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SetFit with sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

This is a SetFit model that can be used for Text Classification. This SetFit model uses sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 as the Sentence Transformer embedding model. A LogisticRegression instance is used for classification.

The model has been trained using an efficient few-shot learning technique that involves:

  1. Fine-tuning a Sentence Transformer with contrastive learning.
  2. Training a classification head with features from the fine-tuned Sentence Transformer.

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Label Examples
AgentSportsLeagueIceHockeyLeague
  • "The Russian Women's Hockey League is the national women's ice hockey league in Russia."
  • 'The Irish Ice Hockey League was a top level ice hockey league in Ireland from 2007 until 2010. The official league was founded in 2007, yet amateur leagues have existed since the early 1980s.'
  • "The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup is an annual pre-season ice hockey tournament held in Astana, Kazakhstan. The tournament was first held in 2010 by the initiative of the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev."
UnitOfWorkLegalCaseSupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase
  • 'Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, 416 U.S. 1 (1974) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of a residential zoning ordinance that limited the number of unrelated individuals who may inhabit a dwelling.'
  • 'Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965) was a case in which the United States Supreme Court overturned the fraud conviction of petitioner Billy Sol Estes, holding that his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights had been violated by the publicity associated with the pretrial hearing, which had been carried live on both television and radio. News photography was permitted throughout the trial and parts'
  • 'Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta, 552 U.S. 148 (2008), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court pertaining to the scope of liability of secondary actors, such as lawyers and accountants, for securities fraud under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In a 5-3 decision authored by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Court held that \"aiders and abettors\" of fraud cannot be'
AgentSportsTeamHockeyTeam
  • 'The Cleveland Monsters - previously known as the Lake Erie Monsters - are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The team began play in 2007 and since 2015 has served as the top affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL).'
  • 'Tornado Luxembourg is an ice hockey team in Luxembourg City. The team plays in FFHG Division 3.'
  • 'HK NS Stars is an ice hockey club from Novi Sad, Serbia. The club has sections in junior divisions only.'
AgentGridironFootballPlayerAmericanFootballPlayer
  • 'Marquel Fleetwood (born January 23, 1970) is a former American football quarterback who played four seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders, Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He played college football at the University of Minnesota.'
  • "Alfred Jamison (born November 5, 1937 in Toledo, Ohio) was a college and professional offensive lineman in the 1960s. He played offensive tackle for the American Football League's Houston Oilers."
  • 'Carson Wentz (born December 30, 1992) is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Dakota State University (NDSU).'
SpeciesAnimalReptile
  • 'Oxysdonsaurus is an extinct genus of crocodylid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from the Paraná Basin in Argentina that date back to the Oligocene.'
  • 'Morinosaurus (meaning \"Morini lizard\", for an ancient people of northern France) was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Départment du Pas-de-Calais, France. It is an obscure tooth genus sometimes referred to the Lower Cretaceous English wastebasket taxon Pelorosaurus.'
  • "Stenodactylus doriae, commonly known as the Middle Eastern short-fingered gecko or Doria's comb-fingered gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae."
EventSportsEventGrandPrix
  • 'The 1988 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 11 September 1988 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza. It was the twelfth race of the 1988 season.'
  • 'The 2007 United States Grand Prix (formally the XXXVI RBS United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, in the United States on 15 June 2007. The 73-lap race was the seventh round of the 2007 Formula One season and was won by McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.'
  • 'The 1957 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 20 July 1957 at the Aintree Circuit, near Liverpool. It was the tenth British Grand Prix, and the fifth World Championship race of the 1957 Formula One season.'
PlaceVenueTheatre
  • 'The Tennessee Performing Arts Center, or TPAC, is located in the James K. Polk Cultural Center at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, occupying an entire city block between 5th and 6th Avenues North and Deaderick and Union Streets. Also housing the Tennessee State Museum, the cultural center adjoins the 18-story James K. Polk State Office Building.'
  • 'Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina is a $78.1 million 3,000-seat performing arts facility scheduled to open in 2018. It will replace 2,400-seat War Memorial Auditorium in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex; the auditorium was torn down in October 2014.'
  • 'The Clinton Street Theater is a theater located in southeast Portland, Oregon. It is believed to be the second oldest operating movie house in the city and one of the oldest continually operating cinemas in the United States.'
AgentCompanyRecordLabel
  • 'Metamorfosis is an American record label founded by the Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona in 2011.'
  • 'DFTBA Records is an e-commerce merchandise company that was co-founded by Hank Green and Alan Lastufka in 2008. Originally a record label, the company now focuses on selling merchandise for prominent YouTube stars, such as Green himself, his brother, the novelist John Green, Charlie McDonnell, Rhett and Link, CGP Grey, and Charles Trippy, among several others.'
  • 'Horizon Records was an American independent record label, founded in 1960 by Dave Hubert. It started as a folk and blues label.'
AgentSportsLeagueBasketballLeague
  • 'The Yugoslav Basketball Cup, or Yugoslavian Basketball Cup, was the national basketball cup competition of the former SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia. The first SFR Yugoslav Cup was held in the year 1959, and the last one was held in the year 1990-91 season.'
  • 'The Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol (LSB) (Portuguese: Liga Sul-Americana de Basquete (LSB), English: South American Basketball League) is the second-tier level South American professional basketball competition at the club level, with the first being the FIBA Americas League. It is organized by the South American Basketball Association (ABASU), which operates as a regional sub-zone of FIBA Americ'
  • 'The American Basketball League played one full season, 1961–1962, and part of 1962–1963. The league actually folded on December 31, 1962.'
PlaceBuildingPrison
  • 'Arizona State Prison Complex – Douglas is one of 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). ASPC-Douglas is located in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona, 248 miles southeast from the state capital of Phoenix, Arizona.'
  • 'B.B. \"Sixty\" Rayburn Correctional Center is a Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Washington Parish, Louisiana, near Angie.'
  • 'Huttonsville Correctional Center is a prison located near Huttonsville in Randolph County, West Virginia. It was created by an act of the Legislature in 1937 to relieve overcrowding at the West Virginia State Penitentiary.'
AgentBoxerAmateurBoxer
  • 'Juan Carlos Montiel (born November 12, 1965 in Montevideo) is a retired male boxer from Uruguay. He competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games during his career as an amateur.'
  • "Manuel Mantilla (born September 25, 1973) is an amateur boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country in the Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) category at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals by Thailand's eventual gold medalist Wijan Ponlid."
  • 'Katsuaki Susa (須佐 勝明 Susa Katsuaki, born September 13, 1984 in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima) is a Japanese boxer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the flyweight division (– 52 kg). He is an alumnus of the Toyo University, and is Second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.'
WorkMusicalWorkSingle
  • '\"Voices Green and Purple\" is a song by the Bees, an American garage rock and psychedelic band from Covina, California who were active in the mid-1960s. It has been mentioned as an innovative example of early protopunk and has become highly prized by various garage rock collectors and enthusiasts.'
  • '(For the Deerhunter song, see Fading Frontier.) \"Snakeskin\" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Gyroscope, from the album Breed Obsession.'
  • '\"Don't Know How to Be\" is a song by the band God Lives Underwater. It was originally released on their album Empty in 1995, resulting in significant airplay.'
AgentOrganisationPoliticalParty
  • 'The Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Kurdish: بزووتنةوي ئيسلامي لة كوردستان, or: Bizûtinewey Îslamî le Kurdistan) is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political \"Union of Religious Scholars\" (Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami). The party's main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah.'
  • 'National Action (Italian: Azione Nazionale, AN) is a conservative political party in Italy. Its members initially insisted that National Action, whose acronym is intentionally identical to that of the defunct National Alliance, was not a party, but a cultural association.'
  • "People's Party of Panama (Spanish: Partido del Pueblo de Panamá, PPP) is a communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (Partido Comunista de Panamá, PCP), after Panamian communists broke away from the Labour Party."
AgentPersonJournalist
  • "Tom Bowman is National Public Radio's Pentagon reporter, having been an investigative reporter for the Baltimore Sun for 19 years prior to that."
  • "Charles Frederick Pardon (28 March 1850 - 18 April 1890) was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack between 1887 and 1890. His father was the journalist George Frederick Pardon."
  • "James O'Toole is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania, working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as the politics editor. Prior to that, O'Toole has held several positions for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, including the Pennsylvania State Capitol correspondent, United States Capitol correspondent, state editor, and supervisor of the paper's public opinion polling division."
WorkWrittenWorkPoem
  • '\"The Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment\" is a religious poem by clergyman Michael Wigglesworth that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662. The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the various categories of people who think th'
  • 'Gunslinger is the title of a long poem in six parts by Ed Dorn.'
  • 'Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by William Wordsworth, published in 1807. It contains many notable poems, including: \n* \"Resolution and Independence\" \n* \"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud\" (sometimes anthologized as \"The Daffodils\") \n* \"My Heart Leaps Up\" \n* \"Ode: Intimations of Immortality\" \n* \"Ode to Duty\" \n* \"The Solitary Reaper\" \n* \"Elegiac Stanzas\" \n*'
PlaceBuildingMuseum
  • 'Antique Powerland is a collection of museums and a self-described heritage site for power equipment, such as farm machinery, commercial trucks, trains, construction equipment, and the engines which power them. It is located in Brooks, Oregon, United States, and is operated by the non-profit Antique Powerland Museum Association.'
  • 'John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life is located in the Black Hawk Museum and Lodge at Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The museum is in an historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the in 1985.'
  • 'The Cité de l'Or (\"The City of Gold\") is an attraction located in Val-d'Or, in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. It has been operating since 1995 as a place where people can see what gold mining was like, by touring the underground Lamaque Gold Mine and the Bourlamaque historic mining village.'
SpeciesPlantGreenAlga
  • 'Trichosarcina is a genus of green algae, in the family Chaetophoraceae. Filoprotococcus is a synonym.'
  • 'In taxonomy, Flabellia is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Codiaceae.'
  • 'In taxonomy, the Chaetopeltidales are an order of green algae, specifically the Chlorophyceae.'
AgentAthleteSoccerPlayer
  • 'Yevgeni Ivanovich Izvekov (Russian: Евгений Иванович Извеков; born June 24, 1988) is a Russian professional football player. In 2009, he played in the Russian Second Division for FC Zodiak-Oskol Stary Oskol.'
  • 'Aang Suparman is an Indonesian footballer who plays for Gresik United F.C. in Indonesia Super League.'
  • 'Aleksei Sergeyevich Kovalyov (Russian: Алексей Серге́евич Ковалёв; born June 8, 1995) is a Russian football defender who last played for FC Energiya Volzhsky. He made his debut in the Russian Second Division for FC Energiya Volzhsky on July 17, 2013 in a game against FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk.'
AgentSportsTeamRugbyClub
  • "The Great Britain national rugby sevens team is the women's Olympic representative team of Great Britain at the rugby sevens tournament at the Summer Olympic Games. The team played their first competitive match at the 2016 Summer Olympics after England finished in an Olympic qualifying place at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series."
  • 'Pontypridd Rugby Football Club, known as Ponty, are a rugby union team from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and are the current Principality Premiership Champions, a title which they have achieved in the last four consecutive seasons. Established in 1876, Pontypridd RFC play their home games on the banks of the River Rhondda, at Sardis Road, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, with their'
  • 'The Highlanders (known as the Pulse Energy Highlanders for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as the Otago Highlanders) are a New Zealand professional rugby union team based in Dunedin that compete in Super Rugby. The team represents the North Otago, Otago and Southland unions.'
WorkMusicalWorkClassicalMusicComposition
  • 'An Oxford Elegy is a work for narrator, small mixed chorus and small orchestra, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1947 and 1949. It uses portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold, The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis.'
  • 'Freuet Euch des Lebens (Enjoy Life), op. 340, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II.'
  • "Jedermann (Everyman, Finnish: Jokamies), Op. 83, is incidental music by Jean Sibelius to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play of the same name."
AgentAthleteSquashPlayer
  • 'André Haschker, (born 16 February 1983 in Dresden) is a professional squash player who represents Germany. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No.'
  • 'Joel Hinds, (born 18 June 1987 in Derby) is a professional squash player who represents England. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No.'
  • 'Jan Koukal, (born June 20, 1983 in Prague) is a professional squash player who represented Czech Republic. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No.'
WorkCartoonHollywoodCartoon
  • 'Rocket Squad is a 1956 Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short produced by Eddie Selzer. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as futuristic space cops who patrol the Milky Way Galaxy.'
  • 'Wise Quackers is a 1949 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the Looney Tunes series. It was directed by Friz Freleng.'
  • 'Oily Hare is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short, released in 1952, directed by Robert McKimson, written by Tedd Pierce, and starring Bugs Bunny. The title is a pun on oily hair, as with the earlier cartoon Slick Hare, along with the plot-line actually having to do with oil.'
AgentSportsTeamCanadianFootballTeam
  • 'The Shenzhen Naja are a professional arena football team based in Shenzhen, China. They are members of the China Arena Football League (CAFL).'
  • "The Manitoba Fearless are one of two Winnipeg-based women's tackle football teams in the Western Women's Canadian Football League competing in the Prairie Conference. Founded in 2007, the Fearless are a charter member of the WWCFL, of which the league is currently in their fourth season."
  • 'The Halton Spartans are an American Football team based in Widnes/Runcorn,United Kingdom. They are named for the Borough of Halton.'
PlaceSportFacilityCricketGround
  • 'Clifton Villa Estate was a cricket ground in Margate, Kent. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when Kent played Sussex in a first-class match.'
  • 'Moreton-in-Marsh Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The first recorded important match on the ground was in 1884, when Gloucestershire played their first first-class match there against Yorkshire.'
  • 'Cattle Market Ground was a cricket ground in Islington, London (formerly Middlesex). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1863, when Middlesex Clubs played a United England Eleven.'
AgentCompanyBusCompany
  • 'Transdev Burnley & Pendle is a bus operator running services in the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle, and into the surrounding areas including Accrington, Keighley and Manchester. It is a subsidiary of the Transdev Blazefield.'
  • 'The Tillamook County Transportation District (TCTD), branded as The Wave, is a provider of local and intercity bus transportation services in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The district was created by the county, with borders contiguous with those of the County, though it is organizationally independent.'
  • 'The South Clackamas Transportation District (SCTD) is a bus service that provides public transportation in Molalla, Oregon, connecting that city to Clackamas Community College (and TriMet, which formerly provided the service) in Oregon City, and Canby (and Canby Area Transit). The cost to ride to or from CCC is only $1 USD; rides to or from Canby used to be free, but now also cost $1 USD.'
SpeciesEukaryoteFungus
  • 'Helvella fibrosa is a species of fungi in the Helvellaceae family, Pezizales order. It was formerly known as Octospora villosa, originally described by Hedwig in 1789, and was placed in a number of different gerena throughout the decades, including Peziza, Fuckelina, and Cyathipodia.'
  • "Lactarius controversus is a large funnel-capped fungus within the genus Lactarius, which are collectively known as 'milk caps'. They all exude milky drops (lactate) from the flesh and gills when damaged."
  • 'Pyricularia is a genus of fungi in the family Magnaporthaceae.'
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountainRange
  • 'The Ebbe Mountains (German: Ebbegebirge) or Ebbe form a range of uplands up to 663.3 m above sea level (NN) high in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. They have given their name to the Ebbe Mountain Nature Park and are part of the Süder Uplands within the Rhine Massif.'
  • 'The Garfield Hills are a mountain range in Mineral County, Nevada, in the Great Basin.'
  • 'The West Coast Range is a mountain range located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The range lies to the west and north of the main parts of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.'
AgentClericCardinal
  • 'Mario Casariego y Acevedo, CRS (13 February 1909 – 15 June 1983) was a Spanish-born Guatemalan Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Guatemala City from 1964 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.'
  • 'Henri Schwery (born 14 June 1932) is a Cardinal and Bishop Emeritus of Sion, Switzerland.'
  • 'Federico Borromeo (18 August 1564 – 21 September 1631) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Milan.'
SpeciesAnimalFish
  • 'The Cape Fear shiner (Notropis mekistocholas) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is endemic to the central part of the state of North Carolina in the southeastern United States and is only found in the shallow streams of the Cape Fear River basin.'
  • 'Hydrocynus brevis, also known as the tigerfish, Nile tigerfish or Sahelian tigerfish, is a predatory freshwater fish distributed throughout Africa.'
  • 'Mastacembelus cunningtoni is a species of fish in the Mastacembelidae family. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.'
WorkSongEurovisionSongContestEntry
  • '\"Penso em ti, eu sei\" (\"I Think of you, I know\") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, performed in Portuguese by Adelaide. The song is a ballad, with Adelaide telling her lover how she feels as their relationship comes to an end.'
  • '\"I Anixi\" (Greek script: \"Η άνοιξη\", English translation: \"Spring\") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991, performed in Greek by Sophia Vossou. The song was performed fourth on the night (following Malta's Georgina & Paul Giordimaina with \"Could It Be\" and preceding Switzerland's Sandra Simó with \"Canzone per te\").'
