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Winston`s Hiccup
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winston`s Hiccup or Churchill`s Sneeze is the huge zigzag in Jordan`s eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch.
USS Conner (DD-582)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Conner (DD-582) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship to be named in honor of Commodore David Conner (1792–1856), who led U.S. Naval forces during the first part of the Mexican-American War.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
USS Condor (AMc-14)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Condor (AMc-14) was a coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy. The ship was constructed as the wooden-hulled purse seiner New Example at Tacoma, Washington in 1937. Acquired by the U.S. Navy on 28 October 1940 and converted into a coastal minesweeper, she was commissioned as Condor on 18 April 1941.
Winston Churchill in politics: 1900 1939
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winston Churchill in politics: 1900 to 1939 documents the career of Winston Churchill in Parliament from its beginning in 1900 to the start of his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in World War II.
Uncyclopedia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uncyclopedia ("the content-free encyclopedia") is a satirical website that parodies Wikipedia. Founded in 2005 as an originally English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 75 languages. The English version has over 30,000 pages of content, second only to the Brazilian/Portuguese.
Zrnovci Municipality
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zrnovci (Macedonian: Зрновци) is a municipality in eastern Republic of Macedonia. Zrnovci is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Zrnovci Municipality is part of the Eastern Statistical Region.
Scarface (1983 film)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana. A contemporary remake of the original 1932 film of the same name, the film tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who comes to Miami in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift, and becomes a drug cartel kingpin during the cocaine boom of the 1980s. The movie chronicles his rise to the top of Miami`s cocaine empire. The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, the director and principal screenwriter of the original 1932 film, respectively.
USS Concise (AM-163)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Concise (AM-163) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean.
Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wings of Power WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets is a video game of the flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.Wings of Power adds vintage historical military aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.Wings of Power also adds 50 missions with some historical missions from real military pilot logs from WWII and adds new special effects to Microsoft`s flight simulator series.
USS Compel (AM-162)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Compel (AM-162) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters, and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean. Post-war, she returned home proudly with one battle star to her credit.
Hans Holbein the Younger
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.
Siberian tiger
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small subpopulation in southwest Primorye province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult-subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population has been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population is declining.
Steam explosion
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A steam explosion (also called a littoral explosion, or fuel-coolant interaction, FCI) is a violent boiling or flashing of water into steam, occurring when water is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or the interaction of molten metals (e.g., Fuel-Coolant Interaction of molten nuclear-reactor fuel rods with water in a nuclear reactor core following a core-meltdown). Pressure vessels (e.g., Pressurized-Water (nuclear) Reactors) that operate at above atmospheric pressure can also provide the conditions for a rapid boiling event which can be characterized as a steam explosion. The water changes from a liquid to a gas with extreme speed, increasing...
Zrmanja
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zrmanja (pronounced ) is a river in southern Lika and northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It is 69 km (43 mi) long and its basin covers an area of 907 km2 (350 sq mi).
Wings of Power II: WWII Fighters
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wings of Power II WWII Fighters is a video game of the flight simulation genre released in 2006 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and Flight Simulator X.Wings of Power II adds vintage historical military aircraft to Microsoft`s flight simulator series.This simulation add on package is similar to Shockwave Productions earlier Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets in functionality except that the cockpit graphics and the view controls have been greatly improved.
Save China`s Tigers
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Save China`s Tigers (SCT) is an international charitable foundation based in Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Office in London) which aims to save the big cats of China from extinction. It focuses on the Chinese tigers (South China Tigers). It also has branches in Mainland China and South Africa.
State court
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Two English-speaking federations use the phrase "state court" to describe courts operated by their constituent states:
Wings for This Man
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military.
USS Calamares (AF-18)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Calamares (AF-18) was a cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War I. When World War II occurred, she was again called back into service, providing goods to units in the various oceans of the world.
Wingmen (The Boondocks)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Wingmen" is the thirteenth episode of the Adult Swim animated series, The Boondocks. It originally aired on March 5, 2006.
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