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Произведения автора582007
Melissa Leo
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960), is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late `80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show`s first five seasons from 1993 – 1997. Having previously been a regular on All My Children and The Young Riders, her breakthrough film role was in the 2003 film, 21 Grams as Marianne Jordan.
Man with No Name
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The man with no name (Italian: Uomo senza nome) is a stock character in Western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone`s "Dollars Trilogy."
Heartbreak Ridge
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film, starring Clint Eastwood (who also produced and directed) and Mario Van Peebles, surrounding the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies. A portion of the movie was filmed on the island itself.
John Wilson (angler)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Wilson (born 1943) is a British angler who has been involved with angling television production for the last 20 years featuring on Channel 4 Television and more recently on the digital TV channel, Discovery Real Time. Wilson was voted `The Greatest Angler of all Time` in a 2004 poll by readers of the Angling Times Newspaper.
Apostolic Church-Ordinance
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Apostolic Church-Ordinance (or Apostolic Church-Order, Apostolic Church-Directory or Constitutio Ecclesiastica Apostolorum) is a Christian treatise which belongs to genre of the Church Orders. The work can be dated at the end of 3rd century CE. The provenience is usually regarded as Egypt, or perhaps Syria. The author is unknown.
Little Miss Marker
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Little Miss Marker (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story by Damon Runyon. The film stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held as collateral by gangsters. The film was named to the United States National Film Registry and has been remade several times.
Colonial militia in Canada
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! From the founding of New France until the establishment of a professional Canadian Army, the colonial militia played an extremely important role in the defence of Canada. Today, many citizen soldiers serve in the Primary Reserve of the Canadian Forces.
Corps area
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Corps area was a geographically-based organizational structure (area command) of the United States Army used to accomplish domestic administrative, training and tactical tasks from 1920 to 1942. Each corps area included divisions of the Regular Army, Organized Reserve and National Guard of the United States. Developed as a result of serious mobilization problems during World War I, this organizational scheme provided a framework to rapidly expand the Army in time of war or national emergency such as the Great Depression.
K-Bob`s Steakhouse
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! K-Bob’s Steakhouse is a regional restaurant chain that operates in the cattle country of Texas and New Mexico. Founded in 1966 in Clovis, New Mexico, by Gabe E. Parson (born 1938), the company sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, and reopened in 1991 under the ownership and management of Edward Roy Tinsley III (born ca. 1952), who relocated company headquarters from Dallas to Albuquerque, and then Santa Fe.
Derby Canal
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Derby Canal ran 14 miles (23 km) from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, Derbyshire, England. The canal gained its Act of Parliament in 1793 and was fully completed in 1796. The canal`s main cargo was coal.
Belfast City Council
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Belfast City Council is the local authority with responsibility for the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. The Council serves an estimated population of 268,700 (2010), the largest of any district council in Northern Ireland, while also being the fourth smallest by area. Belfast City Council is the primary council of the Belfast Metropolitan Area, a grouping of six district councils with commuter towns and overspill from Belfast, containing a total population of 579,276.
Eaga
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eaga plc (LSE: EAGA) was a British company supplying energy efficiency products. It was headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne. In April 2011 it was acquired by Carillion.
Miss Earth Guam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Miss Earth Guam or Miss Guam is a national beauty pageant held annually in search of the most beautiful and environmental-friendly woman in Guam. It is one of the official preliminaries to the international Miss Earth beauty pageant. The pageant focuses mainly on promoting environmental causes and winners are chosen equally on their physical attributes as well as their understanding and knowledge of the issues affecting the Earth. Along with Miss Universe and Miss World contests, Miss Earth is one of the three largest beauty pageants in the world in terms of the number of national-level competitions to participate in the world finals. The reigning titleholders dedicate their year to promote...
Herbert Ferber
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Herbert Ferber (born Herbert Ferber Silvers, April 30, 1906 – August 20, 1991) was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School. In 1930, he attended the National Academy of Design, and that summer he was awarded a scholarship to work at The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, New York. He also began part-time work as a dentist. Impressed by African sculpture, he purchased his first piece of African art in 1931. Ferber received his dentistry degree in 1930, and, until the 1950s, he maintained two...
Boleite
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Boleite is a complex halide mineral with formula: KPb26Ag9Cu24(OH)48Cl62. It was first described in 1891 as an oxychloride mineral. It is an isometric mineral which forms in deep blue cubes. There are numerous minerals related to boleite, such as pseudoboleite and cumengite, and these all have the same complex crystal structure (Martens 2003). They all contain bright blue cubic forms and are formed in altered zones of lead and copper deposits, produced during the reaction of chloride bearing solutions with primary sulfide minerals (Rouse, 1973).
Charles F. Chandler
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Frederick Chandler (December 6, 1836 – August 25, 1925) was an American chemist, best known for his regulatory work in public health, sanitation, and consumer safety in New York City, as well as his work in chemical education—first at Union College and then, for the majority of his career, at Columbia University where he taught in the Chemical Department, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and served as the first Dean of Columbia University`s School of Mines.
1993 Australian Grand Prix
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1993 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on November 7, 1993. It was the final round of the 1993 Formula One season.
Kim Novak
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American film and television actress. She began her career with her roles in Pushover and Phffft! (both 1954) but achieved greater prominence in the 1955 film Picnic. In the following five years, she appeared in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), Pal Joey (1957), and Bell, Book and Candle (1958). She is best known for her dual role as Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo.
Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joachim Ernest of Anhalt (Dessau, 21 October 1536 – Dessau, 6 December 1586), was a German prince of the House of Ascania, ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and from 1570 sole ruler of all the Anhalt lands.
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