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USS Water Witch (1851)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third USS Water Witch was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is best known as the ship fired on by Paraguay in 1855. In 1864 she was captured by the Confederate States Navy, and subsequently was taken into that Navy as CSS Water Witch.
Percival Prentice
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Percival Prentice was a basic trainer of the Royal Air Force in the early post-war period. It was a low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Front seating was in a side-by-side configuration with a rear seat provided.
USS Water Witch (1847)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Water Witch (1847) was a steamer in the service of the United States Navy. She participated in the Mexican-American War which lasted from 1846 to 1848.
Tom Southam
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Southam (born 28 May 1981) is an English competitive cyclist from Penzance, Cornwall who rides for Rapha Condor. He has represented Great Britain in five World Championships and ridden in several UCI ProTour events.
D-dimer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product (or FDP), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is so named because it contains two crosslinked D fragments of the fibrinogen protein.
USS Watchman (AGR-16)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Watchman (AGR-16/YAGR-16) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1958 from the "mothballed" reserve fleet. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.
Defensin
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Defensins are small cysteine-rich cationic proteins found in both vertebrates and invertebrates. They have also been reported in plants. They are, and function as, host defense peptides. They are active against bacteria, fungi and many enveloped and nonenveloped viruses. They consist of 18-45 amino acids including six (in vertebrates) to eight conserved cysteine residues. Cells of the immune system contain these peptides to assist in killing phagocytized bacteria, for example in neutrophil granulocytes and almost all epithelial cells. Most defensins function by binding to the microbial cell membrane, and, once embedded, forming pore-like membrane defects that allow efflux of essential ions and...
Prensa Latina
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prensa Latina, legal name Agencia de Noticias Latinoamericana S.A. (Latin American News Agency), is the official state news agency of Cuba, founded in March 1959 shortly after the Cuban Revolution.
Robert G. Vignola
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert G. Vignola (August 5, 1882 - October 25, 1953 was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. He made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Had a long association directing the early films of Pauline Frederick.
USS Wassuc (CMc-3)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wassuc (CMc-3), originally a steel-hulled, coastal passenger vessel built in 1924 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Corp. of New York City as SS Yale, was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 20 December 1940. SS Yale then began conversion to a coastal minelayer at the New York Navy Yard. Classified CMc-3 on 30 December 1940 and renamed USS Wassuc on 10 January 1941, the ship was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 15 May 1941.
USS Wassuc (1865)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wassuc — a single-turreted, twin-screw monitor — was built by the George W. Lawrence Co., Portland, ME, and launched 25 July 1865, and completed 28 October 1865.
Robert G. Wilmers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert G. Wilmers (born 1935) is the current Chief Executive Officer of M T Bank. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for M T Bank as well as M T Bank, N.A., and is a member of its Trust and Investment Committee. Wilmers is a director of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, The Business Council of New York State and has served the City of Buffalo (NY) on its state-appointed control board. Additionally, Wilmers served as a director of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, New York district, in 1996.
Ornithoptera euphorion
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cairns Birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) is a species of birdwing butterfly endemic to northeastern Australia, and is Australia`s largest endemic butterfly species.
Woob2 4495
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woob2 4495 is the second full-length album from Woob, the stage name of ambient musician Paul Frankland. It was released in the UK on em:t records on 21 September 1995.
Robert G. Winsor
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert George Winsor (1876 – June 1, 1929) was a fisherman and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Bonavista Bay from 1913 to 1924 and Bonavista North from 1928 to 1929 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a member of the Fishermen`s Protective Union.
Nymphalinae
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nymphalinae is a subfamily of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). Sometimes, the Limenitidinae (and Biblidinae) are included here as further tribe(s), while the Melitaeini are occasionally considered a distinct subfamily.
Robert G. Whitehead
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert George Whitehead (October 31, 1916 – February 22, 2007) was a Texas businessman who created Quaker House Products, Inc., which produced and marketed the first-aid ointment known as "Blue Star Ointment"; some 50 million jars are sold annually in the United States. Robert Whitehead was a marketing maverick who used an innovative memorable 10-second television commercial to sell Blue Star Ointment. These shorter ads cost less than a traditional 30-second commercial to both produce and air. Whitehead packed all the information into a shorter time frame, to attract customers and to generate a community buzz, all within the old marketing format of an auctioneer.
Tom Sneva
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Sneva (born Thomas E. Sneva: June 1, 1948) is a former Indy Car driver who was named to the prestigious Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005. Sneva is best remembered for winning the 1983 Indianapolis 500. Nicknamed "The Gas Man," Sneva was an outstanding qualifier, winning the pole position for the Indianapolis 500 three times (1977, 1978, 1984). He was also the fastest qualifier on a fourth occasion in 1981, but because of qualifying rules did not start the race from the pole position. Sneva`s unique abilities to get the most out of his car also led to him winning two consecutive USAC National Championships for Indycars in 1977 and 1978.
USS Water Witch (1845)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Water Witch (1845) was a steamer designed and constructed by the U.S. Navy as an experimental improved version of its current steam-powered ships which were not considered as efficient as they should be.
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