  • '\"Miazoume\" (Greek script: \"Μοιάζουμε\", English translation: \"We Resemble\" or \"We Are Alike\") was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, performed in Greek by Takis Biniaris. The song was performed nineteenth on the night (following Luxembourg's Margo, Franck Oliver, Diane Solomon, Ireen Sheer, Malcolm and Chris Roberts with \"Children, Kinder, Enfants\").'
AgentWinterSportPlayerFigureSkater
  • 'Lorna Dyer (born July 3, 1945) is an American ice dancer. With partner John Carrell, she is the 1967 U.S. national champion.'
  • 'Anastasia Andreyevna Gubanova (Russian: Анастасия Андреевна Губанова; born 20 August 2000) is a Russian pair skater. With partner Alexei Sintsov, she won gold at the 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix in the United States and competed at two World Junior Championships, placing fourth in 2015.'
  • 'Bartosz Paluchowski (born June 20, 1989 in Oświęcim) is a Polish pair skater. With partner Malgorzata Lipinska, he placed 15th at the 2008–2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Ostrava, Czech Republic.'
PlaceInfrastructureDam
  • 'Crystal Springs Dam is a gravity dam constructed across the San Mateo Creek, impounding water to form the Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir in San Mateo County, California. It was among the first concrete gravity dams built in the western United States.'
  • 'The Limón Dam, part of the Olmos Transandino Project, is an under construction multi-purpose concrete-face rock-fill embankment dam on the Huancabamba River in northwestern Peru, located to the south of Guabal. When completed, the project will help produce 4,000 gigawatt-hours (14,000 TJ) of electricity per year and transfer water from the Cajamarca region west to Lambayeque, near Olmos for the re'
  • "Casad Dam is a concrete arch dam in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington), built starting in 1955 and completed in 1957. The dam is Kitsap County's only major water diversion structure, impounding Union River to form a reservoir that is the source of over half of Bremerton's municipal water supply."
AgentAthleteDartsPlayer
  • 'Sean Palfrey (born 24 July 1968) is a Welsh former professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation.'
  • 'Dennis Harbour (born 28 June 1961) is an English darts player who currently plays in British Darts Organisation events. His nickname is The Harbour Master.'
  • 'Shaun Greatbatch (born 13 July 1969) is a former English darts player. He lives in Suffolk and works in the construction industry.'
PlaceBuildingHospital
  • 'Eastern State Hospital, located in Lexington, Kentucky, is the second oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States, operating today as a psychiatric hospital with 239 beds providing exclusively inpatient care. The facility has been known, variously, as Fayette Hospital (from 1817 until 1822), Lunatic Asylum (1822-1844), The Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (1844-1849), Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky (1850-'
  • 'The Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma, also known as MCSO, is a hospital located at 1800 University Boulevard in Durant, Oklahoma. The hospital was founded in 1987, replacing the older Bryan Memorial Hospital.'
  • 'HOSMAT, the Hospital for Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Arthritis & Trauma, is a 150-bed speciality hospital in central Bangalore, India. It also includes Hosmat Joint Replacement Center and Hosmat Neurosciences.'
SportsSeasonFootballLeagueSeasonNationalFootballLeagueSeason
  • 'The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season was their second in the All-America Football Conference. The team matched their previous output of 3-10-1.'
  • 'The 1973 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 1st place in the CFL East division with a 9–5 record and won the Grey Cup.'
  • "After what was considered the franchise's greatest season ever in 1976, the 1977 Pittsburgh Steelers won 9 games and appeared in the playoffs for their 6th straight season. The Steelers never as sharp as usual, as they won the AFC Central with a 9–5 record."
WorkComicComicStrip
  • 'Frank and Ernest is an American comic strip created and illustrated by Bob Thaves and later Tom Thaves. It debuted on November 6, 1972, and has since been published daily in over 1,200 newspapers.'
  • 'Six Chix is a collaborative comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate since it debuted in January 2000. The series is drawn by six female cartoonists who rotate the drawing duties through the week based on a fixed schedule: \n* Monday - Isabella Bannerman \n* Tuesday - Margaret Shulock \n* Wednesday - Rina Piccolo \n* Thursday - Anne Gibbons (started July 2007); Carla Ventresca (Octob'
  • 'Baboy Scouts (a spoof of Boy Scouts) is an adventure story arc of the Philippine comic strip series Pugad Baboy, created by Pol Medina Jr. and originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This particular story arc lasts 25 strips long.'
AgentAthleteGaelicGamesPlayer
  • 'Patrick \"Pat\" Nolan (born 1937) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Wexford senior team. Born in Oylegate, County Wexford, Nolan first excelled at hurling in his youth.'
  • 'James \"Jim\" Downing (1946 - 28 April 2012) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder for the Cork senior team. Born in Urhan, County Cork, Downing first excelled at football in his youth.'
  • 'John Browne (born 1977) is an Irish hurler who played as a left corner-back for the Cork senior team. Browne made his first appearance for the team during the 1998 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 2004 championship.'
AgentPoliticianCongressman
  • 'Andrew Jackson Thayer (November 27, 1818 – April 28, 1873) was an attorney and Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon. A native of New York state, he previously worked as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon.'
  • 'John Wood Fishburne (March 8, 1868 – June 24, 1937) was a Virginia Congressman and cousin to Congressmen Fontaine Maury Maverick and James Luther Slayden of Texas. The three men are related to the oceanographer, Matthew Fontaine Maury of Virginia.'
  • 'Julian Minor Quarles (September 25, 1848 – November 18, 1929) was a lawyer, judge and United States Representative from Virginia to the 56th Congress.'
AgentBroadcasterTelevisionStation
  • 'Star Utsav (Hindi: स्टार उत्सव) is a free-to-air Indian television channel that primarily broadcast Hindi entertainment based in Mumbai. It was launched on 1 May 2003.'
  • '(This article is about the TV channel. For the album by Michael Nyman, see La Sept (album).)'
  • 'KEUV-LP is a low-power UHF television station operating on Channel 31 in Eureka, California. KEUV was founded in 1994 by Sainte Partners II, L.P.. It is the first and only Spanish language television station in Eureka.'
WorkMusicalWorkAlbum
  • "1958 – Paris Olympia is a live album by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded at L'Olympia in 1958 and originally released on the French Fontana label."
  • "Live in Japan is a 1975 live album by American rock band Chicago. It was recorded over the course of three days at the Osaka Festival Hall on the band's tour in support of Chicago V in 1972."
  • 'Hark! The Village Wait was the 1970 debut album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span.'
AgentAthleteChessPlayer
  • 'Bachar Kouatly (born 3 March 1958 in Damascus) is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist. He played three times for Lebanon in the World Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valleta 1980.'
  • 'Boris Pavlovich Grachev (Russian: Борис Павлович Грачёв; born 27 March 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.'
  • 'Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster. He played for the Lithuanian team in every Chess Olympiad since 1992, except in 2000 and 2012.'
EventTournamentWomensTennisAssociationTournament
  • "The TEAN International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor Clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit."
  • "The Roanoke International Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played in Roanoke, Virginia. The event was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1973-1975 and was held indoors."
  • "The Torneio Internacional de Tênis Campos do Jordão (previously known as the Credicard Citi MasterCard Tennis Cup) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit."
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureNewspaper
  • 'Post Newspapers comprises the four editions of a community newspaper covering a group of western suburbs in Perth, Western Australia. The Post Newspapers group was established as the Subiaco Post by reporter Bret Christian and his wife Bettye in September 1977 at a house in Churchill Avenue, Subiaco.'
  • 'The Western Star is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and also serving Stephenville and the Bay of Islands, Bay St. George and Humber Valley areas. The paper was founded in 1900 in Curling, as a weekly newspaper.'
  • 'The New York Daily News was a daily New York City newspaper from 1855 to 1906, unrelated to the present-day Daily News founded in 1919. Founded in the 1850s, it flourished under the stewardship of Benjamin Wood, and faltered after his death in 1900, going through three owners (including his widow) before suspending publication in mid-December 1906.'
AgentSportsTeamAustralianFootballTeam
  • "The Bydgoszcz Wildcats, are an Australian rules football club, based in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It was founded in January 2015, making it Poland's first Australian Football Club."
  • 'The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897.'
  • 'The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Tasmanian State League and the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.'
EventRaceCyclingRace
  • "La Tropicale Amissa Bongo is a road cycling race held in Gabon and is part of the UCI Africa Tour. The race consists of only a men's competition, a race run over six stages (as of the 2010 edition)."
  • 'The Coppa Sabatini is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Province of Pisa, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.'
  • 'Balkan Elite Road Classics is a one-day road cycling race held annually since 2016. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2.'
AgentPersonJudge
  • 'Mario Rosario Morelli (born 15 May 1941) is an Italian judge. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 12 December 2011.'
  • 'Thomas James McAvoy (born September 17, 1938) is a federal judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York. Judge McAvoy was born in Johnson City, New York and graduated from Villanova University with an A.B. in 1960 and Albany Law School with a J.D. in 1964.'
  • 'George W. Greer (born 1942) is a retired Florida circuit judge who served in the Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Court, family law division, in Clearwater, Florida. He received national attention in 2005 when he presided over the Terri Schiavo case.'
AgentAthleteRugbyPlayer
  • 'Tom Billups (born December 26, 1964) is an American former rugby union rugby player (hooker position), who played for the USA Eagles as an international and Blackheath Rugby Club, Harlequin F.C., and Pontypridd RFC as a professional. After retiring as a player in 1999, he joined the staff of the United States national team and was the head coach from 2001 to 2006.'
  • 'Franck Belot (born 18 March 1972, in Athis-Mons) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a lock.'
  • 'Aaron Jarvis (born 20 May 1986) is a Wales international rugby union player. A prop forward he is currently playing for the Ospreys having previously played for Bath.'
AgentSportsTeamBasketballTeam
  • 'Belfius Mons-Hainaut is a Belgian professional basketball club that is based in Mons, Wallonia. The club competes in the highest division of the Belgian League.'
  • 'The Toledo Jeeps were a professional basketball team that played in the National Basketball League from 1946 to 1948. As with many other NBL teams, they owed their name to an industry of their hometown, in this case the Willys Jeep Plant.'
  • 'Royal Association Sportive Maccabi Brussels (Hebrew: רויאל האיגוד הספורטיבי מכבי בריסל\u200e\u200e), founded in 1953, is a multi-sports club based in Brussels, Belgium with basketball, football, table tennis, volleyball teams.'
AgentComicsCharacterAnimangaCharacter
  • "Di Gi Charat (Japanese: デ・ジ・キャラット Hepburn: De Ji Kyaratto), also known as Dejiko or Digiko, is the main character of the manga and anime of the same name created by Koge-Donbo. Dejiko is a princess of a planet that is also called Di Gi Charat, she is also depicted as a catgirl which is highlighted by her ending each sentence with the cat sound 'nyo'."
  • 'Raoh (ラオウ Raou) is a fictional character in the Fist of the North Star manga franchise by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara. He is the eldest of four honorary brothers who trained alongside the protagonist Kenshiro in the ancient assassination art of Hokuto Shinken.'
  • 'Allen Walker (Japanese: アレン・ウォーカー Hepburn: Aren Wōkā) is a fictional character who appears as the protagonist of the manga D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino. He is also the protagonist of its two anime adaptations, D.Gray-man and its sequel D.Gray-man Hallow, and has appeared in three light novels, two video games, and several crossover fighting games.'
AgentSportsLeagueSoccerLeague
  • 'The Tiwi Islands Football League is an Australian rules football competition in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Rules football is the most popular sport on the Tiwi Islands.'
  • 'The FNB Jackson League is a Guernsey, (Channel Islands) amateur league for association football clubs. It is the reserve league for Priaulx League clubs in Guernsey along with Bavaria Nomads from Alderney and Centrals, with no automatic relegation or promotion, but if a club wins the league they can apply for election to the Priaulx League.'
  • 'The UAE Handball League is the top professional handball league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The first team to win the title was Al-Sharjah.'
AgentOrganisationLegislature
  • 'The unicameral National Assembly is the legislative body of the Central African Republic. Members are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round (or Run-off) system.'
  • 'The Parliament of Montenegro (Montenegrin: Скупштина Црне Горе / Skupština Crne Gore) is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, elected for a four-year term.'
  • 'The Sejm of the Republic of Poland ([sɛjm] ; Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies (posłowie, literally \"envoys\", in Polish) elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the \"Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland\" (Marszałek Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej).'
PlaceSettlementVillage
  • 'Kalateh-ye Abu ol Qasem (Persian: كلاته ابوالقاسم\u200e\u200e, also Romanized as Kalāteh-ye Abū ol Qāsem; also known as Kalāteh-ye Ab ol Qāsem) is a village in Salehabad Rural District, Salehabad District, Torbat-e Jam County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 413, in 92 families.'
  • 'Khudimari is a small village some distance away from the town called Gauripur in the Dhubri district of Assam, one of the seven sister states of northeast India. The Khudimari river flows right through the village.'
  • 'Pullu is a village in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India.'
EventSocietalEventMusicFestival
  • 'The Americana Music Festival & Conference is a music festival and music industry conference that takes place every year (usually in September). The first was held in 2000.'
  • 'Canboulay (from the French cannes brulées, meaning burnt cane) is a precursor to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. The festival is also where calypso music has its roots.'
  • 'The Didmarton Bluegrass festival is held annually on the first weekend after the August bank holiday in the United Kingdom. It was originally staged at the Holford Arms, Knockdown, near Didmarton, for many years, before moving to nearby Kemble Airport in 2004.'
PlaceBuildingRestaurant
  • 'Obalende Suya Express, Obalende Suya or Suya Express is a Nigerian restaurant in London, England. The restaurant has two branches, one, a takeaway located 43 Peckham High Street, Peckham, not far west from Peckham Library and a restaurant located at 523 Kingsland Road in Dalston, Hackney.'
  • "Feenie's was a bistro on West Broadway in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada. It was the casual-dining sister-restaurant to Lumière, which was located next-door."
  • "Union Street Café is a restaurant, owned by chef Gordon Ramsay, in Southwark, London. It was the first of Ramsay's restaurants to be opened without the involvement of Chris Hutchinson, and at one point was backed by footballer David Beckham."
AgentGroupBand
  • 'The Gunga Din was an American rock band, formed in 1998 in New York City. Featuring vocalist Siobhan Duffy, guitarist/vocalist Bill Bronson, bassist Chris Pravdica, drummer Jim Sclavunos, and keyboardist Maria Zastrow, the band released two albums, Introducing: The Gunga Gin and Glitterati, in 1999 and 2000, respectively.'
  • 'Within Reason is an American rock band from Birmingham, Alabama which founding members include Chris Dow and David Koonce. The band was formed in 2005.'
  • 'YoungBloodZ are an American Southern hip hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia, comprising members J-Bo (born Jeffrey Ray Grigsby on October 4, 1977) and Sean P (born Sean Paul Joseph on March 7, 1978). The duo were signed to LaFace Records.'
EventSocietalEventElection
  • 'The Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1849, was the last of two elections to take place under the Louisiana Constitution of 1845. The new constitution abolished the provision in the 1812 constitution that required a gubernatorial candidate to win a vote of the legislature to get elected, leaving the final decision up to the people.'
  • 'The 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial election were recall elections to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. It resulted in voters re-electing incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker over the Democratic candidate Tom Barrett by a larger margin than he had in 2010, in which Walker had also faced Barrett.'
  • 'The Puerto Rico general election of 2012 were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 to elect the officials of the Puerto Rican government that would serve for the next four years, most notably the Governor of Puerto Rico. A status referendum was held on the same date.'
PlaceNaturalPlaceGlacier
  • 'Scimitar Glacier is located on the west and northwest slopes of Glacier Peak in the U.S. state of Washington. As is true with all the glaciers found on Glacier Peak, Scimitar Glacier is retreating.'
  • 'Herron Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier begins in the Alaska Range on the north side of Mount Foraker, moving northwest for 14 miles (23 km).'
  • 'Lied Glacier is a glacier close north of Cape Arkona on the southwest side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. To the southeast of Lied Glacier is Gotley Glacier, whose terminus is located between Cape Arkona and Cape Labuan.'
EventSportsEventWrestlingEvent
  • 'The 2001 Verano de Escándalo (Spanish for \"Summer of Scandal\") was the fifth annual Verano de Escándalo professional wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The show took place on September 16, 2001, in Naucalpan, Mexico.'
  • 'The EMLL 46th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 21, 1979 in Arena Coliseo, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 46th anniversary of EMLL, which would become the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world.'
  • 'Death Before Dishonor X: State of Emergency (DBD X) was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on September 15, 2012 at the Frontier Fieldhouse in Chicago Ridge, Illinois.'
AgentCompanyWinery
  • 'Voyager Estate is an Australian winery based at Margaret River, in the Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. According to Ray Jordan, wine writer for The West Australian, the winery produces excellent wines.'
  • 'Terhune Orchards is a winery in Lawrence Township (mailing address is Princeton) in Mercer County, New Jersey. A family produce farm since 1975, the vineyard was first planted in 2003, and opened to the public in 2010.'
  • 'Chateau Montelena is a Napa Valley winery most famous for winning the white wine section of the historic \"Judgment of Paris\" wine competition. Chateau Montelena's Chardonnay was in competition with nine other wines from France and California under blind tasting.'
SpeciesHorseRaceHorse
  • 'Blink Bonny (1854–1862) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a career that lasted from 1856 to 1858, she ran twenty times and won fourteen races.'
  • "Fantastic Light (foaled February 13, 1996) is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He was foaled in the United States but was trained in England and Dubai during his racing career, which ran from August 1998 to his retirement following the Breeders' Cup Turf on October 2001."
  • 'Siyouma (foaled 3 April 2008) is an Irish-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Bred and originally owned by the Aga Khan she was unraced as a two-year-old and won one minor race as a three-year-old in 2011 before being sold at auction.'
AgentPersonPhilosopher
  • 'Francis J. \"Frank\" Beckwith (born 1960) is an American philosopher, Christian apologist, scholar, and lecturer. He is currently an associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University and associate director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies.'
