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Произведения автора582007
USS Water Lily (1895)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Water Lily was a motor launch that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
1928 Summer Olympics
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de Coubertin`s Paris, respectively. The only other candidate city for the 1928 Games was Los Angeles, which would host the Olympics four years later.
Robert G. Voight
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert G. Voight, was a Professor at Oral Roberts University. He is as of 07 May 2009 the faculty member that has served the longest at ORU. Dr. Voight, who served 41 years, is followed by Howard M. Ervin, who served 40 years on the faculty. Dr. Voight died at age 87 and was buried the 29th of May 2008.
Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paradise is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is a part of the St. John`s Metropolitan Area. The town borders the City of St. John`s, the City of Mount Pearl, the Town of Portugal Cove-St. Philip`s, and the town of Conception Bay South. According to the 2006 census the population of Paradise was 12,584 and was the fastest growing community in Atlantic Canada
Premio Lo Nuestro 2008
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Premio Lo Nuestro 2008 was held on February 21, 2008 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. It was broadcast live by Univision Network.
Serostatus
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Serostatus is a term used to refer to the presence or absence of specific substances in the blood serum. Most commonly, this medical test is looking for specific antibodies in an effort to diagnose a particular disease.
Tom Tango
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Tango and "TangoTiger" are aliases used online by a well-respected expert in baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistical analysis. He runs the Tango on Baseball sabermetrics website and is also a contributor to ESPN`s baseball blog TMI (The Max Info).
Gahnia grandis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gahnia grandis is a tussock forming perennial plant found in southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
Parachutist Badge (United States)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Parachutist Badge, also commonly referred to as "Jump Wings" or "Snow Cone", is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces awarded to members of the United States Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. The United States Coast Guard is the only service which does not issue its own Parachutist Badge, but its members are authorized to receive the Parachutist Badges of other services in accordance with their prescribed requirements.
AppleWorks User Group
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The AppleWorks User Group is a group formed in 1991 to support users of Apple Computer`s AppleWorks software suite. The group is often referred to as "AWUG". AWUG publishes a monthly newsletter, the AppleWorks Journal, that provides hints, tips, and techniques for AppleWorks. It also provides its members with telephone and email support, as well as access to a "Members Helping Members" database (actually distributed as a PDF) and the "AppleWorks News Service" website, which provides timely news and information about AppleWorks. Membership also includes access to the AWUG Public Domain Library, a repository of AppleWorks utilities, templates, fonts, enhancements, and updates. AWUG members also...
Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Swift and His Motor Boat, or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa, is Volume 2 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset Dunlap.
Soft target
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Soft target is a military term referring to unarmored/undefended targets needing to be destroyed. For example, a soft target would be an automobile, a house, or assembly of people while a hard target could be a main battle tank or a well defended installation. A soft target can generally be overcome from any direction with typical ordnance in use by line units, while a hard target may necessitate attack from a specific direction, with particular planning, en-masse, by special units or by ordnance made for the purpose. Hardening a soft target can be achieved by addition of armour or use of additional construction, camouflage, mobility, co-location with defenses or another defended location, or...
Scandinavia`s Next Top Model
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scandinavia`s Next Top Model was a Scandinavian reality television show, based on the original concept from America`s Next Top Model. It is broadcast on TV3 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden by Viasat.
Aforia abyssalis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aforia abyssalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC (27 August 1893 – 23 February 1972), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.
Coptis aspleniifolia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coptis aspleniifolia, commonly known as fernleaf goldthread or spleenwort-leaf goldthread, is found in the northern two-thirds of British Columbia, in Alaska, and along the Cascades into Washington and is a native plant of the temperate rain forests of the region. It is often found in the understory of the herb layer of coniferous forests as part of a multilayered canopy system on gleysolic or organic soils. Also found in wetwoods and bogs, the fernleaf goldthread is not invasive or poisonous. The plant is considered common and widespread in its native range.
Robert Garside
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Garside, calling himself The Runningman, is a British runner who is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world. Garside began his record-setting run following several aborted attempts from Cape Town, South Africa and London, England. Garside set off from New Delhi, India on 20 October 1997, completing his run back at the same point on 13 June 2003. While his run was challenged by some ultra distance runners and some members of the press, Guinness World Records, who spent several years evaluating evidence, declared it authentic and the record was officially bestowed on Garside on 27 March 2007 at a ceremony in Piccadilly Circus, London, England.
Eriophorum callitrix
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eriophorum callitrix, commonly known as Arctic cotton, Arctic cottongrass, or suputi in Inuktitut, is an Arctic plant in the Cyperaceae family. This plant is food for migrating snow geese and caribou. The Inuit used the seed heads as wicks in oil lamps. Clumps were placed into babies` pants and then thown away when soiled.
Tom Ryder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas P. "Tom" Ryder (born 21 February 1985 in Nottingham, England) is a rugby union footballer who plays at lock for Glasgow Warriors after signing from Saracens in the Summer of 2011. At a national level he has played for the England U21 team as well as at U19, U18 and U16 level, prior to representing Scotland A.
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