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. The English translated version of Soul Eater is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine starting in July 2008, and the first manga volume was released in October 2009. A manga series that runs alongside the main series, titled Soul Eater Not!, began serialization in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on January 12, 2011. A single drama CD was produced on August 31, 2005 which came bundled with an art book. A 51-episode anime adaptation produced by Bones aired on TV Tokyo in Japan from April 2008 to March 2009; Funimation licensed the anime series for North American distribution. An action-adventure video game by Square Enix for the Wii was released in September 2008, and an action video game for the Nintendo DS was released in October 2008. Another action game was released in January 2009 on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. | Work | Comic | Manga |
The Coosa Valley Fair is an annual fair in Floyd County, Georgia. The fair is organized by the Coosa Valley Fair Association, composed of members of the Exchange Club of Rome, Georgia. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee (Latin: Dioecesis Pensacolensis–Talloseiensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. state of Florida. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Miami. The patron saint of the diocese is Saint Thomas More. Its present bishop is Gregory Parkes. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
For the Canadian golfer see Ian Leggatt. Ian Bruce Leggat (born 7 June 1930) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1954. Leggat was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. He attended Nelson College from 1944 to 1948, where he was a prefect and played for the school's 1st XI cricket and 1st XV rugby teams. He played for Central Districts from 1950-51 to 1961-62. In 1952-53 he and Harry Cave added 239 for the ninth wicket for Central Districts against Otago at Dunedin. Leggat scored 142 not out batting at number 10. It was his first fifty in first-class cricket; he did not score another until 1958-59. This innings helped him to score 212 runs at 53.00 in 1952-53; he also took 7 wickets at 40.14. He was a surprise selection for the tour of South Africa in 1953-54. In eight games on the tour he made 138 runs at 12.54 and took 5 wickets at 33.60. He played in the Third Test, making a duck and taking no wickets in three overs, and taking two catches. He scored one more century, 115 against Canterbury in 1959-60, and took his best bowling figures, 5 for 60, against Canterbury in 1961-62. He played in the trial match in 1958-59 and took 4 for 21 and 3 for 27 for South Island against North Island, but was not selected for the subsequent Tests against England. He also played for Nelson in the Hawke Cup from 1947 to 1969. He holds the record for the number of runs in the competition, 2336, and is third in the bowling, with 166 wickets. When a Hawke Cup \"team of the century\" was selected to mark the centenary of the competition in 2011, he was one of the 11 players chosen. His cousin, Gordon Leggat, also played Test cricket for New Zealand. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Rugby Coq Mosan is a Belgian rugby union club currently competing in the Belgian Elite League. The club is based in Berneau in the municipality of Dalhem near Liège in Belgium.The official colours of the club are black and white. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Criterion Summit, elevation about 3,360 feet (1,020 m) above sea level, is a mountain pass in the U.S. state of Oregon that is traversed by U.S. Route 197. It lies south of Maupin, approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of the intersection of Route 197 with U.S. Route 97.A sign and viewpoint map mark the summit. The map shows peaks of the Cascade Range that are visible from this spot, from Broken Top on the southwest to Mount Adams on the northwest. The summit is near the historic unincorporated community of Criterion. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainPass |
Camila Ambrosio (born 30 April 1996) is an Argentine female artistic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She won medals at the 2012 South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2013 South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 2015 South American Artistic Gymnastics Championships including a gold one in the team all-around event in 2012. She competed at the 2015 Pan American Games. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The Hawkesbury River, is a semi–mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary located to the west and north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Hawkesbury River and its associated main tributary, the Nepean River, virtually encircle the metropolitan region of Sydney. There are alsorts of fish/sharks. There are marlin, bullsharks, great white sharks, turtles,crabs, bream, flathead, jewfish, whales, octopus and all sorts of other animals The Hawkesbury River has its origin at the confluence of the Nepean River and the Grose River, to the north of Penrith and travels for approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) in a north–easterly and then south–easterly direction to its mouth at Broken Bay, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Tasman Sea. The Hawkesbury River is the main tributary of Broken Bay. Secondary tributaries include Brisbane Water and Pittwater, that together with the Hawkesbury River flow into the Tasman Sea at Barrenjoey Head. The total catchment area of the river is approximately 21,624 square kilometres (8,349 sq mi) and the area is generally administered by the Hawkesbury–Nepean Catchment Management Authority. The land adjacent to the Hawkesbury River was occupied by the Darkinjung, Darug, Eora, and Kuringgai Aboriginal peoples. They used the river as a source of food and a place for trade. | Place | Stream | River |