  • 'Zeno Vendler (December 22, 1921 – January 13, 2004) was an American philosopher of language, and a founding member and former director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His work on lexical aspect, quantifiers, and nominalization has been influential in the field of linguistics.'
  • 'Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic. Her main areas of focus have been post-colonial, militarist and gender issues.'
AgentAthleteBasketballPlayer
  • 'James William Smith-Betsil (December 12, 1934 – May 5, 2002) was an American basketball player and political activist. He was an All-American college player at the College of Steubenville (now Franciscan University of Steubenville) and was a second-round pick in the 1958 NBA draft.'
  • 'Alfa Agkimpou Diallo Fasengas (alternate spellings: Alpha, Ntiallo, Dialo, Ntialo) (Greek: Άλφα Αγκιμπού Ντιάλο Φασένγας; born October 13, 1992), is a Guinean-Greek professional basketball player. He was born in Mitty, Guinea.'
  • 'Adam Waczyński (born October 15, 1989) is a Polish professional basketball player. He plays for Unicaja and the Polish national basketball team.'
AgentVolleyballPlayerBeachVolleyballPlayer
  • "Lula Barbosa da Silva (born March 13, 1970 in Recife) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, partnering Adriano Garrido."
  • 'Orlando Irizarry Camacho (born September 27, 1985) is a professional male beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who currently competes on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit. He competes with Roberto Rodríguez.'
  • 'Viktoria Orsi Toth (born August 14, 1990) is an Italian beach volleyball player.'
AgentAthleteBodybuilder
  • 'Betty Viana-Adkins (born October 9, 1971) is an Venezuelan professional female bodybuilder.'
  • 'Jackie Paisley is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States.'
  • 'Achim Albrecht (born July 2, 1962) is a German personal trainer and former bodybuilder and professional wrestler. He is best known for winning the over 90 kilograms category of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness Mr Universe contest in Malaysia in 1990.'
SpeciesFloweringPlantGrape
  • 'Maceratino is a white Italian wine grape variety that is grown predominantly in the Marche along the Adriatic coast of Italy. Ampelographers believe the grape may have some relation to Greco and Verdicchio, as evidence by the several overlapping synonyms, but no definitive link has been proven yet.'
  • 'Grüner Veltliner (Green Veltliner) is a variety of white wine grape variety grown primarily in Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The leaves of the grape vine are five-lobed with bunches that are long but compact, and deep green grapes that ripen in mid-late October in the Northern Hemisphere.'
  • 'Cserszegi fűszeres is a white Hungarian grape variety. It is named after its place of origin: Cserszegtomaj near Keszthely.'
AgentOrganisationMemberSportsTeamMember
  • 'The Chicago Storm was a team in the Ultimate Soccer League that began play in the 2004-2005 season as a member of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 2011, it was announced that the Storm would not return for the 2012 season.'
  • 'This is a list of Latvian football transfers in the 2011–2012 winter transfer window by club. Only transfers of the Virsliga are included.'
  • 'List of Flamengo Categories of Base transfers 2011'
AgentPersonPlayboyPlaymate
  • "Merritt Cabal (born July 4, 1977 in Harahan, Louisiana) is an American model. She was Cyber Girl of the Month for Playboy in June 2002, and Playboy's 2003 Cyber Girl of the Year."
  • 'The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 2003. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.'
  • 'The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 2002. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.'
SpeciesPlantConifer
  • 'Halocarpus biformis, known commonly as yellow pine or pink pine, is a coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand. The tree can attain heights of 10m, but in open areas is usually a low spreading bush.'
  • 'Cedrus libani is a species of cedar native to the mountains of the Mediterranean region.'
  • 'Abies grandis (grand fir, giant fir, lowland white fir, great silver fir, western white fir, Vancouver fir, or Oregon fir) is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest and Northern California of North America, occurring at altitudes of sea level to 1,800 m. It is a major constituent of the Grand Fir/Douglas Fir Ecoregion of the Cascade Range. The tree typically grows to 40–70 m in height.'
SpeciesPlantCultivatedVariety
  • "Betula pubescens 'Pendula', or Weeping Downy Birch, is a weeping tree and a cultivar of Betula pubescens, the Downy Birch. It was first described by Schelle in 1903."
  • 'Parma violets belong to the more exotic branch of the violet family. First appearing in Italy, in the 16th century, most types of parma violets have lavender flowers of varying sizes.'
  • "The hybrid cultivar Ulmus × hollandica 'Etrusca' was first mentioned by Nicholson in Kew Hand-List Trees & Shrubs 2: 139. 1896, as U. montana (: glabra) var."
AgentArtistComedian
  • 'Matt Grindley (born 1 July 1976) is an English magician, comedian and actor. He was born in Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester.'
  • 'Robert Mac (born Robert Matthew Matz on January 26, 1968) is an American comedian.'
  • 'Nicole Rene \"Nikki\" Glaser (born June 1, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian, podcast host, and television host. She is the host of the television series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, which premiered on Comedy Central and Much on February 9, 2016.'
AgentWinterSportPlayerSkater
  • 'Tonny de Jong (born 17 July 1974) is a former Dutch speed skater, who was raised in Heerenveen and now lives in Calgary with Canadian speed skater Mark Knoll, whom she married in 2003. She won three Dutch Allround Championships and numerous gold medals on the 3000 m and the 5000 m at the Dutch Single Distance Championships.'
  • 'Aika Klein (born November 26, 1982 in Rostock) is a German short-track speed-skater. Klein competed at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics for Germany.'
  • 'Renato De Riva (7 May 1937 – 10 May 1983) was an Italian speed skater who was active internationally between 1958 and 1968. He competed at the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Winter Olympics with the best result of 14th place in the 10,000 m in 1960 and in the 5000 m in 1964.'
AgentAthleteTennisPlayer
  • '(In this Japanese name, the family name is Nara.) Kurumi Nara (奈良 くるみ Nara Kurumi, born 30 December 1991) is a Japanese professional tennis player.'
  • 'Dácio Campos (born 18 December 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil, and TV commentator.'
  • 'Cristina Dinu (born 18 January 1993 in Bucharest) is a professional Romanian tennis player. Dinu has won thirteen singles and Seven doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career.'
AgentAthletePokerPlayer
  • "Lisa Hamilton is an American poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Hamilton won the 2009 WSOP $1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em World Championship."
  • 'Neil Andrew Channing (born 9 December 1967 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English professional poker player and author based in Maida Vale, London. He is the 2008 Irish Poker Open champion.'
  • 'Anthony (Tony) James \"tikay\" Kendall (born in Middlesex) is an English professional poker player, based in Derbyshire.'
AgentPersonNoble
  • 'Matilde of Bavaria (aft. 21 June 1313 – 2 July 1346) Meißen) was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and his first wife Beatrix of Świdnica.'
  • 'William IV, Count of Forcalquier (1130-1208) was the son of Bertrand II Count of Forcalquier and Josserande de la Flotte. William, married Adelaide de Beziers, daughter of Adelaide de Beziers and Raimond Trencavel of Beziers Viscount of Beziers, of Agde, of Albi, of Carcassonne, and of Razès.'
  • 'Ranulf II (also spelled Rannoux, Rannulf, Ramnulf, and Ranulph) (850 – 5 August 890) was Count of Poitou from 866 and Duke of Aquitaine from 887. On the death of Charles the Fat in 888, he styled himself King of Aquitaine and did so until 889 or his death, after which the title fell into abeyance.'
EventNaturalEventSolarEclipse
  • 'A total solar eclipse will occur on March 30, 2052. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.'
  • 'A partial solar eclipse occurred on January 3, 1946. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.'
  • 'A partial solar eclipse occurred on September 12, 1931. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.'
AgentClericSaint
  • 'John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus) (c. 1345 – March 20, 1393)is the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic), who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the '
  • 'Saint Cían was a Celtic saint who lived in Wales in the sixth century. He ended his life as a hermit in Caernarfonshire, Wales.'
  • 'Blessed Richard Whiting (1461 – 15 November 1539) was an English clergyman and the last Abbot of Glastonbury. Whiting presided over Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–1541) under King Henry VIII of England.'
AgentPersonAstronaut
  • 'Stanley David Griggs (September 7, 1939 – June 17, 1989) was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D (registration N3931S) – crashed near Ea'
  • 'Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II (born March 17, 1936), (RADM, USN, Ret.), better known as Ken Mattingly, is a former American naval officer and aviator, flag officer, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions.'
  • 'Milton Orville Thompson (May 4, 1926 – August 6, 1993), (Lt Cmdr, USNR), better known as Milt Thompson, was an American naval officer and aviator, engineer, and NASA research pilot who was selected as an astronaut for the United States Air Force X-20 Dyna-Soar program in April 1960. After the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled on 10 December 1963, he remained a NASA research pilot, and went on to fly'
PlaceCelestialBodyPlanet
  • '19738 Calinger, provisionally designated 2000 AS97, is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 4, 2000 by LINEAR, the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, at Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The asteroid with a perihelion of 1.86 AU, has an eccentricity of 0.18, an orbital period of 1259 days (3.45 years) and is inclined by 7.7 degree to the ecliptic.'
  • '967 Helionape is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family of Main Belt asteroids. Its diameter is about 12 km and it has an albedo of 0.178 .'
  • '2002 VE68, also written 2002 VE68, is a temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. It was the first quasi-satellite to be discovered around a major planet in the Solar System.'
AgentWinterSportPlayerCurler
  • 'Heather Mary Yvonne Kalenchuk (born March 14, 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta as Heather Seeley) is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan. She previously played lead for Amber Holland.'
  • 'Lee Dong-keun (Hangul: 이동건; born September 10, 1979) is a South Korean curler from Gyeongbuk. He is a former Pacific Curling champion, and has twice skipped Korea at the World Curling Championships.'
  • 'Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lawes plays third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won gold medal.'
AgentScientistMedician
  • "Tara Devi Tuladhar (Devanagari: तारा देवी तुलाधर) (21 August 1931 – 27 November 2012) was Nepal's first female blood donor and a social worker who dedicated her life to serving society."
  • 'Dr. Abraham Coles (December 26, 1813 – May 3, 1891) was an American physician, translator, author and poet from New Jersey.'
  • "David John Sugarbaker (born August 5, 1953) is currently the Chief of the Division of General Thoracic Surgery and the Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is an internationally recognized thoracic surgeon specializing in the treatment of mesothelioma, the surgical management of malignant pleural m"
AgentCompanyPublisher
  • 'PS Publishing is a Hornsea, UK based publisher founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther. They specialise in novella length fiction (20,000 to 40,000 words) from the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres.'
  • 'Pharmaceutical Press is the publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (formerly the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain). It is a provider of independent pharmaceutical information.'
  • 'Marvel Edge was a short-lived Marvel Comics imprint lasting from 1995 to 1996. Some of Marvel's \"edgier\" (more adult) titles were moved into the Marvel Edge imprint.'
AgentAthleteAustralianRulesFootballPlayer
  • 'Ian Fleming (16 November 1909 – 1 November 1984) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).'
  • 'William \"Bill\" Tymms (16 August 1903 – 9 June 1989) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Tymms started his career at St Kilda, where he spent two seasons.'
  • 'John Robert \"Jack\" Beveridge (8 May 1907 – 30 June 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Perth in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Beveridge played as a centreman and was noted for his handballing skills.'
SpeciesPlantFern
  • 'Pyrrosia is a genus of about 100 fern species in the polypod family, Polypodiaceae.'
  • 'The fern genus Mohria is a small one of eight species, restricted to southern Africa and Madagascar. Plants in this genus superficially resemble Cheilanthes, but the sporangial structure indicates their close affinity to Anemia.'
  • 'Lygodium japonicum is a species of fern that is known by the common name Japanese climbing fern. It is native to eastern Asia, including Japan, Korea, southeastern Asia, and India, and eastern Australia.'
AgentBritishRoyaltyBaronet
  • 'Sir Jonathan Cope, 4th Baronet (c. 1758 – 30 December 1821) was a British aristocrat. He was the second son of Jonathan Cope, the eldest son of Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet.'
  • 'Sir John Abdy, 4th Baronet (c. 1714 – 1 April 1759) was a British baronet and Tory politician. He was the only surviving son of Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet and his wife Theodosia Bramstone, only daughter of George Bramstone.'
  • 'Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet (born after 1570 – 16 December 1655) was an English politician. He was a younger son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Butts, daughter of Edmund Butts.'
AgentAthleteNetballPlayer
  • 'Rebecca Bulley (née Strachan on 18 August 1982) is an Australian international netball player. A defence circle player, Bulley was included in the Australian national squad in 2005 and 2007–2015.'
  • 'Stacey Rosman (born 25 February 1981) is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the West Coast Fever. She retired from netball after the 2009 ANZ Championship.'
  • "Mo'onia Gerrard (born 15 November 1980 in Bathurst, Australia) is a Tongan-Australian netball player. Her Netball career commenced at a very young age, she would often participate in training sessions of her mother's senior Dee Why Beach Netball Club Team, when she was old enough to register in a team, Mo'onia commenced playing with Narrabeen Youth Club and was later selected to represent Manly Wa"
AgentBroadcasterBroadcastNetwork
  • "Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel (also known more recently as The True Oldies Channel: Greatest Hits) is a radio network begun in the spring of 2004. Originally distributed by ABC Radio Networks via satellite, the service plays a hybrid oldies/classic hits format comprising music mostly from 1964 to 1979 but also plays selected cuts from the 1955-1963 era and also from the 1980s."
  • 'Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (RTR, English: Radio-Television Swiss Rumantscha) (formerly known as Radio e Televisiun Rumantscha (English: Radio Television Rumantscha)) is a Swiss broadcasting company (part of SRG SSR) which offers programming to Romansh-speakers in Switzerland and around the world.'
  • 'It is focusing its operations in rural areas. It uses CDMA2000 at 450 MHz and provides internet services with cell phones as modem or proper modem.'
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureAcademicJournal
  • 'The Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods is a biannual peer-reviewed open access journal. It was established in 2002 by Shlomo Sawilowsky, and is currently published by the Wayne State University Library System in Detroit, MI.'
  • 'The Journal of Human Resources is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering empirical microeconomics. It was established in 1965 and is published by The University of Wisconsin Press.'
  • 'Progress in Nuclear Energy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on nuclear energy and nuclear science. It was established in 1977 and is published by Elsevier.'
AgentPoliticianMemberOfParliament
  • 'Imran Khattak is a Pakistani politician, and parliamentarian. Khattak was elected a member of national assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from NA-5 (Nowshera) in Pakistani general election, 2013.'
  • 'Peter Arthur David Baker MC (20 April 1921 – 14 November 1966) was a British soldier, author, publisher and Conservative politician who served as a member of parliament (MP) for South Norfolk. He is chiefly remembered as the last Member of Parliament to be expelled from the House of Commons.'
  • 'James Guy Dalley Arkins (14 October 1888 – 2 August 1980) was an Australian politician. Born in Millthorpe, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming a builder.'
AgentWinterSportPlayerIceHockeyPlayer
  • 'Melanie Häfliger (born 29 September 1982 in Schenkon, Switzerland) is a former Swiss ice hockey forward.'
  • 'Henry Charles Boucha (born June 1, 1951) is a retired American professional ice hockey centerman. Boucha played 247 games over 6 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, Kansas City Scouts and Colorado Rockies.'
  • 'Jean-François \"J. F.\" Jacques (born April 29, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. He is currently playing for ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).'
AgentPresenterRadioHost
  • 'Martijn Joop Krabbé (born 26 March 1968) is a Dutch radio and television presenter.'
  • 'Nicholas Pandolfi, also known as Nick Pandolfi, (born 16 August 1970, in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English actor, voice artist & radio presenter, who has worked for the BBC and Global Radio (HEART). He was named BBC Local Radio \"Presenter of the Year\" at the 2004 Frank Gillard Awards and won the bronze in the category in 2006 for his work at BBC Radio Suffolk.'
  • 'Garry Richardson (born 1957) is a British radio presenter. He presents the Sunday morning sports programme Sportsweek on BBC Radio 5 Live and is also a sports presenter on the weekday morning Today show on BBC Radio 4.'
EventTournamentGolfTournament
  • 'The Wendell-West Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1969 to 1970. It was played at the Ocean Shores Golf Club in Ocean Shores, Washington.'
  • 'The Carling-Caledonian Tournament was a professional golf tournament played at Longniddry Golf Club, East Lothian, Scotland. The event was played just once, in 1961.'
  • "The 2012 Masters Tournament was the 76th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Bubba Watson won the year's first major championship on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, defeating Louis Oosthuizen."
WorkComicManga
  • "Sayonara Sorcier (さよならソルシエ Sayonara Sorushie) is a Japanese historical slice of life josei manga series written and illustrated by Hozumi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Flowers manga magazine and was compiled in 2 volumes published in 2013."
  • 'Mob Psycho 100 (Japanese: モブサイコ100 Hepburn: Mobu Saiko Hyaku) is a Japanese webcomic created by ONE, which began publication on Ura Sunday on April 18, 2012. A Chinese translation started publication in Taiwan on April 16, 2014.'
  • 'Hyde & Closer (Japanese: 呪法解禁!!ハイド&クローサー Hepburn: Juhou Kaikin!! Haido & Kurōsā, lit.'
EventTournamentTennisTournament
  • "The 2014 Launceston Tennis International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money."
  • 'The 2010 Nord LB Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. This was the 17th edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour.'
  • 'The 1990 Volvo U.S. National Indoor (known as such in 1990 for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 20th edition of the event known that year as the Volvo U.S. National Indoor, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour.'
AgentAthleteGymnast
  • 'Yevgeniya Yevgenivna Gomon (Ukrainian: Євгенія Євгенівна Гомон; born 25 March 1995) is a Ukrainian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2013 World bronze medalist in 10 clubs and 2015 Universiade champion in 6 clubs + 2 hoops.'
  • 'Elena Leușteanu-Popescu (later Teodorescu, 4 July 1935 – 16 August 2008) was a Romanian artistic gymnast who competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. During her career she won three Olympic bronze medals, one world bronze medal and five continental silver medals.'
  • 'Andreea Eugenia Munteanu (Romanian pronunciation: [andˈreja euˈd͡ʒnia munˈteanu]; born May 29, 1998) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a two-time European champion, with a team title in 2014 and a beam gold in 2015.'
AgentAthleteBaseballPlayer
  • 'Glen Frederick Hobbie (April 24, 1936 – August 9, 2013) was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1957–1964. A right-hander, he stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).'
  • 'James Edward Pendleton (January 7, 1924 — March 20, 1996) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1953 and 1962. He played for the Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Houston Colt .45s.'
