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USS Walter B. Cobb (APD-106)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Walter B. Cobb (DE-596/APD-106) was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, named after Coxswain Walter B. Cobb (1919 - 1942), who was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his gallant service in the Battle of Savo Island aboard USS Mugford (DD-389) and USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390). Cobb was a Pearl Harbor Survivor on USS West Virginia (BB-48). He went on to serve on USS Mugford where, on August 7, 1942, he was blown off the ship during a Japanese aerial attack. Uninjured, he was picked up by USS Ralph Talbot. On August 9, the Ralph Talbot was hit by a Japanese aerial attack in which Cobb was killed.
Wongai Ningaui
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wongai Ningaui (Ningaui ridei), also known as the Inland Ningaui, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia.
Yukthivadi
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yukthivadi (The Rationalist) was the first rationalist/atheist journal published in Malayalam. The contribution made by Yukthivadi to the renaissance of Kerala, India is phenomenal.
Epitope
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An epitope, also known as antigenic determinant, is the part of an antigen that is recognized by the immune system, specifically by antibodies, B cells, or T cells. The part of an antibody that recognizes the epitope is called a paratope. Although epitopes are usually thought to be derived from non-self proteins, sequences derived from the host that can be recognized are also classified as epitopes.
Nae Caranfil
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nae Caranfil (Romanian pronunciation: ; also Nicolae Caranfil) (born 1960, Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.
Water softening
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Water softening is the reduction of the concentration of calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water. These "hardness ions" can cause a variety of undesired effects including interfering with the action of soaps, the build up of limescale, which can foul plumbing, and galvanic corrosion. Conventional water-softening appliances intended for household use depend on an ion-exchange resin in which hardness ions are exchanged for sodium ions. Water softening may be desirable where the source of water is hard. However, hard water also conveys some benefits to health by providing dietary calcium and magnesium and reducing the solubility of potentially toxic metal ions such as...
Naeder Adet
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Naeder Adet is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Naeder Adet is bordered on the south by the Wari River which separates it from Kola Tembien, on the west by Mi`irabawi (Western) Zone, on the northwest by Tahtay Maychew, on the northeast by La`ilay Maychew, and on the east by Werie Lehe. The administrative center of this woreda is Semema; other towns in Naeder Adet include Edaga Selus.
Nadzeya Astapchuk
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadzeya Astapchuk (Belarusian: Надзея Астапчук; Russian: Надежда Остапчук, Nadezhda Ostapchuk; born October 12, 1980) is a Belarusian shot putter.
Pope Stephen IX
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pope Stephen IX (c. 1020 – March 29, 1058) was Pope from August 3, 1057 to March 1058.
USS Walke (DD-723)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Walke (DD-723), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was the 3rd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Henry A. Walke, a Rear Admiral during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. The third Walke (DD-723) was laid down on 7 June 1943 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 27 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Douglas Dillon; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 21 January 1944, Comdr. John C. Zahm in command.
Yukon Kuskokwim Delta
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is one of the largest river deltas in the world, roughly the size of Oregon. It is located where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea on the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. The delta, which mostly consists of tundra, is protected as part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
Tom Sturdivant
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Virgil Sturdivant II (April 28, 1930 – February 28, 2009) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets. He was nicknamed "Snake" for his excellent curveball.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes, is Volume 19 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset Dunlap.
Paracyclotosaurus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paracyclotosaurus (Near Wheeled Lizard) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian, which would have appeared similar to today`s salamander – but much larger, at up to 2.3 metres (7.5 ft) long. It lived in the Middle Triassic period, about 235 million years ago, and fossils have been found in Australia, India, and South Africa.
USS Wakulla (AOG-44)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wakulla (AOG-44) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.
Tom Stith
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Alvin Stith (January 21, 1939 – June 13, 2010), born in Greenville County, Virginia, was an American professional basketball player, formerly of the NBA`s New York Knicks. A 6` 5" forward, Stith was an All-American at St. Bonaventure University in 1960 and 1961.
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO EC 1.13.11.52) is an immunomodulatory enzyme produced by some alternatively activated macrophages and other immunoregulatory cells (also used as an immune subversion strategy by many tumors). In humans, IDO is encoded by the INDO gene.
Soft-tissue sarcoma
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A soft-tissue sarcoma is a form of sarcoma that develops in connective tissue, though the term is sometimes applied to elements of the soft tissue that are not currently considered connective tissue.
Yukon Party
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yukon Party (in French: Parti du Yukon), is a conservative political party in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It was previously known as the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.
USS Wahneta (YT-134)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! For similarly named United States Navy ships, see USS Waneta.
Robert George Macpherson
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert George Macpherson (January 28, 1866 – November 27, 1926) was a Canadian Liberal pharmacist and politician.
Soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 2006 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 2 to December 8. All events were held at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
USS Waddell (DDG-24)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Waddell (DDG-24) was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Captain James Iredell Waddell CSN (1824-1886).
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