K'uk' Bahlam I, also known as Kuk and Bahlum K'uk', (March 30, 397 – 435?), was a founder and ajaw of the ruling dynasty at the Maya city of Palenque. He founded the dynasty on March 10, 431. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Richard H. Bradley is an American developer. He served as Deputy Commissioner of Public Transportation for Hartford, Connecticut. He then became Executive Director of the Downtown Council for Hartford. He was then appointed President of the International Downtown Association in April 1984, where he served until 1996, when he stepped down to become Executive Director the Downtown Washington, D.C. Business Improvement District he helped create. The DC BID has been named one of the most successful in the country; during his tenure there DC went from being deep in debt and taken over by the Federal government to having a vibrant, walkable downtown whose revenues made up nearly half the city budget. | Agent | Person | BusinessPerson |
Adnan Nawaz (Urdu: عدنان نواز) is a British news anchor of Pakistani descent, currently working for the BBC presenting bulletins on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Born in Pakistan in 1968, he graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Econ) International Relations, and then completed an MA in Latin American Politics at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. He began work at the BBC in the early 90s, as a broadcast assistant in the Latin American section of the BBC World Service. A Sony Award winning producer with BBC Radio 5 Live, where he spent five years producing live programmes and making documentaries for Radio 5 and Radio 4, he moved in 2000 to TV Sportsnews, presenting the sport on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. He has reported and presented from the world's biggest sporting events, including the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, ICC Cricket World Cup, Wimbledon and more. Since 2009, he has been reading the news on the BBC News channel and BBC World News Nawaz is well travelled, having lived in the Philippines, Italy, the United States, France, Chile and the UK. He speaks five languages. He has a tendency to wear brightly coloured socks on screen. | Agent | Person | Journalist |
User:RMCD bot/subject notice The Catholic Church in Thailand is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. By the information of Catholic Hierarchy Catalog, there are 292,000 Catholics in Thailand, which represents 0.46% of the total population. There are 10 dioceses with 436 parishes and 662 priests. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
'Golden Jewels' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Neoregelia in the Bromeliad family. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
Hassan Muhammed Lawal is a Nigerian politician from Nasarawa State who has served as Federal Minister of Labour, and then of Works and Housing, between 2004 and 2010. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
(6178) 1986 DA is a metallic asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 February 1986, by Japanese astronomer Minoru Kizawa at Shizuoka Observatory, Japan. As an eccentric Amor asteroid has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.1901 AU (28,400,000 km) and approaches the orbit of Earth from the outside but does not cross it. It crosses however the orbit of Mars and can be classified as a Mars-crosser and also approaches the orbit of Jupiter within 0.5 AU. The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.2–4.5 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,732 days). Its orbit has a high eccentricity of 0.58 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the plane of the ecliptic. The first precovery was taken at Siding Spring Observatory in 1977, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 9 years prior to its discovery. It was most probably formed from a larger body through a catastrophic collision with another object. Radar measurements of this body indicate that the surface is relatively smooth on scales of less than a meter, but it is highly irregular on scales of 10–100 meters. Several light-curve analysis gave it a concurring rotation period of 3.50 to 3.51 hours with a relatively high brightness amplitude between 0.03 and 0.48 in magnitude, indicating an irregular shape (U=3/3/n.a.). The metallic M-type asteroid is notable for being significantly more radar-reflective than other asteroids. Radar measurements suggest it is composed of nickel and iron and that it was derived from the center of a much larger object that experienced melting and differentiation. The observed radar albedo was 0.58 and the optical albedo was 0.14. According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has an albedo of 0.08 and 0.16, and a diameter of 3.1 to 3.2 kilometers, respectively. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link selects 3.15 kilometers as best result, while the first estimate from 1994 gave a diameter of 2.3 kilometers. The asteroid achieved its most notable recognition when scientists revealed that it contained over \"10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum\", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of \"$90 billion for the gold and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel.\" In 2012 the estimated value of 100,000 tons of platinum was worth approximately five trillion US dollars. The delta-v for a spacecraft rendezvous with this asteroid from low earth orbit is 7.1 km/s. | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Arno Brandner is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). The character was portrayed by actor Konrad Krauss, who first appeared in the series premiere on 2 January 1995. The actor took time off from November 2009 to March 2010, from March to June 2011 and from September to December 2011. In recent years, Krauss has become a secondary character who is seen as a supporter of other featured storyline. The character made a return to the front burner one last time with a story about Alzheimer's disease in 2012. On 31 July 2012 it was announced that Krauss will be leaving the show. He last appeared on 11 September 2012. Krauss returned as Arno's spirit for the web special Die längste Nacht von Königsbrunn in 2014. | Agent | FictionalCharacter | SoapCharacter |