  • 'Aldon Jay \"Lefty\" Wilkie (October 30, 1914 – August 5, 1992) was a Canadian-born professional baseball player. The native of Zealandia, Saskatchewan, was a left-handed pitcher who worked in 68 games pitched, 12 as a starter, in the Major Leagues over three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1941–1942; 1946).'
AgentArtistFashionDesigner
  • 'Alexey Sorokin (born 29 November 1983) is a fashion designer of womenswear label Homo Consommatus.'
  • 'Joseph Gregory Percy Irausquin (June 26, 1969 – August 14, 2008) was an Aruban-born Dutch fashion designer and couturier based in Amsterdam. He was described by the Dutch media as \"one of the most talented young designers in the Netherlands.\" The Dutch national daily newspaper De Volkskrant described his clothing designs as \"sexy and extravagant\" and \"fashionable but not fussy.\" Irausquin wa'
  • 'Steve Madden (born 1958) is an American fashion designer and businessman. He is most well known as the founder and former CEO of Steven Madden, Ltd., a publicly traded footwear company.'
AgentAthleteGolfPlayer
  • 'Lincoln Birch (born 27 October 1978) is an English professional golfer. Since turning pro in 2001, he has played on the Challenge Tour (2001–2007), European Tour (2001–2008), Gateway Tour (2008), Sunshine Tour (2001–03, 2012), EPD Tour (2006–07, 2010), and the MENA Tour (2011, 2013).'
  • 'Russell Knox (born 21 June 1985) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. In November 2015 he won the 2015 WGC-HSBC Champions by two strokes from Kevin Kisner for his first PGA Tour win.'
  • "Mike Schuchart (born April 6, 1962) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour and is currently an assistant coach for the University of Nebraska's women's golf team, a position he has held since 2002. Schuhart is also a teaching professional at the Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, Nebraska."
AgentAthleteJockey
  • "Roscoe Troxler (June 15, 1883 - July 7, 1976) was an American jockey in the sport of thoroughbred horse racing who began riding in his early teens and by age fifteen was making an impression competing at the Crescent City Jockey Club's Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans. He was born in Nashville in 1883 and was orphaned by the age of 10."
  • 'Gary Baze (born October 25, 1955 in Sunnyside, Washington) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: \"As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic.\" A member of the renowned Baze racing family, his father, Carl Albert Baze'
  • 'Christopher John \"Chris\" McCarron (born March 27, 1955, Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron.'
AgentAthleteHorseRider
  • "Pierre Dufour d'Astafort (6 February 1886 – 11 November 1957) was a French equestrian and Olympic medalist. He was born in Le Mans, the son of Baron François Dufour d'Astafort and Marguerite de Cantillon."
  • 'Renate Voglsang (born 10 June 1971 in Munich, Germany) is an Austrian Olympic dressage rider. Representing Austria, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London where she finished 36th in the individual competition.'
  • 'Imke Anne Marian Schellekens-Bartels (born March 15, 1977 in Eindhoven) is an equestrian from the Netherlands, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Her mother Tineke was also a competitor in dressage.'
AgentOrganisationTradeUnion
  • "The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) is a trade union in South Africa. With a membership of 235,000 it is the largest public sector union in the country."
  • 'The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) is the largest multi-professional labour union in Canada, representing some 60,000 public service professionals employed at the federal and some provincial and territorial levels of government. It was founded in 1920.'
  • "The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, having been founded in 1847 when dominies became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of education in Scotland on their professional status. The EIS is the largest teaching union in Scotland, representing 80% of the country's teachers and lecturers."
AgentClericChristianBishop
  • 'Cellach of Armagh or Celsus or Celestinus (1080–1129) was Archbishop of Armagh and an important contributor to the reform of the Irish church in the twelfth century. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Cellach.'
  • 'Herbert Edward Jones (1861–1920) was an English clergyman, the second Suffragan Bishop of Lewes and Archdeacon of Chichester. The second son of Sir Willoughby Jones, 3rd Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, ordained in 1884 and began his career with a curacy at St Andrews, Westminster.'
  • 'William Ayermin (or Ayermine) (died 27 March 1336) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.'
EventRaceHorseRace
  • 'The Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings. It is run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) at Leopardstown in March or April.'
  • 'The 1888 Grand National was the 50th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 23 March 1888.'
  • 'The New Zealand Messenger Championship is a Group One event for 4 and 5 year old pacing horses in New Zealand. Run at Alexandra Park in early May, it has traditionally been the most prestigious 4 year-old race in New Zealand, and a key guide to feature races in the following season like the New Zealand Trotting Cup.'
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRailwayLine
  • 'The Northern Lights Express (NLX) is a planned higher-speed rail service running 155 miles (249 km) along the corridor between Minneapolis and Duluth primarily in the U.S. state of Minnesota. A portion of the line will run through neighboring Wisconsin to serve Duluth's \"Twin Port\" of Superior.'
  • 'The Karlsruhe freight bypass railway German: Güterumgehungsbahn Karlsruhe is railway line reserved for freight only in the southeast of the city of Karlsruhe in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The freight rail bypass allows freight trains to avoid the busy Karlsruhe Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) on a separate direct line.'
  • 'The Borsdorf–Coswig railway is a mainline railway in the German state of Saxony, originally built and operated by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company. It runs mostly along the Freiberger Mulde from Borsdorf via Döbeln and Meissen to Coswig near Dresden.'
AgentArtistPainter
  • 'Alberto Magnelli (1 July 1888 – 20 April 1971) was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement.'
  • 'Julius Rolshoven (Detroit, 28 October 1858 – New York City, 8 December 1930) was a well-traveled American painter, with work firmly in the academic tradition.'
  • 'Daniel Fohr, born at Heidelberg in 1801, first studied science, which he afterwards abandoned for the art of painting. After studying some time by himself, he went to Munich in 1829, and then to the Tyrol.'
AgentAthleteLacrossePlayer
  • 'Jeremy Boltus (born June 25, 1989 in Syracuse, New York) is a lacrosse player for the Rochester Rattlers in Major League Lacrosse.'
  • 'Alex Crepinsek (born February 18, 1989) is a professional lacrosse player with the Georgia Swarm of the National Lacrosse League and the Oakville Rock of Major Series Lacrosse. Hailing from Oakville, Ontario, Crepinsek began his Canadian amateur career with the Jr. B Oakville Buzz in 2006, with whom he won a Founders Cup.'
  • 'Matt Roik (born November 17, 1979 in Dunnville, Ontario) is a professional lacrosse goaltender who has played in the National Lacrosse League. Roik most recently played for the Toronto Rock, and has also played for the Washington Stealth, San Jose Stealth, Chicago Shamrox, Philadelphia Wings, Anaheim Storm, and New Jersey Storm.'
AgentFictionalCharacterSoapCharacter
  • 'Charlie Cotton is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Declan Bennett. He first appeared on 10 March 2014.'
  • 'Marlene Boyce is a ficional character in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off series The Green Green Grass, created by John Sullivan.'
  • 'Lachlan \"Lachie\" Fraser is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Richard Grieve. He made his screen debut on 19 March 1997 and last appeared on 27 November 1998.'
EventSocietalEventConvention
  • 'Conjecture is an annual science fiction convention held in and around San Diego, California in the fall. It is sponsored by the San Diego Speculative Fiction Society a California non-profit corporation.'
  • 'The 35th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as SunCon, was held September 2–5, 1977, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. The chairman was Don Lundry.'
  • '(For the 2015 competition, see 8th South Asian Spelling Bee.) The South Asian Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee platform in the United States for children of South Asia descent.'
AgentPoliticianGovernor
  • 'Colonel Datti Sadiq Abubakar was Military Governor of Anambra State in Nigeria from July 1978 to October 1979 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo. He was a graduate of Rumfa College, Kano.'
  • 'Peter Hansborough Bell (May 11, 1810 – March 8, 1898) was an American military officer and politician who served as the third Governor of Texas and represented the state for two terms in the United States House of Representatives.'
  • 'Walter Basilio Barrionuevo (born in February 28, 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Jujuy Province. Born in Frías, Santiago del Estero Province, Barrionuevo enrolled at the National University of Tucumán, where he earned a Law degree in 1976.'
AgentMotorcycleRiderSpeedwayRider
  • 'George Barclay (born 1 April 1937 in Elephant & Castle, London, England) is a former speedway rider who started his career with the West Ham Hammers in the British League in 1966. Barclay joined the Sunderland Stars in 1971 and remained with them until their closure in 1974.'
  • 'Denis Štojs (born 23 January 1978) is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of Slovenia team at 2002 and 2003 Speedway World Cup. He started in Speedway Grand Prix as a wild card.'
  • 'Lewis Alan Bridger (born 4 November 1989, in Hastings, Sussex) is a British speedway rider. He stepped straight into Elite League racing from the Conference League after one season with the Weymouth Wildcats.'
AgentAthleteCanoeist
  • 'Heinrich Sack (December 10, 1909 – September 13, 1941) was a German canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he finished fourth together with his partner Hans Wedemann in the C-2 1000 metre event.'
  • 'Jürgen Gerlach (born December 23, 1948 in Castrop-Rauxel) is a West German retired slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s and the 1970s. He won two bronze medals in the K-1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1969 and 1971.'
  • 'Marco Herszel (born June 2, 1979 in Schönebeck, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2007), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 2005) and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2001, 2003).'
AgentActorVoiceActor
  • 'Satoko Yamano (山野 さと子 Yamano Satoko, born August 2, 1963) is a Japanese singer and voice actress from Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan.'
  • 'Shōgo Suzuki (鈴木 省吾 Suzuki Shōgo, born 12 April 1963) is a Japanese actor and narrator. He began his career narrating television commercials and instructional videos for corporations.'
  • 'Shiori Izawa (井澤 詩織 Izawa Shiori, born February 1, 1987) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with Early Wing.'
PlaceBuildingCastle
  • 'Château de Beaurepaire is a castle (French: château) in Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France. It housed the British Expeditionary Force Headquarters during World War I from 1916 and was the residence of General Douglas Haig from 1916 to 1919.'
  • 'Burg Lichtenegg is a castle in Styria, Austria.'
  • 'Carew Castle (Welsh: Castell Caeriw) is a castle in the civil parish of Carew in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire. The famous Carew family take their name from the place, and still own the castle, although it is leased to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, which administers the site.'
WorkCartoonAnime
  • 'Arc the Lad (アークザラッド Ākuzaraddo) is a series of role-playing video games that were released for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Several of the games were published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) in Japan.'
  • 'Bubu Chacha (ぶぶチャチャ Bubu Chacha) is a Japanese slice of life anime series created by Akira Okeya (writer of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team and Transformers: Armada), Iku, Takeshi Anzai and Tetsuro Amino (director of Blue Comet SPT Layzner). Produced by Daume and Japan Digital Entertainment, the series was directed and written by Akira Okeya and produced by Katsuhiko Nozawa, the animation pro'
  • 'Space Warrior Baldios (宇宙戦士 バルディオス Uchū Senshi Barudiosu) is a Japanese super robot mecha anime series from 1980. A film with the same title was released on December 19, 1981.'
AgentWinterSportPlayerSkier
  • 'Arnold Käch (born February 4, 1914 – November 24, 1998) was a Swiss military officer, skier, ski official and writer.'
  • 'Roksana Tymchenko (born June 15, 1991) is an alpine skier from Ukraine.'
  • 'Kari Øyre Slind (born 22 October 1991) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who represents Oppdal IL. She is the younger sister of the twin sisters Astrid Øyre Slind and Silje Øyre Slind, who are also cross-country skiers.'
AgentWriterHistorian
  • 'Arturo Castiglioni (10 April 1874, Trieste – 21 January 1953, Milano) was an Italian-born American medical historian and university professor.'
  • 'Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and Professor of history at Georgetown University. He received his B.A from the University of Minnesota in 1980, and his PhD from Harvard University in 1987.'
  • 'Joseph Brady Mitchell (September 25, 1915 – February 17, 1993) was an American military historian. He is the author of Decisive Battles of the American Revolution, Decisive Battles of the Civil War, Discipline and Bayonets: The Armies and Leaders in the War of the American Revolution, Twenty Decisive Battles of the World, Military Leaders of the Civil War, and The Badge of Gallantry: Recollections'
PlaceNaturalPlaceVolcano
  • 'Hutapanjang is a stratovolcano on Sumatra, Indonesia. Little is known about this volcano.'
  • "Socompa is a large complex stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It is best known for its large debris avalanche deposit, which is widely accepted as the best-preserved example of this type of deposit in the world, and also notable as the home of the world's most elevated known microbial ecosystems."
  • 'Gamalama is a near-conical stratovolcano that comprises the entire Ternate island in Indonesia. The island lies off the western shore of Halmahera island in the north of the Maluku Islands.'
AgentPersonHorseTrainer
  • 'Andreas Schütz (born February 19, 1968 in Germany) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. From a prominent racing family, he is the fourth generation to train professionally.'
  • 'Martin \"Marty\" D. Wolfson (born August 3, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s.'
  • 'Horace A. \"Jimmy\" Jones (November 24, 1906 – September 2, 2001) was an American thoroughbred horse trainer. The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri.'
AgentPoliticianMayor
  • 'Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak (19 December 1839 – 28 July 1902) was a Bosnian writer and public official. He attended the madrasa in Ljubuški and studied oriental languages.'
  • 'Vigdis Hjulstad Belbo (born 7 August 1955) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag during the terms 1993–1997 and 1997–2001 On the local level Belbo is the mayor of Snåsa since 2003.'
  • 'John C. Houlihan (October 31, 1910 – July 31, 1986) was a Republican who became the 43rd mayor of Oakland, California. He was elected Mayor in 1961, through his defeat of incumbent Mayor Clifford D. Rishell, and was subsequently re-elected to a second, four-year term of office in 1965.'
PlaceSettlementTown
  • 'Renliji (Chinese: 仁里集镇) is a town in Qihe County, Dezhou, in northwestern Shandong province, China.'
  • 'Butler is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 2,064 at the 2010 census.'
  • 'Yatağan is a town and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey, about 26 km (16 mi) to north of Muğla.'
WorkMusicalWorkMusical
  • "Lestat is a Broadway musical inspired by Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. The score is by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, with the book by Linda Woolverton."
  • "A Family Affair is a musical with a book by James Goldman and William Goldman, lyrics by James Goldman and John Kander, and music by Kander. This was Kander's first show, and his only one written without Fred Ebb."
  • "An Artist's Model is a two-act musical by Owen Hall, with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and music by Sidney Jones, with additional songs by Joseph and Mary Watson, Paul Lincke, Frederick Ross, Henry Hamilton and Leopold Wenzel. It opened at Daly's Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes and directed by James T. Tanner, on 2 February 1895, transferring to the Lyric Theatre on 28 May 1895, and ra"
DeviceEngineAutomobileEngine
  • 'The BMW N55 is a turbocharged direct injection straight-6 DOHC engine which began production in 2009 and presently (2015) remains in production. It was launched in the F07 535i Gran Turismo.'
  • 'The 122 engine was designed by Chevrolet and was used in wide-array of General Motors vehicles. The 122 was similar to the first two generations of the General Motors 60° V6 engine; sharing cylinder bore diameters and some parts.'
  • 'The Jaguar XK dual overhead camshaft (DOHC) inline 6-cylinder engine was introduced in 1949 and continued in manufacture until 1992. It was produced in five displacements for Jaguar passenger cars, with other sizes being made by Jaguar and privateers for racing.'
AgentCompanyBank
  • 'Forcht Group of Kentucky (pronounced \"fork\") is a group of companies principally owned by Terry E. Forcht, with corporate headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky and Corbin, Kentucky. The corporation employs more than 2,100 people in many companies specializing in banking and financial services, insurance, nursing homes and health care, broadcasting and print media, retail, data and Web design servi'
  • 'GLS Bank (full name GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG) is a German ethical bank that was founded in 1974 as an anthroposophical initiative by Wilhelm Ernst Barkhoff and Gisela Reuther. It was the first bank in Germany that operated with an ethical philosophy.'
  • 'Covius is a residential and commercial real estate advisory and technology services company, serving financial institutions, federal lending banks, government-sponsored enterprises, real estate portfolio managers, mortgage lenders and other real estate specific organizations. Covius’ is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and also maintains offices in Salt Lake City, Utah.'
AgentAthleteCricketer
  • 'Graham Geoffrey Williams (born 16 December 1985) is an English cricketer who played as a right-handed batsman and was a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was born in Bristol.'
  • 'Keon Andre Joseph (born 25 November 1991) is a Guyanese cricketer who has played for the Guyanese national side in West Indian domestic cricket. A right-arm fast bowler, Joseph played for the West Indies under-19s at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup.'
  • 'Gordon Frederick Rorke (born 27 June 1938 in Mosman, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 4 Tests in 1959. Rorke made his Test debut in January 1959 in the Fourth Test of The Ashes series against England in Adelaide.'
AgentSportsLeagueBaseballLeague
  • 'The Taiwan Major League (TML 臺灣大聯盟) was a professional baseball league in Taiwan that operated from 1996 to 2003. It was established by TV tycoon Chiu Fu-sheng (邱復生) after a row over CPBL broadcasting rights.'
  • 'The Japanese Baseball League (日本野球連盟 Nihon Yakyū Renmei) was a professional baseball league in Japan which operated from 1936–1949, before reorganizing in 1950 as Nippon Professional Baseball. The league's dominant team was Tokyo Kyojin (renamed the Yomiuri Giants in 1947), which won nine league championships, including six in a row from 1938–1943, during the \"dead-ball era\", when many of Japan''
  • 'The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League (GLSCL) is an collegiate summer baseball league in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is affiliated with the National Alliance of Collegiate Summer Baseball and comprises teams with college baseball players from around North America.'
AgentArtistComicsCreator
  • 'Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for Achille Talon, and later became editor of Tintin magazine.'
  • 'Justiniano (born Josue Rivera) is an American comic book artist. His recent work includes the Doctor Fate feature in the 8-issue Countdown spin-off Countdown to Mystery mini-series (with the late writer Steve Gerber) from DC Comics.'
  • 'Bill Day is an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated editorial cartoons. Day has won numerous industry awards, and has also been involved in controversy over his opposition to the National Rifle Association and advocacy of gun control, and over his reuse of his own previously drawn material.'
AgentScientistEntomologist
  • 'Auguste Simon Paris (September, 1794, Charleville-Mézières in the Ardennes – 7 September 1869 Paris) was a French notary and entomologist. A former notary who retired to live in Épernay, he was interested in butterflies and Coleoptera and assembled a rich personal collection, sold on his death.'
