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Stoughton Opera House is a theater in Stoughton Wisconsin. It is on the second floor of the Stoughton City Hall.

Raymond Lavern Roach (February 22 1925 – February 23 1950) was a boxer from the small Texas town of Plainview who was Ring Magazine’s Rookie-of-the-Year in 1947. Lavern had a […]

Larry Joseph Roberds Foyt is a semi-retired NASCAR and IndyCar driver. He is the biological grandson and adopted son of A. J. Foyt and a biological cousin (and uncle by […]

Countess Anna Magdalena von Hanau-Lichtenberg (14 December 1600 in Bouxwiller – 22 February 1673) was a daughter of Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1569–1625) and Countess Maria Elisabeth of […]

Dashiin Damba (Mongolian: Дашийн Дамба; March 29 1908 – c. 1989) was a Mongolian politician who was elected First Secretary of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in 1954. He […]

Gosplan (Russian: Госпла́н pronounced [ɡɐsˈplan]) was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. The word Gosplan is an abbreviation of Gosudarstvenniy Komitet po Planirovaniyu (Государственный комитет по […]

Sylvie Riedle (22 February 1969) is a former French racing cyclist. She won the French national road race title in 1997.

Reed Leonard Crandall (February 22 1917 – September 13 1982) was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the 1940s Quality Comics’ […]

(29075) 1950 DA is a near-Earth asteroid. It is notable for having the highest known probability of impacting Earth. In 2002 it had the highest Palermo rating with a value […]

Jukka Lehtonen (born 22 February 1982) is a professional volleyball player from Finland who joins GFCO Ajaccio in French Ligue A for season 2010-2011. He is also the captain of […]

Annie Holmström (22 February 1880 – 26 October 1953) was a Swedish tennis player. She competed in three events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

2012 DR30 (2009 FW54) is a minor planet (trans-Neptunian object or extended centaur) from the scattered disk/Oort cloud. It has the third-largest heliocentric semi-major axis of a minor planet not […]

José Juan Bautista Pampuro (born December 28 1949) is an Argentine politician. He is a member of the Justicialist Party was formerly a Defense Minister and is currently a senator […]

Francis Wrigley Hirst (10 June 1873 – 22 February 1953) was a British journalist writer and editor of The Economist magazine. He was a Liberal in party terms and a […]

Tariq Knight (born 1984) is a British actor and magician. He is Mr. Knight alongside Max Somerset as The Sorcerer and Sophie Evans as Miss Evans in the BBC’s The […]

Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng (June 15 1919 – February 22 2009) (Vietnamese: Phao-lô Giu-se Phạm Đình Tụng) was ordained to the priesthood on June 6 1949. He was pastor […]

Angelica Rozeanu (October 15 1921 in Bucharest Romania – February 22 2006 in Haifa Israel) was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin and one of the most successful […]

Amina Rakhim is a Kazakhstani retired professional tennis player. She took part in the 2007 Bangalore Open but lost in the Final Qualifying Round to Shengnan Sun. On 10 September […]