Sam Tagataese (pronounced tung-guh-tah-es-sey) (born 8 December 1986 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a rugby league player of Samoan descent who plays for the Cronulla Sharks. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
Selligueeae is a tribe of polypod ferns in the family Polypodiaceae. They are characterized by opaque stem scales. Fronds are monomorphic.This tribe contains at least two genera. | Species | Plant | Fern |
Nathan Craze (born 26 November 1986 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) is a professional ice hockey netminder currently playing for the Edinburgh Capitals in the Elite Ice Hockey League. He has also played for the Great Britain Under-18 and Under-20 national team. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
Citrinophila bennetti is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Cameroon and Gabon. | Species | Animal | Insect |
Robert S. Poston is an American cardiac surgeon at University of Arizona Medical Center most noted for his research in robot-assisted heart surgery and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Dr. Poston’s research interest regarding the mechanism of early graft thrombosis was recognized with a five-year RO1 clinical research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2007. Consistent with his goal of addressing routine clinical problems with a mechanistic based understanding, he has also been awarded grants from Intuitive Surgical to study how robotics accelerates patient recovery time, Maquet to study the impact of endoscopic harvesting techniques on the quality of bypass conduits and Cardiogenesis to study the impact of laser revascularization techniques on bypass graft flow. He has been the first/senior author of 100 papers and abstracts. His research manuscripts are available on pubmed. | Agent | Scientist | Medician |
Maximos Kausokalybites (Greek: Μάξιμος Καυσοκαλυβίτης; died 1365 or 1380; also spelled Kavsokalyvites, Kafsokalyvia, from \"of the burning hut\"), also known as St. Maximos the Hut Burner, was a hesychast monk who lived on Mount Athos in Greece. Some of Maximos' writings on prayer and ascetism are included in the Philokalia. Maximos lived an austere life, mostly as a recluse in crude shelters, moving from time to time to seek further seclusion. His habit of burning his hut at these times resulted in his nickname \"the hutburner.\" Before settling at Mt. Athos, Maximos spent one year in Constantinople acting as a \"holy fool.\" At Mt. Athos, he was a close associate of another renowned hesychast monk, Gregory of Sinai. In spite of his desire for seclusion and obscurity, four writers later wrote vitae on his life and teachings. These include The Life of Maximos by Theophanes and a vitae by his disciple Niphon Kausokalybites. The stories of his life recount that as a child he was devoted to the Virgin Mary and gave his food and clothing to the poor. When his parents arranged his marriage at age 17 he instead moved to Mount Ganos, where he became the student of an elderly monk. Around this time he began his life of austerity, sleeping on the ground, staying awake for long periods, and fasting. After his spiritual father died, he went to Constantinople, where he pretended to be mad while living in the gateway of a famous church. A dream led him to an ascent of Mt. Athos, where he spent three days, ending with a vision of the Virgin Mary, who told him to remain on Mt. Athos. Thus began about ten years of wandering, including his frequent hut burning, ending with a permanent and very austere cell. During his life, he was held in high repute as a holy man and spiritual adviser, admired for his austerity, and a reputation for clairvoyance, prophecy, healing, and exorcizing demons. Legend had him seen flying in the air, turning seawater into drinking water, and more. Before his death, he moved to another location, where he was buried at his request in a grave that he dug himself. The present-day skete of Kapsokalyvia is named after him. He is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on January 13. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
Chad Robb Carvin (born April 13, 1974) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he earned a silver medal by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He also competed in the men's 400-meter freestyle, and finished sixth in the event final with a time of 3:47.58. Carvin attended the University of Arizona, and swam for the Arizona Wildcats swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. | Agent | Athlete | Swimmer |
The BMW M60 is a V8 DOHC piston engine which was BMW's first V8 in over 25 years and was produced from 1992 to 1996. It was replaced with the M62 engine. | Device | Engine | AutomobileEngine |
The Nueva Canción Chilena or \"New Chilean Song” was a movement and genre of Chilean traditional and folk music incorporating strong political and social themes. The movement was to spread throughout Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, in what is called \"Nueva canción\" sparking a renewal in traditional folk music and playing a key role in political movements in the region. The foundations of the Chilean New Song were laid through the efforts of Violeta Parra to revive over 3,000 Chilean songs, recipes, traditions, and proverbs, and it eventually aligned with the 1970 presidential campaign of Salvador Allende, incorporating the songs of Víctor Jara, Inti-Illimani and Quilapayun among others. Other key proponents of the movement include Patricio Manns, Rolando Alarcón, Payo Grondona, Patricio Castillo, Homero Caro, and Kiko Álvarez, as well as non-Chilean musicians, such as César Isella and Atahualpa Yupanqui from Argentina and Paco Ibañéz of Spain. | TopicalConcept | Genre | MusicGenre |