  • 'John Henry Wood (April 14, 1841 – August 29, 1914) was an English entomologist. Wood was a physician (M.B.C.S), practising in Tarrington, Herefordshire.'
  • 'Johann Heinrich Sulzer (18 September 1735, Winterthur – 14 August 1813, Winterthur) was a Swiss physician and entomologist. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and later started a medical practice in Winterthur.'
AgentCoachCollegeCoach
  • 'Richard Llewellyn \"Rich\" Brooks (born August 20, 1941) is a retired American football player and coach. He was the head coach at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1994, the National Football League's St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 1996, and the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2009.'
  • 'Greg Frady (born December 2, 1962) is an American college baseball coach, the head coach of the Georgia State Panthers baseball team since the start of the 2007 season and general manager of the German National team. Frady was the head coach at North Florida Community College from 1990–1996.'
  • "Al Walker (born March 19, 1959) is a former basketball coach. He currently serves as a major gifts officer at Colorado College, where he was the head men's basketball coach from 1988-1993."
AgentPersonReligious
  • 'Nicholas Vreeland, also known as Rato Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Thupten Lhundup, is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk who is the abbot of Rato Dratsang Monastery, a 10th century Tibetan Buddhist monastery reestablished in India. Vreeland is also a photographer.'
  • 'Ken McLeod (born 1948) is a senior Western translator, author, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He received traditional training mainly in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage through a long association with his principal teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, whom he met in 1970.'
  • 'Hatthaka of Alavi (given name Alavaka) was one of the foremost lay male disciples of the Buddha, mentioned in text along with Citta in the Buddhavamsa xxvi.19 and considered the foremost in gathering a following using the \"four bases of sympathy\" which he describes as being: 1) he gives gifts 2) he talks with kindly words 3) he does kindly deeds4) he treats people with equality. He was the son o'
PlaceAmusementParkAttractionRollerCoaster
  • 'Scream (originally stylised as Scream!) is a floorless roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain.'
  • "Submission was a Chance Rides Double Swinging Inverter located in the X-Sector area and was built in 2001. From 2005, the ride only operated one of its arms to save electricity and the ride's cycles were shortened."
  • 'Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster manufactured by Dutch company Vekoma to a design by Arrow Dynamics. The coaster was located in the Ug Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England.'
AgentAthleteCyclist
  • 'Miriam Welte (born 9 December 1986) is a German track cyclist. At the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Welte and Kristina Vogel won the gold medal in the team sprint.'
  • "Anna Mei (10 July 1967) is a racing cyclist, mountain biker and a breaker of long-distance (24h) records. She set the women's velodrome record at 441.55 miles (711.04 km), average speed 18.40 mph (29.63 km/h) at the Roberto Battaglia velodrome in Busto Garolfo (Italy) in September 2011."
  • 'Geoff Skaines (born 8 June 1953) is an Australian former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.'
AgentAthleteRower
  • 'Roland Kostulski (born June 13, 1953) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Borna, Saxony.'
  • 'Kristina Mundt (born 25 January 1966 in Merseburg) is a German rower.'
  • 'Claudia Blasberg (born 14 February 1975 in Dresden) is a German rower.'
PlaceClericalAdministrativeRegionDiocese
  • 'The Diocese of Sigtuna was a Catholic diocese founded in Sigtuna, Sweden, established in the mid 11th century. At the time, the town of Sigtuna, situated to the north of lake Mälaren and to the south of Uppsala in the Swedish province of Uppland, had been the centre of royal power for some decades, and existed until the middle of the 12th century.'
  • 'The Syriac Catholic (or Syrian Catholic) Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela is an exarchate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Syrian Catholic Church, a Patriarchal Eastern Catholic church in communion with other Catholic Churches which uses the Antiochian Rite in Syriac language. The exarchate encompasses the Andean and Amazonian country of Venezuela.'
  • 'The Archdiocese of Fermo (Latin: Archidioecesis Firmanus) is a Roman Catholic territory in northern Italy, with the episcopal see in the city of Fermo, Marche. It was established as the Diocese of Fermo in the 3rd century and elevated to an archdiocese on 24 May 1589.'
EventSocietalEventFilmFestival
  • 'This article references all the Awards won at the Documentary Edge Festival since 2005.'
  • 'The 29 Second Film Festival (Korean: 29초영화제) is a South Korean Film Festival, which began in 2011, where all the entries have to be 29 seconds long . It is hosted by Korea Economic Daily and supervised by the Secretariat of 29 Second Film Festival.'
  • 'The Iraq Short Film Festival is an Iraqi film festival for short films established in 2005.'
EventNaturalEventEarthquake
  • 'The first of the 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occurred on April 24, 1957, with the second and larger event about seven hours later on the following day. Both earthquakes had epicentres in the eastern Mediterranean between Rhodes and the coastal city of Fethiye in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey.'
  • 'The 2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that occurred at 2:31:05 pm (NZST) on Friday 16 August 2013. The epicentre was located about 10 km south-east of Seddon, under Lake Grassmere, with a focal depth of 8 km.'
  • 'The 1938 Banda Sea earthquake occurred in the Banda Sea region on February 1. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, and intensities as high as VII (Very strong).'
PlaceStreamCanal
  • 'The Cheshire Ring is a canal cruising circuit or canal ring, which includes sections of six canals in and around Cheshire and Greater Manchester in North West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal. Because it takes boats approximately one week to complete the circuit, it is suited to narrowboat holidays that s'
  • "The Canal d'Orléans connects the Loire River at Orléans to a junction with the Canal du Loing and the Canal de Briare in the village of Buges near Montargis. It is entirely within the department of Loiret."
  • 'The Chambly Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada in the Province of Quebec, running along the Richelieu River past Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Carignan, and Chambly. Building commenced in 1831 and the canal opened in 1843.'
AgentCompanyLawFirm
  • 'Vinson & Elkins LLP (or V&E) is an international law firm headquartered in the First City Tower in Downtown Houston, Texas. The firm has offices in major energy, financial, and political centers worldwide, including Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Moscow, New York City, Palo Alto, Richmond, Riyadh, San Francisco, Taipei, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. The firm is currently'
  • 'Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, commonly known as Finnegan, is an international intellectual property law firm based in Washington, DC, United States. Finnegan was founded on March 1, 1965 by Marc Finnegan and Douglas Henderson in Washington, DC with the mission, \"to do high-quality legal work focused exclusively on intellectual property law.\" It is one of the largest law fir'
  • 'Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is a global white shoe law firm. It is one of the most prestigious and selective law firms in the world.'
AgentActorAdultActor
  • 'Candy Apples (born October 3, 1976) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Candy is married to Bill Nance.'
  • 'Ryan Keely (born July 2, 1984 in Seattle, Washington), is the stage name of an American sex advice columnist, Penthouse Pet She is a former model and pornographic actress. Keely retired from the adult film industry in 2014.'
  • 'Sarah Jane Hamilton (born April 15, 1971) is the stage name of an English former pornographic actress.'
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonBaseballSeason
  • 'The 1897 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. After three straight first-place finishes, the Orioles slipped to second place with a record of 90–40, 2 games behind the National League-leading Boston Beaneaters.'
  • 'The 1889 Kansas City Cowboys baseball team finished with a 55–82 record, seventh place in the American Association. The team folded after the season concluded.'
  • 'The 1889 Washington Nationals finished with a 41–83 record in the National League, finishing in last place. The team folded at the conclusion of the season.'
PlaceBuildingShoppingMall
  • "Bassett Place is a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, owned and operated by Cypress Equities. It is located on El Paso's east side, at Interstate 10 and Geronimo Drive."
  • 'Mouchak Market is one of the oldest and famous markets in Dhaka city. It was probably situated in the 1940s.'
  • "SM Seaside City Cebu, also called locally as SM South Road Properties or SM SRP, is a shopping mall owned and developed by SM Prime Holdings located in Cebu City, Philippines that opened on 27 November 2015, is the SM Prime Holdings' third mall in Metro Cebu. It is the centerpiece of the SM Seaside Complex, a 30-hectare mixed-use development at the South Road Properties."
PlaceSportFacilityGolfCourse
  • 'The Tollygunge Club {টালিগঞ্জ ক্লাব}, popularly called Tolly, is one of the premier country clubs of India, located in Tollygunge in south Kolkata. Sir William Cruikshank established the club as an equestrian sports facility in the year 1895 to \"promote all manner of sports\".'
  • 'The San Roque Club is a country club located in San Roque, in the Andalusia region in Southern Spain, a few miles from Gibraltar. The Old course was designed by Dave Thomas and constructed in 1990.'
  • 'The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is a collection of championship caliber golf courses, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., distributed across the state of Alabama, as part of investments by the Retirement Systems of Alabama.'
AgentPersonEconomist
  • 'Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist and Nobel laureate.'
  • 'Economist Robert Nelson is a professor of environmental policy in the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a senior fellow of the Independent Institute. He is author of over 100 journal articles and edited book chapters, as well as nine books.'
  • 'Ricardo A. M. R. Reis (born September 1, 1978) is a Portuguese economist at Columbia University in New York City. He became a full professor at the age of 29, one of the youngest ever in the history of the University.'
AgentPersonBusinessPerson
  • 'William \"Bill\" Timmerman was the Chairman, President and CEO of SCANA Corporation from March 2007 to November 2011.'
  • 'Thomas Bloodgood (died 1843) was a president of City National Bank. Bloodgood was born in Flushing, New York, USA, and was a member of the Bloodgoodfamily dating back to Dutch ownership of New York.'
  • 'Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (28 July 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1930 to 1943. He was the most powerful financier in the Far East in the 1930s and took an important role in establishing Hong Kong dollar as the official currency of the colony.'
AgentPersonMonarch
  • 'Sæberht, Saberht or Sæbert (d. c. 616) was a King of Essex (r. c. 604 – c. 616), in succession of his father King Sledd. He is known as the first East Saxon king to have been converted to Christianity.'
  • 'Jalal al-Din Khan ibn Tokhtamysh (Urdu; Persian; Arabic: جلال الدین خان ابن تقتمش; Tatar: Cäläletdin, Polish: Dżalal ad-Din) (1380–1412) was the Khan of the Golden Horde in 1411–1412. He was the son of Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde until 1395.'
  • 'David Megas Komnenos (Greek: Δαβίδ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Dabid Megas Komnēnos) (c. 1408 – 1 November 1463) was the last Emperor of Trebizond from 1459 to 1461. He was the third son of Emperor Alexios IV of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene.'
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureMagazine
  • 'Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine founded in 1933. Its print edition is available in English in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.'
  • 'Launched in April 2007, Logistics Management Magazine (Indian Edition) is the second B2B title from the stable of Reed Infomedia India Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture between Reed Business Information (part of the Reed Elsevier Group) and Infomedia India Limited (the largest publisher of B2B magazines in India).'
  • 'The Antigonish Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing new and established contemporary literary fiction, reviews, non-fiction articles/essays, translations, and poetry. Since 2005, the magazine runs an annual competition, the Sheldon Currie Short Fiction Contest.'
AgentMusicalArtistClassicalMusicArtist
  • 'Iiro Rantala (born 1970, in Helsinki) is a Finnish jazz pianist. He studied piano in the jazz department of Sibelius Academy and classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music.'
  • 'Alex Szilasi (born in Parma in 1968) is a Hungarian-Italian pianist. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1993, where his professors were Ferenc Rados, Sándor Falvai and Péter Solymos.'
  • 'Thomas Duis (born 1958, in Frankfurt) is a German pianist. Duis studied with Kurt Gerecke in Wiesbaden, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and Fanny Waterman in Leeds.'
AgentPersonMilitaryPerson
  • "Mario Montoya Uribe (born 29 April 1949) is a former Colombian military General and Commander of the Colombian National Army (Spanish: Ejército Nacional de Colombia) until his resignation on November 4, 2008 following the 'false positives' scandal involving the deaths of 11 civilians at the hands of the military. Montoya holds a graduate title in Top management from the Los Andes University (Colom"
  • 'Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, baron, (26 June 1775 in Paris – 18 June 1815 near Waterloo), was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. Born in an aristocratic family of the Ancien Régime, Desvaux was admitted at the Artillery School of Châlons in 1792, before joining the Army of the Alps, with which he would take part to the siege of Lyon.'
  • "Benjamin M. Anderson (1836 – February 21, 1865) was a partisan soldier for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He had gained military experience while serving under William Walker's filibustering campaign in Nicaragua."
SpeciesPlantCycad
  • 'Zamia purpurea is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it occurs only in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz.'
  • 'Macrozamia fawcettii is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia.'
  • 'Cycas platyphylla is a cycad in the genus Cycas, native to Queensland, Australia. The stems are erect or decumbent, growing to 1.5 m tall but most often less than a metre.'
AgentPersonChef
  • 'Gérald Passédat (born 24 March 1960) is a French chef, owner of the restaurant Le Petit Nice in Marseille. He has three stars at the Guide Michelin since 2008.'
  • 'Pahar Pangcoga, popularly known as Hasset Go or Chef Hasset (August 8, 1986 – October 24, 2015) was a Filipino celebrity chef and entrepreneur. He appeared in several television shows and gained prominence nationwide.'
  • 'James Koskiniemi (born February 16, 1977) is an American chef who is the recipient of the San Francisco Chefs Association 2010 Chef of the Year. James worked as the Executive Chef of The Bellevue Club in Oakland, California and as of September 2014 he became chef and co-founder of The Pig and The Pickle - Ale Industries Marketplace in Concord California.'
PlaceBuildingHotel
  • 'Adriatik Hotel is a hotel near Durrës, Albania. This is the main tourist hotel in Durrës, located on the long sandy beach to the south.'
  • 'Conrad Manila is a hotel located at the Bay City area in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.'
  • "The North Stafford Hotel (or North Staffordshire Hotel) is a hotel and Grade II* listed building in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, opposite the city's railway station (itself a Grade II* listed building)."
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonNCAATeamSeason
  • 'The 2007 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos, led by second year head coach Chris Petersen, play their home games at Bronco Stadium, most famous for its blue artificial turf surface, often referred to as the \"smurf-turf\", and were members of the Western Athletic Conference.'
  • "The 2012–13 VMI Keydets basketball team represented the Virginia Military Institute in the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Keydets were coached by Duggar Baucom, in his 8th year."
  • 'The 2011 Campbell Fighting Camels football team represented Campbell University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Fighting Camels were led by fourth-year head coach Dale Steele and played their home games at Barker–Lane Stadium.'
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonSoccerClubSeason
  • "The 1959 season was Djurgårdens IF's 59th in existence, their 15th season in Allsvenskan and their 10th consecutive season in the league. They were competing in Allsvenskan."
  • 'The 2011 FC Astana season was the third successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. It was their first season competing as FC Astana having changed their name from Lokomotiv Astana, finishing the season in 4th place in the league and reaching the Second Round of the Kazakhstan Cup.'
  • 'Plymouth Argyle Football Club is an English association football club based in Plymouth, Devon. The 2010–11 season is their 108th as a professional club, their 86th as a member of the Football League and 39th in the third tier of the English football league system.'
SpeciesPlantMoss
  • 'Calliergon giganteum, the giant spearmoss giant calliergon moss, or arctic moss, is an aquatic plant found on lake beds in tundra regions. It has no wood stems or flowers, and has small rootlets instead of roots.'
  • 'Vesicularia montagnei is an aquatic moss of Asian origin, closely related to Java moss. It is used in planted aquariums as an ornamental underwater plant, commonly referred to as Christmas moss.'
  • 'Sphagnum palustre (Syn. Sphagnum cymbifolium), the prairie sphagnum or blunt-leaved bogmoss, is a species of peat moss from the genus Sphagnum, in the family Sphagnaceae.'
AgentArtistPhotographer
  • 'Abelardo (Abe) Morell (born 1948 in Havana, Cuba) is a Boston-based photographer represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.'
  • "David Lee (born February 16, 1961) is an American unit still photographer. He is the younger brother of film director Spike Lee, and has done the still photography for all of his older brother's feature films with the exception of Get on the Bus and He Got Game."
  • 'Barry Feinstein (February 4, 1931 – October 20, 2011) was an American photographer who was reputed to have produced over 500 album covers. In 1955 Feinstein was engaged as an assistant photographer at Life magazine.'
SpeciesAnimalBird
  • "The Klages's antbird (Drymophila klagesi) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in humid foothill forests, from Venezuela to NE Colombia in Serranía de Perijá and the northern Eastern Andes, especially in association with bamboo."
  • 'The black-banded owl (Strix huhula) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.'
  • 'The brown falcon (Falco berigora) is a relatively large falcon endemic to Australia. A number of plumage morphs exist, with the primary distinction being between the pale morph and the dark morph.'
AgentSportsLeagueRugbyLeague
  • 'Yorkshire 5 is an English Rugby Union league at the eleventh tier of the domestic competition and is currently the basement league of club rugby in Yorkshire. This league has not always been the bottom division as for a while there was a Yorkshire 6 but this league merged with Yorkshire 5 a few seasons ago.'
  • "The European Women's Sevens, also known as the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens and previously as the FIRA–AER Women's Sevens, is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Europe. The annual tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend in June."
  • "The Belgian Elite League is the top flight men's competition for rugby union in Belgium."
AgentCompanyAirline
  • 'Mahfooz Aviation is a charter airline based in Banjul, Gambia.'
  • 'Odessa Airlines was an airline based in Odessa, Ukraine. It operated charter passenger services from Ukraine to destinations in Russia, Syria, Turkey and Germany.'
  • 'Henan Airlines (Chinese: 河南航空; pinyin: Hénán Hángkōng, formerly Kunpeng Airlines (Chinese: 鲲鹏航空公司; pinyin: Kūnpéng Hángkōng Gōngsī), was a charter airline based in northern China. Kunpeng was originally founded as a joint venture between Shenzhen Airlines of China and Mesa Air Group of the United States and was also the largest sino-foreign regional airline in China.'
AgentEducationalInstitutionSchool
  • "The Crest Boys' Academy (formerly John Kelly Boys' Technology College) was a secondary school with academy status located in Neasden in the London Borough of Brent. The school was founded as John Kelly Boys' Technology College in 1958 and was set in pleasant and extensive grounds."
