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Произведения автора582007
USS Vixen (1861)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Vixen (1861) was acquired by the Union Navy from the Coast Survey on 26 August 1861 for use as a reconnaissance vessel during the American Civil War; and was later commissioned on 31 July 1862.
Scam baiting
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scam baiting is a form of Internet vigilantism, where the vigilante poses as a potential victim to the scammer in order to waste their time and resources, gather information that will be of use to authorities, and publicly expose the scammer. It is, in essence, a form of social engineering that may have an altruistic motive or may be motivated by malice. It is primarily used to thwart the Advance-fee fraud scam and can be done out of a sense of civic duty, as a form of amusement, or both.
Peter Bartholomew
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Bartholomew (died 20 April 1099) was a soldier and mystic from France who was part of the First Crusade.
Aforia goodei
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aforia goodei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Medical Implant Communication Service
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) is the name of a specification for using a frequency band between 401 and 406 MHz in communication with medical implants. It allows bi-directional radio communication with a pacemaker or other electronic implants. The maximum transmit power is very low, EIRP=25 microwatt, in order to reduce the risk of interfering with other users of the same band. The maximum used bandwidth at any one time is 300 kHz, which makes it a low bit rate system compared with WiFi or Bluetooth. The main advantage is the additional flexibility compared to previously used inductive technologies, which required the external transceiver to touch the skin of the patient. MICS...
Aforia circinata
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aforia circinata, common name the ridged turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.
Apple Scribe Printer
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Apple Scribe Printer was a thermal transfer printer made by Apple and first introduced in 1984 alongside the Apple IIc for a relatively low retail price of $299. It was a thermal printer, but was a significant advancement over the old Silentype. It could print on regular paper (instead of special heat sensitive paper), and could print in four colors. It could do this using a unique heat-transfer method and a wax-impregnated ribbon. It could print in a “near letter quality” mode (with overlapping dots) at 50 cps, and a draft and graphics mode (80 cps). Its major limitations, however, were a print quality that overall was often not as good as some dot-matrix printers, a ribbon that was...
Robert Gladstone
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert William Gladstone (13 September 1879 – 1 June 1951) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Oxford, Ontario and became a manager, manufacturer and teacher by career.
Robert Glaudini
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Glaudini, who goes by the name Bob Glaudini, is an American actor, playwright, director and teacher who is father to actress Lola Glaudini. He wrote a hit off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating directed by Peter DuBois and starring the actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Daphne Ruben-Vega and Beth Cole. Press for the play was extremely positive, leading to a movie directed by Hoffman that was released in September 2010. Glaudini`s newest play Vengeance is the Lord`s will premiere in Boston at the Huntington Theatre Company in November 2010.
Tom Stacks
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Stacks (November 9, 1899 – February 19, 1936) was the lead singer, drummer, and sound effects man for many of Harry Reser`s late 1920s jazz and novelty bands that included "The Six Jumping Jacks" and "Harry Reser`s Rounders" (Reser would use many of the same musicians and simply change the names of the bands so that he could work for several companies at once). Stacks` unusual voice has been described as having a "built-in smile" and also as being "what a man would sound like if his voice box remained in adolescence while the rest of his body matured."
USS Wapello (YN-56)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wapello (YN-56), later YNT-24, was a United States Navy net tender in commission from 1941 to 1946.
USS Vernon County (LST-1161)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Vernon County (LST-1161) was a United States Navy, Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ship in commission from 1953 to 1973. She saw extensive service in the Vietnam war before being transferred to the Venezuelan Navy, where she became Amazonas (T-21).
USS Vella Gulf (CG-72)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) is an American Ticonderoga class Aegis guided missile cruiser. She is named for the Battle of Vella Gulf, a naval engagement in the Solomons campaign of World War II. This engagement was historically significant because it was the first time that destroyers were allowed to operate independent of the cruiser force during the Pacific campaign. The battle was fought between the islands of Vella Lavella and Kolombangara on the night of 6 August 1943. In the battle of Vella Gulf, six American destroyers – Dunlap, Craven, Maury, Lang, Sterrett, and Stack – engaged a group of four enemy destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese troops on Kolombangara. The American warships...
Nadroga-Navosa Province
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NADROGA NAVOSA is one of the fourteen provinces of Fiji, and one of eight based in Viti Levu, Fiji`s largest island. It is about 2,385 square kilometers and occupies the South-West and Central areas of Viti Levu, Fiji`s largest and principal island. The province includes the Mamanuca Archipelago, off the west coast of Viti Levu, as well as remote Conway Reef in the southwest. The population of the Province at the 2007 census, the last to date, was 58,387 - the fifth largest of any province. The main town in Nadroga-Navosa is Sigatoka, with a population of 9622 (2007 Census)..
Softball at the 2007 Pan American Games
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Softball at the 2007 Pan American Games took place at a temporary stadium for 2,000 spectators in the City of Rock, at Barra da Tijuca, the same place that hosted the Rock in Rio 3.
Nadja Auermann
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadja Auermann (born March 19, 1971) is a German model and actress. Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. A New York Times fashion columnist, Guy Trebay, wrote of her "ice maiden visage and pole vaulter`s legs".
Softball at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Softball was played at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games. The Philippines national softball teams were the defending gold medalists.
Papyrus 60
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Papyrus 60 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 60, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains John 16:29-19:26.
Soft Eyes
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Soft Eyes" is the second episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by David Mills from a story by Ed Burns David Mills, and directed by Christine Moore, it originally aired on September 17, 2006.
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