The Roman Catholic Church in Saint Helena is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Together with the islands of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, it forms a mission sui iuris. There is one Catholic Church on St Helena, the Sacred Heart in Jamestown. | Place | ClericalAdministrativeRegion | Diocese |
\"Ruby\" is a song by English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs. It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2007 as the lead single from their second studio album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007). It became the band's first ever number-one single on 25 February 2007 and ended 2007 as the year's 10th biggest-selling single in the UK with total sales of 313,765. A video single of the song was released in the United States at Best Buy stores on 13 March 2007, two weeks before the album was released there, and featured a live version of \"Everything Is Average Nowadays\" and the B-side \"Admire You\" (released on the UK 7\" version). The song has sold 375,000 copies in the UK, as stated by the Official Charts Company. \"Ruby\" also was voted number 13 in the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2007. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
Bob 'Bluestone' Flanigan (25 March 1914 – 12 July 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). His surname has also been spelt Flanagan and Flanegan on some sources. A left footed half back, Flanigan was renowned for his toughness and once fractured his skull while at Footscray. He polled well for Footscray in the 1937 Brownlow Medal where he was their second largest vote getter. In 1941, his first season with Essendon, Flanigan was a losing Grand Finalist but the following year he played as a half back flanker in their premiership team. | Agent | Athlete | AustralianRulesFootballPlayer |
Samar Dubhashi (born 22 September 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Goa in the 2014–15 Ranji Trophy on 6 February 2015. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Melbourne Airport (IATA: MEL, ICAO: YMML), also known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne, and the second busiest airport in Australia. It was opened in 1970 to replace the nearby Essendon Airport. Melbourne Airport is the sole international airport of the four airports serving the Melbourne metropolitan area. The airport is 23 km (14 mi) from the city centre. The airport has its own postcode—Melbourne Airport, Victoria (postcode 3045). This is adjacent to the suburb of Tullamarine. The Melbourne–Sydney air route is the fourth most-travelled passenger air route in the world.The airport features direct flights to 33 domestic destinations of Australia in addition to destinations in the Pacific, London, Asia and North America. Melbourne Airport is the number one arrival/departure point for the airports of four of Australia's seven other capital cities. Melbourne serves as a major hub for Qantas and Virgin Australia, while Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia utilise the airport as home base. There is no rail link from the airport to the city centre, a regular coach service provides public transport to and from the city. Melbourne is the busiest airport for international export freight as of August 2011, while second busiest for import freight. Domestically, Melbourne serves as headquarters for Australian air Express and Toll Priority and handles more domestic freight than any other airport in the nation. In 2003, Melbourne received the International Air Transport Association Eagle Award for service and two National Tourism Awards for tourism services. The airport comprises four terminals: one international terminal, two domestic terminals and one budget domestic terminal. Most recently Melbourne Airport was awarded by Skytrax for having the best Airport hotel in the Australia/Pacific in the World Airport Awards. Melbourne Airport was also ranked the 43rd best airport for 2012. Melbourne reached 30 million passengers for the first time in the 12 months ending July 2013. This increased to 33.1 million passengers per annum by July 2015. | Place | Infrastructure | Airport |
Plamena Mangova (born in Pleven, 1980) is a Bulgarian pianist. At 18 she was awarded the XIV Paloma O'Shea Competition's 3rd prize. Nine years later she took part at the XVI Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, where she was second to Anna Vinnitskaya. She has been active as a concert pianist at an international level since 2000, when she debuted at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet. Her first CD, a Dmitri Shostakovich monographic, was awarded a Diapason d'Or. As a chamber musician she has recorded Sergey Prokofiev's complete works for violin and piano, plus Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, featured in the aforementioned recording. | Agent | MusicalArtist | ClassicalMusicArtist |
The Savoia Excelsior Palace was built in 1911 by the Austrian architect Ladislaus Fiedler with classical sculptures and columns decorating the façade. At the time of its opening in 1912 the hotel was one of the most imposing and luxurious hotels in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Throughout its history the hotel has hosted aristocrats, artists and diplomats, as well as tourists visiting Trieste on their grand tour. Emperor Franz Josef was a frequent guest and his private apartment is preserved intact. The hotel reopened in June 2009 after two and a half years of renovation. | Place | Building | Hotel |
The Shin-Keisei Line (新京成線 Shin-Keisei-sen) is a railway line in Japan owned by the private railway company Shin-Keisei Electric Railway, a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway. The line runs between Matsudo Station in Matsudo, Chiba, and Keisei-Tsudanuma Station in Narashino, Chiba. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | RailwayLine |
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