  • "Amir Temur Secondary School (Uzbek: Amir Temur nomli oʻrta maktab, Амир Темур номли ўрта мактаб'; Russian: Средняя школа имени Амира Темура; Kyrgyz: Амир Темур атындагы орто мектеби) is a secondary school in Isfana, Kyrgyzstan. Although the school is called a secondary school, it offers classes for grades one through eleven."
  • '(This article is about Wesley College in Pukekohe, New Zealand. For articles on other institutions named \"Wesley College\", see Wesley College (disambiguation).)'
AgentSportsTeamCyclingTeam
  • 'La Vie Claire was a professional road bicycle racing team named after its chief sponsor La vie Claire, a chain of health food stores.'
  • 'Team Colpack is an Italian cycling team based in Bergamo, Italy. The name Colpack is familiar to Italian teams, having previously been a co-sponsor of the De Nardi-Colpack and Team Colpack-Astro squads.'
  • 'Cofidis Solutions Crédits (UCI team code: COF) is a French professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by a money-lending company, Cofidis. It was started in 1996 by Cyrille Guimard the former manager of Bernard Hinault, Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon of the Renault-Elf-Gitane team of the 1980s.'
PlaceRaceTrackRacecourse
  • 'Haydock Park Racecourse is a racecourse in Merseyside, England. The racecourse is set in an area of parkland bounded by the towns of Haydock to the west, Ashton-in-Makerfield to the north, Golborne to the east and Newton-le-Willows to the south.'
  • 'Hamilton Park Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue in Hamilton, Scotland to the south of Glasgow. It is a flat racing venue, with a season which runs from May to October.'
  • 'The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California is a one-mile (1.6 km / 8 f) race track for Thoroughbred, Quarter horse and Arabian racing. Constructed in 1858 by the sons of Spaniard Don Agustin Bernal, it is the second oldest horse racing track of its kind in the United States.'
PlaceBodyOfWaterLake
  • 'Lake Ming is a man-made recreational lake located in Bakersfield, California. It is primarily a motorboat and water-skiing lake, although sailboats are allowed the 2nd full weekend each month, and every Tuesday and Thursday after 1:30 pm.'
  • 'Lake Ngaroto is a peat lake in Waipa District of New Zealand. Located 19 km south of Hamilton and 8 km north-west of Te Awamutu, it has a surface area of 108 ha, making it the largest of the Waipa peat lakes.'
  • 'Stockbridge Bowl, also known as Lake Mahkeenac, is a 372-acre (1.51 km2) artificially impounded body of water that is 4 km (2.5 mi) north of the village of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Above the lake’s north side with sweeping views to the south is Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.'
SpeciesAnimalInsect
  • 'Larnaca is a cricket genus in the diverse subfamily Gryllacridinae.'
  • 'The cochineal (/kɒtʃᵻˈniːl/ koch-i-NEEL or /ˈkɒtʃᵻniːl/ KOCH-i-neel; Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. A primarily sessile parasite native to tropical and subtropical South America as well as Mexico and Arizona, this insect lives on cacti in the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients.'
  • 'Metalopha gloriosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from western Turkey to eastern Taurus Mountains, Iraq, Anatolia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.'
TopicalConceptGenreMusicGenre
  • "Coupé-Décalé is a type of popular dance music originating from Côte d'Ivoire and the Ivorian diaspora in Paris, France. Drawing heavily from Zouglou and Zouk with African influences, Coupé-Décalé is a very percussive style featuring African samples, deep bass, and repetitive minimalist arrangements."
  • 'Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern form of Christian music that expresses either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Musically, it follows the trends in secular urban contemporary music.'
  • 'Bandish, Cheez or Gat is a fixed, melodic composition in Hindustani vocal or instrumental music. It is set in a specific raga, performed with rhythmic accompaniment by a tabla or pakhavaj, a steady drone, and melodic accompaniment by a sarangi, violin or harmonium.'
AgentCompanyBrewery
  • 'Royal Unibrew is a brewing and beverage company headquartered in Faxe, Denmark. Its brands include Ceres, Faxe, Albani and Royal.'
  • 'Tractor Brewing Company is a New Mexico-based brewery, founded in 1999 in Los Lunas and since 2014 located in Albuquerque. Tractor beers have won awards at the New Mexico State Fair Pro-Am Competition.'
  • 'Big Sky Brewing Company is a brewery located in Missoula, Montana. It brews six different styles of beer: Moose Drool (a brown ale), Scape Goat (Pale Ale), Big Sky (India Pale ale), Powder Hound (Winter Ale), Summer Honey (Seasonal Ale), and Trout Slayer Ale.'
AgentSportsManagerSoccerManager
  • 'Bobby Browne (born 9 June 1962 in Dublin) is a former Irish footballer and manager. He played in the League of Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, mainly with Shelbourne.'
  • 'Osvaldo Brandão (born in Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul, September 18, 1916 – died July 29, 1989) was a Brazilian football manager that coached Brazil in 1955, 1956, and 1957, and from 1975 to 1977 and the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista in several times. He also coached Cruzeiro, Palmeiras, Corinthians, São Paulo, Portuguesa, Santos, Botafogo-SP, Portuguesa Santista, Vila Nova-GO, Independiente and P'
  • 'Michael Edwin \"Mickey\" Bullock (born 2 October 1946 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English former footballer and football manager who played as a centre-forward. He scored 109 goals in 469 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, Oxford United, Leyton Orient and Halifax Town.'
AgentPoliticianPrimeMinister
  • 'János Count Hadik de Futak (23 November 1863, Pálócz – 10 December 1933, Budapest) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister for 17 hours starting 30 October 1918, at the end of World War I.'
  • 'Aleksandar Džombić (born 1968) is a Serbian politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Prime Minister of Republika Srpska. He was minister of finance in the previous government.'
  • 'Banharn Silpa-archa( Thai: บรรหาร ศิลปอาชา, rtgs: Banhan Sinlapa-acha, also spelled Banhan, Silapa-, Sinlapa-, -acha; Thai pronunciation: [banhǎːn sǐnláʔpàʔ aːt͡ɕʰaː], 19 August 1932 – 23 April 2016) was a Thai politician. He was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996.'
PlaceStreamRiver
  • 'San Pedro River is a northward-flowing stream originating about 10 miles (16 km) south of the international border south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, in Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico. The river starts at the confluence of other streams (Las Nutrias and El Sauz) just east of Sauceda, Cananea.'
  • 'Plunketts Creek is an approximately 6.2-mile-long (10.0 km) tributary of Loyalsock Creek in Lycoming and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Two unincorporated villages and a hamlet are on the creek, and its watershed drains 23.6 square miles (61 km2) in parts of five townships.'
  • 'The Arie River (有家川 Arie-gawa) flows from Mount Unzen to the Ariake Sea in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.'
AgentRacingDriverNascarDriver
  • 'Brendan Gaughan (born July 10, 1975) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No.'
  • 'Anthony James \"A. J.\" Allmendinger (born December 16, 1981) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No.'
  • 'Edgar Robert Spencer, Sr. ( January 5, 1929 – April 3, 2014) was an American modified and stock car racing driver.'
AgentPersonAmbassador
  • 'Sir Christopher John Rome Meyer, KCMG (born 22 February 1944) is a former British Ambassador to the United States (1997–2003), former Ambassador to Germany (1997) and the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (2003–2009). He is married to Catherine Meyer, founder of the charity Parents & Abducted Children Together.'
  • 'Lawrence A. Pezzulo (born May 3, 1926) is an American former diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He served as the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua (1979–1981) and to Uruguay (1977–1979).'
  • 'Brian A. Nichols is an American diplomat. He serves as the United States Ambassador to Peru.'
EventSocietalEventMilitaryConflict
  • 'The Charge at Kiswe took place on 30 September 1918 about 9 miles (14 km) south of Damascus, during the pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps following the decisive Egyptian Expeditionary Force victory at the Battle of Megiddo, the Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub and the Charge at Kaukab during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I. As Desert Mounted Corps rode along the main road from Nablus, unit'
  • 'The most recent Chadian Civil War began in December 2005. Since its independence from France in 1960, Chad has been swamped by the civil war between the Arab-Muslims of the north and the Sub-Saharan-Christians of the south.'
  • 'The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Li'
AgentPoliticianPresident
  • 'Wilbert Ross Thatcher, PC (May 24, 1917 – July 22, 1971) was the ninth Premier of Saskatchewan, Canada, serving from 2 May 1964 to 30 June 1971.'
  • 'Enrique Alfredo Olaya Herrera (November 12, 1880 – February 18, 1937) was a Colombian journalist and politician, President of Colombia from August 7, 1930 until August 7, 1934 representing the Colombian Liberal Party.'
  • 'Juan Hipólito Vieytes (San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires Province, 6 August 1762 – San Fernando, Argentina, 5 October 1815), was an Argentine merchant and soldier. He was the son of Juan Vieytes and Petrona Mora Fernández de Agüero.'
AgentPersonBeautyQueen
  • 'Yonlada Ronghanam (Thai: ยลดา รองหานาม), nicknamed Nong (Thai: น้อง) (born January 7, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand) is Miss Thailand 1989. She competed in the Miss Universe 1989 pageant held in Mexico.'
  • 'Leah Laviano is an American teacher, model and beauty pageant titleholder who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2008.'
  • 'Nina Đurđević; is a Slovene model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned titleholder of Miss Universe Slovenia 2013 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant.'
AgentAthleteTableTennisPlayer
  • 'Wang Huiyuan (Chinese: 王会元) is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1979 to 1985 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.'
  • 'Kálmán Szepesi is a male former table tennis player from Hungary. He won several medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships in 1951 to 1955.'
  • 'Yasuko Konno is a female former table tennis player from Japan. In 1969 and 1971 she won three medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.'
AgentAthleteHandballPlayer
  • 'Janko Božović (born 14 July 1985) is an Austrian handball player who plays for Sporting CP and the Austrian national team.'
  • 'Eduardo Gurbindo Martínez (born 8 November 1987) is a Spanish handballer who plays for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.'
  • 'Mitko Stoilov (Macedonian: Митко Стоилов) (born 4 February 1983) is a Macedonian handball player who plays for RK Tineks Prolet.'
EventSportsEventFootballMatch
  • 'The 1957 Scottish League Cup Final was the final of the 1957–58 Scottish League Cup. The football match was played on 19 October 1957 at Hampden Park, in which Celtic beat rivals Rangers in a record 7–1 victory.'
  • 'The 1969 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final was the final of the eleventh Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was played on 29 May and 11 June 1969 between Newcastle United F.C. of England and Újpesti Dózsa of Hungary.'
  • 'The 1931 German football championship, the 24th edition of the competition, was won by Hertha BSC, defeating TSV 1860 München 3–2 in the final. For Hertha it was the sixth consecutive final the club played in and the second national championship, having won the previous edition.'
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRoad
  • 'Mendiola Street is a short thoroughfare in San Miguel, Manila, Philippines. The street is named after Enrique Mendiola, an educator, textbook author and member of the first Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines.'
  • 'The Browns Well Highway is the road from Loxton, South Australia through the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo in South Australia. It was named in 2008 after the Browns Well district for areas traversed by the highway.'
  • 'State Road 44 (SR 44) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. It runs from Crystal River on the Gulf of Mexico east to New Smyrna Beach on the Atlantic Ocean, passing through Inverness, Wildwood, Leesburg and DeLand.'
AgentSportsTeamCricketTeam
  • 'The Turks and Caicos Islands cricket team is the team that represents the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands in international cricket matches.'
  • 'The Windward Islands cricket team is a cricket team representing the member countries of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. The team plays in the West Indies Professional Cricket League (including the NAGICO Regional Super50) under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes.'
  • 'Hambantota Troopers cricket team is one of the five provincial cricket teams which make up the Sri Lankan domestic cricket structure representing mainly Hambantota District of Southern Province, Sri Lanka, and with some nearby provinces. In previous occasions, the province was included in to Southern Express and Ruhuna Reds, where part of them was combined in this season as Hambantota Troopers.'
PlaceInfrastructureAirport
  • "Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (French: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) (IATA: NCE, ICAO: LFMN) is an international airport located 3.2 NM (5.9 km; 3.7 mi) southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes départment of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet."
  • 'Bau Airport (ICAO: FZFF) is an airport serving Bau, Democratic Republic of the Congo.'
  • 'Akhiok Airport (IATA: AKK, ICAO: PAKH, FAA LID: AKK) is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southwest of the central business district of Akhiok, a city in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,220 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 1,356 enplanements in 2009, an'
WorkMusicalWorkArtistDiscography
  • 'Discography of the Russian singer of Edita Piekha, which let out 13 studio albums, 8 compilations, 21 extended plays, 3 singles.'
  • 'The following is a discography for Alive Naturalsound Records, an American independent music label founded in 1994. The label regularly releases albums both digitally, on CD, and on vinyl.'
  • 'A detailed list of all official video & DVD releases by Lebanese artist Nancy Ajram, including official music videos, commercials, other video works, and their sources. Ajram has a good reception for her videos on YouTube as her videos views on YouTube are over 230 million views.'
PlaceRouteOfTransportationBridge
  • 'The Nijmegen railway bridge is a truss bridge spanning the River Waal, connecting the city of Nijmegen to the town of Lent in the Netherlands.'
  • 'The Charleroi-Monessen Bridge, officially the John K. Tener Memorial Bridge, is a two lane structure spanning the Monongahela River. The bridge connects North Charleroi in Washington County, Pennsylvania and Monessen in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.'
  • 'The New Haydon Bridge is a bridge across the River South Tyne providing access to and from the village of Haydon Bridge.'
PlaceBuildingHistoricBuilding
  • 'The Church St. Nikolas, in Kumanovo (Macedonian: Црква Свети Никола, Куманово), Republic of Macedonia, is a church designed by Andrey Damyanov. It is surrounded by arcades and has a rich interior with galleries, frescoes and furniture.'
  • 'The Royal Chapel of St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe is the garrison church within the precincts of the Royal Citadel in Plymouth. The original church on the site was licensed for services by the Bishop of Exeter, Thomas de Brantingham, in 1371.'
  • 'The Protestant church of Augustinusga or Saint Augustine’s church is a religious building in Augustinusga, Netherlands, one of the medieval churches in Friesland. The church was built in the 15th century and has a tower that dates from the 13th century, built out of brick.'
AgentEducationalInstitutionUniversity
  • 'Patrician College, a Catholic coeducational institution, is affiliated to the University of Madras. The college is under the directive of the Brothers of the Patrician Order.'
  • "The American University in London (AUL) is an unaccredited university located in Seven Sisters Road in London. The AUL's business education programs have been accredited in the past by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), but this accreditation was suspended in April 2007."
  • 'West Coast University (WCU) is a private, for-profit university focused on healthcare degrees, campus locations include Los Angeles, Anaheim and Ontario, California, Dallas, Texas, and Miami, Florida. It is not related to a school of the same name operating out of Panama.'
PlaceTowerLighthouse
  • 'The Hog Island Light was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast. Originally, no light existed between Cape Henlopen, Delaware and Cape Charles, Virginia.'
  • 'The Puerto del Rosario Lighthouse (Spanish: Faro de Puerto del Rosario) also known as the Punta Gaviota lighthouse is a modern active lighthouse on the Canary island of Fuerteventura. It is located in an industrial area at the north-eastern end of the town of Puerto del Rosario, the capital and major port of the island in the Province of Las Palmas.'
  • 'Pendeen Lighthouse, also known as Pendeen Watch is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the north of Pendeen in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located within the Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI, the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Penwith Heritage Coast.'
WorkDatabaseBiologicalDatabase
  • 'The Human Protein Atlas (HPA) program is a scientific research program with the goal to explore the whole human proteome using an antibody-based approach. The program was started at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2003 and funded by the non-profit organization Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).'
  • 'YEASTRACT (Yeast Search for Transcriptional Regulators And Consensus Tracking) is a curated repository of more than 48000 regulatory associations between transcription factors (TF) and target genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, based on more than 1200 bibliographic references. It also includes the description of about 300 specific DNA binding sites for more than a hundred characterized TFs.'
  • 'The Stem Cell Lineage Database(SCLD) is a database of resources used to identify cell lineages. The Stem Cell Lineage Database (SCLD) was created by the University of Connecticut in order to have a more user friendly approach to retrieve and share data.'
SpeciesAnimalArachnid
  • 'Propostira quadrangulata, is a species of spider of the genus Propostira. It is native to India and Sri Lanka.'
  • 'Polyaspinus is a genus of mites in the family Trachytidae.'
  • 'Sassacus vitis is a species of jumping spider. It is native to North America, with a range spanning from Canada to Panama.'
PlaceStationRailwayStation
  • 'Langnau-Gattikon is a railway station in the Sihl Valley, and the municipality of Langnau am Albis, in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. Gattikon is an adjacent settlement, part of the municipality of Thalwil.'
  • 'Milanówek railway station is a railway station in Milanówek, Poland. The station is served by Koleje Mazowieckie, who run trains from Skierniewice to Warszawa Wschodnia.'
  • 'Milltown railway station is a planned railway station intended to serve the village of Milltown in County Galway. The station was originally opened by the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway in 1894 on the route between Limerick and Claremorris.'
AgentAthleteMartialArtist
  • "Vinicius de Magalhães (Portuguese pronunciation: [maɡaˈʎɐ̃ȷ̃ʃ]; born July 2, 1984), is a Brazilian retired mixed martial artist who competed in the World Series of Fighting's Light Heavyweight division. He was a finalist in The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir and has fought five times within two stints with the Ultimate Fighting Championship."
  • "Christian M'Pumbu (born June 2, 1977) is a French-Congolese professional mixed martial artist. He was the inaugural Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion."
  • 'Rene Capo (May 9, 1961 – July 6, 2009) was a judoka from the United States who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. Capo immigrated to the United States from Cuba as a young boy.'
SpeciesAnimalCrustacean
  • 'Psaumis is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species: \n* Psaumis cavipes (Dana, 1852) \n* Psaumis fossulata (Girard, 1859)'
  • 'Clausidiidae is a family of parasitic copepods of the order Poecilostomatoida, containing the following genera: \n* Cemihyclops Karanovic, 2008 \n* Clausidium Kossmann, 1875 \n* Conchyliurus Bocquet & Stock, 1957 \n* Foliomolgus I. M. Kim, 2001 \n* Giardella Canu, 1888 \n* Goodingius I. M. Kim, 2007 \n* Hemadona I. M. Kim & Ho, 2003 \n* Hemicyclops Boeck, 1872 \n* Hersiliodes Canu, 1888 \n* Hippom'
  • 'Porcellio pumicatus is a species of woodlouse in the genus Porcellio belonging to the family Porcellionidae. This species is known to occur in Central Italy and on Sardinia.'
AgentWrestlerSumoWrestler
  • "Chiyonoyama Masanobu (千代の山 雅信, June 2, 1926 – October 29, 1977) was a sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō, Japan. He was the sport's 41st yokozuna."
