Cowra breakout

escape attempt by Japanese prisoners of war in 1944
Event prison_escape Q3054185
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Cowra breakout

Summary

Cowra breakout is a prison escape[1]. It draws 282 Wikipedia views per month (prison_escape category, ranking #4 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cowra breakout is located in Cowra[3].
  • Cowra breakout is in the country of Australia[4].
  • Cowra breakout's image is recorded as Cowrapowcamp.jpg[5].
  • Cowra breakout's instance of is recorded as prison escape[6].
  • Cowra breakout's instance of is recorded as prison riot[7].
  • Cowra breakout's location is recorded as Cowra Prisoner of War Camp Site[8].
  • Cowra breakout's point in time is recorded as +1944-08-05T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Cowra breakout's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -33.811388888889, 'lon': 148.70388888889}[10].
  • Cowra breakout's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06jw1h[11].
  • Cowra breakout's participant is recorded as Hajime Toyoshima[12].
  • Cowra breakout's participant is recorded as Benjamin Gower Hardy[13].
  • Cowra breakout's participant is recorded as Ralph Jones[14].
  • Cowra breakout's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+235'}[15].
  • Cowra breakout's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+112'}[16].
  • Cowra breakout's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Cowra-breakout[17].
  • Cowra breakout's Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID is recorded as other-disasters-cowra-pow-attempted-mass-escape-1944[18].

Why It Matters

Cowra breakout draws 282 Wikipedia views per month (prison_escape category, ranking #4 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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