  • 'Hōchiyama Kōkan (born January 18, 1982 as Yukimi Munakata) is a former sumo wrestler from Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He joined professional sumo in 2000.'
  • 'Hidenohana Yukihide (born 10 February 1965 as Yukihide Kikushima) is a former sumo wrestler from Nirasaki, Yamanashi, Japan. He made his professional debut in March 1980, but never reached the top division.'
PlaceCelestialBodyGalaxy
  • 'NGC 4030 is a grand design spiral galaxy located about 64 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. With an apparent visual magnitude of 10.6, it is visible with a small telescope as a 3 arc minute wide feature about 4.75° to the southeast of the star Beta Virginis.'
  • 'Andromeda IV (And IV) is an isolated irregular dwarf galaxy. The moderate surface brightness, a very blue color, low current star formation rate and low metallicity are consistent with it being a small (background) dwarf irregular galaxy, perhaps similar to Local Group dwarfs such as IC 1613 and Sextans A. Arguments based on the observed radial velocity and the tentative detection of the RGB tip s'
  • 'UGC 4879, which is also known as VV 124, is the most isolated dwarf galaxy in the periphery of the Local Group. It is an irregular galaxy at a distance of 1.38 Mpc.'
AgentClericPope
  • 'Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi.'
  • 'Pope Athanasius II of Alexandria, 28th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. When Pope Peter III of Alexandria died, the bishops, elders and people agreed to ordain Athanasius Patriarch.'
  • 'Pope Eumenes (Emenaios), 7th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. He was one of the most respected Christians in Alexandria, Egypt.'
PlaceSatelliteArtificialSatellite
  • 'GOES 4, known as GOES-D before becoming operational, was a geostationary weather satellite which was operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. Launched in 1980, it was used for weather forecasting in the United States, and later in Europe.'
  • "Geotail is a satellite observing the Earth's magnetosphere. It was developed by Japan's ISAS in association with the United States' NASA, and was launched by a Delta II rocket on July 24, 1992."
  • 'Diwata-1 also known as PHL-Microsat-1 is a Philippine microsatellite launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in March 23, 2016, and was deployed into orbit from the ISS in April 27, 2016. It is the first Philippine microsatellite and the first satellite built and designed by Filipinos.'
AgentWriterScreenWriter
  • 'Mark Burchett (born April 20, 1960 - July 12, 2014) was a Hollywood film director, screenwriter and film producer of horror movies. Burchett was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.'
  • 'Laird Doyle (1907–1936) was an American screenwriter. Doyle was under contract to Warner Brothers during the mid-1930s, before his sudden death at the age of twenty nine.'
  • 'Paul Gangelin (November 7, 1898 – September 25, 1961) was an American screenwriter.'
EventTournamentSoccerTournament
  • "The 1940–41 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 18th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition."
  • "The 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup was the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It took place in Guangdong, China from 16 November to 30 November 1991."
  • "The 2005–06 Israeli Women's Cup (Hebrew: גביע המדינה נשים\u200e\u200e, Gvia HaMedina Nashim) was the 8th season of Israel's women's nationwide football cup competition. The competition was won, for the third consecutive time, by Maccabi Holon, who had beaten ASA Tel Aviv University 5–1 in the final."
AgentOrganisationPublicTransitSystem
  • 'The Lima Metro (Spanish: Metro de Lima), is a metropolitan railway operated by Argentine company Ferrovías and Peruvian company Graña y Montero, currently linking the district of Villa El Salvador in the south of Lima with San Juan de Lurigancho in the east of the capital of Peru. Despite the line having obtained 32 cars and completed construction of 7 stations for over many years, it did not oper'
  • 'The Richmond and York River Railroad Company was incorporated under an act of the Virginia General Assembly on January 31, 1853. The State of Virginia subscribed to 60 per cent of the capital stock.'
  • 'The Uinta Basin Rail project was a proposed 100 miles (160 km) railroad in the Uintah Basin region of eastern Utah. In 2012, the Utah Department of Transportation, working with the regional Six-County Infrastructure Coalition, began studying transportation in the basin, which is a major oil producing region.'
AgentOrganisationMilitaryUnit
  • 'C Troop, 1st Squadron, 153rd Cavalry (\"Charlie Troop\") of the Florida Army National Guard was reorganized in 2006-07 from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry. The Tallahassee-based company claims its roots back to the establishment of Tallahassee and the first Florida militias raised to fight in the Seminole Indian Wars.'
  • '20th Ohio Independent Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.'
  • 'There have been two 20th Divisions in the history of the United States Army. In early 1917, the 20th Division was established as a National Guard formation consisting of units of the Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming Army National Guards.'
SpeciesAnimalMollusca
  • 'Chlamys hastata, the spear scallop, spiny scallop or swimming scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae found on the west coast of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California. A limited number of these scallops are harvested by divers or by narrow trawls off the west coast of Canada.'
  • 'Lithophaga, the date mussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Some of the earliest fossil Lithophaga shells have been found in Mesozoic rocks from the Alps and from Vancouver Island, The shells of species in this genus are long and narrow with parallel sides.'
  • 'Idiosepius biserialis is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Indian Ocean off southern Africa. Records of this species from the Andaman Sea probablyrefer to Idiosepius thailandicus.'
AgentPersonModel
  • 'Muthu Tharanga Sri Nilupuli Peiris (born April 30) is a Sri Lankan fashion model and teledrama actress.'
  • 'Naomi Preizler (born October 12, 1991) is an Argentine fashion model and artist, known for her \"longilinear silhouette, long blonde hair and androgynous face.\"'
  • 'Raffaella Modugno is an Italian model who was crowned Miss Curve d'Italia Lazio 2011 (\"Miss Curvy Italy 2011\"). She was the cover model of the German Maxim (2012) and Indian GQ (2013), and modeled for brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Coin and Prada.'
AgentBroadcasterRadioStation
  • 'WBCR-LP is a low power FM radio station with office and studio located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, broadcasting on the 97.7 FM frequency. The organization's legal name is \"Berkshire Community Radio Alliance,\" and is also known as \"Berkshire Community Radio\" or \"BCR.\" WBCR-LP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer-run, non-commercial, community radio station with over 70 locally produce'
  • 'WARX (93.9 FM) is a commercial radio station in Lewiston, Maine and features programming from both K-LOVE and Air 1. It is under ownership of the Educational Media Foundation.'
  • 'CFGT-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Alma, Quebec. Owned and operated by RNC Media, it broadcasts on 104.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 20,000 watts, using an omnidirectional antenna (class B); it was previously heard on the AM band, on 1270 kHz, with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional '
AgentPoliticianSenator
  • 'James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.'
  • 'Royal Samuel Copeland (November 7, 1868 – June 17, 1938), a United States Senator from New York from 1923 until 1938, was an academic, homeopathic physician, and politician. He held elected offices in both Michigan (as a Republican) and New York (as a Democrat).'
  • "Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859 – June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history."
AgentEducationalInstitutionLibrary
  • 'In 1937 the Government of Nova Scotia passed an Act to Provide for the Support of Regional Libraries and a survey was undertaken asking residents if they needed a public library in their community. The recommendation was made to implement regional library service.'
  • 'The Chester County Library System in Chester County, Pennsylvania is a library system in southeastern Pennsylvania that was organized in 1965. It is a federated system composed of a District Center Library in Exton, Pennsylvania and seventeen member libraries.'
  • 'The Swiss National Library is part of the Federal Office of Culture. Under the terms of the law which governs it, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields and disciplines, and in any medium, connected with Switzerland, as well as with ensuring the widest possible accessibility to and dissemination of such data.'
AgentPersonArchitect
  • "Mai Šein (born 10 May 1946 in Räägi, Saaremaa) is a notable Estonian architect. Mai Šein studied in the National Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture."
  • 'Edward Joseph Noonan (born May 20, 1930) is an architect and real estate developer based in Chicago, Illinois, and the former interim president of Shimer College. He is the chairman of the board of Chicago Associates Planners & Architects, and was the lead architect in the Tryon Farm development near Michigan City, Indiana.'
  • "Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛb məˈɾi.ə ʒuˈʒɔɫ]; 16 September 1879 – 1 May 1949) was a Catalan architect. Jujol's wide field of activity ranged from furniture designs and painting, to architecture."
AgentSportsTeamHandballTeam
  • 'Rukometni klub Rudar is a handball club in Pljevlja, Montenegro.'
  • 'Rokometni Klub Jeruzalem Ormož (English: Jeruzalem Ormož Handball Club), commonly referred to as RK Jeruzalem Ormož or simply Jeruzalem Ormož, is a team handball club from Ormož, Slovenia. Currently, it competes in the Slovenian First League of Handball.'
  • 'TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke is a handball club from Lübbecke, Germany. Currently, TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke competes in the German First League of Handball.'
AgentRacingDriverFormulaOneRacer
  • 'Alexander Wurz (born 15 February 1974) is an Austrian retired professional racing driver, driver training expert and businessman. He competed in Formula One from 1997 until 2007, and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours.'
  • 'Al Herman (March 15, 1927 – June 18, 1960) was an American racecar driver. Born in Topton, Pennsylvania, Herman died in West Haven, Connecticut as a result of injuries sustained in a midget car crash at the West Haven Speedway.'
  • 'Desiré Randall Wilson (born 26 November 1953) is a former racing driver from South Africa and one of only five women to have competed in Formula One. Born in Brakpan, she entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07, but failed to qualify.'
AgentAthleteSwimmer
  • "Cristina Teuscher (born March 12, 1978) is an American former freestyle and medley swimmer who was a member of the U.S. women's relay team that won the gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Trina Jackson and Sheila Taormina."
  • 'Karen Anne Phillips (born 4 May 1966), known after marriage as Karen Anne Higgison, was an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer of the 1980s, who won the silver medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Raised in Nowra, New South Wales, Phillips was selected to represent Australia in the 200-metre butterfly and 400-metre individual medley, but was n'
  • 'Liudmyla Klipova (born 24 July 1937) is a Soviet former swimmer. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.'
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRoadTunnel
  • 'The Frafjord Tunnel (Norwegian: Frafjordtunnelen) is a road tunnel in Gjesdal municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 3,812-metre (12,507 ft) long tunnel is located along the Norwegian county road 281 connecting the villages of Frafjord and Gilja which are in two separate valleys with a large mountain between them.'
  • 'The Sasago Tunnel (笹子トンネル Sasago Tonneru) is a Japanese twin-bore motorway tunnel on the Chūō Expressway on the border of the cities of Kōshū and Ōtsuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. It is located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of the capital Tokyo.'
  • 'Aberdeen Tunnel (Chinese: 香港仔隧道; pinyin: Xiānggǎngzǎi Suìdào; Cantonese Yale: heung1 gong2 jai2 seui6 dou6) is a two-tube tunnel linking Happy Valley and Wong Chuk Hang near Aberdeen on the Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It shortens the travel time between Wong Chuk Hang and Causeway Bay of the Hong Kong Island.'
PlaceSportFacilityStadium
  • "The Pirelli Stadium is an association football stadium on Princess Way in Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, England. It was built in 2005 and is the current home of Burton Albion F.C., replacing the club's old Eton Park home, also on Princess Way, which was demolished and developed into housing."
  • 'Woodlands Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Woodlands, Singapore. It is currently the home ground of S.League side, Woodlands Wellington FC, and used mostly for football matches for both the S.League and Prime League competitions.'
  • 'Estadio do Clube Desportivo Trofense is a multi-use stadium in Trofa, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of C.D. Trofense.'
WorkSoftwareVideoGame
  • 'Guilty Gear Dust Strikers (ギルティギア ダストストライカーズ Giruti Gia Dasuto Sutoraikāzu), or Guilty Gear DS, is a fighting game of the Guilty Gear series for the Nintendo DS. It is modeled after Guilty Gear Isuka, and also allows for four player fights.'
  • 'MotorStorm: RC is a 2012 racing video game by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita computer entertainment systems. The game is a radio controlled spin-off of the popular MotorStorm franchise, and was only released on the PlayStation Network.'
  • 'Hohokum is an art video game by developer Honeyslug in collaboration with British artist Richard Hogg and Sony Santa Monica and published by Sony for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. The player controls a snakelike creature to explore 17 whimsical worlds with no set objectives.'
AgentAthleteBadmintonPlayer
  • 'Shizuka Uchida (打田 しづか Uchida Shizuka, born 26 July 1989) is a female Japanese badminton player who is a singles specialist.'
  • '(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Soong.) Soong Fie Cho (宋佩珠; born 5 January 1989) is a Malaysian badminton player.'
  • 'Michael Kjeldsen (born 1962) is a retired male badminton player from Denmark.'
AgentFictionalCharacterMythologicalFigure
  • 'In Greek mythology, Briseus (Βρισεύς) or Brises (Βρίσης) is the father of Briseis (Hippodameia), a maiden captured by the Greeks during the Trojan War, as recorded in the Iliad. Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator on Homer, says Briseus and Chryses were brothers, as sons of Ardys (otherwise unknown), with Briseus dwelling in Pedasus, and Chryses residing in Chryse; both were towns in the Tro'
  • 'In Greek mythology, Enchelus was one of the sons of Illyrius and the eponymous ancestor of the Enchelaeae.'
  • 'In Greek mythology, Lyrcea was a plain where Io was born.'
AgentPersonEngineer
  • 'Herbert J. Bloch (November 21, 1907 – September 7, 1987), who emigrated from Europe to New York City in 1936, was a philatelist and stamp dealer who became recognized as a leading expert on authentication of rare European postage stamps.'
  • 'Östen Mäkitalo (27 August 1938 – 16 June 2011) was a Swedish electrical engineer. He is considered to be the father of the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system and many times the father of cellular phone.'
  • 'Siva Subrahmanyam Banda (born 1951) is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and Chief Scientist for the Aerospace Systems Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.'
SpeciesAnimalAmphibian
  • 'Scinax hiemalis is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to Brazil.'
  • 'Leptodactylus furnarius is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is found in Brazil and Uruguay.'
  • 'The Nadkarnii caecilian, Gegeneophis nadkarnii, is a species of caecilian found in India. It is described on the basis of specimens collected from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa, India.'
EventSportsEventMixedMartialArtsEvent
  • 'UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Moraga (also known as UFC on Fox 8) was a mixed martial arts event held on July 27, 2013 at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. The event was broadcast live on FX and Fox.'
  • 'UFC 69: Shootout was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday, April 7, 2007 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.'
  • 'UFC 13: The Ultimate Force was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on May 30, 1997 in Augusta, Georgia. The event was seen live on pay-per-view in the United States, and later released on home video.'
WorkWrittenWorkPlay
  • 'Happiness is a 2013 play by David Williamson.'
  • 'Key Largo was a 1939 Broadway play written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson that became the basis for the 1948 film by the same name. The play ran for 105 performances in 1939 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from November 27, 1939 to February 24, 1940.'
  • 'The Guys is a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the play, Joan, an editor, helps Nick, an FDNY captain, prepare the eulogies for an unprecedented number of firefighters who died under his command that day.'
AgentPersonOfficeHolder
  • 'Miguel P. Garcia (born January 19, 1951 in New Mexico) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 14 since January 1997.'
  • 'Shih Hui-fen (Chinese: 施惠芬; pinyin: Shī Huìfēn) is a politician of the Republic of China. She was the Deputy Minister of Mainland Affairs Council since 16 August 2014.'
  • 'Miles \"Cap\" Ferry (born September 22, 1932) is an American former politician who was a Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives and Utah State Senate. He attended Utah State University, earning a bachelor of science degree.'
EventOlympicsOlympicEvent
  • "The men's team time trial event was part of the road cycling programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The results of individual cyclists in the individual time trial event were summed to give team results."
  • "The men's coxed pairs event was part of the rowing programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition, the third appearance of the event, was held from July 14, 1924 to July 17, 1924 on the river Seine."
  • "The men's team pursuit event was part of the track cycling programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The field consisted of 10 teams of four, with each team representing a different country."
PlaceNaturalPlaceCave
  • 'Crystal Cave is a marble karst cave within Sequoia National Park, in the western Sierra Nevada of California. It is one of at least 240 known caves in Sequoia National Park.'
  • 'The Cueva de los Murciélagos is a cave system in the Sierras Subbéticas located about four km southeast of the town of Zuheros in the southern province of Córdoba in Spain. Although the caves were discovered in 1868, they were not studied until 1938.'
  • 'Ape Cave is a lava tube located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest just to the south of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Its passageway is the longest continuous lava tube in the continental United States and the third longest (in total mapped length) lava tube in North America at 2.5 miles (4,023 meters).'
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountainPass
  • 'Grafton Notch is a notch, or mountain pass, located in Oxford County, Maine. The notch demarks the northeastern end the Mahoosuc Range, and thus of the White Mountains.'
  • 'The Feldberg Pass (el. 1231 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Black Forest in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the second highest in Germany.'
  • 'Mountain Springs Summit [el. 5,502 ft (1,677 m)] is a mountain pass in the Spring Mountains of Southern Nevada in the United States.'
AgentWriterPoet
  • "Cneppyn Gwerthrynion (c. 13th century) was a Welsh poet and grammarian. None of Cneppyn's work has survived although his name is recorded by Gwilym Ddu o Arfon as among a number of poets of renown in his own elegy to Trahaearn."
  • 'Gruffudd Gryg (fl. c.1340–1380) was a Welsh poet from Anglesey, North Wales.'
  • 'Walter Scott Stuart Lyon (Trevelyan) (1 October 1886 – 8 May 1915) Son of Walter F. K. and Isabella R. Lyon, of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick, Walter Scott Stuart Lyon was one of the war poets. He was one of five brothers from North Berwick, Scotland, three of whom were killed in the First World War and one died while a student at Haileybury.'
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountain
  • 'Salinas Peak is the highest point in the San Andres Mountains of south-central New Mexico, in the United States. It lies near the northern end of the range, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Alamogordo and 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Socorro.'
  • 'Ring Mountain, also called Crucible Dome, is a tuya in the Mount Cayley volcanic field, British Columbia, Canada. It has a horseshoe shaped crater, located on the east side of the upper Squamish River.'
  • 'The Lagginhorn (4,010 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It lies a few kilometres north of the slightly higher Weissmies and also close to the slightly lower Fletschhorn on the north.'

Evaluation

Metrics

Label Accuracy
all 0.8758

Uses

Direct Use for Inference

First install the SetFit library:

pip install setfit

Then you can load this model and run inference.

from setfit import SetFitModel

# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SetFitModel.from_pretrained("mcllstr/setfit-mltclss")
# Run inference
preds = model("Riverdale Township is one of twenty-six townships in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,939 at the 2000 census.")

Training Details

Training Set Metrics

Training set Min Median Max
Word count 8 36.5080 74
Label Training Sample Count
AgentActorAdultActor 4
AgentActorVoiceActor 4
AgentArtistComedian 4
AgentArtistComicsCreator 4
AgentArtistFashionDesigner 4
AgentArtistPainter 4
AgentArtistPhotographer 4
AgentAthleteAustralianRulesFootballPlayer 4
AgentAthleteBadmintonPlayer 4
AgentAthleteBaseballPlayer 4
AgentAthleteBasketballPlayer 4
AgentAthleteBodybuilder 4
AgentAthleteCanoeist 4
AgentAthleteChessPlayer 4
AgentAthleteCricketer 4
AgentAthleteCyclist 4
AgentAthleteDartsPlayer 4
AgentAthleteGaelicGamesPlayer 4
AgentAthleteGolfPlayer 4
AgentAthleteGymnast 4
AgentAthleteHandballPlayer 4
AgentAthleteHorseRider 4
AgentAthleteJockey 4
AgentAthleteLacrossePlayer 4
AgentAthleteMartialArtist 4
AgentAthleteNetballPlayer 4
AgentAthletePokerPlayer 4
AgentAthleteRower 4
AgentAthleteRugbyPlayer 4
AgentAthleteSoccerPlayer 4
AgentAthleteSquashPlayer 4
AgentAthleteSwimmer 4
AgentAthleteTableTennisPlayer 4
AgentAthleteTennisPlayer 4
AgentBoxerAmateurBoxer 4
AgentBritishRoyaltyBaronet 4
AgentBroadcasterBroadcastNetwork 4
AgentBroadcasterRadioStation 4
AgentBroadcasterTelevisionStation 4
AgentClericCardinal 4
AgentClericChristianBishop 4
AgentClericPope 4
AgentClericSaint 4
AgentCoachCollegeCoach 4
AgentComicsCharacterAnimangaCharacter 4
AgentCompanyAirline 4
AgentCompanyBank 4
AgentCompanyBrewery 4
AgentCompanyBusCompany 4
AgentCompanyLawFirm 4
AgentCompanyPublisher 4
AgentCompanyRecordLabel 4
AgentCompanyWinery 4
AgentEducationalInstitutionLibrary 4
AgentEducationalInstitutionSchool 4
AgentEducationalInstitutionUniversity 4
AgentFictionalCharacterMythologicalFigure 4
AgentFictionalCharacterSoapCharacter 4
AgentGridironFootballPlayerAmericanFootballPlayer 4
AgentGroupBand 4
AgentMotorcycleRiderSpeedwayRider 4
AgentMusicalArtistClassicalMusicArtist 4
AgentOrganisationLegislature 4
AgentOrganisationMemberSportsTeamMember 4
AgentOrganisationMilitaryUnit 4
AgentOrganisationPoliticalParty 4
AgentOrganisationPublicTransitSystem 4
AgentOrganisationTradeUnion 4
AgentPersonAmbassador 4
AgentPersonArchitect 4
AgentPersonAstronaut 4
AgentPersonBeautyQueen 4
AgentPersonBusinessPerson 4
AgentPersonChef 4
AgentPersonEconomist 4
AgentPersonEngineer 4
AgentPersonHorseTrainer 4
AgentPersonJournalist 4
AgentPersonJudge 4
AgentPersonMilitaryPerson 4
AgentPersonModel 4
AgentPersonMonarch 4
AgentPersonNoble 4
AgentPersonOfficeHolder 4
AgentPersonPhilosopher 4
AgentPersonPlayboyPlaymate 4
AgentPersonReligious 4
AgentPoliticianCongressman 4
AgentPoliticianGovernor 4
AgentPoliticianMayor 4
AgentPoliticianMemberOfParliament 4
AgentPoliticianPresident 4
AgentPoliticianPrimeMinister 4
AgentPoliticianSenator 4
AgentPresenterRadioHost 4
AgentRacingDriverFormulaOneRacer 4
AgentRacingDriverNascarDriver 4
AgentScientistEntomologist 4
AgentScientistMedician 4
AgentSportsLeagueBaseballLeague 4
AgentSportsLeagueBasketballLeague 4
AgentSportsLeagueIceHockeyLeague 4
AgentSportsLeagueRugbyLeague 4
AgentSportsLeagueSoccerLeague 4
AgentSportsManagerSoccerManager 4
AgentSportsTeamAustralianFootballTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamBasketballTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamCanadianFootballTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamCricketTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamCyclingTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamHandballTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamHockeyTeam 4
AgentSportsTeamRugbyClub 4
AgentVolleyballPlayerBeachVolleyballPlayer 4
AgentWinterSportPlayerCurler 4
AgentWinterSportPlayerFigureSkater 4
AgentWinterSportPlayerIceHockeyPlayer 4
AgentWinterSportPlayerSkater 4
AgentWinterSportPlayerSkier 4
AgentWrestlerSumoWrestler 4
AgentWriterHistorian 4
AgentWriterPoet 4
AgentWriterScreenWriter 4
DeviceEngineAutomobileEngine 4
EventNaturalEventEarthquake 4
EventNaturalEventSolarEclipse 4
EventOlympicsOlympicEvent 4
EventRaceCyclingRace 4
EventRaceHorseRace 4
EventSocietalEventConvention 4
EventSocietalEventElection 4
EventSocietalEventFilmFestival 4
EventSocietalEventMilitaryConflict 4
EventSocietalEventMusicFestival 4
EventSportsEventFootballMatch 4
EventSportsEventGrandPrix 4
EventSportsEventMixedMartialArtsEvent 4
EventSportsEventWrestlingEvent 4
EventTournamentGolfTournament 4
EventTournamentSoccerTournament 4
EventTournamentTennisTournament 4
EventTournamentWomensTennisAssociationTournament 4
PlaceAmusementParkAttractionRollerCoaster 4
PlaceBodyOfWaterLake 4
PlaceBuildingCastle 4
PlaceBuildingHistoricBuilding 4
PlaceBuildingHospital 4
PlaceBuildingHotel 4
PlaceBuildingMuseum 4
PlaceBuildingPrison 4
PlaceBuildingRestaurant 4
PlaceBuildingShoppingMall 4
PlaceCelestialBodyGalaxy 4
PlaceCelestialBodyPlanet 4
PlaceClericalAdministrativeRegionDiocese 4
PlaceInfrastructureAirport 4
PlaceInfrastructureDam 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceCave 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceGlacier 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountain 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountainPass 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceMountainRange 4
PlaceNaturalPlaceVolcano 4
PlaceRaceTrackRacecourse 4
PlaceRouteOfTransportationBridge 4
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRailwayLine 4
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRoad 4
PlaceRouteOfTransportationRoadTunnel 4
PlaceSatelliteArtificialSatellite 4
PlaceSettlementTown 4
PlaceSettlementVillage 4
PlaceSportFacilityCricketGround 4
PlaceSportFacilityGolfCourse 4
PlaceSportFacilityStadium 4
PlaceStationRailwayStation 4
PlaceStreamCanal 4
PlaceStreamRiver 4
PlaceTowerLighthouse 4
PlaceVenueTheatre 4
SpeciesAnimalAmphibian 4
SpeciesAnimalArachnid 4
SpeciesAnimalBird 4
SpeciesAnimalCrustacean 4
SpeciesAnimalFish 4
SpeciesAnimalInsect 4
SpeciesAnimalMollusca 4
SpeciesAnimalReptile 4
SpeciesEukaryoteFungus 4
SpeciesFloweringPlantGrape 4
SpeciesHorseRaceHorse 4
SpeciesPlantConifer 4
SpeciesPlantCultivatedVariety 4
SpeciesPlantCycad 4
SpeciesPlantFern 4
SpeciesPlantGreenAlga 4
SpeciesPlantMoss 4
SportsSeasonFootballLeagueSeasonNationalFootballLeagueSeason 4
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonBaseballSeason 4
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonNCAATeamSeason 4
SportsSeasonSportsTeamSeasonSoccerClubSeason 4
TopicalConceptGenreMusicGenre 4
UnitOfWorkLegalCaseSupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStatesCase 4
WorkCartoonAnime 4
WorkCartoonHollywoodCartoon 4
WorkComicComicStrip 4
WorkComicManga 4
WorkDatabaseBiologicalDatabase 4
WorkMusicalWorkAlbum 4
WorkMusicalWorkArtistDiscography 4
WorkMusicalWorkClassicalMusicComposition 4
WorkMusicalWorkMusical 4
WorkMusicalWorkSingle 4
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureAcademicJournal 4
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureMagazine 4
WorkPeriodicalLiteratureNewspaper 4
WorkSoftwareVideoGame 4
WorkSongEurovisionSongContestEntry 4
WorkWrittenWorkPlay 4
WorkWrittenWorkPoem 4

Training Hyperparameters

  • batch_size: (16, 16)
  • num_epochs: (2, 2)
  • max_steps: -1
  • sampling_strategy: oversampling
  • num_iterations: 4
  • body_learning_rate: (2e-05, 2e-05)
  • head_learning_rate: 0.01
  • loss: CosineSimilarityLoss
  • distance_metric: cosine_distance
  • margin: 0.25
  • end_to_end: False
  • use_amp: False
  • warmup_proportion: 0.1
  • l2_weight: 0.01
  • seed: 42
  • eval_max_steps: -1
  • load_best_model_at_end: False

Training Results

Epoch Step Training Loss Validation Loss
0.0023 1 0.1213 -
0.1142 50 0.0963 -
0.2283 100 0.02 -
0.3425 150 0.0062 -
0.4566 200 0.0358 -
0.5708 250 0.0168 -
0.6849 300 0.035 -
0.7991 350 0.0192 -
0.9132 400 0.0439 -
1.0274 450 0.0421 -
1.1416 500 0.0176 -
1.2557 550 0.0355 -
1.3699 600 0.0074 -
1.4840 650 0.0098 -
1.5982 700 0.0169 -
1.7123 750 0.008 -
1.8265 800 0.0093 -
1.9406 850 0.0071 -

Framework Versions

  • Python: 3.10.12
  • SetFit: 1.0.3
  • Sentence Transformers: 2.6.1
  • Transformers: 4.40.0.dev0
  • PyTorch: 2.2.1+cu121
  • Datasets: 2.18.0
  • Tokenizers: 0.15.2

Citation

BibTeX

@article{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.11055,
    doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2209.11055},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11055},
    author = {Tunstall, Lewis and Reimers, Nils and Jo, Unso Eun Seo and Bates, Luke and Korat, Daniel and Wasserblat, Moshe and Pereg, Oren},
    keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
    title = {Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts},
    publisher = {arXiv},
    year = {2022},
    copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}
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